|| *Comments on the 1995 Racing Champions 200:* View the most recent comment <#31> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Matthew Sullivan posted: 12.22.2005 - 4:20 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) P.J. Jones had several issues in this race but was able to overcome being a few laps down to nearly beat Hornaday for the win. 2. Roger Smith posted: 02.05.2006 - 2:14 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I like to what is the litter RAF and LLF stand for. 3. Darrell posted: 05.20.2006 - 8:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) RAF means "Racing at Finish"(meaning they didn't DNF) and LLF means lead lap finish. :) 4. nascarman posted: 06.20.2006 - 12:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The first green white checker finish in a nascar series. 5. biffle16 posted: 03.26.2007 - 9:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) Too bad Horny had to win and not PJ, who really deserved it. :( 6. Zed--3_8fan4eva posted: 06.17.2007 - 3:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Only race Skinner failed to finish in 95' 7. FHgrad99 posted: 09.13.2007 - 12:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I think PJ Jones made up 3 laps during the race and he came close to pulling out the win. 8. SK posted: 11.20.2007 - 8:32 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ron Hornaday claims his first win in only his second start, joining Mike Skinner as the only drivers victorious in SuperTruck points races thus far. A harbinger of things to come... 9. RaceFanX posted: 02.15.2008 - 1:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Steve Portenga and road racing ace Lou Giglotti make their high level NASCAR debuts. Portenga would be a series regular on the tour in 1995 while Giglotti would make only one other start in the series at Heartland Park Topeka in 1997. Future series race winner Dave Rezendes makes his series debut. Also debuting in this event were Wayne Jacks (who'd become the first man to flip a Truck), Indy car racer Stan Fox, and ARCA veteran Mark Gibson in the first of his two career starts Joe Ruttman gives Ford their first laps led ever in the series Wayne Jacks, 10. 10andJoe posted: 03.08.2012 - 5:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #11 sponsor: Bud Light #23 sponsor: ASE / MTX #31 sponsor: St. John's Catholic Church/Motorsports Design #30 sponsor: Mopar Performance #51 sponsor: Pro Cal #81 sponsor: Race Fans Unlimited #82 sponsor: Young Chevrolet #83 sponsor: The Coffee Critic #88 sponsor: Churchill Transportation 11. 10andJoe posted: 03.08.2012 - 5:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) First caution: (Lap 22-26) #38 spin turn 4 Second caution: #51 spin turn 4 Third caution: #21 accident turn 1 Fourth caution: #89 accident turn 3 Fifth caution: #98, 89, 30 accident turn 4 Sixth caution: #38, 20 spin turn 1, #81 spin turn 2 (lap 87-94) (green lap 95-100) Seventh caution: (Lap 101) Halftime (green lap 102-106) Eighth caution: #37, 51 accident turn 4 (lap 107-111) Ninth caution: #81 spin turn 2 (lap 122-123) Tenth caution: #83, 20, 21, 30, 24, 7 accident turn 2 (lap 126-131) Elventh caution: #54, 82 spin turn 4 Twelvth caution: #20 spin turn 4 Thirteenth caution: debris Twelvth caution: #20 spin turn 4 (lap 162-164) Thirteenth caution: debris (lap 197-201) 12. 10andJoe posted: 03.08.2012 - 5:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) bah, my formatting went all pear-shaped on that last post. Let's try that again: First caution: (Lap 22-26) #38 spin turn 4 Second caution: #51 spin turn 4 Third caution: #21 accident turn 1 Fourth caution: #89 accident turn 3 Fifth caution: #98, 89, 30 accident turn 4 Sixth caution: #38, 20 spin turn 1, #81 spin turn 2 (lap 87-94) (green lap 95-100) Seventh caution: (Lap 101) Halftime (green lap 102-106) Eighth caution: #37, 51 accident turn 4 (lap 107-111) Ninth caution: #81 spin turn 2 (lap 122-123) Tenth caution: #83, 20, 21, 30, 24, 7 accident turn 2 (lap 126-131) Eleventh caution: #54, 82 spin turn 4 (lap 146-148) Twelveth caution: #20 spin turn 4 (lap 162-164) Thirteenth caution: debris (lap 197-201) 13. CBASS posted: 07.19.2013 - 11:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates #84 Coca-Cola Classic #51 Jim Rosenblum Racing (Pro Cal was only on the "tailgate") #24 Dupont Automotive Finishes #89 Trucking America/ Taco Bell #98 Raybestos Brakes/ Red Carpet Lease #29 Winnebago/ Mopar #37 Strait Racing #20 Walker Evans Racing (was unsponsored and ran the team logo on the sides) 14. wrank fakefield posted: 07.31.2014 - 8:08 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Jones did a great job fighting all the way back from 3 laps down to 2nd for the GWC, but Hornaday gave everyone an early glimpse of why he would come to be known as the King of Restarts, leaving Jones and the rest of the field in the dust. It looked late that Butch Miller was going to win, gaining several positions and running side by side with Hornaday for the lead running a bottom groove that no one thought existed, before eventually cutting a left rear tire. 15. RaceFanX posted: 08.17.2014 - 7:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Steve McEachern's 15th place finish was his best in the Truck series. He raced in the Winter Heat exhibitions before the series formally began. 16. RACIN GARDNER posted: 03.04.2015 - 4:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) Would be curious to see if that last debris caution was legit 17. AntmanB posted: 01.05.2016 - 12:16 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) it was. 98 tire blew and it fell on the track. there is video proof. 18. chevyfan98 posted: 08.18.2016 - 5:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) First race to ever have a GWC. 19. nascar_vd / Racing-Reference.info posted: 08.18.2016 - 6:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "First race to ever have a GWC." It's true for the Camping World Truck Series (and a National Series race) but not for the NASCAR history in a stock car race. Indeed, the first G/W/C was played in 1987 at Williamson (Spencer Speedway) in K&N Pro Series East. A race won by Joey Kourafas. The link: http://www.racing-reference.info/race/1987_Busch_Empire_100/E 20. chevyfan98 posted: 08.18.2016 - 6:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Oh, thanks. Didn't know that. 21. Bramblegrunt posted: 05.26.2017 - 11:15 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) A classic example of the truck series early in its going. Very short tracks that produced pretty close racing. Skinner looked again to be the truck to beat but he missed a shift early on a restart and killed the engine. Mike Bliss, PJ Jones, Steve Portenga and Gary Collins all had strong runs in the top 5 throughout the day/evening but all had issues put them back. Bliss and Collins both had blown engines. Portenga spun and then got caught up in a wreck trying to come through the traffic and of course PJ Jones had his tire go down, went down 3 laps only to battle back to 2nd in a remarkable fight back. This was the truck that Page Jones was supposed to run but was seriously hurt in a USAC crash, and PJ just said he was hoping 'to just keep the seat warm' for him. Meanwhile Hornaday had a great battle of his own between his former crew chief Sedgwick and later in the race Butch Miller. Miller put on quite a show taking to the low line where everyone else ran high but he murdered his tires doing so and would eventually cause the late race caution that set up the aforementioned battle between Jones and Hornaday in the Green White Checked. Hornaday blasted on the restart, earning his future nickname as the restart king, and Jones had to settle for coming up just short for his comeback 22. RaceFanX posted: 12.05.2017 - 11:49 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was the first NASCAR Truck Series race to air on ESPN; TNN had aired the opener and the prior Winter Heat races. The broadcast team for this one included Dave Despain and active NASCAR Busch Grand National Series racer Elton Sawyer (ironically a racer who would never run in the Truck series). 23. Gray Gaulding's Distant Cousin posted: 12.14.2017 - 5:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor #16 Ron Hornaday Action Die-Cast Chevy 24. Joshua posted: 12.11.2018 - 10:00 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) If the title sponsor was the Racing Champions die cast maker, then that Victory Lane moment had to be a little awkward. 25. RaceFanX posted: 12.11.2018 - 10:21 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @24 Yup, that was indeed the company. They even made a limited edition die cast truck to celebrate their sponsorship of this race. Racing Champions actually put out a line of die cast toy trucks based on the Truck series racers just as the series started with rival Action putting out a few later in the year. Racing Champions' earliest models pretty much all focused on the Ford drivers who taken part in Winter Heat with the Chevrolet ones coming out a little later in the season. As you would expect Hornaday's truck wasn't one of them when they did (although Action made both his Action and Papa John's trucks). 26. Jimnsimforever posted: 02.28.2019 - 5:17 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) This was supposed to be the 3rd Truck Series race of the season and the road race in Sonoma was to be the 2nd in March. Sears Point was flooded so it was delayed until later in the season, hence an entire 2 months in between the 1st and 2nd races in the inaugural Truck Series season. Surprised it caught on so well and fans weren't so engrossed with Cup and Busch seasons in full swing that they would maybe forget about the new trucks with that much time passing. 27. RaceFanX posted: 02.28.2019 - 9:36 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) The SuperTrucks were THE hot new development at the time since there had never been a pickup truck oval racing series of any kind before (SCCA raced small pickups on road courses in the late 80s-early 90s but it didn't last). Given the mid-1990s were also about the time road going pickups were making the transition from "work vehicle" or "hay bales hauler" to parking lot status symbol and NASCAR was just starting to hit its peak in popularity it was a winning combination launch this series at exactly this point in time. The SuperTruck series was highly promoted to make sure fans wouldn't forget about it, it had its own specific magazine called "SuperTruck Racing" and Racing Champions already had miniature replicas of some of the trucks from Winter Heat in toy aisles across America at the time it launched. 28. Anonymous posted: 04.27.2020 - 2:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) this race will air on May 8th this is the 1st old truck series race to be re-aired since the Pandemic began, yeah its an old one 25 years old, I was not even 3, and it was just the 2nd ever Truck Series race but first to air on ESPN who had an 8 season run from 1995-2002. 29. Sam posted: 05.11.2020 - 6:58 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Tried to watch the race since Fox Sports 1 aired the race but couldn't watch the second half of the race. During the replay of the race Fox Sports 1 aired the first half of the race twice and you can only hear the audio of the second half of the race which became unwatchable. Lucky that the race was on Youtube that I can watch the full version of the race. I don't know how Fox Sports 1 missed up showing classic NASCAR races. 30. Rich posted: 09.21.2020 - 1:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dave Despain and Elton Sawyer were the commentators. Marty Reid was the sole pit road reporter. 31. jensenators posted: 12.08.2020 - 10:01 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Interesting mistake by ESPN as they only showed the top 10 starters before the green flag came out. It was mentioned that 34 trucks showed up, but they did not say who the 4 DNQ's were. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: