| OCR Text |
Show TheSalt Lake Tribune AUTO RACING Sunday,April 27, 1997 Danger WINSTON 500 LINEUP TALLADEGA. Als — Lineup fer tay» Winston 500Tulle wit car Stalks at This 500 Fastest-Ever Mile THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Look for Crashes AtTalladega Oval TE Seg Maha CoatTen Chat 19080 17. (30) Johany Beason Jt, Grand Rapids, Mich se Marti, Betewvile Ark, Ford, 190291 2 1) Gt BCom NY Ford, 190.257, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TALLADEGA, Ala. — A week ago, NASCAR's Winston Cup cars were banging and bumping around Martinsville Speedway, the smallest and slowest track on the circuit. Now they're at big, bad Tallade- ga Superspeedway, the longest, fastest and unquestionably the 42 (40) Robby Gordon, Orange. Calif. Chevrolet, 19 088. 55 5) Rk Craven Newb Mai. Cheol 187 ‘4. (96) David Green, Owensboro. iy, Chevrolet, 189 35 (6Bly Hams Nae Tena. Pats i vs 137.71) Dave Marci, Wawsan, Wis, Chevrolet, 188.768. 36 (16) Ted Musgrave, Prankiin. Wis, Ford, 188886 most dangerous oval for stock cars. Rain forecast for today could cause delays, but if the Winston 500 goes off as scheduled, it’s likely there will be at least one multi-car pileup sometime during the 188 laps on the 2.66-mile, high-banked oval. That's been the recent history of this track, a situation exacerbated by the continuing use of carburetorrestrictor plates mandated by NASCAR to keep the cars from reaching 200 mph, which they oncedid routinely. Jeff Gordon, who wonherelast July, understands the pitfalls of racing at Talladega in an era when the competition is close, throttle responseis limited by the plates and speeds still get into the low 190s. “We get here andnota lot happens or goes on, and then you get into the race andthis place is so big andso wide,youreally forget about howfast you're going until something like that happens,” said Gordon, who has won four of 43, (17) Darrell Waltrip, Owensboro, Ky.. Chevrolet alongside and Dale Earnhardt and Rusty Wailace right behind. Dale Jarrettwill start ninth and Gordon11th in the 43-car field Gordon won the Daytona 506, giving him a leg up on the Winston Million, a bonus to any driver who can win three of NASCAR's Big Four events — the Daytona 500, the Winston 500, the CocaCola 600 at Charlotte and the Southern 500 at Darlington. Jarrett won Daytona and Charlotte last year, earning a $100,000 consolation prize, but he lost by “Hopefully, we can all keep our heads on straight and bepatient,” Gordon added. “Butit’s hard to be patient at a place like this. You've got a good car and fast car to be up with the leaders. Then you can’t makea pass as eas- ily as you could if you were that much faster at some other race tracks. John Andretti will start from The front row maintains the theme for the weekend, which history of auto racing was worthy of a fuss. He hadotherthings on his mind Saturday after a fast lap of 191.174 mph at Nazareth Speedwayput him onthe pole today for the Bosch Grand Prix. More importantto the 28-year-old Canadian is the state of affairs with Marlboro Team Penske. “The whole team hasbeenwaiting for this,” Tracy said, alluding to a victory today which would end a 20-race drought, longest from the start appeared to be a tive this seriesis.” Second at 187.862 was defending race champion Michael Andretti and in third was Patrick Carpentier’s Reynard-Mercedes after a lap of 187.461 mph. Carpentierwill start on the second row alongside Gil De Ferran IMOLA,Italy — Jacques Ville- neuve of Canada edged WilliamsRenault teammate Heinz-Harald Frentzen by 0.343 seconds in qualifying for the San Marino Grand Prix to win his fourth consecutive pole position Villeneuve set a lap record of To Victory In EasyCare THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TALLADEGA, Ala. — Mark Martin came up with his fifth victory in eight starts this season winning the Birmingham Auto Dealers EasyCare 500-Kilometer race and tying Jack Ingram’s re- showdownbetweenthefastest car and theleading active winner in the sport. Andretti, who drives a Newman-Haas Racing Ford with anew cord of 31 careervictories. year, and won in part because the seemingly unbeatable Tracy termined bid Swift chassis, started fifth last these things again.” This time, Martin