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CS TNI PRf St DEMOCRAT, MONDAY, JUN1 11,1 OSO SEARS FJDDWir 300 if I ANNIE WELLSPRE88 DEMOCRAT Iol-j they finished Complete results from Sunday's Sears Point 300. Poi. Ww Or Um ttwtng 1. Rusty Wallace Pontiac Grand Prix 74 $69,100 2. Mark Martin Ford Thunderbird 74 $34,000 3.

Ricky Rudd Chevrolet Lumina 74 $28,675 4. Geoff Bodlne Ford Thunderbird 74 $20,650 5. Bobby Hillin Jr. Buick Regal 74 $17,007 6. Sterling Martin Oldsmobile Cutlass 74 $12,475 7.

Ernie Irvan Oldsmobile Cutlass 74 $12.700 8. Irv Hoerr Oldsmobile Cutlass 74 $7,000 9. Michael Waltrip Pontiac Grand Prix 74 $10,600 10. Rick Wilson Oldsmobile Cutlass 74 $12,225 11. AlanKulwicki Ford Thunderbird 74 $9,400 12.

HutStricklin Buick Regal 74 $6,800 13. Derrike Cope Chevrolet Lumina 74 $10,000 14. DaleJarrett Ford Thunderbird 74 $5,800 15. Terry Fisher Pontiac Grand Prix 74 $4,575 16. Kyle Petty Pontiac Grand Prix 74 $10,925 17.

Stan Barrett Chevrolet Lumina 74 $3,850 18. KenSchrader Chevrolet Lumina 74 $10,825 19. Harry Gant Oldsmobile Cutlass 74 20. Bill Schmitt Chevrolet Lumina 74 $6,650 21. Bill Elliott Ford Thunderbird 74 $12,600 22.

Jim Bown Pontiac Grand Prix 73 $6,675 23. John Krebs Pontiac Grand Prix 73 $4,600 24. Davey Allison Ford Thunderbird 72 $10,580 25. Mike Chase Buick Regal 72 $3,575 26. Richard Petty Pontiac Grand Prix 71 $4,420 27.

Jimmy Spencer Pontiac Grand Prix 71 $6,300 28. Butch Gilliland Chevrolet Lumina 71 $4,200 29. Morgan Shepherd Ford Thunderbird 70 $6,165 30. Troy Beebe Buick Regal 70 $3,475 31. Butch Miller Chevrolet Lumina 68 $4,075 32.

Dave Marcis Chevrolet Lumina 67 $6,025 33. Darrell Waltrip Chevrolet Lumina 65 $12,375 34. Dale Earnhardt Chevrolet Lumina 65 $12,650 35. Terry Labonte Oldsmobile Cutlass 62 $5,935 36. Bill Sedgwick Chevrolet Lumina 61 $3,305 37.

Chad Little Ford Thunderbird 60 $3,295 38. Tommy Kendall Chevrolet Lumina 46 $4,025 39. Dick Trickle Pontiac Grand Prix 41 $6,250 40. Jack Sellers Buick Regal 41 $3,225 41. Brett Bodine Buick Regal 38 $5,225 42.

Rob Moroso Oldsmobile Cutlass 17 $3,975 43. Ted Kennedy Oldsmobile Cutlass 1 1 $3,225 44. Hershel McGriff Pontiac Grand Prix 2 $3,225 Time of race: 2:41:35. Margin of victory: Finished under caution flag. Caution flags: 9 for 24 laps.

Lead changes: 8 among 6 drivers. Lap leaders: Rudd 1-11; Irvan 12-18; Chase 19-22; Wallace 23-30; Kendall 31-34; Wallace 35-53; Hillin 54-57; Rudd 58-59; Wallace 60-74. Winston Cup standings Here are the NASCAR Winston Cup point standings following Sunday's Sears Point 300. Name Points Points Before Sunday's behind race finish I.Mark Martin 1800 2nd 2nd 2. Morgan Shepherd 1738 62 1st 29th 3.

Rusty Wallace 1688 112 4th 1st 4. Dale Earnhardt 1664 136 3rd 34th 5. Geoff Bodine 1644 156 5th 4th 6. Kyle Petty 1594 206 6th 16th 7. Ken Schrader 1555 245 8th 18th 8.

Bill Elliott 1546 254 9th 21st 9. Darrell Waltrip 1517 283 7th 33rd 10. Ernie Irvan 1504 294 10th 7th Rusty Wallace's car is airborne on Turn 3. Wallace Color this race yellow The yellow flags flew over Sears Point International Raceway on Sunday. Many of the spinouts were caused by flat tires when cars got off the narrow course and onto the rocks: 1: Jack Sellers of Sacramento spun his Buick on lap 4 and had to be towed back into the pits.

2: Ted Kennedy of Fresno spun on lap 8, tapping the tire wall on Turn 10. 3: Rob Moroso of Madison, spun about 50 feet off the course in the exit of Turn 2 on lap 18. He had to be towed off with a broken rear suspension. 4: Dave Marcis of Wausau, Wise, pulled off the track with mechanical problems on lap 29 and needed to be towed. 5: Jimmy Spencer of Berwick, spun in Turn 1 1 and was tapped by Harry Gant of Taylorsville, N.C.

Both continued. 6: Dick Trickle stopped on course in Turn 2 with engine failure on Iap41. 7: Butch Miller of Coopersville, pulled off with engine problems in Turn 6. 8: Troy Beebe of Modesto pulled off in Turn 2 with suspension problems after hitting Kyle Petty, Randelman, N.C, and Bill Schmitt, Redding. 9: Terry Labonte of Corpus Christi, Texas, spun out and stalled his car at turn 12 on next to last lap.

There was no bumping this year, however. "Ricky Is real courteous to me," said Wallace, who scored his second win of the year. "I took a dive underneath him and he had to brake In the corner and he let me by and there was no problem." Rudd, the fast qualifier, led for the first 12 laps before losing the lead to Ernie Irvan of Modesto after pitting under a yellow flag. Rudd never got back up front. "I've never had a day like today when we had so many cut tires," said Rudd.

"We just played catchup all day. I couldn't race the kind of race I wanted to." Irvan retained the lead until the 23rd lap when Mike Chase, who started in 38th position, stayed on the course as all the leaders made pit stops under a caution flag. It took Wallace only three laps to move back in front and he held on until lap 30 when Tom Kendall from La Canada slipped into the lead. Kendall's luck didn't last long, however as he had to retire from the race after running into Chad Little's stalled Thunderbird at Turn 7. Wallace regained the lead on lap 35 and held it until he pitted for the final time 20 laps from the finish, allowing Hillin to move into the lead.

Rudd caught Hillin two laps later to take the lead (lap 58), but Wallace, with fresh tires, was back in front for good on lap 60. Continued from Page CI said Wallace. "Ricky (Rudd) takes all the lines perfect. Sometimes I think I need to do things differently" And Wallace did do something differently. He stayed out of trouble, and the pits, while most of the front-runners were making several stops for new tires, or to repair sheet-metal damage.

Martin, for one, had the wind knocked out of his chances by making three pit stops for flat tires. He also got caught in the middle of a lap-12 crash involving Dale Earnhardt and Rudd that tore up his fenders and caused steering problems. "We really got stuck back there (in traffic)," said Martin. "I had three flat tires and a toe-in problem with the suspension. I feel fortunate to have finished second." Rudd knew the feeling.

"We struggled," he said. "I can count four unscheduled stops for flats. We couldn't see the debris, but we kept picking it up. We'd come in for a (pit) stop and fix the flat, go out, and have to come back in for another one. We couldn't plan any strategy." aways." i After Wallace pitted for fresh; tires with 15 laps to go, he quickly moved up on Rudd and took the lead on Turn 7 the same turn where Rudd bumped Wallace off! the course last year on the way toi victory.

But while other drivers were trying to make up time and places on the hills and in the hairpin turns, Wallace was playing it cool. "They (other drivers) were getting pretty aggressive," Wallace agreed. "I tried to do a lot of passing going into the long straight about when we (pitted)," said Barry Dodson, Wallace's crew chief. Rudd Rudd ended up making the first of three unscheduled pit stops, all to repair right-front tires that inexplicably kept losing air. Each time, he managed to stay on the lead lap and fight his way back toward the leaders thanks to the caution laps that slowed the field.

"We were playing catch-up all day," Rudd said. "We couldn't call a race strategy. We couldn't plan anything. All we could do is come in and run like crazy." And although it seemed insane, Rudd actually took the lead on lap 58, after Wallace and the other leaders pitted during a caution lap. "He was the one we were worried But Wallace had fresh tires, and he had run down Rudd by lap 60.

Catching him was one thing, but passing was a different story. Wallace tried it first on Turn No. 7, where the two had staged their dramatic bump-and-run session last year. This time, Rudd cut off Wallace, and Wallace gave him a light bump on the backside. Two turns later, Wallace had passed Rudd for good, and Martin followed 1 1 laps later.

"That was a pretty controversial corner if you remember," Wallace said of Turn 7. "I drove to the (the other leaders) would run hard enough that their tires would get run down to the point my tires did. You can only run sideways for so many laps. I was like a sitting duck at the end." A condition that ruffled some feathers in Rudd's pit area, i "I wish I had an explanation," crew chief Waddell Wilson said. "The only thing I can think of is there was a lot of debris during the caution laps, and we were the unlucky car that kept running over It." outside of him, and he blocked me out again.

I just let him know I was back there, and that I did remember that corner." Rudd continued to drive aggressively, but he harbored no illusions about catching Wallace. Because his third unscheduled pit stop had come four laps before the rest of the leaders, Rudd knew his balding tires would make for a hairy finish. "It's almost impossible to hold anybody off when your tires are like that," Rudd said. "I was hoping Sunday's race. Then the caution flags and the flats took over.

There were so many yellow flags at Sears Point, it looked like a Raiders-Oilers game. The 24 caution laps drove most of the drivers crazy, but they kept Rudd in contention. "It was too many yellows if you were up front, but for people like me, there couldn't be enough yellows," Rudd said. "I was out there praying for "em." Rudd's first request for divine intervention came at the start of lap 12, when he had his rear end slammed by Dale Earnhardt. Rudd sustained back bumper damage in the exchange, but it was his right-front tire that went flat on one of the ensuing caution laps.

Continued from Page CI problems, It would've been a whole different deal." Rudd, who won NASCAR's first-ever venture into Northern California last year after surviving a late bumping match with Rusty Wallace, came into Sunday's race dealing from a position of strength. "Ricky's probably one of the best road racers In the country," said Wallace, who passed Rudd in the 60th lap and went on to take the checkered flag. Rudd also had the fastest car. He won the pole with a record-setting lap on Friday, and zoomed ahead of the field for the first 11 laps of Take Your Office With Buy your cellular phone from the experts: Choose from Motorola, Oki, Mitsubishi, GE more. TRANSMISSIONS i If irasracTRifr coi: wows mm Mobiles, portables and transportables.

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