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To: who cares? who wrote (8530)	6/26/2000 10:13:00 AM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Respond to of 10354

Jeff Gordon won the Save Mart/Kragen 350 at Sonoma's Sears Point Raceway yesterday for an unprecedented third year in a row. The victory also gave Gordon six consecutive wins on road courses, something no other driver has accomplished in the history of NASCAR. ``I ran as hard as I could all day long,'' said Gordon, whose aggressive use of the gear shift blistered his right palm and thumb, despite padding his glove before the race. ``It was a battle out there today,'' he said. ``Guys were bumping and banging. I got into a couple of guys. It's such hard racing. You're going for it in every corner.'' Gordon, 28, said the victory in front of the home crowd was especially satisfying after what has been a mediocre year for the three-time Winston Cup champion. He is 10th in points with 2,059 -- 341 behind leader Bobby Labonte -- with only one victory before yesterday. ``It's what I call home and where I was born and all the fans I have out here . . . it couldn't work out any better for us,'' said Gordon, who spent part of his childhood in Vallejo before his family moved to Indiana. The victory is also a signal to the competition that Gordon remains a force. Last fall, his longtime crew chief, Ray Evernham, left his team to help Dodge's re-entry into stock- car racing while his whole pit crew moved to another team at the end of the season. Critics questioned whether it was Gordon or Evernham's cars that were responsible for the 47 victories they posted together. With such a string of success, the pressure has been building on Gordon and his new team to produce victories. ``I think there was a lot of pressure on them coming into this event. I think everybody said if they don't win at the road course there must be something wrong with them,'' Gordon said. ``We were able to pull that off.'' Gordon's dominance on road courses that pose a challenge for most drivers leaves little doubt that he is among the greatest NASCAR drivers to don a fire suit. Gordon banged fenders with several drivers during the 112-lap race. But the only question in the final laps was whether he could make it to the checkered flag. Gordon pitted to take on four tires and a full load of fuel on lap 70 and took the lead from Kenny Wallace on lap 86. As Gordon stretched his lead, crew chief Robbie Loomis urged Gordon to stretch his fuel mileage around the 1.95-mile track. ``Be smooth on that throttle, bud,'' Loomis told Gordon on the team's radio as Gordon held a nearly five-second lead over Sterling Marlin with five laps remaining. But Gordon isn't the kind of driver to take it easy. ``To me, I get into a rhythm on a road course and if I start to back off that rhythm to start saving fuel, it causes some problems for me and some inconsistency,'' he said. Loomis breathed a sign of relief and the Gordon fans among the crowd of more than 100,000 went wild when his car took the checkered flag. Marlin held on to second, with Mark Martin in third, Labonte in fourth and Ricky Rudd in fifth. ``Total team effort,'' Gordon radioed to his crew during his victory lap. ``Great job in the pits.'' Loomis afterward said he was pretty sure but not overwhelmingly confident Gordon could make it to the end. ``Anytime you cut things that close you don't really know (how much fuel is left), especially on a road course,'' he said. ``I guarantee there couldn't have been half to three-quarters of a gallon in (the car).'' The victory gave Gordon 51 Winston Cup wins in 239 starts, good enough for eighth place on the all- time list. He was tied with Ned Jarrett, Junior Johnson and Rusty Wallace. With his six victories on road courses, he is tied with Richard Petty, Bobby Allison and Wallace for the record. The winner's share of yesterday's $2.9 million purse was $143,025. Pole-sitter Wallace, who won the race in 1990 and 1996, spun out several times and ended up 26th. Sears Point typically offers exciting racing because it's the first of only two road courses the left-turn oriented drivers see all year. It didn't disappoint. John Andretti was slowing for a spin in front of him on lap 15 when he got a nudge from behind, pushing him into another car and severing an oil line. The car then burst into flames. Andretti was not hurt and returned to the track on lap 41. But he pulled the car into the garage for good a few laps later. Andretti, however, was not done for the day. Tony Stewart complained of an upset stomach and radioed his crew to search for a relief driver. He was in second place when his crew began a frantic search. Stewart stayed in the car but on lap 68 spun out in Turn 1 barely past the start-finish line while dueling Scott Pruett for the lead. Moments later, Pruett's car shot off the track and hit a tire barrier when ``it wouldn't turn,'' he later said. ``It went straight off the track and took a big shot,'' Pruett said. ``I came forward and hit the steering wheel and took a pretty good shot in the throat. The doctor said to keep an eye on it and go get an X-ray.'' During the yellow-flag stops, Andretti climbed into Stewart's car. He finished 10th in Stewart's car, while his car finished last in 43rd place. Stewart said he hadn't been feeling good all weekend. ``I just started feeling bad early, and they got me some ice (during a pit stop),'' he said. ``That helped for a little while, but it couldn't fix it.'' Coming into the race Kyle Petty was the sentimental favorite. His 19- year-old son Adam was killed during practice for a race in May. Petty qualified for the outside pole but faded during the race, finishing 19th. Gordon said it was hard work muscling a car around Sears Point's tight turns and he felt dehydrated. Nonetheless, that beat last year when he won the race despite being so sick he could barely walk afterward. ``There were definitely close calls, and I felt like every lap I had to drive the wheels off the thing to get it out front and to keep the track position,'' he said.

To: who cares? who wrote (8530)	6/26/2000 10:15:00 AM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Respond to of 10354

Speaking of cars, been to the Hyundai dealership?

To: who cares? who wrote (8530)	6/26/2000 7:49:00 PM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Respond to of 10354

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