Winston-Salem Journal from Winston-Salem, North Carolina • 15

Winston Salem Journal Winston Salem NC Monday March 3 1986 Page By Mike Mulhern JOURNAL REPORTER got to send some of my boys to night school to learn some better arithmetic I joked Earnhardt who lost the Daytona 500 two weeks ago when he ran out of gas with three laps remaining just not getting that good a gas mileage as some of the others and going to have to work on Gomel our cylinder head man has given us a lot more horsepower this season and we quite worked out the new gas mileage said Childress certainly not going to give up any horsepower But got to get it figured out because it cost us at least a third place finish Earnhardt and Waltrip got into it again yesterday but only briefly With 40 miles to go and both men already out of contention for the win the two tangled in the second corner got under me and suddenly I felt something bump bump said Earnhardt times he got into me Maybe he got into some loose stuff Then I looked up in the mirror and saw him sliding up toward the wall I sure see any slow car around us And hell no I backing off I was trying to get away from ROCKINGHAM Dale Earnhardt and car owner Richard Childress are negotiating new contracts with Wrangler officials and are close to signing a Wrangler official said yesterday going to put to rest all of those rumors about Dale jumping to the Junior Johnson said the official who asked not to be named Earnhardt who joined the Childress team in 1984 is in the third year of his second three year personal services contract with the Greensboro based apparel company There has been intense speculation over the past several months that Johnson might hire Earnhardt to replace Darrell Waltrip next season contract with Waltrip expires at the end of this year However last controversial run in between Earnhardt and Waltrip during a race at Richmond Va appears to have been the turning point in the Wrangle Childress Earnhardt negotiations Johnson had very harsh words for Earnhardt after the Richmond incident Earnhardt heads to Charlotte today for a meeting with NASCAR officials to appeal heavy penalties levied against him in the wake of the Richmond crash which occurred while Earnhardt and Waltrip were dueling for the lead with a mile left in the race NASCAR officials charged Earnhardt with and hit him with a year long probation The penalty was the stiffest NASCAR has levied since it banned Curtis Turner from the sport in the early 1960s for trying to sign up drivers with the Union Meanwhile in CarolinaGoodwrench 500 Earnhardt once again came up a few laps short in his bid for his first Winston Cup win of the season Despite running a car which handling quite as well as he had hoped Earnhardt was holding in with Geoff Bodine Waltrip and Morgan Shepherd in a tight pack about 10 seconds behind leader Terry Labonte 350 miles into the race As Earnhardt prepared to make a routine pit stop under green with 154 miles to go however he ran out of gas He lost two laps before getting back on the track and he never recovered is' him But I guess call that Of course not in position to say anything about anything all up to or a while it appeared that Richard Petty was on his way to his first tour win in almost two years He looked like the Petty of old during the early stages of the race but he burned up his brakes halfway through the race and that plus the shoulder pain doomed him Dale Inman crew chief said know what Richard went through out there He was hurting when he lost his brakes that help either But he ran a good race think Richard will be in better shape at Atlanta (for the Atlanta 500 in two Inman added just get over a shoulder separation very quickly And this is about the hardest track you can find to run on with any injury like arm stayed with me pretty good" said Petty hurt some but not to the point where I drive the car Even with the problem with the brakes we still had a good Bodine following the rule for cars prepared by Gary Nelson had the best mileage of the day going 120 miles on a tank And run here is added evidence of the solid operation Nelson has put together over the last four months been in position to win all three races this season and it