1987 Miller American 400

which has all the ingredients of a classic race, we are at the halfway point of a season in which cars are going faster than ever - too fast, say the authorities - and, as a consequence, we may never see cars running so fast again on this track as we will see you today there is a new face in the pole position and a Detroit license plate of the number one starting car that has not been there in almost four years to learn more about this and what we will see here today, let's now go to my cbs broadcast colleague hello in the announce booth ken squire well thank you very much chris, it's a spectacular day for live cbs sports action starting with our 200 lap 400 mile event here in michigan and then moving on this late to the Greater Hartford Open canon. pat sumrall ken venturi your host waiting for that competition the stories are many and buried here but one couple really takes priority.

Point one is a guy called Bill Elliot three years ago, a crowd of more than three people and he was too shy to talk, but he came. he came off this track and won his first super speed event here, beat the odds, beat the heat and beat Dale Earnhardt that day with a spectacular racing competition to the finish; then in 1985 he sat on a pole and passed Daryl Waltrip by about 13 seconds last year on lap 196 after a seesaw battle throughout the contest he got into victory lane after defeating harry gant three times in a row for elliot, stretches to number four here this afternoon and that puts him within one of the overall record held by richard patty in richmond virginia for five consecutive events now another big story here today is tim richmond last december the question was if richmond would live to the next hour the question at this hour is if he will win his third game in a row two weeks ago pocono pennsylvania came home first then went to riverside california and did it again the mischievous and flamboyant a driver bigger than life itself is ready to try to get to three and is waiting with Mike Joy on pit road right now well I'm in third starting position ken squire with bill elliott the man who has an incredible streak going here in the morning buddy baker some other drivers walk up and down pit road a little nervous but you don't look nervous you look like all you want all you have to do is get in this car and do what you do best and seem to enjoy yourself better and let's go racing, you know, the only thing about this is that once you get in the race car you can get away from it all and that's one thing, Richard Petty.

I always said the moment I was looking forward to was getting into a race car, you know, and I've enjoyed racing. Michigan has been good to me in many ways and in many ways over the last few years, but still, this is another race. You look like a favorite today, well I feel like a contender, but there are still a lot of guys here that are running well. You know when everything is going to be critical as far as tire pit stops and being in the right place. the time is right bill good luck today there's another guy here with a streak of his own he's won the last two nascar races and he's with dave in spain jim richmond's brush with death last year doesn't seem to have taken much away from him Him, Tim, You still have that fire, don't you?

Yes, yes, I'm ready. It doesn't seem like I lost anything there during the time I was sick. Everything is going well. It was not so. grade too well, but we'll try to make up for that. At the end of today, this Hendrick team with all their race cars and all their sponsorship couldn't win a race until you came back, you gave them two in one. Row, what kind of magic do you have? Well, the magic I have is two guys named Rick Hendrick and Harry Hyde, and all the guys on the Folgers team, they know you're only as good as the team you lead and they give you.

You have the best team, so you should have the best finishing position quickly. How come you're starting so far back here anyway? Well, I would stay there classifying like a glass up here. I made them wonder if they thought I was hitting the fence and I just missed it and we still finished so far away, luckily we didn't make a dent in anything so that's one of the reasons Tim Richmond who is looking for his third straight win is coming from 18th place. Ken, among other stories here today, is Davey Allison, a rookie who has won two in his first season, they say that had not been done before, but in reality, back in 1959, there was a guy who loved This sport as much as life itself, won two and won 48 more, our colleague, two-time grand national champion.

Nat Jarrett and I don't think they put as much emphasis on records back then as they do today, but Davey Allison has definitely led a youthful charge in the sport. The age of 30 is relatively young for athletes in this phase of auto racing. In fact, in this field today 20 of the 41 drivers are 32 years old or younger, it was not long ago that we saw Daryl Walter Neil Bonnie, who was 40 years old today, challenging Ko Yarber veterans Richard Petty and Bobby Allison, who They're all in their late 40s now we're not going to say that those veterans are ready to roll over and play dead by any means because they've been a factor in almost every race and they'll be here again today, but of the six different winners on the circuit, so So far this year, five of those drivers are 32 years old or younger, only Dale Earnhardt, who is the biggest winner, is over 32 years old and he is only 35, but Davey Allison is certainly worthy of envy for the record he is setting so far this year and has the Today it is an honor to start in the fourth row alongside his famous father Bobby Allison.

Let's meet him now with Mike Joy. It's young guys like this in Nascar racing, they're making older, experienced drivers turn to bromides and headache powders these days. Davey Allison two. wins so far, are you ready to get some of these older boys out of the driver's seats and into the rocking chairs? It seems like well, Mike, we've been doing the best we can, but there are a lot of other younger guys here who are like that. They're trying to do the same thing, but some of these older guys are against it, but no one over 35 has won a race this year.

I think it's just a matter of time before my dad or one of the other guys make it. They have been racing very well, they have had a lot of bad luck, but we are going to try to avoid it if we can. A sign of the times is the guy across the fourth row, Davey's dad, Bobby Allison, used to say hello. becomes the third all-time Nascar winner and now a lot of people are saying: Hey, there goes Davey Allison's dad, get ready for the action, the excitement of Nascar stock car racing cbs style live from Michigan at one point, Paul for the first time in his career in the Winston Cup.

He's waiting with Dave in Spain Rusty Wallace has also given Pontiac the first survey of him since 1983 How does it feel for him to be sitting at the head of the class? it feels better than i thought dave i tell you i'm very proud to put a pontiac in front and hopefully keep it in front the car has been running great all weekend and the engine problem seems to be gone now , so let's hope for the best, these guys have a streak of their own and hope to break it here today. Engines have blown out in three races in a row.

They have changed the lubrication system to solve that problem. For the dramatic outside poll story, let's turn to Mike Joy. Derek Cope's previous best start of 15th at Riverside. He ranked in the external poll here and what happened yesterday. In the afternoon, well, we went out for the last practice session and we are very happy with the race car. He was running very fast. I ran with Tim Richmond and Davey Allison and we stayed there, so we really you know, we really completely finished with him. car and I turned it off cleanly at the rear outlet and it made a popping noise but I thought it was a batter leak and we went in and took full control of things this morning and started trying to start the car again.

It wouldn't start and obviously the engine started running backwards and the camshaft broke or a timing chain broke or something and we just didn't have time to change the engine, so yesterday we were the team at the height of your race and now you feel good. We are, we are bitterly disappointed, you know, but you know, we are still, you know, grateful for the fact that we did it, we know that we are capable of doing it and we know that we can come back here or somewhere else and do the same so that we have confidence from that level and they have a lot to look forward to. ken, unfortunate timing for Derek.

I hope we are almost ready for the fire truck command. Miss Nancy Hales will be at the helm of these 41 cars to bring them to life. they qualified approximately two and a half seconds apart from each other a provisional starter on the field let's go down to receive that command the time has come we've been waiting for those four famous words and here to give that command is nancy hales marketing coordinator for 7 11 stores from saginaw michigan foods nancy gentlemen starts the engine penny's car camera the second and king richard petty has our third camera on board for the michigan 400 live today here on cbs sports every year michigan has given us one of our In most competitive events we expect the same this afternoon.

I'll be back with a starting grid in a moment. Daniel Michigan 400 on the pole for the first time in his career, Missouri Pontiac Rusty Wallace, and for the first time in front. spokane washington row derrick cove forward in row two is the 84 85 and 86 michigan 400 winner bill elliott and ken schrader of fenton missouri row three two time winston cup champion dale earhardt and the winston cup 84 texas lift row four the rookie davey allison and outside his father bobby allison row five is car five jeff bodine and the winner 79 buddy baker got sick from bartow florida rick wilson and bobby hillen jr from midland texas in row seven a 70-time winner daryl walcott is still looking for his first win in this event and joining him is phil parsons row eight mike waltrip of owensboro kentucky and starting 16 the pontiac of 1974 winner richard petty row nine ricky rudd and bud moore ford and tim richmond on the way back for three in a row row 10 is harry gant of north carolina and alan kowicke of wisconsin row 11 the 1980 winner benny parsons and morgan shepard in row 12 is great sex and kyle petty the winner of the charlotte 600 a earlier this year row 13 kale, six-time michigan 400 champion yarborough and brett bodine row 14 of tennessee connie saylor and jim sotter of wisconsin row 15 jackson mississippi's lake speed and dave marcus rose of wausau wisconsin 16 hb bailey of houston, texas and don paul from michigan for row 17 also from alabama comes neil bonnett and viking him is buddy errington from martinsville virginia row 18 kenny bouchard from pittsburgh massachusetts and eddie pierce whale from san antonio texas row 19 dale jarrett in la victoria north carolina and butch

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of michigan row 20 rodney combs of lost creek west virginia and dave simcoe of michigan and rounding out the provisional starting field sterlina marlin of columbia tennessee a tremendous wave from the crowd as harold kinder signals a lap and they will compete live on cbs this afternoon ken trader has now moved to the front row assuming the position that derrick cope had qualified for onboard cameras in three cars today and the king is back car number 43 of Richard Petty has been out for two races after he was crashed in Dover Delaware and broke a couple of ribs Richard Petty Ken Squire at the CBS control, do you read us?

Yes, sir, we are right. here, how are you feeling good now? I feel very good. I'm talking a little like it's okay, any pain. Ah well yeah, it still hurts, but I feel like on this flat track, but I don't understand that g4 should be fine. Richard, uh, your doctor there, I understand, he told you that you're getting older, that you're not doing things as well as you used to, this time you only broke two, that's what he's saying, that the first time I broke four or five, so I'm better, well, good luck to you this afternoon, sir, and he's not going to be as fast as he used to be because he's turning 50 next week, July 2nd, let's take a look at the course itself.

Two miles test the oval, it is a beautiful D-shaped track, very similar to Daytona in its layout, except half a mile chai, 18 degree turns instead of 31 degrees in one, two, three, four and twelve degrees forward in a straight line and enough to run the water behind immediately five degrees there and yesterday Sterling Marlon the reason he is in 41st place when he crashed warming up to start the qualifying race here in turn three the wind was terrible and the wind is not very fun today the parachute is bringing the American flag the entire track was lost it landed in the second turn the safety car is about to come in ladies and gentlemen the Michigan 400 on cbs ready to start harold kinder he holds it green he's out we're running at the break rusty wallace jumps in front of his first poleposition, I asked his crew chief, one of the team members, Ken Hammond, about how to get that ball, I said, do you remember the last time you were on pole?

He said, I think it was when they were driving the machines steam, jerry. is entering turn two with a two car lead as 40 cars break away 41 qualified with a provisional starter 40 start the man on the outside of the front row derrick cope blew an engine this morning how discouraging for that Spokane Washington team from inside richard petty's car there you see bobby hillen directly in front of him and to the inside pill parsons neil bonnett is shooting through karziri he's at lake speed and when he tries the inside of turn three he finds the hole inches away along three wide there because he comes to the stands for the first time sold out here in michigan capacity house sterling marlin number 44 thatHe started last, he is moving, crossing cars, he has already passed six or seven, he is above Buddy Arrington, in the curve, number one marlin in number 44, to the back of the track, pulling another one, lost the entire front of that car, is Rusty Wallace. up front, 10 traders, number 90 is second, here comes Earnhardt, cutting to the inside and taking position as he reaches full number, he's hurt Bill Elliot for too long to recover, he lost about a second there at the start of the first round. and fourth place, car number 11.

That's terry lobotti junior johnson celebrating his 56th birthday today. I understand that Klossy is trout fishing right now instead of watching to make sure he has what Junior wants for dinner when he gets home tonight in Iran, up north. Carolina, here's Rusty Wallace, the big star of the Midwest, with the success that Bill Elliot has had here at this track, of course, he's run ahead his entire career. It has to make Rusty Wallace feel good knowing that this has been kind of a forward track, but nevertheless, he's out front and actually, as he's coming up to complete another lap, let's look at Neil Bonnett, who's riding right behind Lake Speed ​​who did two races this year and had a second to third hood that had a challenge here bending it while rolling.

Across the field, Neil Bonnett has one of our cameras on board today, starting in the 33rd position and there you see Dave Marcus shooting under him and now he's trying to back up towards the Wausau Wisconsin veteran, just moving that wheel very hard. tenderness. about 170 miles per hour and using the draft very effectively while moving around dave marcus on the outside of course neil bonnie knows how to use the draft and they use it a lot here on this two mile track within distance of the richard petty's car here that The car hasn't been doing well in traffic this season and remember he's driving with two broken ribs, give him a little room when they pass.

