1997 Dura Lube 500

This is MRN's throwback Thursday brought to you by Sunoco also sponsored by Hercules tire ride on our strength this is Ken Squier. Time now for MRN dot coms to roll back Thursday. Classic NASCAR races from the motor racing network actual race are. We'll follow his presentation of MRM radio voice of NASCAR racing. The NASCAR Winston cup series makes its once a year stop at Phoenix international raceway today for the tenth running of the adorable 500. While the fight for the series championship continues to make headlines Bobby Hamilton stole the show so far this weekend. After winning at Rockingham on Monday Hamilton set a new track record in qualifying winning. Winning the pole on Friday and has been clearly the fastest car through Saturday's happy hour practice. Hamilton is hoping to repeat his beaded success of a year ago when he stormed through. For the deal from 78 starting spot pulled in the way over the final thirty laps to record a breakthrough win white flag for Bobby have a lot of ways. Which first Winston cup win he got his first NASCAR Winston cup series started this tracking. In 1989 now Bobby. Wins incensed Petty Enterprises to Victory Lane. Hamilton is the garage area favorite to win the second of last race of the season could do little 500 pound Phoenix. Cars V and radio. Present. Coast Guard today. Sponsored by goodies headache powders and Japanese Leo official pain reliever of NASCAR. Around a 100000 race fans that packed grandstands at hillside surrounding the Phoenix international raceway on an absolutely gorgeous afternoon ready you've seen NASCAR's Winston cup series drivers compete on this mile oval for the tenth time. Hello locomotive racing Edwards live coverage of the girls 500. Allen best of here along with Barney hall with second the last race of the NASCAR Winston cup series season set to go to day. 43 drivers are in the running for the championship. It's unlikely but it's impossible to that championship could be decided here at Phoenix today. Yeah. Jeff Gordon could clinch it here this afternoon with a really good run to pick up but quite a few ports we'll get into exact numbers that he needs as the afternoon goes live but. The two guys is still feel like they have a good chance to win it certainly our Mark Martin and Dale Jarrett and they can't it all depends on what happens here at this racetrack as you said Jeff Gordon can go out of here with a deadlock could championship are you can go out of here. Put all the pressure in the world I'm going into the final race at Atlanta could swing either way throughout the course of the event here today. Long time since we've got a race with a driver as a clear favorite as much of a clear favorite as we've got here today. But I'll tell you what Bobby Hamilton has been the dominant man throughout the weekend this weekend just an absolutely strong car there is in a driver in the garage right now that won't tell yet. He is gonna be a handful to deal with today that I can remember the couple time this season we've had a car that we felt like would be the car to beat but that's the deal topic has been on everybody's mind all week long that car's been good from the time they roll it off the truck he went on the speedway for the first practice session. Qualified on the pole has been just too strong and a final practice session yesterday afternoon and coming off that win at Rockingham last Monday up there. The momentum is certainly in Bobby's corner all he's got to do is just get out there if it stays together. Get a good shot to win this thing and everybody knows that Hamilton looking to make it back to back wins on the 97 season looking to make it back to back wins here at Phoenix he believed the field of the green flag and EST keep body acts we're closing at the start of the tour Luke 500 at Phoenix international raceway the tenth time NASCAR Winston cup series is run this mile oval would you believe that over the years. No one that has started on the pole has ever won this race we'll talk with a man who leads the field with the green flag when we come back from Phoenix international raceway this is MRN radio. Lindsay gymnasts. So doctor Tom what's your claim to fame moment due to all of tunis NASCAR wins last year I wrote thousands of doctors notes for fans for over excitement hypertension a condition that requires a day off work to rest sounds like a responsible doctor doctor. Cutler real doctor broke into doctor get a guy a Ford for over excitement about the new Cameron because. 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He's coming off a win at Rockingham this past Monday he won here a year ago everything points to a strong run on a lot of momentum today for Bobby Hamilton. Statistically. Nobody has ever won here at Phoenix from the bush told Hamilton is able to change that today you claim 38000 dollars to 76 challenge up for grabs. Let's hear from Bobby Hamilton now Jim Phillips at Newport Tennessee is with him. 131 point 579 the bush holding speaker Bobby Hamilton. But this guard and rockets at all week long district it he let it today. So damn mother thank we have had to change hardly find a couple camber settings were held the ball real slick racetrack we think that played or fibers. And I signed timeout we qualified we have so we're hoping for good guy. They got to ask you. Did you water rates last week exposed on this week any second thoughts about your decision to we will. Bought it second golf when I first made the decision that you know didn't see she's will be in this goes well. I'm really excited about going nowhere the whole car but I'm more excited and how these guys found a driver they can. Heck they even better not vanity that is cervical they were role as Bobby Hamilton 131. Point 57 on miles per hour new track. Record your Phoenix had while he sounds awfully confident then Willie should. Jimmy Spencer will start second today they really wanted to win a race this year but with the season winding down they've got to hurry and do with just two left they had a bad day last Monday at Rockingham finished 43 up there. As we said we just two races left Spencer in the Campbell team still feel they can win one of those two. Starting from the number two position today should make that task just a little bit easier for him was Santelli is where they. And Jimmy Spencer sitting here in the car getting buckled and savoring kind of easing into the side here's he's getting is ready amount and up. Jimmy one lap the car was good how about for 312 out of the long runs. I think we're going to be RA Winston. You know Don I know crews worked hard all year long and every race gently bend do not and they really were caught Chara flat tracks Richmond and California and New Hampshire. Phoenix is no different so. We ran well there and now we qualified this our best qualifying effort of the year so we think we've got a really good car and so long race here in Phoenix Suns and now hopefully the Campbell Carl not a good round. I don't that is if you hadn't had any bad luck you and Betty I'll seems to fit you guys this year but I guess I can against you mix those you know you gotta caulk capable of winning it is just a bad luck situation. Keeping you out of Victory Lane. Well we know we made a lot of mistakes the race team to end and we've learned a lot this year as far as the the biggest learning curve we've had all year is this just mistakes we made it take us out a top ten finishes and sometimes merge situation we shouldn't have been in and took us out so I. You know start up front here today we feel we have a solid car top ten finish that's we're gonna report today in math and hopefully we can do that. For the next so the last time in the purple and yellow of the camel for next year it'll be red white and black the Winston Ford Jimmy Spencer rolls off second his desk. Qualifying effort of the season for Spencer. Rusty Wallace is always been good here at Phoenix but he's never managed to get to Victory Lane here. Rusty is using your card that he has had a lot of success written over the years it's run thirteen times its finish in the top 1010 times and he's got three victories. Nearly a forthcoming about a month the gulf. At Martinsville when he was clearly the dominant car in that event rusty qualified the inside approach to what could he do with the field today here Phoenix what did he do with Bobby Hamilton Mike Bagley of milk Milford Delaware is with Rusty Wallace. Rusty start third today is this more people staying up front and winning this race are you better it is is a great cars to kind of marginal zero to really get all week long. It's real hot out here today you're gonna have to really don't work hard as she S even last night practice it was excellent so let's hope it stays that way. Given eleven as the flat track master rescue what about this flat track the best did you try to stop well I hope rocket missed out. Keep up that that theory from everybody at 43 cars awful thing assets again we ought going to be today. Let town star Ryan is not pursue this even happens that's Rusty Wallace he goes through this first Phoenix win from the inside of row two we let's start. A charity he's not done a great today with two top tens in his last three Phoenix races what does he think about his chances not only to win today's race could maybe get shape a little bit off of Jeff Gordon's lead he is with Jim Phillips now. Well to get the most Busch Dale Jarrett who win these races just guard capable of winning today. Well we've got a good race car here but Bobby Hamilton think being the class of the field right now but. That's why we run 500 kilometers they didn't get the emperor I think we've got a good race car. I'll make some changes mourn the got a lot of confidence in what he did. This tracking visit top five here before but sick so you can't get toward you concentrate on maybe catching market for second. There we gotta get the second you know march close enough. I've been able to do that then we're gonna add things up tropical mark finishes up front here so we gotta keep it where we need to gain support from all of you very much but our objective today is to go out here. Try to win this race enough once they can regulate my dollar parking for women are genetic make yep today that three out of 41 to get a pretty good you take. Those are daddy's won six times this year he's starting night that's Dale Jarrett. And as we said he hasn't given up yet on when he was a cup championship Jeff Gordon will start twelfth today he leads by a 125 points over Mark Martin a silent soldier moment ago he could clinch the with a cup championship here this afternoon. All are he could find himself really on the burner going into Atlanta. Let's find out what his game plan is for today Winston Kelley is with him. Champ last year you were the chase sir this year. The JC how does that change your driving strategy with just a couple of races left. Well you know I mean we aren't a pretty good position to be done to be leading the points that we don't have a very big lead the way out look at it. I'm mark can endowed chair runner really really strong so we pretty much got to got to run our own race but don't try to get that thing top five gets track position and you know keep it consistent main thing is to finish today and if we finish up canoeing fishing for a. Without that big a lead do you set up the car different in terms of the motors the senate be more conservative than you would they keep. We're a different situation if you were still chasing. Not a big side they can own yet try to get as much are run the same here that we would. Normally run down to try to win the race and try to get that top five I think it's okay and these days yup we try to consumer refiners just. You know men on the field worker away backwards and not we can't afford to do that looked as well as a Canadian constituent. Jeff Gordon has not been lower than fifth all year and points that was way back to Texas he steadily climbed his way back to first and has been there. But the good part of the season he'll roll off twelve today. Motor racing network live in Phoenix Arizona with the NASCAR Winston cup series about set to start the dour look 500 we've heard from two with a three drivers in the chase for the NASCAR Winston cup championship. But this year from the other now Mark Martin the second place runner. Who has quite a track record here at this particular speedway over the last five years markets finished second first second eighth and second. Could use another one of those top two performances here today he goes to the green flag though in fourteenth position a little bit farther back and he's normally qualify here let's find out what mark Martin's thinking before the green he's with Mike Bagley. Mark 125 points behind Jeff Gordon how do you like your chances to shave some points off today. Well I don't know have to wait and see. You know Ali's guys chaired the 88 point four. Then on the battling cars now been running good practice and that ever raced here this year so. This set to wait and see what each race range and see. See what happens at the end of the day. Allen just told us about your finishing records here at this racetrack quite impressive. What is your car need to stay up front all all afternoon here. Just needs to be the right balance of paneling. You know it's a shame here is everywhere else she got a handle right handle. Get through those corners good. That's Mark Martin. He's second in points starting fourteenth today here at Phoenix international raceway the drivers of 43 of the field for today's durable 500. All strapped in aboard their machines now window and it's beginning to go up that in just about fifteen seconds or so they'll be given the command to fire the engines. And get today's event underway the 43 in the field split into two groups behind a couple of push Chevrolet Monte Carlo pace cars now. Already. Start of the Koran and then you. So for those words to get the motor cranked up. And ready to go so that is the stage now we are set to go with a durable 500 at Phoenix the second to last race for the NASCAR Winston cup series season stick what does the green flag is right around the corner. NASCAR today he has produced by M Oregon radio and sponsors behind goodies it's. Really good. Official pain reliever a NASCAR brought the Phoenix international raceway this is MR and radio. The racetrack to the road home fill up close and mobility official fuel of NASCAR. So go make high quality performance fuels for the greatest drivers in the world both on and off the track whether you're pulling up to the pump or into the pit. You can trust Sunoco a repeat of fuel that feeds you go second campus and I've got to feel going. Fill up with the official fuel of NASCAR's sonoco BS and so races. 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Forty vs David Green caterpillar shedding that Jeff Green starting fortieth the Cartoon Network shipping. 39 did Ricky Rudd in the tide Ford with Dave Marcus 38 in the real trichet happy 37 Jeff Burton the X in the excited board. With Bill Elliott 36 of the McDonald's Ford thirty vintage John Andretti in the RCA port Kyle Petty starts 34 on the hot meals Pontiac 3030 shot trickled in the Circuit City board Mike Skinner is thirty sec and the low shabby. And Steve park starts 31 to the Burger King Chevy. Michael Waltrip we'll start thirtieth he will be in the Citgo Ford the Kellogg's corn flakes Chevrolet with Terry nobody aboard his 29 starting 28 is Greg Sachs in the Coors Light Chevrolet Ward Burton starts the MB in a Pontiac 27 26 Sterling Marlin. The Kodak film Chevrolet. Starting. Can't play fifth position already Ervin in the textile Havilland for 24 is Robert Presley in the Jasper engines forged starting 23 Ted musgrave in the family channel board. As starting 22 Jeremy Mayfield in the Kmart RC cola Ford 21 to be Kenny Wallace in the square deep born twentieth starter Steve Grissom the Kodiak Chevy Darrell Waltrip is ninety departs America's Chevy Johnny reject eighteenth the BellSouth Chevy to QVC Ford and Jeff Levine goes seventeenth. Sixty hysterical in the Skittles Pontiac Brett boat ride in the BDR Ford is 1514 this Mark Martin about the leap forward. Thirteenth Dick Trickle pilot Myers scored twelve things Jeff Gordon DuPont Chevrolet in the action performance Ford of getting her winning his eleventh look at the top Tim lake speed starts tenth. And the advantage camouflage Ford. The quality care Ford credit Ford will start in ninth position dale chair we heard from a bullet go Johnny Benson's starts the pencil Pontiac and eighth position starting seventh Baylor heart of the GM Goodrich service Sherry. And starting at six will begin straighter in the still bandit racing Chevrolet. The Remington arms company board will start in fifth position Rick mast as the driver starting fourth Bob and the body of the interstate batteries Pontiac the third starter Rusty Wallace in the Miller Lite Ford and on the front row. Jimmy Spencer and the Camel Cigarettes Ford and all the Busch pole Bobby Hamilton in the EST people cardiac. One lap to go we will get the start of today's to remove 500 Phoenix international raceway a mile around 11179. Feet the length of the front stretch sending it turns one and two where Joseph Moore of Hampton Virginia calls the action for us today. Thanks Alan good afternoon everyone this racetrack is quite wide enough for the quarters for a lot of side by side racing and a lot of changing of positions and we'll see a lot of that no doubt coming into turn one and the thing that really tough for the drivers. It's really a one wrong turn once you exit the front straightaway if they can't sit in turn one it doesn't and then you come off turn four get in the right center off turn two crucial to Beckett who's on the backstretch irritating us. Lot of things happen over in turns three and four in the company action for a Mario let's go to Fred Armstrong from Portland Oregon and Barney the sword down here today is gonna be the story of the changing grooves we saw here yesterday with a NASCAR craftsman truck series as the tires get older as the race goes on the groove moves up the banking if you get way too highly outside here. You can get into trouble on a big way we had three bad crashes down in turn over three yesterday we hope not that'll happen here today as the drivers try to come into this corner side by side grapple for position and get a good run down that trust right away for about 25 feet up in the air just on the exit of turn over four. So that is the setting now is the deal comes through return a report ready for the start of the dirt than 500 bust Iran takes the Chevrolet pace started pit road Bobby Hamilton and Jimmy Spencer on the front row it's time to get going. Feel about 200 feet away at the start finish line green flag is in the air another break Jimmy Spencer comes up through that gearbox and hurry you'll try to get in front of Bobby heavily before they get to. To turn over water you may just pull it off to. Ventures out in front coming into the water but he's way out I gotta get the opportunity for Hamilton. Inside but now Bobby has forced the ball back in line at Jimmy Spencer showed why a guy on the back straight away heading into turn over three Spencer with a car like on Bobby Hamilton Rusty Wallace back in the third single file a broader Spencer rips up the banking Campbell the president pick event. Down attorney for Hamilton pokes at those low off the quarter will fall back in line single file Spencer leads lap one single file through about the first six cars are sound but we know total to move down on the inside once again Spencer goes Y bombing panel. Don't blow up alongside their dad. A little the backstretch Hamilton grabbed at the time trying to go over the point and does now the back straightaway Claritin through the dogleg Spencer shuffles in the second. Hamilton leads now Jimmy Spencer drifts up the banking here comes Rusty Wallace takes the cake there doesn't know what he'll drop back in line returns four. Ali elder asserts himself very quickly that hey I've got the car that handled himself really grabbed the lead right back in single file malpractice seventh place good door to door battle going on there and turn to match. Were Taylor aren't trying to grab a position from Rick mast and fast track from the outside group photo art will advance he's an inside line I'll turn to Rick mast trying to get back to the inside coming off the corner but nothing doing there meanwhile the good scrambled shaping up behind his two cars go side by side down the backs right away. Johnny Benson pulled off the the globally outside they'll draft position. Crossed the stripe Bobby Hamilton opening up a big lead on what is knowledge door to door race for second into the corner race is over already come and it's our number one it is Rusty Wallace finished off the second spot. He used against fine line. There on the backstretch. Expensive falls back in line dignity to the inside the Wallace threw the dogleg can't make the move there meanwhile Bobby Hamilton begins to wind it up and open it up give him five Carling city braces for the brits and an attorney for. Holly Hamilton is a leader by some great college now Rusty Wallace tried second Jimmy Spencer's third fourth as Bubba the body stiff right now is Denise later dale earnhardt's up to six Rick mast his seventh and that's what the scrambles going on for the team right now return to. Asses trying to get that spot back from our audit Johnny Benson knock on the door as well just behind them side by side racing that's Dale Jarrett and Jeff Gordon. Jeff Gordon on the inside Dale Jarrett on the outside through the dogleg it'll clean and then out to single filed terrible get the position Jeff Gordon forced back headlines now adjourned drifts up the banking. Important tries to get a piece of the third or things not going terribly well in the opening laps for mark Martin's start the race in fourteenth position he's just lost a couple of more spots. Mark now all the way back to the 21 position as he heads towards turn one. Melissa more spots to learning German customers outside Jeremy Mayfield fortunately inside it. They're making a big wide racing but for now mark will hold both challengers off they'll have to settle back in line meanwhile upfront nobody challenging Bobby Hamilton be up about ten Darlington scrambles got to be for Florida. Plus nobody feels like he. A third floor. Club with a lot of trying to keep the race card down toward the inside the track wasn't able to do it but by the same token kiddies writer couldn't get underneath him let's call let's travel over to turn to the. Bordal straighter follows a tire tracks of funnel money just behind him on his bumper to stay alert parties look at the white line as well for now they all run nose to tail we. Weight battle for fourth single file down the back straightaway bottle body Beverly is off the throttle drops it down to the inside of the racetrack. And trader glued downloads well above all wild return for a single file it nobody schrader and Earnhardt now coming to the strive to complete the seventh lap of the race still single file behind them here's Johnny Benson but it is keeping get a spot away from Rick mast try to get the seventh position as they Grayson at critical wanna get the inside line and what Rick mast got a better one into the corner he'll hold then took off for now but just behind him that's very Jarrett and Gordon. We continue to race right behind Johnny Benson is Dale Jarrett now beginning to climb up on his back bumper. Here's Vincent go to the high side he can't get the job done a drop back and lined a single file and defend the position off for. It's a racetrack where you really need to have a car that we'll hug the bottom of the speedway because if it rips out coming off the corner somebody you'll get a run on him nine times out of ten you'll lose a spot than looking a little further back in the field of about 42 position. For Ernie Irvin had just a moment ago Joseph lawless and furious racing going on from Ernie Irvin on back. That's where mark Martin's that we talked about his problems still losing positions not to lose one now but Jeremy Mayfield and mayfield moves to the inside through the dogleg Mark Martin takes a pileup this money won't lose the position he drops a lot of credit Jeremy Mayfield lose it down on the bottom defenses box rips up the banking no room for. For mayfield will make the move now trying to outperform. Change for the fourth position can trader used it outside move around body the body off turn two in the last lap to take that spot Earnhardt follows around the body heat takes the F bodies back to sixth. Now they're door to door for seventh on the backstretch Stevenson on the inside on the outside scrambling to hold out of the position as Rick basket Benson gets a good run down the back shoot get a quarter down the bottom of the racetrack guilt doesn't often turn more Dale Jarrett very much involved that's gravel also I've been watching dale first 45 laps he's cutting himself about a half car length of slack making sure he doesn't wealthy and anybody can detect up in the quarter. Want to come out of here with some kind of finish and still have a chance to win the championship followed Jeff Gordon working on him pretty good. As they were off turn two and hit up to three Jeff Gordon taken because he got a good run off the second quarter here's Jarrett he'll try NASA on the outside but he sees court a look at the insides are just that quickly drops back applied. Jeff Gordon glued to the bottom geragos well can't. Like the open floor that's when you back through the front part of the field which you know how things are shaken out on the break Bobby Hamilton's leader rusty Wallace's second Jimmy Spencer third. Can traders fourth Dale Earnhardt his fifth body the body is six Johnny Benson's seventh great masters eight. Night position is where Dale Jarrett runs Jeff Gordon is tenth. Eleven belongs to. Getting your wind Derek Kobe's twelve weeks beat thirteenth Jeff Vogt arrived fourteenth in Brett bovine fifteenth. Joni to check his sixteenth Steve Grissom seventy Darrell Waltrip eighteenth Dick Trickle nineteenth. And Robert Presley rounds out the top twenty the race is going to be from Rick mast on back right now that's up from eight to about twelve spot they're headed for turn. One mess leads a range of about five cars cleared Dale Jarrett first one knocking on his Stewart Jeff Gordon in the lineup they are also hitting her went. Amassed mostly hearing about here is Jared step and out of mind knows the inside of mass down the back straightaway and that's tries to put on the block down to shoot it can't get it done it before so the top of the banking here comes Dale Jarrett. But mass this fast on the top of the banking. He'll grapple for the spot up three and four. Dale can keep that card out of the inside groove and get a run again going alternative to that's where you can make the past but for the moment Rick mast to shut him down and puts him back in line they're getting a return to. Or equity position once again here's Sharon trying to squeeze delegates not a Rick mast off turn two. Faster stronger and once again all that long last it's good runoff the second quarter Jarrett also so we'll take a peek there is a go through the dog leg but as they straighten out down the short straightaway had to get deterred with Brady can't get it done again mass. Drifts up the banking but only apple and now here comes terror to the inside parrot tries to pitch his guard down off dirt poor people to pander alongside tried to believe in them as they run down to the end of the front stretch side by side racing and return of one with Jeff Gordon sitting right behind Dwyane growing up Oakland up. Carried out gives you advantage off turn two. You'll finally NEA musician Eric Massa wants it back Billy hangs it up to the outside of the dogleg but can't hold up the position give Jarrett paper recommends falls back tonight but now. Now here comes Jeff Gordon. He's on the attack massed on the high side forthcoming inside Jeff. Gordon trying to move up one spot keep Dale Jarrett inside as they work off the corner he'll have to settle back in single file fifteen laps are complete in the Dura lube 500. A pretty intense moment for the drivers racing for fourth position Ken Schrader got tapped by Dale Earnhardt coming off turn four elaborate golf. A little bit wiggly Earnhardt got in front of them for the spot then got back up behind Earnhardt wrapped tin of the back bumper and he got wiggle up off of four but our heart managed to hang out of the position little exchange of I love you stare. In the early going of the sterling 500 will Mark Martin right now has been no follow Mike. Still onto the field aren't. Yeah he's been dug going backwards let's get a report Jim Phillips and as did Jim. Nobody can tell you that they didn't say it was tying to visit is very tight it's terrible they've made some changes morning they have not helped that we. Heard yesterday that truck driver whose truck race say it's so important at that. Car or truck here at Phoenix turned in the middle of the corner ball mark startled not turning the thing reported today. The one of his group members walked over to raise it give it could be a long day for us. Stuff a lot of just what to do this. Kind of racetrack normally except for Bobby Hamilton right now lot of guys going to be chasing a very shortly. Market's fallen right out of the 24 position from fourteenth starting spot he's been hang in the air steadily in 24 over the last several laps so maybe he can just got to run in mind their get a caution flag and make a pit stop in a little bit. For Bobby Hamilton. All going his way in the early laps he is up to now for second even though lead. Over Jimmy Spencer trouble in turf war Robert Presley spins out of traffic heads up towards the outside wall does not get into it. Cubs just shot at a concrete everybody will miss him to the low side. We will see the caution flag for the first time. In the Dura lube 500 at lap 23 Robert running just in front of Mark Martin and that heavy out packet traffic there from about twentieth on back. Look like the car just came out from under him and went around and turn four and it puts us on the yellow flag for the very first time. Pit stops under the caution flag at lap number 25 Mark Martin Michael Waltrip and Bill Elliott Terry the body among others in let's go to Winston Kelley. I'm Michael wanted the cars in the middle section of notoriety comes down their cars been running pretty solid just in front of him war part comes in Sterling Marlin mine stay. John Andretti were expecting to see Rick mast in his talk just a little bit tired but he hasn't might have been stopped here comes Michael Waltrip Matt he's the worst I don't know why not do well. The hard part is then there but you're just you're just a little right side or JB Phillips I'm tired already on his car. Nomar got to go big jazz take just a little bit irrelevant on the line item aren't just out and he has a way Mike bag. Steve Clark has been an also material Bonnie Bill Elliott Jeff Burton or Ricky craven. Morgan Shepherd also Chad little. Jeff Green Dave Marcus and Ricky run up Albany and routine service more Goodyear Eagles and two cans of 76 racing gasoline and shows on pit stops for some of those toward the back of the field who's handling was not quite up to their liking in the early going under the caution flag at lap 24. On lap away from going back green flag racing take a moment say hello to the man responsible for the durable portion of the durable 500 today he's the Chief Executive Officer of the tour of the corporation mr. Saudi Howard sunny thanks for coming by congratulations on a great event will write you own a pleasant read here this is. Really old us. 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Hour thank you for your all your support of NASCAR racing in this event at particular congratulations on a great day will be back in love thank you for it. If you study our Chief Executive Officer of durable but we're back racing grapevine just gone back out of Bobby Nolan takes them over to turn to Campbell tells the light jet expenses and am looking for a piece of the top spot he. Spencer Trent for the point coming through the dog leg gets the inside of Hamilton Hamilton is going to be forced a pile entered ever afraid Spencer grabs a played Hamilton shuffles the second here's Rusty Wallace taking a pick for second can't get it done. I'm single file off turn four. We've we've seen this movie before like on the initial start of the race that your lead for a lap troubles off turn four for jet boat ride gets Whitley let's go back up front Hamilton try to get the lead back away from Spencer Hamilton trying to get the outside line that's always been forgotten financial handled the Tennessee and it works and does not. Don't fall back in line behind Jimmy Spencer on the backstretch Spencer right in the Campbell down the short piece of real estate that leads an intern number three hold him off plus one Carling here's Hamilton driving deep into the quarter looks at the bottom of the racetrack potential is there what's on the block single wild nose to tail off turn four. They want Jimmy Spencer got a race car that will work wherever he wanted to bomber tough he is a hard man to get around they can make that race car awfully wide. Bobby Hamilton doesn't give up goes after me get over in turn to. Hamilton again tried to squeeze from the inside this time it's a little better sent off for an effort to not easy to put Jimmy Spencer as they race to race side by side through the dogleg down on the short strip away in this time Hamilton plows and a turnover three grabs the lead deep drifts up the banking but only a half away and Spencer can't take advantage of dirt floor so Bobby Hamilton will come back away with a lead again after Jimmy Spencer let a couple of laps Robert Presley got into the wall again off turf for this last time by. Because he's got a flat right front tire he's got to the inside of the track now on one of idiots on the racetrack it's all the other cars nose breathing on the outside. Miles above what. More off the rear Robert freshly scarred but everybody plainly massive example to backstretch meanwhile the leaders scrambled out the back straightaway and it's Dale Earnhardt now looking for the second position. Off the banking goes Jimmy Spencer are hard to get inside their sideline sign up for. They want our hearts are hungry race driver himself and longtime city minute Victory Lane he's gonna pull the stops out here this afternoon getting very aggressive he grabbed second place away from Jimmy Spitzer in turn one. That's a fact in mind Spitzer also blurted out can't try to ride along in fort. Rusty Wallace maybe the man on the movie starts making her way to get time for the insider trader battle for fourth there as they scrambled out the back shoot heading into turn over three everybody stays in line single file dropping down on the inside trader. Taking a peek on. Censored there for third now but dropped back at lineup the fourth quarter single file straighter falls again the fourth spot right behind him Rusty Wallace and fifth now body the body in six beginning to feel a little heat into the corner Dale Jarrett there trying to get five try to squeeze the inside coming into the turn and put a lot of money slammed the door off turn two again Jeremy looked absolutely get behind the but again just reported in the effort to the body puts on the block now Jericho goes to the outside the body drifts up high to Jarrett dives down low the body is there can't get find out Jarrett looks at the top of the banking. He's got to guard his backside Johnny Benson is right there off turn four and. And hard to get around and outside lets you get an awfully good running the coming off turn of the foregoing alternative to it doesn't work this time for Dale Jarrett meanwhile. Dollar Presley has brought his car on pit road let's get an update on the damage their life. Dennis to the right front part of the greatest change that time that also pulled the sheet metal out. Now they're going around the left side Robert has lost two laps and now and is leaving the pit lane. You be a total of three doubt maybe fourth by the time he gets back completely up to speed caution waiting for the second time in the durable 500 there's a car in the wall in the middle of turns three and four Ricky craven took the two aren't coming into the corner slid to the outside Wallace landed a concrete some pretty hard damage to the reports out of his machine to right rear portion is crumpled and on the tire the right front is also damaged. Ricky craven is moving around inside of his car right now everybody else is clearly getting by on the inside but a lot of damage to Ricky craven Chevrolet. Caution is on the speedway and be the second one of the afternoon it came out of left number forty and now we're seeing a lot of activity down on the pit wall and likely will see the cars that did not stop and probably a few of those that did stop earlier coming into the pits here in a moment let's get an update on one of those who stopped we documented mark Martin's troubles the second place driver in the championship who'd fallen from fourteenth starting spot back to 24 before the first caution at lap 24 Jim Phillips what's the report for march since we've gotten back degree for several laps. That the car is better than it was valid limited track bar adjustment. The cattle level it out a little bit more so the par returned better they put a little bit more staggering result you barks proves that it is better but they wanna like another just put all this stuff. He comes to feel that the opening of pit road now the green flag waving from the official they are indicating pit road is open and here come the leaders Bobby Hamilton Dale Earnhardt Jimmy Spencer Rusty Wallace. Jared shrink your body the body dance in court match day everybody. Coming in now. All of those who did not stop on the first caution flag coming in looks like Jeff Burton's gonna stay on the racetrack he'll take over the race lead meantime let's cover some of the stops in the race leaders port pitted all the way down inside turns one into the pit road near Phoenix Qaeda hooking around all the way down to that part of the racetrack. The leader just riding they're now in front of Jim Phillips Max. Around the word god you have to make it turned up dead relaxing got to tell me. Drivers that nobody else they are does that bother you have a good bit Rusty Wallace then what's it gonna get a chance to just let me just a little bit wouldn't talk. And Bobby nobody there. Mark Martin did Jeff ward today and ordinary you know they don't care and all these aren't getting worn tired and definitely not what could come. Tires for Johnny Benson is well now. Fine Art Carney are. Rick Massey is on pit road journeyman tech was there along with Jeff Levine Jon and Freddie Mac on pit road Mike's daily. They started getting more tires and gasoline but the president Carmen. Iron Mike back. Like Steve Grissom has been an also Ted musgrave. Dave Marcus has been and right now Bill Elliott does and also Greg Sachs and turn the bodies finance Bill Elliott came in two tires Vernand use one of the first cars off the stand. The pit lane and the way they came off pit road it'll be Jeff Gordon beating everybody out right behind him came Johnny Benson followed by Bobby Hamilton Rusty Wallace Jimmy Spencer and Dale Jarrett those are the top five or six as they came off pit road. But Jeff Burton stays on the racetrack so Jeff Burton is going to take over the lead all of the race now at this point out the caution flag. At lap number 43. True value hardware stores and MR and radio congratulate Bobby Hamilton for being selected the true value man of the race award winner for scoring his first victory the 97 season. At the North Carolina motor speedway this past Monday. Value hardware stores present body check in the about a thousand dollars for the ward and his designated charity gets an additional thousand dollars that is the Brenner Children's Hospital. In Winston-Salem. North Carolina. Ricky craven scar being hooked up to be a wrecker upping turn for Ricky has taken the trip to the infield care center as is required by NASCAR. He leave out of contact with the outside wall and so the award continues here under the second caution of the race that way from craving got into the wall in turns three and four at lap number forty. Jeff Burton leads sterling quality second Ricky Rudd third. Fourth is Chad little fifty Steve park sixty is Jeff Green those six drivers stayed on the racetrack go to this caution Jeff Gordon the first of those who stopped under the yellow. He is seventh in line at the moment one lap away from the restart the dour look 500 let us check out some of these varying pit strategies and so a lot of long pit road on this set of stops including some who had. Some difficulties getting in and out of the pitched Jim Phillips. When Larry Reynolds the crew chief for Dale Earnhardt is somebody who knows down here. Larry you hit it right pit stop for the good guys back we'll all look like had thoughts about coming back at what happened on the pit stop. Well you know there's no. They know they're wrote about did Iraq retired painting gardening yet arrived in time we had few cars coming down that road winning even tied going out. And run all over Iraq career and tell outs knocked down route now on the left rough vendors I don't know we got a lot to overcome. Let's average. Dale Earnhardt running second before that caution. Then you can be off any here at Phoenix this is such a delicate racetrack to hit the setup on anyway we'll watch her heart progress and see if they can cure the problems on and as the day goes on pace are about to get him behind the pit wall would go back to green flag conditions. As they lead him down the line Jeff Burton having stayed on the racetrack as a leader sterling bottom lines up right behind him long Ricky Rudd and shed little new top fours they raced over to turn to. Burden comes off our little one calendars turn effort to try to get final lap car modern dress play you'll hear him on the backstretch here. Here comes Sterling Marlin Ricky Rudd finally outside playing an articulate to the inside a marlin as they race up the second quarter but Robert Presley slap Karl on the inside of the racetrack shut down the inside lane closed off that battle. Here comes burden off turn four he leads down the straightaway Jeff Gordon seven to line the first oppose it stopped Bobby Hamilton the dominant driver thus far ninth in light of the restart he's going after spot as the field heads returned one apple bottom makes it an eight ticket down on the inside of the Jeff Green car just behind him Rusty Wallace. Jimmy Spencer as well all trying to work their way back up to the front of the field each packet traffic stacking up behind Bobby Hamilton coming through the dogleg down the back straightaway Rusty Wallace now side by side with Johnny Benson is a race featured over three. Benson takes the high lane Wallace on the low side still side by side in turn four. Rusty hug the bottom of the racetrack kind of keeping him out there they stack of three people off turn before this time making a sandwich out of Jeff Green Jimmy Spencer's at that packet traffic if they get down to hard racing down internal wall. One side my side back of the field doesn't look like Robert Presley change one event. As it gets down on the inside it gets back around the price later in Sterling Marlin down to the inside he'll go side by side for the lead now curtain goes up to the top of the banking Marleau on the low side he'll get the spot here comes Rick you are first second and turn four so Sterling Marlin goes back out in front to the leader goes out in front to the lead I should say for the first time Ricky Wright takes second away from Jeff Burton farther back for about fifty years Bobby Hamilton on the move he's got Gordon. Traffic behind Bruce Gordon is out there all alone the body's able to make a move to the inside game is fun. Now don't tell after Steve Martin the backstretch look at the inside a park music it's a good run off the second quarter can't get down the inside through the dog leg you'll tread on the short strip away the park gets stronger. Now Steve parked car trips up the banking here comes Hamilton. Out of the bottom of the racetrack and transport. Holly Hamilton taken all the time in the world and every time he gets an opening he's gonna take advantage of his race car is just that good and all the sudden steep parts. Shoot right back in front of the shuts it down again. I'm up nose to tail from market gone back Hamilton Jeff Gordon and Rusty Wallace all try to make hay. Now the right for second us unedited 33 Burton dives in the inside a run side by side through the dogleg given to Burton run balls in the third now he'll feel the pressure from Chad little Ricky what's machine drifts up the banking here comes little. I'm off turn four Chad little and his body act down thirty Ricky Rudd sport behind them double wide Bobby Hamilton inside and Steve park outside third position on back now headed to the corner always here all afternoon the inside lane is the best one coming to church won an inventory check little Lance he's working on Ricky Rudd. Just behind him bombing Hamilton aired on and all the doors not gonna double live from third on back through the dogleg they're two by two here's a little on the inside for third. Lot of the high side of sports winds up to the top of the banking little body ached as CN. It's at least off the fourth quarter. Jet have a good run here this afternoon by staying on that racetrack he's at the front of the field with the cars hooked up pretty good but all of a sudden there's Bobby Hamilton we'll find out just how good he and Ricky Rudd both cars Bobby Hamilton goes after those two cars and dirt in the. Trying to get the fourth spot for Ricky not guilty plea then my ass off turn two now Bonnie goes after Jeff overburdened and on the third spot through the dogleg down the short straightaway heading into turn over three Hamilton finally completely clears brother goes to the single file. Chad little ahead of Campbell to fight you Carly. It's a great return for bring you back through the front of the field Sterling Marlin Jeff Burton the top to fly Carly took racetrack to champion Bobby cam. Hamilton in third and fourth spots in their door to door for fifth as they head off at turn one we go to out of the infield care center Mike badly. If you raven first of all are you okay. What happens. I've just got run over. Mike Skinner drove an accord too hard not. I know wasn't intentional but. It's unfortunate you know literally in race. But you know why I say the qualified veteran I need to do a better job one now. Sydney as a professional and Hendrick Motorsports car. So. I'm one myself. That's Ricky craven we're right now working on getting the Budweiser Chevrolet back I'm on the racetrack and Ricky just a little bit. Down and out right now Allen but he'll bounce back but he had a really tough weekend here at Phoenix. Working now off of turn number four we. Probably turn hard Alan Carter Jimmy Spencer get together. Earnhardt's fans once twice three times specialist critic of the inside of the racetrack are scrambling to the end so I took me outside amazing late. Nobody collects the ball everybody continues on off turn four back. Caution for the third time. In the race after a wild scramble drivers racing for about those seventh and eighth spots are still on back there Brett Armstrong a lot of traffic coming out of those cars got side. Race when they get so stacked up down here it's just so easy for people to get into each other it was under acceleration as they came through the apex of the corner and nailed the gas for the runoff at turn four area Jimmy Spencer and Dale Earnhardt tapped each other they both got sideways and spot I think the amazing thing Allan is just. How everybody was able to clear that accident there were two cars spinning both doing 360 cookies one on the inside and Wally outside. Federer but you just scrambled in funneled through it no contact no one in the wall. No cookies got crumbled there in turn upper forward to the yellow flag for the third time in the race. And the leader at the moment is Sterling Marlin only eight drivers choosing to pit under this caution flag let's recap the stops first to Jim Phillips we. They are artists Menendez is still ahead as a matter of fact there were working mainly on that left front fender I'll that was damaged for the tired and the Bobby nobody pit pillar earlier pit stop they worked on it they changed four tires. Brought it funny it was Jimmy Spencer he got forty Goodyear Eagles 76 re cheap fuel these back on the racetrack was to Kelly. John Andretti with a couple rounds away right side tires Kenny Wallace saw him run as well. Further down the sale of Bonnie it was on pit road Jeff graves and Greg Sachs now Robert Presley takes the opportunity he's gonna come down pit road as well all routine stops. When the caution at lap 58 from Phoenix international raceway this is MR and radio. Whatever you drive wherever you go Hercules tires gets in there whether you're running on there. Hard dependable high quality tires of a perfect fit for your knee. Strong match value selection in warranty with the industry leading road hazard protection there's only one choice. Hercules buyers to learn more visit Hercules tired dot. Or call 806779535. Hercules tires right on our strength. About a lap away from going back racing here at Phoenix this sterling 500 presented by the folks at Kmart who had done quite a healthy presence throughout the racetrack this morning tonight's programs for kids. Going on here this morning warrant click the chief operating officer of Kmart this year when this he had dealt with the Kmart race against drugs tell us about that this morning. Yes it's a great program that we have been doing how's our second year we have about fifteen caravans on the road will visit all over favre's former locations. The purpose of this two help educate young choose children young million adults. Against drug use and drug abuse. And it's been a terrific effort for us and we won't ever championships in Orlando in February. We looked to have several hundred young children there who raised over eleven million dollars that we spend in the communities. Helping local communities educate and fight against drug use. You fire a race fan and I could tell because Jeremy Mayfield in that Kmart RC cola Ford was very close to that's been there a minute ago you just about went through the window try to keep an out call on him. Well we do our great fans we love our sponsorship of our cardinals 37 car with RC cola. And Jeremy has moved up very nicely this year he's got a chance to to get a chance to go to to the Waldorf Astoria and be in the top Sandy's got we've got to work for a ten to. It's an important race for us and he's working. Very well today as a super. Mr. flick thanks for kmart's involved in the sport thanks for coming by. Terrific to be with you again thank you wanna play chief operating officer of Kmart stores here where the city Phoenix today the sterling 500 presented by the folks at Kmart. He's try to keep an eye Jeremy Mayfield now who lives after dodging that little spin off turn four there's in the twelfth position at the moment. It doesn't take long to watch it differs CEOs becoming a that are involved in racing to find out if they really hooked on this business because he was just jumping up and every. He thought he was gonna lose Colorado blame you for that but you could tell he's a race fan. They star about to get a behind the pit wall will go back to racing. And Sterling Marlin is a leader Jeff Burton sits right behind him followed by Bobby Hamilton who's been moving slowly up then Chad little and then Jeff Gordon. Only one car a lap down or so hasn't worked their way back turn one and two. Joseph Moran one cars Robert Presley you know can't find mine is starting quality gets fired Jeff Burton on the banking in the turns knew he. You might ask Robert Presley as they have the right right now Bobby Hamilton has to deal of Presley through the dogleg you'll swing to the outside Grassley also goes a little bit higher the banking there's still yes the drop second line Hamilton does yours up the banking and turn over three. Beginning Hamilton tries to get finally gets cut off the Presley drops for the bottom. Presley try to get around Jeff Burton and see if he can get another what is lapsed back Presley right now two out of the race leader they had returned one girl. All of meanwhile gets about five Arlington National League he has been all over the second. Place car. Love Jeff Burton and how does Bobby Hamilton. Admittedly it's not a part for second side by side for the runner up spot as they scramble through the dogleg give it to Bali health analyses do it's the inside at Jeff Burton through that part of the racetrack Burton looks at the top of the banking. Can't get it done now he feels the heat and a little hysterical. Off turn four. Had little had a good strong run as we've won an animal ago he's kind of right up there in the top five but because that is on the move and no great surprise of course is Bobby Hamilton immediately after the leaving just a moment is over and turn to. That ran the race leader final lap car Robert west have been trying to dual led and initiated in the back stretch you'll pull. Follow Presley and turn three Robert Presley is strong down the back straightaway heading into the third quarter so we holds a lot of the second position back on the racetrack here comes Hamilton in second look at the end try to freshly. Freshly does. Hamilton tries to force the issue up more you'll have to fall in line behind Pressly was gonna go after the race leader Sterling Marlin Robert Presley try to get another one of his lapse back into turn one Robert Ramsey and finally the racetrack lineup alongside sterling qualities got the good. Bob Turner pretty soon. Bombing Hamilton thinks that make it three wide for a moment. Robert Presley side by side with a race leader Sterling Marlin down the back straightaway second place Hamilton looming in the third I should say third back on the racetrack. Now here comes Elton for the lead. Wraps up the thanking our side by side offer more erased. Order nor off turner before and out of line Bobby Hamilton my nose at the start finish line Robert Presley did get around he is on the Palin of being two laps down that scramble for the lead is back to turn to. Work their way out of turn or two and up the back straightaway right now Bobby Hamilton has that little moment Sterling Marlin drifts back a little bit Jeff Burton has fallen back to third zero returned. They're single file now the battle stacks up for them side by side off turn four Rusty Wallace inside of Jeff Gordon his body to body slows and hedge your pit road to smoke trailing from behind his machine now unscheduled stop for the body field and won the outlook. Look mineralization is Rusty Wallace nobody gets out of Jeff Gordon Gordon goes wide and and it's Wallace the backstretch Alexander Gordon as they race an of the dogleg Wallace dropped back by half a car like back to side by side now Wallace drives Steve had a turnover rate Gordon hung out of the tops out of the banking. They're still sidelined slated for. Give a lot of credit to Jeff Gordon or even though he's locked up in his battle for the championship he's racing just as hard as they can't taking chances like everybody else out there he wants to win I was following a return to. Side by side again they come back into the turn Jeff Gordon won as best a standout on the banking and also higher he knows that better rustic look. Sighed again and her dad even at this time Gordon pulls out just by a nose as they hit through the dogleg and into the quarter again Wallace with the inside lane pulls out of those is well. Another factor side by side at least prevalent in the rip it off turn four. Rusty Wallace really working hard down the bottom side of the racetrack can't quite clear Jeff Gordon here's Jeff rallied back to the outside into one once again stacked up double watch this inner circle want. The inside lane as Rusty Wallace gets a little bit of a sport come off the water. Better sense win again here comes the hard charger back dead even as they raced through the dog leg here's Wallace getting the advantage through that part of the track down the short straightaway to turn over three advantage Wallace's deterrent brave hill where Gordon Gordon dropped back. I think I'll four. Allen is just give you an even more respect for Jeff Gordon and his team racing rusty Wallace's Cardiff CF right now rusty is the kind of guys not gonna give you any thank you very easily those two to tango and spend each other around. But still. Jeff racing just. As hard as you can forget Jeff also has a lot of confidence in Rusty Wallace and kind of shows you how much respect he has for Rushdie's abilities to race that hard that race cleanly because he wasn't afraid to be up on the outside a rusty and running for position like dad knowing. That something really drastic was gonna have to happen for rusty to make a mistake. That might cause both he and Jeff a lot of ground to get an update on body nobody's troubles he is back on the racetrack he's lost one lap. After that unscheduled stop a few moments ago let's see if we get the word out what was wrong with the interstate car. Well I was arrive they're tired around the outside there's some orange paint which tells me that he had Ricky Rudd had an altercation on the right track. So the right there was doubt that every man they jays are right side tires at city backed by the racetrack and the problem Dale Earnhardt had to send them all the way back to 32 position that's where he's running right now remain under green and need to remove 500 at Phoenix despite a couple of really good chances for us not to be at either end of the racetrack gel more than turns one until Mark Martin had his chance for all the couple laps ago may have been a. Movement today Mark Martin came off turn two was racing with Ricky Rudd and hot stretch that he made contact with Roddick that shot and outsourcing outside ball but it make contact with strict gun that shot it back to the inside wall that he didn't just sit back and forth doing three looked like he does have a of looking around within a miraculous job to save the car and articles about two spots in the. Process and while all that was going on we had a spin up and turn before in front of Fred Armstrong. Kenny Wallace plus fraction down at this into the racetrack party if you look at the tire tracks they started a little groups of those fans who attend the start of the outside through this time Kenny Wallace was download. It's beginning to get breezy down their lost traction spun around did not contact the outside wall. Fired it up and continued on. And stayed on the lead lap though he's fallen back to fortieth position. Bobby Hamilton the leader has gotten back around Robert Presley sit out Presley once you get a full relapse Donna there's a car slowing on the eight sort of turned. For John Andretti all the way down below below the yellow line Alan everybody able to get my cleanly but Andretti is rolling very very slowly about twenty miles an hour he should be able to make it down that road. Tough break for Andretti who joined Ricky craven is the only other driver in the garage at this point we'll see if we can follow up we get word on what is wrong with me and Freddie scar at a moment in the early going it is Bobby Hamilton who has been the dominant driver of the durable 500 at Phoenix motor racing network on hand to bring you the second the last event of the NASCAR Winston cup series season life. Alan district here with Barney hall Joseph Warren Brett Armstrong in the quarters today Jim Phillips went to Kelly and Mike Bagley the pit garage areas off the drop of the green flag Campbell did an outside front row starter Jimmy Spencer spark for a couple of laps trading the lead. Fort Hamilton moved away. Built up a pretty healthy advantage that he gave up for a pit stop under the caution flag at lap number 42. Several drivers made a stop under the first caution flag of the race early reflect 24. And stayed on the racetrack the second caution that gave the lead at that point to Jeff Burton and Sterling Marlin interred. Before Hamilton worked his way back up from ninth on the restart from that second caution to eventually take over the lead at lap 65. We are now I have my 81 we have had three caution flags in the event. Robert Presley squad at its turn for Atlanta 24 didn't hit anything continue to weigh in at lap forty Ricky craven crashed in turn four he is okay but appears to be done for the race. The minute lap 56 Dale Earnhardt Jimmy Spencer bumped racing for position in turn four. Both drivers able to continue wind without any significant damage. This neck race updates sponsored by sports page Dale Earnhardt fan club members clubby the official Earnhardt fan club has agreed offer available featuring the GM Goodrich service plus die cast cars for the perfect gift for holiday giving glory keepsake to die hard collector. Don't miss this opportunity from action performance golf club V8 88833. Club eat. That's 80883355823. For more information 83 laps are completed the nearly 500 which no to John Andretti was on pit road he is still there with a good up on the Carlos if we get an update. Not Smart funny and it's an event like automated battery problem the batteries located inside the left reverend overwhelmed by the town. Right leg lifts. Don't like it's Minnesota it's done now to write down kind of crazy talking to John I think most noise still doesn't sound like it's on all right selling. John goes back on the racetrack at lap number 84 he'll lose at least a couple in the kids or more ago but for the moment probably have oldest man leading the field around here at Phoenix this afternoon with a big helping lead right now on Rusty Wallace let's take the deal that brought it back through you for you now lets you know we're all the drivers aren't it is Hamilton leading by three point one seconds over Rusty Wallace Dale Jarrett has just taken third position away from Sterling Marlin. Job Marlon his fourth Jeff Gordon his stance sixties Jeff Burton Ernie you're gonna seventh Jeremy Mayfield up from 22 starting spot to eighth position. Get get trader running I didn't jab little laying on the tenth spot. Eleven the steep Mark Richt masters twelve Kenny Irwin thirteenth Johnny gets a fourteen to Bill Elliott 5060. Days Jeff Paul Ryan Derek told the seventeenth. Dick Trickle eighteenth Ted musgrave nineteenth and Dale Earnhardt is back up to twentieth. After falling as low as thirty seconds after some problems a bit earlier. 41 is Michael Waltrip Jimmy Spencer's 42 Mark Martin 23 Johnny B checkpoint forth and carry the body 25. Darrell Waltrip whose 26 27 this Kyle Petty 48 touch strictly Ward Burton 29 and Ricky Rudd thirtieth. 31 is Jeff Green Greg Sachs is 32 Mike Skinner 33 great speed 34. And Steve Grissom runs 35 David previous 36 grapple like 37 Dave Marcus 38 and Kenny Wallace is the last driver on the lead lap and 39 squad. One lap down his body the body in the fortieth Robert Presley is three laps out of 41 John Andretti is now six laps down and forty seconds. Ricky craven is out of the advantage in their 43 position that's the full field rundown now as we come up on the 13 point of today's story Luke 501 of the best races on the speedway Obie for seventh position Ernie Irvin has it for the moment a couple of cars really going after down there Jeremy Mayfield and Ken trader will return to. Made field right department for about five laps servant finally got by I am not trader go to work on Jeremy Mayfield he'll get him through the dogleg clears his card drops back in line here's trader with these green Chevrolet down the bottom of the racetrack. Mayfield takes a peek to the inside returns reimport it trader is there he's got possession of the fourth quarter that would be the eight spot the trader picks up farther ahead here's the challenge reports Jeff Gordon is after Sterling Marlin team like every job that governor Blagojevich reportedly outside playing this time he's got the inside lane. Challenges journal one of their side by side edited the read more the inside lane after an effort to sterling swings out why through the dogleg Gordon looking for the inside lane to open up on the entrance of turn three it's a squeeze but it does it go side by side with Marlon under the branches off turn four. Jeff Gordon takes it down in the bottom of the racetrack we watched him all season long he's got a race car than almost any speedway we go to he has one of the few cars that most consistently can keep but at the bottom of the racetrack it is thus gave it a lot of spots won a lot of races. TM times he's been to Victory Lane this year he's off turn over to Sterling Marlin on the other hand try to close out the season has been up and down year for the Kodak team. He'll be leaving after the race at Atlanta they are still door to door in turn three. Ortiz drew a Garland got a good run through the dogleg with Gordon is very good on the hundreds of turnover free here's Marlon grappling on the outside trying to for the position upturn for Gordon Poconos front all at the start finish line but Marlon gonna try to hang tough on the outside keep pace reason for the fourth position back in return for one this time Gordon finally squeezed his mind and pull something what a start up Marlins in the backstretch single file here's Gordon down the back straightaway Sterling Marlin maybe can take a shot at it through the dogleg where was strong allowed but nobody can't get it done. Jordan lose it down to the bottom of the racetrack now Sterling Marlin feels a challenge from behind. Burton is very takes an inside off. Four term protection grooves they come out of the corner will hold off Jeff Byrd for the moment just gonna take a run lead in the front straightaway talked to fender underneath given that CP stands in the throttle as they get to turn one. Wanna erase a road penalty and finally just muscle up alongside star of violent challenge for the spot but Martin McGuinness strongest winds around on the outside we'll hold burden off. Through the dogleg down the short straight away here's Burton gathering about again theater turnover free. Burton sees the inside later shut down he'll try and pilots of the top of the banking can't get it done. I'll try to get off or. This should be racing for the fifth position which Sterling Marlin will hang onto for the time being. Closing a little 13 quarter deter them 500 at Phoenix has steered by most of the drivers in the garage this morning. Bobby Hamilton has got a thoroughbred underneath him today that is going to be very very difficult to out run. Hamilton has pulled away from everybody now by just about three seconds we have seen this in the year earlier green flag run the race also Barney and Campbell did just gotta he's the class of the field without question about how the. Think they're what it's gonna be worry about right now islands of this race stays green prolong green flags us. Segment Bobby Hamilton is gonna start slapping some really good cars first one is about to get your put a lap down and just another laps around the racetrack is going to be Ricky Rudd. And some really strong cars in front of him so. This summer like cars up there wouldn't mind seeing another caution right about now but if it does stay green Bobby stays this good he's collapse have to feel your before halfway probably get the word out of the ES TP teams did as they've watched their car circulate around the Phoenix raceway Jim fill. Is there with crew chief Robbie Loomis and let me in this market it's. Always. Now you know we have. You make me take the first stop and I am gonna happen now they're out right here. Look like you know even better guys. Just don't happen out there that doesn't seem like a lot big changes are running ratings up for Bobby Hamilton but not too much. Think smooth sold Barbara Hamilton and Richard Petty team Miller. Think going absolutely perfect then we'll take another team everything's going really good for Jeremy Mayfield of the Kmart car he has come from way back for the ailing steel currently is up in seventh position. It was and Kelly is in his fifth. I'll address run when he smacked him a seven that you guys met a lot of changes today are just over the course of the late U. They'll all weekend. And rice trim. Right now pretty natural looks. Title line. Hello to all of you know. Miners are cringing on the card are talking about a million times the I'll come up with a back when the new car loosens up the ministers track normally well as the day goes on nice and they are strong. They somebody who really would like to see caution sometimes and make sure while would be the drivers who did not pit. Under the suit second caution of the race when most of the leaders pitted the first caution waved at lap 24. Lot of the guys toward the back half of the field came in and pitted then. Then under the second caution at lap forty all the leaders and some of the cars competed the first time came back again but there were a half a dozen drivers who stayed on the racetrack under that second caution flag. Jeff Burton Sterling Marlin Ricky Rudd Chad little steep market Jeff Green all stayed out now marlin. And Chad little and Burton have been able to stay among the leaders for much of this Ryan. Now Marlon beginning to fall back east looked at the eight position jab little really beginning to slide back he's fallen to eighteenth. But Jeff Burton is negative they're in seventh spot tricky is. How much longer kitty stay on the racetrack if we don't get a caution flag Mike Bagley is down the excite pit with buddy Parrott hours. Five when we have to bring Jeff he had me. Haven't laid out its acquisition we started 37 today. Have come home. It has no longer. So they don't have. Had no. On the right track name DeMarre you know automating. But they've parents started. Running up in the fifth spot now. We've seen Pierre debris on the racetrack many many times over the years 105 laps or on the scoreboard here at Phoenix this afternoon of the nearly 500. And Bobby Hamilton continues to just weaved his way through the field he's just charged Iran along without it any kind of slowing down whatsoever. Though he is beginning to catch the tail end of the field now that hold the ball a little bit he's got around Ricky Rudd and David Green put down a lap down more lap traffic just ahead in turn one as. Government Carla it's now behind Randy Levine's arm leg speed also just ahead of Bobby Hamilton starts to draw the line on those charges connected to turn to help the dog leg down the shorts related to turn over three Hamilton try to prepare himself to make the move on Brett codeine taken a look at the inside that put signs machine holds little Alonso Hamilton backs off. Betters the throttle now picks his sights as he heads off turn four. Bobby Campbell who should get around ripple finally Steve the next packet traffic QB chasing down there's about seven great cars and it Joseph more than three for those riding door to door you have a little harder time getting by there. I'm Mike Skinner of their own Steve Grissom several other racing side by side here's Bobbie dive into the inside of Brett O'Donnell the backstretch and codeine yields through the dogleg now as they hit the turn over three years sampled and getting the inside of Brett O'Donnell dusted off easily keep it glued to the bottom Hamilton clears him as he exits or four. So Brett goes a lap down at this point erase what take just got to tell you they're cute little story to read that relate to be this morning. Red is originally from upstate New York get a lot of racing obviously before he became involved in the NASCAR Busch Series and so on on all the tracks in New York State and new England and so on. Had a guy come up to him yesterday here at Phoenix of course French car running without sponsorship at this point of the year and looking for suffered idea Q well familiar with that story. Guy come up till here in Phoenix yesterday said Brett I used to live and Oswego, New York. Used to watch you race at the Oswego speedway up there you are always friendly to us talk to us say in the pit area after the races and so on said. I see you without sponsorship this weekend. I wanna produce company here in Phoenix I moved here from New York been very fortunate with what is this what you need to run the weekend. Brett gave him a figure that check in the beat cal showed up. This morning commander produced from here in Phoenix is on the side of Bratz car just this one race there's still look at for backing for next year. But Brett wanted to be to pass that story login and it is a great story he said. Just goes to show you how great race fans are this guy that talk too plus years ago all we needed some help this weekend and showed up to provided. We've seen it happen in a lot of years past but not recently good good run for Brett what I'm here today would that you sponsor of the car at least for just one we got a couple of guys on pit road right now Kenny Wallace's NN Sterling Marlin is on pit road let's come at a stop. He's one of activities Kenny Wallace mobilize more tired than its pricing and playing hard times also I got stopped at a good angle it's 21 points or more seconds. About a run and manage the starting line. Well it's not the monitor and make your car doesn't underneath. Amen. Mark Aguirre the Eagles music rising gasoline. So beginning to seasoned green flag stops among those who stayed on the racetrack when leaders pitted at lap 42 doubt Jeff green is also putting in a recent moments. Here's a challenge for the lead as we come back at Phoenix off turn four Rusty Wallace goes to be inside around Bobby Hamilton. Who nearly crashed trying to dive underneath Greg Sachs the lap before coming off turf sort of put him a lap down. Suddenly it looks like the handling on Hamilton's car is just gone away he's exiting turn two and headed down the backstretch they have. Volkswagen of the outside the racetrack talent he's been able to dig in pretty well as Steve park just blast fire haven't laps prior now he was able had. It wasn't able to get that inside roof come off the corner and running at a tournament ray Hamilton machine wants to drift up the banking a bit more now as he gets up more. Take a look at Bobby Hamilton's car to see if we can see anything that might maybe a tire going down about headless sheet metal caved in or something don't see anything wrong with a car but he is not running the pace he did a moment ago Joseph Moore but even though he's still a speedy. I don't do not just lead to falling in behind that pack of traffic went flying horse kept back led by Rusty Wallace. Who's now the race leader challenging Michael Waltrip now as bombing Hamilton down the back straightaway at this time is able to get to the gets out of the racetrack on the entrance of three. Not able to put down to the yellow line but he does dispose of Mike waltrip on the exit of war. Hamilton still running a strong second obviously it is gone from three seconds in front of Rusty Wallace novel about a second behind him. Those two drivers they'll have the distance on the front stretch. On the third place running machine at Dale Jarrett at this point. Hey somebody else that was just staring back up through this field. We documented earlier the troubles of Dale Earnhardt to contact with a tire from another car on pit road and at the spin out of the racetrack back at lap 56. Our heart falling as far back his 32 at that point. Dale is now up to the eleventh spot. And try to chase down a tenth place Jeff bovine so obviously whatever was ailing net machine was prepared by Larry that Reynolds in the crew on the a couple of pit stops they made under the caution at lap 56 after dale spun. And he is now kind of rocketing his way back up through the field. Miller nobody else does on a Mormon mission to win a race and Dale Earnhardt is as we said it's been a long time following back to Atlanta last year. Since he has been a victory lady certainly like to get one of the final two. He's trying to do it here this afternoon 120 laps to go up on the scoreboard here at Phoenix in the dear Luke 500. Bobby happily keep watching that car doesn't appear to be having any problems but it just. Has lost the lead to Rusty Wallace on a rusty is pulled all the stops out today too he's a man on a mission also. Going to be awfully tough at his car hangs in there as well as it has in the early going. Another pit stop coming up right now Jeremy Mayfield brings the Kmart machine to pit road. Enough to conceal musket salute you will be announced it will stop or he's a little off sequence as he eases his way down toward his pit let's covered Jeremy Mayfield stop. I mean I feel now want a man wearing black. Lasers are pro Bono work on the looks like a more tired change we gonna swing around. Gasoline going in great things about something chassis adjustment Thailand Christopher. You are recalling Kmart car called the flag that's okay three point nine. Not eighty laps they're on the run for Jeremy Mayfield with wheat pit stop so for some of the drivers maybe diet getting his could have fuel mileage as the others that would be. A lot of normal schedule stop there. Mayfield back on the racetrack now hoping that the race these greens through an entire cycle of pit stops for the race leaders so he doesn't get caught a couple of laps down in the or a lap down anyway. In the event of a caution flag here in the the next little while. Rusty Wallace leading Bobby Hamilton by about ten car lengths they've got a straight away on Dale Jarrett who has a second on Jeff Gordon then it's another. About four and a half seconds. Back to can't traitor the fifth place driver. Jeff Burton another few seconds behind trader in sixth so pretty straight out there among those troops seventh on back though there's a pretty good race here Kenny Irwin Bill Elliott Jeff boat ride. All of those drivers nose to tail with a couple of lap cars behind them now. That's seventh eighth and ninth positions as they head down the front stretch towards turn over what will follow that race around the speedway is. Our single file coming back to turn one moment at the end sidelined him. Again let my Kenny Irwin Miller did a two car lengths behind him as they get out of turn three Elliott. Try to cut that distance down now as he hits down the shore straight away into the third quarter here's your went on the brakes veteran off the throttle slightly held back on the gas Elliott gathered him up plant Carling. About one and a half separated as they race off form. They like Kenny Irwin has really impressed me what do you races he's been in Allen I think he has everybody down in the pits and everywhere everywhere he's raced at Richmond is very impressive. Very calm very talented race front and very confident in what you'll be able to do what these race cars as well in a lot of folks expecting big things from Kenny Irwin when he gets into the Robert. Gates Texaco machine next year. Bob Rusty Wallace rather. The race leader at this point knock it off cars put him a lap down in the last several laps he's got around Mike Skinner Joni B Jack Ward Burton Greg Sachs all of those drivers going a lap down here's Jeff Burton. Dropping off the racetrack from sixth position for his pit stop we talked with buddy parrot a little while ago. The Frenchman debris was not found him he'll come to pit road under the green on lap 126 Mike Bagley. I wonder now in the fast lane is already and one from. The last song guitarist Jack not winning for the tackle ball. Nineteen point one. Mean wow that must Raymond van. The green on the right so. Goals and two can. And more pit stops in front of Winston Kelley. If I could just pulled away in the get your ankles everything rising gas good things not. Ernie Harmon and get them out in nineteen point 75 seconds rather than what caller we rotate service not a BellSouth come. That's right. I'm on the miners. They make. Amanda. Parents are going to run again. Jarrett. Kitty. 128 Gerry did here. I would probably not what cart did so well part of his war but it. But the whole plot and the car came Devin the right side branch did as well as the cart comes arrest just at the exit of turn one on one. Caution flag hit a bad break for the drivers that just made green flag pit stops like Dale Jarrett and Bill Elliott and Kenny Irwin. A hard crash for Ward Burton brings the yellow flag out now at lap 129 let's go back to Joseph Moore. Awarded ball very hard going off into the corner in a car bounced all lay off the wall now sits about two lanes away from the wall of the middle racetrack heavy damage up to the front in the machine. This will be the fourth caution flag of the afternoon it came out at lap 129. Bad bad break care for all those drivers that may green flag pit stop here in the last short while. Jeff Burton down a lap Ernie Irvin down a lap you've got tell Kenny Irwin. And Steve park in Bill Elliott and Chad little Sterling Marlin Dale Jarrett Jeremy Mayfield all gonna beat down a lap by me. Dean pit stops under the green and then having to caution flags can't stand with. Before the leaders came in and made their stops a tough luck here for all of those drivers of course Jarrett third in the championship standings this not going to help his cause whatsoever. Pit road is open here comes the race leader Rusty Wallace along with Bobby Hamilton Jeff Gordon can trader Jeff bovine Dale Earnhardt together leaders at this point now. Go to coming to make their stops at what lap all 131. And most of those drivers Peter all the way down towards turn number one and two they had that played out Jim Phillips awaits the arrival in GM. Fortunate for them they were able to stay on the racetrack and got the break with the caution. I think that Bobby Hamilton drew had dog fell on about just coming a little bit earlier garden they're glad they did now he's in the midst right now in front of Rusty Wallace. Wallace is good throughout all the lights magic of Dale Earnhardt. Got to be too deeply enough to eleven position. Nobody got an Earnhardt right side kick your right side tires. Left side tires going on Wallace is gone like now Jimmy sped through a lot of volume like now the jets did just what the Wallace who are seventeen point five of the stop here's Mark Martin. Jeff Norton is Dan Derek told within. The Blackburn getting more tired not a western killing. Jeff but I'm gets out Justin. While it's been ranked basketball I am a lot amendment gives service as well all these cars they saw the midsection that rode my back went. Darren about his Panetta also Steve Grissom and and Kyle Petty and the in this and the pit road routine service more Goodyear Eagles and two cans of 76 racing gasoline. And the race off pit road is going to be won by Rusty Wallace. As he came out of the itself ahead of everybody else but if we get an update a return one on war burned cars that still sits at their Joseph Moore yeah award as client from the car walk around checking out the inevitable machine it was a file looking stanza came telephone straightaway at top speed before I came out of the throttle for the approach to that turned. The hardest turn right into the outside retaining wall. Headfirst into the wall and it slid along the outside retaining wall he did a good job keep it up high side of the racetrack to keep collecting other traffic penalty inside. Ward again stepped out of the car sick to be okay but he's walking over to the ambulance shortly mandatory ride the infield care center. Right now we are working caution for the fourth time of the race after Ward Burton crashed in turn number one that there are yellow coming out in the middle of a series of green flag pit stops in neck catching some. A lap down because of their visit to pit road. What's gonna happen on the restart is Rusty Wallace who was the leader at the time of the yellow and got to make you stop under the caution. How will restart seventh in line and that outside lane at those on the lead lap goal with six on the tail of the believe lapin part of him. He would basically caught when the caution flag came out. Jeremy Mayfield Dale Jarrett Bill Elliott Steve park Jeff Burton and Kenny Irwin one lap down. Then when Wallace in the other leaders peeled off the track to get their service under the caution that allowed those six drivers to pull up behind the pace car in front all of race leader rusty so they'll be on the tail end of the lead lap now. As we get the Siegel at one more lap we will go back green flag racing so it is going to be mayfield. Jarrett Elliot park Jeff Burton and Kenny Irwin on the tail into the lead lap in front all Rusty Wallace. Then behind rusty you'll have Bobby Hamilton Jeff Gordon can trader. Dale Earnhardt and Jeff bovine. And then the next five in line will be Darrell Waltrip Terry the body Jimmy Spencer Rick mast and Mark Martin those drivers all on the lead lap along with several others seriously get set to go race. In this if there is no reason furious racing for those guys are on the take a little lead lap to stay up there today's broadcast of the nearly 500 brought to you under exclusive radio rights. Read about the Phoenix international raceway and MR and radio solely for the private noncommercial use our listening audience. Any publication reproduction are the use of the descriptions and accounts of this race without the express written consent of NASCAR an MR in radio is pro. It didn't. Working now all the down the back straightaway as the fields. Tries to get warmed up for its restart Rusty Wallace the race leader is out of position for the moment now he's getting instructions where to get back in line he does sell. And we appear now to be set to go Jeremy Mayfield and Dale Jarrett. Head of the line on the tail to believe that god Dick Trickle Ernie you're gonna Jodi they checked out of the aryan side more then no one lap down or lap down anyway the pace car enhancer pit road they should be pretty interesting is we get set to seeded green flag. Organizations sparks fly here in the next eight or nine laps is Castro gets sorted out stay on the lead lap and keep ahead of the leader Rusty Wallace can't do anything right now the leader rusty just the end the end back there all the hard racing of the cars on the tail end of the lead lap and cars a lap down in front of Joseph Moore does. The cars all look like Rusty Wallace of race later they aren't good battled side by side at three wide into turn three everybody scrambling off the second quarter heading down the back straight away the leaders amongst all of the lap cars that goes all the tale little lead lap right now Jeremy Mayfield was on the point of those car. Dale Jarrett challenges call for. Jared trying to get around may feel those drivers are racing back for the sixteenth and seventeenth positions Rusty Wallace Dylan heavy traffic into the corner Wallace pulls off of the clear exactly what Strickland trying to get my hands frequently while working on Dale Earnhardt just. Some very heavy heavy traffic as they get down the backstretch Rusty Wallace continues to work on hot Strickland down the back straightaway is bombing helps it works over Wallace had to get a turnover free looks at the bottom of the racetrack company doing there. Wallace holds little groove he stays alive as a police officer for. A good time for the guys up front that are on the Palin lead lap relapse down just get door to door assailants until a man back there and keep. There for a while the that can't happen there 140 laps on the board and again Rusty Wallace he's not as they back their long Joseph Warren. Working on trying to get my feet fixes. Went through traffic meanwhile on one. Dale Jarrett trying to make them fast it's gone by Jeremy Mayfield and here's Wallace now the back straightaway now move to the outside of putts Strickland took the high line through the dog leg felt a short break away but here struck a new battle back for the Wallace as they race off for now Wallace. What does it tell you straightaway company has the leaders Dick Trickle scar really ran wide at the middle of 34 receive Macy's down the inside the whole pile of machines they cannot determine why vehicles trying to get clarity here but you got jumping Jack sitting just get behind him and Steve Martin also have business software. This presumably inside observance of side by side racing going on in front leaders as they slowly try to pick their way through traffic meanwhile appear that this looks around the outside at Dick Trickle he'll grab the position here's David checkpoint you Turkoglu turned more. Paula scars as we said trying to stay on the tail end of the lead lap just running door to door holding the ground right now meanwhile Rusty Wallace trying to ease around one time and get up there to put in my lap down. Can't do it Bobby Hamilton hangs with the Ellen Jeff Gordon the third place car they're all boxed in and turn to again. Wallace tried to squeeze down here. Jeff Burton visa card and I don't want to build upon now heavy packet traffic just ahead of that battle over the inside a burden but now he gets hit then has to go highest drivers go side by side in front of the curtain goes up for the on the outside of Robert Presley as they weren't double wide open for all these drivers fight to stay on the tail end of the lead lap hoping precaution just hope but it's not a damn what 143 of the books they had returned one Wallace faulty mine I'm Robert Presley that she gets. My life Jeff worked on the outside of along with Ted musgrave thus far so good why did try to get live right. Press play as they had to turn to Jeff Burton goes to the outside of Robert Presley Rusty Wallace tried to finally to get by he looks at the inside to the outside of the few of their he'll settle little. I'm Robert Presley now expresses what the. This little while offer for say truthfully we've watched these guys race the last 45 laps and it's surprising we haven't had some contact somebody from the car around in Europe three and four down one and two of the leaders back in turn two years rusted out on the outside and waterfront. Outside you'll want to believe it with the rest lately but still want to get behind Jeff Burton. That's ahead at three look at over Presley on the outside as they run the dogleg mitigated stirred up with creative Rusty Wallace the advantage over Robert Presley Presley swings down the inside. Why does win this thing outside as a head off the fourth quarter. Here's Dale Earnhardt taken fourth spot away from Ken trader off of turn force to put our heart open that up reports by trader connected via jet boat ride at six trying to pick his way through the lap cars Pepperdine. It's not a racetrack he's got my speed was outside. The I just want my elbow the government is Darrell Waltrip calling headlining placed source that battle out on the backstretch just put on feelings of pressure from Mike Skinner as well as it comes off the second quarter he'll settled out of that battle with lakes beat everybody they're run single file through the Turk is leaders set offered more. Jeff Gordon has just taken second spot away from Bobby Hamilton facility is now Rusty Wallace leading. But Jeff Gordon's second Bobby Hamilton third Dale Earnhardt boarding can traitor fifth and we are about eight laps away from the halfway point of the during the 500. 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That from Gatorade he official sports drink of NASCAR Rusty Wallace is that man in prime position to collect the cash. He has about a second lead on Jeff Gordon now with a couple of lapped cars between himself and Gordon. Rusty is working on the 21 place driver Jeff Burton to try putting a lap down if he can. He is into traffic now both he and Gordon as they work their way down to turn one rusty. Try everything in the world again find out over the period of the last five laps of about trying to attack a few times to get knocked down and away right number one again and I'll rustic rebounded us by. Or three. It gets hurt gets a good run off the second quarter through the dogleg down at the turn over three rescue gathers about the end of the quarter as they raced through turns three and four though foothold plot of the convention unless you just can't get five. They rusty didn't have as good a race cars Bobby Hamilton did when they put him under green earlier this afternoon but for the moment he's got the best race car out there he's the only driver is able to negotiate traffic can get through some of those lapped cars we approach the halfway point he's back over in turn to. Rusty falls in line still following Jeff Burton has hit back straight white second place Jeff Gordon and about five or six car lengths behind him. That's about three garlic is now back to holly Hamilton at third meanwhile here's rusty again try to work over Jeff Burton meanwhile Jeff Burton we're about to get frustrated when relatively soft dirt floor. Topple the cornered out of the strike completing lap 1542. Laps to the halfway point for a Rusty Wallace in command right now off the Stewart who 500 he has return one Wallace. On a season opening Saturday Jeff Barton but part realize they went to my this time coming into the water slam the door to come back family of five and again. We'll hold off the race leader when. Ford wants an up down the back shoot out down the short straightaway after the dog leg deterred retriever and opens up the land that only about a half a lane Wallace can't take advantage where their turn. For caustic closing on the halfway full 155. Left it puts on the board one more lap around he collects 101000 dollars and Gatorade the front runner awards following through traffic down and turned one last. It makes its way through traffic coming back to turn one's still wallet and car of Jeff Burton just ahead he's about to college behind him losing the backstretch. It's the throttle as they come off the dogleg now feathers back up again only if it's a turnover free this time Jeff Burton told the that they like to Karl likes Rusty Wallace races up the blitz and back. Back to collect ten she's at the start finish line. Took the stripe to add the cross flags being posted by Jimmy Powell handling flags today for NASCAR the starter stand we are halfway through these to remove 500 Rusty Wallace picking up. The 101000 dollar Gatorade front runner awards today. Let's go to the garage of Mike Bagley. Heartburn yeah I'm on the infield care center in their own personally okay yeah and I'm not place today on a Sunday us through it really don't know that and click on I got to get little baton act like a left front tire someone now would. Zone database not so I know I Alison I'm down in front stretch but well. Really not really go I just got slapped down. Odessa moaning but they were gone and planetary system wake they'll get god not any good down there are not had a good run line. That's Ward Burton the great now working on the Ambien made money act the entire front of the car has gone they've come all the sheep meadow way the radiators off the tires are exposed them. Basically the whole front of the car's exposed they have to get him back got a just few laps. It really hard shot turn one affected with the car rollback to get to the garage. Change for position about the top five Dale Earnhardt it's gotten around Bobby Hamilton had picked up the third spot kicking Hamilton back and forth let's give me the rundown now at the halfway point of the race. Rusty Wallace leads Jeff Gordon is second one of the three tenths seconds behind Wallace and Earnhardt now thirty Hamilton fourth can't traders get Felix and heat their Jeff bovine and we sixth. Got to be Spitzer about a second behind them in seventh and Darrell Waltrip ace Mark Martin a big beneficiary of a lot of those drivers who had problems in the caution flag coming out of this cycle of green flag stops its its cycle then back up to the top ten. That the fact that its cars not a whole lot better it was a report to market night Rick mast intent. Terry nobody's eleventh Derek Kobe's twelfth. Thirteen is Johnny Benson Steve Grissom his fourteenth Kyle Petty is fifteenth. And they just in front of the race leader. And Jeff Burton 21 the last car on the left with the race leader. A let down a 22 is Michael Waltrip Greg Sachs is 23 Mike Skinner 24 of body the body 25. 46 Sterling Marlin Brad all right 47 jet little 28 Dave Marcus Toney I party you're in thirtieth. 31 Dick Trickle Jody Richards 32 and Ted musgrave 33. Two laps down our hot Strickland at 34 lake speed at 35. Jeff Green 36 Kenny Wallace and 37 David Green at 38 and Ricky riding in that 39. Robert Presley is five laps down Alec fortieth spot John Andretti is ten laps down. And 41 position Ward Burton and Ricky craven are both behind the wall and in the garage area. And it'll stages of the der Luke 500 at Phoenix being dominated by Rusty Wallace at this point as himself about a one point 12 lead on Jeff Gordon Bobby Campbell did. This would put up on everybody in the first hundred laps in the event but he is now slid back to leave fourth position. Jim Phillips the car not nearly as dominant as it has been throughout the weekend and the first part of the race. Does not Allah doctor Robby live this season they might intend to judgment here that last pit stop to try to help the car. On the end of the long runs at least that is part of the car despite the car. He's getting get deterred. Bobby noticeably wider minutes given an opportunity for all these other cars together live like Gordon Earnhardt and all these other guards have gone by. They're trying to wait out. Whole thing got me. Some guys have played some good work on the last pit stop the pit stop before it was dale earnhardt's crew and I regret. I'm glad everything. They've been good good good glad to grow did you guys gave added a lot of work put all the teenagers get that Chevrolet back that you get that tired. Railing when Indian at all hey it's been. I'm pretty Bartlett and I don't think it's her and sent management like they haven't dates mind you just can't give them track position worked so why am about eight or agnostic. Not until they only come from the earlier one game on the line here so we just keep making stuff. There fresher the biggest thing was not abandon. As things stand up and see what happens. Islamic rules Gucci for Dale Earnhardt they took out hopes of winning this races after the move but like he said at this racetrack it's hard to ask you must get in position. And also on Dale Earnhardt talked about his situation Allen. As we said there's nobody any more fired up and he is out there right now and once they get back in there can keep making a few adjustments don't count him out there's nobody wants to win worsening. He does look at a couple of guys having a good run here this afternoon. Rick mast is currently up in eleventh position he's qualified well here he's been able to maintain a top ten presence most of the afternoon even though he's had to back to eleventh right now. And look to Darrell Waltrip there. DW when he comes here he just hangs in there does everything right that's really get excited doesn't push the car that hard it's always there. Great racetrack for Darryl over the years in nine starts here at feet export VW he has seven top 10s4 top five show up very strong racetrack for deli finished in the top ten in this race one year ago. And his crew chief Jeff Hammond telling me this morning the car's been very steady all weekend long not spectacularly fast but consistently fast and over a long green flag run that's what you need. Right now Darryl was running in the seventh position just ahead of Mark Martin. Who has just taken a spot to go away from Jimmy Spencer a few laps ago. On the racetrack right now it is Jeff Burton who was kind of walking that tightrope he has been just in front of race leader Rusty Wallace since we went back green flag racing. Several laps to go many laps to go now Bert try to stay on the tail end of the lead lap and see if he can somehow stay in contention for a top five finish today. He's not going to be that terribly comfortable watching rusty sport fill it up that rear view mirror lap after lap after lap please hang in there how to best hope he's got right now is that Jeff Gordon will chasing down along with dale and not talk about chased down a leader Rusty Wallace and that's gonna happen here not elaborate too because now I was only about five or six car lengths between the leader and the second and third place car and turned three. As they raced down the back straight away here's Rusty Wallace with a pat behind but no padded Friday's Rodham detailed now. On the Jeff Burton Burton talked it down the bottom of the racetrack but he has traffic ahead as well as the race off turn four. That is Ted musgrave and Kenny Irwin door to door there not racing for position musgrave another lap down or went on the Taylor to leave lab farther back Mark Martin moving up another spot. He's just got around Darrell Waltrip to take the seventh position just joining us mark started the race fourteenth. Fell back to 21 in the first five laps to the event the handling not to his liking the crew is hung within made adjustments on the car where they've had opportunities. And I'll march right back up into the front of the attack in eight of the top ten in position to try and keep the a points race with Jeff Gordon as closely as it possibly could be. Leading today's event here's Gordon with a chance polar heart after the second spot in turn one nailed. Marches to the inside the racetrack draws even with Jeff Horton as they approached slower traffic. Still side by side fighting for that spot on the backstretch Gordon on the outside her heart on the inside still dead even as they race through the dogleg with coming up. Earnhardt shoots to the bottom of the racetracks dude sounds like Gordon so he'll pick up the position Jeff Gordon tries to get back wildly inside at turn four but can't do it our hearts there. Dale Earnhardt determined to win a race before the 1997 season is over right now the only thing that separates him from doing that taken over the lead here maybe for a win. Is about five or six car makes this place on the racetrack and return to. Rusty Wallace the race later still trapped behind a trio of lap machines that are the hardest closing little rusty. Unless you've got to see that black Chevrolet getting bigger and bigger the rear view bury us to continue to deal with those three cars in front of them working on Burton a look at the inside the outside he just can't get delayed and now artists to Carling cup is back proper. Getting your when the twentieth place driver Ted musgrave whose a couple of laps down or a mile pole lap down never went on the tail of the lead lap and Jeff Burton on the tailored to the lead lap kind of hold it up Rusty Wallace for the moment jolt. Rust got to make something happen. Have a difficulty does see your heart closer to an opponent behind Jeff Burton he's tried everything we can't find it looked to the inside out they go to dream of rusty at that pretty patient up until now now is trying to force the issue final lane get it done curtain closes down the bottom of the racetrack here sir Arthur nose to tail for the laid off war. Rusty class take the high line around Jeff Burton can't get there has stepped back to the inside a mobile to go to trustee had warm up to now with a Bernhard if there's going to be too long to let's see what happens in turn to us. There's literally pushing Jeff Burton from Turkey wanted to a third party tight senate easily let out Carling bill rice later leaders scramble through the dogleg down the short straightaway added to turn over three Rusty Wallace trying to find a way to get around Jeff Burton. Here's Dale Earnhardt talked down to the bottom of the racetrack why not rusty Stan held their nose to tail off to earn more for the lead at rusty arrest would his car up off the corner try to find Girardi grew by thirty Jeff Burton who try to stay on the tail of Italy laughing at single file back to one still volatile guitar tracks of Jeff Burton that's where Rusty Wallace is it certainly appeal to the outside look for a chance to pull out. Burton comes up but rusty balls back in my Burton's work always gets a good run off that second quarter rusty just can't complete the pass suffered over to one of the best opportunities is gonna come and turns three and four worry again gathers up Burton but Burton dress up Hathaway there's just no room to make the move. You feel like Rusty Wallace tried on the outside and can't afford duty gets enough they're both Dale Earnhardt and Jeff Gordon gonna go by and if they get a clear sailing down the bottom of the speedway for the moment he's just simply hung up right where you a third term. Do want to get rusty goes to the outside the right track tried to get around the outside loved by Jeff Burton is finally pulled even but it. Plus he gets the bike down the back straightaway that you force to go side by side curtain on the inside Rusty Wallace only outside. Wallace legs to the top of the banking advantage Wallace as they race up the quarter with Burton battled back at. Phoenix Arizona made his Rusty Wallace to dominate Europe the middle stages. Of this to remove 500 Bobby Hamilton dominated the first hundred laps and it just an out of pit stop passed his car not handling as well as before. Wallace is is as good as it's been all day he's out in front now since lap 117. And we are now at lap 189. In the event twenty drivers on the same lap with the race leader Kenny Irwin is next up on the tail end of the lead lap just in front of race leader Wallace they are headed down the backstretch. Rusty Wallace taken the inside off the second quarter couldn't get it done as a one mash the gas off turn over to it now heading into turn three Wallace may have to take that high road again now here comes burden. They'll look to the top side Wallace trying to get back on the lead lap. Plus he's got his hands full a bit in front of him and behind himself right there everybody's got to work tonight's ceremonies and try to dive underneath skinnier went down and turned over to while Dale Earnhardt tries to close in every lap around our marking only get within a Carling cup events or worked off turn two season. Wages of the exotic candy or what urban again pulls even with that was Earnhardt closes that it makes it even. Monitor what grade you would get to those not a front now here comes burden to the top side of the banking he'll go side by side with Rusty Wallace Wallace tap Sherwin says the ball and apply your wallets for the inside off turn four. Hurwitz not done yet tries the run up on the outside of Wallace off the court over the car wiggles ought to value get a hold of it deviated a straight line. But he won't go a lap down to race leader Rusty Wallace at lap 191. Live coverage of the second the last race of the NASCAR Winston cup series season on MRI and radio from Phoenix Arizona ballot that stood with Barney hall Joseph Warren Brett Armstrong in the quarters Jim Phillips Winston Kelly and Mike Bagley in the pit and garage area for you today. At this point we are working AF fairly extended green flag run. A number of drivers shot that put a lap down at this point in the race we have now nineteen on the same lap with the race leader Rusty Wallace dominating the second and third the event. After Bobby Hamilton was the strong horse in the early third. It is Wallace leading Dale Earnhardt Jeff Gordon. Ken Schrader and Jeff Vogt lying Bobby Hamilton losing a couple more positions in these last several laps around he is now six. Rest of the top Tenner Mark Martin Darrell Waltrip Jimmy Spencer and Johnny Benson Dale Jarrett. After starting on the tail into the lead lavish sixtieth position a little while ago it's caught cars all the way up to the eleventh spot under the green flag he's made up. Over half a lap on the race leader at this point Jerry over the awful strong horse guys. At a good race car out their biggest problem for dale he's been caught up in traffic how to box behind had to play catch up got on the tail end of the lead lap and that just wants to work his way back up there but he's got still plenty of time that it would just past the halfway point. Here at Phoenix this afternoon. Jerry right now riding along behind Johnny Benson as they go back in return of one. Let's get a word out of the debt right now Rusty Wallace I think Jim Phillips is there what are they saying Jim. Kind of relaxed body Robin Hibbert then you look at the I'm resting most of what a lot of these guys to understand the league level make you work double hard court. I didn't and I think they've got the job of elderly Lavrov thank you worked overtime here data's track position stopping in the they blend back. I don't Dale Jarrett Imus may look like the best car but now. The other trap air being so much and they start being nice and Iowa monopoly environment. How about your car right now. It may go to we have confidence in the first stop no I'll play the next seven iron from the. Robin never give your team Rusty Wallace read a lot of big guys. Run up to ability to break him with a permanent set now that Seale Rusty Wallace we know. Little smoke may be from can traders car when it came off of turn four year elaborate gold keep an aisle that over the next couple trips around the speedway trader getting why Jeff Gordon bringing Jeff Levine which then so what changed there in the top five. Which raid erupted in the third spot Jeff Paul Ryan the fourth Jeff Gordon backed it didn't Bobby Hamilton and his sixth. And again I thought I might exceed a little wisp of smoke off of traders machine that NASCAR spotters. On the backstretch side of the racetrack reporting they want to see that is called on all that was contact with another car what traders try to go three wide into one work. To be a shot at Jeff Barton now swings to the outside the racetrack Jeff put out of try to take advantage and I saw that same smoke couple laps ago they shred of respect displayed on our number two it's going to be a little puff of smoke coming off the back traders are working on Jeff Burton and Kenny are what those two cars on the tail into the lead lap they go side by side just gobbled up the lanes in turns three and worn out Jeff put five dives of the insider straighter off the fourth. Turn has got to get in arresting a very little contact here as traders telling Burton and his own way as he uses that chrome horn as they say give me a little racing room here I'm racing for position on the racetrack with Jeff put on their back into. Traders in the third spot but I'm trying to get my trainer pitched get behind that car Jeff Burton that battle continue sedated free trader gets a good run off the second quarter up get up front Jeff put on a one Carling Jeff put on under braking tries to get to the inside again delivers Burton slipped and up into the top of the banking. Trader tries to get the advantage and they can't on the inside off turn four trader Jeff Paul Ryan Jeff Gordon Bobby Hamilton running third fourth fifth and sixth try to get around Jeff Burton who just got lap did you trips around the racetrack we go now trader dived to be excited Jeff Burton finally get up alongside it gets a good run off turn two got another car just ahead getting over the stair but Jeff died makes it three wide alternative. Who could not get a good run up the second quarter down the backs right away through the dogleg advantage O'Donnell the entrance of turn up with women traders battles back coming outside there's still dead even turn more. This is scramble for third place finish later hazard for the moment down the inside Jeff Foote unlocked at the net trying to take it away also. As Jeff Gordon takes a look he had thoughts of going off into the corner a diving there may be two or three wide has second thoughts Joseph Moore for the moment. Dead trainer as time goes high turnover one of the GM finally we can't put nine but he snapped back at. Traders street seven shows the way of that battle down the back straightaway Geoff codeine tightens it up early entrance of turn over three Jeff Gordon won garlic behind. Here's shredder swinging way wide to the top of the banking bovine tries to look to the inside off turn four. Traitor keep in his car wound up well on that highway an awful horrible whole Lotta the spot. No question quickest car the racetrack is dale charities took ninth spot or make any spot away from Johnny Benson a couple of laps ago. It's already pulled away from him by two full seconds. He is closing in on Mark Martin now who's the seventh place driver but he still got about three seconds to go before you catch mark three seconds of racetrack. On a racetrack where thirty seconds makes up the total lap. Go back to that race for third spot in terms for the car candy you're put a lap down in front of ten trader and Jeff boat ride a little contact now it gets physical trainer and Bo Ryan go door to door in the water just. Not traders pitched behind it aren't kidding Arabic now. It comes down the banking if you don't want but I'm only upside traders point to rally outside light all the offense trader takes a high groove off turn over to heal dispose of Denny or what but I want battled back. Down the facts right away because they accelerated to turn over parade again trader takes on Iowa Ener1 blocks what I. Out of the bottom of the racetrack giving up. For Kenny Irwin better get used to this because he's gonna have and every Sunday when he comes full time next year and was a cup racing and moved into the 28 yard he's not giving and it's a really good job holding his own ground out there. He is working right now again to try and not have a problem basically is these drivers are racing them hard to get around him now jet boat ride is gonna open up the lane underneath Kenny Irwin and move around. Meantime Rusty Wallace and Dale Earnhardt continue to be separated by three or four car likes Dallas they pick their way through some other cars to try and up with them a lap down Jeremy Mayfield. We'll be one of the next on the tail of the believe lab that Wallace who approached. Farther back here's Bobby Hamilton looking to see if he can get the third spot a wait make that be a fifth spot away from Jeff Gordon now what a terror watch court. Putts he had five minus Bobby Hamilton approaches them coming in it's article why the apple would have bought a little bit of the inside now makes a living outside of Gordon. A couple of feet up front of them can't trader trying to hold off Jeff who died as those to go door to door down the backs right away things out single file trader holds a lot of the position. Here's Jeff put on a diving down to the bottom clear track for the two well as they wait some more side by side. They had a lot of fun the last ten of fifty laps raising diplomatic Kenny straighter now for the moment they tucked in single file worked their way back into turn one Rusty Wallace and Dale Jarrett the top two now. In the dirt Luke 500 at Phoenix thirties Jeff bovine Dale Jarrett is about to take fourth away from Ken Schrader they're door to door headed perturbed why. Errant drives apart and turn over one man's head trader takes us about your time line as he's been doing all I have to go to. But it's not gonna work for him Jarrett swings to the other side kicks off the spot you'll open it up to about three darlings down the back straightaway the amazing thing for Dale Jarrett as hard as he's been driving that Ford is one of the only guards able to blew it right out of the bottle racetrack Ken Schrader is one. Who slips up to the top of the banking getting very very breezy down in turns 34. They want failed there's not even cracking drama right now who every catch is either drives around the outside and inside the car is just simply that good he's caught Jeff Levine turned to. But I took third place car it. Dale Jarrett his close that when we don't have just a couple of cartilage behind him out Carling gonna happen now as they scoot through the dogleg doubtless short straightaway that the turnover free here's Jeff who died coming off the throttle Dale Jarrett sets his sights on a couple of died as solid down the bottom of the racetrack he'll hold position adjourn for. Terrible problem up off the corner they've got the lab machine of Sterling Marlin just ahead of them. Couple pit stops in the last couple laps Jeremy Mayfield Kenny Wallace have both been in this follow Jarrett try to get third wave from vote. Hi Derek bottles of tire tracks Jeff Conine put oddly while working on still a part of the five handset you'll finally we're part of Chevrolet Jared why don't just bomb bursting into three and 24 straight trip to the inside a Sterling Marlin they'll both clearing the theater turtle with three Jeff put on now really fielding meet Dale Jarrett knows a tale full time as a result the fourth quarter. Do what he's had a remarkable run considering what he had to do to get back up there right now be challenging for third place is he works his way back in term of one Jarrett does indeed have the best car on the speedway. Although just about everybody becoming in the pits probably in the next ten or fifteen laps at scrambled goes on off. Turned to Dale Jarrett swing to the high side of the racetrack this time coming off the second quarter good run through the dogleg Jeff codeine just about one Carl laid off his back covered now as Dale Jarrett. Fields around the outside grabs a position and turn more. Dale Jarrett up to third spot from sixty that a full lap down all the way out of the green flag. Now check the interval to race leader Rusty Wallace from charities he crosses the strike but even seven seconds at this point. At lap 215. Now we should begin to see some green flag pit stops among some of the race leaders here in the next several laps. Take a minute while we wait those green flag stops and say hello to Chris Powell from RJ Reynolds. Hope to Winston watching autos and NASCAR Winston cup championship winds down to its final couple of racism. In theory Jeff Gordon could have clinched the title today but it was something drastic happens it's like it's gonna go right down the Atlanta event has always. That's right now and it does so still appear to have some closest to that. What those shows that Taylor tells her his putting and I think to keep just keep things alive as well as Mark Martin and end up. You know all all of Gordon needs to do is to keep this thing within a hundred and order or. Let the league grow at a 151 points I say in order to assure that all he has to do was started when an exciting two weeks. At the Napa 500 in order to clinch his second NASCAR Winston cup championship. First pitch to hang on for just a second here here's Dale Jarrett gonna peel off the racetrack at lap 217 to after the great run all the way up through the field Jarrett has to coming for fuel and hope he doesn't get a caution flag between his stop them rusty Wallace's. That putting a lap down early here it's covered Dale Jarrett Bobby works his way down all the way toward it didn't turn over one. They're got Dale Jarrett the team's going to around the right side. First get a 76 real is going gathered JU the right side tires on his board out and running here comes Kenny Irwin changing right side tires on the open aren't. Now on the left side goes Dale Jarrett being the second get himself he's a great Youkilis going again. Norwood thing leading the way killed nicely around the left side. Gerri it's really not what this could make movie going back out on the right track here I've failed there and violent. Jared goes back out of the speedway Ernie Irvin is also on pit road right now he was running at 27 position when he made the stop here's Darrell Waltrip he's gonna give up good track position also with the will be scheduled pit stops we'll see most of the front runners in here in just a moment. As Carol brings his car on pit road. It just seeing god dilemma that this Dale Jarrett stop puts rusty Wallace's team it. Jerry's gonna be incredibly fast on new tires for the next several laps making up a lot of ground. That will eat up a lot of the advantage that Rusty Wallace gain by staying on the racetrack here however. Jarrett is not going to be able to go to the finish on fuel from here and if Wallace has the ability to stay on the racetrack for another heater ten laps yourself. He may be able to go to the finish shot you'll have to catch up on all that calculate a little bit here's Jeff Gordon gonna give up the leading come to pit road for service Bill Elliott is again. She adds little to CNN Rick mast is coming give Gordon stopped gonna be a flap over 200 and squatting now. And he will make his way all the way down toward the turn one and they'll pit road for service for the NASCAR Winston cup championship leading team let's covered Jeff Gordon stopped. I'm Jim authorities wait around the curve comes had always been good smooth stop Mike Gordon rusty Wallace's team is up on the big ball. They are not rated event earnhardt's screws up on the pit wall right there should be coming in the next day. Laughter so. But Gordon birds around the left side and taking left side tires and pull out of spring rubber out the eleven foot lands and what they want your. Jordan stop right behind the other Derrick cope. And right now Jeff Burton is on pit road also other pit stops Dick Trickle was in a moment ago and out of pit lane brought to you by McDonald's drive through to cover the leader. Rusty Wallace's along pit road he's gonna make his way at 55 mile an hour speed limit down towards turn number one here is the Rusty Wallace team now about set to go to work. Jim and the very old baseball it's not bad thanks. Nobody would inning double Wallace at play here comes Rusty Wallace seems like it is dead. Rusty comes good swings on good look at Jack Kennedy one month to month giving them. Omar back and take to the tires isn't John Parker in really well over twelve and already around the walker racing around the left side thank you again the senate stimulus going get wiped out. Last time on this topic was seventeen point 500 at this time over the dugout and why everyone's family tornadoes. They're coming out of the body. Had Jimmy Smits or third pit stall. New Earnhardt led for a lap now he is on pit road along with can shrink airforce service lets cover the Earnhardt stopped. No they're on and they stop maybe right side tires on his car. Jimmy Kelly James who arrived. Where's Kelly so basically you're going to get much chocolate Myers. You just put it on the left side of the mother and hard hard hard nevertheless try to put on the left side tires mark Armstrong giving up and around the all the eighteen point seven on the earnhardt's top Mark Martin right behind me on the left side tires going what is important here on lap. What they lower. Mopping have a don't give up the number two spot and bring his dark pit road toward the attention of his crew Sterling Marlin is also in the pits. In right now is Michael Waltrip along with just about all the front runners are now making this up just an analyst Kelly. Right in the middle of may. But defense left now Barney and letting Michael. Follow and also in the background for his throwing ball OK Brian my brother has a lot of my headline. Lead now down about ten drive Nottingham and. He added seventeen point seven with a lot more Bobby Hamilton let me. So they involve certain even I had put Rusty Wallace is heard about a seventy point game. Johnny Benson is the race leader at this point not having yet made a visit to pit road here's been seen. We're going to bypass the pit road entrance off turn four a couple of stripes know Johnny Benson and his body act. Is Saudi brought out the race to watch that's in stops. The lead should cycle back around to Rusty Wallace we'll wait until that happens just to be short but Benson right now on the racetrack is the race leader. Wallace she's in product fits in so he would not have been a lap down shook the caution come out so was that good news there for rusty. Now Johnny Benson comes back once again in turn toward the entrance to pit road and does squeeze the brake pedal. I don't doubt on the apron of the racetrack to this to be glad to 27 that that's all they can't stop plotting give up the race lead. And should complete the cycle of green flag pit stops it will handle lead back to Rusty Wallace when he comes back around. The discover that Johnny that's it stop with Winston Kelley. The money Enron break on. It's welcome to our guests have been left the raw flour just don't. Rising gasoline. And my wife. Egg company gets an abnormal last. I love hockey and now I want. After these site beloved green flag pit stops it is Rusty Wallace who comes away with a one point 72 lead on Dale Jarrett eighteen drivers on the lead lap. He's Wallace Jarrett Dale Earnhardt Jeff Gordon and Bobby Hamilton the top 56 through ten are Mark Barton can't trader Jeff bovine Johnny Benson and Steve gristle. Eleventh through fifteenth Rick mast Kyle Petty to everybody billion Jimmy Spencer Jeremy Mayfield Darrell Waltrip and Steve park rounding out those on the same lap. With the race leader. 81 laps to go from Phoenix international raceway this is MRN radio. The racetrack to the road home. Fill up close and mobility official fuel of NASCAR. So filmmaker high quality performance fuels for the greatest drivers in the world both on and off the track whether your pulling up to the club. Or into the fifth. Don't feel you can trust sonoco defeat of fuel that feeds you go second camp plus America feels going. Fill up with the official fuel of NASCAR's sonoco CSMC races. 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But I was got a depressed you folks pass out money down the 25 place and I think of those top 25 something like thirteen or fourteen of those positions are within fifty points in each other. And a lot of changes could be made today at Phoenix and and ten next week two weeks and Atlanta. You know what I won a race we got today if you look at all the stories out there rusty going for a second race victory here and Dale Jarrett coming from frankly a lap down. Bernhard is now running error so coming in and certainly Gordon's eyes and a second NASCAR Winston cup championships sort of indicative of Lou the spectacle that the sport has become all the subside I don't want to. Ballpark figure out what that NASCAR Winston cup champion will take at the end of the season. I think he's looking at more than two million dollar certainly doesn't include the one point travel alone won't come from the NASCAR Winston cup points fund and we're we're looking toward giving it away whether it be for. For Jeff Gordon or Dale Jarrett the world or mark mark. Chris we appreciate all of which the sport of NASCAR Winston cup series racing looked forward to an exciting the race right down the wire for the championship thank Gary appreciate the job you guessed it all right thanks Chris Chris Powell RJ Reynolds folks at wit's end. Watching Dale Jarrett do his best to keep from relinquishing his shot at the title here today as he continues to try and chase down Rusty Wallace body impressive impressive drive for terrorists have killed physical out there right now I'd been running behind Steve park for leopard due gave him a little tap that they're coming out of turn forces pay. Laporte stood for read under his do you give Millen racing room Steve moves over kind of lets him go now there's about five car links between himself and Rusty Wallace hasn't worked over to turn three. Rusty Wallace have to deal with the Carol Waldrop the Walter now moves up the banking here's Wallace saying the opportunity dives to the inside can't get it done that's gonna tighten up the lead battle again as they come off turn four. Jarrett crew chief Todd parrot perhaps the winner of the western auto mechanic in the race toward the past not the end of the event 2000 dollars today from western auto along the line. Todd parrot making those adjustments on Dale Jarrett car that have kept him in the hunt for the win. Now he's closed the deficit on Wallace a one car lengths down the back straightaway had to get a turnover free Rusty Wallace still caught up behind Darrell Waltrip and here comes Dale Jarrett Beltran on the high side swings of the top of the banking. Get it done and turn four drops back and watch. Help the quarter of those cars running behind Darrell Waltrip barrel still on the lead lap running along in seventeenth position he doesn't want to give up any ground there's who's gonna make a move around on the outside if you can keep his car at the bottom of the racetrack. Until what we say catching the leaders one thing yet around another. And Dale Jarrett trying to develop these talk Rusty Wallace moved to the other side of the alphabet you're out of the front as they had to three ahead even as they had data to third quarter but not beloved Dale Jarrett slips quietly. It is it raises it to turn over three Wallace tries to get back in the grips of the banking but no way it's Jaret Wright softer and more. After a caution on lap 130 to came out just after Jared made a green flag pit stop you restart and on the tail out of the lead lap and under green. He has made up late Paul Lyle on Rusty Wallace and now at lap 240 with 72 laps to go. Dale Jarrett has taken over the top spot in this durable 500 just a tremendous drive and a tremendous performance by Jared and his team. At this point. Let's set the field for you now after the series of pit stops Jarrett as the leader rusty Wallace's second Dale Earnhardt is third about two seconds behind him. Thank you got Bobby Hamilton in port six seconds behind the leader. And Jeff Gordon hanging onto the fifth spot in sixth position will be Mark Martin can traders seven jet boat ride aid Johnny Benson like 60% chance. Eleven this Kyle Petty Terry the body is twelve Jimmy Spencer thirteen 1000014 convict past fifteen. Sixteen to Jeremy Mayfield Darrell Waltrip his seventeenth in the final driver on the lead lap actually is I see that Rusty Wallace gets around him and put CW one lap down. Also let down an eighteen spots deep part Derrick cope with nineteenth and Jeff Burton at twentieth. Getting your 121 Greg Jackson 22 earning your 123 Mike skater in 24. And Michael Waltrip in at 25. Couple laps down at 26 his body the body tip us 327 Jody dejected 48 Dick Trickle in 29 putts Strickland and thirtieth Chad little 31. Red Bull riding 32 along with Sterling Marlin 33 Kenny Wallace and 34 lake speeded 35. Jeff Green and 36 and Dave Marcus in the 37. Relapse dowdy is David Green at 38 and Ricky riding 39. Six laps down is Robert Presley and fortieth John Andretti is running about twelve laps down and 41 spot Ward Burton and Ricky craven. Are in the garage and you know 42 and 43. Leaders today at various times again Bobby Hamilton. Jimmy Spencer Jeff Burton Sterling Marlin Rusty Wallace Dale Earnhardt Jeff quote I'm Johnny Benson and now Dale Jarrett. And that is the setting as we close in on the finish with 69 laps to go this big race updates sponsored by sports image of Dale Earnhardt fan club members the official Earnhardt fan club has agreed offer available. Featuring the GM Goodrich service plus die cast cars perfect for holiday giving glory keepsake that I art collector don't miss the opportunity direction performance. Call clubby at 808833. Clubby. That's 8883355823. For more information. Whether you're loop 500 going by and her the next thing we need to do is maybe hammer. Got down pit road check for some of these teams and see what their situation is as far as going the distance or how many more times you're gonna have to come back onto pit road will follow up on that in a moment. Mark Martin's showing some late strength did this to remove 500 has just taken a position away from Jeff Gordon he took the fifth spot away from Gordon elaborate golf. So mark continuing to rubble toward the front concede he can get back in the hunt after he had troubles. In the early going of the event. It is Dale Jarrett continuing to expand his advantage over Rusty Wallace it is now up to two seconds that's about seven tenths of a second better it was. Just a couple of laps ago. Jeff Gordon losing positions he has fallen now to the eighth spot as can't trader and Jeff Levine have gotten around him we will follow up in the Gordon did in a few moments first let's talk about fuel mileage. Jeff five Jimmie Dale Jarrett stop for 95 laps to go in the race Jeff Gordon with 92. Rusty Wallace and even nine U laps to go in the event everybody else Dale Earnhardt and so on stocked with fewer than nine need to go. Can't they make it to the distance on the on board fuel that they haven't acquiring another caution flag coming out let's go to pit road and ask those questions first Jim Phillips. Well let's ask the man who's got the best set up so far. Not married you're asking this morning though not in I'm glad that we don't have a garden get a good. And get short witnesses pounds standing only a little while ago we. Carly Simon makes up close up on the leaders in the tournament lords Nielsen cost flag came out without seeing him in scandal and now. All you can then talk about the the third head now. If I'd vote yet hadn't she she didn't. Now only snow wind it's a great race car you know we got one I don't know weekend. I think it's bad news I'm there early enough. We walk hard the long run yesterday and we do not handling right now it may announce. It's an area that's Todd Barrett. Chief for Dale Jarrett. The last game. Ago the not a cloud labs guys. Well I don't blame for gambling a little bit as good as the car's been running now they are not known for getting a lot of gas mileage enough delegates are sometimes but today may be one of those days that they do. Dale has made this statement off would you trade to fuel mileage for horsepower in that Robert. Gates Steve always providing plenty of horsepower sometimes at the expense of that fuel mileage we'll see. If they're able to coax 95 laps out of that tank of fuel. On his machine what about some of the other front runners to Jeff Gordon team the Rusty Wallace Stevens on will they be able to go to the distance. Bobby if you look they have on board dale earnhardt's crew is well Winston Kelley outlooks and opinions from your section of pit road. Well in the Middlesex and everybody this on the lead lap can go the disasters we talked to Rick masquerade. Course Johnny Benson the last artist I'm just have to go and 85 laps a lot of guys in front of him. You won't have to stop this well my son Jeff but I've been running in good solid all day long Tim brewer tells us they can definitely go to Destin. No problems there are only 600 road. We don't use up as much fuel as you do on some of the racetrack to lose a mile speedway Allen not really in the throttle that much in the heart all they launched a new breed of car a little bit going through these torso. We Macy have just about everybody that we talked to. That we've brought up as far as stretching fuel why don't forget it let's stop now Jared would be chair would be the one of his on the bubble did you see stop the earliest and everybody he is still 95 laps Rusty Wallace our Jeff Gordon rather has to go to 92. Rusty Wallace and all the other leaders have to go in ninety or fewer laps which I really don't think there's a problem so the only other one that might be a question mark in my mind. Might beat Jeff Gordon but I suspect that they're probably in pretty good shape the only thing it might be the question marriage whether they can chance it if it's marginal. Being that they have to protect that point lead here today I changed or position as Ken Schrader. Works his way up and around mark Martin's for these fifth position so straighter beginning to love move up a little bit in March watch that one spot here. Given the closing laps later in today's broadcast 49 to pick the winner of the raid at the rate vestige break in the race toward. To the driver experiencing the biggest break good or bad during the drew 50500. Dollars to be donated on his or her behalf. To racing for kids magazine to promote education and reading from a great distance breaks the official breaks of NASCAR. Not a surprise that does several cars that normally run extremely well here Phoenix and have not been a factor here this afternoon Terry the money being one of those having some problems earlier today and getting a little bit behind. Mark Martin that not a factor in the early first half of the race in this afternoon bottom of bodies at his problems off and on all day long. And Ernie Irvin who normally runs very good here all those not an effective as far as winning the race here today. But today that kind of comes with the territory I guess you come out here have freed for good races in a row then you come back and everything just have bad breaks ahead. Tough putts up front today for all of those drivers that you mention of course Martin coming back from his early problems same for Dale Earnhardt. Right now both in position to get a top ten or top five to this year down to 46 laps to go in the Dura lube 500 at Phoenix and Dale Jarrett continues driving away from the field at this point just joining us. Jarrett made a green flag pit stop. Back at lap 127. In the caution came out of lap 130 catching him a lap down to leader at that time Rusty Wallace. Wallace did it Jarrett got up behind the pace car on the tailored to the lead lap and then. All over the next hundred laps yourself proceeded to make up an entire lap under the green flag running from sixty position. Eventually after another set of green flag stops taking the lead away from Rusty Wallace. At lap 140. Just a 110 laps after. He had got caught that went down in the pits and out charities motor the way to a 42 advantage over rusty just an incredible performance today by Dale Jarrett. Here at Phoenix what's that team has got their act together shame they said in the pits this morning we candidates easily see the season. Wind down when you're running like they have been through the last six or seven races. 268 go up on the scoreboard we talked about Jeff Gordon a moment ago did he have enough fuel to go the distance Jim Phillips is in his pit. No word don't get why you play Everett M I hear they've got more problems it just done. I don't feel all right. He said there's suddenly while who's tearing open hearted won't turn that. Start run downhill Vonage the concern as many today out there they get rid them on the wall a baby. You're right you know you're not giving you don't like at all. I'm handling problem Jeff Gordon the car will not turn this vibrating. Let's turn. Has fallen back tonight position at this point in danger of losing that is Steve Grissom. It is not all that far behind him now just a couple of the car lengths away so the points leader with some troubles here in the late laps going that could be an agency situation here over the final moments of the race you know been watching the last 45 laps he is having a lot of trouble get through the corners. And as we said when we started the broadcast this afternoon he could have left here in great shape with a with a cup championship clinched down or you may go into Atlanta with both Mark Martin and Dale Jarrett. Really breathing down his neck and little bad looking either way to give the championship to either one of those three but for the moment Jeff Gordon right now just trying to salvage what he can hear you look. At this point I think I would think he'd be tickled death to get out of here with a top ten finish being extremely tickled to. Gotta give the top ten finish and then have to go to Atlanta had just probably get somewhere around a top twenty finish were still in order to be able to switch to NASCAR Winston cup title. He leaves you with a lead of a 151 or better he only needs to start the Atlanta race to clinch the title doesn't look. Look like that's going to be case. An attack now as Gordon may lose tonight spot to Steve here comes Dale Jarrett up behind him to maybe put a lap down Kenny Wallace right front Dale Jarrett has erased return before Ressa has already cleared court this thing off the corner nailed there's not gonna cut the throttle and all he has to back out of it for just the second gallery 'cause there's do you live right in front of him but if he gets an opening these things like a lot of around Jeff Gordon let's follow them to turn. To anyone else works against I might not come until I sided but Jeff Gordon allowing Dale Jarrett the breakfast foods moved to the inside and the route. Laughing Jeff Gordon Jeff Gordon loses his lead lap status on the back straight away Kenny Wallace yields a plane as well. Gordon gets find out what this allows internal report Jeff Gordon high in the corner almost gets over the wall that Jeff Gordon is trying to get down the inside and finally. Does he heads up that plane yet. Gordon locked the brake shop what to get it to turn over three skidded all the way up kept it off the wall had to get it down onto pit road. And could be a critical moment here for the NASCAR Winston cup championship but contender. At lap 273. Of the Phoenix race with 39 to go Jeff Gordon on pit road under the green flag Jim Phillips is there watching as he approaches the pit stall. When Mary Nee Jennifer out of pit lane of the tape right side tires and cars running mind. And now since my car JG the tires and other not even concerned about putting you'll live right now they haven't. The video you get this changing the right side tires on the court the car. They right away a little while the wind field. The card now another number on the left side to change the left side tires but they are gonna. Paul Fort Myers and Gordon Marlins are brought to a good look Dalai. Now they take the left side tires lord hardened old good old guys sitting back on the racetrack. Jeff Gordon will be down and a wave and over again he's gonna lose a ton of points with his finishes here that pit stop and really got to costing them put him way back really and that is he was nineteenth but as he gets back out onto the racetrack and gets up to speed that's gonna continue to fall as well now expected 23 we'll cycle out Siewert Jeff Gordon comes around in just a minute. But Jeff Gordon falling now almost three laps down to race leader Dale Jarrett he's gonna be a lot of odd touring in front of Jarrett now. As he comes to the strike Gordon is back in thirtieth position. After that green flag pit stop thirtieth through Jeff Gordon wow what a turn of events. Hello everybody say and you know that we can go to Atlanta and it could be a three way battle that just applicable caught a lucky break to determine who was it was a cup championship I'm sitting here doing little mental arithmetic myself between Mark Martin and Dale Jarrett was going to be about twenty points difference should they vanish and that would tie and they helped. In the standings so they would go when they're both done. If the if they finish like we did right now exactly tied for second place behind Jeff Gordon. And the difference in points by the way between first and thirtieth. Would be about a 102. Points. So Gordon's 125. Point lead of the race ended now and I'm not factoring in any any bonus points yet for leading the most laps of that kind of things I think Rusty Wallace is gonna get to let most laps and points today. But that 125 point lead he would lose 100. And to love it today if the race were to finish right now big big turn of events here and NASCAR Winston cup championship chase Jeff Gordon back in thirtieth position two laps out of the race leader after nearly catching the wall in turn three at lap 273 and making a green flag unscheduled stop more on that from Jim Phillips. Shot today guys looking just tired out here. Half the markets is gone off Levy was arriving on retirees it was vibrating very severely what I reason why don't. Bottom layer of the tire caught off putting is trying to run on that. Martin iron in the large restoring didn't hit series like you that today it didn't blow out ought to do it. Didn't get it in the if there are off and then I ask what the Goodyear engineers and really set that was the only tired of these things like that today so just don't. Got run over something. Start in the market. Along. So 28 laps to go and to remove 500 at Phoenix Dale Jarrett out in front of Rusty Wallace by nearly six seconds. Dale Earnhardt and another force decades behind Wallace in third Bobby Hamilton and can't trader round out the top five. Mark Martin Johnny Benson Jeff bovine Steve Grissom and Kyle Petty Billups top ten. Followed by tearing the body Jeremy Mayfield Darrell Waltrip Jimmy Spencer and Bill Elliott bed down for the top fifteen. At this point the question becomes this Dale Jarrett have enough fuel on board to make it to the checkered flag remember we talked about that earlier 95 laps on a tank of fuel was the question. Jarrett car not normally don't forgetting the best fuel mileage everybody else stopped 92 or fewer laps in the checkered flag Jarrett hitting a bit early. Now we wait to see if he is able to run to the checkered flag without a pick up from the fuel pick up. On that machine to get some hard decisions. Make right now they're great position to gain a ton of points on Jeff Gordon here today and so was Mark Martin but the fuel factor for dale charity keep a really if it's not even be very close if it. Even more than half collapse persona speculate they're gonna come in and not take chances are they'll most important but it's inevitable. Might argue. We can verify the one making that call Jarrett got nothing to lose he's got a game these points today to have any chance of winning the championship so he's got to stay on the racetrack. They're trying to win the race he if he comes in and he hits he's gonna finish no better. Then fifteen. You figure by the time he loses a lap and a half or so even just for a splash of fuel it's gotta be behind at least the front seven anyway and I've got I fear it could. Well you know that's why these guys get the big bucks to make the call but if it were me I think I've read about there and take the chance on what in the race because that's gonna be his best shot. And winning the championship is to win today. Go to Seattle plays out he's just across the start finish line going back in the turner who want to use get a win right now been watching Jeff Gordon the last separate labs around here. Man he is absolutely flying is not even slowing down he's getting some in his lap cars he's in a hurry he has picked up two positions it's coming back on the track for the pit stop BC 28 spot now. Now the challenge for Gordon becomes comedy more kitty pick up before the checkered flag waves he's just pass little for 27 days after Dick Trickle for 26. Insured to walk. At the end final lap cars Jeff. Part first no squeezes at the end Seidenberg John Lennon Bob very easily Denver it's pretty strong down the back straightaway we're not able to dusted off quite as easily author ever did at this time Gordon rips up the banking his tires rolled. Jeff Gordon's or note the curtain goes up my wheels away now Gordon has a clear shot trickled on the front straight away out. Jeff can keep slicing through the feel like he has right now he can. He can do some business so where would say 990 position the cars up to nineteen spotter on the same lap with Jeff Gordon now Ernie Irvin is in nineteen spot. And he's about a half a lap ahead of Gordon so that means he's got a lot of these cars right in in in the gun sights if you will just ahead of him now. With fresher tires than they do. Over these final 22 laps of the race so Gordon could minimize the damage by chopping it down as low as nineteen theory goes after Dick Trickle off turn four. Doubt the start finish line we'll watch Jeff Gordon trying to get 26 position away from trickle into one and. The inside lane Gordon doesn't alongside Dick Trickle momentarily down he'll finally cleared trickles more than. Exiting virtual set aside to let start mine John Andretti that next Carl the racetrack as he heads down the back straightaway at the turn over three everybody drops down on the inside of the racetrack cardinals went up five. And try to keep to boot to the bottom Gordon at the top of the easily gets clients that dreaded L peels off into the pit lane. And Jeff hasn't been a bit bashful about making it three wide on a couple of occasions to knock off the card do certain he'd go to the inside or outside your voice probably got the best running car out there right now aside from Dale Jarrett. Looking good as he continues to work its way around your biggest wait for traffic not let anything but how much of an obstacle for him and a portion of those fresher tires. Just got pretty much pick is no blame wherever he wants to go to on my side or inside the racetrack more and it is just chop away Singapore decisions here. Gordon after getting around Dick Trickle moved up to the 26 position next car and light headed in the new race for us probably don't even check. Then Bobby will body then Ted musgrave then Mike Skinner he's in one what is white applicants on the racetrack Paulson behind Tony and Jack looked for a chance to go pretty damn. Now falls back in line all too real rights to have more important looks of the inside through the dog leg in the Czech yields a plane moves to the outside of the racetrack Jeff Gordon bulls down to the plot and we'll get by Jody that Jack. We'll sell to a Carling advantage as he sets his sights on what little money off turn four. And as good as that car is as we said yeah he just about has to run somebody down and just simply drive around them so he's gonna pick up a bunch of positions between now and the checkered flag. 293 laps to go up on the school board Dale Jarrett continues to lead here at Phoenix this afternoon Rusty Wallace sits back there in the number two spot holly Hamilton worked his way back up to third. Fourth is Dale Earnhardt wanna come back for Earnhardt today also and fifth right now is getting straighter. Winston Kelley is down in Dale Jarrett did any indication at all that they are gonna have any kind of thoughts about bringing him in Winston. No not at all longtime friend the critics on the card just like you SH and every week candy stand up on a ladder leaning against the L war wagon you're looking at the computer. Looking at his notes and I'm gonna hit driver about running smooth glass. Not any facial expressions and change all afternoon long they're still gonna try to leaving out there goes that entire 95 laps. Since they can hold on to pick up all those points I was on my. Right now Dale Jarrett continuing to motor around the speedway it's a relatively fleet free racetrack does it every lap cars to catch that make sure wild. Give us an opportunity to remind you that members of the media covering today's event. We'll vote the goodies heading toward very shortly to the driver who suffers the hardest luck during the running out of preparation for this race a 1500 dollars to the winner from goodies headache powders and tablets. That Jackie tell you who that's gonna be at the conclusion of this race. At final reminder that voting for the most popular driver award for the NASCAR Winston cup series is underway now you can vote by calling 1900. No I don't three. All nine hole mine voting god ends November 18 because she's 79 cents you must use a touch tone phone and again and number 1900. 903 hole and I don't ninth service provided by Iraq 2000 systems all of Chicago. Jeff Gordon has just taken 22 spot away from Ted musgrave Mike Skinner is next in line ahead of giving gets limelight takes over the plate first spot. Next driver Gordon has to catch for position will be Greg Sachs in twentieth. And Kenny Irwin in the nineteenth. And those are the drivers along with Ernie Irvin. Fiat could catch for position here what's happening also. A couple of drivers who one lap down in front of Gordon have pitted here recently gone two laps down so that's going to increase the number of spots Gordon can gain here. Now instead of 98 being the best he could finish might be able to get as high. As seventeen been sixty position as we worked the final fourteen laps of this race Dale Jarrett now with ten laps to go it'll be nine as he comes off turn four right out of the strike. To try to win the tour loop 500. We'll look fuel hold up to the finish Jeff Gordon has moved up to twentieth position now he's got another three spots he could pick off before the finish he could get as high as seventy. Go to Jim Phillips along pit road. Robin dale earnhardt's dad. A team that really had to work hard and you know what they got my favorite Reynolds even Joe's in the western Donovan getting the right to regulate. How many you win one of those all year not for Larry Mac Reynolds number everybody owns a good reasoning aspect. Shocking and Clark our CN just thank western not know. Made some adjustments since last pit stop making went around claimant downed limbs like little stiff amenities and maintenance and we. 391. The other worked hard got him back together again you know we had a good car again got to thank my glove when Jack London England right along here and we don't get us what you think people and we're gonna knock you. Every riddled 2000 dollars today and we're to blame goes into them 25000 dollars today in the mind. But western auto mechanic here right Reynolds western auto mechanic for the race. By Dick Trickle scar has just been retired from the event but ignition problems Jeff Gordon just passed skinny girl wind. And that puts Gorton now up to the nineteenth position Jeremy Mayfield and Ernie Irvin the only two drivers he could catch on the same lap with him over the final miles of this event. That is a list of others make unexpected stops in the waning moments from. Unexpected stop these what we're waiting for Dale Jarrett will the fuel hold up to the finisher odd body he is visibly eased off the pace in the corners here and. But he does heavy pressure right behind him Rusty Wallace is not quite a straightaway back so he can ease up just a little bit particularly about punching that throttle coming off the corners. And really standing on a Joseph Morrison works at you that's for a lot of fuel gets used up release seven throttle down coming off the turn. He's got a little breathing room he can kind of freed from here on AM. You can tell he's not very much battling that probably comes in the quarter was kind of attack. It turns over the last ten or fifteen laps just getting kind of come out of the throttle and let the kind of role for the quarter against the San I'll tell you second or third. Hit the back straightaway and not really pushing it when he approaches of slower traffic to get why these could follow external quality. For the last five or six laps down and obviously he's much faster than sterling started to get several laps down. But that Jarrett seems though they didn't put it on the attack he maintains about a five car length deficit does Sterling Marlin. Right now there are less than five laps to go the week forty go when Jared comes back around the strike this time. He has a lead of three and a half seconds on Rusty Wallace that was a second and a half less than it was a little while ago here's Jarrett to the strike. Across the line now heads back torched or number one try to make the fuel lashed to the finish. Still following external heart start three or four cartilage behind Campbell hugged the inside lane coming east will be up off the bottom of the track. Back out to be outside walls he hit a great way up the second quarter through the dogleg all the way up to the outside wall down the short piece of real estate that leads into the third quarter here. Drops it down to the bottom of the racetrack touches the inside yellow line lets it drift up for that hits the gas and heads off the fourth quarter. And he's probably watching two things right now is looking at the racetrack around and he certainly watching that fuel pressure gauge to see if it fluctuates. Even a little bit as he goes back into turn number one team. We just play around Mike Skinner targets by a machine continuing to follow Sterling Marlin. Pieces of Paul begins five plane back down the backs right away matter of fact Sterling Marlin beginning to pull away just the fit for Dale Jarrett Sterling Marlin out in front of it by about five Carling said. Distance continues to grow as Jarrett very gingerly this time comes in the turnover free lets it drift to the top of the banking units off for. Jeff Gordon has passed Jeremy Mayfield for the eighteenth spot he's gonna try to get 72 Bernie Europe and over the last two laps to a golfer Dale Jarrett easing winds carried. Texas played against a lot of attracted no lap traffic anywhere around it so we can shoes his claim that he does he chooses the high groove off turn two to the inside as he swings through the dogleg then again now why don't the corner conservative attire is conserving their fuel feathers off the throttle is theaters for a number braved. Heads up the fourth quarter and back to the white. Flag Dale Jarrett coming out of turn were for the fans give to a big jeers he crosses the line takes the white flag had softened the turner but one does he have enough fuel to get back we'll find out he's in turn one series comes back an attorney for one billion side of the tracks still following Sterling Marlin takes a little bit different group. About midway up golf turned over to. Probably shouldn't be able to coast for the year olds Marlon down the back straightaway at the turnover free now down to short shoot you'll come out of the corner to the bottom of the racetrack Dale Jarrett feathers off the throttle. Early apex back on the gas heading back to the checkered flag. Lack of Dale Jarrett will make the fuel last he will come to the strive for his sixth win of 1997. Jared takes the durable 500 at Phoenix. Like two seconds over Rusty Wallace Jarrett will stay alive in the hunt for the NASCAR Winston cup championship as at the stripe. Jeff Gordon knows she's out Ernie Irvin for the seventeenth position. We'll calculate the point swing for you momentarily but Jarrett wins Martin take sixty Gordon's seventeen. After Gordon shoppers at tire problem late in the going here at Phoenix let's go to pit road. About Dale Jarrett coming big sigh of relief please guys. Talk parent group jumped out of a bit too late and now they're celebrating it are headed to Victory Lane. The Dale Jarrett team getting 95 miles on their final tank of fuel Bonnie I really didn't think they'd make it but they prove me wrong well night they had to nurse a little bit there and I think the break that guy was the last 45 laps Torre had such a big lead that he could kind of ease out of the throttle but the bottom line is they do go to Victory Lane they win here this afternoon and as you said very much keep their chances alive to win it was to get championship we'll hear from Jeff Gordon Dale Jarrett and the other contenders seat for the championship as well as the top finishers in today's race and we come back to Phoenix Jared has won the tour Luke 500. The racetrack to the road home fill up the Sunoco the official fuel of NASCAR. 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Fatality related to get a 312. Laps at Phoenix today as the winner of the tour who 500. Jarrett beating Rusty Wallace Bobby Hamilton can't trade Aaron Dale Earnhardt your top five. Mark Martin finished sixth Jeff Gordon seventeenth the calculation of the championship standings in that just a moment. First let's get out of the gas pumps and get a word with Rusty Wallace the runner up today driver who dominated much of this event Mike Bagley thrusting your dominant. Early came home second what do you think about to run when a forget Iran right thirteen and I just got a real tight senate are the car's push a pretty good at the end but just. Falling on us really get to first run was decent filly came in it is rare for a short minutes they took off like a bullet. Not a murder was excellent car and a great pit stops are gonna just ran a perfect de LA long. Can't really say anything bad about it simply he's got feet. That's about finish second gain some points since we're looking for what was called him up there on that restart when he had a those lapped cars and not cars on the tail and believe lap. Now I'm real confused still confused about what's going on there I mean I know I'm not for sure that there is still tried delayed is let. Payoff I guess allies and not a little confused because I was late erase my game out territory cars are prone to me those kind of weird deal that's Rusty Wallace he finished second here Phoenix chicken Lewis to Kelly. I was caught up with Jeff Gordon. Jeff first of all talk about what was happening to the car ride before leapt to 73. And what was the prom went when you had coming in. I really don't know what the problem was I felt something start ago when the right front and nets start vibrating in and I started you know push in the front in real man of I knew it was only time I knew we can make it panel last fifty laps so we're praying for and in sure enough. And I you know seems to get a lap down boom something goes in the front hand in hand now luckily I mean I guess or. Still some luck left in this because that's putting it all I could have been a lot worse in a fluoride is on going into turn three and that's a pretty tough spot itself wherever it can. I think a few positions and not commit. And I hear Laura's gonna come all the way down to Atlanta and here we go in nine you know a lot. For valor and guys down that are running really can griner so we're gonna have to step it up had no problems they got as strongly against religious thing. 77 points going into the last race they adjourn overtook Mark Martin 77 points you've got to finish eighteenth or better your thoughts a couple of weeks and are. I wish is that easy you know after turning 18% by NASA and now when you look at our averages band you know. A lot of cant. Follow your long metallic. I don't know what to expect these days you know we described or try our best and hope so we got in the top fired up can't infusion when everything's just you know going our food and everything's drying methods breaking. We're out we're right there in the top five so young and it's easy to say that's already deduced you promised won't fulfill it's easier said than done. So lobby talk about the slap disseminate great pit stop with the thirteenth positions that he picked up. That may mean the difference in the chase for the NASCAR wants a cup championship yet could be very very big that's for sure. The durable 500 at Phoenix is over it was an exciting one full of twists and turns and how about that rally from the tail out of the lead lap by Dale Jarrett. To take the top spot away all under the green flag he's in Victory Lane now with Jim Phillips. Lot of high fives down here Dale Jarrett it looked like you go to be laughed. And then you came all the way around background past everybody jealous about that incredible race car. This is. The first time I've ever run this car it's Robert Yates racing in house car we built this car from the ground up in say thanks Mike got they did an awesome job. We started out pretty good cannot. Hello lose their one point and we decided it says stopped a few laps early in Corsica ousting came out and I got us down that. The car was so also mapped to that others last Doucet to get your Eagles are just tremendous that I had and how worried about fuel but the car was so good that it let me just take it easy with the fuel and had just enough. As there on this track you gotta compromise on it didn't look like you had compromised. Not really owls good at both the and see how it usually you can beat. Medic unit one hand and just be a little off at the other hand it's have to work at their mock calls all somebody at the end and Todd paired he's the best in the business and nine you know they'd make the adjustments that we needed we talked about a little bit he makes those calls. Hey he's just also men non. He's here I'd kissing but he's not missed probably get things that hated these guys do a terrific job great pit stops and not just a total team effort they worked their tails off every week. We stopped a little bit early on that last up to sixteen had 95 to make it on fuel. Not usually known for gas mileage so what did you have to do as a driver to make it well yeah I know all the way to save fuel is to stay out there probably not. My car was good enough that I could get all the crawl Harley get in a corner. And really I used much break and let it roll down the corner and an olive running backs like masters all learn a little something but duck. Time and just be easy picking up ground level when the car rolls they get through the center of the corner that makes a lot easier to conserve fuel and and earlier you talked about concern feel what you gotta have a really good race car to do that. This championship is not over your thoughts going go to Atlanta to extra good that we got a chance that's all we ask for you know we've we've raised 31 waged now. And we got herself in a position that we can win. Pop plastic code. Texaco you Gillette everybody that's helped us get to this point so we're looking forward to two weeks I got asked did you think this team could win this many races and you can't deny him out right wing is that last years we won four races that there were a couple that we get one that we got a left on the table and we got everything together that we didn't get a win some races but I don't think I ever sit down say we're gonna win 66 or seven races out there just incredible. That's Dale Jarrett a step over you what a quick word with talk very good crew chief Robert Gates said he here giving Robert big god. I don't crowd got last year lucky that he could make 35 laps seriously. A new DOJ governor's race car it'd that we can make any thing you know work and great pit stops the car was awesome man. You know we just made a couple adjustments and we got that lap down and went to a dinner last night up mama Amani mound takes care Dana we're still a stoplight last night got date historic. And down the lift ever next dosage is a lady. He sees solid on the steering wheel and numb. We didn't act like John force leaving alama toad him I said now we get behind and to our. You gotta get up on a stairwell like get a lady Dez who took a total get their lap down get up on the steering wheel like get lady knicks' newest they did. And they Wear the right seven times this year they get Victory Lane that's Dale Jarrett threw. And that they are gaining 68 points today. A high note Jeff Gordon taking over second in the championship standings now 77 points behind. As we head of the season finale in Atlanta to go back to the garage to Mike Bagley probably elements and Audi SEP hauler Bobby third place today not bad considering. We're real happy that the cartel Thailand's rice dry slick set and Ali they wanna make green flag stop was an air pressure adjustment panel bar adjustment but we Israel did that last run though we lost so much track time. But it was a good day we could get a call saying yet get Reverend Wright really don't panera by getting up the car lot that. The good die for their state paying him around the white and I guess these stuff for coastal looks like stepped up pit stops a gentle off later if well I DNA as a great pit stops man followed this that we had all year but you know that they're pumped up after last week and yet a new trying are now marks that have come along all year and I just keep getting better better make. Many real big net X as a real oil analyst effort plays an apply you know so there never oil that's bombing album becomes a third second lowest Achille. And that acorn his best run of the year fourth place at Talladega a few weeks ago fourth place there to guide Gary Schneider tells about your run. Analyst just a good run from the start was still Carla start out down. Six and worked her way back to eighth and then hand once stopped it land a little bit bad and work your way back down on all fourteenth fifteenth place. Droll ramp back up to fifth and a came out settled got four so good stable run Bristol car now itself. What I want to build garnered Petri erase the debt to make a lot of changes to the card that. Little air pressure and now he's too little changes not now much we S dollar forget don't man. And we don't feel we redeemed herself a little bit on the too kindly stop we're pretty good going in New Hampshire do. A Danish writer very optimistic about his run and he believes there are knocking on the door to victory line. Trader with a top five here today finishing forth behind Dale Jarrett Rusty Wallace Bobby Hamilton though as the top three behind trader were Dale Earnhardt in fifth. And Mark Martin who took down the sixth position today members of the media covering the durable 500 voted because he's headache ordered a 1500 dollars to Jeff Gordon. And 250 dollars a loss to go to the Brenner Children's Hospital in Winston-Salem North Carolina from goodies headache powders and tablets in the name of Jeff Gordon. Running in position for a good finish today. Till lap 273. When he had a right front tire problem nearly caught the wall in turn three lost a couple of laps on pit road fell back to thirtieth at the time. It's staged a remarkable rally over the final 39 laps of the race to get up to seventeenth finishing position. Find out who bought it I'd pick the winner of the re best to break the race award with money going to racing for kids magazine from rapists is in the name of the driver with a good break or bad break in the event today. What era. Awful lot of candidates they're for our for some bad breaks party actually try to think of somebody that did had a good break and I'm not sure I could come up with one at this point the race well you gonna have to say that Jeff Gordon had a good break over there when that tire shredded and he didn't go into the wall and then he might become backe did. He had several good breaks not crash and I guess who be would be the biggest break there. So we'll send the the 500 dollars to racing for kids magazine to road education and reading in the name of Jeff Gordon. Primary vista's breaks the official break of NASCAR as today's re best this break of the race award winner. Larry nick Reynolds dale earnhardt's crew chief took the western auto mechanic of the race toward the 2000 dollars they Rusty Wallace let it halfway he took the 101000 dollar Gatorade front runner reward. Talk more about our broadcast schedule next weekend adjustable what we've talked with Jeff Gordon and Dale Jarrett already let's hear from Mark Martin who is now going to be 87 points behind Gordon going into the Atlanta finale for the championship. Mark coming into the race a 125 down against 38 today with a sixth place run Winston Kelley. Now we talked about Larry Matt Reynolds and his crew doing a good job for Dale Earnhardt I take another crew that worked hard all day long Jimmy Fannie and the boys had to make a lot of adjustments to mark Martin's car. Made some that may be not quite enough. We better sales out of a deep hole you know we put ourselves in the very back early in erased because we miss is set up so bad. We have problems in happy hour and basically missed the hole up. We dismiss that whole happy hour out so we started kind of mind a day when mr. bad. We got the car a whole lot better but we still off but leave it didn't have to crawl back through the field up to up to six. Which was really incredible for the battling and Cummins much. They have great job. And that's the best that we can do. Under the circumstances so you know what will do is go on and we raced our guts out today and we'll go to Atlanta and in the senate. With 87 down I guess thanks to any pressure off going into Atlanta just go manner and just run as hard as you can see what happens that's how we can do that's always been doing ever week so will do will try to land simply win that thing. I no matter what happens next week at Atlanta mark Martins had an outstanding year he comes home six. Try to get work with fifth place Dale Earnhardt a little bit of golf dale is already left the racetrack so we will be unable to talk with him the dale had a good top five finish here today. After having problems say including a spin early Iran at lap 563 fell as far back as soon thirtieth position. And make that 39 position. And managed to come back up through the field for a top five run for dale. But again he's already left the racetrack shadows growing longer from the west side of the racetrack here Phoenix as the sun begins to peak its way toward the Hilo mountains on that side of the racetrack and fans beginning to file out of this racetrack after watching some dramatic twist of fate. For the contenders in the championship here today at Phoenix what looked like it was going to be a lousy day for Dale Jarrett and Mark Martin. Turns out to be pretty good days him it looked like it was going to be solid afternoon for Jeff Gordon goes the other way. About 39 laps from the finish and cost him good bit of ground in the chase for the series championship let's check the finishing order now from today's durable five. Drink the winner is Dale Jarrett finishing second Rusty Wallace third goes to Bobby Hamilton Ken Schrader finished fourth fifth to Dale Earnhardt Mark Martin finished sixth Johnny Benson was seventh. Eight to Steve Grissom ninth to Kyle Petty camp did Jeff put nine elevenths Terry Rabbani. Darrell Waltrip posted a twelfth place run here at Phoenix this afternoon Jeff Burton finished thirteenth Jimmy Spencer fourteenth. Bill Elliott comes home in fifteenth position Derrick cope with sixteenth seventeenth to Jeff Gordon. Eighteenth Ernie Irvin ninety to Jeremy Mayfield. Twentieth Kenny Irwin junior curator Greg's actual finished 21 twenty seconds Ted musgrave 23 body the body. 24 Joni the chicken making up the top 25 is Chad little Michael Waltrip finished 46 with Sterling Marlin 27. Mike Skinner 28 David Green 29 and hunt Strickland thirtieth. Rick masters 31 Jeff Green 32 Brett Bo Ryan 33 Dave Marcus 34 and Kenny Wallace 35. 36 was Ricky Rudd lake speed 37 Robert Presley 38 John Andretti 39 and Dick Trickle fortieth. Followed by Steve park in 41 Ward Burton and 42. And Ricky craven in 43 position. Thirteen lead changes among nine drivers today Rusty Wallace led the most laps a 117 out the 312 circuits around four cautions for 23 laps. And at the finish the top seven were on the same lap with the race leader top of the race two hours 49 minutes and 31. Seconds. That has a new record for this a bit here today the quickest of these to remove 500 sedated run now in the ten times the bad it's been contested. At this racetrack. On official championship standings it is Jeff Gordon leading now Dale Jarrett by 77 points and Mark Martin dropped to third but gains ground only 87 behind the leader. You let Jeff Burton fourth down 374 and Dale Earnhardt. Are up on Terry the body in the fifth position aren't aren't taking that spot back today over Terri the body. And I give those the unofficial numbers the official standings released by NASCAR tomorrow morning. Quite a day a lot of different twists and turns so plus story here today Barney you know enough to fill up. As several good newspaper column inches tomorrow morning there in the post race analysis in. For all that happened today with Dale Jarrett in the fuel mileage in getting caught a lap down earlier and Mark Martin with his early problems in our heart in that of course that the troubles with Jeff Gordon there. Quite an interesting day here at Phoenix has one. The better shows that we've seen your face good racing all day long as some guys that Brittany did have a good run as the season winds down comes home with good finishes here this afternoon Johnny Benson notably B one of those Steve Grissom hung in there all day Kyle Petty. Jeff put on post a good run in some of the guys that have. The head off and on seasons this year run good but just not finished goods and it just kind of tie background of the story line at the very top of our broadcast couple of hours ago. The fastest car doesn't always win the race Bobby Hamilton was the guy everybody was expecting is gonna whip up on it today and he did dominate the first hundred miles to the bad. But did not win the card not the fastest that the end of the race when it came time to show the checkers tea what's going to be interesting to see who comes away with a was a cup championship you couldn't have a better finishing event and it be as close as it is among three drivers were sitting go to Atlanta a couple of times where two guys had a real good chance to win the championship but. It's been awhile since we've had three very very much in the hunt. And that of course Jack comes up two weeks from today the Atlanta finale does. And that event of course after a week off for the NASCAR Winston cup teams next weekend. The spotlight focuses on the NASCAR Busch Series and the NASCAR craftsman truck series and it art and radio will be at the homestead Miami speedway for the season finale for the NASCAR Busch Series Busch pole qualified be getting on Friday there. We'll have results for real on NASCAR today that NASCAR slid you all pro series championship going to be decided to hold sit on Saturday. Three drivers all right there within mere points at each other going for that title. And that is next Saturday at homestead and then next Sunday it is the Miami 300 noon eastern time on motor racing network tickets available for that event now of course ready to join his clicks that championship but much else up for stake. Not to mention a very rich rich paying race and now a lot of money for the winner that is the Miami 300 next Sunday at noon eastern on MR and radio. That NASCAR craftsman truck series championship will be decided at Las Vegas Motor Speedway next Sunday afternoon. The NASCAR truck that work we'll have live coverage of the Las Vegas for 24 you be getting at 3:15 eastern time. As Jack Sprague tries to wrap up that crowd for Hendrick Motorsports. Also on the card at Las Vegas is a NASCAR Winston west series going to run 300 kilometer event on Saturday afternoon. But ten or fifteen NASCAR Winston cup series teams going to go up. And be part of that event. And if you've got to be on the Las Vegas area for the truck finale be sure to take you that Winston west race on Saturday. We told about the all pro ration homestead also on the card they are next Sunday's a fifty lap report that NASCAR goodies dash series. The it's championship very much of the ballots for that division as well and that is part of the cart next weekend at homestead. And a final reminder before we leave the other voting for the most popular NASCAR Winston cup drivers at its final Leach both by calling 1909030909. Call cost 79 cents and you must use a touch tone telephone that's one at 900. Old an idol 30909. Voting ends November 18 to Bill Elliott currently leads the standings for the most popular driver award. Well Barney. Are part of the NASCAR Winston cup schedule aside the championship awards banquet in New York is set finished for the season now we have the Busch Series in the truck series next weekend but it's been that a very exciting year. Yeah I can't believe how fast this year's gone by we've seen a bit of everything was to cup racing like we normally do we've had a reasonably safe fear that all the tracks that we've been to and thanked the good lord for that as they say. And they can look forward again the next year looking for the finale down in Atlanta and a couple of weeks. Hello fun working it was a tough circuit this year with you and all the guys in the kind of in a way you can't hate CM but I think we need a little break to. Hand off season looms near. And now will be well enjoyed by many but for now it's on the whole state forest. And then it is on to Atlanta and then the awards banquet in New York in of course details on all of that upcoming on MR and radio will be on the Errol what are log of course for our weekly programs to keep you posted on what's going on. Ed Jarrett has the world of racing weekday morning for you it is weekday afternoon's NASCAR today the latest racing news will have that for you throughout the week and then Tuesday at 7 eastern. NASCAR live talk with the top stars of NASCAR I expect to hear from Dale Jarrett on Tuesday night. This week live from Las Vegas. From the folks at Ford as they are there as part of our annual trip to the specialty equipment manufacturers association show. Lot of the drivers headed straight to Vegas from here to make appearances on behalf of sponsors they're over the next several days. Thank Jerry Smith for her scoring in statistical help here at Phoenix this weekend. The voices you heard on our coverage of the two of the 500 Joseph Moore and Brett Armstrong who worked the corners Jim Phillips Winston Kelly and Mike Bagley who patrolled the pit and garage areas. Now providing Paul Allen best which saying so long from Phoenix Dale Jarrett has won the durable 500. And the championship chase has closed on leader Jeff Gordon. MR and radio. Coverage about NASCAR Winston cup series has come to you from the previous. International. Raceway. The executive producer of MRN radio is John McMullen. Assistant general manager Mark Williams chief engineer Hilary Howard. Operations manager Cameron Smith. Marketing services Stephanie Ellis broadcast coordinator sandy good affiliate relationship Omar's at all and Peter DiGiorgio. 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