would have been real nice to see what would have happened at the end today between Geoff and Terry and said Nelson were a coming all says a lot about our team So finally going to take a day off Monday our first day off in more than two months I hope not a Some other crewmen may be taking today off some of the few remaining crewmen working for Bill team Gardner is so short of men that he was pressed into service himself yesterday Driver Greg Sacks dropped out after only 81 miles with a burned out rear end Willy Ribbs who was to drive ord at Atlanta in two weeks crashed that car in testing Thursday And there was talk in the garage area yesterday that Gardner may now be planning a merger with another team AP WIREPHOTO Eddie Bierschwale (left) and Davey Allison tangled during race Wrangler Official Says Childress Team Is Close to Re Signing JI 4 Kl Labonte 'Continued rom Page 11 at the race track Everybody has good ideas and it pays Bodine Earnhardt Labonte and Petty took turns leading during the first 200 miles Then Labonte took control of the race and dominated the last two hours of the four hour race race is more of a mental drain 6n a driver than even the World said Labonte when leading not that bad in fact ready to go another 100 Labonte held a nine second lead over Bodine and Darrell Waltrip with 60 miles to go Waltrip then fell a lap behind when as he made a scheduled stop for gas on lap 435 of the 492 lap event was trapped in the pits by an inopportune yellow flag the ninth and last of the afternoon Ironically that yellow allowed Gant to make up a lap he had lost earlier because of a tire problem Labonte had slowed and pulled on to the track apron in the fourth turn to begin his final scheduled stop when the yellow came out was angry with myself for not seeing that caution flag sooner and for letting Harry get his lap said Labonte I saw the flag I pulled back up on the track but by then Harry had blown by me and was So for the final restart with 50 laps to go Labonte was at the head of a four car pack with Bodine Gant and Petty But Petty nursing an injured shoulder and in severe pain was run ning without brakes and fell off the pace Then engine blew with 33 miles to go was going to be a heck of a three car race to the finish be tween Terry and me and said Bodine Labonte kept lengthening his lead on Gant until the final 10 miles when Gant began his final charge Gant closed to within four car lengths with two laps left but could get no closer were lucky to run said Gant's crew chief Travis Carter who pulled off a minor miracle in changing a shock on car dur ing the race without losing a lap Tire problems forced Gant to make two unscheduled stops and twice he had to fight from a lap down one point we were two laps said Carter there at the end Harry had to hold the trans mission in gear and had to drive with one hand no way he could pass a man while driving with one hand and worrying about the car jumping out of gear on him If the car jumps out of gear on you spin you Gant acknowledged the difficulty he had experienced' had hands eveywhere trying to keep the car on the he said I had a chance to catch Terry depending on how he caught traffic in the last 10 laps With two laps to go he got a good break when he got in front of (Alan) Kulwicki going into the corner and got a good shot away from me off the Labonte said he had caution on his sure Harry was hustling his car but I was being a little cautious with lap he said after his sixth career win sacrificed some time on the track to get through the Hmiel however think Gant had too much of chance to beat La bonte'' if Harry could have gotten up to us I felt have had trouble getting around Terry in the said Hmiel Harry was gaining half a tenth (of a second) to a full tenth a lap there at the end and I was getting a little Labonte said down the stretch he was more concerned about Gant and Petty than about Bodine and Waltrip was running pretty good but it looked like I could pull away from him when I could run some clean Labonte said thought Petty was going to be the one to watch late in the race because he ran so strong early And when you see Harry Gant in your mirror at Rock ingham you know going to have your hands