Ken Schrader moved to the top of the list in all-time victories at Phoenix International Raceway’s Copper World Classic, winning Sunday’s Featherlite Southwest Tour stock car feature for his sixth triumph and 9th overall at PIR. The victory moved him in front of Chuck Gurney on the winners’ list in the 21-year Classic’s history. Gurney, a dirt track veteran who has three midget victories and also won two sprint car features before the Silver Crown Series cars replaced the sprinters, failed to qualify for this year’s competition. However, it was Schrader’s first Copper World stock car victory. His previous five wins came in midgets (1981, ’82, ’84) and Silver Crown Series (1989, ’90) open-wheel cars.(iRACE)(2-2-98)
