02/03/2024 – A rare shot of Ken Bouchard in the Whitcomb Racing Grand Prix at Daytona for 1989’s Speedweeks. Whitcomb was able to eventually secure Simoniz as the race sponsor, so this is capturing the Grand Prix in it’s unsponsored state. Bouchard wound up finishing a more than respectable 16th (two laps down), but lasted only four more races with Whitcomb (DNQ’ing for race number four) after having an average finishing position of 30th+ following the Daytona 500. Whitcomb replaced Bouchard with Derrike Cope who ran the first five races of the 1989 season in Jim Testa’s #68 Purolator Grand Prix with Cope conveniently taking along the Purolator sponsorship, much to Testa’s chagrin (who never fielded a car again). Cope finished 1989 with Whitcomb with four top-10’s in the Purolator Grand Prix. Cope, of course went on to Daytona 500 glory in 1990 but in a Whitcomb Racing Chevrolet; perhaps the same reskinned car? That short decklid on the Pontiac GM10 body definitely put them at a disadvantage on the superspeedways compared to the other manufacturers.
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