held off a deby rookie Steve Park, Dale Earnhardt’s protege could not overcome a mistake duringa pit stop midway through the event. Alex Zanardi, whose record of who was coming off his first Busch Series victory a week earli- er at Nashville, Tenn Parktried hard to get past Martin's Jack Roush Racing Ford, but six straight poles came to an end two weeks ago whenhe qualified the wiley veteran zigged zagged up and down the Tallade- log about 1,000 miles last month keep the rookie’s Chevrolet behind him. fourth of 17 this year on the PPG CARTWorld Seriescircuit. Good- weather on its testing dates wrought havoc with Firestone. whosetop qualifier was the Rey- year took the first four spets on the grid and seven of the first gelmin. He wasfifth at 186.326. Beach Grand Prix, was 21st in a Asexpected, tires were a factor in qualifying for the race, the one minute, 23.303 secondsat the Enzo and Dino Ferraritrack, just better than his German teammate managed. The one-hour session set up the grid for today’s race the fourth event of this season's Formula One schedule. Michael Schumacher, another Germandriver, was third in a Fer- at Nazareth. Snow and cold nard-Mercedes of Mauricio Gu- rari Villeneuve will be going for his ga Superspeedway banking third consecutive victory after wins at Brazil and Argentina. France’s Olivier Panis earned a second-rowstart, alongside Schumacher, setting the forth fastest lap, in 1:24.075, in a Prost Mugen- Honda. Villeneuve and Frentzen will start from the front row. 14 Jason Keer, Greenville § Derroiet 8) Randy Lalor, Norwalk Conn “We've only won one leg ofit, andwe've got our workcutout for us,” Gordon said. “I guess that’s why you can put a million dollars up for it because it is very difficult to do. But, if you can doit, I thinkit’s worth a million dollars.”” Jarrett said, “Jeff has won the first leg and he’s won here and he’s won at Charlotte and he’s won at Darlington, so you've got to think that things are looking pretty good for him right now.” Clearance 300 Bikes at Cost They all must go this week! TAKE YOUR PICK AND PAY: $0 CAPITAL REDUCTION $0 SECURITY DEPOSIT $0 LEASE FEES $O DUE AT LEASE SIGNING!| This week only! Reg. $529Grip Shift 400, Deluxe Shimano derailleurs, Alivio hubs, 21 -speed, Cro-Moly frame Compare to $800 Trek LF, + XLT * V8 ENGINE * PREMIUM STEREO CASSETTE + SPEED CONTROL, * TRAILER TOW PACKAGE STK #56299V *LEV. $21,418 Reg. $849 Grip Shift 600, LX derailleurs, Full true temper DB Cro-Moly frame, Tektro brakes, 24speed, Clipless pedals FIT! TNESS Open 10-7 M-F 10-5 Sat Outstanding Valuein a Quality FREE STANDING Lightweight Tent! PER MONTH + TAX 36 MO LEASE/OAC A SIERRA =e ‘97 ae. RANGER SUPERCAB 4X4 9250 ‘97 SUPERCAB PP Fa + Wear Vertical side walls and surprising headroom + Offset L/door for easy entry/exit + Lange vestibule and ness complete fty coverage + Space efficient rectangular footpriat wurst 4 tts. 402 FLOOR SPACE Ba equare feet VEST. SPACE 10 square fet +. Trae ve eneaine +8 8DMAN OD OK + STK #OBaNOY «LV Be444 ‘97 FLARESIDE 4x4 CAPACITY person, INTERION MEIORY 43 inches PACKED SIEE BA" x18" @ Kirkham’s 25 So. Stite 486-4161 Hours Mon. Pri. 9:30 to How Open Sunday 11:00 to 6:00 9:00 Sat. to 7:0 to BUSCH/CAR 500 An — Rea of Stray s rmsAo K Grand National stock car Talladega Su sah ag pin ts ores diver bemcova me earls cpt meey won sa reasonoatfay 3) Mark Martin, Batesville Ark. Pord, 117, $57 685 Steve Park Bast Northport, NY. Chevrolet 9) Jft Gree. Owensboro, Ky. Chevrolet the pole, with Bobby Hillin Jr. Inventory and ine. Goodyear teams were able to Reynard Honda at 179.928. second before winning the Long Villeneuve Captures the Pole at San Marino THE ASSOCIATED PRESS oe Merredes. 191 174 Adve Nazareth Pa Soot Frd 1982 28 Pati Caper, Canta, React Merde in a Reynard-Honda at 186.964. NAZARETH, Pa. — Paul Tracy didn't think the fastest mile in the ever for the team owned by Roger Penske. “It shows how competi- Martin Zips BOSCH LINEUP NAZARETH, Fa — Lineup for today's Bosch Grant Nazareth Speed 0.22-seconds to Sterling Marlin at Talladegain April and hada costly run-in with the wall at Darlington as Gordon won in September. eight races this season, including thelast two. Tracy Practice Lap cy 13TH SOUTH 3RD WEST + 488-1700 |
