|| *Comments on the 1996 Sears Auto Center 200:* View the most recent comment <#29> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. J. Kircher posted: 04.19.2006 - 2:26 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Mike Skinner had the race won, but within a lap or two of the checkered flag he clobbered the wall and limped home to seventh. 2. SK posted: 04.18.2007 - 3:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Terry Cook makes his CTS debut. 3. SK posted: 06.14.2008 - 9:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mark Gibson collects the first-ever top-10 for Billy Ballew Motorsports, coming home 9th in only the team's second start. 4. BB98 posted: 06.19.2008 - 4:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kenny Allen scores a career best finish at one of his better tracks. 5. Matt posted: 11.13.2008 - 8:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Owners: 26. Kenny Irwin Jr., Rick Beebe, and Randy Porter (Mike Mittler) 35. Bill Venturini (Bill Venturini) 6. Anonymous posted: 01.11.2009 - 3:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) First CTS start for Robbie Reiser. 7. ii posted: 09.07.2010 - 3:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) A race thoroughly dominated by Sprague and Skinner, but after Skinner hit the wall with a couple laps to go, Sprague took advantage of that. 8. FHgrad99 posted: 12.08.2012 - 9:38 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The #26 started at the rear of the field. Kenny Irwin was orginally supposed to drive that truck but for some reason was unable to. Dennis Setzer qualified the truck and Randy Porter drove it in the race. 9. 83andJoe posted: 03.03.2013 - 2:36 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Did Not Qualify: Frank Davis, Andy Genzman 10. 83andJoe posted: 03.03.2013 - 3:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #11 sponsor: Bud Light #81 sponsor: Fricker's/HBO Sports 11. 83andJoe posted: 03.03.2013 - 7:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mike McLaughlin relief drove for Charlie Cragan starting at halftime. 12. 83andJoe posted: 03.03.2013 - 7:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) ^ Actually it was Todd Bodine relief-driving the 92. 13. 83andJoe posted: 03.03.2013 - 8:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #8 status: Clutch #11 sponsor: Bud Light #15 sponsor: L.C. Smith Sales & Leasing/Issac Leasco #35 sponsor: BW-3/Caputo Concrete #81 sponsor: Fricker's/HBO Sports Did Not Qualify: Frank Davis, Andy Genzman First caution: Lap 5-6: #11 blown engine Second caution: #19 accident turn 2 Third caution: #81 spin turn 4 Fourth caution: #81 accident turn 1 Fifth caution: competition Sixth caution: debris Seventh caution: #8 accident turn 2 Eighth caution: #24, #92, #81, #8, #6, #36 accident turn 2 Ninth caution: #98 stopped turn 2 Tenth caution: #81 spin turn 4 Eleventh caution: #44, #42, #7, #12 accident backstretch Twelvth caution: #12, #31 accident turn 4 Thirteenth caution: #21 accident turn 4 #17 crew chief: Dave McCarty #30 crew chief: Fred Graves 14. 83andJoe posted: 03.04.2013 - 2:12 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Fifth caution shouldn't have #83 in it. DNQs were per Ken Squier on the CBS broadcast. 15. 83andJoe posted: 07.06.2013 - 2:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Andy Genzman DNQ'd the #25 De's LP Gas Ford (owner DeWilton Genzman). 16. 83andJoe posted: 10.08.2013 - 7:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #42 crew chief: Brad Noffsinger 17. ericthenau posted: 11.02.2013 - 8:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Frank Davis failed to qualify in the #69 Dwarf Cars Unlimited Ford. 18. 23andJoe posted: 04.03.2014 - 11:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Order of DNQs: 35. #25 Genzman 36. #69 F.Davis 19. RaceFanX posted: 02.04.2017 - 11:49 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jack Sprague and Ron Hornaday, Jr. came into this race tied for the points led. They started side-by-side on row 4 in this one with Sprague backing up his rain-soaked victory at Nazareth with second-consecutive win here to take the edge in the points standings. Bill Sedgwick matches his career-best Truck series finish with another second-place run. The former West series champion never broke through to get a victory. ARCA veteran Bob Schacht makes his Truck series debut, his only start of 1996 and one of just two total on the tour, but it didn't last long. He slapped the wall in Turn 4 early and the damage sent the blue #73 to the sidelines. Schacht came to a full stop on the track became of the impact but drove back to the pits and there was no yellow. The team tried to fix it and he made another lap or two but ultimately parked it. Every truck in the field qualified faster than the Truck's 1995 pole speed for this one. The Milwaukee Mile's new, ultra-smooth pavement for 1996 probably played a factor in that. 20. RaceFanX posted: 02.04.2017 - 12:07 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) While