full because he runs so well win in a fastback Delta 88 was the first Grand National vic tory for Olds division since Buddy Baker won the Winston 500 at Talladega in May 1980 Labonte ad mitted there were some major dis agreements within his team concern ing the jump from fac tory team to the team switched to Olds because we felt we were the low men on the totem pole at Chevrolet that we getting everything the other teams were Labonte said However Labonte objected when his owners Billy Hagan (who ironically missed win) and Wayne King decided to sell their seven Chevys instead of converting them to Olds sheet metal ive of the Labonte Chevys which posted some of the fastest laps for that brand last year at several Winston Cup tracks were sold to new team Bodine ran one at Daytona and another one here yesterday want to sell a couple of those cars because I knew they were really good Labonte said fact the car Bodine had today was the same one I set that record in here last The poor showing by ords in yes race was yet another exam ple of the edge new fastbacks now have over Thunderbirds ords were beating us last year by handling so well going down into the corners and the GM fastback has evened things said Labonte However that says Labonte means winning will be tough cause there are a lot of teams capa ble of winning now This year if you win one race be a good year if you can win three a great The race was slowed by nine cau tion flags but there were no apparent injuries Sportsman driver David Boggs injured in 200 mil er remains in stable condition in the intensive care unit of Moore Memori al Hospital after undergoing surgery for multiple leg fractures Carolina 500 1 Terry Lobonte 492 laps 120488 $44550 2 Harry Gant 492 $28110 3 Richard Petty 492 $15970 4 Morgan Shepherd 491 $9255 5 Darrell Waltrip 491 $18615 6 Cale Yarborough 490 $5410 7 Bill Elliott 490 $15560 8 Dale Earnhardt 490 $19510 9 Nell Bonnett 490 $12710 10 Lake Speed 489 $9965 11 Kyle Petty 489 $10870 12 Rusty Wallace 487 $8165 13 Ron Bouchard 486 $7645 14 Tommy Ellis 485 $3270 15 Alan Kulwicki 483 $3870 16 Tim Richmond 478 $3170 17 Buddy Arrington 477 $6835 18 Kirk Bryant 476 $6575 19 Jimmy Means 476 $6305 20 Geoff Bodine 459 $10470 21 Mike Waltrip 457 $2165 22 Ken Schrader 457 $6765 23 Pancho Carter 436 $5430 24 Jonathan Edwards 432 $2440 25 Davey Allison 410 $1965 26 Ronnie Thomas 356 $1815 27 Dave Morels 352 $4970 28 Ricky Rudd 315 $9715 29 Eddie Bierschwale 231 $1665 30 Phil Parsons 228 $4660 31 JD McDuffie 170 i $4300 32 Earle Canavan 165 $1475 33 Joe Ruttman 117 $2000 34 Bobby Allison 117 $1375 35 Trevor Boys 101 $4090 36 Wayne Slack 96 $4055 37 Greg Socks 81 $8300 38 Bobby Wawok 72 $1250 39 Bobby Hlllln Jr 47 $3960 40 Rick Newsom 41 $1205 angio Rallies Past Sneva To Win 2nd Straight Classic ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI Juan Manuel angio II of Argentina won his second straight Mazda Inter American Challenge yes terday slipping past Tom Sneva in the 16th lap and pulling away to win by 3387 seconds angio 29 started fifth in the race that featured 16 of the best drivers in identical Mazda RX 7s He worked his way to second place after four laps then tucked in behind Sneva and waited for the right time to pass the leader Sneva touched the wall moving from turn eight in the ninth lap and angio took advantage of the the op portunity to pass Sneva The Argentine named after his un cle who won the ormula One world championship five times threatened in the remainder of the 15 laprace Barilla Wollek Team Wins Miami Grand Prix UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL MIAMI Paolo Barilla drove his Porsche 962 across the finish line first in Miami Grand Prix but said all the credit for the victory should go to teammate Bob Wollek Wollek of rance drove the first two hours of the three hour race and took the lead after Derek Bell the defending champion was involved in an accident with a little less than an hour left in the race Wollek was vot ed the outstanding driver in the race have to give all the credit to said Barilla of Italy winner of last 24 Hours at Le Mans had a perfect car and (taking it home in first place) was no Danny Sullivan driving in a team with AJ oyt