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  1.   Rick Sorgen posted:
  12.18.2005 - 7:51 am
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More than likly the #25 car (driven by Erick Erickson) was not a Pontiac
but a Buick, as all his other races this year were #25 buicks.


  2.   E. R. Kelly posted:
  03.25.2007 - 5:12 am
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Steven Clark, a reserve police officer, was struck by Scott Hunter
Cain's car as the officer was rushing to assist at the accident of Royce
Haggerty. Clark was struck again by several following cars and died at
the scene of the accident.

There were no injuries in the Haggerty crash.

Cain (and most of the other drivers) was driving at a considerable
disadvantage. The dirt from the track was covering his windshield so
thickly that he had to use his left hand to wipe a ten inch square of
his windshield just to see where he was going. He never saw the officer
until he hit the windshield of his car.

It was this accident, not Haggerty's crash, that caused the race to be
shortened.

Steven Clark's page will be online soon at Motorsport Memorial.

E. R. Kelly
Oklahoma City


  3.   Anonymous posted:
  08.26.2007 - 12:38 am
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I never even knew my local horse track had some NASCAR history... They
had better not close the place!


  4.   Anonymous posted:
  03.01.2009 - 5:12 pm
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And, of course, they have...


  5.   fannie davis posted:
  12.18.2009 - 10:58 pm
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can anyone tell me why several of the car numbers ended with the letter N
is it because they are from nascar north series , i am not sure if that
series had begun in that era thank you


  6.   Spen posted:
  06.24.2012 - 12:44 am
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The north series didn't get started until '79, so it's certainly not
that. However, all but one of the drivers with an "N" after their
numbers came from either Oregon or Washington. (And the one whoe didn't
came from northern CA.) So I'm just guessing here, but it's possible
that the West series had 'northern' and 'southern' divisions this
season. USAC's stock car series operated under similar rules around that
time. But I haven't found any evidence to support that theory.


  7.   nascar_vd / racing-reference.info posted:
  02.23.2016 - 10:48 am
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Note: Driver Standings after this race (Top20):

1) Buck Baker = 6516 points
2) Herb Thomas = 6316
3) Lee Petty = 5480
4) Speedy Thompson = 4640
5) Jim Paschal = 4330
6) Billy Myers = 4068
7) Tim Flock = 4030
8) Gwyn Staley = 3378
9) Ralph Moody = 3276
10) Fireball Roberts = 2830
11) Rex White = 2433
12) Joe Eubanks = 2240
13) Marvin Panch = 1868
14) Johnny Allen = 1688
15) Al Watkins = 1630
16) Paul Goldsmith = 1568
17) Joe Weatherly = 1500
18) Jack Smith = 1416
19) Frank Mundy = 1416
20) Harvey Henderson = 1394


  8.   Ed posted:
  06.25.2017 - 4:17 pm
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First career win for Eddie Pagan


  9.   MSportRev posted:
  11.07.2019 - 3:36 pm
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To answer @5 and @6, this was a combination race with the Pacific Coast
Late Model division, so the 'N' could stand for 'National.'


  10.   gary24fan posted:
  11.07.2019 - 4:41 pm
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@5, 6 and 10:

I think the N's you see appended on some of the car numbers in these
west coast races back in this era indicated Northwest-based guys and teams.


  11.   possum posted:
  11.07.2019 - 10:04 pm
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@10 - well, that sounds reasonable but I don't know. Looking just at
Johnny Kieper and Ed Negre, who seem to have alternated running the
#88/88N and #98/98N, some joint races they seem to have run without the
N, and some standalone races they ran with the N. The N was only used at
Portland and San Mateo, but not for all races at those tracks, not even
for all joint races. Perhaps a driver had to chose which series he
scored points in and change the number accordingly.


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