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  1.   Steve posted:
  06.11.2006 - 7:43 pm
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Sterling Marlin finished 28th in this race. Take look at his car number
and sponsor, and tell me either one of them would not be a sign of
things to come.

This was also 1988 Busch Champion Tommy Ellis' only Winston Cup Top 10.


  2.   Destiny posted:
  08.27.2007 - 8:32 pm
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Steve, Coo Coo, Sterling's late father had owned his son for the only time.


  3.   SK posted:
  12.09.2007 - 3:09 am
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Geoff Bodine's first career top-10.


  4.   Clayton posted:
  09.27.2008 - 11:06 am
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Jack Ingram's last carrer Cup Start!


  5.   PettyCash posted:
  10.08.2009 - 10:41 pm
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@Steve - responding to your comment 3 yrs later. :-) CooCoo drove #14 in
GN/Cup. Sterling picked the number when he started his late model career
at Nashville and carried it over to a limited # of starts in the family
car in Cup. Coors also sponsored his late model at Nashville in the
early 80s before he made the jump the Cup full time in the late 80s. So
he had that early relationship that I'm sure helped him land the ride
and bigger sponsorship at SABCO.


  6.   Anonymous posted:
  02.02.2010 - 3:57 pm
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Incorrect, this was Tommy Ellis only top 5 finish and he had 6 top 10
finishes in his career.


  7.   18fan posted:
  06.11.2010 - 6:28 pm
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Bonnett dominated but blew up. His 1981 was similar to Geoff Bodine's 1994.


  8.   The Great Dave posted:
  01.02.2012 - 2:11 pm
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Norm Negre's last start as an owner.


  9.   RaceFanX posted:
  07.05.2012 - 3:55 pm
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Young Rusty Wallace finishes sixth, his only top-10 finish of 1981. This
was the only race between the start of the 1981 season and the second
race of his rookie 1984 Cup season at Richmond that Rusty, at the time a
racer in ASA, actually finished.


  10.   KW posted:
  03.14.2016 - 10:18 am
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The Miller High Life 300 was run the day before. It was a combo race
between the Late Model Sportsman (112 inch wheelbase) and Nascars new
Grand American Stock Car division (108 inch wheelbase), but it appears
that neither series awarded points. Gary Balough won in LMS Pontiac
followed by Mark Martin, Ricky Rudd, Darrell Waltrip in a Camaro and Sam
Ard.


  11.   John posted:
  09.01.2017 - 11:57 am
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From looking at a photo that I have found, the 88 Ricky Rudd Gatorade
car appears to be the Buick, not the Chevrolet. There is a clear shot of
the 88 Buick running behind the 14 Coors Chevy of Sterling Marlin, the
only time he ran in 1981.


  12.   Seb posted:
  08.12.2019 - 12:49 pm
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#88 Rudd is a Buick not a Chevrolet as race footage shows, previous
comment is correct.


  13.   rateus posted:
  02.10.2021 - 3:58 pm
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Slick Johnson qualified for Ronnie Thomas and Dick May qualified for
Jimmy Means.


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