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  1.   Darrell posted:
  04.14.2006 - 1:32 pm
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Jamie Spinner's NASCAR debut.


  2.   Steve posted:
  05.20.2006 - 3:13 am
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Since this race, the Spears Manufacturing team, owned by Connie and
Wayne Spears, has not missed a race.


  3.   Darrell posted:
  10.01.2006 - 5:32 pm
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Kevin Harvick drove for them too. It's hard to imagine Kevin Harvick on
any sort of DNQ list, but I guess it happens to pretty much anyone.


  4.   SK posted:
  07.04.2007 - 1:55 am
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Third win of the season (and career) for Rich Bickle. All three came
from the pole position, and saw Bickle lead well over half of the race.


  5.   Destiny posted:
  08.25.2007 - 8:31 pm
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It's Skinner, Darrell, not spinner.


  6.   most posted:
  12.08.2007 - 3:40 am
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Ha, Spinner....

Spears team is gone as of this week :(

I thought Bickle might catch Sprague after this race but it was not to
be :(


  7.   Pacer posted:
  02.25.2010 - 9:49 am
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Rich Bickle's last Truck series win


  8.   83andJoe posted:
  07.06.2013 - 3:20 am
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#37 crew chief: Mark Green


  9.   The Great Dave posted:
  01.29.2017 - 7:04 pm
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Sponsor Update

#1 Citgo Says Go!
#7 Tanya Tucker's Salsa


  10.   JSPorts posted:
  01.29.2017 - 9:33 pm
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Rich Bickle was pretty good at this track. I believe it was Martinsville
where he had that great interview after having a top-10 run in the Cup car.


  11.   FamousBlue posted:
  01.30.2017 - 1:15 am
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@JSPorts you are correct on both counts. And I believe it was actually a
top 5, if I'm not mistaken, the only one in his entire career in Cup.


  12.   Maverick19 posted:
  06.01.2017 - 12:20 am
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Top 3 starters finish 1-2-3. I have to imagine that that hasn't happened
very often.


  13.   murb posted:
  06.03.2017 - 4:28 pm
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"Top 3 starters finish 1-2-3. I have to imagine that that hasn't
happened very often."

Coincidentally, two days after you posted this it just happened in the
Xfinity race at Dover.


  14.   Z posted:
  03.19.2020 - 4:52 pm
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7th Of Sprague's x12 Consec. Top 10s To Close Out '97 En Route To A
Title; Best Finish Of Rich Bickle (Tied) & Ernie Irvan (Tied)

Start Of A x4 Race Mini-Streak In Which Chuck Bown Finished 14th/16th
Each Week;
Andy Houston Rebounds From DNQing The Race Prior w/ A Strong 11th Place
Run, 1st Car Off The Lead Lap; Joe Ruttman Runs An Almost Identical Race
To Last Week & Finishes 12th Again

Johnny Benson Jr's Only Start Of '97,
2nd @ M'Ville (1995-16, A Race He
Finished 3rd) - Last Start Until '04
Michael Waltrip's Only Race @ M'Ville & 2nd Worst Finish (2004-14);
Debut Of Citgo As A Truck Sponsor, Later Supporting Randy Tolsma

David Green's Last Start w/ Clarence Brewer; Blewitt III's 2nd To Last
Start (Last Of '97), Last For Owner John Blewitt; Jamie Skinner's Only
Start w/ Dana Dorman; 2nd To Last Start Of Wayne Grubb & Owner William
Grubb; Billy Pauch's 2nd To Last Start (Last Of '97); Wrnie Cope's Only
Start Of '97 & For Bob Blake

Brad Teague's Last Start Of '97 & For Mike Rose (Indiv. & Owner
Himself); Kelly Denton's 2nd To Last Start, Both In Trucks & For Owner
Charles Hardy; BA Wilson's 2nd Race Following A Strong Debut The Week
Prior (Last Of '97)

Only Race Of Philip Morris/Sam Beatty;
1st DNQ: Kirk Shelmerdine & Joe Gaita;
Last DNQ Of '97: Jeff Spraker,
Mike Ewanitsko, Michael Cohen (& Career),
Kevin Grubb (& Career), Blaise Alexander (& Career)
2nd To Last DNQ: Andy Gezman, Bill Sedgwick (Of '97), Randy Renfrow (&
Last Attempt w/ Greg Turnage), Lance Norick (Of '97), Terry Cook, Tammy
Jo Kirk (Of '97), & Rich Markle


  15.   Danish_Pie posted:
  06.06.2020 - 3:12 am
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For the second time, Ernie Irvan finishes second in trucks, matching the
mark of best finish in the series for the #28, which he would again
equal two more times the next year.


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