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16G THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Sunday October 30 1994 lineup Tl Petty on Earnhardt: hard to compare The lineup for Slick 50 500 at Phoenix International Raceway: Schrader hoping to put dry spell into the ashes today at Phoenix Carelli gets Southwest Tour victory PHOENIX Dale thoughts about tying Richard Petty for the most NASCAR Winston Cup Series championships with seven are well known stock car racing Richard Petty will always be The Earnhardt has said repeatedly one will ever outdo But what are the views of Petty who also won a record 200 races 95 more than second-place David Pearson on seeing his once seemingly invincible mark matched by Earnhardt? one of those deals where you said Petty 57 like Hank Aaron beating Babe Ruth They did their things in different times Same with me and Dale now the top dog going through here I went through with Pearson Cale Yarborough Fred Lorenzen and Bobby Allison where would that put Earnhardt if he had run against them? be up there with if you go back and try to figure out of all the drivers the best there no such thing I never thought about Dale matching my record I never worried about it When I won seven championships the next most anyone had was three Earnhardt has won twice as many as anyone running Different approach Fans argue about which driver Petty or Earnhardt faced the toughest competition for their championships Petty says the eras are totally different run for championships then (in the 1960s and early when he took titles in 1964 72 74 and 75) They ran to win races the season was over they added it up There could have been three or four championships I could have won if I had been looking at it that way if something happens to the car you fix it and go back out because you want the extra points We do that years ago If your front end got knocked off you pulled the car behind the wall and left the track only time you worried about the championship back then is if there were a few races to go and you had a shot at The title also worth nearly as much as it has been since RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company began boosting the post-season point fund The minimum bonus Earnhardt clinched last week while winning the AC-Delco 500 at NC Motor Speedway is $125 million largest championship bonus was $150000 in 1979 you want to look at it record versus record Dale has won a lot more Petty said if I had won my championships in this day not counting the races we won have $10 or $15 more million" Assessing Earnhardt When asked for his thoughts on Earnhardt as a driver Petty shook his Stetson-covered head and replied without hesitation really Petty said just got natural ability like a Pearson He have to work at it got a talent and sense enough to control it now He when he started He learned and he puts out what it takes He does his thing and when he needs a little bit more he draws back in and does it would do that be beating him all day and it would come down to the end of the race and you had to race with him All good drivers are they Petty said that Earnhardt staying with the same team for 1 1 years Richard Childress Racing has been pivotal to his success Earnhardt has won six of his championships in Childress team cars saw a good quote from Darrell Waltrip about Petty said said win races teams win at this season Dale has won only four races but he has consistently been at the front Second third fourth fifth not only the driver the crew too because his car fall out of Petty permitted himself a bit of what he called in contrasting his 200 victories to 63 you compare records the only thing even or above in is championships not races At Martinsville and North Wilkesboro we won 15 both Petty said Daytona we won seven I mean not even in the picture I was the right man for the circumstances when I came through Dale is the right man for the present day circumstances he drops out maybe be Jeff Gordon Maybe it will be a guy we know right now that will take the torch and carry it to the next crowd of PHOENIX Rick Carelli outran Scott Hansen to win the GM Goodwrench Dealer-Delco Battery 300K the NASCAR Southwest Tour season finale Saturday at Phoenix International Raceway Carelli driving a Chevrolet took the checkered flag 34 seconds ahead Ford at the 1-mile track The race was a preliminary to Slick 50 500K a NASCAR Winston Cup Series event Carelli a Winston Cup rookie and former Winston West champion took the lead on the 160th of the 186 laps and was ahead the rest of the way Steve Portenga finished ninth worth $170000 and fifth pays $130000 thought we had a super chance last weekend at continued Schrader referring to the AC-Delco 500 at NC Motor Speedway led a bunch Then bang! The drives- haft came came out all of a sudden break sometimes and nothing you can do about it You just have to shrug it off and hope the next race will be Daytona 500 champion Sterling Marlin has the pole in a Chevrolet for the start of the race at 2:15 pm (TNN) Marlin qualified Friday at a track record 129833 mph started the season off with By TOM HIGGINS Staff Writer PHOENIX Among the top eight starters today in the Slick 50 500K at Phoenix International Raceway only Ken Schrader won during the Winston Cup season which is winding down To the disbelief of Schrader and his rivals the driver of the Hendrick Mo-torsports Chevrolet won since June 2 1991 a stretch of 106 races team is better than that and long said Schrader who has with nine top-five finishes and 18 top 10s going into the 30th of the 31 races The 1-mile D-shaped Phoenix track gives Schrader and his crew led by Ken Howes special hope Schrader is the all-time victory leader with eight wins one in a NASCAR Southwest Tour event in 1992 and the other seven in various divisions of Copper World Classic want to have a victory in Winston Cup racing on my record at Phoenix" Schrader said this will be the one for us and we can move up a notch in the point Schrader who starts seventh today stands fourth in the Winston Cup standings 78 points behind Mark Martin and 26 ahead of Morgan Shepherd Third place is worth a postseason bonus of $235000 Fourth is lead Associated Press Conway works on own legend By REID SPENCER Special Correspondent HARRISBURG Legends Car racing is a relatively inexpensive speed sport but assume participants take it seriously The sport features its share of hobbyists but also boasts up-and-coming stars such as 16-year-old Kevin Conway of Mount Pleasant After a first-lap pileup that eliminated four of the 17 contestants in the semipro division Conway drove his 1937 Chevrolet sedan to wire-to-wire to win the 30-lap feature Saturday on Charlotte Motor one-fifth mile track As a result Conway secured the CMS semipro track championship with 393 points to 369 for Brian Sockwell who finished third in the feature Sockwell won the national championship by 15 points over runner-up Tom Brewer Steve Mendenhall of Clayton driving a Chevy coupe had the Pro Division national championship locked up entering the final weekend and finished fourth in the 30-lap event Saturday John Crow secured the CMS track championship by finishing second in a Ford sedan to winner John Craig of Charlotte win elevated him to ninth in the national points standings despite a limited schedule only ran six national races but we were lucky enough to win them said Conway drive late-model stocks at Hickory or Concord and compete in the Legends Pro Division next season Legends Car Nationals results Pro: 1 Jon Craig Charlotte 2 John Crow Davidson 3 Billy Roach Jr Liberty Semi-pro: 1 Kevin Conway Mount Pleasant 2 Tom Brewer High Point 3 Brian Sockwell Greensboro Masters: 1 Red Parris Spartanburg 2 Mark Moskowitz Charlotte 3 Darrell Jackson Concord Chargers: 1 Greg Scholz Huntersville 2 Rob Anderson Carson Cal 3 John Freeman Huntersville Final national point standings Pro: 1 Steve Mendenhall Clayton 556 2 Tom Langston Timmonsville SC 384 3 Wayne Sharpe York SC 303 4 Tony Beasley Dunn 280 5 Jim Eubanks Garner 249 Semi-pro: 1 Sockwell 477 2 Brewer 462 3 Gale Beasley Dunn 425 4 Bob Ward Raleigh 405 5 Bobby Decola Burnsville 254 Final CMS points standings Pro: 1 Crow 365 2 Chuck Gafrar Mount Pleasant 381 3 Sharpe 268 4 Mendenhall 251 5 Craig 238 Semi-pro: 1 Conway 393 2 Sockwell 369 3 GE Chapman Indian Trail 280 4 Mark Rumley McLeansville 276 5 Ronnie Austin Tnnlty 237 Masters: 1 Mike Wike Kannapolis 395 2 Barry Graham Charlotte 279 3 Parris 275 4 Mickey Lawson Lake Wylie 