1995 Total Petroleum 200

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1995 Total Petroleum 200
Race details
Race 11 of 20 in the 1995 NASCAR SuperTruck Series season
Date July 15, 1995 (1995-07-15)
Location Colorado National Speedway, Dacono, Colorado
Course Permanent racing facility
0.375 mi (0.673 km)
Distance 200 laps, 75 mi (120.7 km)
Weather Temperatures reaching up to 81 °F (27 °C); wind speeds approaching 9.9 miles per hour (15.9 km/h) [1]
Average speed 56.086 miles per hour (90.262 km/h)
Pole position
Driver Dale Earnhardt, Inc.
Most laps led
DriverRon Hornaday Jr.Dale Earnhardt, Inc.
Laps 170
Winner
No. 98 Butch Miller Jim Herrick
Television in the United States
Network CBS
Announcers Ken Squier

The 1995 Total Petroleum 200 took place on July 15 at Colorado National Speedway in Dacono, Colorado.

Contents

This event was 200 laps long and it was the eleventh race (first season) of the series where it held the closest margin of victory in the history of the NASCAR SuperTruck Series. As Butch Miller and Mike Skinner were side by side on the last lap of the race, as Miller won the race by 0.001 of a second, it was Miller's only victory.

The closest margin of victory since then was in the 2010 Mountain Dew 250 at Talladega Superspeedway, as Kyle Busch beat Aric Almirola by 0.002 of a second. It was the closest margin of victory among NASCAR's three national series until February 17, 2018 when Tyler Reddick beat Elliott Sadler by 0.0004 of a second in the Xfinity Series race at Daytona.

Results

  1. 98-Butch Miller
  2. 3-Mike Skinner
  3. 16-Ron Hornaday Jr. (pole sitter)
  4. 75-Bill Sedgwick
  5. 7-Dave Rezendes
  6. 84-Joe Ruttman
  7. 6-Rick Carelli
  8. 31-Jack Sprague
  9. 83-Steve Portenga
  10. 20-Walker Evans
  11. 1-P. J. Jones
  12. 30-Dennis Setzer
  13. 21-Tobey Butler
  14. 24-Scott Lagasse
  15. 87-John Nemechek
  16. 11-Mike Hurlbert
  17. 79-Jimmy Dick
  18. 81-Jerry Glanville
  19. 10-Dennis Wooldridge
  20. 64-Kenny Allen
  21. 23-T. J. Clark
  22. 37-Bob Strait
  23. 51-Kerry Teague
  24. 4-Bob Brevak
  25. 34-Raymond Daniels
  26. 38-Sammy Swindell
  27. 08-Mike Bliss
  28. 14-John Kinder

Notes

Quotes

-Ken Squier instated about the finish during the CBS Sports coverage of the race.

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References

  1. "Weather of the 1995 Total Petroleum 200". The Old Farmers' Almanac. Archived from the original on 2024-05-26. Retrieved 2013-06-25.