GMC trucks have been a staple on American roads but they have NEVER been entered in NASCAR Truck series competition (likely to avoid competition with corporate cousin Chevrolet). While we may likely never seen a GMC racing in the series we at least had a GMC-sponsored truck in this one with Robbie Reiser's one-off red, white, and blue GMC Truckin' Team #4 entry. The Wisconsinite Reiser qualified well in front of his Badger State fans but unfortunately mechanical woes sent the GMC Chevrolet Silverado (it's fun to say that and be accurate) to the sidelines just past halfway. Football coach Jerry Glanville had a wild day as he was involved in four caution flags during the first 5/8s of this race. Remarkably despite all that he didn't dent up his #81 all that much and came back to finish 14th amid high attrition, matching his best career finish in the series. This was his last start of 1996. 21. 23andJoe posted: 02.04.2017 - 9:46 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) I actually remember, back in the day (possibly in one issue of the Truck Series Racing magazine - there was such a thing in '96-97!), that the GMC Sierra was, in fact, a legal body for Truck Series competition (although, as noted, nobody ever used it, much as how the T-Bird-clone Mercury Cougars were technically legal in Winston Cup for years). 22. Scott B posted: 02.04.2017 - 11:08 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) I've always been surprised that nobody has entered a GMC truck in this series since it would only amount to a different set of decals. If you aren't getting factory support that requires you to brand the entry Chevrolet, why not be different and stand out a bit? 23. 23andJoe posted: 02.05.2017 - 6:05 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) It actually would have also involved an entirely different nosepiece. The Chevy trucks have the "crossbar" across the grille and seperating the headlights, but a GMC would have a "fully open" grille and the "lower" headlights raised with a noticable gap between them and the bumper. While the marque was on the technically-legal list I'd rather suspect nobody actually made the relevant parts and submitted them for approval; it would have taken a team with factory levels of support in order to do it in-house, and that would have brought the Baleful Gaze of the General on the project in the same manner that Ford nixed the Kranefuss-Haas Hot Rod Lincoln. 24. nascar_vd / racing-reference.info posted: 04.24.2018 - 11:01 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) C1996-10 Awards Busch Pole Award: Mike Bliss Gatorade Front Runner Award: Jack Sprague Plasti-Kote Winning Finish Award: Dennis Connor (#24) Ventvisor Brand Super Deflector Award: Jack Sprague Featherlite Trailers Long Haul Award: Jack Sprague Cintas Rookie-Of-The-Race Award: Bobby Gill 25. RaceFanX posted: 07.22.2018 - 3:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Gibson's top-10 run turned out to be his only one in the Truck series. This was the fourth of 13 starts for the ARCA veteran during the series' early years. 26. RaceFanX posted: 12.17.2019 - 9:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Short track legend and Truck Series rookie Bobby Gill ironically scores his best career finish on a superspeedway as he brings the #75 Spears Manufacturing Chevrolet home in sixth place (Admittedly Milwaukee does race like a short track because it is so flat). This was his penultimate start for the team before he was replaced by Nathan Buttke although the #75 would still finish no better than sixth all season. 27. SweetRich posted: 07.10.2020 - 6:36 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The final career 2nd place finish for Bill Sedgwick. 28. SweetRich21/43 posted: 07.31.2020 - 10:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators were Ken Squier, Ned Jarrett and Buddy Baker. The pit road reporters were Dr. Dick Berggren and Mike Joy. 29. rm posted: 09.02.2020 - 7:44 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) The Mile was repaved ahead of this race, and combining the new surface with hot mid-summer temperatures was a recipe for disaster. Drivers complained about the utter lack of grip and the chunks of asphalt that started to come up as the race went on. Drivers also said that trying to run on the outside lane in the turns was futile, especially if you adjusted your line mid-corner. With no minimal grip, drivers said that their trucks were liable to get out of shape far easier than usual with the change of direction and change in the clean/dirty air, even making lapping slow trucks a daunting task. Attrition finally caught up to many damaged trucks in the second half of the race, and there were several more on-track incidents that didn't bring out yellows - and, arguably, a few in there that probably should have warranted cautions after all. That should explain the large gaps in laps completed between finishers just outside the top ten. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: