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Hey everyone. I'm looking for any information on a Sprint car chassis. I was told it won the 2001 Copper World Classic. Hoping someone might have some info and or pictures of it from that time. Thank you in advance for any help.

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The copper world classic was a silver crown,midget,and super modified race weekend. It did not involve sprint cars.

Way back in the day sprints did run the copper world. Like mid to late 80’s.

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OK from maybe 1989 on. He was looking for 2001 so I didn't go back to the first decade or so.

We ran USAC Sprints at Phoenix in April of 96 and 97. I think it was called the Desert Star Classic. Set the worlds record in 96 winning with Andy Michner and was the fastest sprint car race ever.

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Originally Posted by PatrickMead#13:
Hey everyone. I'm looking for any information on a Sprint car chassis. I was told it won the 2001 Copper World Classic. Hoping someone might have some info and or pictures of it from that time. Thank you in advance for any help.

I attended the 2001 Copper Classic and there were no sprint cars on the card. There was a two night SCRA event across town at Manzanita that weekend. That would be the only connection I could think of. (Pretty sure that was called the Sokola Classic at the time.)

Here's something interesting that I came across while reminiscing this event: the Silver Crown portion, won by eventual series champion Paul White, paid a (then) record $110,000 purse! Maybe that's why 60 cars were entered?! (Yes, a few were backup cars.)

That's what I keep finding as well. No Sprint cars in 2001 so the year should be different The car appears to be a stealth chassis and it's built out of .120 wall tubing. It's a downtube car if that helps. Supposedly, Tony Stewart finished second in the same race. Again, just going off what I was told. 🤔

Anyone?

You're sure it's not a Silver Crown car? What's the wheelbase?

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The only time I can find Tony Stewart finished 2nd in the Copper World Classic was 1993, and that was a USAC Silver Crown race. I was going to ask the same question as kendirt, are you sure it's a sprint car?