Winston-Salem Journal from Winston-Salem, North Carolina • 53

WINSTON SALEM JOURNAL Sunday May 28 1989 PAGE DS RAWLINGS Continued rom Page DI week believe what this place came Hyde said track just kept up with the times it went ahead of the times lived around here 12 years and I remember a dav I drove up here and see construction equip ment Humpy Wheeler let up I know Curtis Turner and Bruton Smith born this thing but as far as con cerned it come into being until Humpy came over track was built in a swamp This was the most no good piece of ground in Ca barrus County You give this ground away You believe the rock under that swamp solid granite Charlotte Motor Speedway has been transformed into solid gold orced into bankruptcy in the early 1960s the speedway recovered and became the Las Vegas of stock car racing Cash registers jingle amid the glittery buildings and Sunday morn ing sideshows shows that have ranged from predictable country mu sic to an outlandish mock invasion of Grenada HARRY HYDE The contrived entertaiment is of ten more memorable than the race Daytona and Talladega produce speeds so fast that from time to time NASCAR makes teams alter their carburetors and thus slow down Darlington the granddaddy thrives on the drama and legendary quirks of its past Charlotte the fourth major track has a long but hardly storied history Racing folks all remember the tragic crash in 1964 that burned ireball Roberts and caused his death Beyond that they have trou ble reciting anything other than per sonal anecdotes Evens so the 600 holds a special place in contemporary racing of the teams have their shops some where near Petty said is probably the closest thing to the center of racing you could find Greensboro is the biggest city close to the center but the track is here Maybe 80 percent of the teams think of this as their home track if talking about superspeedways This is the hub Everybody wants to win this How someone should go about winning the 600 is a matter of conjec ture Hyde believes that the foremost factor is speed from the center of the fourth turn through the straight away a rule of thumb that makes him point to ord as the traditional favorite ord drivers have won only six of the 29 races though including a measly two 600s since 1970 Waltrip the defending champion relies on patience in the grinding marathon look at a 500 mile race and say you should take it easy for the first couple hundred he said a 600 mile race got to take it easy for 400 miles You run a normal race You can conserve on this race track When half a lap down not in trouble The start of the race on Sun day tell you much After the first hundred miles the race is differ ent really different the last hun dred Richard Childress the owner of Dale car adores the Charlotte track because it gives driv ers plenty of room in which to race As the day wears on the furniture in the racing room changes ones who adjust to changes in the race track are the ones who have the best chance of Childress said can seem the same for a week and a half but after 300 miles on Sunday afternoon a different race track The shad ows from the grandstand and from any clouds change the temperature of the track You have to be able to get the tires right You have to give your self some flexibility in the chassis setup so you can go one way or an other as conditions change If you start out with the car all the way tight or all the way loose you have any room for The personality still con founds Hyde after all these years the toughest son of a gun to stay consistent on in Hyde said hard for a team to do well here one year and come back and repeat I know why that is but it is know Darlington has been called the track too tough to tame As far as concerned Char lotte is too tough to tame 1 can get around Darlington good when I have a good car I can come here with a good car and feel good about our times Then I go get a hamburger for lunch I can come back 30 minutes later and lost half a second I know why or how we lost that half a second but spend the rest of the week trying to find it Char lotte is like one of those greased pigs You think you have him hemmed up but you sure going to catch Petty certainly feels that way The king of stock car racing has flattened his machine and jolted his brain more often than he has succeeded took me 15 years before I ever won this thing and then we won again in he said one of those deals where I feel like the track owes me At Daytona won two or three I have won and lost three or four I have lost It kind of evens out if you know what I mean never evened out here lost a lot more than we lost race you win got to have circumstances on your side learned that at Charlotte got to have all the circumstances on your side This track been good to me but always liked He alone On the day of the 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway no one is CHICAGO Continued rom Page DI The Bulls called time And when Scottie Pippen had trouble inbound ing the ball they took another time out This time the pass came to Jor dan who glided along the right side of the lane then went aloft with a lunging effort that put the ball through the net for the victory The Pistons got a last chance with three seconds left Taking the ball at half court they went to Laimbeer then to Joe Dumars who took a long jumper that caromed off the back board The Bulls seeking their third straight upset in the playoffs re tained the home court advantage in the series with victory Half of the four remaining games of the series are scheduled for Chicago starting Monday with Game 4 Mark Aguirre led Detroit with 25 points while Vinnie Johnson had 19 including 11 in the fourth quarter Bill Cartwright scored 15 for the Bulls The Pistons had an 11 point lead at halftime largely on the strength of an 18 point performance by Aguirre Midway through the first quarter yesterday a head fake by John Salley sent Cartwright soaring and uncontested lay in built the lead to seven points The Pistons momentarily took the crowd out of the game But on the next trip down the floor Jordan danced past four Piston defenders for a twisting lay up then staged a re run seconds later to keep the Bulls close The Pistons usually have better success than other teams in defend ing Jordan who was coming off a less than sensational game when foul trouble and the flu helped limit his output to 27 points But Jordan was the picture of health from the start scoring 13 points in the first quarter while Isiah Thomas playing under Jor gaze could score only 3 points in the first quarter The Jordan show kept the Bulls within 1 point after the first quarter at 28 27 Aguirre led the Pistons to an 11 point halftime lead 56 45 In his 18 point first half he accounted for 10 of the 14 points scored on the floor during a stretch midway in the sec ond quarter 0ETROIT (97) Aguirre 916 6 8 25 Mahorn 4 6 1 2 9 Laimbeer 2 9 0 0 4 Dumars 3 8 6 7 1 2 Thomas 2 8 1 2 5 Salley 4 4 0 0 8 Rodman 4 60 0 8 Johnson 6 14 5 5 19 Edwards 2 3 0 0 4 Long 0 0 3 3 3 Totals 36 74 22 27 97 CHICAGO (99) Pippen 2 10 2 4 7 Grant 2 5 3 4 7 Cartwright 5 6 5 6 15 Hodges 1 7 0 2 2 Jordan 16 26 14 15 46 Davis 3 4 0 0 6 Paxson 6 9 0 0 1 2 Corzine 2 4 0 0 4 Vincent 0 2 0 0 0 1 Totals 37 73 24 31 99 i Detroit 28 28 21 Chicago 27 18 21 3 Point goals Johnson 2 Aguirre Pippen ouled out None Rebounds Detroit 47 (Rod man 13) Chicago 39 (Pippen 8) Assists Detroit 27 (Thomas 1 1 Chicago 2 1 (Hodges Jordan 5) Total fouls Detroit 3 1 Chicago 27 echnicals Mahorn Chicago coach Collins Chicago Illegal de 1 fense Detroit coach Daly A 18676 NASCAR Continued rom Page DI consistent ord for the past year despite horsepower problems engines have been more reliable this he says of his new engine program we have the horsepower like to have Still I think Earnhardt has any more horsepower than we have both down on horsepower right now qualifying had been a drag race have been about 10th I need more However Kulwicki said big gest thing in this race is to stay out of Earnhardt and his crew agree biggest problem here lately has been trying to stay out of the penal said Kirk Shelmerdine the crew chief for Earnhardt In last 600 Earnhardt got into a celebrated fender banger with Geoff Bodine and was sent to the box for five laps knocking him out of contention And in the fall Earn hardt was dueling with Davey Allison for the lead late in the race when a NASCAR scoring tower snafu sent both to the rear of the field On the restart they were both knocked out in a crash Waltrip and Wallace had the hot cars in last Winston All Star sprint the 600 is a differ ent deal from that Shelmer dirie said drivers are all pumped up for the Winston because so short But the 600 is a long race and the drivers will be a little more conservative run as strong in the 600 as we did last Sunday (when Earnhardt finished third) and I don't think other teams will be quite as strong Plus after what happened last Sunday Rusty and Darrell will have other things on their mind COCA COLA 600 1 Alan Kulwicki ord 173021 2 Mark Martin ord 172651 I 3 Ken Schrader Chevy 172029 4 Darrell Waltrip Chevy 171537 I 5 Rick Wilson Olds 1 7 12 6 Rusty Wallace Pontiac 171048 7 Michael Waltrip Pontiac 170962 8 Harry Gant Olds 170778 i 9 Ricky Rudd Buick 170584 10 Brett Bodine ord 170207 I 1 1 Richard Petty Pontiac 169891 i 12 Terry Labonte ord 169795 13 Geoff Bodine Chevy 169689 14 Dale Earnhardt Chevy 169619 15 Bill Elliott ord 169609 16 Dick Trickle Buick 169603 i 17 Davey Allison ord 169571 18 Sterling Marlin Olds 169364 19 Greg Sacks Pontiac 169359 20 Lake Speed Olds 169348 21 Larry Pearson Buick 168961 22 Derrike Cope Pontiac 168898 23 Shepherd Pontiac 168813 24 Dale Jarrett Pontiac 168697 25 Nell Bonnett ord 168655 26 Hut Stricklin Pontiac 168629 27 Bobby Hillin Jr Buick 168481 28 Butch Miller Chevy 168408 I 29 Tracy Leslie Olds 168355 30 Ben Huss Olds 163235 31 Phil Parsons Olds 168172 32 Allan Grice Pontiac 168046 33 Kyle Petty Chevy 168041 34 Jimmy Means Pontiac 167879 35 Terry Byers Chevy 167827 36 Ernie Irvan Pontiac 167817 37 Jimmy O'Neil Chevy I 167728 38 Jim Sauter Pontiac 167697 39 Chad Little Jr ord 167639 40 Eddie Bierschwale Olds 167416 4 1 Rick Mast Chevy 167234 42 Dave Marcis Chevy 16541 1 in the 600 they be 100 per Kulwicki says looking to change his image had that image of being the guy who could do the most with the he said I was trying to break out of the ranks of the small independents it was good for me because I looked like a good value But now time for me to change I want to be known as the guy who does the most period And dif ferent from car owners like Junior Johnson and Richard Childress be cause I consider myself more a driver than a car The men with horsepower this weekend Kulwicki says are Waltrip and Schrader who both drive for Rick Hendrick The motor men for Hendrick here are Ken Bingham and Ron Reavis of Winston Salem This will be the second race for new Lumina and last Sun day the Luminas had a lot more punch than the Thunderbirds the Lumina look as good as I thought it would be not by judging my car against and Geoff said Kulwicki who ran with Earnhardt all day last Sunday was worried when Chevy came out with that new body style We all kept hearing the stories' about how much quicker the new Chevy would be over the Monte Carlo after test ing But I seen that Among the stories to watch today: Bill Elliott: The defending na tional champ has gotten off to a slow start this year or the first time since he broke his wrist at Daytona in ebruary Elliott is finally back at full strength But his racing team is 'still four months behind schedule Mark Martin The rising ord star has been a top qualifier all year and on the front row again to day But when the race starts he usually falls off the pace Says Mar tin you handle here 50 extra horsepower fix it if someone tells you they know what the track is going to do in the race then lying seen all week there is no judging this place it gets hot the track necessarily get looser It just gets different not like the old days when the hotter it got the loos er it DEACONS Continued rom Page DI ence affiliations Wake the winner of the ACC Tournament and two other events this spring certainly was not in that category a senior Tony Mol lies said more than a shock If you looked out at the Midwest Re gional and heard that Oklahoma State make it you believe it the same way with us tried to figure it out and we come up with anything It seems like the exact same thing happened to us TONY MOLLICA last year at the E3 Mollica low man with even par rounds of 72 the first two days slipped to 78 yesterday Tim Straub was the low Deacon with 74 Barry abyan shot 75 Len Mattiace 76 and Eoghan 78 It turned out to be the final college rounds for seniors Mollica Straub Mattiace and abyan Haddock hoped going into the fi nal round that their experience would pay dividends as it did when they rallied to win the ACC last month But the Jack Nicklaus de signed Long Bay course sporting some extremely difficult pin place ments was no place to make a charge yesterday shocking to Haddock said I say it shocked me when I saw the (Wake) scores I was hoping that with the pressure of the final day and the wind blowing we would see some exciting scores from the other teams and what I predicted happened But we take ad vantage of Haddock said that he re member a tournament when so many things went bad for one of his teams seemed like whatever we did we did as a Haddock said one would get going good all seem to be going good and when one would get going bad all go bad It seemed like ill luck would strike the whole team when it No team or individual trophies were given but lorida left knowing it outplayed the field The Gators shot 292 yesterday for a three day total of 8 over 872 Georgia Tech was second at 878 North Carolina was third at 881 and Clemson was fourth at 886 The re maining qualifiers were Auburn and Georgia at 894 lorida State at 895 LSU at 897 South Carolina at 899 East Tennessee State at 905 and NC State at 906 The non qualifiers were Central lorida at 910 Wake at 911 Georgia Southern at 916 Temple at 9 1 7 Cen tral Connecticut at 928 St Johns at 934 Hartford at 940 and Army at 963 David Beck of lorida State and Bobby Gage of East Tennessee shared the best individual scores at even par 216 Beck shooting 73 yes terday and Gage 74 NORTH CAROLINA counted a 72 by Tee Burton a 74 from John Aber and 80s from Neal Sullivan and Pat Moore yesterday State counted a 73 from Todd Gleaton a 76 from Bowen Sargent and 81s from Joel Hartwell and Doug Stone Both teams gladly took their tick ets to Edmond and considered the weekend a success really have mixed feelings playing in this because you want to win but really you just want to quali Coach Devon Brouse of UNC said got a little sloppy coming in and Tech slipped past us so I feel good about that but at the same time I be happier I think we gained a lot of confidence this week This tournament and the last one we played in Virginia are the perfect preparation for the NCAA for It turn out to be preparation at all for Wake though had a lot of Had dock said you stay in it long enough things like this happen too The pitiful thing is good enough to win the NCAA when playing good But we play good this TOP INDIVIDUAL SCORES David Beck la State Bobby Gage ETSU Dudley Hart lorida Todd Gleaton NC State Todd White urman Charlie Rymer Ga Tech Paul Claxton Georgia David Toms LSU Kevin Johnson Clemson Chan Reeves Ga Tech Chris DiMarco lorida 73 70 69 73 70 73 71 73 73 73 73 73 i 75 72 75 74 i 73 71 76 71 74 70 I TEAM SCORES i 1 lorida 872 2 Georgia Tech 878 3 North Carolina 881 4 Clemson 886 5 (tie) Auburn Georgia 894 7 lorida State 895 8 Louisiana State 897 9 South Carolina 899 10 East Ten nessee State 905 11 North Carolina State 906 12 Central lorida 9 10 13 Wake orest 91 1 14 Georgia Southern 916 15 Temple 917 16Cen tral Connecticut 928 17 St 934 18 HartfOl 940 19 Army 963 OTHER INDIVIDUAL SCORES Clemson Oswald Drawdy 145 Chris Patton 219 Bo Beard 153 Max ain 151 i North Carolina Brendan Kennedy 145 Tee Burton 2 19 John ABer 143 Pat Moore 221 Neal Sullivan 153 Georgia Tech Tripp Isenhour 223 Mike Clark 145 Trey Holroyd 75 NC State Bowen Sargent 223 Joel Hartwell 233 Doug Stone 156 Steve Isley 77 Wake orest Tony Mollica 222 Len Mattiace 230 Tim Straub 229 Eoghan O'Connell 75 Barry abyan 155 INDY 500 Continued rom Page DI for today calls for sunny skies with highs in the 70s Highs on the track as Mears said could approach 220 The record for a single race lap of 209517 which Mears set on lap 166 last May is nearly certain to fall early in the 200 lap event The record field average during qualifications was 216588 Mears who set one and four lap qualifying records of 224254 mph and 223885 is the spearhead of the dominating Penske Racing team led by Roger Penske drivers have won seven Indy 500s and started from the pole eight times Indianapolis records A year ago his three drivers Mears four time winner Unser and 1985 champion Danny Sullivan combined to lead 192 of the 200 laps after an unprecedented sweep of the front row starting positions come to Indy to win for the team and the Penske said got to realize only one Indy every 365 days You have to do whatever it takes people say that running a two or three car team hurts the overall he added think if you can put two or three cars on the track at Indy with drivers who know how to win got a great Most drivers like the idea of sharing the chance at victory with anyone else but Penske says his drivers mind certainly know they all be in the he said if the team wins everybody