finished 289 seconds back in second place in a Porsche 962 and Hans Stuck teamed with Jo Gartner finished third in a Porsche 962 Hurley Haywood and Brian Red man were fourth in a Jaguar XJR 7 The average speed of Wollek and Porsche was 79309 mph Wollek said Barilla performed well under pressure and that his car performed well had a great deal of pressure on Wollek said very diffi cult to be leading with all the good drivers behind you can only drive as good as the he added the car was very well The victory was worth $55000 to Barilla and Wollek while Sullivan and oyt collected $27000 Bell had opened a 12 second lead over second place Wollek when Porsche 962 banged into Gianpiero Porsche 962 in turn three with a little less than an hour left in the race The accident broke the rear sus pension in car forcing a pro longed pit stop After the accident Wollek let Barilla take over and Bari lla opened a 48 second lead over sec ond place Stuck with 20 minutes left in the race came inside and I was almost out of the comer on the left hand side of the road and he turned into Bell said believe it There was nothing I could do about About halfway through the race Bell and Wollek were waging a two car battle for the lead The two trad ed first place several times while pulling away from the rest of the field and were the only cars on the lead lap when Bell took the lead on the 73rd lap and quickly opened a five second lead Wollek was 'the leader after one hour followed by John Paul in a Buick Hawk car however pit ted shortly after when it slowed sud denly on the track and was bothered by problems the rest of the race Serai van der Merwe the polesit ter continued his string of bad luck When his turbocharger blew while he was leading on the 30th lap Van der Merwe had led most of the race when his Chevrolet Corvette GTP began smoking heavily in turn 4 Van der Merwe also won the pole in the 24 Hours of Daytona earlier this year and in the Eastern inale in 1985 but was unable to run in the 24 Hours because of car troubles and dropped out early of the Eastern i nale turbo said van der Merwe who led 28 of the 30 laps is getting a bit frustrating because the temperature and gauges were all fine just one of those In a Camel GTO race Jack Bald win drove past the wrecked cars of Scott Pruett and Willy Ribbs on the next to last turn for a victory Pruett had taken the lead from Ribbs on the last lap of the 45 minute race then Ribbs smashed his ord Thunderbird into the back of ord Mustang on turn 11 causing Pruett to spin 180 degrees and smash head on into a tire wall Pruett who finished 15th was not injured Ribbs named the outstanding driv er in the race by a vote of the media covering the event was fined a re cord $2000 by the International Mo tor Sports Association for reckless driving and will receive a written reprimand Ribbs won $1500 for the driver award IMSA officials said it was the most expensive fine in memory Pruett a 25 year old drive from Roseville Calif protested the results of the race but the protest was overridden by the fine Baldwin 37 of Woodstock Ga was running a comfortable third in his Chevrolet Camaro well back of Pruett and Ribbs when the accident occurred Nystrom Routs Noah Lloyd Rolls to Win Over Jordan Joakim Nystrom the fifth seed used a steady baseline game and effective passing shots to over whelm renchman Yannick Noah 6 1 6 3 6 2 yes terday in the final of the $405000 Pilot Pen Classic at La Quinta Calif Nystrom also beat Boris Becker and Jimmy Connors en route to his second tournament tri umph of the year Nystrom earned $55250 and Noah gained $27625 is the best tournament ever said Nystrom 23 Noah was seeded fourth and is ranked seventh in the world He used an aggressive style against Nystrom but the Swede cracked winners consis tently from both sides Two service breaks gave Nystrom who put ex aggerated topspin on the ball the opening set He also won the next set handily winning all four service games without yielding a point Chris Evert Lloyd captured her second consecu tive tournament with a 6 2 6 4 victory over unseed Tennis notebook JOURNAL WIRE REPORT ed Kathy Jordan in the $150000 Virginia Slims of California at Oakland Lloyd needed 95 minutes to defeat Jordan who reached the final by eliminating top seeded Mar tina Navratilova 5 7 6 3 7 6 (8 6) in the semifinals Saturday night Lloyd 31 earned $33000 while Jordan 26 took home $14600 The score was tied 3 3 in the second set when Lloyd broke serve with two cross court winners Lloyd then held her serve to take a 5 3 advantage Jordan trailed 30 40 in the ninth game but exe cuted two well placed forehand volleys to tighten the set to 5 4 Lloyd was down 30 40 in the 10th game but forced Jordan to commit three consecutive fore hand errors Lloyd beat Helena Sukova 7 5 6 4 in the semifi nals fl College Wake women won their third match of the season yesterday routing Virginia Tech 8 1 at Wake Jackie van Wijk Monica Kowalewski Lau rie Jackson Susie Broecker and Jolyn Smith all won for Wake Danelle Chambers was the only Virginia Tech player to win She beat Julie Pash 7 6 6 3 Wake swept the doubles Wake orest 8 Virginia Tech 1 Singles Jockle von Wilk (W) def Erika Rapport 6 2 6 1 Monica Kowalewski (W) def Marta Lochtatto 3 6 6 4 6 1 Laurie Jackson (W) def Ann Howard 6 2 6 3 Susie Broecker (W) def Suzanne Gutch 6 2 7 6 7 2 Danelle Chambers (V) def Julie Pash 7 6 6 3 Jolyn Smith (W) def Krista GuglWml 6 4 6 3 Doubles Van Wlk Kowalewskl (W) def Rapport Howard 6 3 7 5 Jackson Broecker (W) def Lochlatto Chambers 6 1 6 7 6 3 Smith Caplan (W) def Dutch Gugllelml 6 0 6 2 Records Wake 3 6 Virginia Tech 7 9 Wake Downs Virginia Tech Appalachian Edges Clemson John Koons capped a five run first inning with a three run homer as Wake orest belted Virginia Tech 12 3 in a non conference baseball game at Layton ield yesterday The victory was the first of the season for the Deacons 1 1 Tech fell to 3 2 In the first Wake pushed two runs across against starter Scott Duvall to erase a 1 0 deficit Then after Anthony Maisano walked and John Morabito singled Koons belted his homer over the right centerfield fence Tech closed to 5 3 in the third but the Deacons added a run in the third four in the fourth and two in the sixth Erik Hanson who struck out five and walked four earned the victory for Wake orest and Scott Stice fin ished up in relief over the last three innings Virginia Tech 120 000 000 3 12 1 Wake orest 501 402 OOx 12 13 0 Duvall Mitchell (3) Hartness (4) Jednorskl (5) Burrl (6) erguson (7) Galla (8) and Vienl Hunt (7) Honson Stice (7) and Maisano WP Hanson (1 0) LP Duvall (0 1) 2B Dasse Morro 2 Maisano 2 HR Buheller McCoy (VT) Koons (W) Records Virginia Tech 3 2 Wake orest 1 1 ASU 11 Clemson 9 CLEMSON SC Appalachian State jumped out to a 2 0 lead in the second inning and never trailed as it stretched its perfect season to 3 0 Starter Kent Alexander took the victory for Appalachian Starter Doug Marchal took the loss for Clem son which dropped the Tigers to 5 3 on the season Appalachian got home runs from Lawrence Sluder and Brad Long Catcher Bert Heffernan hit a homer for the Tigers The Apps had doubles from Andre Crawford Kent Alexander and Tony Welborp College Baseball JOURNAL STA REPORT Appalachian used four pitchers in beating their non conference oppo nent Appalachian 023 050 14 3 Clemson 001 210 9 7 2 Appalachian Alexander Dovel (4) Cornette (6) and Long Marchal Mazey (4) Huggins (8) 2B Crowford Alexander Welborn (A) HR Sluder Long (A) Heffernan (C) Records Appalachian 3 0 Clemson 5 3 Breland Aguirre In irst Round UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL LANCASTER Pa Mark Bre land knocked out previously unbeat en Richard Aguirre yesterday at 1:33 of the the first round of their sched uled 10 round welterweight fight Breland used a left jab followed by a right to the head to send Aguirre on the seat of his pants midway through the first round Aguirre tried to get up but rolled over and was counted out by referee rank Cappuccino Breland 10 0 with five knockouts used his inch to 70 inch reach advantage to hold Aguirre at bay be fore scoring the knockout Aguirre of San Diego came after Breland from the opening bell ducking to avoid punches and landing some shots to the body But Breland started using his jab to keep Aguirre away then stepped in and delivered the knockout combina tion as Aguirre was starting to 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