165 5 Sam Trivette Lexington 153 NHRA Shelly Anderson is the top qualifier in top fuel John Force in funny car Warren Johnson in pro stock and David Schultz in pro stock motorcycles entering final eliminations for the NHRA Winston Select Finals at Pomona (Calif) Raceway Don Prudhomme qualified fourth for the final race of his 29-year career Prudhomme 53 is retiring after this event to become a car owner Associated Press Rockingham Dragway David Stensel of Richlands won the super pro class in the NHRA ET Finals Championships at Rockingham Dragway Other winners were Charles Davis of Fayetteville in pro Brian Graf of Jacksonville in sportsman Stephanie Shelton on Winston-Salem in junior dragster and Steve Muller of Pinellas Park Fla in motorcycle Staff reports Notebook The Penske South Winston Cup team of driver Rusty Wallace likely will wait until after the season-ending race at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Nov 13 to hire a crew chief Buddy Parrott is leaving at end to become team manager of the Diamond Ridge Racing operation of owner Gary Bechtel and driver Steve Grissom Tom Higgins The Grand Daddy The let st stronghold in Southern hospitality The best hospitality friendship entertainment prices in town 23Lyi)kinn BIvcQjCfiHott 929j47 MARSHA MELLONS Most Major Men's Magazines Fip Dining Available Nightly Show Times Lunch 9pm 1 1pm lam Special SundayliVjF Show i I pm Glasson clings to one-shot in the crash-marred race to take the Southwest Tour championship by 81 points over Bryan Germone who was involved in an accident and finished 25th Charlotte native Mike Cofer the former San Francisco 49ers kicker finished 11th a lap down in his Chevy The outcome enabled Cofer the rookie of the year to finish fifth in the point standings 137 points behind Portenga Winston Cup driver Ken Schrader who started his Chevy third was involved in a three-car crash on Lap 39 and parked 12 laps later with ignition problems finishing 34th Tom Higgins that big win at Daytona then started having bad said Marlin of his MorganMcClure Rac- ing team we can close it with a win or two and get some momentum for next Rusty Wallace the season leader in victories with eight shares the front row in a Ford Rick Mast runner-up to Dale Earnhardt by less than a car length last Sunday at Rockingham led second-round qualifying Saturday with a lap of 127850 mph start 21st in a 43-car field Earnhardt Bill Elliott and Mark Martin list Winston Cup victories at Phoenix The late Davey Allison won twice here Alan Kulwicki also deceased took the Winston Cup inaugural in 1988 Miller Barber 73-70-143 Tommy Horton Bob Panasik Charles Coody Agim Bardha Bob Wynn Ed Sneed 72-72-144 Dick Rhyan Terry Dill 73-72-145 Larry Laorettl Lee Elder 74-71-145 Lou Graham Walter Zembriskl Bud Allin 73-73-146 Al Kelley 74-72-146 Butch Baird 75-71-146 Gene Littler John Kalinka Tommy Jacobs Tom Shaw 75-72-147 Ken Still Dow Finsterwald Billy Maxwell Charlie Sifford MikeFetchick Howie Johnson Doug Ford Fran Cipro Al Besselink Donna Andrews and Michelle McCann beat Fuki Kido and Aiko Hashimoto 66-70 and Alicia Dibos and Martha Nause edged Toshimi Kimura and Mayumi Hirase 67-68 The LPGA team got another point when Dawn Coe-Jones and Elaine Crosby halved their match as did Tammie Green and Sherri Steinhauer with each team earning one-half point The teams of Dottie Mochrie and Val Skinner Beth Daniel and Hiromi Kobayashi Jane Geddes and Meg Mallon and Judy Dickinson and Nancy Ramsbottom lost their matches Seve Ballesteros shot 68 in the third round to take a two-stroke lead over Bernhard Langer and Colin Montgomerie in the Volvo Masters is Sotogrande Spain but was fined $500 along with Miguel Angel Jimemez with whom he was paired for slow play DINNER SPECIAL! 10 oz Steak lumho Shrimp $99J Over 40 Entertainers oOpen M-Th 1 1 -2am Sun 4-2am Friday Lunch Show Buffet Fri Sat open tU 4am wBrkft Buffet 525-2605 ll 14 South Blvd Charlotte Larry Gilbert Don January JayStgel Dave Eichelberger Ben Smith Jimmy Powell 70-68 138 Don Bies Gary Player Bill Hall Jim Dent DeWitt Weaver Tommy Aycock JimAlbus Dick Hendrickson Joe Jimenez Bob Dickson Tony Jacklin Marion Heck Richard Bassett Bob Zimmerman Rod Curl Bruce Crampton 73-68 141 Jim Colbert Chi Chi Rodriguez Deane Beman 71-71 142 Mike Joyce Dean Prince 72-70 142 John Paul Cain Dick Lotz Orville Moody Robert Gaona Saturday second round Kaanapali Classic Par-71 6590 yards Kaanapali Resort North Maui Hawaii Bob Murphy Jerry McGee 66-64 130 Tom Wargo Jack Kiefer Larry Mowry Dale Douglass George Archer Tom Weiskopf Kermit Zarley 69-66 135 Tommy Aaron Homero Blancas 71-65 136 Dick Goetz GaryGroh Rocky Thompson Dave Stockton Babe Hiskey Harry Toscano Gibby Gilbert McGee fires 67 to keep lead in Kaanapali Seniors Zoeller McCumber leading challenge at Tour Championship By BOB GREEN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Bill Glasson needed only a hard-fought round of 71 to retain a one-stroke lead Saturday in the third round of the $3 million Tour Championship But his erratic effort four bogeys and as many birdies over the Olympic Club course opened the door to his challengers for final 18 holes of the season-ending event (3 pm ABC WSOC-TV channel 9 in Charlotte) let a lot of people back in the Glasson said think someone can still shoot 63 or 64 and I think somebody probably Chief among his challengers are veterans Fuzzy Zoeller and Mark McCumber one stroke off 205 total for 54 holes Even Greg Norman bolstered by a hole-in-one insisted his 210 total is not too far back to catch up knew I had to shoot in the mid-60s to get back in it I did said Norman who shot a 66 if I can shoot in the mid-60s again tomorrow I have a chance to win it all" McCumber however took a different view going into the last round and you're worried about Greg Norman being five shots back in a lot of McCumber a two-time winner this year said after a 1 5-foot birdie putt on the final hole closed out his 69 Zoeller a runner-up four times this season declined to make any predictions after strolling to a bogey-free 66 never know what to expect" he said been knocking on the door a lot this year but I seem to keep running into a buzz-saw on Sunday But they say if you keep knocking long enough the door is going to US Open champion Ernie Els of South Africa Steve Lowery and career nonwinner Brad Bryant finished three rounds at 207 Bryant moved up with a 67 while Els and Lowery each lost a shot to par with Observer News Services MAUI Hawaii Bob Murphy held on to a one-shot lead with a second-round 67 Saturday in the Kaanapali Classic Seniors golf tournament at the Kaanapali Resort Murphy who equaled the Kaanapali North Course record with a 62 in the first round has a two-day total of 129 13 under par for 36 holes Jerry McGee shot a 64 Saturday to clip three shots from the four-shot lead Murphy held going into the second round Tom Wargo who also had a 64 on Saturday shares third at 132 with Jack Kiefer Larry Mowry is another shot back at 133 with Dale Douglass at 134 and George Archer Tom Weiskopf Kermit Zarley and Tommy Aaron all at 135 At Ami Japan Michiko Hattori and Akiko Fukushima routed Helen Alfredsson and Alice Ritz-man 61-66 as the Japan LPGA cut the LPGA lead to three points after the second round of the Nichirei International team event The LPGA Tour team enters singles matches with a 10V4-7'4 margin after winning only two of the nine best-ball matches Saturday Still ahead: Bill Glasson could only manage a 71 in Saturday's third round of the Tour Championship but that still left him with a one-stroke lead over Fuzzy Zoeller and Mark McCumber 72s Norman called his ace with a 7-iron on a 137-yard hole pivotal shot got me back in the golf tournament After taking ail that time off (due to illness) been hard to get back into it While he is still well back 54-hole total virtually assured him of the Vardon Trophy which goes to the player with the low scoring average for the year Norman came into the final official event of the season with a lead of more that one-half stroke a round over Nick Price think this put the icing on the Norman said "I think I have to shoot 95 tomorrow to lose But Price already assured of the PGA Player of the Year award on the strength of his British Open and PGA titles remained in control in the money-winning race He shot 67 and was at 2 1 2 Only Norman and Tom Lehman can beat him and Norman must finish first or second to have a chance With $540000 going to the winner of this event Price leads Norman $1442927 to $1258907.