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HERE AT NORTH WILKESBORO, A 6
1/2 PER RACE FINISHING AVERAGE
AT THIS FACITY.
NOW WALLACE TO THE INSIDE OF
PRLE
BENNY: EARNHARDT ONCE AGAIN
SAID WHY DO YOU MAKE ME GO
HIGH.
HE PASSED PRESLEY ON THE
INSIDE.
EARNHARDT IS RHT THERE.
BOB: THE NEXT CAR THEY'RE
COMING ON TWO LAP IS WARD
ON.
BILL ELLIOTT IS RIDING JUST
AHEAD.
NED: WARD BURTON MOVES OVER,
TRYING TO GO BY BILL ELLIOTT.
MEANWHILE HE HAS THE LEADERS
RIGHT BEHINDIM.
RUSTY REALLY DON'T KNOW WHICH
WAY TO GO NOW.
NED: WARD IS TWO LAPS DOWN
BECAUSE HE LOST A LAP, AT LEAST
ONE LA EARLY IN THE RACE.
I MENTIONED EARLIERN THE SHOW
THAT THE CREW IEF ON BILL
ELLIOTT'S CAR HAD A PROBLEM.
JERRY PUNCH, WHAT WAS HIS
PROBLEM?
JERRY: APPARENTLY TONY WOKE UP
AT 1:00 THIS MORNING WITH A FLU
AND HE GOT WORSE AND WORSE AS
THE MORNING WENT ON.
ABOUT 10:00 THIS MORNI HE
COULDN'T STAND UP.
HE TOOK A LOOK AT HIM AND GOT
SOME DOCTORS FROM NORTH
CAROLINA AONVOLVED.
A DOCTOR LOOKED AT HIM AND
DECIDED TONY NEEDED SOME FLUIDS
OBVIOUSLY.
ERE IS ALSOTHER CONCERN TO
TAKE HIMUT OF THE RACE TRACK
TO A NEARBY HOSPITAL FOR
X-RAYS.
ABOUT 10 MINUTES BEFORE WE
DROPPED THE GREEN FLAG, HE
LOADED TONY IN AN AMBULANC
TO A NEARBY HOSPITAL WHERE HE
IS BNG LOOKED AT HIS
STOMAC
WE HAVE NO FURTHER UPDATES ON
HIM.
IF I HEAR ANYTHING, I WILL PASS
IT ALONG.
NED: THEY'RE SIDE BY SIDE
EVERYWHERE.
WE HAVE EARNHARDT TOHEINSIDE
OF WALLACE.
WE HAVE JARRETT AND OTHER CARS
THE WIDE A SECOND AGO.
EARNHARDT TAKES THE LEAD.
BENNY: EARNHARDT IS STRONG
TODAY.
HE WAS ABLE TO RUN DOWN WALLACE
AND PASS HIM FOR THE LEAD.
AND HERE COMES RUSTY BACK ON
THEIDE.
RUSTY KEEPS LOSING THE BACK.
I HAVE SEEN THE 2 CAR WIGGLE
SEVERAL TIMES ASE EXITS A
CORNER.
JIMMY SPENCER TRYINGO GONE
THE OUTSIDE.
HE HA NEW TIRES.
HE WILL PASS THE LEADERS WITH
NO PROBLEM.
BOB: RUSTY LED 50 LAPS BEFORE
HE GAVE IT UP TO DALE
EARNHARDT.
NED: SPENCER WAS ALREADY ONE
LAP DOWN, HE WAS DOWN TWO ON
THE PIT STOP.
NOW HE WILL BE TWO LAPS DOWN
ONCE HE COMES AROUND EARNHARDT
WHICH HE HAS DONE NOW.
BOB: MUSGRAVE AND ANDRETTI
PASSED BY JOE NEMECHEK.
NED: THERE'S GHTH, NINTH AND
10TH.
STERLING MARLING IS IN NINTH
PLACE.
AND JOHN ANDRETTI IS IN 10TH.
BENNY: GOT VERY LOOSE IN FRONT
OF DALE EARNHARDT.
NED: WE WILL GO BACK TO THE
OTHER RACE WE SAW A MOMENT AGO
BEFORE EARNHARDT TOOK THE
LEAD.
HERE WE SEE SCHRADER WITH THE
BUD CAR.
AND DALE JARRETT.
NED: HE MADE AN EXTRA PIT STOP
AFTER THE LAST CAUTION.
HE HAS WORKED HIS WAY BACK UP
TO 14TH POSITION NOW.
BOB: RUSTY WALLACE AND DALE
EARNHARD APPROACHING SOME
HEAVY TRAFFIC UP AHEAD.
NED: DAVE MARCIS RUNNING VERY
SLOW ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE RACE
TRACK ON TURN ONE.
TH LEADER WENT BY DAVE AND HE
TOOK ON THE OUTSIDE.
I DON'T KNOW IF HE'S TRYING TO
GO IN THE PITS OR WHAT.
HE IS STILL ON THE INSIDE.
WALLACE AND EARNHARDT ARE IN
VERY HEAVY TRAFFIC.
BOB: THAT WAS JEFF BURTON THEY
JUST PASSED AS WE SEE JARRETT
ON THE INSIDE OF SCHRADER
TRYING TO TAKE THE 14TH SPOT
AWAY.
HE HAS POSITION THIS TIME AND
WILL TAKE THE SPOT.
NED: I AM SURE HIS FATHER TOLD
HIM THE LEADERS ARE RIGIGHT
BEHIND HIM.
AND THEY NEED TO GET ON.
BENNY: SPEAKING OF THE LEADERS,
YOU'RE RIGHT, THEY'RE NOT FAR
BEHIND HIM.
NED: TRYING TO PASS MORGAN
SHEPHERD AND DERRIKE COPE.
THEY ARE RNING IN THE 21ST
AND 22ND POSITION
BOB: DERRIKE COPE IS GOING
LAP DOWN AFTER AN EXCELLENT
QUALIFYING PERFORMANCE.
IT HAS NOT GONE VERY WELL
DURING THE RACE SO FAR.
NED: WE SAW SPENCER■ A MOMENT
AGO, AT HOW FAST HE WAS.
WITH NEW TIRES RUNNING 113
MILES AN HOUR.
NOW THEY ARE AVERAGE 106 MILES
AN HOUR.
BOB: IT IS STILL DALE EARNHARDT
LEADG STY WALLACE.
TH'RE COMING UPON GEOFF
BODINE WHO IS RUNNING IN 19TH
POSITION JUST ABOUT TO LAP
HIM.
NED: COMING INTO THE PITS AS
RUSTY WALLACE MAKE A MOVE ON
EAHARDT.
LABONTE AND NEMECHEK ARE COMING
IN.
THEY'VE HAD ALL THEY CAN STAND
WITH THE SLIPPING AND SLIDING.
BENNY: NEMECHEK IS COMING IN AS
YOU SAID.
NED: WE WILL GET MIXED UP ON
THAT I I WILL, PITROAD HERE.
NEMECHEK HAD A GOOD QUALIFYING
RUN.
HE'S DOWN HERE.
BOB: YOU DON'T KNOW WHO'S
COMING OR GOING.
NED: 65 LAPS TO THE LEADER SO
IT WON'T BE LONG.
NEMECHEK'S CAR LOOKED VERY
GOOD.
SEE THE DAMAGE ON THE FENDER.
IT MIGHTAVE KNOCD IT OUT
WITH CONTACT WITH PETTY ON THE
PIT STOP.
BOB: MECHEK IS BACK OUT
THE.
D WE CONTINUE TO SEE
EARNHARDT TRYING TOAP GEOFF
BODINE AND NOW GG SACKS.
BENNY: GREG SACKS' CAR WAS VERY
FAST A FEW LAPS AGO BUT NOW HE
HAS FALLEN BACK TO THE CLUTCHES
OFUR LEADER DALE EARNHARDT.
HE SAW THAT FROM OUT FROM THE
CAR, IT WA RUBBER BUILD-UP.
THAT WAS NOT DEBRIS FROM
EARNHARDT'S CAR.
IT WAS EARNHARDT'S CAR BUT NOT
PART OF HIS CAR.
BOB: JOHN ANDRETTI HAS PICKED
UP TO EIGHTH POSITION.
