|| *Comments on the 1995 GM Goodwrench / Delco Battery 200:* View the most recent comment <#40> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Dave posted: 07.03.2005 - 9:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mike Skinner wins the race and the championship. Ron Hornaday finishes no worse than 19th all year. 2. underdogfan posted: 02.25.2006 - 10:36 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Only NCTS start for Dave Marcis. 3. J. Kircher posted: 04.19.2006 - 1:18 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) A.J. Foyt makes his first Truck start. 4. Steve posted: 05.23.2006 - 10:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race was also 2005 Champ Ted Musgrave's NCTS debut. Only start for Kenji Momota, who is from Texas. 5. RaceFanX posted: 11.26.2007 - 7:55 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) This was World of Outlaws legend Sammy Swindell's last NASCAR start. He ran the complete 1995 truck season and then never ran again. Truely trival: This was the only race all year that T.J. Clark drove a Chevy, he'd driven a Ford in all his previous starts. 6. adamal82 posted: 02.26.2008 - 9:25 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The only time that Mike Chase ever finished on the lead lap in a Major Nascar race 7. Darrell posted: 06.29.2008 - 2:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Actually, Momota was a Japanese driver from what I read. 8. RaceFanX posted: 08.11.2008 - 9:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Motota was Japanese or at least of Japanese decent. It's a shame he never got to run again although he would work as a pit reporter for TBS at the 1996 Cup exhibiton race in Japan. A.J. Foyt qualified a strong 9th and scored a career best 18th place Truck Series finish. A.J. may have been the first Indy 500 winner to run in the series. 9. RaceFanX posted: 10.22.2008 - 10:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I'm pretty sure T.J. Clark crashed in this one, even if a radiator put him out. 10. Matt posted: 11.14.2008 - 1:06 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Marcis's #31 was a second RCR truck. 11. Matt posted: 11.14.2008 - 4:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Truck owner on the 12 for this race was Bob Blake. 12. Matt posted: 11.29.2008 - 1:56 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ: Failed to Qualify Kenny Allen - Chevrolet, 118.006 Ernest Winslow - Chevrolet, 117.813 Scott Hansen - Ford, 117.413 Ray Daniels - Chevrolet, 116.471 G.T. Tallas - Chevrolet, 115.529 Ron Esau - Chevrolet, 113.265 Michael Dokken, Chevrolet, 113.094 Kevin Harvick, Bakersfield, Calif., Chevrolet, No speed 13. 18fan posted: 09.16.2009 - 12:58 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Interesting, the season started and ended at Phoenix, and Mike Skinner beat a Cup regular both times, even though Irvan was just beginning his comeback. 14. Anonymous posted: 10.12.2010 - 9:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race was 124 laps/124 miles and Jack Sprague's pole speed was 124 MPH (124.378 to be exact). Weird how that works. 15. Gregg33 posted: 11.11.2010 - 3:39 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) 18th place finish was the last respectable run for A.J. Foyt in any series. Would likely have finished better, but he slowed to avoid an incident and surprisingly the caution never flew and he lost several seconds as a result. 16. austin posted: 11.24.2010 - 8:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (3) I like cereal. 17. 10andJoe posted: 03.02.2012 - 9:07 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Failed to qualify: Kenny Allen (#65), Ernest Winslow (#68), Scott Hansen, Ray Daniels (#34), G.T. Tallas (#70), Ron Esau, Michael Dokken (#64), Kevin Harvick (#72) 18. 10andJoe posted: 03.02.2012 - 9:25 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) #23 status: crash 19. 10andJoe posted: 03.02.2012 - 10:31 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) #41 sponsor: Motorola #11 sponsor: Bud Light #83 sponsor: Coffee Critic / Mission Uniform & Linen Service #35 sponsosr: Rain-X / Press Pass Racing Cards #71 sponsor: Marukatsu 20. 10andJoe posted: 03.02.2012 - 10:31 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) First caution: #83, #98 accident turn 2 Second caution: #23 accident turn 2 Third caution: #71 accident turn 1 Fourth caution: #12, 01, 98, 35, 89, 75, 20 accident turn 4 Fifth caution: halftime break Sixth caution: #08 accident turn 4 21. 44andJoe posted: 01.14.2013 - 5:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #64 sponsor: Dokken Racing Chevrolet (Wayne Dokken) 22. 83andJoe posted: 05.29.2013 - 9:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #2 crew chief: Barry Dodson 23. 23andJoe posted: 04.01.2014 - 6:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #34 sponsor: Carnes Racing Chevrolet (Larry Carnes) #65 sponsor: ONSAT/TV Plus Chevrolet (Kenny Allen) #68 sponsor: Winslow Farms Chevrolet (Ernest Winslow) #72 sponsor: Hall Ambulance Chevrolet (Mike Harvick) 24. Spannerhead29 posted: 05.26.2014 - 6:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 1995 Truck Championship using the F1 points system (10-6-4-3-2-1). Mike Skinner wins by 41 points (4 wins and a 6th). Position Driver Points 1 Mike Skinner 114 (Season opener and closer winner) 2 Ron Hornaday Jr. 73 3 Joe Ruttman 59 4 Butch Miller 42 5 Geoffrey Bodine 29 (Highest driver without a win) 6 Mike Bliss 25 7 Terry Labonte 20 7 Rick Carelli 20 7 Bill Sedgwick 20 10 Ken Schrader 16 (Lowest driver with a win) 11 Jack Sprague 15 12 Johnny Benson Jr. 10 12 Ernie Irvan 10 14 Tobey Butler 8 14 Dave Rezendes 8 16 P.J. Jones 7 17 Scott Lagasse 6 17 Dennis Setzer 6 17 Wally Dallenbach Jr. 6 20 Todd Bodine 5 21 Joe Bessey 3 21 Steve Portenga 3 21 Sammy Swindell 3 21 Rodney Combs 3 21 Kenny Wallace 3 21 Ted Musgrave 3 27 Hermie Sadler 2 28 Darrell Waltrip 1 25. 