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  1.   Harvick29 posted:
  02.16.2008 - 1:22 pm
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This was G.C. Spencer Last Race In Nascar.


  2.   Doc posted:
  03.02.2010 - 4:38 am
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Sam Sommers' only pole.


  3.   gearhead15 posted:
  12.31.2010 - 5:11 pm
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If I recall correctly this was the race where Donnie Allison was leading
on the last lap but when he went into turn 3 he had to lap James Hylton
and Waltrip took that opportunity to dive underneath. Donnie was forced
out of the groove and in the ensuing melee there was a huge crash on the
front straight coming down to the checkers.


  4.   Graham Clayton posted:
  02.02.2014 - 1:16 am
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Why did Ed Negre quit - was the car uncompetitive?


  5.   Anonymous posted:
  07.02.2015 - 2:14 pm
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The Union 76 Pit Crew Competition was held on this weekend.

1. Benny Parsons/Jake Elder
2. Cale Yarborough/Junior Johnson
3. Dick Brooks/Junnie Donlavey
4. Neil Bonnet/Harry Hyde
5. Donnie Allison/Runt Pittman
6. Grant Adcox/George White
7. Lennie Pond/Herb Nab
8. Richard Childress/Cliff Champion
9. Richard Petty/Maurice Petty
10. James Hylton/Kirk Shelmerdine
11. Ed Negre/Norman Negre
12. Tighe Scott/Walter Ballard
13. Skip Manning/Tex Powell
14. Bobby Allison/Bud Moore
15. Darrell Waltrip/Buddy Parrott
16. Buddy Baker/David Ifft


  6.   Anonymous posted:
  07.02.2015 - 2:16 pm
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The Pit crew competition above should be with the 1978 Carolina 500, I
hit the wrong button.


  7.   Mile501 posted:
  09.26.2020 - 3:18 pm
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Is the number of caution laps for this race correct? If so, why did they
run 99 caution laps even though there were only 5 cautions? The race was
rain-shortened, but even so, it seems odd that they would have wasted so
many laps riding around under caution.

Does anyone know more of the details behind this race?


  8.   David posted:
  09.26.2020 - 3:25 pm
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The official race report confirms 5 cautions and 99 laps, without a
breakdown. It wasn't terribly uncommon to ride around in damp conditions
in those days, so that's surely the reason for the unusually high number
of laps.


  9.   Mile501 posted:
  09.26.2020 - 3:42 pm
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@8 - Okay, thanks for the info. Just out of curiosity, where do you find
official race reports from that far back?


  10.   possum posted:
  09.26.2020 - 7:33 pm
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@7 - it appears that 3 of the 5 cautions were for rain, so David's
suggestion that most of the 99 laps was trying to dry the track
(remember, no jet driers in 1997) is probably correct.


  11.   rateus posted:
  02.14.2021 - 2:13 pm
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Roland Wlodyka qualified for Dick May, Jim Hurtubise qualified for
Harold Miller and Lennie Pond qualified for Tighe Scott.


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