HE HAS PASSED TED MUSGRAVE AND
STERLING MARLING SINCE WE SAW
HIM LAST, NOW RUNS EIGHTH.
NED: THE CREW CHIEF ON THE 37TH
CAR LEARNED A LITTLSOMETHING
ABOUT NORTH WILKESBORO IN THE
YEARS HE SPENT WITJUNIOR
JOHNSON.
JOHN: BENNY, YOU ARE ECTE.
SAID WE MESSEDP IN
DIO GD
B.
PAHEHTIDETI AM HSUNNING AS
WELLS HE IS.
BOB: JEFF GORDON IS ON PIT ROAD
FOR S OP
U N SEE RICKY RUDD ALSO
IN.
LET'S WATCH JEFF GORDON'S PIT
STOP AS HE RELINQSHED THIRD
POSITION TO COME IN.
JEY PUNCH IS THERE.
JERRY:HEY HAVE ALREADY PUT
THE RIGHT-SIDE TIRES ON THE
DUPONT CHEVROLET.
NO CHASSIS ADJUSTMENT.
THEY CANED THE WINDSHIELD AND
THE RIGHREAR IS WORN OUT ONCE
AGAIN.
GORDON IS NOW AWAY WITH 17.9
SECONDS.
NED: A GREAT PIT STOP, FOUR
TIRES AND ONLY SEVEN MEN ACROSS
THE WALL.
BOB: IT'S STILL EARNHARDT
LEADING RUSTY WALLACE, BUT NOT
BY MUCH.
THEY CTINUE TO LAP SLOWER
TRAFFIC.
NOW EARNHARDT FINALLY PUTS A
P ON GEOFF BODINE.
BENNY: A RE RNG ACROSS
PIT ROAD.
BOB: OFF OF DALE JARRETT'S CAR
WE UNDERSTAND.
BENNY: CARS ARE COMING IN,
HOPEFULLY THEY WILL MISS THE
TIRE.
SO FAR THEY HAVE.
BOB: THERE IS CRAVEN COMING IN
AS DALE JARRETT GOES O.
AND A NEW LEADER, AS WE WATCH
THE ACTIVITY ON PIT ROAD.
NOW HERE'S THE NEW LEADER RUSTY
WALLACE WHO GOT AROUND
EARNHARDT AGA.
BENNY: MICEL WALTRIP IN THE
PENNZOIL CAR, HE MOVES OVER.
RUSTY WALLACE GETS ALONGSIDE.
NED: THERE IS RICKY CVEN.
JAUS MOMENT AGO, WE SAW DALE
JARRETT.
JERRY PUNCH?
JERRY: IT TOOK ALMOST 30
SECONDS TO GET DOWN HERE TO THE
END OF PIT ROAD WHERE HE IS
PITTING.
THEY CHANGED ALL FOUR TIRES.
REMEER, EARNHARDTS FURTHER
AWAY THAN COPE.
WE WILL WATCH AND SEE HOW LONG
IT TAKES HIM TO GET FROM
ENTRANCE TO EXIT OF PIT ROAD.
BENNY: WE SEE KYLE PETTY
ENTERING PITS IN TURN THREE.
MICHAEL WALTRIP IS COMING IN.
HE IS IN HIS PITS.
JOHN KERNAN?
JOHN: EARLIER I TOLD YOU ABOUT
THE RADIO PROBLEM WITH MICHAEL
WALTRIP.
THEY PLUGGED IT IN.
TELL ME HOW THE CAR IS
HANDLING.
THIS TIME IT'S GNG BE A
FOUR-TIRE CHANGE.
NO CHASSIS ADJUSTMENT AS PETTY
MADE HIS WAY ONTO PIT ROAD.
HE'S DOWN AND AWAY.
DRINK AS HE WAITS PATIENTLY FOR
THE CREW TO FINISH.
BOB: SCHRADER IS ALSO IN IT.
NED: THESE CARS THAT HAVE DONE
IT ARE GAINING A LOT OF
DISTANCE ON WALLACE.
EARNHARDT IS COMING IN RHT
NOW, BUT RUSTY WALLACE HA
REALLY SLOWED.
I GOT A CLOCK ON HIM RIGHT
NOW.
HE TURNED THE LAST LAP IN 21.2
SECONDS.
35 MILES AN HOUR IS THE P PPE
BOY, IT SEEMED LIKE AN ETERNITY
FROM THE TIME YOUNTERED THAT
PIT BACK THERE IN TURN THREE
UNTIL YOU GET ALL THE WAY DOWN
TO HIS AT THE FAR END.
BOB: HIS IS THE VERY FIRST ONE
DOWN AT TURN ONE.
JERRY?
JERRY: ANDHE CHAMPIONSHIP PIT
STOP AS DALE EARNHARDT WILL GET
ALL FOURES.
WALLACE IS PITTING TOO FAR BACK
TO GO HIS WAY.
A VERY PATIENT 35 MILES AN
HOUR.
THE STRATEGY IS THEY WOULD LIKE
TO BE ABLE TO GO ON TWO MORE
PIT STOPS IN THE EARNHARDT
PIT.
RUSTY COMES DOWN PIT ROAD.
EARNHARDT IS A A AY.
HE IS RUSTY GETTING
GHT-SI TIRES ON THE MILLER
GENUINE DRAFT FORD
THUNDERBIRD.
THEY CLEANED THE FRONT GRILLE.
TROUBLE NOW WITH THE RIGHT
REAR.
THEY AREAVING TROUBLE.
BENNY?
BENNY: HAD HAD A LUG NUT STUCK
IN THE SOCKET.
THEY HAD TO GET RND ANOTHER
WRENCH.
THE CAR IS SETTING ON THE
ARROWS.
THEY CAN'T USE THAT WRENCH.
THEY HAVE TO GET ANOTHER ONE
FOR THE LEFT REAR.
NED: THAT COST THEM A LOT OF
EXTRA TIME.
BOB: A DISASTROUS PIT STOP FOR
RUSTY WALLACE.
JOHN ANDRETTI IS THE LEADER.
MARTIN PULLS AWAY.
THERE'S THE LEADER, JOHN
ANDRETTI.
BENNY: HE IS GETTING SLOW
CAUSE YOU N SEE THE CS
PASSING HIM AT WILL.
NED: HE CERTAINLY DOESN'T LOOK
LIKE A LEADER, DOES HE?
EVERY CAR THERE IS GOING BY
HIM.
HE'S STILL GOING DOWN THE
RACETRACK.
HE'S HOPING FOR CAUTION.
IT'S GOING TO COST HIM.
BENNY: STY LLE LOST
ALMOST A HALF LAP TO
EARNHARDT.
HE IS STILL IN HEAVY, HEAVY
TRAFFIC TRYING TO GET BY
SPENCER.
WITH FRESH TIRES, HE SHOULD BE
TO SS THESE GUYS.
BUT RIGHT NOW THEY'RE SIDE BY
SIDE.
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
NED: EFF GORDON JUST GO BACK
IN THE LEAD LAP.
WHEN H PASSED JOHN ANDRETTI.
BENNY: SO RIGHT NOW FF GORDON
WILL BE THE FASTEST FRONT CAR.
LET'TCH.
YOU CAN SEE WHAT HAPPENED TO
RUSTWALLACE.
HE MAKES HIS PIT STOP.
COMES TO STOP.
THEN WE WATCH ON THE RIGHT
REAR.
HE'S GOT A NUT STUCK IN THE
SOCKET.
HE SAYS TO THEM, GIVE ME
ANOTHER WRENCH, HE GOES AROUND
AND POPS THESE NUTS OFF, TAKE
THE TIRE OFF AND CHANGES IT.
HE GRABS THE GUN, A YOU SEE
THEY LEFT THE CAR DOWNTHAT
IMPACT WRENCH.
NO TY HA TOHAVE ANOTHER
E.
JERRY PUNCH?
JERRY: WHAT YOU'RE LOONG AT,
THIS LUG NUT COST THEM 5 1/2
SECONDS HERE I THE PITS.
THEY HAVE BEEN TRYG TO PRY IT
T WH A SCREWDRIVER AND IT
WON'T COME I
I WAIRLING THIS BAB
AROUND.
IT IS STUCK IN THERE.
THAT COST FIVE, SIX
SECONDON PIT ROAD.
BOB: DROPPING RUSTY TONINTH
PLACE AFTER BEING IN THE LEAD.
BEY: JOHN ANDRETTI CONNUES
TOUN ON THE INSIDE OF THE
TRACK.
IF THERE IS NO CAUTION, I DON'T
KNOW HOW LONG THEY PLAN TO RUN,
BUT HE'LL FIND HIMSELF PROBABLY
LAP DOWN WHEN HE DOES FINALLY
MAKE H PIT STOP.
HERE'S EARNHARDT AUT TO COME
UP A GETACK ON THE LEAD
LAP.
BAD BREAK FOR EARNHARDT.
THAT COST EARNHARDT A COUPLE OF
SECONDS.
NED: HE WILL GET BACK IN THE
LEAD LAP NOW AS HE PASSES
ANDRETTI.
EARNHARDT IS RUNNING IN THIRD
PLACE.
BENNY: RIGHT NOW JOHN ANDRETTI
IS RUNNING 105 MILES AN HOUR.
AVERAGE SPEED OF EARNHARDT IS
112 MILES AN HOUR.
BOB: FINALLY COMES IN.
BENNY: FINALLY.
WATCH AS HE■ COMES DOWN PIT ROAD
AND LET'S GO TO JOHN KERNAN.
JOHN: BENNY, JOHN ANDRETTI
COMES IN.
THIS TIME THEY WILL CHANGE ALL
FOUR TIRES.
ABOUT 90 LAPS THEY WENT ON
THIS.
ACTUALLY RIGHT-SIDE TIRES.
THE LEFT SIDE THEY CHANGED THE
FIRST PIT STOP.
A LOT OF LAPS ON THEM.
DONE WITH THE RIGHT SIDE.
LEFT GOING UP.
LEFT-SIDE TIRES GOING ON.
GASOLINE IS FULL.
LUG NUTS ARE TIGHTENED.
A LITTLE PROBLEM WITH THE RIGHT
FRONT TIRE.
21.1 SECONDS.
BOB: WE HAVE TO KEEP IT UNDER
35 ALL THE WAY DOWN TO TURN
NUMBER ONE.
BENNY: HOW DO THEY CHECK 35
MILES AN HOUR?
YOU SEE THE WHITE LINE?
THEY TIME THESE CARS TH
TIME THAT IT TAKES TO GO
BETWEEN THOSE LINES ESTIMATES
THEIR SPEED.
BOB: JEFF GORDON HAS PICKED UP
THE LEAD ONCE AIN OF THIS
RACE.
DALE EARNHARDT IS SECOND.
KYLE PETTY THIRD.
BRETT BODINE FOURTH.
[CAPTIONING MA POSSIBLBY
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
AND ESPN]
FRONT.
ERE IS MARK MARTIN AND BRETT
BOW DIRNGSE FOURTH AND FIFTH.
BE MARTIN JUST PASSED HIM.
WEEE JOHN ANDRETTI AFTER THAT
PIT STOP.
BOB: HE'S A LAP DOWN, BENNY, IN
18 ST.
BENNY: WE PREDICTED HE WOULD BE
A LAP DOWN ONCE HE MADE THE PIT
STOP.
THERE WAS NO CAUTION.
THEY STAYED OUT THERE ON THOSE
OLD TIRES.
NOW HE'LL BE ABLE TO RUN A
WHOLE LOT LONGER THIS TIME.
HE RAN 20 LAPS LONGER THAN DID
JEFF GORDON.
JEFF GORDON IS THE LEADER NOW.
ANDRETTI PASS HIM, THAT
STILL DO NOT PUT HIM BACK IN
THE LEADAP.
HE HAS TO PASS THE 24 CAR OF
JEFF GORDON.
BOB: EARNHARDT RUNNING SECOND.
RACING HERE WI MICHAEL
WALTRIP AND TERRY LABONTE.
WALTRIP WILL MOVE HIGH ON THE
TRACK, ALLOWING DALE TO HAVE
THE INSIDE LINE FREE.
JERRY, WHAT'S THSITUATION NOW
REGARDING TIRES AFTER THIS SET
BRIEF-LIKE STOPS?
JERRY:ELL, BEHIND ME IS A
WAITING ROOM, BOB.
NOW PRIOR TO THE RACE, GOODAR
ALLOWED EACH TEAM TO HAVE A
TOTAL SIX SETS OF TIRES.
THREE TO PRACTICE AND QUALI
AND SIX FOR TODAY'S RACE.
T THAT WOULDN'BE ENOUGH.
SO WHAT GOODYEAR DID WAS HOLD
40 TIRES IN RESERVE.
AND NASCAR SAID AFTER LAP 100,
YOU RELEASE THO TIRES, TWO
SETS AT A TIME TO FIRST COME,
FIRS-SERVED TEAM.
BEHIND ME, THE TEAMSAVE LINED
UP WITH THEIR EMPTY TIRE
AND ON THIS SIDE, THE GOODYEAR
TIRE BUSTERS ARE WORKING AS
FAST AS THEY CAN HERE.
AND NASCAR EVEN HAS AN
OFFICIAL, BUSR ALTMAN OVER
THERE, WHO PROGRAMMING AND
MONITORING TO MAKE SURE THAT
EA TM GETS A MAXIMUM OF TWO
ADDITIONAL SETS.
BENNY: JEFF GORDON IS A
LEADER.
HE H ABOUT A THREE-SOND
LEAD OVER DALE EARNHARDT WHO IS
SECOND PLACE.
KYLE PETTY S WORKED HIS WAY
UP TO THIRD PLACE.
NED: NOJEFF GORDON COMING UP
ON DRELL WALTRIP WHO IS
RUNNING IN 15TH POSITION, TO
PUT A LAP ON HIM.
WE SAW RUSTY WALLACE WITH THE
LONG PIT STOP.
NOW HE DIDOT LOSE A LAP ONCE
THEY ALL MADE THEIR PIT STOPS,
HE WAS BACK IN THE LEAD LAP.
HE JUST PASSED DALE JARRETT AND
TAKEN OVER THE SIXTH POSITN.
BENNY: JOHN ANDRETTI IS TRYING
TOAKE IT ON ONE LS PIT
STOP.
HE SHOULD BE AE TO BLOW RIGHT
BY EARNHARDT RIGHT NOW.
BUT HE MUST BE KFRK THOSE
TIRES, TRYING TO GET THEM TO
LAST JUST A LITTLE BIT LONGER.
NED: THEY MAKE ONE LESS STOP,
THAT COULD WORK.
BOB: BARRY TOLD JEY THAT W
MIGHT HAVE SURPRISE WINNER.
IT COULD BE JOHN.
HERE'S THE ROOF CAM ON KYLE
PETTS CAR.
>> DAVID GREEN'S DOWN THERE
SOMEWHERE.
>>URN HIM AROUND.
BENNY: KYLE PETTY IS SICK.
THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT GREEN
BEING IN THERE.
WHAT'S GOING ON WITH KYLE
PETTY?
JERRY: I JT TALKED TO BARRY
DODSON ABOUT KYLE.
HE SAID KYLE WOKE UP THIS
MORNING WITH A TOUCH OF THE
STOMACH FLU ANDOT FEELING
VERY WELL.
BARRY SAID TO PUT IT BLUNTLY,
HE'S VERY SICK RIGHT NOW.
THEY'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT
WHO TH MIGHT BE ABLE TO CALL
AS A RELIEF DRIVER.
YOU HEARD THEM MEIO DAVID
GREEN AND LOY ALLEN AND DAVE
MARCIS.
THEY TALKED ABOUT *** TRICKLE
T HE'S BARELY BACK IN HIS
RACE CAR.
BUT ONE THING THAT BARRY DID
KYLE AFTER KYLE REQUESTED
RELIEF DRIVER, BARRY SAID,
HEY, YOU'RE IN THIRD PLACE
RIGHT NOW.
HANG ON.
WE'LL TRY AND FIND SOMEBODY.
>> 25 LAPS FROM HALFWAY.
BENNY: THAT'S NOT WHAT
WANTED TO HEAR, "25 LAPS FROM
HALFWAY."