23andJoe posted: 08.16.2014 - 1:57 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ron Esau drove the #63 Bunce Engineering Chevrolet, owner Wilbur Bunce 26. wrank fakefield posted: 09.01.2014 - 11:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Even after crashing out relatively early, in his interview with Larry MacReynolds, first thing Momota did was yell into the mic with a big smile on his face,"I am first Japanese NASCAR driver!" His excitement was pretty cool, even if he did then continue to keep yelling manically like a mad man. 27. RaceFanX posted: 11.01.2015 - 10:17 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Throughout the Truck Series' 1995 season the television announcers from ESPN, TNN, and other broadcasters made it a running gag that whenever an announcer said "car" instead of "truck" they had to give a dollar to charity, playing off the adjustments they were having to make given the brand new nature of racing pickups NASCAR style. It was all in good fun and at the end of the season the money was totaled and a $1,108 donation was made to the Snell Memorial Foundation, a group that does helmet safety testing. The announcers didn't actually make that many mistakes, Sears and Craftsman matched doubled the donation with a dollar for dollar matching contribution. This was the last race for the NASCAR SuperTruck Series by Craftsman under its original name. For the series' second season in 1996 the name was simplified to the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and would remain as such until Camping World took over the title sponsorship in 2009. I always liked the SuperTruck name, shame it wasn't retained very long but simplier name would prove much more enduring. 28. pimmy posted: 03.14.2017 - 5:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) From 1995-2001 all drivers in the Truck Series scored points, regardless of whether they qualified or not, although post-entries still scored nothing. It could just be that the site can't display drivers with zero starts on the standings page due to the way it's configured. I'll list point total corrections and missing drivers anyway: 41 - Ernie Irvan - 451 pts 86 - Andy Genzman - 95 102 - Freddie Query - 40 103 - Scott Hansen - 34 29. 23andJoe posted: 03.14.2017 - 7:09 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) >This was the last race for the NASCAR SuperTruck Series by Craftsman under its original name....I always liked the SuperTruck name, shame it wasn't retained very long IIRC, the name was changed because, after they had kicked off the season, it was discovered that "Super Truck Series" was already a trademark held by somebody else. Therefore, NASCAR had to change the name of the series the next season... 30. Bramblegrunt posted: 07.13.2017 - 1:50 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) 20 year old and future Busch/Nationwide/Xfinity and Cup champion Kevin Harvick fails to qualify after not posting a time Ron Esau also failed to qualify but loaned his truck to TJ Clark after Clark experienced problems in practice and qualifying. Clark would end up wadding up Esau's truck anyway in the first half of the event. The big wreck happened after Dave Smith dumped a lot of oil in turn 3, Dennis Setzer and Bill Venturini lose control in the oil and slam the outside wall ending their day Dave Marcis and David Green in similarly painted trucks for Skinner and Hornaday both end up scoring top 10 finishes (they may have been their backup trucks) Likewise Dave Rezendes was driving Geoff Bodine's backup in this race too. Rezendes struck a deal at the beginning of the season. In exchange for using Rezendes' shop, Bodine would let Rezendes drive any events that Bodine was unavailable for. At the end of the year they had 2 trucks still in great condition so they just decided to run them both in this race. It was reported in the prior week in Mesa Marin that if Ray Daniels had attempted and run all the remaining races from Sears Point on he would secure sponsorship for the entire 1996 season. He failed to qualify for this event and never attempted another race after this (withdrew at Homestead) so I wonder if the DNQ negated this deal. The race featured a good battle between Skinner and Irvan for the win but Skinner dominated from the halfway point and cruised to the win and championship 31. RaceFanX posted: 07.13.2017 - 7:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was the first Truck series race to feature a field of 40 trucks starting. This remains the series' all-time record although it would be tied several times during the series' early years, often for its season finales. The mark will likely stand in perpetuity since the series capped its field size at 36 within a few years and later decreased that to 32 in the mid-2010s. 32. RaceFanX posted: 07.13.2017 - 7:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The inaugural Truck series championship goes right down to the last race with Mike Skinner and Joe Ruttman both arriving at Phoenix with a shot at the first crown. Skinner held an 88-point edge coming in and ran so good all day Ruttman was never able to mount a serious challenge as Skinner and the black #3 GM Goodwrench Chevrolet went into the record books as the first champion. Weirdly as great as Skinner ran in the Trucks this would turn out to be his only championship on the tour. Ruttman's title shot went burst but credit where credit is due, his strong season revived and improved his status in NASCAR and it was impressive how well he did despite the Irvan-Simo's team's sponsorship woes for 1995 that saw him race with three primary sponsors (Coca-Cola, Mac Tools, and 1-800-Collect) in addition to a few unsponsored races and still win too races and battle for the championship. This was Ruttman's last race in the Irvan-Simo #84 Ford as he moved over to Roush Racing's Truck team in 1996 as it became a full-time effort. The Irvan-Simo crew changed their Truck number to #44 after this race and promptly hired ASA champ Bryan Reffner to come aboard as their new driver. Jack Sprague's last outing in Rick Hendrick's Budweiser #25 sees the Michigan favorite pick up the first of his 32 Truck series poles then turn it into a solid top-10 run. While the Hendrick team consolidated from two Truck series teams to one for 1996 Sprague's services were retained to drive the resulting #24 Chevrolet which picked up a new sponsorship from Quaker State motor oil. This would be teammate Scott Lagasse's last race with the team and the last outing for the DuPont #24 that shared the famed rainbow paint scheme of Jeff Gordon's Winston Cup car, at least he got to go out with a top-15 and a top-10 season points finish. NASCAR Northwest Tour legend Garrett Evans makes his second and final SuperTrucks start and gets the same result as his first, an early retirement netting a 36th-place finish. At least it wasn't last this time. Mike Bliss's #2 Ultra Custom Wheels Ford, in its last outing before the ASE colors arrived for 1996, had a TNN on-board camera for this race and a message of "It's a Girl" on the dashboard. Team owner Jim Smith was proud as you'd expect following the birth of his daughter Melissa Ann. 33. RaceFanX posted: 07.13.2017 - 7:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bill Sedgewick's iconic partnership with Wayne Spears and his Spears Manufacturing team dating all the way back to 1988 came to a conclusion with this race as Sedgewick moved on for 1996 to join Darrell Waltrip's Truck team. Before it ended Sedgewick and the Spears team had combined to win two NASCAR Winston West titles and 15 races, posted a strong Truck series season together here, and even dabbed in Southwest Tour and Winston Cup competition together. Their last race was a pretty good one as Sedgewick qualified outside pole in the #75 Chevrolet and posted a top-10. 34. Pacer posted: 05.07.2019 - 10:24 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) David Green's #76 Smith & Wesson Chevy had the colorful message on the hood of "Dale Earnhardt Insured by Smith & Wesson." I'm pretty sure they wouldn't let you do that today. 35. A.J. posted: 05.07.2019 - 10:29 am Rate this comment: (0) (2) Who's "they"? NASCAR's not as pussified as that, are they? 36. Danish_Pie posted: 06.06.2020 - 3:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ernie Irvan's first of four runner up's in trucks, each of them tying a mark of best finish in series history for the #28 that still stands. Also, David Green's 9th place finish here stands alone as the best in trucks to date for the #76. 37. SweetRich posted: 07.06.2020 - 9:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The final race for the ownership duo of Brad Akins / Bob Sutton. 38. rm posted: 07.21.2020 - 9:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mike Skinner wins the race and the inaugural championship, leading 89 laps along the way to mark the first of (to date, through the end of the 2019 season) nine 1000-lap-led seasons in Truck series history. Just four individual drivers have accomplished that feat - Skinner 3 times (95-96-07), Ron Hornaday 3 times (97-08-09), Jack Sprague 2 times (97-01) and Kyle Busch 1 time (10). Skinner's all-time top mark of 1533 laps led in 1996 is unlikely to be bested in the current incarnation of the schedule in which the 23 races on the calendar add up to roughly 3400 laps in total. Even Busch's aforementioned abbreviated 2010 season (44.1% lap-led rate) falls just short of the estimated 45.1% clip at which a driver would need to lead laps to break Skinner's record in the current climate. Skinner in 1995 led the fewest total races of any 1000-lap leader at 13, though that stat isn't necessarily that meaningful as the 1995 season had just 20 total races. Hornaday in 1997 and Busch both hit the 1000-lap mark in the 12th race of the season in which they led a lap, with Hornaday needing 18 total starts to reach that milestone and Busch only 14. It's hard to say for sure what the most dominant Truck championship season is, and despite the best efforts of a highly consistent Joe Ruttman my vote goes to Skinner's 1995 season. 39. Rich posted: 09.21.2020 - 1:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mike Joy, Buddy Baker and Darrell Waltrip were the commentators. Glenn Jarrett, Randy Pemberton and Larry McReynolds were the pit road reporters. 40. thecautionlightnews posted: 09.23.2020 - 6:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kenji Momota becomes Japan's first NASCAR driver and truck series driver. 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