Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina • 16

Should speed of Winston Cup cars be slowed down? It' Jc CJiO XbM ought to keep i 4 Wallace welcomed cancellation' Winston Cup update of Winston Miller 400 Dale Earnhardt 160 like Rockingham They've got a 1 during practice runs riday at the had so much trouble at Daytona 1 i 1 a In Stock i te COOUNG HEATING With fill up of Premium Unleaded (10 gallon minimum) At Participating Gulf Dealers 662 3759 a BUSCH POLE AWARD: Bill Elliott 210364 mph 185170 165 RUSSELL BRANHAM 11 1098 i ROCKINGHAM NC When Rus ty Wallace heard that Sunday's cl "IS CAUTION LAGS: our for 15 laps 2nd ROUND ASTEST: Greg Sacks CIRCLE CHAMPIONS Bill Elliott think they should let them go as fast as they want The cars are lighter now and are a lot safer And they need to be changing any rules The bad wrecks I saw at Daytona in the Winston Cup series the drivers were not seriously King Over the years the speeds of Winston Cup racing have in creased dramatically Bill Elliott was the fastest qualifier during Speed Weeks at Daytona International Speed way turning a lap of over 210 mph During the weeks there were a few bad wrecks that in volved Winston Cup drivers One notible case was Phil ride he took in the first Twin 125 mile qualifying race His car lifted off the ground and went end over end hitting the outside retaining wall and catching on fire Luckily he hurt So the question is the speeds of the Winston Cup cars at places like Daytona and Talladega be Sport swriter Russell Branham went to Darlington and here are the answers he received HARD CHARGER AWARD: Bill Elliott ENGINE BUILDER AWARD: Ernie Elliott TRW MECHANIC THE RACE Junie Donlavey STEWART TRACK ORCE Miles Completed 11 tied at 500 miles 1 io ROOKIE THE YEAR Point standings Rodney Combs Davey Allison David Sosebee Derrick Cope GOOD HEAD ACHE AWARD Geoff Bodine UNOCAL 76 WINNERS Point und standings Bill Elliott Richard Petty Buddy Baker TRUE VALUE HARD CHARGER Bill Elliott 800 Buddy Baker 546 Geoff Bodine 394 Dale Earnhardt 343 Ken Schrader 260 EBRUARY 22 1 987 LORENCE MORNING NEWS orum think the speeds ought to be reduced because most of the in dependents go as fast as the big time sponsored drivers If they lowered the speeds it might bring them closer to together on the race Anderson Hom Owner 4 GAS PACK HEAT PUMP INSTALLATION Pos Driver 1 Bill Elliott 2 Benny Parsons 3 Richard Petty 4 Buddy Baker 5 Dale Earnhardt 6 Ken Schrader 7 Bobby Allison 8 Darrell Waltrip 9 Ricky Rudd 10 Cale Yarborough 11 Neil Bonnett 12 Phil Parsons 13 Geoff Bodine 14 Bobby Hillin 15 Alan Kulwicki 16 Morgan Shepherd 17 Ken Ragen 18 Terry Labonte 19 Rodney Combs 20 Greg Sacks 21 Mike Waltrip 22 Trevor Boys 23 Jimmy Means 24 JD McDuffie 25 Lake Speed I 26 Davey Allison 427 David Sosebee'' i 28 Sterling Marlin 29 TomSneva 30 Harry Gant 31 Ron Bouchard 32 Derrick Cope 33 Dave Marcis 34 Kyle Petty 35 Eddie Bierschwale 36 Rick Wilson 37 Mark Stahl 38 Chet Phillip 39 Connie Saylor 40 Rusty Wallace 41 AJoyt Winston cup qualifying Saturday eb 28 Start of the 19 annual UNOCAL ROCKINGHAM PIT CREW RACE at 11 am Start of the Busch Grand National GOOD WRENCH 200 at 1:30 pm Winston Cup practice follows Sunday March 1 Start of the 22nd annual GOODWRENCH 500 at 12 noon NOTES INTEREST Tery Labonte is the defending champion Of the Goodwrench 500 Tim Richmond holds the qualifying record of 146948 mph set in October Neil Bonnett holds the 500 mile re cord of 126381 mph set also in Oc tober Otehr former winners at the North Carolina Motor Speedway in clude Richard Petty with 11 wins Bobby Allsion and Darrell Waltrip with four each and Neil Bonnett with two RADIO: Motor Racing Network TELEVISION: SETN (delay) they run with the big dogs then they should stay on the front porch If they are scared to go that fast they ought to be on the other side of the pit wail with me If they want to go that fast in a race they should just get their trophies right after lony lowers ti i i vl es 3 i think if they lowered the speeds by five or 10 miles per hour it would make that much difference fan wise But If Is a matter of lowering the speeds io be safer then lower it Bui I would leave it up to the Langston i VAN BEANS POINTS Buddy Baker 1 Daytona recap TIME RACE: 2 hours 50 minutes 12 seconds AVERAGE SPEED: 176263 mph think they speeds are to fast for the experienced drivers But when you bring in rookies and put them in a car go over 200 mph the only bad part of it They ought to have a clause in the rules that says rookies run the big tracks (Daytona Talladega) their first Dove MANUACTURERS RACE Make Points Wins ord 9 1 Chevrolet 6 0 Pontiac 4 0 Oldsmobile 3 0 Buick 2 0 mph at Rockinham riday He they had made numerous amounts of adjustments during the day (pit like at Rockingham next Sundayn the Goodwrench 500 his team ccfild do the job that everyone had) An ticipated they would really looking forward jto the rest of the Wallace Wd it is going to start at Rock ingham I think we can get) dur season turned around in the mht TRW MECHANIC STANDINGS Ernie Elliott 30 Junie Donlavey 29 Doug Richert 29 Hyde 28 Butch Mock 25 5 year full Warranty on Installation Parts and Labor Points 185 175 170 165 160 151 150 147 138 134 132 130 126 124 118 115 112 109 106 103 97 94 91 88 85 82 79 78 76 70 67 64 61 58 55 52 49 46 43 40 37 and this gives us a little more time tn work out some qf those problems direction that bothered us last Veek like Rockingham They've got a only do we get to oractice new surface on the track and our Car LEAD CHANGES: 28 among 10 drivers Bobby to drive for Davey Bobby Allison will be behind the wheel of a Buick Apollo owned and prepared by his son Davey in the Goodwrench 200 at Rockingham NC next Saturday The younger Allison built the car at Bobby Allison Racing in Hueytown Ala The Goodwrench 200 gets the gren COMING TO LORENCE Ned Jarrett two time Winston Cup Grand National champion will be on hand Wenesday at the annual lorence Membership dinner Jarrett who hosts his own radio and television shows is a widely known televison commentator for CBS and radio announcer for the Motor Racing Network will give the main address at the dinner which will be held at the Heritage restaurant Cale Yarbprough will also be pres ent as a special guest The social starts at 6:30 with the I dinner at 7 pm The price is $11 per person Contact the I 24 Hour YMCA by 3 pm Monday for I reservations Service THERMAL AIR short track car ready because ing the same with me' learned a going to go to Richmond Tuesday to lot by working with them over' the last year or so and thingshave got to The Richmond race was turn around focus rescheduled for March 8 11 week just went all added the '84 Rookie of the Year Rockingham will conduct ah guess those days lust haonen House Sundav ans are invitedTto Hopefully it want happen to us attend a live session of the Huck anymore 11 was a real letdown Baker Driving School ln addition Next event: GOOD WRENCH 500 WHERE: Rockingham NC Miller 400 at Richmond' Va had WHEN: Sunday March 11 2 noon been cancelled because of snow he DISTANCE: 500 Miles (492 laps) was relieved SCHEDULE: After a disastrous visit to Daytona last week he welcomed the free time to try and get his act Thursday eb 26 Winston Cup together registration and inspection 7 am The 30 year old's performance in uuavii uiauu nauuiidi 1 Vgisu dUUll and inspection 8 am Busch Grand National practice with time to be announced Winston Cup practice 11 am Winston Cup drawing to deter mine order of qualifying with time to be announced Winston Cup Pole Award of qualifying for positions 1 20 at 2 :30 pm BUSCH POLE STANDINGS Bill Elliott 1 practice a am Busch Grand Na tional qualifying for positions 1 20 following Winston Cun oractice Winston Cup Busch second round Daytona Classic He only lasted 10 qualifying for positions 21 40 at 2 laps after burning a piston to finish nm Rusch Grand NaHnnal timp 'nAvtfaW trials for positions 21 36 following was a real help for us that the jvv iv wao aicai iciuuwiu oanci vi iyiiin lhvul jji xiuuiuuu aL because we had tested so good dur fans will be Able to view replicas of Pracce rs riday at the ing the winter and worked so hard I Richard and NeiEBonhctt's Carolina Motor Speedway was really sick because of 'race cars estivities begin at'nqbn We had so much trouble at Daytona Wallace turned in a lap of 143 576 and end at 5 the season opening Daytona 500 was not a plea'Sarit one After runnning some of the fastest times in practice 1 sessions over the winter months he began his week at Daytona bv viuj uv ccv uiainLc new gui race uii uie libik anti i in ihere at Rockingham but this will feels good on it working with the overa mph t0 PUt 18th'fastest us the opportunity to get our crew really well nowarid they're do Thpn in nnp nf thp Twin riday eb 27 Winston CUp qualifying races he fell out early wnn engine trouble relegating him to a 32nd place start in the 500 Things were no better in the think thev them running the wsyihey are now The cars reiver? bale If they would to start' tampering with rules 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