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  1.   J. Kircher posted:
  04.05.2006 - 12:26 am
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This marked Kyle Petty's first and only Truck Series start (as of 2006).


  2.   most posted:
  12.08.2007 - 3:42 am
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Irwin and Irvan had a shoving match after this race I think starting
talks of a feud for 1998 since Irwin was taking the #28 over. Since they
both ran like crap the next year, no feud really ever started...


  3.   SK posted:
  02.23.2008 - 6:43 pm
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Mike Bliss wins the very first Truck race at California Speedway (or,
the Auto Club Speedway of Southern California, as it has been
rechristened).


  4.   Mike posted:
  03.28.2008 - 12:49 pm
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California becomes the largest oval the Trucks had ever run on
(replacing Homestead and Las Vegas), and it stayed that way until they
went to Daytona in 2000.


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.06.2010 - 5:40 pm
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First time the Circle Bar team ran two trucks in one event, although it
looks like the #74 second entry for Tammy Jo Kirk was a field filler.
They wouldn't run two trucks again until the finale at Homestead in 2004
when they entered a #44 Ford for Greg Biffle and didn't add a second
full-time team until 2008.


  6.   10andJoe posted:
  06.11.2012 - 12:16 pm
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#65 owner: Bob Brevak.

The team ran Allen's number for the points/provisional, but it was a
renumbered Tony Roper backup truck.


  7.   10andJoe posted:
  06.11.2012 - 12:50 pm
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Roper in front of the renumbered 65:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwmoran/5736998991/in/set-72157621593262306


  8.   83andJoe posted:
  06.24.2013 - 7:47 pm
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#65 owner: Bob Brevak


  9.   b4il3y posted:
  11.08.2013 - 1:58 am
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Source of this shoving match?


  10.   23andJoe posted:
  08.16.2014 - 2:00 am
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#9 was a Chevrolet, owner Wilbur Bunce


  11.   RaceFanX posted:
  05.30.2016 - 9:09 pm
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Irwin's third-place run in this race was his best Truck finish outside
his two wins earlier in the season. Kenny never finished runner-up in a
Truck race.

This was a killer name for a race.


  12.   48johnsonfan posted:
  09.05.2016 - 11:17 pm
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A full race has just been uploaded on YouTube:


  13.   Bramblegrunt posted:
  12.21.2017 - 3:47 pm
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A very clean race that featured a bit of 3-wide battling across the
field but immensely dominated by Mike Bliss, even despite a number of
Cup guys in the field.

Rick Johnson who had a great run in the 63 at Sears Point crashed in
practice but this proved to be one of the very few incidents of the
weekend. Rob Rizzo was responsible for 2 of the 4 cautions on the day,
after spinning and making a great save not to hit anything he followed
up on the following restart and didnt make quite the same save and he
retired in the last incident of the day.

Points wise, this race pretty much sealed the championship for Jack
Sprague. Rich Bickle and Joe Ruttman were pretty much the only
contenders left who could challenge him going into this race but
Ruttmans engine failed after the midway break race restart and Rich
Bickle forebodingly said before the race that they had gone pretty
aggressive with the setup and theyd either be really fast or theyd
totally miss it. They totally missed and it were basically rock bottom
of the trucks running in the event. Sprague cruised to 6th place finish,
gaining 65 points on Bickle and 74 points on Ruttman


  14.   Trickledown posted:
  08.20.2020 - 3:01 pm
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Robby Gordon raced in the CART race that accompanied this Truck race. He
had a falling out with SABCO for his Cup Ride after the fall Dover race.
He finished better in the CART race finishing 8th for Hogan racing.


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