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Tourism and Events Corporation (CTEC) were given the responsibility of delivering the GMC 400 on time and within budget.
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would eventually win the round, despite not winning any of the three races. The event introduced a full reverse grid race to the category for the first time, with the results of race 1 being reversed to form the grid for race 2. The inaugural reverse grid race on
Saturday was won by
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take his first ever round win. The final running of the event in 2002 was won by Mark Skaife - the designer of the track layout itself. The round win was Skaife's fifth round win out of five to start the
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racing. A reverse grid means the car that finished in first place in Race 1 would start last in Race 2 and the car that finished last in Race 1 would start first in Race 2. Those cars that
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