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Good evening!
This is our first chance in four months to release a couple of Thursday Throwback articles. This is partly to make up for the lack of a Friday Features edition last week, but today is the anniversary of a couple of major shows in pavement Late Model racing from more than 30 years ago.
Today in 1995, Dave Whitlock (#92; Rod McLeod collection) became the third straight Ontario native to win the Oxford 250 at Oxford Plains Speedway in Maine. There wasn't another Canadian to win the event until Cole Butcher did it in 2022-23. Whitlock, now 60, retired from racing in 2009 and did most of his racing north of the border since the late '90s.
Also today in 1994, Cory Wolfe won the Montana 200 at its former home, Kalispell Raceway Park. Wolfe was the second-ever home-state driver to win that event, and he has come two spots from another 200 triumph on three different occasions. He'd love to reach the podium again in the event, which is now held at Mission Valley Super Oval … and he's still active behind the wheel at age 70!
Click on the large-type underlined links below to see these Thursday Throwback stories and find out what Whitlock and Wolfe have been up to in recent years! Then please look back here in your email boxes tomorrow afternoon for some Friday Features, focusing on New England and Florida.
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