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Show The Salt Lake Tribune SPORTS Sunday; June 24, 2001 AUTO RACING Wallace Downplaying His Possible Road-Course Record. ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sunday. That's it. No sense in talking SONOMA, Calif. — Jeff Gordon and Rusty Wallace will be 1-2 at the start of, the Dodge-Save Mart 350. If one of them is up frontafter 112 laps today, he will be NASCAR's most successful driver on road courses. No big deal, says Wallace, who will try to end Gordon's three-year winning streak at Sears Point Raceway and be- come the first driver in Winston Cup history to win seven times on serpentine layouts. “Tm just going out for a win on aboutit,” Wallace said. “We're committed to get a grip back on our road race program and in doing that, we've been testing like crazy.” Wallace spen' Sears Point’s rolling 2-mile course in Northern California’s wine country and also visited the “all-inclusive” Virginia International Raceway. “The two tracks are totally different, butthefact is that VIR is about as good of a place as you could findto test outall of your equipment,”he said. Gordon, who grew up in nearby Vallejo, didn't test at Sears Point al- (Ore.) International Raceway. Scelzi Tops In Top Fuel series points leader Scott Riggs“and Sed ace rough hacon at Millington, Tenn. Paplis on the Point Scelzi’s quarter-mile run Friday of Mes ee eee are oe Cone drivers have cca on On Geek OO, Reice botoel him celebrate a rare triumph in the Freightliner/G.I. Joe’s 200. Papis, who has just one victory in 85 career CART races, won his second career pole for today’s race at Portland 4.563 seconds at 319.45 mph gave him his second top qualifying position of the season. Driving at their home track, Michael Setzer Wins Truck Race Dennis Setzer held offNASCAR truck this season. Davenport Back in Groove Just in Time THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TENNIS EASTBOURNE, England Lindsay Davenport completed aa strong tuneup for Wimbledon, sweeping Spain's Magui Serna 6-2, 6-0 in just 43 minutes Satur- day to win Eastbourne. on grass at “It's not just a’ warmup for Wimbledon it's:also a tourna- ment victory anda return to the tour,” Davenport said. “After you've played so well the day before you're neversure if you can keepit going, but I was able to do that. I've got to be ecstatic going into Wimbledonnow.I can’t wait to get back there. I'm.happy, excited and eager.” Davenport, playing her first tennis since a three-month layoff with a knee injury, won Wimble- don in 1999 and was the runner- uplast year. Wimbledon begins Monday, and Davenport is seeded third behind No. 1 Martina Hingis and Henin Beats Clijsters Justine Henin ofBelgium won the Heineken Trophy tournamentin Den Bosch, Netherlands, No. 2 Venus Williams. Davenport won a tournament in Scottsdale, Ariz., just before she injured her knee and was unable to play at the French Open. Davenport admitted that it took hera whileto find her game after such a longlayoff, but she was soonableto settle down. “Thefirst couple of days I was just surprised at someshots that cameback andso hard,”she said. “Butit only took me about three sets to get used to it, andit felt perfect out there the last few days. The grass court suits my gamevery well, andifserve well I feelit’s goingto be tough to beat me.” of their French Open semifinal. Lleyton Hewitt advanced to the men’sfinal against Guillermo Canas of Argentina. Johansson Rules Thomas Johansson of Sweden showed heis ready for Wimbledon, winning his second straight grass-court title by beating Harel Levy ofIsrael 7-5, 6-3 in the Nottingham final in England. Johansson won the Gerry Weber Open in Germany last week and ‘is seeded No. 11 when Wimbledon opens Monday. He has won 10 matches in a row and is unbeatenongrass this season. All New Sea Ray Boats From MarineMaxInclude: THOUSANDS OF CUSTOM WHEELS AVAILABLE! Discount Tire Co. is assisting Ford Motor Co.in the Firestone’ replacement program for your vehicle, = -80°100 3638 So. 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