|| *Comments on the 1994 Supertruck Winter Heat 200 #1:* View the most recent comment <#11> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. RaceFanX posted: 12.25.2009 - 11:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Owners: 6- Marshall Chesrown 1- Scoop Vessels 75- Wayne Spears 9- Butch Stevens 18- Kurt Roehrig 21- Jim Venable 38- Brad Akins / Bob Sutton 3- Richard Childress 8- Bruce Huartson 12- Jim Venable 54- Steve McEachern 20- Walker Evans 23- T.J. Clark 06- Jim Smith 2- Jim Smith Then-Busch series racer Dirk Stephens made a very surprise appearence in this race and finished 4th. The #9 Chevy was supposed to be driven by Mike Cofer before he suddenly declined the ride. After that the decision was to have Jeff Green race the truck but Green had just signed an exclusive deal with a higher series team and couldn't do it. Stephens was delivering parts to the race shop where the Truck was prepared and they asked him the Friday night before the Sunday race if he could race it and he did, resulting in one of his best NASCAR outings. Dave Ashley was a DNS for this race according to the TNN broadcast. Ashley wrecked his #2 Ford in practice. This race has appeared on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeBZP7369LQ 2. martin-n-rusty posted: 11.02.2010 - 1:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ok, why is Dave Ashley listed as a Did Not Start, yet shown to have completed 32 laps? 3. KurtBusch22Fan posted: 04.15.2011 - 4:34 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Walker Evans is the first to drive a Dodge in the NASCAR Truck Series, 4. 44andJoe posted: 01.14.2013 - 8:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #18 sponsor: Performance Friction 5. Scott B posted: 01.22.2014 - 11:25 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) This is the race where the truck series really started to come together. First time Ron Hornaday Jr and Mike Skinner went head to head in trucks, first time to run a longer race (200 laps) similar to what the future points races would eventaully look like. 6. RaceFanX posted: 02.04.2017 - 4:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The 1994-95 offseason was the first season of NASCAR's Winter Heat series, featuring exhibition races during the winter months at Tucson Raceway Park, which the France family's International Speedway Corporation owned at the time. The first year of the program featured the new NASCAR Trucks, Winston West, and the Southwest Tour but the event transitioned over to focusing on late models from NASCAR's regional touring series as it continued through the late 1990s. 7. SK posted: 07.20.2017 - 5:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ashley should be listed as qualifying 15th, though he didn't start. 8. RaceFanX posted: 07.20.2017 - 5:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The "High Plains Drifter" Rick Carelli puts his name in the record books as the winner of the Truck series' first Winter Heat exhibition race...but ironically would have to wait until mid-1996 before he would win a points paying race in the series. He was surprisingly shut out of victory lane throughout the Truck series' first regular season. 9. 48johnsonfan posted: 03.29.2019 - 1:01 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I'm not sure if anybody realized this, but SKracing has the first Supertruck Winter Heat from Tuscon. This just showed up on my recommended videos and I look on his channel, and it turns up on his channel, even though it's a year and a half old. I won't be surprised if it was blocked for music, then all of sudden it's available to watch now. The video can be seen on the video links tabs or here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reajh3hddaU 10. RaceFanX posted: 09.15.2020 - 8:28 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Gary Collins drove Jim Venable's #12 Ford F-150 in the earlier SuperTruck exhibitions before handing the wheel over to off-road racer Rob MacCachren for the Winter Heat races. Collins' only Winter Heat appearance came in this race as he brought the Venable's #21 Ford home sixth as a last minute sub, they initially hoped to put ARCA champion Bobby Bowsher in the Truck but he was unavailable as he healed up from a hard crash at Atlanta a week earlier. 11. Rich posted: 09.20.2020 - 8:25 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mike Joy and Buddy Baker were the commentators. Glenn Jarrett was the sole pit road reporter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: