COUNTY NEWS-OUTLOOK
On the road again I 1
The Winston Cup Series moves to a road
course --Watkins Glen International-
this week for Sunday's Sirius at The Glen.
| Cup: Sirius at The
1
on NBC.
250, 1:30
;. 16 on TNT.
Truck:
Auto Parts 200, 9
Friday on SPEED Channel.
.er's streak
to an end
Race: Sirius at The Glen
Where: Watkins Glen International
When: Sunday, 1:30 p.m., EDT
Race distance: 220.5 miles, 90 laps.
Defending champion: Tony Stewart
Race record: Mark Martin, 100.303 mph, Aug.
13, 1995.
Qualifying record: Dale Jarrett, 122.698 mph,
Aug. 10, 2001.
Storyline: Following his second-place finish at
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Matt Kenseth
extended his lead in the standings to 286 points
over Dale Earnhardt Jr.
I
1 Race: Cabela's 250
Where: Michigan International Speedway
I When: Aug. 16, 1:30 p.m. EDT
i Defending champ: Michael Waltrip
Race record: Mark Martin, 169.571 mph,
1 Aug. 19, 1995.
Qualifying record: Jimmy Spencer,
1 184.824 mph, Aug. 17, 2001.
1 Storyline: The Busch Series takes a week-
end off with Scott Riggs holding just a 7-
1 point lead in the standings. Only 99 points
separate the top five drivers in one of the
1 closest competitions in series history.
I CRAFTSMAN TRUCK
II Race: Federated Auto Parts 200
Where: Nashville Superspeedway
II When: Friday, 9 p.m. EDT
II Defending champ: Mike Bliss
Race record: Scott Riggs, 132.466 mph, Aug.
II 10, 2001.
Qualifying record: Mike Bliss, 157.322 mph,
II Aug. 9, 2002.
Storyline: Travis Kvapil takes a 10-point lead
1 in the standings following last week's Power
II Stroke Diesel 200 at Indianapolis Raceway
Park. Only 107 points separate the top four
1 drivers.
Indianapolis
?lth 52 drivers vying for 43 starting
8Pots in the Brickyard 400, nine went
disappointed after Saturday's
at Indianapolis Motor
Was more disheartened than Ken
whose streak of 579 consecutive
came to an end. The long
in 1984 on the old road course at
,Calif.
been third on the Winston Cup
behind Ricky Rudd, who
starts, and Rusty Wallace,
who has started 494 in a row,
for Musgrave
veteran Winston Cup driver
in the Craftsman
had a car fast enough to make the
but lost out when it started rain-
his qualifying run.
said, adding
his crew that it was raining
listening and communi-
COncerns to NASCAR, he likely would
to try again.
to tell me to come in,"
bad preparation on our team's
race were Brett
Bigley Jr., Robert Pressley, Jim
Fittipaldi, David Routimann
and temperatures in the
' at mid-morning, 11 drivers
record. Polesitter
the
84,343 m'.fl.,_e s per hour, while llth-
1Aadretti s speed of 183.098 mph was
the 182.960 that Tony Stewart ran to
in 2002.
the starting time for
needs to be moved to noon or later so
to go out when the sun is
at 2 p.m. or 3 p.m. to
said Sterling
qualified 12th.
Wins Busch race
Shane Hmiel late in the
at
r Park for his first career
victory in 47 career starts for
at 19 is one of the youngest driv-
Who is fifth in the Busch Series
, started third in the 20(Hap race and
of it in Hmiers rearview mirror.
Hmiel for
181 and held on for the win in
Speedway
see,
500,
Raceway
13. Tony Stewart, 2,420.
14. Terry Labonte, 2,392.
15. Mark Martin, 2,362.
16. Sterling Marlin, 2,339.
17. Bill Elliott, 2,244.
18. Ricky Craven, 2,174.
19. Elliott Sadler, 2,151.
20. Greg Biffle, 2,126.
21. Jamie McMurray, 2,092.
22. Ward Burton, 2,075.
23. Johnny Benson, 2,036.
24. Dave Blaney, 2,003.
25. Joe Nemechek, 1,999.
26. Ricky Rudd, 1,990.
Harvick wins at Indy
Fastest on restart,
Childress driver sees
his dream come true
By RICK MINTER
Cox News Service
Indianapolis
uto racing can be a
cruel sport, sometimes
taking the lives of its
participants. But it also tends
to reward people like Kevin
Harvick, who realized a boy-
hood dream of winning at
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
by taking Sunday's 10th run-
ning of the Brickyard 400.
Harvick motored past rook-
ie Jamie McMurray on a
restart with 16 laps to go and
drove away to victory. Winston
Cup points leader Matt
Kenseth finished second and
boosted his lead from 232 to
286, while McMurray, Jeff
Gordon and Bill Elliott com-
pleted the top five.
Winning at Indy was some-
thing that had been on
Harvick's mind since he got
an autographed photo from
four-time Indy 500 winner
Rick Meats years ago.
On the photo Meats wrote,
"Good luck. Hope to see you
here some day."
"I've looked at that picture •
for a long time," said Harvick,
27, as he reflected on the
fourth, but biggest, win of his
2-year Winston Cup career.
"When I finally got the oppor-
tunity to race here a few years
ago, it was pretty much a
dream come true.
"It's hard to explain how
good I feel."
The same was true for his
car owner Richard Childress,
who tasted victory at the
Brickyard with the late Dale
Earnhardt in 1995 but took
great pleasure in celebrating
with the driver who took over
Childress' car aRer
Earnhardt's death.
The veteran car owner par-
ticipated in the winning
crew's traditional kissing of
the bricks on the frontstretch
of the historic track.
"I've never had a cold kiss
that felt so good," he said.
Like Harvick, Childress had
fond thoughts of Indianapolis
Motor Speedway long before
he ever had a race car.
"I always dreamed of com-
ing to Indy, just to see it," he
said. "Every year I would Us.
ten to the Indy 500 from the
27. Jimmy Spencer, 1,948.
28. Dale Jarrett, 1,918.
29. Todd Bodine, 1,885.
30. Jeremy Mayfield, 1 873.
31. Kenny Wa lace, 1,843.
32. Steve Park, 1,736.
33. Jeff Green, 1,719.
34. Casey Mears, 1,612.
35. Kyle Petty, 1,475.
36. Tony Raines, 1,475.
37. Ken Schrader, 1,431.
38. Jack Sprague, 1,284.
39. John Andretti, 1,275.
40. Mike Skinner, 1,067.
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Kevin Harvlck opened up a big lead on a restart
with 10 laps to go to win Sunday's Brickyard 400.
time I was just a kid.
"I never will forget the day
listening to the [1964] race
when Eddie Sachs got killed."
As with most Winston Cup
races these days, pit strategy
was a key factor Sunday.
Harvick started on the pole and
led 17 laps before turning over
the lead to Bill Elliott.
But the fastest cars for most
of the race belonged to Tony
Stewart, who led three times
for 60 laps, and Jamie
McMurray, who led twice for 33.
Late in the race, teams began
to execute plans they hoped
would bring them victory.
Harvick made a green-flag pit
stop on Lap 133 of 160, which
meant he wouldn't have to stop
again.
Kenseth took gas and four
tires on Lap 106, with the hope
of taking only gas on a later
stop and winding up out front.
But a caution flag at Lap 140
spoiled that strategy.
"I knew this would happen,"
Kenseth radioed to his crew as
the yellow flag flew.
But since most of his com-
petitors also stopped, he
returned to the track in third
place, with fresher tires than
McMurray and Harvick, the
two drivers in front of him who
did not pit.
Stewart, who had taken
right-side tires and gas 11 laps
earlier, came back in under cau-
tion on Lap 142 to get left-side
tires and a chassis adjustment
because his car was handling
so poorly. He returned in 12th
place and finished there.
McMurray and Harvick
stayed on the track and kept
the lead, but on the restart,
they had to line up behind sev-
eral drivers who were on the
taft end of the lead lap.
As the drivers came up to
speed, the tail-end drivers
boxed in McMurray so
Harvick drove to the bottom of
the track and into the lead,
bringing his teammate Robby
Gordon with him.
Then, as the pack sped down
the backstretch, Dave Blaney
appeared to slow with a fiat
tire, triggering a Talladega.
style crash that collected seven
other drivers -- Terry
Labonte, Joe Nemechek,
Sterling Marlin, Ricky Rudd,
Jimmie Johnson, Johnny
Benson andMike Skinner.
On the restart for the final
10-lap dash to the checkered
flag, Harvick opened a big
lead, while McMurray and
Kenseth struggled to get by
second-running Robby
Gordon.
Harvick said his teammate,
with whom he has occasional.
ly been at odds, took care of
him this time by blocking his
challengers.
"He did all he could for the
company and myself today,"
Harvick said.
Jarrett's jackman struck
by vehicle during pit stop
By RICK MINTER
Cox News Service
Indianapolis
I • ale Jarrett and his team had a huge scare
| during the Brickyard 400 when jackman
• John Bryan was struck by Jarrett's car dur-
ing a pit stop. He avoided serious inju.
The incident occurred less than two years after
Bryan was struck and injured on pit road at
Homestead (Fla.) Speedway.
On the 37th lap of Sunday's
Brickyard 400, Bryan was
standing on pit road preparing
to jack up Jarrett's No. 88 Ford
when Jarrett lost control, spun
around and hit Bryan. The
impact knocked Bryan into the
wall and sent his jack rolling
down pit road.
Bryan and Joe Krupa, a pho-
tographer who was struck by a JARRETT
tire that was about to be put on
Jarrett's car, were taken to nearby Methodist
Hospital, where they were treated and released.
Fortunately for Bryan, he was wearing a helmet,
a piece of equipment NASCAR mandated after the
incident at Homestead in which Bryan and three
other crewmen were hit by the spinning car of
Ward Burton.
Jarrett, who returned to the track after repairs to
his car, shouldered the blame.
"This is probably the worst day of my life," he
said. "It's the most devastating thing I've ever been
associated with, and it was just stupidity on my
part."
He said his heart wasn't in the race when he
returned to the track after repairs. He finished 39th.
"I had to finish it for the guys because they
worked hard, but I couldn't have cared less," he
said.
Nudge for V00axl Burton
Bill Davis, owner of the No. 22 Dodge driven by
Ward Burton, said Sunday that he's ready to part
company with the only driver who ever won a
Winston Cup race in his cars.
A day after Burton went pub-
lic with his complaints about
the team's poor performance of
late and indicating he'd like to
find a new ride, Davis said he's
ready to accommodate.
"Nobody's happy," Davis said.
"We haven't run to our poten-
tial for two years now, and we
offered Ward the opportunity to
BURTON go look elsewhere, and we did
the same thing.
"We think a change is better."
But Davis disputed garage rumors that Burton
could leave as early as next week.
"No, no, nothing like that," he said, adding that
he was surprised the issue had become public
knowledge,
"I was surprised that Ward decided to go to the
media and make such a big deal out of it," Davis
said. "But he did, so this is something else for us to
deal with."
Scott Wimmer, who drives for Davis in the Busch
Series, is a likely replacement in the No. 22. Burton,
considered one of the more talented drivers in the
garage, could wind up driving for either Richard
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