|| *Comments on the 1998 AC Delco 300 Presented by Jani-King:* View the most recent comment <#29> | Post a comment <#post> 1. Anonymous posted: 03.04.2015 - 10:55 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Another awesome addition to the site! Tkx to all who do this! 2. RaceFanX posted: 03.04.2015 - 1:24 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) My jaw is on the floor. I was unaware the ASA series results existed as complete as they are here. This is remarkable. Thank you to both Darrell and the webmaster. We've got all the best American stock car series on this site now. 3. Rexrobe posted: 03.04.2015 - 7:49 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Now THIS is cool stuff!!! Major thanks to those who made it possible! 4. Darrell posted: 03.04.2015 - 10:39 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Y'all are welcome. I was able to crop together most of this info from a couple of other websites plus the archives of the old ASA website. I focused on the last six years because they had the most complete results. If anyone wants to go and do the results from 72-97, go for it. I'm about to start a major job hunt and won't be able to devote much time to such a project. 5. Alex posted: 03.05.2015 - 4:56 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) ^You can consider that done and on my list of many series to compile! 6. Jeff Wagoner (ARCA Results Archive) posted: 03.06.2015 - 6:24 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I've got a bunch of old National Speed Sport issues. '87-'92, 1996, and some from the 1980s. Should help fill in some gaps. I'm sure the Third Turn and Ultimate Racing History have a good portion of race results too. 7. Alex posted: 03.06.2015 - 7:52 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jeff, I find your ARCA work amazing and admirable. That said, some of these series are difficult because even the press releases read like "Mike Garvey won Sunday's ASA race at Iliana. Scott Hansen was second." Much of what you see here is the Third Turn's slipshod results combined with the details from series websites (accessed via the Web Archive) and press releases. 8. RaceFanX posted: 03.07.2015 - 2:34 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mike Miller starts 1998 off with the first of his three wins that season. Man just seeing the results puts the old TNN Motorsports guitar riff ASA theme back in my head. 9. Darrell posted: 03.07.2015 - 12:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Danny Doeler's first of a handful of starts this season. I think his Speedblock sponsor was the same one that shortchanged Darrell Waltrip in his aborted 1998 season. If so, I don't know if Doeler got any better off. 10. 23andJoe posted: 03.07.2015 - 5:33 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) It's good to see this here, much thanks to the webmaster and Darrell! Alex: We're trying to fill in as much as we can, it's extremely frustrating that even here and now some series do the "here were the top three finishers" results format (I'm looking at you, Outlaw Super Series of Maine...). 11. 23andJoe posted: 03.07.2015 - 5:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) RaceFanX: Those were indeed the glory days of racing on TV, weren't they. 12. Darrell posted: 03.08.2015 - 12:26 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) 23andJoe - I can sympathize. My original idea was to bring in the Goody Dash Series results to the websites. Took about 15 minutes before I gave up on that idea. 13. Alex posted: 03.08.2015 - 5:29 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Well after the adventures I have add compiling the AutoZone Elite division, this ASA stuff seems really simple. It's tedious, however, because there were SO MANY races. So many major series just didn't give a flip, like USAC with the stock car series (which is ironic considering their USAC records are the best in all of motorsports, even better than F1's!), that their records, especially the older ones, are possibly non-existant. All that is known for some years is a schedule run down with winners listed. 23andJoe, it doesn't surprise me that you do the series you do here and on the Third Turn. Your work is very neat and tidy. I am confused that people do not realize, however, that with a simple formula you can convert a 100 mi race that took 2 hours to complete into an avg speed of 50 mph and vice versa. I spent as much time fixing the blatant errors (like that) in the Autozone Southwest Results as I did compiling them. I just wish the formats were consistent. I have spent much time it seems both compiling the results and using websites like Motorsport.com to put it all together. Nevertheless, here is my list of things to do, in no particular order, and maybe you can tell me if I am embarking on an impossible task or not: Cup-Convertible Combos (just designating the Cup and Convertible drivers) NASCAR Northwest Series CASCAR (what is left, anyway) IMSA GT Championship ASA (I know much of the before 1998, particularly the 1970s and 1980s, is full of holes) World Sports Cars (1950s-1992 version) USAC Road Racing Championship FUPS or FASCAR This is just off the top of my head. 14. 23andJoe posted: 03.08.2015 - 6:20 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Oh, there's a lot of stuff like that that needs dealing with there, to be sure (one ACT race was sorted in the /wrong year/!). But the more monkeys on typewriters pounding away at it, the sooner we'll produce Hamlet... Looking at that list...sports cars, I'm not too familiar with, I'll admit. I think the Northwest Tour /should/ be doable. I'm pretty sure FUPS and FASCAR should be complete for both SLMs and trucks (astonishingly enough for the FASCAR truck series). ASA...not sure how far back complete data goes. One of these days I need to get cracking on more of the ACT stuff for here, once I get my head above the dirt series that I'm working on helping compile there (good lawd there are a LOT of them). 