the last sonoma race was held at the previous road course passage was in 1997 on october 5 at a truck series event, there, joe ruffmann won the race but controversy erupted when rich bickle blamed a loss of top-ten finishes on rookie boris said, rich bickle cut down a tire, and in reply, boris said ran in to bickle and waited for him to come around and crash him, nascar after a brief red flag for a massive crash in a wall of tires, disqualified said and placed him $10,000 for his actions.