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CALL FOR AN ESTIMATE 262-3254 PLC 1001489 By JERRY GARAU STAR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT In a battle of attrition, Gary Bettenhausen was a survivor. Barely. "I'm just glad it's over because more than once I thought the race was over for me that I was going to crash," he said from his garage after driving the Gohr RacingGenesee Beer Wagon to a fifth-place finish Sunday in the 71st Indianapolis 500. Bettenhausen was one of only I I drivers left on the track when the checkered flag fell. He started from the outside of the fifth row, but his qualifying speed of 204.504 was only the 28th fastest in the field.

Despite those less-than-dazzling qualifying figures, Bettenhausen wasn't surprised by his strong finish. "I made the statement that if a couple of cars dropped out of the race, any car could win this race," he said. "I knew it was going to be just exactly like it was where everybody was going to have difficulty keeping the car in balance and handling right." Bettenhausen was no exception. He was in a wrestling match with his car most of the slow a car down with the brakes faster than when a car is spinning. So there was no real danger of hitting him unless he would've hit the wall and then bounced off in front of me." The fifth-place finish was Bettenhausen's best at the' speedway since 1978, when he finished third.

It also was something of a triumph for the little guys. Bettenhausen, a Monrovia resident, does not have the luxury of deep-pocketed backers. But the conditions on Sunday were a great equalizer. The wind and turbulence on the track brought many of the high-dollar teams within Bettenhausen's reach. "All of the cars handled so terrible that the cars just had to slow down," he said.

"We were running so slow sometimes that If we'd have spun we wouldn't have hit the wall. These guys were running in the 180 mile-per-hour bracket." But that bracket suited Bettenhausen fine. He was still running at the end, six laps behind the leaders but well in front of 28 other drivers. behind somebody I didn't know what was going to happen." he said. "When I'd get to the corner it'd push one time and then I'd tuck down and get underneath them try to run right on the edge of the grass and then it'd jump loose.

"I never got through Turn 3 once all day long. I mean I never had one what I felt was a good corner in Turn 3 all day long. "We just kept struggling all day long." Bettenhausen's handling problems were magnified by a mechanical problem in his pit. "We couldn't change tires because the air Jacks wouldn't work so we only got to change tires about one third as much as we wanted to," he said. But Bettenhausen's closest call of the day wasn't the result of his car's handling problems.

Coming out of the fourth turn on Lap 162, Bettenhausen had a close-up view of rookie Fabrizio Barbazza's spin. "Barbazza spun right in front of me," Bettenhausen said. "The minute I saw him start to spin I just got on the brakes and slowed down. You can actually Gary Bettenhausen thought he might crash. afternoon and was lucky not to have been thrown out of the ring.

"I tell you what, when I'd get Reigning Rahal quickly became mortal AYRES HOME SERVICES COMPLETE KITCHEN AND BATHROOM REMODELING By DAN DUNKIN STAR STAFF WRITER In last year's Indianapolis 500. Bobby Rahal became famous for his finish. Sunday, he was just another race driver i I I who never Rahal's first unscheduled stop took 4 minutes, 45 seconds. During that time, he dropped from fourth to 24th place. Rahal saw his reign coming to an end.

"Everything was working pretty well until that yellow (when Ludwig Heimrath spun lost a wheel in, the fourth turn on Lap 28)," said Rahal, who finished 26th and, for the fifth time In six tries, didn't finish the race. "When I went back out, the engine started missing, then it popped and cut out, and I coasted in. We changed the ignition box and went back ou, and it started breaking up again. "After that it Just kept happening, and it came down to probably running a lap or two, coming back in and going back out, so we just called it a day. Obviously, the problem went deeper than the Ignition box.

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"I think we handled the role of defending champions pretty well." said Rahal. "We didn't hear any complaints from anyone. We tried to be as cooperative as we could be under the circumstances, but we had come here to win for the second time in a row, too. "I'd rather come back here as the defending champion any day, believe me." Rahal name in 1986, got bogged down early in the 1987 race. He finally quit after 57 laps after an ignition problem which resulted in three lengthy pit stops.

"First Turn Fury" "That (the ignition problem) is a new one for us," he continued. This is the first time I can remember us experiencing a problem like this. We've got such a great engine builder, we've never had this kind of problem with our engines. But the odds are that they're going to happen, and they Just happened to us today." Rahal's crew chief, Steve Home, said It's been three or four years since he's had to deal with that kind of problem. "We were doing OK," Home said.

"The first pit stop put us back into second. But then the cylinder heads kept blowing the spark plugs, and that's racing. We'll be back." When Rahal wasn't in the pit, he was fighting to keep his No. 1 Budwelser-Truesports Lo-laCosworth on the course. "My car was real loose in traffic, and the turbulence out there was about as rough as I've ever seen it," Rahal said.

"I remember following somebody around for three laps because I Just couldn't get around him. On our first pit stop we put in a little more wing, and when we burned off a half load of fuel the car was really handling pretty well." Rahal's car was among the most competitive all month. His four-lap average of 213.316 was second-fastest and made him a good bet to repeat as champion. But his neighbor on the front row, Mario Andrettl, was soon out of sight. Soon, so was the rest of the field.

"I never saw Mario," Rahal said. "Oh, I saw him at the start but after that I didn't. Even so. when the car began handling better I was thinking that it's a long race, but then came that yellow and the ignition problems. "We felt pretty confident going into the race.

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