15. Alex posted: 03.08.2015 - 8:35 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Northwest Series I know for a fact is complete. I checked it all out and only ONE race in all of series history is missing any data. That's a better track record than even the Cup and Busch Series. I've got a lot of stuff headed this way in the near future. Might be time to pull up a list of major series to show which are and aren't doable again. 16. Darrell posted: 03.08.2015 - 12:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I hope to add the following: -Global RallyCross (It's compiled, just haven't hear back from the Webmaster as to whether he wants it or not) -Robby Gordon's Stadium SuperTrucks (in progress) -USAC Silver Crown (with midgets, 410 sprints, etc. coming later) -World Of Outlaws Sprints (UltimateRacingHistory has them back to 2007, which is more than enough to keep me busy) 17. Alex posted: 03.08.2015 - 12:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Well, in general one of the major goals is to add series that are not currently active so that webmaster doesn't have to maintain them as on a full weekend it can take him 2-3 days of non-stop labor to get them all up. Regardless of those things, those sound like some very interesting series, all of which I am quite familiar with, and I hope you are successful in your efforts. 18. Alex posted: 03.08.2015 - 1:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) It will be long and painful, but I think I can pull off the World Sports Car Championship so long as webmaster does not object to the fact that some of the drivers used one-word fake names like "Bargary" in the 1953 Mille Miglia. 19. Darrell posted: 03.08.2015 - 1:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yeah the WoO might be a pain currently. GRC and SST run not so frequently so they won't be a major issue I would think. 20. 23andJoe posted: 03.08.2015 - 5:36 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) As a note, awhile back I sent in the recent Formula Two series results, so they should be in the queue already if anybody was looking at them. Also, T3T has the ASA results complete back to (at least) 1979, so that's a plus. Also on my plate after the ACT LMs are eventually done are the ACT Pro Stocks - (which were the continuation of the NASCAR North Tour). Those have complete data available; unfortunatly the Northeast Pro Stock Association - which, in turn, carried on the ACT PS series after ACT dropped them, before quietly dissolving three races into 2001 - is /not/ fully available. 21. Alex posted: 03.08.2015 - 9:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I actually checked out ACT before deciding those were your territory. ACT is very impressive, and whilst most of the ASA seasons are complete back to 1979, many of the races have significant gaps. I will decide which are too large when the time comes. And thanks for the F2 results. I started the World Sportscars as I found those are complete aside from lap leader and caution breakdown. 22. RaceFanX posted: 03.08.2015 - 9:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) If you need help on the WSC this site already has Le Mans results to fill in some of the sponsor data and such (or Le Mans itself because that race counted for it). I might hold off on big result submissions though because I think the webmaster does have something of a backlog being worked through. 23. Alex posted: 03.09.2015 - 10:19 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) WSC is going to take me a long time to compile regardless, though yes this site's results are very helpful. 24. RaceFanX posted: 09.03.2017 - 1:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Former off-road racer Jimmie Johnson switches over to being a full-time stock car racer with this event, starting his first full season of ASA action. The future NASCAR legend starts off his new rookie year by leading a few laps on the way to a top-10 run. 25. RaceFanX posted: 01.31.2020 - 1:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race was a major moment for stock car racing as Adam Petty made his ASA debut and professional stock car racing debut, becoming the first fourth-generation athlete in any American professional sport in the process. The 17-year-old Petty's first race saw the green, purple, and red Spree #45 Pontiac collected in a wreck but Kyle Petty's son was already seen as a rising star as he began his lone full-time season in ASA competition. 26. Rich posted: 09.22.2020 - 10:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ralph Sheheen and Jim Tretow were the commentators. Dave Burns was the sole pit road reporter. 27. thecautionlightnews posted: 11.06.2020 - 9:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Some kid from California who is used to Jumping gets grounded and makes his debut. Wonder what Happened to him? 28. Danish_Pie posted: 11.06.2020 - 9:54 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Jimmie ran several ASA races in 1997 29. Danish_Pie posted: 08.09.2021 - 8:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Third Turn has recently compiled full race results for the ASA going all the way back to 1978. Hopefully (fingers crossed), those results can be transferred over here some time in the future. https://www.thethirdturn.com/wiki/ASA_National_Tour_Central ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: