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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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12 Gator.com 634,136 2.46 1,587,586
13 Macromedia 510,740 1.98 4,899,108
14 Weather Channel 479,224 1.86 2,430,017
15 AT&T 434,242 1.69 3,368,403
16 Real Networks 430,690 1.67 1,511,537
17 ZDNet 398,747 1.55 3,001,117
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To: who cares? who wrote (8530)6/26/2000 11:38:00 PM
From: Frank_Ching  Respond to of 10354
 
I don't think they lied, I think there were a few minor clarifications plus a question and answer period. If there were actual lies then the SEC would of never passed it at all in my opinion.

You have to understand that an eventual pass means that the company itself must be in correct order and that is the most important thing.