The 1989 Coors 200 was the 8th stock car race of the 1989 NASCAR Winston West Series season. The race was held on Saturday, August 5, 1989, at Mesa Marin Raceway, a 0.500 mile (0.805 km) oval shaped racetrack in Bakersfield, California. The race took the scheduled 200 laps to complete. Roy Smith won the race, his second and final win of the season. Smith, restarting sixth after the final caution after barely avoided losing a lap on pit road, passed pole sitter Troy Beebe and Bill Schmitt in the final laps en route to the win.[2]Bill Sedgwick would finish second after Schmitt's brakes began to fail. Schmitt, Beebe, and Robert Sprague rounded out the top five.
Mesa Marin Raceway was a 0.500 mi (0.805 km) paved oval race track, located near the junction of CA 178 and CA 184 (Kern Canyon Road), east of Bakersfield, California. It opened in 1977 and was owned by Marion Collins throughout its existence. The 1989 Coors 200 was one of 45 NASCAR Winston West Series races to be held at the track during its existence.
↑ "Race Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved February 24, 2025.
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