EARNHARDT CLOSING UP.
CLOSING UP ON THE BACK BUMPER
OF THE 24 CAR.
YOU CAN SEE HOW HE DID IT.
NED: GORDON MADE HIS PIT STOP
SEVERAL LAPS BEFOREARNHARDT
DID.
DARRELL WAS PULLEDAWAY FROM
HIM NOW.
DARRELL IS RUNNING FTER THAN
JEFF GORDON.
S TIS GETTING HOT.
HERE COMES ANDREI.
IF HE PASSES THE LEADER,
WHOEVER IT IS AT THE TIME HE
GETS THERE, HE'LL GET BACK IN
THE LEAD LAP WHICH HE SHOULD BE
ABLE TO DO WITH THOSE FRESHER
TIRES.
A CHANGE FOR THE LEAD.
BOB: EARNHARDT TAKES THE LEAD
FROM JEFF GORDON.
HERE COMES JOHN ANDRETTI TRYING
TO UNLAP HIMSELF.
AGAIN, HE'LL HAVE TO PASS THE
THREE CAR TO GET BACK ON THE
LEAD LAP.
HAS GOTTEN■ AROUND THE SECOND
PLE.
JERRY, TELL US MORE ABO THE
STRATEGY HERE.
JERRY: HERE'S WHAT ANDY PETTREE
IS TRYING TO DO.
THEY PITTE ON LAP 144.
HE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE THE REST
OF THE RACE ON TWO PIT STOPS.
HE'LL COMEACK IN ON LAP 229
AND THEN RUN 85 MORE LAPS AND
COME IN ON LAP 314 AND HAVE
JUST 86 TO GO, THE CHECKERED
FLAG.
HE WANTS TO .
IMPOSSIBLE ON TWO MORE STOPS TO
THE THREE CAR.
BENNY: YOU SEEEARNHARDT GOING
BY DERRIKE COPE.
JOHN ANDRETTI FOLLOWS HIM.
BOB: ANDRETTI CAN'T GET THE LAP
BACK, AT LEAST AT THE MOMENT.
IT CONTINUES TO BE DALE
RNHARDT LEADI JEFF GORDON,
KYLE PETTY, MARK MARTIN, AND
RUSTY WALLACE.
JERRY: WHATO RACE CAR
MECHANICS MEAN WHEN THEY SAY,
SHE BLOWED UP?
THIS IS A HEAVI DAMAGED
CYLINDER HEAD.
PROBABLY BECAUSE THIS VALVE
SPRING BROKE.
THE VALVE SPRING HOLE THE VALVE
IN PLACE.
WHEN IT BROKE, THE VALVE
FLOATED AROUND ANDNAPPED
OFF.
THERE'S A GOOD INTAKE VALVE, A
GOOD EXHAUST VALVE.
AND YOCAN SEE WHEN THEY
SNAPPED OFF THE PIECES WENT
THROHOUT THENGINE,
DESTROYING T SILLPDER
HEAD.
BENNY: THOSE CREW CHIEFS S,
BLEWP.
EY HAVE PSEE MIND
ENOUGH TO SAY, BUTHAT
BUDWEISER WAS SURENG
GOOD.
RNHARDT.
NED: IT'S BEEN THE FO ABOUT
EIGHT OR 1LAPS NOW.
HRADER IS RUING IN E 15TH
POTION.
SO THERE ARE 15 CARS ON THE
LEAD LAP.
BOB:YLE PETTY IS VERY ILL AND
IS ASKING THE PIT CREW TO GET
HIM A RELIEF DRER SO THAT
THEY CAN GET HIM OUT AND THE
REDRIVER IN.
HE HAS PED FROM SECOND BACK
TO FIFTH, OR THIRD BA TO
FIFTH.
BENNY: ABOUT TO LOSE ANOTHER
SPOT TO BRETT BODINE.
JUST INSIDE OF HIM.
BOB: TOD BODINE WAS THREE LAPS
DOWN WITH THE 7R IN 30TH
POTION
HIS TEAM HAS REALLYE ON
STRONG THE LAST FEW RACES.
NO WI KYLE BEING ILL --
BENNY: BARRYDODSON ASKED KYLE,
IS DAVE MARCIS OUT?
THERE ARE N DRIVERS AROUND TO
PUT INIS CAR.
BOB: EVERYBODY IS STILL
RUNNING.
NE A 36 CARS OUT THERE.
MARCIS WAS OUT FORWHILE BUT
HE IS OUT ON THE RACE TRACK
NOW.
BOB: N WE HE MARK RTIN
MOVI TO THE INSIDE OF RUSTY
WALLACE AND TAKINGR THIRD.
MARTIN GOES TO THIRD PCE
NED: A WHILE BACK,USTY HAD
NOW MARK RETURNSHE FAVOR
BENNY: SING MORE SPOTS AS
STERLING MARLING GOES BY.
MUSGRAVE GOES BY.
RICK MAST TRYING TO GET BY.
THAT'S SIXTH, SEVENTH, MO
BACK TO THE NINTH SPOT.
>> CLEAR.
BENNY: MUSGRAVE'S SPOTTER
TELLINSGRA THAT HE
CLR.
BOB: THERE GOE RK MAST.
HE IN EIGHTH, KYLE BA I
POSITIO
BENNY: I DON'T KNOW IF WE TOLD
YOU THAT JOHNRETTDID PASS
DALE EARNHARDT TT BACK IN
THE LEAD LAP.
BOB:NDRETTI IS2TH BACK ON
THE LEAD LAP.
LESS THANIVE LAPS FROM THE
HALFWAY POIN THIS00-L
T.
NED: RICKY RUDD COMING INTO
PEARANCE IN FOTH.
SOM MADE A PIT STOP A
COUPLE LAPS AGO.
STEVE WAS ON TEAD LAP AND
ONCE HE WENTFF THE LEAD LA
EARNHARDT PASSHIM.
W STEVE ISO LS DOWN IN
27 PLACE.
BENNY: WE SEE THE GRAPHIC.
HOW MUCH DOES DALE EARNHARDT
WIN THE HALFWAY?
BOB: GATORADE FOR LEADING AT
THE HALFWAY POIN
NED: TEE MORE TOO.
B: 197 COMPLET
BENNY: HISTRUCWON THE
SUPERER TCK RACE LAST GHT.
EAHARDSLD THERESA'S
TRUCK.
BOB: P.J. JONES PUT ON A GREAT
PERFORMANCE COMING FROM THREE
LAP DOWN TO FISH SECOND.
STILL AHEAD OF THE LEADER DALE
EARNHARDT.
EARNHARDT THREE WIDE, GOT JEFF
WUR TON ON THE OUTSIDE AND
BACKS F.
NOW HE IS ON THE INSIDE OF
SCHRADER TRYINGO PUT THAT
BUDWSER EVY A LAP DOWN.
BOB: STERLING MARLING LOOKING
BACK FROM THE REAR OF HIS CAR.
TED MUSGRAVE AND NEMECHEK COMES
.
BENNY: ON TOP OF THE FAMILY
CHANNEL FORDOOKING BAC
BOB: THE IS THE HALFWAY
POT.
RNHARD CROSSES AND LEADS AT
THEALAY PT.
200 LAPS COMPLETEENED AND WINS
$10,000.
BENNY: AND THERE WE SEE
MUSGRAVE ON THE INSIDE OF
MARLIN TRYING TO TAKE HIS SPOT
AWAY.
THAT'S FOR SIXTH SPOT.
HE DOES .
NOW HERE CES RK MAST TRYING
TO TAKE OVER SEVENTH.
STERLING MARLING IN EIGHTH.
SLIPPING AND SLIDING OUT THERE
RIGHT NOW.
GREG SACKS COMING ON FIFTH WE
W A MOMENT AGO.
JEFF BURTON IS OUT.
BOB: HERE'S SACKS COMINGO A
LT, LETTING THE CREW TO
WORK ON THE KENDALL CAR.
WE WILL SHOW YOU A FLD
SUARY.
BOB: BOBBY LABONTE HAS DROPPED
BACK TO 25TH POSITION IN THE
18TH CAR.
NED: NOW WE SEE BRETT BODE
OUTSIDE, HAS FALLEN BACK.
HE COMES MUSGRAVE AND MAST,
THESE GUYS TRYING TO GET BY THE
11TH CAR.
BOB: WE UNDERSTAND MICHAEL
WALTRIP'S CAR MIGHT BE HAVING
BRAKING PROBLEMS.
NED: HE IS ONE LAP DOWN.
BENNY: WE SEERICKAST ON THE
INSIDE OF BODINE.
MUSGRAVE HAS GOTN BY AND MAST
GETS BY.
THIS IS INSIDE RICK MAST'S
CAR.
HIS CAR IS COMING DOWN P
ROAD.
BOB: KYLE IS GOING A LAP DOWN
TO DALE EARNHARDT.
NED: JARRETT COMES INTO TH
PITS.
CRAVEN COMING INTO THPITS AS
WELL.
BOB: AND THE 28TH CAR, JARRETT,
IS IN FOR A PIT STOP.
BENNY: THIS IS THE FIRST PIT
REALLY.
OH, TROUBLE.
HAD TO JACK THE CAR BACK TO
GET THE ZE O FROM UNDERHE
RIGHT REAR.
IT LOOKS LIKE THEY GET IT OUT
NOW.
BOB: THE PREURE IS ON THOSE
GUYS TO GHEIR DRIVER IN AND
OUT OF THE PITSS QUICKLY AS
POSSIBLE.
, CK OUT ON THE RACE TRACK,
IT IS STILL EARNHARDT LEADING
ON THE RIGHT OF YOUR SCREEN.
AND JERRYUNCH H A REPORT ON
THE 24 CARS STILL RUNNING
SEND.
JERRY: HE IS SECOND ON THE RACE
TRACK BUT LOSING SPOTS RIGHT
AND LEFT.
THE REASON HE ISN'T CONTESTING
FOR SPOTS IS BECAUSE HE IS
TRYING TO MILK THOSE TIRES A
LO AS HE CAN.
HE PITTED SEVEN LAST BEFORE
EARNHARDT AND RUSTY WALLACE.
HE PITD BACK ON LAP 137.
HE CAN'T CONTINUE TO DO THAT
AND GIVE AWAY SEN OR GHT.
THAT WOULD MEAN UNEXT STOP
FOR THEM.
RAY EVERNHAM SAID WEGOT TO GO
TO 225 FORUR NEXT STOP.
I KNOW IT'S A LONG WABUT YOU
HAVE TO MILK THOSE TIRES.
THAT'S WHY YOU SEE GOON
SLOWING DOWN IN THE CORNER.
BOB: THAT IS 14 LAPS AWAY FROM
RIGHT NOW.
ARE ON LAP 211.
AND YOU CAN SEE HERE THAT JEFF
GORDONS COMINGP ON KYLE
PETTY TO ALSO PUT KYLE A LAP
DOWN.
BOB: WELCOME BACK TO NORTH
WILKESBORO.
FIRST OF ALL, LET'S TELL YOU
THAT JEFF GORDON DID NOT MAKE
IT TO THE 225 LAP MARK.
HE HAS ALRDY BEEN IN.
NOW HERE COMES RUSTY WALLACE
IT'S THE LONG ROAD DOWN FOR
RUSTY.
HE IS RUNNING SECD.
RRY PUNCH IS RIGHT THERE.
HE IS AT HIS PIT.
JERRY?
JERRY: RUSTY WALLACE WANTED TO
MAKE IT TO LAST 217.
BECAUSE OF GORDON DECIDING TO
PIT 15 LAPS EARLY THEY HAD NO
OPTION BUT TO COME IN EARLY.
DALE EARNHARDT OUR LEADER JUST
ENTERNG PIT ROA WAY UP IN
TURN TEE.
HE IS NOW 30 SECONDS AWAY.
YOU WATCH THE LEFT-SIDE TIRE
GOING ON THE FORD.
16.9ECDS AS WALLACE MOVES
AWAY
NOW DALEAHARDT WILL ENTER
HIS PITS AND WE'LL WATCH AND
SEE IF ANDY PETREE AND COMPANY,
THEY ARE GOING TO WORK ON THE
RIGHT SIDE OF THE CAR.
RLIER THEY HAD A PROBLEM WITH
THE JACK ON THE LEFT SIDE.
THEY TOOK THE LEFT SIDE LUG
NUTS OFF.
THIS TIME NO SUCH PROBLEM.
THE LEFT SIDE OF THE CAR BEING
JACKED UP.
LEFT REAR TIRE.
EARNHARDT IS NOW AWAY.
AS STERLING MARLING ALSO ENTERS
THE PITS FOR HIS SCHEDUL PIT
STOP.
BOB: HE PULLS OUT.
THE 16TH CAR, TED MUSGRAVE, IS
ALSO JUST PULLING OUT.
SO IS RICK MAST,AMILTON IS
L GETTING SERV
THE 21 CAR OF MORGAN SHEPHERD
COMES DOWN.
THERE IS MARK MARTIN AS THEY GO
TO WORK ON THE LEFT SIDE OF
THAT CAR.
BENNY: THEY PUT THE CAR IN
FIRST GEAR.
HE SAYS, I'M READY TO GO.
JACKOES DOWN.
THAT'S THE SIGNAL.
AWAY HE GOES.
BOB: THE BEST BY FAR, RUSTY
WALLACE AND HIS CREW IN UER
17 SECONDS.
NED: THERE HE IS.
JOHN ANDRETTI.
ONCE AGAIN YOU CAN SEE WHAT
HAPPENS.
HE'S GOING AROUND THE RACE
TRACK WITH THOSE WORN TIRES AND
THE GUYS WHO ANGE THOSE, STOP
TO CHANGE TIRES, JUST BLOWING
RIGHT BY HIM.
HE WILL BE OUT FOR ANOTHER 30
LAPS.
BENNY: PLENTY LONGER THAN
EARNHARDT DID.
HE HAS TO STAYUT THERE
ANOTHER 20 LAPS.
AND RIGHT NOW KYLE PETTY HAS
NOT STPED EIERECAUSE
THEY'RE DESPERATELY TRYIN
FIND RELIEF DRIVER.
SO HE IS IN SECOND PLACE
CURRENTLY AND DALE EARNHARDT IS
STILL ON THE LEAD LAP.
BOB: THIS IS A BIT OF A
SURPRI.
HE COMES IN WAY EARLIER THAN HE
DID LAST TIME.
JOHN KERNAN.
: IT WILL BE A FOUR-TIRE
CHANGE FOR JOHN ANDRETTI.
TIM BRURE KNOWING WHAT HE KNOWS
ABOUT THIS RACE TRACK FIGURING
HEIGHT AS WELL PIT JUST ABOUT
AFTER HE SAW WHAT HAPPENED THE
FIRST TIME.
THEY LOST A LOT OF TIME ON THE
TRACK.
THEY ARE LOOKING FOR THE
CAUTION.
NO CHASSIS ADJUSTMENT.
JOHN ANDRETTI IS AWAY IN 19.1
SECONDS.
BOB: NOT A BAD STOP FOR JOHN.
A LITT BIT OF A CHANGE OF
STRATEGY HERE FORHAT TEAM.
NNY: WE'RE BACK TO 13 CARS IN
THE LEAD LAP.
WALTRIP IS THE LAST OF THOSE ON
THE LEAD LAP.
JOHN ARETTI IS GOING DOWN A
LAP.
EARNHARDT GOES BY ANDRETTI JUST
AS HE GOES BY.
PETTY IS THE LEADER OF THE
RACE, BUT I THINK EARNHARDT TO
ME IS THE REAL LEADER.
BOB: KYLE IS RUNNING MUCH
SLOWER THAN THOSE WHO OF COURSE
CHAN THE TIRES. ■
BENNY: THERE IS THE■■ LEADER OF
THE RACE, DALE EARNHARDT.
HE IS THE LEADER, RIGHT?
NED: YES.
NED: ANETTI H FRESHER
TIRES.
OH, THE SPIN.
MIKE WALLACE HAS HITHE WALL.
BOB: UP IN TURN THREE, WE HAVE
A CAUTION FLAG, THE THD ONE
OF THE DAY.
BOY, IDRETTI HAD STAYED
OUT, HE WOULD HA BEEN IN GOOD
SHAPE.
NNY: KYLE PETTY IS STILL OUT
THERE.
SO THIS IS A DEFINITE BREAK FOR
BOB: BUT JOHN ANDRETTI, IF YOU
JUST --
BENNY: HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE
TO PASS A LOT OF CARS.
HE HIMSELF A LAP DOWN
I WANT TO SA RIGHT NOW --
IT'S THE OER OF E CAR'S
BIRTND MIKE'S DAUGHTER
WILL BE 10 TW.
A LOT OF BIRTHDS GOIN ON IN
THE 90 CAR.
BOB: FRANCIS HOLMES IS
WATCHING.
SHE CAME THROUGH HER SURGERY
WELL.
GET OUT OF THERE AND GET BACK
HOME.
NOW EARNHARDT AND GORDON BO
COMEN PIT ROAD.
ALONG WITH SERAL OTHERS, MARK
MARTIN, RUSTY WALLACE COMING
DOWN ALSO.
AND JOHN ISN KYL PET
PIT.
JOHN: LE PETTY LKS
EXHAUSTED AS HE LEANS HIS HD
BACK.
BARRY DODSON CLEANINTHE
WINDSHIELD, HANDED HIM A COLD
DRK.
HE WAS SIPPING IT THUGH HIS
HELMET.
HE DRANK DOWN THAT ENTI
BOTTLE ABOUT 20 OUNCESOFLUID
VERY, VERY QUICK.
JEFF GORDON HAD 16.8 SECONDS.
17.6 COS FOR DALE
EARNHARDT.
R KYLE PETTYTH BAD NEWS IS
NOT A SINGLE DVER HAS FALLEN
OUT OF THE RACE.■
DAVID GRN HE.
HE'S STANDING BY IN CASE
LABONTE NEEDS RELIEF.
S LEFT SHOULDEHAS BEEN
INR.
THERE'S SOMEWHAT OF A BURNING
SENSATION, HE TOLD ME.
AND SO THEY DON'WA TO TAKE
A CHANCE THAT BOBBY MIGHT NE
A RELIEF DRIVER LATER.
BOB: THERE'S THE CAR THAT
CAUSED THE CAUTION, THE
HEILIG-MEYERS CAR DRIVEN BY
MIKE WALLACE.
DAMA IN THE LEFT REAR.
HERE'S A REPLAY OF WHAT
HAPPENED AS HE COMES IN.
THIS IS OUR ROBOTIC CAMERA IN
TURN THREE.
JUST GOT A LITTLE OUT
NED: JUST A LITTLE BIT HI IN
TH GROOVE.
COULD HAVE HAD A TIRE GOING
DO ORSOMEING THAT
NATURE.
E SPUN AROUND.
BACK AGAINST THE WALL.
BOB: FROM ERLING MARLIN'S
PERSPECTIVE.
NED: THERE YOU GO SEE HE WAS
ALREADY UP THERE OSE.
BOB: GET UP THERE IN THOSE
MARBLES AND THERACKS --
TRACTION IS PRETTY BAD.
NED: SHE JUST WENT OUT FROM
UNDER HIM.
BENNY: OW JUST LISTEN ASHE
GOESN IS TIM
SOUND DIDN'T WORK TOO GOOD.
WORKING ON THE LEFT REAR OTHE
CAR.
THE CREW'S WORKING AWAY.
BOB:AKING SU ALL THE SHE
MEL IS AWAY FROM ALL THE
OTHER THREE TIRES.
NED: NOT A VERY OD BIRTHDAY
PRESENT, HUH JUNIE?
BOB: SO UNDER A TRD CAUTION
OF THE DAY AFTER 234 LAPS, DALE
RNRDT LEADS.
BOB: WE HAVE RUN A LAP AND A
HALF UNDER GREEN WITH DALE
EARNHARDT STILL OUT FRONT.
MIGHT MENTIOAT KYLE PETT
CAME IN AND GOT SOME MORE ICE
AND FLUIDTR TO FEEL A
LITTLEIT BETTER■.
KYLE IS AILING O THERE ON THE
RACETRACK.
THERE'S NOBODY TO RELIEVE
HIM.
TOUGH POSITION TO BE IN.
JOHN ANDRETTI DID NOT PIT.
IMMEDIATELY EARNHARDT PASSED
HIM.
SO JOHN ANDRETTI IS A LAP
DOWN.
11 CARS ON THE LEAD LAP NOW.
BOB: EVERYBODY IS STILL OUT
THEROR AT LEAST NOBODY IS
OFFICIALLYUT OF THE CE.
BENNY: THAT'S AMAZING.
NED: *** TRICKLE IS 27 LAPS
DOWN.
BOB: STEVE GRISSOM IN CAR
NUMBER 29 IS RUNNING IN FOURTH
POSION.
THAT'S RUSTY BEHIND HIM IN
FIFTH.
BUT STEVE GRISSOM HAS HAD A
VERY IMPRESSIVE RUN HERE
TODAY.
HE STARTED 15.
NED: A LOT OF GOOD LAP TIME O
ERE.
AFTER THEY PITTED, HE WAS IN
THIRD OR FOURTH PLACE.
MADE A GD PIT STOP HERE.
CAME OUT IN FOURTH PLACE.
BOB: KYLE WOULD SURE LIKE TO
HAVE SOME RELIEF.
BUT THERE'S NO ONE AVAILABLE.
BENNY: THE 90 CAR HAS GONE TO
THE GARAGE AREA.
YOU KNOW THAT THEY'RE GOING TO
WORK ON THAT CAR AND TRY TO GET
IT BACK IN THE RACE.
BOB: NOW RUSTY HAS PASSED STEVE
GRISSOM TO PICK UP THE FOURTH
SPOT.
BENNY: AND BRETT BODINE IS
TRYING HIS BEST TO GET BY
GRISSOM.
HE'S ALONGSIDE.
BOB: THAT'S FOURTH, FIFTH, AND
SIXTH RIGHT HERE.
BRETT INTO FIFTH.
BENNY: 28 CAR OF DALE JARRETT
IS NOW RUNNING SIXTH --
SEVENTH.
NE MAKE THAT SEVENTH.
GRISSOM HAS DROPPED BACK TO
SIXTH NOW.
BENNY: WE SEDALE JARRETT IN
THE 28 CAR.
NED: HAVING A TOUGH TIME
GETTING AROUND JOHN ANDRETTI.
BENNY: AS NED SAID, ANDRETTI
DID NOT STOP AND PUT ON FRESH
TIS.
HE HAD FOUR OR FIVE LAPS ON
THOSE TIRES.
NED: HE HAD JUST A FEW LAP
BEFORE THAT CAUTION CAME OUT.
BENNY: THERE'S THE LEADER, DALE
EAHARDT.
BOB: CLOSELY PURSU BY BOB:
AND MARK MARTIN IS THREE OR
FOUR CAR LENGTHS BEHIND THEM.
BENNY: THAT'S 157 LAPS TO GO.
SO THESE GUYS, SOME OF THEM,
MAY BE THINKING ABOUT TWO MORE
STOPS, ONE MORE STOP.
INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT THE
STRATEGY MIGHTE.
IT LOOKS LIKE THESE YS ARE
PLAN ON STOPPING MORE.
BOB: DALE EARNHARDT HAS FOUR
TOP FIVE FINISS IN 1995.
ADTHIS ONE
HE LEADS THE PNTS BY 17 OVER
MARLIN.
BUT JEFF GORDON IS TRYING TO
WRE THE LEAD AWAY FROM
DAVE.
BENNY: CAN'T MAKE IT.
EARNHARDT ABLE TO GET THE
JUMP.
BENNY: RAY EVERNHAM CALLED AND
TOLD JEFF TO TAKE IT EASY ON
THOSE TIRES.
BOB: WE'RE GOING TO DROP BA
SOME RACING ING ON, THE 28
ANTHE FR.
THAT'S JARRETT AND MARLIN,
SEVENTH AND EIGHTH.
BENNY: AND DALE RRETT
STARTINGO WORK.
33, NED?
NED: YES.
NN HE'S D A GAT RUN
TODAY.
NED: HE CAN RACWELL.
HE JUST TS TO WHEE CAN
QUIFY THAT THING.
BENNY: JEFF GORDON, ONCE AGAIN,
TAKING A LOOK.
GOT A BEER R THIS TIME.
BOB: AND HE WILL GO INTO THE
LEAD AGAIN.
JEFF GORDON BACK ON TOP.
A REMINDER THAT HE AND T
HENDRICK RACING TEAM WILL BEN
"SHOP TALK" COMINGP ATHE
COLUSION OF OUR TELECAST HERE
AT NORTH WILKESBORO.
WE'RE RIDING WITH MART MARTIN.
HE'S THIRD.
THE TOP TWO ARE JT IN FRONT,
EARNHARDT AND GORDON.
BENNY: MARKLOSING IN.
RIGHT NOW THEY'RE AL TRYIN
FIGURE OUT HOW TO PY THIS.
HE STOPPED ONCE, B WILL HE
STOP TWICE?
AND GORDON HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO
GO QUITE AS FAR AS EARNHAT.
OR MARTIN IN THE PAST.
NED:HEY SEE TO GIVE UP JUST
A LITTLE BIT QUICKER.
BENNY: MARK MARTIN TRYINGO
CATCH DALEARAR.
NED: SEE THE LR OUT T
IN FRONT OFHEM.
THAT'S JEFF GORDON WITH THE RED
CAR.
BENNY: THERALOOKG
FEF PO.
BO BRETT BODINE AND STE
GRISSOM FIFTH ANDIXTH.
BRETT BODINE'S LTIN, LY
WIN, IN NASC WINST CUP
RACING.
LA YEA AT NORTH WIESBORO
IN990.
146 RACES AGO.
NED: GREG SACKS LETTING THE
FASTER CARGO BY.
BENNY: HE'S LOOKED FORWARD TO
IS RE.
HE'S HAD A LOT OF SUCCESS
HERE.
NOT ONLY WINNI HISY CE
HERE.
LOWE'S IS HEADQUARTERED IN
NORTH WILKESBORO ABOUT FIVE
MILES FROM THE RACEWAY.
BOB: DEFITELY A HOMG.
LE'S FI OUT WHAT THE
SITUATION IS REGARDING KYLE
PETT.
HE'S STI I 12TH POSITION.
WE'LL SEE THIS POSSIBLE CHANGE
POSITION HERE.
YES.
NED:OR FIF.
BO STEVE GRISSOM GOES TO
FIFTH PLACE.
NOW WHAT'S THE SITUATION WITH
KYLETY, JOHN?
JOHN: KYLE, COUR, STILL
NOT FEELING WELL.
SO MIKE WALLACE, WHO WAS
INVOED IN THAT WRECK THAT
BROUGHT OUT THE LAST CAUTION,
THEY'RE WORKING ON THE
HEILIG-MEYERS FORD THUNDERBIRD
IN THE GARAGE AR
MIKE IS STANDING BY.
I THINK THE PLAN RIGHTOW IS
IF THEY CAN GET A CAUTION OR
KYLE WILL DRIVE AS FAR AS HE
CAN, THEN MIKE WILL GET IN THAT
CAR.
THEYE CONTINUING TOALK ON
HIS THUNDERBIRD.
THEN KYLE WOULD GO BACK OUT TO
FINISH THE RACE IN THAT CAR.
A LITTLE BIT OF SWITCH HERE.
MIKE WALLACE DRIVING THE FORD
ADY TO SUBSTITUTE
BEY: FM A SIZE STANDPOINT,
THAT WILL WORK WELL.
BARRDOON TRIES TO EP KYLE
PUMPED UP, KEEP HIM GOING.
BOB:E'S STILL ON THE LEAD LAP
IN 12TH.
BENNY: THAT' EXACTLY WHAT THAT
GOING.RYG TO KEEP HIM
RIGHT BEHIND RICMAST.
NED:''S O THREE SECONDS I
BACK OF GORDON.
THAT WAS ROBERT PRES NOT RICK
MAST.
AT WAS ROBERT PLEY, 33.
SPENCER.
SPENCER IS IN 27TH POSITION,
THREE LAPSOWN.
LE'SAR.
>> CLEAR.
BOB: WE TRIED AEXPERIMENT AT
DARLINGTON WHERE WE HAD A LOT
OF IN AND WE HAD A REGULAR
CORA OFFESPN 1.
AND INAR CAMERAS ON THE
DEUCE.
IT WENT OVER VERY WELL,
FAVORAE COMMENTS.
DAONAN JULY 4TH WED.
BENNY: THAT OUT TOE
INTERESTING, SIDE BY SIDE, SIX
OR SEV CAMERAS.
AND EARNHARDT TRYING TO TAKE
THE LEAD FROM THE TH CAR.
BOB: YOU HE'S BOTTLED UP BEHIND
E SLOWER CAR OF RANDY
LAJOIE.
JERRY S MORE ON JEFF GORDON.
JERRY: JUST A MOMENTAGO, RAY
EVERNHAM TOLD GORDON, IF THE 3
CAR PUSHES YOU HARD, LET HIM
DON'T BURN UP THE TIRES.
THEY CANNOT VE THE TIRESN
LASTIME I TOLD YOU HE WA
GOING TO FIDDLWITH THE 225.
THE TIRES WENT AWAY.
24 CAR WILL HAVE TO PIT TWICE
MORE.
RAY ERNHAM, AROUND 302 AND
POSSIBLYGAIN WITSOME 20
LAPS TO GO.
THE MOST ON T GREEN TODAY IS
78 LA ON THE RIGHT REAR
TIRE.
BOB?
BOB: WE MAY EXPECT IT AGAIN
IN 24 OR 5LAPS I THAT'S THE
CA.
THIS THING IS GOI TO PLAY
DOWN TO WHO HAS THE BT
STRATEGY.
BENNY: EARNHARDT HAS BEEN ABLE
TO GO A LITT LONGER THAN SOME
OF THESE OTHER GUYS.
THERE IS A CAUTION.
THAT COULDRELY B BREAK.
NED:MAARTIHAS BEEN GOING
THE SAME DIST AS
EARNHARDT.
MAYBE HE IS DOING ALL HE C
DO.
BUT THEY'RE STAYING WITHIM
NEVEHELESS.
BENNY: WEALKED ABOUT AT THE
TOP OF THE SHOW, THIS IS A LONG
PIT ROAD, THE FACT THEY
EXTEED THE P ROAD, IT TES
ROAD.
WHENOU STOP TWICE, IT'S SUCH
APENALTY BECAUSE THE LONG PIT
ROAD IS 30 SECONDS DOWN PI
ROAD0 SECONDS FOR THE
OP, ALMOST■■■■ 50 SECONDS.
BOB: THERE IS KY.
HE IS NOTTOO FAR FROM BEING
LAPP.
OUT A FULL SPEEDWAY.
BENNY: KYLE IN HEAVY
TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC IS GOING TO BE
TOH FOR HIM N FEELI GOOD,
FOR HIM TO GET AROUND.
ADVANTAGE OF GETTINGHEHAS THE
PASSING FLAG UP ON THE CAR
COMING TO THE LEFT.
NED: WE SEE TIRES ON THE
HEILIG-MEYER CAR.
BOB: TRE IS CHUCK WALLACE
STANNG BY FOR PETTY TO
POSSIBLY DO SOME RE
IVING.
BENN GOODYEAR HAS THE TIRES
BUT 'S EASIER TO GET TIRES
THAT ARE ALREADY MOUED THAN
GETTING ONCE BY GOODYEAR.
KYLES ABLE TO GET BY BERT
PRESSLEY.
NED:0.THE LAPIME.
EARNHARDT'S RUNNG ABOUT 20.65
FOR HE AF GORDON.
BOB: WE LL SEE HOW LONG LE
CAN ST IN THE CAR DESPITE THE
CT THAT HE'S NOT FEELING
WELL.
MIKEALLACE SNDINGBYOR
RELIEF
'S GORDON, EARNHARDT, MARK
MARTIN, RUSTY WALLACE ANDTEVE
GRISM.
BOB: THE BATTLE UPFRONT
CONTINUES.
EYUT A LAP ON KYLE PTY,
BUT DALEARNHDT IS TRYING
TA THE LEAD AWAY FROM JE
GORDON AND HANGI IN THERE IN
THD SITION I MARK MARTIN.