wins willing to take that chance and the money won is INDIANAPOLIS SOO LINEUP ROW 1 1 Rick Mears Bakersfield Calif No4 Penske Chevy 223885 mph 2 Al Unser Albuquerque NM No25 Penske Chevy 223471 3 Emerson ittipaldi Brazil No2O Penske Chevy 222329 ROW 2 4 Jim Crawford Scotland No 15 1987 Lola Buick 22 1450 5 Mario Andretti Nazareth Pa No5 Lola Chevy 220486 6 Scott Brayton Coldwater Mich No 22 Lola Buick 220459 ROW 3 7 Bobby Ranal Dublin Ohio No 18 Lola Cosworth 219530 8 Al Unser Jr Albuquerque NM No2 Lola Chevy 218642 9 Raul Boesel Brazil No30 Lola Judd 218228 ROW 10 AJ oyt Houston Texas No14 Lola Cosworth 217136 11 Randy Lewis Hillsborough Calif No 28 Lola Cosworth 216494 12 John Andretti Indianapolis No70 1988 Lola Buick 21561 1 ROW 5 13 Teo abi Italy No8 March Porsche 215564 14 Gary Bettenhausen Monrovia Ind No99 1987 Lola Buick 215230 15 Arie Luyendyk Netherlands No9 Lola Cosworth 214883 ROW 8 1 6 Tero Palmroth inland No56 1988 Lola Cosworth 214203 17 Scott Pruett Dublin Ohio No3 Lola Judd 213955 18 Ludwig Heimrath Jr Canada No7 1 1988 Lola Judd 213878 ROW 7 19 Didler Theys Belgium No 12 is' 1 988 Penske Cosworth 2 1 3 1 20 20 Bernard Jourdain Mexico No69 Lola Cosworth 213105 21 Michael Andretti Nazareth Pa No6 Lola Chevy 218774 ROWS 22 Tom Sneva Paradise Valley Ariz No7 1988 Lola Buick 218396 23 Gordon Johncock Hastings Mich No91 1988 Lola Buick 215072 24 Derek Daly Ireland NolO Lola Judd 214237 4 ROWS 25 John Jones Canada No65 Lola Cosworth 214028 26 Danny Sullivan Louisville Ky No 1 Penske Chevy 216027 27 Kevin Cogan Palos Verdes Calif Nol 1 1988 March Cosworth 214569 ROW 10 28 Rocky Moran Pasadena Calif No33 1986 March Cosworth 214212 29 Dominic Dobson San Anselmo Calif No86 Lola Cosworth 213590 30 BIU Vukovlch III resno Calif NoBl 1988 Lola Judd 216698 ROW 11 31 Davy Jones McGraw NY No50 1988 Lola Cosworth 214279 32 Pancho Carter Brownsburg Ind No24 Lola Cosworth 214067 33 Rich Vogler Indianapolis No29 1988 March Cosworth 213239 irst Alternate Johnny Rutherford ort Worth Texas No 98 Lola Cosworth 213097 Second Alternate Phil Krueger Indianapolis No77 1988 Penske Cos worth 212458 spread across the whole Mears won $809853 last year from a record purse of $5024400 This purse will be near $6 million and this winner could be the first to earn $1 million Unser who will turn 50 on Mon day will be right beside Mears in the front row in a virtually identical Chevrolet powered Penske PC18 Sullivan who will race with his bro ken right forearm cradled in a special brace will start 26th in another of the new Penske built cars Sullivan broke his arm during a crash in practice May 11 and was unable to qualify until the second weekend But with his seat steering wheel and gearshift lever all modified for easier movement the glamour boy of Indy car racing says ready to go did about 300 miles on the track last Sullivan said ran with other cars and in race trim and I think going to be just With typical Penske contingency planning however Geoff Brabham a veteran of seven Indy races will be standing by in pits The last time a relief driver was used at Indy was in 1973 when AJ car went out after 37 laps and he took over for teammate George Snider Emerson ittipaldi of Brazil a two time ormula One champion made it an all Penske car front row putting the only other PC 18 on the outside of the front row for owner Pat Patrick Mears is the odds on favorite but Unser and ittipaldi along with about half a dozen others are just a step behind finished a strong second last ittipaldi said is a bet ter car and the team is more experi enced and better 1 think it is time for me to Bobby record race speed of 170722 mph could be in jeopardy depending on caution periods In that 1986 race which featured the previous fastest field ever with an average of 210280 there were six yellow flags for a total of 34 laps In contrast Mears won last year with an average speed of 144809 held down by 14 caution periods Other former Indy champs in the field include 1983 winner Tom Sneva and Gordon Johncock a two time winner Other drivers starting in the back half of the field but capable of win ning are Michael Andretti and Kevin Cogan the 1986 runner up Beat the Heat with an Above Ground Pool filSi Celebrity Jant? rom POOLS Pools Spas Sales Service 169 Newsome Rd King NC Call for ree Estimates: 983 6034 we're Open We survived and have 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