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  1.   Anonymous posted:
  09.16.2007 - 7:29 pm
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DNQ:Claude Ballot-Lena, Bill Elliott, Jim Hurtubise, Woody Fisher,
Nestor Peles, Connie Saylor, Roger Hamby, John Rezek, Bobby Fisher,
Tommy Gale


  2.   18fan posted:
  03.09.2010 - 1:07 am
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Baker's car was so fast that he ran a half second faster a lap in
traffic to run Cale down in 10 laps to win.


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.29.2012 - 8:09 pm
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Sponsors (and missing owners):
#28 Buddy Baker- Spectra
#11 Cale Yarborough- Busch
#27 Benny Parsons- Griffin Marine
#15 Bobby Allison- Hodgdon / Moore
#21 David Pearson- Purolator
#90 Ricky Rudd- Truxmore
#43 Richard Petty- STP / Southern Pride Car Wash Systems
#67 Buddy Arrington- Reid Trailer Sales (owned by Buddy Arrington)
#50 Bruce Hill- Newport & Associates
#44 Terry Labonte- Stratagraph
#41 Grant Adcox- Adcox-Kirby (owned by Herb Adcox)
#82 Paul Fess- Lasky Construction
#37 Dave Watson- Ams Oil
#87 Bruce Jacobi- Fast Lane Ltd. (owned by Billie Harvey)
#70 J.D. McDuffie- Bailey Excavating (owned by J.D. McDuffie)
#6 Claude Ballot-Lena- JMS
#48 James Hylton- Palatine Automotive Parts
#9 Bill Elliott- Dahlonega Ford Sales
#34 Nestor Peles- (owned by Steve Peles)
#25 Ronnie Thomas- Sub-Tropic
#31 John Rezek- RPM Enterprises (owned by Curtis Payne)
#3 Richard Childress- CRC Chemicals (owned by Richard Childress)
#40 Bobby Fisher- Midwestern Farm Lines
#39 Blackie Wangerin- (owned by Blackie Wangerin)
#64 Tommy Gale- Sunny King Ford & Honda

Status:
#40 Bobby Fisher- crash

Fisher crashed both in his 125 and the ARCA race and while the #40 made
the race anywat on team he decided he wasn't up to up and pulled himself
out of the seat. Owner D.K. Ulrich drove the car instead in the 500.

Connie Saylor's #49 may have been sponsored by Lady & Son Auction but I
couldn't find proof. G.C. Spencer's team switched to running a #6
Oldsmobile from a #49 Dodge and entered the old Magnum with Saylor at
the wheel in a team effort with their new #6 and their other driver
sportscar racer Claude Ballot-Lena. Neither one of Spencer's entries
made the field.

Buddy Baker's dominance of this race and the first Busch Clash made him
the heavy favorite for the Daytona 500. It wouldn't exactly pan out for
him...


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.20.2019 - 12:44 am
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This race was the only Cup one of any kind where siblings Woody Fisher
and Bobby Fisher raced against each other with neither of finishing high
enough to make the 500 through this qualifier. While, as mentioned,
Bobby stepped aside for the 500 after a rough week he would come back to
race in Cup again at Charlotte later in the season. This was the end of
Woody's NASCAR career as he turned his attention toward the Indianapolis
500...where he would also DNQ later in the year.


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.07.2019 - 7:51 pm
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Sponsor:
#04 Jim Hurtubise- Global Debt Enhancer, Inc. (This is the same for his
Daytona 500 DNQ. I found a picture of Herk's car on Getty Images and
this is the best I could do for making out the sponsor)


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