BENNY:T WAS ETTYXCITING
E LAST LAPN TH GOT
THREEBREAST DOWN THE
SPEEDWAY.
NOEARNHAT IS GNG TO T
IT ON TH INSIDE, TRIES TO GET
ALONGSE JEFFORDON.
DOES IT.
BOB: WHAT ERNHAM TOLD JEFF,
IF THE 3AR TO
CHALLENG LET HIM GO.
LOOKLIKE HE WILL.
EARNHARDT GOES BACK TO THE
LEAD.
BENNY: I THINK JEFF GORDON
TRUSTS RAY EVERNHAM TALLY.
AT HTELLS HIM TO DO
ES I
NED:IEE WITH YOU.
HE SHOUL.
BOB: JFED 95 LAPS, HAS LED
95 LAPS HIS RACE
NOW WE'LL SHOW YOU A FIELD
MMARY.
BOB: THE TIRE SITUATION
NTINUES TO BE A REAL PRLEM
HE.
HERE'S JN KERNAN WITH A
REPORT.
THLA, TH LAPSOWN.
HEONLY HAS TWOEW TIRES
WH'S UWITH T
THAT I GET ODYEAR DID
BRING ENOUGH TIRES WITH HIM
HERE TO TH RACETRAC
THEY WEREINOFTING ON
SOME CARS FAING OUT ER
HASN'T BEEN VE GD.
A LO CARS STILL INTHE
RACE.
FACTORY WORKS ON FORD
UNDERBIRDS AS FT AS WE CAN
PUT THEM ON THERE.
WE HAVEO DO THE BESTE CAN,
TRY IT FINISH THE RACE.
JOHNAS I WAS WALKING UP TO
THE PIT, TH TWOTON
BROTHERS IN THISACE, WARD HAS
BEEN HAVING PROBLEM.
JE SLLUNNING OK.
JEFF'S TEAM CAME UP AND GOT
TIRES FROM BERNSTEIN.
BOB:E SAW A CNGE FOR EIGHTH
POSITION
AT WAS RICK MAST WHO MOVED TO
THE INSIDE AN PUT STERLING
MARLING BACK NINTH.
HE'S AITTLE SQUIRRELLY COMING
OFF THE CORNER.
BENNY:TT SIDEWAYS.
G UNUSUAL HERE AT NOR
WIESRO.
BOB: JOH KERNAN HAS MORE ON
RI MAST.
JOHN: JUST A FEW MONTS AGO
FORE CHKING OUT THE TODD
BODINE STORY, I WENT BACK T
THE CA OWNER.
HE SAYS THERE TAKING IT EASY
NOW.
THEY ARE GOING TO TRY TO MAKE
IT ON ONE MORE S AS GORDON
PASSED BMA
MARTIN.
THAT'S FOR SECOND PCE.
BOB: S NOW IT'S EARNHDT,
MARTIN AND GORDON.
NNY: I'NOTCONCNED
ABOUT E FT THAT MK MARTIN
PASSED HIM.
SO MUCH DISTANCEEARNRDT.
IT'S LIKE JEFF
SUEN DOPED A PROBLEM OR
SOMETHING.
THEY AREGOING AWAY
TH EARNHARDT'S E.
DARRYL WTRIPID A LAP
DOWN.
TO CHEOLET. S THESRN
LET'S GORR PUH.
JERRY: IOLD YOU THAT JEFF
GORDON COULD LY GO AROUND 78
LAPSN THE GREEN AND THE TIRE
WENT COMPLETELY AWAY.
WELL, AT LAP 300, HE WILL HAVE
RUN 75 LAPS UNDER GREEN A
THEREFORE S S ARE GON
YOUEEAY EVERNHAM AND
THEY WOULD LIKE E ABLE TO
KEEP H OUT THE UNTIL LAP
304, MAYBE CLOSE TO 310 OR THEY
WOULD LOVE TO SEE THE YW
FL CE OUT BUT RIGHT NOW
THEY KNOW THEIR TIRES ARE
GONE.
BOB: THEY IPLETED NOW 300
LAS.
D I 2.1 SECOND LEAD NOW
THAT EARDT ENJOYS OVER MARK
MARTIN.
HE'S LITTLE MORE THAN 10
SECOND AHEAD OF STEVE
GRISSO
DALE JARRETT HAS BEEN AMONG THE
FIRST TO COME IN AND HE' IN
RIGHT NOW.
NED: RUNNING IN SEVENTH PLACE.
THEY KNEW EYERE GOING TO
HAVE TO ME TW PIS.
THEY COME IN EARLY AN TRY TO
GA SOME TRACK POSITIOTHERE
NOW.
A LITTLE TROUBLE ON THE LEFT
DE.
TROUBLE BACK OF THE LEFT REAR.
TH'S A LONG PIT STOP.
THEY WERE OD ON THE RIGH
SIDE THE LEFT SIDE, A
DEFINITE PROBLEM.
THEY D'T HAVE THE TIRE OF
NOW.
BENN THEY JUST NOW GOTHE
TIRE OFF.
BOB: WOW, THIS IS A LONG PIT
STOP
JERRPUNCH DOWN WITH BRE
BONE
JERRY:CHEDULED STOP.
THE ONLY WINSTON CUP WINR
90.
GOOD PIT STOP, GOOD CHANGE.
TIRES ON THE RIGHT SIDE, THEY
WILL -- THE CAR A LITTLE
LOOSE.
LEFT-SIDE TIS ON, FILL IT
WITH FUEL.
HE WILL GO SIDE BY SE WITH
DARRYL JARRETT.
BOB: LONG, LONG PITTOP FO
DALEARRETT.
GOOD OP BRETT BODINE AND
TEAM.
BENN■■HEY RE RUNNING TO THE
ON THE RACETCK BEFORE THEY
MADE A PIT SP.
BRETT WAS INRONT OF LE
JARRET
NOE'GHT BEHD HIM.
JARRETT I NOW THREE LS WN
IN 1 POSITION.
HE IS RUN -- HE WAS RUG
SEVENTH BEFORE THE P STOP.
B:ARTT ENJOYING ALEAD AT
THE MOMENT
HE HAS LED 1 OF THESE 303
ERE GOES JOHN ANETO T
ON HIS LAPS BACK.
RICK MAST CAME IN.
JOHN, HOW COME?
JO BEST LAID PLANS OF
MICE AND MENOMETIMES GO
AWRY.
YOU HAVE HRD THAT SAYING.
K IN.
RICK CAME IN FOUR TIRES, THEIR
PLAN TO GO ONE MORE STOP WENT
DOWN THE TUBES.
BENN EARNHARD IS DRIVING
AWAY FRO MARK MARTIN.
NED: HIS CAR SEEMS TO BE THE
BEST ON OLD TIRES.
BE OF Y OF TM.
BENNY: THERE IS MARK MTIN.
RICK MAST.
THAT'S MARTIN STOPPING TO
CHANGE FOUR TIRES, BLOWS BY.
BOB: ANTIPE PIT STOPS VER
SHORTLY BY EARNHARDT, MARTIN
AND GORDON, PERHAPS WITHIN THE
NEXTHR, FOUR LAPS.
BENNY: WE TALKED ABOUT JEFF
GORDON'SAR BLE AWAY.
MARK MARTIN HAS FALLEN BACK OF
JE GORDON.
IT LOOKS LIKE HIS TIRE A
ABOUT NE
NED: THEY WI SLLAVE TO
MAKE ANOTHER PIT STOP, I
BELIEVE.
STERLING MARLING COMING INTO
THE PITS NOW.
STERNG RUNNING INSEVENTH
PLAC ON THE LEAD P.
BOB: THE KODAK CHEVROLET WILL
STOP
MARLIN SECOND IN POINTSGOING
TO THIS RACE.
JUST 17 BEHIND.
BENNY: I WILL TELL YOUHAT
JEFF GORDON,HERE HE IS, HAS
PASSED MARK MARTINO TAKE OVER
THE SECOND SPOT.
B: RUSTY WALLACE IS COMING IN
AS MARLIN PULLS OUT.
NED: RUSTY IN FOURTPOTI