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CITY FINAL IN SPORTS: Rangers pound Orioles Mussina in 9-3 win page id I i MONDAY APRIL 7 1997 ifUiBiiiiiuipuii IniMrt'r'lrt Tinfli i Wiimi iliiiilwiftiMaiitiHWHifil'rtifriffl Tarrant County Texas "Where The West Begins" 50 CENTS 11 111" PP ffirSwfci 8X A MOTOR SPEEDWAY fUH (o rf1 '1 V-: J- Star-TelegramJERRY Hoefer The inaugural Winston Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway in north Fort Worth gets off to a skidding start yesterday as NASCAR drivers spin out on the first turn of the first lap 185000 witness Texas spectacular THE WINNER Jeff Burton celebrates with his wife Kim and a crew member after winning the inaugural Interstate Batteries 500 yesterday at Texas Motor Speedway PAGE 1C Fans roll out early traffic flows slowly By Bill Bowen Star-Telegram Staff Writer What a difference a day makes Desperate to avoid Saturday's gridlock nightmare fans started hours earlier yesterday and began improvising parking spaces miles from Texas Motor Speedway Police and track officials channeled traffic masterfully Although it took some frustrated motorists almost six hours almost all 185000 fans were in their seats when the green flag dropped for the NASCAR Winston Cup race at the speedway When the race was over some fans and shuttle buses became locked in one more gridlock in the infield and then hit the highways in a steady smooth stream "What a surprise" said an extremely pleased (More on TRAFFIC on Page 5) By Kristin Sullivan Star-Telegram Staff Writer FORT WORTH Texas Motor Speedway debuted on the big-time NASCAR racing circuit yesterday with an inaugural Winston Cup race that drew 185000 fans included 10 crashes and prompted drivers to complain about the track's condition Virginian Jeff Burton won the Interstate Batteries 500 his first Winston Cup triumph finishing four seconds ahead of NASCAR points leader Dale Jarrett "It's overwhelming at the moment" Burton said from Victory Lane after winning $354350 in his No 99 Exide Batteries Ford Thunderbird "We've given some races away this year but this team has worked hard and we had a great car today" Drawn by the spectacle promised by the architects of the country's second-largest sports venue fans converged on the $130 million speedway (More on RACE on Page 4) THE FANS A Star-Telegram survey finds a motorsports melting pot at the speedway: doctors and nurses barbers and farmers gear heads and graduate students PAGE 4A THE TRACK After 10 crashes in the race drivers say overhaul is needed PAGES 1C6C Siar-TclcgramRoN Jenkins INSIDE A day with speedway's Eddie Gossage 4A Bicycle ride to races called right idea SA Area residents lament speedway traffic SA Lockheed machinists approve contract plant is bad enough" he said "But when they're outsourcing work inside the plant right in front of us: Today: Sunny with increasing cloudiness later in the day High about 70 low about 50 Page 10B that the ultimate affront Veale is not alone in his frustra Classified Comics -6-7E Crosswords 6E2F Editorials 8B Encore 10A Horoscope 4E Movies 5E Obituaries 6-7B Tarrant Businesslnside Television 8E wwwstartextnet 1 tl yr No 347 1 02 page Copyright Fort Worth Star-Totogram 1M7 To tutMCribo dial DEL-tVER tions Nor are his 1700 or so United Auto Workers brethren at GM's Arlington truck plant These davs Company sweetens offer at last minute By Dan Piller Star-Telegram Staff Writer FORT WORTH Machinists at the Lockheed Martin fighter assembly plant in Fort Worth voted 3-to-l in favor of a new three-year contract yesterday after receiving a sweetened offer from the company The vote averts a strike that Job security key in new union activism By David Welch Star-Telegram Staff Writer When General Motors employee Frank Veale sees nonunion janitors cleaning offices once maintained by union workers in the Arlington assembly plant he feels the wrench of shrinking job security and waning union leverage "Outsourcing work outside the would have begun this morning Leaders of District 776 of the International Association of Machinists had talked tough last week when the company was offering one 2 percent raise at some point during the three-year contract and a $400 annual cost-of-living bonus But Lockheed Martin boosted the offer over the weekend with a second 2 percent annual raise to begin immediately plus other (More on LOCKHEED on Page 9) outsourcing work to contractors nr other sources of cheaper nonunion: laoor nas replaced the 1980s term! downsizing as the bane of Union workers The issue has a number 7 4 (More on LABOR on Page 9) 11.