1990 Tank Coat 250

The 1990 Tank Coat 200 is one of the most infamous Piston Cup Juniors races, in fact, it was so infamous that it was more infamous than George Pacer's crash and Laura Whiteford's death, that is due to it being somewhat like a 17-20 version of the 2005 CARCA 200 except with less crashes and nobody peeing over the track.

The infamy began when Harry Edwards II got sick and needed a backup for Juniors. So some fan volunteered and said anybody as long as he/she's 17-20 he can join the series. That made 19 cars join, Rookies Rick Tanner, Joey Wheelstop, William Jameson, and Grant Rodriguez attend because Russel Axler crashes badly last race and missed the whole season.

Liam Driver also got sick before the race and Jake Reverick visited him.

First of all a 17 car crash went on lap 68, this included 14 of the one-timers with the other three who crashes being William Jameson, Magnet Face Bob Roofalo, and Lisa Martinez

Then at lap 111, Desmond Wheeltire blew his engine.

Then at lap 146 Jem Carter crashes onto Kendrick Fuelrun and Aaron Spitfire.

Then at lap 178 came the most historic crash in this race. Octane Gain and Trunk Fresh backup crash onto each other and take out the two remaining one-timers and George Marcus, George had a bad crash where he flipped 15 times before landing on his wheels. He miraculously only missed 1 race.

This was also historic for the ending Tanner v Rodriguez battle for the lead. Rick Tanner won just 15 millimeters ahead of Grant Rodriguez with Tyler Rutherford and Jean-Pierre Cartwicki in third and fourth. Jack Edwards and Robby Highway finished a lap down.

Arguably, this was also considered to be both Octane Gain and Trunk Fresh's worst PCJ race, while they had good luck with finding backups for Michael Reverick and Thomas Driver, they didn't originally. In fact, the race was so bad they both fired their backup racers and replaced them with new ones, the new ones resigned in mid-1991 though and were replaced by Michael and Thomas.

Vince was replaced by Pinkie due to Axon's death last year. The only part-timers who showed up were Dirkson D'Agostino and Mason Flatplane.

## Gallery

The big one, as you see, the Carget racer was hit by the Popeyes racer causing him to hit Nicholas Carbon, behind Carbon was the Karl Tireturner and in the left of Tireturner was Racer 69 and then there was a pile there involving White Castle, Havoline, and DeWalt racers and Richard Volatile, Racer 82, Racer 89, and Tristan Kendrick and UPS racer are in the back of the big one.the three car wreck
## Transcript

### Lap 68 Big One

Pinkie: TROUBLE AT TURN 3! FIBER FUEL RACER CRASHES ONTO RACER 69 AND DEWALT RACER! WHITE CASTLE RACER AND SPUTTER STOP RACER INVOLVED! RACER 89 GETTING DRAFTED THERE AND THEN MORE AND MORE INVOLVED!

Sam: I CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT I'M SEEING!

Karl Tireturner: OH NO! (crashes onto White Castle Racer and UPS racer)

Brett: Ouch!

Nicholas Carbon: (crashes into Carget racer) WHY DOES THIS (Yee) KEEP HAPPENING TO ME (cries)

Carlos: YEAH!

Bob Roofalo: WOAH! (takes out William Jameson and Lisa Martinez and get in the wreckage

Sam: NOW BOB ROOFALO, WILLIAM JAMESON, AND LISA MARTINEZ CRASH!

### Desmond's Engine Blow

Desmond: WOAH (engine erupts)

Pinkie: DESMOND WHEELTIRE'S ENGINE BLOWS!!!!!!!

Tow Cap Pitty 1: Desmond, what happened?

Desmond: I don't know but my engine was blown

### One-time racer crash

TBA by Markus because Ferrari Fan has no ideas

### Lap 178 crash

Pinkie: OH NO! TOM BRAKERS AND FRANCIS TIRECHANGER COLLIDE AND TAKE OUT GEORGE MARCUS AND RACER 73 AND RACER 02!

Zack: Sorry dude.

Ivan Burnout: It's fine.

George Marcus (slides): WOAH! (flips 15 times before coming to an end)

(Comdey Team Radio)

Comdey Crew Chief (NOT GENE AXLER!): You ok there George.

George: Not really.

### Rick v Grant

Pinkie: NOW IT'S THE END OF THE RACE AND IT LOOKS LIKE RICK IS CATCHING UP TO GRANT!

Sam: GRANT OVERTAKES RICK! NO RICK OVERTAKES GRANT! GRANT! RICK! GRANT! RICK! GRANT! RICK! RICK TANNER WINS BY 15 MILLIMETERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rick: Yeah! That's what I'm talking about!

Grant: Aw man.

(End of Transcript)

## Results:

1. Rick Tanner (200 laps)
2. Grant Rodriguez (200 laps)
3. Tyler Rutherford (200 laps)
4. Jean-Pierre Cartwicki (200 laps)
5. Joey Wheelstop (200 laps)
6. Katie Clutchen (200 laps)
7. Laura Whiteford (200 laps)
8. Mark Landis (200 laps)
9. Jack Edwards (199 laps)
10. Robby Highway (199 laps)
11. Ivan Burnout (178 laps/crash)
12. Zack Gearson (178 laps/crash)
13. George Marcus (178 laps/crash)
14. Francis Tirechanger (178 laps/crash)
15. Tom Brakers (178 laps/crash)
16. Jem Carter (146 laps/crash)
17. Kendrick Fuelrun (146 laps/crash)
18. Aaron Spitfire (146 laps/crash)
19. Desmond Wheeltire (111 laps/engine failure)
20. William Jameson (68 laps/crash)
21. Lisa Martinez (68 laps/crash)
22. Bob Roofalo (68 laps/crash)
23. Nicholas Carbon (68 laps/crash)
24. Karl Tireturner (68 laps/crash)
25. Carlos Torini (68 laps/crash)
26. Tristian Kendrick (68 laps/crash)
27. Carget Racer (68 laps/crash)
28. Racer 89 (68 laps/crash)
29. White Castle Racer (68 laps/crash)
30. Brett Tomiozoki (68 laps/crash)
31. Richard Volatile (68 laps/crash)
32. Racer 69 (68 laps/crash)
33. Mia McTire (68 laps/crash)
34. Racer 82 (68 laps/crash)
35. Havoline Racer (68 laps/crash)
36. Popeyes Racer (68 laps/crash)

## Trivia

* The backup security guy got fired shortly after and his replacement was called Phil Kranks.
* This was Sputter Stop, Lil Torquey Pistons, and Rev-N-Go's only entry in Juniors, they never entered again even after the new series was founded. Their numbers were 92, 8, and 73 respectively
	+ This is also Fiber Fuel's only entry in the original Juniors, it returned in the new one with a successful career leading Jake and Scotty Curber (Brush's sons) to win 7 championships and 88 wins in total.
* This was Robby Highway's only top 10
* All 19 of the one-timers retired after the race