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  1.   Darrell posted:
  10.20.2006 - 10:20 pm
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Mike Bliss' last win with Ultra Motorsports, and Nipper Alsup's first
race in a truck owned by Ron Hornaday.


  2.   Potato posted:
  10.29.2006 - 5:41 pm
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Kenny Irwin's last CTS race as well.


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.29.2007 - 4:46 am
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Lone truck race for Jerry Nadeau


  4.   WillG_46 posted:
  04.13.2008 - 10:55 am
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First start for Nipper Alsup (what a name!)


  5.   23andJoe posted:
  03.10.2014 - 8:12 am
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#4 sponsor: DuPont Stainmaster Carpet Chevrolt (Tim Buckley)
#38 sponsor: Ridge Gate Motorsports (Mike Clark)


  6.   23andJoe posted:
  03.10.2014 - 8:13 am
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^ Correcting the above:

#4 sponsor: DuPont Stainmaster Carpet Chevrolet (Tim Buckley)
#38 sponsor: Ridge Gate Motorsports Chevrolet (Mike Clark)


  7.   John P. posted:
  04.30.2014 - 1:24 am
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For the trucks that failed to qualify

37th was Bill Sedgwick DuPont Stainmaster Carpet (Tim Buckley)
38th was Brandon Sperling
39th was Mike Clark Ridge Gate Motorsports (Mike Clark)

all 3 drove Chevys


  8.   ericthenau posted:
  05.19.2014 - 5:09 pm
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#42 owner: Joe Ambrose


  9.   Jimnsimforever posted:
  05.02.2020 - 5:20 pm
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Jack Sprague's truck was awesome for the first green flag run as they
always were at this track as he checked out on the field and lapped many
trucks. During the first caution he suffered a terrible break that would
cost him the championship. Rick McCray in the #61 truck drove by Sprague
on the track during the caution and accidentally ran into the right side
of Sprague's truck. He caught the sheet metal in the right front tire
well and pulled it completely out. Sprague had to come in to the pits
and they fixed it the best they could but the damage caused the truck to
develop a push and it was never the same. They interviewed his crew
chief Dennis Connor during the 2nd caution to ask what was wrong with
the truck and you could tell he was in disbelief that something like
that might cost them the championship.

Speaking of the #61 truck. The Steve Coulter truck shut down operations
after race 23 at Martinsville. They had already let their driver Tolsma
go and weren't going to be running in the Truck Series in 1999 and were
starting a team in the Busch Series for 99 instead. Crew Chief for the
team, Dave Fuge went with them to get the Busch team ready and serve as
crew chief on it, so he wasn't crew chief on the late races in the year
for the #61 truck. Some of the lower budget teams used the 61 number in
the final 3 races of the year to help ensure they would make the race
with a provisional if needed.

In Jerry Nadeau's only career start here in the trucks, he just started
the race and then turned the truck over to David Starr to finish the
race. I assume it was to allow Starr to run the race while still saving
his eligibility for Rookie of the Year in 99 because he'd already run
the max of 5 races in 98.


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