He is now in 11th place, just behind the front 10 cars. You can see those plates holding up the windshield. I need them here ned yeah there's a lot of pressure on the windshields at the speeds they run here because they're going to go about 185, maybe 188 miles per hour on the straightaway here and of course you have a shadow on the right side of your windshield too and that helps his vision, especially when the sun is out, however, right now that wouldn't be a big problem for him, we have a little cloudy here of course, he always wears dark glasses, it comes with five full turns, the wall is the first, the second. elliott, third, Earnhardt, moved up to fourth, Barn Hearts on a roll this year winning six of the first eight races and then when the world 600 came around and Kyle Petty won, we saw some different faces out front, six different drivers won like that.

So far this year, on the backstretch, on that five-degree bank and here it is at about 175 miles per hour. Defending Winston Cup champion Dale Earnhardt felt he had a good chance of winning the pole, but they tied for the qualifying positions. He took out the last position, of course, the weather, the temperatures went up and he felt like that slowed him down a little bit even though he's still falling and the track was very difficult, sandy and all kinds of fun. There's Sterling Marlon still whipping the cars from last place. the field, the blue and white carney outside is number 44, that's marlon moving and going through traffic at the end we have to report that kale yarborough is smoking in his car number 29 kale his car engine blew up yesterday afternoon in the same on the last practice lap, he told me this morning, here's the pass for second place while Bill Elliott makes the move, he'll head towards Rusty Wallace, but anyway, Kale Yarber had to put a new engine in this morning, he was worried, I said. i don't like putting in a new engine on race morning i don't get a chance to run it because it's smoking now elliott going for four in a row closes our leader russell wallace in the pontiac last time the pontiac started from the point 1983 atlanta georgia era the same raymond beatles theme tim richmond was then at the keyboard this is the first time crew chief barry dodson has put a car on the pole for a winston cup event now here is dale earhardt the blue and yellow number three Approaching to Schrader and number nine, here's a little dive under Jeff Beaudine at 170 miles an hour, ready to graze the fenders, coming awfully close if you're not willing to change sheet metal at 170 miles an hour, there's always tennis, but Beaudine He's not ready for him yet to make the pass, so he backs up and here comes Daryl Walker on the outside, so that little maneuver costs Richard Petty A and here comes Waltrip trying to slide inside as they go through the sloping wall of 12 degrees. stops at bodine, two of Rick Hendrick's cars running side by side further back in the field, here Walter makes the move successfully entering the turn, but goes up high and Albedine will try to go down the inside and here There is the tail yarber of the car. that we mentioned had been smoking, I guess we'll see kale coming into the piece before too long, it seems to be working fine, but the smoke coming out of it could just be an oil leak or something, and that happens at some point when it changes motor. moving towards vinnie parsons now to move inward, so sure the smoke doesn't affect his speed, that's a valve cover or something it could be, it's alan kawicki at number seven, surrounding kyle petty in the tree well , it's dave to spain, the problem with ko yarboro's car has not yet been diagnosed nascar officials are worried about that they asked crew chief cliff champion to check with hale on the radio and see if they diagnosed it they are worried about the possibility of oil on the race track the conference continues cliff's champion called kale on the radio kale said well it must be a tire i don't see smoke in the car i don't smell smoke inside cliff any idea what it is The problem is well, we really have a rim rubbing a little, I think it hit someone when entering the starter motor and it got a little close back there.

It must have hit the tire fender a little bit. It's not bad. Will you try to keep it there? Then we will try it. and keep it outside unless the kale feels it is rubbing enough to get inside. You know we don't want to keep him out there. It's not safe, it's definitely not oil, although you think it's tired, sure. I do not think it is. Know? It's hard to say that we blew the engine yesterday and had to change it first thing this morning. They may have had too much oil in there or something. There are only cornering leaks, which could be a sporty look.

So the speculation here is tired, they are going to leave Kale out and see if the problem gets worse. Ken as he darts around the corner you can see the smoke started coming out from under the car, there you see them rushing to the front and Now further back is Kale Yarbrough's car and leading that group is Benny Parsons in the 35. Those cars not in front 12 13 positions Morgan Shepard in the green and white car Kyle Petty is coming up behind him and here comes the battle for the league. green fighting car wallace is challenged by bill elliot for first place as they work on lap number 12. tim richmond is now in 11th position jeff budine in 12th richard petty 13th bobby hill and 14th mike waltrip who qualified well in 50 the leaders that separated themselves from the field big gap between card number two car number three call that second and a fourth here is your third place car schrader in the junior car don levy many spring sponsors that you see at races that number 90 has one of the most unique pizzas, first equips number 27, Rusty Wallace, coming in for another lap and of course they get a five point bonus for leading the most laps.

The inside, when we look further back in the field, the fight is in the number 33 car of Harry Gant trying to get under Morgan Shepard Gant in the number 33 trying to get up and right now he still made it, that's the 55 and Dan Price behind the car. 55 both are sponsored by the same company morgan shepard has had his share of problems in recent weeks so far, racing away in 21st position with leader wallace in this beautifully prepared number 27 pontiac 29 is in the pits kale coming in so apparently there's more to that grease or smoke than we first anticipated when the tail brain says car number 29 in fifth, we have a positive pit stop board here's Dave to Spain when Kale Yarbrough enters the fifth row They immediately go under the hood trying to diagnose the problem, they will give you a routine service while you are inside, but the real key here is to find out where the smoke is coming from.

We can see smoke coming out from under the car. They are not doing any work on the tires. So that apparently is a lubrication difficulty. They have checked the car. They are buttoning it up again and it seems like they want to get it out as quickly as possible. Kale is coming back. No apparent work was done on it. car, they just looked for the problem and we'll get Cliff Champion here in a moment and see if we can figure out what they might have discovered here now, the conference has started back up with Nascar officials, Dave Despain, trying to figure out what to do, David, uh. a report from one of the drivers, I think Harry Gantt called the pits again and said he thought it was the rear end that was burning on that car, apparently he was running after Kale and got some grease that was . coming from him causing that smoke and kim, we've had a lead change, in fact, Bill Elliot is looking for that fourth straight win and this tremendous 495,000 value event is leading and pulling away by about 15 car lengths from Wallace in second, Schrader third, Earnhardt fourth. bobby allison fifth terry labonte is in the six and then comes rick wilson now wilson is moving around terry labonte wilson moved up one place in the six and here comes tim richmond in the seven back immediately fight for third place here ken schroeder faces dale earhardt we will be back with more live coverage of the Michigan 400 after this message and a word from your local running station, it was Elliot ahead of Rusty Wallace, then in second, Ken Schroeder was in third, Dale Earnhardt in fourth, Bobby Allison was in fifth.

Apparently he's in the pits with a tire situation and Rick Wilson in Six Tim Richmond in 7th Baker 8th Lavonte 9th and Waltrip Tent and Bobby Allison had more than a tower problem, they changed all four tires on their car but it won't start. By pushing him down pit lane he has already dropped two laps to the leader. It is very difficult here for Bobby Allison and David Spain has the story. It was a painfully long pit stop for Bobby Allison. They had a problem with the tires. They entered. They were not there. Not sure where the problem changed, the four on time, hard to do green, were in bad shape at the time but got much worse when the car died in the pits and it took a long push down pit road to solve it.

Back on track, a double-edged problem here for Bobby Allison Ken, two-time winner of this event, 82-time winner in Winston Cup races, his 44th start here at Michigan, driven just about everything here from Indianapolis cars in the international race of champions and stock cars. of this today here are the leaders and wallace has closed the leader bill elliott preston wallace in the green whiting number 27 pontiac approaches the forward of bill elliott the third is earhardt the fourth is schrader until the fifth moves to tim richmond he is in a roll here this afternoon Ned, who started 18th, said he made a little mistake in qualifying, left the car a little loose, says the car was capable of running faster than he qualified for, so now he's showing which as it progresses is very competitive. running in six is ​​wilson seventh is waltrip eighth is baker ninth is petty tapped out like labonte 11. davey allison 12. benny parsons 13. bodine 14. and 15. bobby helen there's the speed of 34. when you notice thatThey run down the wall, they never go as far flush as they do at Daytona or Talladega, that can bother you as if you have a tire that starts to go flat it will hook you into the wall on the way back to Dave in Spain, the problem that brought Bobby Allison has caused Bobby Allison's engine to shut down in that.

The last pit stop has been repeated now there is a fire under the hood one of the crew has burned his hand obviously it is the carburetor the difficulty caused the engine to shut down during the previous pit stop they started it he came back out obviously the car was still not going well, they took it back to pit road when they went under the hood, took the air filter apart, took it off and a fire started. A crew member may have burned his hand, and once the air filter was cleaned, he was able to get back out on the tarmac. race track, yeah, what do you think of that?

Well it came out without the cleaner based on our observation here and they are not supposed to run without an air filter in the car, however they may not have one on the 5th and they will. run to the garage and get one and come back and get it later averaging 166.6 miles per hour there you see the leaders elliott, then in second wallace and here you see in third Dale Earnhardt and Ken Schrader holding fourth and Earnhardt trying to pick up those two. guys right in front of him richard petty is trying to reach 43 chasing buddy baker in 88 which is the battle for 8th place looks turkish in las vegas basketball watching an ncaa contest here on cbs today richard's trademark petty as ned points out let's check father to son no towel there and cool and just drivingIt's nice and easy there, like I'm driving on a Sunday afternoon.

He's in 16th position. Kyle Petty, winner of the Charlotte 600 earlier this year, Kyle Petty coasts along alone uh 14 cars finished in Charlotte and his dad said he didn't come out. drive it, he just wore them out in that Charlotte race and there's a problem with Terry Labonte's number 11 car, one of the favorites in this race, he slowed down going down the stretch again, we'll see him pit here. very soon, in fact, he's on the apron in turn three as the leaders approach turn number one, there's terry lovato, former winston cup champion moore, heading to the pits waiting for that story to unfold here about terry lobotti from corpus christi, texas, meanwhile, bill allian, dawsonville's amazing bill is just right now, in the back, here's the body on pit road, the rover on the right side is being changed , nothing happens in terry lobotti's number 11 car. junior johnson has had his share of wins at this track and the right body will allow it.

On Bobby Allison's car they changed all four tires before his had another problem and they are changing four tires on Terry Lavon's car . Sometimes when they do that they get a vibration in the car, a car might even out and they don't know it. what tire is it let's go to the story of Dave and Spain when the body leaves the pits we see a little smoke from the car junior junior johnson you know what the problem was junior sorry broken gear yes we're acting he says the rear axle left side of the car may be broken, that's what brought it in, they changed all four tires on the car, sent it back, but they fear a transmission problem that would probably be terminal.

Ken Junior Johnson, whose cars won twice here in 1977 and '78 and all, we're also seeing Kaylee Yarborough, the six-time winner of this event, winning in '77 and '78 for junior now with her own team back on the street pit stop and this is his third green flag pit stop, the hood goes up again. On the car, Nascar officials gave it a black flag because of the smoke coming out of the car and the smoke is apparently coming from Greece or this whole leak. Kaley Arbor was arrested on pit road. Here's Dave, he can tell us the story that they have an oil leak.

Yarborough's car under the left front fender is directly in front of Kale. We thought it might be coming from the rear. Some of the drivers reported that they were getting what they thought was grease on the back of their windshield. However, the leak is only in front of Kale, under the left front fender, they stopped the first time and placed a bunch of grease rags around it to try to check the oil flow. Now they have to go in after the black flag and do a full repair. an oil drain pan there, they have a loose oil line and it will take a while to fix.

They tried to patch it, but it didn't work, so now under a black flag they will have to fix it properly. Kelly Arboros had done it. great success in racing, but this year the challenge of owning your own team has added to your racing pressures, well it has been difficult, there is no doubt about it, it has been quite expensive and a lot more work, but As for the Ritz, I don't. I do not regret anything. This is something I've been planning to do for a long time and I'm glad I did it when I did.

You might want to rethink it after a while. I'll tell you after days like this. It would certainly make you wonder, of course, one day he will look to the future again to retire as a driver and put a younger driver in it, although he says he is not ready to hang up his helmet again and be leaders again in Here on the Traffic Elliott is seen in number nine making the move in car number 64, dripping around that car that started on 39th Street. Rodney Combs of Lost Creek, West Virginia, and Rusty Wallace is left there, hanging in the second Wallace, the lapped driver from Missouri having a tremendous run over from Michigan arriving early with King Richard Petty, 200 time winner in a tremendous fight, has been side by side with Buddy Baker in the number 88 for the last three laps, Baker finishes of passing and tied with him the number 35, Benny Parsons, so While they now run Baker's in eight Parsons in the ninth intention of Richard Petty and just behind him is Davey Allison in the 11.

In turn, they are a Baker in the blue and white colony outside number 88 and there's Parsons crouching trying to move on the teammate. tim richmond's number 25 is in fourth position now watch this fight and turn three baker just in front here is parsons in 35 trying the inside as they fight for eighth position and trouble when hb bailey hits the wall hb bailly out texas in the turn two or between turn one and two has whined, you can see the tire marks hitting the walls going around, it's the first yellow flag of the day, it comes on lap 33, HB Bailey's car lies banged up and in the turn number two after charging solidly. the concrete crashes running back to the line it's scary to see them stuck to the wall up there yes it is although it's a little higher than their pace at this point in the race luckily it stayed on the high side of the track instead of coming. backs up in front of traffic now gets him out of traffic now off the wall as traffic passes and here come the leaders to the pits stacked up think back to last year here at this track when Rick Baldwin qualified crashed into the wall and Rick still is in a comatose position in Texas, here's my Joy, Bill Elliot, scheduling service here, the right side tires go on that board, Nascar is allowing an extra man to go over the wall at the stop to pick up the tires removed from the right side. get them back over the wall so they can't go back out into traffic like most of the teams at this end of pit road.

Elliott will be using four tires, these tires are already worn out, they have four or five laps in yesterday's practice and they were allowed to warm up and cool down and be ready to go on the car today. They are not using new sticky tires. Ricky Rudd is also receiving service. Let's take Dave to Spain. This precaution is a break for Terry Labonte. They had planned to come. in just a lap or two to change the broken rear axle we mentioned in the previous report, they can now make that change under a yellow flag condition now that the car has been removed from this road so it doesn't create a traffic problem.

For the rest of the field, they are working hard. Now, to remove the wheel, it will take four or five turns to achieve this, but at least they can do it under yellow. They lose less distance on the track than if they had done so. to make the green low shift as planned, here you see number 36 limping back staggering towards the garage area. The number 36 hp bailey that backed into the wall in turn two never says anything that takes more than five seconds and usually ends with knowing. What I mean is hp bailey knob and all the numbers 36 in turn two now and it will be a short day for him ending on lap 33.

The rest of the field comes to pit road, Kellyarboro, taking advantage of another opportunity here to stop by and have your car. worked as car number 25, tim richmond also entered richmond twice doing a great race starting in 18th place and reaching fourth place and here you see junior johnson's car also being managed by tim brewer, now full team manager, since jeff hammond passed on his old friend darrell waltrip let's talk to richard petty in car number 43. richard ken squire on cbs control how are things going there? I think he's talking to Dale Inman, who is his crew chief, and what he was saying was that he hadn't found a place yet.

Working on it he apparently hasn't found the right spot on the racetrack he wants that car to go, so he's in contact with Dale Inman, his cousin and the crew chief for this car, many members of that team are anxiously waiting. the result of this race. with wade thornberg and richie bars and those people who have really built this team into a position to be a real challenger this year richard petty ken squire back in control of cbs good start just before the warning came out we saw buddy baker take a career For you, I don't think he's reading this right now, apparently he's not planning his strategy right now.

One turn and they will be back under green. They laugh and will be back under green when he completes 35. He has both tires on the right side punctured. that car, the hb bailey car, so ken it's possible, that's what caused him to crash into the wall, maybe a tire blew out when he entered the turn and crashed him into the wall, but it looks like it'll all be because of hp Valley today. Carter looking out. turn two in a sad mess as he heads back to the garage area and they continue to work on terry lovatti's car as neil bonnett takes a moment to pit here just before heading back under green davey allison also heads back to pit road and now you Being inside Bonnet's car, Neil Bonnet had remained on the track.

He is currently in third place in the Westin Cup points standings. He stayed there to lead a left to get those five bonus points. He's going to cost you some space on the court. On the race track he will be far behind, but he believes those five bonus points are worth it. So Parsons from 21st to 9th today is having a good run. Here's Mike Joy and here's HB Bailey. The unhappy right side tires are flat, but most of the damage is on the left, what happened, oh, I just came in a little lower, the car was loose and I came in a little low trying to pass the 89, I came in in one and I lost it.

I'll be making a long trip back to Texas, yes, sir. He doesn't let anyone take the blame. I can't blame anyone. I'm sorry to see you out of this. Thank you. H. B. Bailey, of Texas, is liked by everyone in the field. I like having it there. a caution flag at first, he's been around a long time and is a super nice guy, very calm, doesn't bother anyone, just likes to run around as they prepare for a restart, we see Ken Schrader at the point, Allison on the inside . as a car on the left laps the cars at the bottom of the race track, shoots on the lead lap on the outside as they prepare to take the green another time, HB had a terrible accident years ago, crashed against the wall and thought he had broken some ribs he tripped on.

Barry Dodson's holes in the holes and I just fell there and Barry says what's wrong, he said, he hit the wall, I can't breathe, you know what I mean, Barry says I understand, but you can't stay here, let's go to the hole right now, okay, done. go for a run again neil bonnett coming out of the back of this group and there's davey allison right in front of him as they go through this sold out house and almost sold out the stands yesterday for qualifying. It's been a tremendous weekend here at this two-mile Michigan International Speedway in traffic, Dottie Gargey, here she is sliding into turn number one, seen just bowling over it as it restarts, climbs under the number 91 car of Kenny Bouchard who travels along with him in the meantime. up front is Earnhardt taking the lead, is Rick Wilson in second with the yellow number four on theInside, Bobby Allison had tried to get one of his lamps back but couldn't hold on, so now he's being dragged back into the group. as Earnhardt gets those five bonus points for the first time today coaches in third wallace in fourth as they return to turn number one and here's terry labonte's number eleven just leaving pittsburgh 39 full race restarted in 38 richard petty on the number 43 in the middle of the track bobby hillen of midland texas dives under him in the number eight car and they are inches apart at 175 miles per hour neil bonnett continues to tear up the field from the last daddy pierce wall approaches the number car 77 heading to arrington here comes hood they're back in turn three now hood finds a hole inside pulls says goodbye to texas eddie see whale 12 degree triangle area of ​​this two mile d shaped track this hood continues releasing lightning mark number 75 back with Richard Petty at number 43.

Shown as seventh on the reboot. Bobby Hillen just moved under him and ahead of him is Buddy Baker in 88. Rick Wilson, currently running second, has run well in almost every race. This season he can, but he has had trouble running the full distance. The late Leroy Yarbrough had a saying: "Finish first, you have to finish first," so Wilson has been running to the finish line three times this year, but he's looking good for a good race. here today in the first race here with kale and leroy until the end the last lap remember that leroy hit the wall down here tail number one gained great memories of this crack who was the first of his six here is Earnhardt working on the part rear and rick wilson of bartow florida in car number four staying with him now as they separate wilson in that second place schroeder in third place wallace in fourth elliot settled in fifth for the moment there is schroeder in number 90. away from virginia 41 starters today as in the first incidents we have seen a problem in kelly yarborough's car and in allison's car and in labonte's car, the first yellow flag of the day for hp bailey neil bonnett has managed two more as he continues to attack from behind Well, he has a familiar name, that's right, sure enough, it's a guy named Jared in that 18 car, the Friedlander car, his son did the field and there were about a dozen that didn't just come into this race with some kind of expedition.

There is so much competition at this circuit today and so many cars trying to get into every field, it is an achievement to get into the field even though it started in 37th place, but now I have been watching it from the corner from time to time. a while and he's doing a good job, do you know how you think of these newbie kids who wear mustaches? Well, now we weren't allowed to do that. that when I was running with our parents because of your position I just have no control, do you know that here is Kale Yarborough's query flag is back in that car in your scenario?

The frustrations continue for Ko Yar, bro, this looks like a video replay of the previous stop. They came this time removed some oil rags they had put around the oil leak to try to stop it apparently the rows of oil themselves have been soaked were contributing to the flow of smoke from the car, let's see if we can get it. Cliff Champion and perhaps determine whether or not they have really solved the problem here. Cliff is still in conference with Nascar officials. Cliff, do you know if you have it fixed now? Do you know if you have it fixed now?

Yes, the engine is exploding. a little oil in the vents right now, don't you think you have it under control to prevent it from becoming a black flag? Well, I don't know, we took some oil out of it and This last time we took out some of the freezers, we had a restrictor on the breather, we took it out and maybe tried a little bit of the blow because you start to worry about the engine that you live with now. all the changes to the lubrication system, it's not the The system is working fine for some reason, it's just putting out a little more oil right now, so you continue to have a lubrication problem here.

I hope I have this figured out and can keep Kale off the trail. He has had to stop twice through Black Flags Dale. Earnhardt tries to put Chevrolet in victory lane for the first time in this Michigan 400. He is leading right now. More in a moment at the Speedway with Ned Jarrett. I'm Ken Squire as we look at the Budweiser leaderboard up to the point where Dale Earnhardt has the lead by two. and a tenth of a second over rick wilson of florida followed by ken schroeder of missouri third george's bill elliott fourth and Rusty wallace is in fifth checking out second five buddy baker having an outstanding race at the start is six bobby hill in his seventh richard petty eight daryl waltrip ninth and ricky rudd is in tenth position on the main straight we start to develop a real fight for second place as we see Earnhardt in front and here is the battle for second bill elliot at the bottom from the return track. to that second place trying to close in on Earnhardt now that Rick Wilson drops to third place, this is happening on lap 48.

Dale Earnhardt, who has earned about five million six hundred thousand dollars racing these cars in the last ten years, now has the advantage. He never won this race. He was second here in 1984 and look at the gap between Earnhardt in the Chevrolet and Bill Elliot's Ford Thunderbird. Dale Earnhardt has won six of the first eight races this year, but a doubt of victory has recently caught up with that team. this week Dale sees an improved forecast, you know you can be on top of the world and, like we were in the first part of the season, nothing went wrong, in the last part here, in the last races, a little puncture here, a little problem with the engine.

Just little things happened that kept us out of the wind and in circles but we still finished well so if we can hang on here and get back into the rhythm and win some races I think luck will come back for us out of their second place being sixth and fifth in this race I'm still looking for the first one to fall his way and he's currently leading the winston cup standings as they move towards the firecracker 400 at daytona beach and if he leads the points there and is expected to. He'll get 150,000. Well, I've never made that much in a season, in fact, I've barely made half that in a season.

Don't you wish you could back it up now? It wouldn't be good to write down 30 years early, I guess. bill elliot in second glenn doesn't believe it so he didn't do it in third is rick wilson fourth is older fifth is rusty wallace ned jarrett with whose two sons are part of this great sport let's go to dave to spain with kelly arbor as work continues in car number 29, owner and driver sit here frustrated, kale, what was your first sign of a problem? Well, as soon as the race started, I knew I could see some smoke and smell some smoke coming, but you know I really don't know what it is yesterday afternoon we grew, we had an engine go down on the last practice lap we We ran out of gas and burned a piston but the engine is running fine, everything is going great, it's just a deflector or something malfunctioning and it's backing up through the gap but everything is running fine it's just that the bulldog's determination has always been there. been one of your strengths that will prevail as a car owner you are also going to whip stay after this with your whip, that's right.

But we're going to roll with it, we're going to let it whip around, we're just out for today as far as racing goes, but we're going to try to fix it so we can figure out what's wrong with it and it comes back out, that's Cale Yarborough while he's been driving these things, they have never stopped doing them and they are not going to stop now, they continue to try to plug this oil leak and get it back to the race track. Kim Dale Earnhardt continues to do the Michigan thing toodaloo now leads by four seconds over elliott as Richard Childress' team has put that car in front by a healthy margin now from Richard Petty's car you're looking at Rusty Wallace in the number 27 in sixth position Richard is in seventh and there is ken schrader in number 90 the reddit white car on the outside they are in turn three a moment ago those two cars met kenny schrader and rusty wallace their neighbors from missouri but they touched only momentarily but everything was good there you Look at second place Elliott, number nine, and remember, if you're just joining us, you're fighting for four straight wins in this event.

This is where it all started for him. In fact, he had won at Riverside here before, but his first win was at Super Speedway. Here, a shy, quiet young man from Dawsonville, Georgia, who later became really awesome, won a million-dollar bonus a couple of years ago and now, wherever he goes, he's considered a top contender to come home with a checkered flag interval between first and second place. when they get to the line this time before the officials say they expect this to be the largest crowd ever seen here with a frame that is simply outstanding five and four tenths of a second as relentless as ever he continues to dedicate himself he liked it. win by three laps to be good now there is Baker in the challenge 88 for Rusty Wallace's 27 and behind those other two contenders in the leading laps Raider and Petty immediately a big battle is developing and Rusty Wallace under Baker takes he sees wallace moving up, will give him 4th position now and baker falls to 5th will be back with more live coverage of the michigan 400 after this news from his local station.

Putting Rim driving around Morgan Shepard in the number 26 car out of turn two will give him 13th position. richmond on the way back double pneumonia last winter the question was if he would ever run again and here he is, charging relentlessly back across the countryside on this two mile track this afternoon. Ken made a late pit stop during that caution play he came back on the second time and that left him far behind in the field. Remember that he had moved up to fourth position from his starting position of 18th, but now he has to fight that battle again as he moves through the field. 58 laps complete, let's take a look at the top ten. the leader at the moment Earnhardt is in front bill elliott is in second rick wilson third rusty wall is fourth buddy baker in fifth in sixth position is ken schroeder of missouri and richard petty is in seventh darryl waldrop in eighth bobby hill in ninth and Wisconsin's Alan Kulwicki is in 10th place, Rookie of the Year a year ago, Kowiki had a good run at 11.

Tim Richmond now reports at 12th as he continues to come into the field 13th is Morgan Shepard 14th is Ricky Ryder and he's daryl waltrip in Car 17 is now stopped right behind Kyle Petty and if Tim Richmond can, there are four cars directly in front of him so he can take up four positions if he can pass all of his cars, turn three. Richmond pulls a maroon car off the high side. back tim richmond had such an outstanding finish to the interior last year and physically he just did everything everyone required of him he was everywhere making three four appearances today in chicago back down south then back to the icy climbs up north and finally he caught up he just passed his kyle petty in car number 21 now he stops in front of allen kowicki that's kawiki on the inside richmond on the outside he's coming on the outside he's doing his shot from behind immediately bobby hillen directly in front of him now they're missing those four and two, so he's taking them out very quickly, he's closing in on bobby hill and on the ninth, kyle petty looks at them and you see waltrip taking a very high line and all the way down comes richmond has the space to run low in the track you can run three wide around this track we have seen them do it for years there is richmond using the lower side of the race track approaching the first turn danny's car seems to be running very well the other two cars he passed on the outside when he caught bobby hill and went inside, looks like he's going to make that move on daryl walter ashland, tim richmond from ohio, anywhere he hangs his hat is his home and he'll hang it all here this afternoon on his two mile track and he's closing now he just took bobby hillen's car ready to do some work with daryl waltrip and walter head he's 43 years old and he overwhelms walsh if here he comes for petty walter went up very high in turn three now sets his heights Richard Petty and another group of cars in front of him.

Richard Petty is in seventh. You go with Richard Petty looking out the back window and watching Tim Richmond grow bigger and bigger while Petty sees him in the rearview mirror the same way. He heard the song of the engine. The surge is on the back stretch losing all the equipment they have on this two mile track and Richmond is closing in. They ran the engine about 81 82, sometimes up to 8 300 rpm on a draft, so that's why I've seen so many things making over 600 horsepower, 358 cubic inch engines, 3200 pound cars and here it comes Richmond approaching everyonce again. Notice all the paper, there is always a huge amount of paper coming off the stand and if it gets caught in the front of your car that can be disastrous, it certainly can be because it will overheat the engine and it doesn't take much to get to the point if you do.

If you take it to more than 200 degrees, then it will cause problems later for Michael Waltrip with the new one. sponsor on his car this time he came into the pits it looked like there was a lot of smoke coming out of the engine he came out of turn four so Mike Walker has his problems here today at the moment Teddy stabilizes the distance between him and Richmond but you can See Richmond right here getting a little advantage and entering a little further. Dale Earnhardt remains out in front and looks for his 27th career Winston Cup victory this afternoon.

The defending champion, the 1980 champion, also remains in front and has good size. leads over car number nine bill elliot running second further from michigan at one point a quarter back with the first 50 laps down dale earhardt first bill elliott second rick wilson then third at the quarter mile at the quarter mark with schroeder running in fourth and Rusty Wallace in fifth, wear and tear during the first 100 miles of competition here. H.B Bailey retired after nailing the wall and serving two years and Derek Cope never left the garage area this morning he had a problem, he broke a cam and the man he had qualified.

The second of this race from Spokane Washington did not have the opportunity to start as dns with more comments about the first quarter of the race. Here's Chris Economaki. You may be wondering about the emotions of these pilots. A large crowd is here today during the driver presentations. They are quite vocal about whether or not they like some of the drivers. Leader Dale Earnhardt took a big round of alcohol and turned to the person next to him and said they love me here, don't you, Daryl Walter, who got a pretty good round. alcohol just matters it's a dark and lonely business and bill elliott isn't used to being booed he said i gotta get out of here right back with you well it's a lot different in the last two years now watch this while you watch richard petty and tim richmond here Let's take a look at the race summary so far we've had five leaders, five league changes and with that caveat the speed dropped to 154.783 miles per hour in our Quaker State resume and the third place car, Rusty Wallace, he's entering the pits. and this would be an unscheduled tire change pit stop at wallace maybe something even here now can you change those tires and stay in the lead?

It will be close. This is a two mile track. It takes them between 43 and 44 seconds. to make a nice quick pit stop for Rusty Wallace Earnhardt is coming out of turn four coming to the start/finish line and Rusty comes out and Earnhardt will move if he has the momentum in the first turn there are rusty wallets and here's Earnhardt the outside over overtaking by going down the left in fact makes 11 and nine tenths of a second on pit lane and a good pit stop, but they slow down the time when entering the pits and then of course getting your feet back up takes much longer Time, Richard. petty and tim richmond are having a hell of a try here here's richard petty and right behind him right behind him is tim richmond and they've been battling for the last four laps now petty let's take a look at the tape here oh while kyle petty is loosens a bit from turn two to the end of turn two, richmond made this move to get under richard petty and take seventh place. richard would have no part in this, although richmond was successful here, petty was able to get around him again and finish in 7th place, leaving Richmond in 8th place, it looked like Richmond was gone for the moment, that's not the case and here it is. richard petty approaching his son kyle petty six and seven and here's a pass again this is live now all the way to the back of the race track and you can see richard nodding when suddenly rich came out of his turn to use the slingshot in the corner and the whip under him, he put it in the right position, that time again he was able to generate momentum and went around him, of course, he also used the airflow from Kyle's car, which helped get him there and now he's going to work. in college kyle petty runs in sixth tim richmond is in seventh richard petty is back in eight now you see kyle downstairs because he ran out of shift number two you have a problem with the car camera and kyle petty's machine for a moment , Kyle makes a great race, that car gets stuck at the bottom of the track.

Yes, of course, the Wood brothers prepare that car. They've had a lot of wins here at this track with David Pearson when he used to drive. for now, while kyle surrounds kenny's assailant, tim richmond decides to make that move also on the inside ken schroeder was in fifth place, he falls to six and here comes richmond returning him to another place now richard petty goes after schroeder while they laugh friend arrington entering Turn three this is all live from Michigan here on cbs this afternoon the canon Greater Hartford Open follows next in our events live on cbs Earnhardt continues to pull away we have a lap time let's see how fast it goes here they should be in pits. maybe the next 10 to 12 laps well actually right now Benny Parks is one of the top racers he's coming into the pits checking that time with Earnhardt the leader when he gets to the line see what his average is 42 -8, only 168.2, I'll say it.

It's amazing that he is running so fast at this point in the race. Normally they'll slow down to their qualifying speeds of about 170. They'll slow down to maybe 167 or so, but Earnhardt is setting a blistering pace here. Now 12 and 8 tenths of a second Parsons was on pit road, he returns to the action as Connie Saylor picks and returns as well, continues to lead Earnhardt and looks at Richard Petty now fighting with Schroeder in Richard Petty's fourth Pontiac on the outside . the number 90 ford down the 90 seems to be its chassis a little loose the rear end doesn't stand as high as he would like it allows richard petty to move around the outside so petty goes seventh schrader falls off while the car is just running perfectly again , as we've seen him so many times this year, he looks like he did when he was winning six of the first races this year, Kyle Petty, as we now have his camera looking at his father, Richard, Kyle and Richard.

Petty on this, heavy here as they run to the front, remember Kyle has had a victory and father looking at his son here, Richard approaches Kyle and they will change sheet metal if they have to run in fifth and six, four and a moment, Dale Earnhardt. he was in for 15 and 210 seconds, we saw one of the crew members reaching in doing a chassis against the knights, his advance a little less than 16 seconds when he returns, the green flag might stop appearing as you mentioned, Dale Earnhardt was in on a bit. while before he took right side tires, Ricky Wright is on Lake Speed, Jeff Bodine is on Rick Wilson, who was in the top five a little earlier, took left side tires and these changes have made this man the leader, Tim Richmond. he can do it, he can win three in a row a year ago, not many would have given a nickel in December because he would even get back in a race car this year and said he would be out for the season right now.

Jim Richmond is leading here in the Michigan 400. But he will soon have a pit stop, in fact, he is closing in on his teammates Vinnie Parsons and Benny already made a pit stop. He's about to go down a lap, but Richmond will have to stop. in a short time again at this moment harry hoping to have a good day his last good race was here a year ago when he finished second the number 91 was over in the pits he got a little nervous when he came in kenny bouchard one of the best modified drivers and here here's kim richmond now pitting for his scheduled stop let's go to davis bay tim richmond who had to come from the back of the field on pitt road the green flag pit crew quickly gets to work on the chain of the right side tire cleaning the windshield richmond gets a cold drink ready to get back into action a lot of trouble inside for a race car here is richmond ready to roll a long time with that can of gas it's taking a long time to fill the car with fuel there was a significant change There is a delay that will slightly extend the pit stop time.

Let's quickly recap how Richmond got to the back of the pack. We mentioned earlier that many problems could stop a racing car. In this case, it was a problem imagined when Richmond left. On pit road he hit a ripple in the pavement and thought the car's axle was broken so he made a precautionary pit stop and it turned out to be fine, as a result he lost a lot of time which dropped him to the back . of the group he had to return to the lead now a long pit stop and he is struggling again. I know everyone seems to be struggling except for a couple of people here today, Earnhardt and Elliot, and they're just moving along like Kyle Petty, of course, was expected to be running an off-the-line race there in the 21 car, but Richard did. a pit stop at the same time Tim Richmond was making a pit stop, so he made his stop now, Schroeder took the lead with all these pit stops.

From the time he had it as first place and I believe he is now coming to give up his chance to lead, which will give him five points for leading a lap, an additional bonus of five points is awarded to the driver who leads the most. laps davey allison is also stopping as is dave marcus right now and we are now 84 laps into the race as you can see they are taking a lot of hot dog wrappers or something from the front of kenneth raider ford and collecting those up as the wind sucks them out of the grandstand neil bonnett also enters the pits uh here is Earnhardt and when everything settles down we will find Earnhardt, I guess at the back and first, although he was in the pits a little longer than he wanted.

Well, he made a pretty good pit stop, but I think Jeff Beaudine hasn't made a pit stop in car number five yet. Well, he should be the leader tomorrow and he will have a pit stop to pick up Jeff Budins' number here very soon. Five at the moment is facing a change for him after last year and won the Daytona 500. The entire Rick Hendricks staple, with the exception of Richmond, has had some real problems this year. Waltrip's car, in fact, the rumor is that there will be a big announcement at Daytona in a week about the Waltrip team and that the darwah colors may appear again.

We'll have to wait and see what that story is. There's Beaudine in a car built by Bob Riley. Almost all of these cars are built by the same. We'll tell you more about that story in a moment, folks, as Bodine currently leads the Michigan 400. Checking Budweiser's qualifying with 86 of 200 laps and then completed. Dale Earnhardt had just reclaimed the first position after Jeff Bodine pitted and has a 12. second lead over bill elliot then rusty wallace third tim richmond fourth and kyle petty in fifth the second five the present moment would look like this bobby hill in fifth richard petty six davey allison seventh phil parsons eighth morgan shepard ninth buddy baker tent and then rick wilson eleventh allen kawiki is in twelfth place darrow waltrip just got passed by leader dale earhardt here's richard petty closing in on bobby hillen in a fight for fifth position richard petty right up against the wall trying the high side here on bobby hillen as they fight for fifth Broken ribs have forced Richard Petty out of the last two races.

The injury was serious, but AIDS is starting to catch up with old King Richard. I don't know, getting older makes healing slower. I think I just hit the walls harder than before. but I really guess so, if 25 years ago, if I broke a rib in the next race, I'd be running and, you know, there's been a couple of weeks where we've missed races, so I guess they have something to do with that. there you see richard petty and here you see davey allison dripping while taking a couple of places, he has passed richard, he is behind bobby hillen, that is harry raniere lundy number 28 at the bottom of the track, there you see him below, challenging the battle of bobby hillen. for fifth place he now has allison putting the nose of the t-bird in front on the outside the buick bobby hillen surrounds him again a couple of young people going at it bobby hill and what 22 23 he is now 23 years old and bobby allen's son , davey running for rookie of the year 25 year old has raced a lot at this track with the archer group the auto racing club of america richard petty scanning this action directly in front of her richard back in 7th position giving us these photos and here Morgan Shepard is taking a The shot at Richard Petty tilts him.

The challenger is within. Morgan Shepard. Kenny's own carBernstein. The world champion drag racer. He owns that number 26 car and there's number 55. Phil Parsons returns to the act. Phil has had some very good races this year. on the circuit while moving around inside Morgan Shepard because he is a young driver who grew up in Detroit, not too far from here, but moved south to really get involved in racing, now has a full-time ride and has went very well, average. The speed remained at 157.4 miles per hour, the record for this race was a clip of 153 dating back to a few years ago.

Here's Earnhardt in traffic. There you see Bodine number five right in front of him and Greg Sachs number 50. At Bodine Carr, they. We are now building our own racing machines in Gary Nelson's racing stable, as are the folks at Earnhardt. Most of the cars were built by Banjo Manchester Hutcherson or the people at Laughlin, but this is a Riley car, this one number five, one of two they've built from scratch. and now they are building a third one, if they try to do a little development that others wouldn't know about, when you get the chassis from the same place, since most of them have been doing the three we mentioned over the years, the chances are basically The same, of course, they recover them and adapt them to their own needs and the driver, but at the same time, if they build the product from scratch in their stores, then if they have any secrets that they can keep.

They inside the house like a banjo piece, but it's been so modified, look at Bodine, stay with him here, they run side by side, which will give the second place man a chance to catch up to two cars running side by side and now Earnhardt will let him go so they can race just five, they had some very heated battles last month no love lost between those two drivers, two good competitors, well any racing fan knows the story here and it's yes or no about Dale Earnhardt and his conduct through some This year's special events, such as Winston and then some very harsh racing newspapers, have generated letters and controversies about Earnhardt's style, which is very similar to his father when he used to put a fender on you from time to time, in fact, he drives exactly the same.

His father, Ralph Earnhardt, did it and they're just tough, that's his driving style. They want to go to the front if possible. He likes Earnhardt now. Dale is trying to move around Jeff Budine, but Modine wants to stay on the lead lap. he's doing everything he can to keep Earnhardt there, he's making him work for him and as they run side by side that 12 second gap back to Elias continues to shrink, now here's Earnhardt right in front of Odin in a draft tight, but look at this one. Friends, there have been fireworks between these two before this year, but at the moment there's enough space between them that it looks like it won't happen again.

They said that kind of thing is over, yes, but they have been warned by The crew chiefs of those two cars have been warned while they were fighting this little battle here by Nascar officials, they say, hey, tell your drivers that calm down guys, Blake's speed is about to be attacked by car number three, ride to the wall on pit road. The stopwatch keeps track of the machines. Earnhardt remains in the lead. One of my favorite stories was about Ned Jarrett and Dale Earnhardt going to the races with their wives and coming home with their races and then getting into a situation at a race where Earnhardt parked. you, around the tree, they sure did it now, that was Ralph Earnhardt, we were good friends and our wives, my wife's name is Martha, they, Dale Earnhardt's mother's name, is Martha and we wrote how it was The ride home that night, very cold.

I assure you that the ladies were willing to talk but the drivers were not. We'll be back with more live coverage of the Michigan 400 after this story from your local station. We're in the middle of the race and in the middle of the race Richard Petty had his hands on him. take a full look at this petty approaching turn one rick wilson directly behind him goes down in turn one something happens here that hits him against the wall wilson dives to the inside petty just scraping the wall he was able to get it back at 165 miles per hour and continues on his way, but now he's backed off a bit and is running right behind Ken Schroeder in the number 90.

He lost several positions, Kim and slowed down for a lap or two just to get a feel for it. I don't know if he had hit the fender against the tower. I wanted to check him out and see, but he feels like he's okay, so he is. I picked up the signal again and it's going towards Richard Teddy's number 43 car. You think they could have tapped him and we couldn't tell it on the replay, we couldn't see the other car behind me, but all of a sudden, he just hit the wall and clipped it a little bit.

You could see that the car when he hit the wall shook a little bit, but it might have just gotten a little hit going into the corner, maybe from the outside. Might as well take another look at us and we'll check and see here's Richard Petty in 43 on the backstretch, he was running 12th in 11 when that happened, I think, and Rick Wilson just ran through traffic in a hurry. Wilson is having a great day, his leaderboard looks like this: 1st Earnhardt elliott 2nd midway Rusty Wallace 3rd tim richmond 4th davey allison in 5th kyle petty is in six phil parsons in 7th bobby hillen in 8th rick wilson and ninth morgan shepard in tenth buddy baker is 11 Schrader was then shown as 12th Richard Petty 13. and Kim, fans might wonder why we are seeing Rusty Wallace on the board there in third place now when he made a pit stop no scheduled to change tires and we saw him going left. down, but the other leaders have made pit stops since then, now he will have to stop earlier if there is no caution, so he is a little out of sync as far as his pit stops are concerned, but he is definitely in that position meanwhile, ricky run feels the hot breath of the number three fourth chevrolet t-bird entered for bud moore going down a lap and ricky rod in 15th place falls 14 car lengths in the lane and bill elliot apparently has lost a cylinder something that the front number nine has braked bill elliot looks like he's really off the pace at the moment we can take a look at that little incident again from another camera and see if it was recorded here they are entering turn one rick wilson inside in the car number four as many advanced on the outside of phil parsons and wilson comes in, it seemed like he just flipped him a little with the right front corner of wilson's car getting into petty's left rear quarter sending him into the wall ever so slightly that's not a reaction, it's pure instinct, Teddy knew he had been touched, he knew he was on his way, he had only a split second to save and he keeps going until his 30 years experience pays off at times, he is currently in second place, bill elliott and the word is that he is backing up and there may be a mechanical failure in the number nine car as he seeks his fourth consecutive victory in this nearly half a million dollar event.

A tough break for Elliot, who has been trying to win as you say for the fourth time in a row. but at the pace he's running now, Kim has a good chance of winning. Mike Joy can tell us more about that. Dan Elliott. What is the problem? I think we dropped the vials. We have a ". I've lost a cylinder, we're going to keep running as long as we can and hope it ends. Is there anything you can do to improve that condition? Nothing but the price. Well, I know, and they do a lot of that, but it's . kinda doubtful that prayer will get that cylinder back of course he's in second place in the points standings and he wants to stay there and run as long as he can and get as many points as possible right now Earnhardt first wallace second. tim richmond in third davey allison and here's richard petty shooting baker so that little bump on the wall wouldn't affect that car of his too much, he felt it for a lap or two but he keeps going back too, that's one of the positions that he lost when he hit the wall, but he got it back now, putting him in 11th place and ready to challenge the top ten.

I think Morgan Shepard is the next man he's driving his heart out there, Kim. , he does it every race and here's Baker making another move to win 200 times again, but he hasn't won since the 400th firecracker on July 4, 1984. I'd like to see him win 201 and then hang him up. above, I'm telling you, you get worried when you see that guy dive after everything he's contributed to the sport and make those kinds of saves, you wonder how many more times you'll just pick him up and keep it up, well you do, but he enjoys it. he enjoys it a lot and says that as long as he enjoys it he will continue to do it and he is still doing very well, as we have seen here today, he said: "I really care about what I do.

I like doing this. Enjoy it, you are absolutely right, Here it is Earnhardt in front Benny Parsons has now been overtaken by the tank commander here, Dale Earnhardt just takes him down if he can win by one lap, you'll see him do it more of the Michigan 400 with Earnhardt leading for a short time. , Dale Earnhardt was in charge, Bill Elliot was in second with Rusty Wallace in third, Tim Richmond in fourth and Davey Allison holding fifth. Attrition so far in case Derrick Cope never got a chance to start today broke. an engine while they were warming up this morning, h.b bailey brought out the lone caution flag for once when he crashed and spun the two Mike Waltrips car swallowed a piston Buddy Harrington's car had a valve problem and Butch Miller. , the big Midwest star number 08, also retired.

So, with the race halfway over, let's get some comments from the dean of American racing commentators, Chris Economy. Well, if this race continues at this pace, this big crowd will start early at 160 miles, the speed was 156 miles per hour. 180 miles 157 miles per hour and now at the halfway point the fetus increased 258.94 miles per hour very fast there are 35 cars still on the track only one yellow flag is far from minor acts involving hp bailey would have been ten changes in the league rusty wallace bill elliott neal violet ken trader dale earhardt tim richmond and jeff bodine have taken turns leading this interesting competition today, again the old record is 153 miles per hour so they can really break it at this pace and that was no caution flags. so this guy is really killing it in 14th place.

Alan Kowiki just went a lap down to Earnhardt as he continues to search for perfection in this yellow and blue chevy prepared by Richard Childress trying to put another man down a lap and by the moment We are holding it back a little bit, not a lot, although that is greater in the number, it continues to work wonderfully on any part of the racetrack you want to drive, you know you can take it if you need to get into wherever you need to go. the car is running man we're going up today that was the halfway mark with 113 of 200 complete laps which is where we are at Earnhardt first on the rust wall is second Tim Richmond now the third, Kyle Petty, fourth, Davey Allison, fifth, Rick Wilson, six. phil parsons in seventh bobby hill in his eighth bill elliot has dropped from second to ninth richard petty is in tenth morgan shepard is eleventh buddy baker twelfth ken schrader 13 allen kawicki 14 benny parsons has just entered the pits and as he does so ricky rudd passes the 15th to 16th, lake speed goes to 17th, bodine and 18th, walter and you mentioned that benny parsons is in the pits, he is running it on left side tires and phil parsons, who was in 7th position, too I had made a pit stop not long ago. 13 cars remain on the lead lap, but they won't stay there for long, as Earnhardt continues to mow, the rest of the field is in first place, and there's Baker in the 88th car in 12th. a turn once that valley.

Earnhardt is as strong as any running back you can find once he gets the brake in his jaw, he's gone and you can't stop him. He has a heart, there is no doubt about it. Now it's the universe back to the second place card. There are fifteen and six tenths of a second between first and second between Earnhardt leading Wallace in second and then Richmond in third. That's a little more than a third of a turn. It takes about 43 seconds to go around this track and almost 16. seconds, so that's a pretty good lead, there have been six previous winners in Winston Cup racing, as they finished 13 events this year and came within half of the road at Daytona and the Firecracker 400.

Looking further back in the field you see the number one which is Brett Bodine's car and with him comes number 71, Dave Marcus, and they are again outside the top 15 as president andThe second place car is entering the pits, but we said before that it would have to enter before Earnhardt and the others. because he got there earlier before Rusty Wallace got rain on the right side of his car, he used right side tires when he pitted earlier, let's see if you can stay in the lead this time, that's 14 and a tenth of a second on that stop at boxes.

He gets back on track and I think he'll make it. Earnhardt reaches the line and launches into the first turn. Here comes Wallace speeding up again. Now he's already in turn two and you want to see Earnhardt come into the picture. Right around here, so it was a really good pit stop. He came into the pits very quickly and came out of the pits very quickly and that's very important to do a good job, not just the moment when you're actually stopping, for a moment. Talk about runners and drivers. They always considered you a great driver.

You never wanted to be a runner. You wanted to bring them home and win races. As long as the wheels stay in place that's his style, some drivers just can't handle it unless they run in front and others are content with trying to connect and outlast them, but Earnhardt doesn't have as much class and there is some pressure from the drivers. sponsors some sponsors say we want you to be in front until it explodes or you win, there is no doubt about it, there is pressure from the sponsors today because they are spending a lot of money to get the car out and they want it to be that way.

They strive to get as much exposure as possible and that makes it difficult for the driver, but in your experience, a little further back in those years, the factories were there and you had the same kind of pressure and you still won 50 races. The pressure was on, there's no doubt about it, the big difference then is that here's Dale Earnhardt coming into the piss, the leader is coming into the pits and this would be a scheduled pit stop and we'd like to join that story, Earnhardt looking for a cold drink while they service the car, he only did 40 laps 80 miles on this pit stop because the last time he was there he took off before Barney Boyd finished that second can of gas, now let's see they finished the tires before finish all the gas finally the man with a grip can take his head yes, the gas drips from behind because of the overfill and Earnhardt is away 15 and 3 10 seconds to car number three, the second man going down to the first turn, That would be Tim Richmond, now.

Richmond has a chance to get in front here for the moment, I mean if he catches Dale Earnhardt, did Bernard have a good lead on him and the back right away? I think the interval is still in Earnhardt's favor, it's less than a second. there's about half a second between first and second, so it was a very good pit stop by Dale Earnhardt and again getting up to speed on him very quickly allowed him to stay in front because he had a big lead. Remember for the bailout, Wallace Kennedy had a 15-second lead on him and Richmond was so far behind Wallace Richmond now there are only about 10 car lakes behind him.

Richmond has a chance to come back next, but you have Chevrolet running one and two now, of course he will have a pit stop before. too long let's see what he can do with it you think he'll test it a little here his tires are sagging well Earnhardt used left side tires that time which is probably a pretty good strategy because left side tires hold a lot here. At this track, new tires typically run faster than warmed tires, so I think Earnhardt will maintain the distance well. The guy I picked to win this race today was Davey Allison, he's in third place and he's right behind him, in fact he's moving down. the inside of the road for second place davey allison who won two races his rookie year there you see the number three in front the number 28 davey allison right there behind tim richmond in car 25 the maroon car is the second richmond and young davey continues to be a real factor here with his Ford Thunderbird more of the Michigan 400 after these posts, four of the 200 laps are complete, Dale Earnhardt is out front and we could have a leading champion, Jim Richmond, moving inside, a surprise with Earnhardt with the New tires on the left side, but Richmond makes a move, the crowd is up and applauding as Tim Richmond stretches for three in a row, stretches the car a little and pushes the nose into first place in the outside, here Earnhardt returns and they pair up in turn. two Earnhardts retire in Richmond and go back to second place and Davey Allison right there in third place, this is the battle for the league.

Sometimes when you get those tires, they don't work like you expected, no they don't and stuff. It's a surprise because the left side tires normally make it grip a little better on the inside of the track, but Earnhardt's car doesn't seem like it's sticking as well there as before Tim Richmond makes another challenge on the inside Richmond says me and sugar ray leonard should have a talk i'm not a wrestler but i think i know how to get back here he's going to come in first place and he backs up earnhardt there's no respect for a comeback for this outside man earnhardt works him, takes him right to the wall and goes back to first and allison stops young davey allison three types of cards first place is going to turn three give it to Earnhardt from the high side of Richmond making incredible runs apart back to the inside comes Earnhardt as he faked the outside through the dummy and then come down here, they're going to get one of the crowd on their feet until the end record crowd here today in Michigan, the largest In history, seeing this tremendous battle when Dave Richmond literally came back from the dead in December, it was a matter of hours at some point because his family was worried and now here he is, we saw him in January in Ohio and there wasn't much doubt that he would do it.

He won't race this year and here he goes for number three. There is still Parsons, number 55, and he remembers that he is on the lead lap running forward, but Elliot has returned to the garage. Elliott retires with number nine. He's done, he won't win four in a row. davey allison bits 28. the third place car is on pit road the changes are taking place as the race shows 100 28 allison complete changing the tire trying to get it off here here is Earnhardt back under Richmond for the leader Richmond he tries to close it on the track Little puts the inside shoulder on him and here comes Parsons, he remembers that Parsons had made a pit stop again, so he is trying to get his back, he is trying to get back into the lead, he left his 12th place just briefly, they had him up, he makes a wild move.

Under the rain immediately as he shoots inside. One thing Dale Earnhardt and Tim Richmond will do is give fans their money's worth. Everything in the middle. Martins takes a look. He says thank you. He just assumed that he waits. He doesn't mind mixing it up. With them, Richmond now has a pit stop to make here before too long. Buddy Baker brings his car for a pit stop. Jeff Lodine was here a few moments ago, so he pits with a green flag. Now that's the other Bodine family car. that's car number one brent bodine haas ellington's car in trouble came into the pits on his pit stop apparently he ran out of gas and here comes tim richmond pissing we knew he would come in shortly let's dave to spain tim richmond did 48 laps on his last tank fuel 48 on this is also a scheduled stop and a routine stop as they are going to the left side tires they are changing the left side only in richmond he has a drink wipe the windshield again the weight will probably be for the gasoline, in fact, the tires are on, they are waiting to make sure they have every last drop of fuel.

Henry Bentfield shakes it off, the last can of gas goes and Richmond is in the pits quickly, a good clean stop. and notice the number 88 directly behind it, which was 14 and 9. 10 seconds. Baker in '88 couldn't get his car to start and his crew pushed him about 75 feet before he finally blew up and went back to business. Here come Kyle Patty and Terry Labonte. in the pits of course lift up, several left down, dale jerry brings the freelander car and kenny schroeder apparently also ran out of gas and they are pushing his car onto pit road while kyle mittig's left side tires, richard petty is pits and is back in the Race Earnhardt has a break for a moment, but what we've learned is that this guy in the number 25 can run with this fanatic, the blue and yellow number three, I guess there's a chance up there with him, now that Phil Parks has been unlocked, let's go to Mike Joy, who's waiting with a guy who was hoping for better things today, well, he's been in victory lane the last three years in a row in this race, Kim, but here It's in the garage, which eventually came loose, well, I think it ended up breaking.

He first a valve spring and it ended up coming off. I don't really know what the circumstance was, but the car was really running well and I felt like I had a good chance of beating Earnhardt, but still, if you can't finish, you're not going to be able to finish. win, it's going to be tough at the point, keep falling here, well I think that puts us out of the points because you know we keep getting out of the races, there's no way to win a championship, tough shot for bill elliott, that's it A big point will be rewarded next week in Daytona Beach.

I know this car was easy to find. We just followed the long, winding trail of oil through the garage area, so it was a tough break for Bill Elliot. You don't fall out of many races, but this is an important one. one here today and Dale Earnhardt now felt a little bit calmer because certainly Ellie was one of the ones who showed early in the race that he could run with her. Let's talk about standings for a moment here with so much money on the line. Dale Earnhardt, the road. he is running now it has been a pocket of 150,000 in Daytona bill elliott will come out with a great although that could be in danger with what happened today neil bonnett is still very much in this race terry labonte as you see he is fourth in these positions kyle petty is fifth Kyle Petty has come up from 16th place earlier this season, moving up to fourth place and dropping one place, but this year he is very much in contention in the battle for points.

He's matured as a driver and he's had some really good racing moments in the world so far this year, of course, as you mentioned earlier, a 600 mile race in Charlotte last month, the biggest win of his career, but he showed that the guy has arrived on this court as we watch Dale Earnhardt and the number three continue. To master Mission 400 and try to win it for the first time, we'll be back with more action soon, with 133 of 200 laps completed. Dale Earnhardt continues to set a record pace of 159 miles per hour, leading Rusty Wallace in second place. his car starts to burn in third place is ricky rudd fourth is morgan shepard and fifth is ken schroeder in the s in second five tim richmond now appears in six buddy baker in seventh kyle petty is in eighth bobby hillen is in ninth and Rick Wilson's Florida Pilot is in tenth place.

There's Rusty Wallace's number 27 car. Vanessa is off feeding him. The car named Vanessa, who placed on the pole, is showing a lot of smoke and is starting to fall back a little here, still holding second place. place but that doesn't hold a good future here is Earnhardt right in front of him Phil Parsons at the end of the main laugh shown in position 11 Phil has run very well there, he passed Earnhardt in fact for a while back he was behind him and passed to Dale Earnhardt, it could be that Earnhardt said, go ahead, pass me, let me follow your draft for a while and, uh, save gas and save my car and run here in the draft and you.

We are doing a good job. The problems continue for Kelly Arboro back in the pits another time and Earnhardt appears willing to play a waiting game. I couldn't get enough of this rusty wall. It is second Morgan Shepard third. There will be 140 full laps when they arrive. come this time i'll tell you phil parsons stands his ground here today stays with him yeah that car is running fine now look at these three wides up down lake speed up next to the wall guinness writer in the middle and neil bonnie Back in the inside the hood racing camera, that's what it looks like at 170 miles per hour, well that was Alan Kowicki instead of Kenny Schrader at mid lake speed, having a pretty good race again this afternoon and an inning which he brought himself, a pilot from Mississippi. lake speed number 83, it's okay here, you see, there's someone who's not taking any chances today, well, I'll tell you it's got to be a little hot out there, but I guess if this is your favorite sport, why not keep go ahead and be calm? there and it seems to me that it has a radio hitch too well, maybe the speakers should be hit by debris or something else, right, that helmet wouldn't help, no point in taking risks while watching dale Earnhardt herecontinue to set the pace for a new record and his first victory in the Michigan 400, let's get an update from Mike Joy Richard Childress, the former driver owns Dale Earnhardt's car and runs this team well, he rode behind Phil Parsons for a time and maybe it didn't have enough wind for it there or it just doesn't have enough speed, well, not enough speed, the car is a little loose right there, Mike, uh, we put it on the left sides and a little too loose, You know, we get some rights when we're okay, do you care about him? accumulating a lead as big as he had at the start, maybe running the car too hard, no, you know, we felt like the car would handle it, you know, if we could ever get out in front and if you asked him to back off, would he laugh? simply?

You don't, I didn't ask him to back off, he would say if you did, no we wouldn't, we wouldn't back off, we just have to try to keep our chassis right now, get it back the way it was, build the engines. for this car and they are ready to run as hard as they will for the full 400 miles, it is always go or fly with the number three car with Earnhardt, there you stand and you will run it as hard as that car. can be raced now, take a look at Neil Bonnett here in car number 75 as he tries to move within the lake speed in 83.

They are having a good battle there of course, we mentioned earlier that Neil Bond is in third place in point. In qualifying, he didn't have as good of a race here today, as he was hoping to qualify way back in the field, but he led a lap during that one yellow flag we had. He warned that they stayed there and led laps and got five bonus points. The 15th position being wagered here will return with more live coverage of the Michigan 400 after this news from your local station, we have a crack here in the number three car.

He is racing alongside Morgan Shepard and Vanessa, car number 27, Gary. josh and christian fowler's names their car vanessa definitely has ideas on number three as you check the gap here to car number 27 there's about three and two tenths of a second between Rusty Wallace in second place and this number three car and look that Morgan is able to stay up there in his own spin. Earnhardt is definitely not running at the pace he was running before and, since Richard Childress, the car's owner, said he doesn't handle the corners as well as he did, Phil Parks made a pitch while we were there. at the commercial break again and he's back in fifth now, he never got his car up to speed after returning to the track, so it's okay for Phil Parsons, he was at 13 and 1 10 seconds, he's back in pit road another time, so that will rule out any chance I have of recording a good finish when we went for the commercial Rusty Wallace was just like you said, a little over three seconds behind Dale Earnhardt, now it's less than two seconds, so it's definitely closing in and Earnhardt is willing to use Morgan Shepard as part of a two-car draft to thwart Rusty Wallace's efforts to return to this race.

Now Earnhardt's number three is still looking for that first Michigan 400 victory leading the Winston Cup points. just flush against the wall and we'll check the interval back to second place, two and one tenths of a second, so it keeps clipping between first and second and something's out of sync and the chassis setup on car number three now. notice he dives to the bottom trying to find a place to run there and leaves Morgan high and dry on the outside and Wallace rusty even though he has some smoke coming out of his car apparently it's not affecting the speed of his Pontiac, but it's huh. definitely giving credit to Earnhardt and his pit stops which were out of sync for a while, they are now more in sync because Earnhardt stopped not long after Rusty Wallace did it last time, each of them will have to stop the leak once more at the last pit stop.

There's caution on the track, well that's a break for the three of us, a break for Earnhardt to see if he can figure out the tune the car is currently holding. It's a chance for Rusty Wallace and the Datsun team and Dotson is a good chassis man. See if he can find something else to do with his car and for Tim Richmond this may be all he needs to make a real quest all the way, but it wasn't a break for Morgan Shepard who had just gone to the left. Dale Earnhardt had avoided it, so now he's two miles behind the yellow flag.

He is on the track for the second time today. He was setting a record of 159.2. I think they could even withstand a couple of yellow flag laps here and still have a chance to win. record they say that there is an exhaust pipe in turn number two that was not there when the race started, of course it came off one of the cars and the meters on anything that enters the track, these tires pass, they are very easy to cut, yes. all the leaders will come in and most of them will use four tires and some of them will maybe make adjustments to the chassis of their cars, well positioned here, as we show full 149, yes, it will be awfully close if they can go the distance from Here that is just a fraction over a hundred miles again and gallons of fuel, who gets the best range?

Well, Tim Richmond has gotten all the good gas mileage. Dave España reported that today he did 48 laps twice, so he went further than anyone else. We've seen it, isn't it amazing how they have so few problems? If you look down the pit road here, the old feeding hour at the zoo filmed just a mass of people and a lot of work was going on, you can see some of the crew members. Someone put their hand inside Buddy Baker's car, I think it was and did the chassis adjustment and this is the moment, if you were racing, would you want to be at the entrance to the pits or at the exit of the pits to get back to get out here?

Well, in a case like this, I prefer to be at the pit exit, why? Well, because you can go out and not have to worry about cars stopping in front of you to go down to the pits, of course you have to. Be worried when you come out of the pits because you won't be going out in front of someone, but that's your decision if you're watching our action live for the first time. We talk about these pit stops and two tires are put on in 12. seconds that fuel the car it's not just the pit stop but also the entry and exit is crucial, especially during the green flag pit stops, it's very crucial in that At the moment aerodynamics has become critically important in Nascar racing and this season the Ford Thunderbird has been significantly improved.

Mike Joy shows us how Ford has completely redesigned the Thunderbird for

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. Its aggressive new beak is the talk of the garage area, but in the wind tunnel this barely made any difference. In the case of drag, the big news is at the rear of the car, where T-bird buyers wanted more trunk space and if we look at the difference between this and last year's racer car, it means that the location of this rear wing is now an inch further back and two inches higher, you get much cleaner, freer air than last year's car and that's what keeps these birds stuck to the ground at speeds over 200 miles per hour and next year, Oldsmobile brought this 1988 cutlass to the track on Friday for Nascar to look at and hopefully approve. the body style and arrow additions for the 1988 competition, as you see Kelly Yarborough being pushed back here, he missed the pits, I think he's depressed, he's been up all afternoon, six time winner Dave Gerard of Oldsmobile, brought that car to Nascar to look at.

I only kept it here for an hour and they didn't leave it here for us today, that's the new Cutlass Supreme. You're getting a preview, as they say in the business magazines, of what the '88 looks like. Gerard, the next day, brought a Duesenberg here. One of those old boat-tailed Duesenbergs, you know, with a very fancy sprinter tail. Richard Petty walked past him and said, You know they could run that thing backwards. Maybe they had a car. It had a very pointy rear end and certainly would have split the wind, we are still under caution, second caution of the day at the Michigan 400.

Glad you are aboard the Greater Hartford Open Cannon. Greater Hartford Open is coming up that summer. All ken venturi are ready to come to you as soon as this. one is more than one lap and they are going to race here this afternoon and as they prepare for the restart after everyone had a great opportunity to change what they needed on pit road for everyone, we are ready to start again and they Line up so a couple of cars came in before you give that Dale Jarrett and Richard Petty have come in to keep their tanks off in hopes that they can go the distance from here and they only have 48 laps left with Richard Petty coming. moves down pit road by kellyarboro rick wilson has also peaked his smart tank move on his part, very definitely dale Earnhardt in first rusty wallace in second tim richmond in third and in fourth place should be kyle petty and davey allison sitting there fifth position, those cars are all on the left knee, they had time, put on four new tires, put on a full tank of fuel and made some adjustments to their cars, they should be ready to go start, getting ready.

In a restart here, everyone has to prepare for these races, the drivers certainly do and they put on all kinds of equipment and are always worried about debris and parts and all the dangers of motorsport. There's Bob Wishny, our cameraman, in turn four, they run. just three feet away from bob all afternoon here's Mike Joy with a late update Mike Richard Childress 50 laps on a tank of gas Can you do it? It's going to be very tight. You know, we've been going, we estimate around 48, but... We'll have to wait and see, you know, we just see what kind of position we're in at the time.

I think that means it's a coin toss or maybe a dice game. They had a great meeting here in case they faced him with a lap to Wow, they decided to take a gamble and do it, it is turning into another dramatic finish in Michigan, as many times we have had the feeling of going down completing 153 laps, this time we showed eight cars in the lead and Richard Petty is one of those cars he is the only one who came back and helped burn fuel thanks mark rick wilson wilson did too two drivers who should definitely be able to go at the break bernhardt skedaddles rusty wallace staying with him richard petty bears down now petty He may play an interesting game here, I don't know how hard he'll want to race, maybe he wants to play a conservation role here, thinking these guys will screw him up and they'll have to pit again and leave him in a position to win his 200. first petty strategy and i'm sure dale inman was in that key era here he is under bobby hillen in the number eight car well apparently he's going to try to go to the front and of course he's back there in position of Do a lot of drafts and That'll save some fuel through the oil-stained windshield of the number 43 car you're driving with the best stock car driver in the history of the game.

Two torn rips right in the middle of things. working his way through penny has made a move with a piece of strategy that could give him the number 201 this afternoon the seven time champion looks at bobby hillen who just backed up in front of him they move around greg sacks at a 75 in those five grade bank immediately battle for second Rusty Wallace puts the Pontiac there Kim Richmond in third oh if I hadn't picked up that car, I had wiped out about 10 cars oh that's pressure and then a heart attack city was there in the turn four for just a moment back, immediately, Earnhardt deployed into first place keeping second for the moment.

Looks like Wallace, here he comes now, that's the lap of Baker's car and there's some separation between that leader and second and third place. Fans check out Neil Bonnet's car here. Boy, it looks like a dirt race, but Richmond's car may not be performing as well as he did a little earlier. Kyle Petty has moved around him now he has dropped fourth, third, now Kyle's pup somewhere else in third and Morgan Shepard. he's pitting after that hair-raising moment in turn four, well, he overshot his feet, he may have cut a pause, he couldn't or didn't stop, he may have cut a fly, Morgan Shepard came in, no he was able to stop it well. go back again, number three, Earnhardt, in first gear and look at this group of cars, there's Rick Wilson inside that yellow car, Rusty Wallace, and there's Richard Petty looking back at this collection.

He's in a position right now that he doesn't want to. Being inside has RickWilson inside him and that definitely holds up the leading group of cars that can pull away as they race side by side. Kim, well, the one thing you don't want to do is use it all. up here and I'm talking about the fuel in Earnhardt's car in the front and I would like someone, I would think for Grafton they could find a left car to try to save a little bit, but it will be a while before they do that. Get a car back, here's Morgan Shepard coming back to the pits, so this is a very costly situation for him.

He was running in 9th place, one stayed back with his ears down, I don't think he has brakes, well it wasn't a good race, apparently he floated a bit. but he couldn't stop all the money there when he pitted, he can get the penalty, well, they have to impose it if he fails to pit like that. There's waltrip scooting by richard petty daryl waltrip, I don't think he's in In that lead group he's way down, yes he is, but he's still there running hard in the heat of battle. Well, Richard Petty is adding drama as we look at Rusty Wallace, second place behind this number three car, Earnhardt, at 158 ​​laps. richard patty is entering the piano teddy is pitting for richard petty unscheduled stop on pit road has it been him for someone there is the right side of that car ken has some paint torn off the right side of course we saw it in the middle of that three car battle there a moment ago let's go with mike joy well, they sure didn't want to go in when richard gets a call drinking, you see the front of that car, it's all sand, the tires on the right side to richard beldi He dropped one and the tire has a little white paint all over it, I think it hit the wall.

Well, Mikey will be able to maintain the lead on the left as he emerges from a very quick pit stop by Dale Endman and the team. Dale Earnhardt is now coming to the exit. finish line and Teddy is already in turn two so he stays in the lead on the left now what he needs is a warning there's that tire they took off yeah he definitely brushed someone and I'll tell you there's not much rubber there, in fact. On the side of those car tires, ken, there's no rubber at all. Remember? Right here in front of us, at one point they were running three-way and they pinched him a little bit.

I'm not so sure why he pinched another car. there's hillary bobby running a very strong race here today in six currently let me go over how they run winhardt first rusty wallace second kyle petty third davey allison fourth tim richmond fifth bobby hill in six rick wilson seventh richard petty eighth everyone in the lead left dropped a lap in the night daryl waltrip in the tenth lake speed 11 ken trader 12 allen kawiki uh there's richmond's car and hillen is coming up behind i don't think richmond's car is running as well as it did before he made this pit stop and sometimes you You put on the new set of tires and when you give them a few spins, one tire may grow a little more than others.

Richard Patty comes back to this and that will close us in on what they call the stagger and if the tire grows. Well it may make the car not handle as well and here's Richard Petty once again and this time it looks like they're changing the tires on the left side of his car so it's a tough break for Richard Petty having to do two pit stops. down a lap, now a very quick pit stop for him, but it's to the left, leaving seven cars in the lead to decide our live coverage of the Michigan 400 and for Richard Petty, the afternoon suddenly turns Much longer, leader Earnhardt tries to get a pace for his first victory at this track, the consensus is that he will have to pit again with second place finisher, Rusty Wallace, presumably having to return at another time.

The question: Davey Allison will run third, Kyle Petty, fourth, Tim Richmond, Bobby fifth. hill and sixth as to who will decide it by rick wilson in the seventh house in trouble now the caution just appeared on the track for alan kawicki who will join this group and our quaker state resumes out of the race, cope bailly mike waltrip friend arrington butch

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paul and as we see now alan kawiki's number seven apparently knocked out an engine in turn three and is being rolled back to the garage area other cars out of the race bill elliot looking for his fourth win connie sailor kelly arboro after his seventh today the leaders all Too bad and the question about fuel is no longer an issue, let's go to the pits and hear what's going on between these leading cars.

Well the pit crews can breathe a sigh of relief now as it was until this yellow came out, everyone would have had to do it. I made a quick pit stop for a splash of gas last time because there was a 1.35 second gap between Dale Earnhardt and Rusty Wallace and the pit crew can erase that if they make a little mistake, but they're getting enough fuel now. to go to final and for all practical purposes the pit men are finished, now it is up to the driver before this yellow, it was up to the pit crew, again with you, chris economic, with your views during the mark three quarters of the race and as we take a look at the Quaker State summary, we have had eight leaders, 14 league changes and the average speed is 155.487 miles per hour, still a record and two caution periods in the race in total of seven laps, we are on our third caution at this point.

Car number three, Earnhardt, did not stop tires, he just gassed and returned to the track. We get a look at what happened to Wiki from Neil Bonnet's point of view as he approaches Cowicky as they enter turn three. You can see the smoke. forward and so he moves inward, a very good move on his part. You see Jeff Podini's number five car moved to the inside as well and Kowiki had already moved out of the way of the oncoming track, so Alan Kawicki gives the drivers a chance. Left to get to pit road, feed your cars and you'll have a clean shot at the checkered flag.

Yes, they can definitely run the rest of the way from here as far as fuel goes, since you say the question comes up. the window richard petty returns to the pits one more time for an adjustment by dale lindman or the rest of the team entering the car to make an adjustment opens the car several other cars jenny parsons puts on left side tires now too yeah cars allen kawicki took it down pit road ken and he's sitting on pit road now it looked like the engine blew us up a lot of smoke coming out of it he's out of the car so apparently he did it he just brought it there instead to take it to the garage.

Here's Richard Petty coming back out now showing a turn down. The problem is uh Tim Richmond and if you can make any adjustments to his car at that time when they came in, remember he was backing up, son, I would say. That Tim Richmond was glad to see this warning because his car wasn't running as well as before, so he will now be using a different set of tires and that should help him. Alan Kowiki stopped on pit road to give himself another lap credit. here richard petty and bobby allison, members of the racing elite, have been influential in their son's careers, kyle and davey have taken different paths, but both were successful when i was a kid and said the best way to get into the winston cup series was to work hard and work from the bottom and work your way up and that's what i did.

I started in the limited sportsman division, moved up to the Grand American Series and then moved on to the All Pro Charlotte Daytona Dash Arca and Busch Grand National before I ran a winston cup race I started racing winston cup cars, I didn't go through the other ranges, I started off good, in fact the second race I ran was at Michigan, so, you know, I started from there and came right to this. The story has been told before how he went to Daytona in his first race and won a United States Auto Racing Club event and things certainly looked very rosy and it seemed like it was going to be a Cinderella story but the wheel came off. of the car right after that and It was a long time before he won at Richmond Virginia in a race in which he was truly blessed, all the leaders crashed, as Dale Earnhardt and Daryl Waltrip got together, two or three more who got together In that incident they gave him a victory.

Davey Allison on the On the other hand, he has been climbing all the short tracks fighting to get to the top. Mike Joy has another rookie of the year from last year with him right now who ran a good race this afternoon. Mike well, it's like his local racetrack. and alan kalwicki was hoping to do well here in his ford but something really took off, he really did, mike, i don't know what was going on on the third lap, the engine blew up and there was so much smoke I could hardly see. choked to death but that's a race you know it's really a shame the xerox 4 Thunderbird was working great for us and you know we were having a good day everything was going well and it just broke so kawiki is out on duty today, now Richard Petty.

He had a multitude of problems here with the tires when he first arrived. These are the tires that came off the right side of the car and you can see the cable here very close to the outer rubber. They had to stop and change them. Someone's red and white, left side tires looked good, but when he came back for that second unscheduled green stop, here are the left side tires with someone's yellow and red paint. Now, in the 1960s, Detroit experimented with red-striped passenger cars. The tires and Goodyear had blue street tires. I don't think this has a chance of catching on.

Richard Petty would be equally delighted to have them all in one color. Thank you so much for taking a look at the speed breakdown on this race. with one lap before they were back running at 166 miles per hour for the first 50 miles, then it dropped to 152 and then when we got to the halfway point we had a new record, it sure looked like we were on our way to 300 . miles, we'll have to wait and see if David Pearson's 1973 mark will be eclipsed. He did it in one day without stopping. David Pearson never announced his retirement, but he hasn't driven in over a year.

You know what I am. I missed most of all those wonderful moments at pitt road when Leonard prepared the car all those years and they always scored in the poll and Dave was high. Poor Leonard Wood was all nervous and worried and he had no idea where his driver was. David knew exactly when he was going to run, but he guided Leonard for a long time. They still joke about it. David Pearson has one of the most enviable records here in Michigan, going 72-76 in Nascar and Iraq events. He won eight races. and 11 starts you're looking at today, ready to restart, Earnhardt looks to win for the first time.

He sees Schrader spread out beneath him. The number nine man in second place as they prepare for a start will be Bobby Hillen and for the fans he may not. I know the reason Schrader and the other cars can go on the inside, it's a Nascar rule that if they have one or more lights out, they can stop on the inside and the green flag, third is Kyle Petty, fourth is Rick. wilson fifth rusty wallace six davie allison seventh tim richmond as they head back under green earhardt not distancing the field with a dead engine over rick wilson almost lost control he's scattering and looks like he's pouring oil on his own oil and I'm sure Caution is out in fact it's that other cars were really struggling to avoid him, it's a miracle to enter the corner and for that to happen and him to be massacred by the attack, we didn't see any problems there other than good driving, but what happens in an incident like that's when the engine blows up it throws oil under the rear tires and it's exactly like hitting ice and you're usually away from the races or into the wall anyway, they get back to the line and come back under caution.

Back to the line and there's an oil streak at the bottom of the track for three or four hundred feet, you could see that line and there were three cars trying to race. Dale Earnhardt had to run hard to keep them left down. it was dave marcus kenny schroeder and daryl walter for trying to turn left, so bernhard backs off, they're going to be in the lead again, a lot more competition for that, another look at what just happened here to bring out another warning . and probably saying goodbye to our chance to have some record here this afternoon in Michigan, everything you see on the outside, the smoke starts to boil and what a move that knee is joined together on the inside, that's Rusty Wallace, Rusty Wallace, yeah, in car number 27 he made. super move there to avoid getting involved and Wilson tries to take him back to the inside of the track, then he picks him up a little bit but he keeps the rear end behind him and he's able to stay and not spin and here he is. from neil bonnett's view when he went in there now look right here is the blown engine there are the parts starting to fly and suddenly neilhe bought it while he was diving in there and he missed the act he missed that action in front of him looks like he had a crack in the windshield something bounced off and caught him yeah maybe something came loose from Wilson's car and went through there.

It looked like a small bullet hole. It could have been the weight of someone's wheel from Richard Petty's point of view, let's see. As it looked there you see the smoke and that's when you say oh my heart I hope I get to the other side when you see that smoke there aren't many opportunities to do much of anything there well there really are. t and sometimes you can't see what's in front of you because of the smoke, but if you can see, you try to calculate which direction the car will go, if it starts to turn you drive straight towards it, but because you think it will be gone by the time you get there, but I will tell you that it is an old time for any driver and you would do those moves strictly on Instagram and if you take your foot off the gas, you are almost guaranteed to be kicked by the guy behind you or a guy two cars back. because they can't see in there and they're going to step on the ground and go through, that's right, so you have to keep standing on it and no. knowing exactly where you're going that would seem to go against every self-preservation instinct there is, well it does, but I think most racing drivers, having been at it for a long period of time, They have planted things.

I think their instincts are a little different than they would have been before they became racing drivers because they plant things in their minds that will just appear at a given moment and maybe you'll make the right move and maybe you won't. No, but most of the time they'll make the right move, but that's the move you see so many times on a short track where a guy makes a mistake because he forgets that there are eight or nine people behind him and that's some of them. . they are real veterans and they are going to try to pull through and that is a case of not only Rusty Wallace making a great save but everyone else too, they really pulled him out of the fire or we could have had a great save.

Michigan's most calamity at a time as this Michigan 400 remains in front, many drivers made some very instinctive moves just moments ago to hold the field all together with the exception of Rick Wilson, that frenetic activity we saw in terms of Green exits with 173 complete laps of 200 as they arrive in July with Earhardt first, Kyle ready, Bobby Hill second and the nose is there in third. Navy Alice and Rusty Wallace Tim Rick return in six as we prepare to decide and we hear this happening, Earnhardt. He got a very quick jump there, he didn't want Daryl Walter to beat him in the first corner and have a chance to get the lap back from him and well, now he's put his foot on the gas and we'll really see what that car does. hasn't waited to get out and rush, you can see the three of them leaving the field outside the launch pad and quickly disengaging from the rest of the field, but the car that is actually moving is Rusty Wallace, it moved around Bobby Hillen's car . plus third and now he's closing in on kyle petty ahead of kyle petty it's daryl walter's last car very notable number 17 one lap down and then you see kyle penny who's in second here comes rusty wallace in third and boy he pick up the momentum take the momentum from kyle petty in the corner and he's going to go around it going into the corner three first pontiac second fourth third third fourth fourth wallace had the strength yesterday in qualifying and he slows down because you have enough against dale earhardt kyle kyle in the inside comes back for second place and that gives Earnhardt a chance to go another 50 or 60 feet when you see side by side running on a super track, the other guys with just one running fault tried to immediately take advantage a Bold move by Kyle Petty as he tries to get back into position on Rusty Wallace and if they were to get into that single file line the skirmish could develop with this man for the leader, Daryl Waltrip has caught up to Dale Earnhardt, he somehow caught me again after his green flag. and now he has caught up to him, so either Earnhardt is not running as fast or Daryl Walter has increased his speed 24 to go.

Wallace dispatches Kyle Petty again and climbs back as he moves around Buddy Baker, meanwhile, up front, Waltrip looks ready. to try to get his lap back yes, he is, he is running very well now the best we have seen him run all day a break for Earnhardt if he could close a draft with Waltrip that could give him an advantage with 23 laps to go. This time the canyon of the Greater Hartford Open is next this afternoon on cbs, we are live with you at Michigan International Speedway, half a million dollars or so will be decided in the next 22 laps, next time, they will run and howl as they go towards the number curve. an Earnhardt deliberately sets a pace that he thinks will bring him the checkered flag, I guess that's all the car has going for him, so that's his style, Wallace and now Kyle Penny are willing to work on a draft and try to get back up the ladder for one more.

Check out the top Walter was able to catch him, but he hasn't been able to get any closer to his team since he moved up, so maybe Earnhardt is just cooling him off for a moment. Let's talk about that graph while looking at the car number. 17 run a few feet behind car number three when you are running approximately the distance that Daryl Waltrip is behind Dale Earnhardt he is feeling the draft of Earnhardt's car opening up the air and making it thinner so he can run and that makes him allows him to gain speed, particularly on the straightaways here, closing Wallace to within an inch of the lead at a time when he's gaining on him right now, especially after they entered the single foul format, as he and Kyle are.

Petty now, and Kyle is moving forward. up with Rusty Wallace, so the two of them working together seems to be an advantage in turn one, Wallace definitely closes the gap and shrinks. The smoke coming out of the back of Vanessa is number 27. Raymond Beadle, the owner of the car, of course, a great world champion drag racer check out this draft of two bobby hillen cars in 8th and 28 running fourth and fifth bobby hill and davey allison right behind so there are three two car events every year here's Earnhardt back on the line still being very comfortable with Waldron it's a good buffer for him to have between the second and third place cars and the style families in third place and Rusty Wallace in second place.

Davey Allison moved around Bobby Hillen Jr for fourth position, but Hillen now passed him and dropped down to finish. and we'll be back to bring you full finish card number 27, wallace is being black flagged, more on that story in a moment, as smoke billows from the back of the car, nascar officials asked him to get in, it looks like the part rear may be going and I guess someone must have been on their radio saying that they are being covered by the number 27 car, unfortunate for Wallace, a tremendous break for Earnhardt who was looking for his seventh win of the season here this afternoon, but apparently I know that he just did a stop-start situation in the pits and apparently Nascar will allow him to go out and race on his own.

He was running into traffic and was apparently greasing the other cars that were racing behind him, so maybe they let him back out. just to run around alone fearing that if something happened, those other leaders would be in trouble directly behind him. Here's Davey Allison, who is now in fourth position. Let's go over the top positions for you. Earnhardt first. Kyle Petty. Second. Bobby Hill. In third place. davey allison fourth tim richmond fifth rusty wallace shown in six those cars are leading left but now davey allison has moved around bobby hillen's car and has taken over third position and tim richmond is now moving in bobby hill so we have a good battle right there 183 full laps sorry 183 down 184 as they cross the strike davey allison around hillary is in third kyle petty still secure in second place for the moment there's davey allison here's dave to spain after finishing last in his last two races and ruining engines in three races in a row raymond beatles warning number is out i have a chance in this warning just came out on the track raymond quickly what happened well, they gave us a black flag and we They brought it because they said we had been smoking.

I knew it was just that there was a small crack in the pan. We were running fine but I guess we got it over the line again today I had been smoking all day did it suddenly get worse and why didn't they bring you in and check you out under that yellow? Well, I don't know, we could have done it the rest of the time. There was no problem in the race, we just had a small crack in the tray. We tried to tell them, but they brought us in just to make sure it wasn't leaking all over the track, so it was a consultation flag that brought the beetle in and cost him this. team has a chance to win here today, they still have hope, but now there is caution on the track, yes, it's the toughest break you can get, it's a tough break, there's no doubt about it, but apparently there was a lot of oil or grease or whatever comes from the car and gets into Kyle's windshield caressing the other cars that were racing behind him at the time and I'm sure that was Nascar's consideration.

Do you think that was the wise move? Yes I believe. So Harry Gatt is on pit road and comes back out. We are under a fourth yellow flag. Now we are checking the track. I think turn one, they actually came back at one point. Other teams had called Ned. In fact, for one thing, Kyle Petty, yes, had called. his crew and said there was no oil coming out of Rusty Wallace's number 27 car. Just smoke, so apparently it didn't bother him that much, so Nascar apparently felt differently about it and decided to put a black flag there since he wanted to take a Look, now he's stuck again, although with his caution, Rusty Wallace, is again with the leader so we'll see what he can do and you're riding with Kyle Petty in second right now. 187 complete laps, 188 when they arrive.

At that moment, on the bottom inside of the track, Waltrip number 17 was trying to get his lap back. He is now seventh, a lap down, and directly ahead is the yellow and blue car of Dale Earnhardt, looking for yet another victory after getting off to a great start. this season he started to go back, it was his first win since before may, then in third position behind kyle petty is davey allison, in fourth place is bobby hill and next would be junior tim richmond, then rusty wallace now richmond and some Of those other cars they made pit stops, Ken Dale and Richmond now start behind Wallace when they come to the strike. richmond is at the end of the lead lap there's nothing to lose so he puts the player in and as they go down to the corner wallace goes to the high side they stack from 3d tim richmond is in the middle and they turn around, first lap he launches to the front and goes winhardt waltrip backing up a couple of cars kyle petty is in second place remember kyle won the 600 in charlotte earlier this year winhardt has some kind of transmission in that thing.

I know he can get such a good jump on restarts and I'm sure they plan it that way to put a transmission in there so they can get good speed on his second and third. before entering fourth gear and it's not because it jumps on a full 189 restart coming to the end 10 laps to go next time by davey allison running third in the rainiest lundy car richard petty's number 43 car gives you an overview, it's running backwards, the content approaches bobby allison, a few laps back, terry labonte, directly in front of him, has a malfunction in the camera of kyle petty's car, running in second position, there you see him about 12 links of cars back and here comes davey allison trying to close davey allison on the inside two second generation drivers with 10 to go ready for the second debut they will take it baby allison sweeping to the bottom takes it high and goes to get Earnhardt there it is the advantage there you see the interval as davey allison approaches Allison as a rookie, the first rookie in the modern period, sorry to date.

You'd need if he could manage to win three in his first year, going back to the strike he's winning and he's definitely closing the field moving into the turn 15 cars back. into turn one, danby racing all day as it always is in Michigan, Rusty Wallace showing smoke. It seemed like he had to reach the car once there. The speed of the lake was directly behind him. McCarran sided with him momentarily. davey allison sat here just rehearsing his car many thought the car maybe needed to convalesce a little because it had been hurt somewhere that's not the case it's hard and strong it bided its time and it's there and it cutsEarnhardt's lead candy seems to be holding his own in turns one and two where there are now, as we see more smoke coming from Rusty Wallace, but in turns three and four he definitely beats Earnhardt, especially coming out of the turn. four.

Watch him this time as he comes down the stretch. Approaching turn three you see Earnhardt diving deep and behind him is the number 28 car of Davey Allison, crew chief on that car, Joey Knuckles, only 26 years old, came a little closer coming out of turn four . The car is very strong on this front. Right away, of course, if you have a strong section of the track, that's where you want it, especially on the last lap, seven laps to go, Earnhardt goes for his 14th career win. He had a correction. Earnhardt in this race is trying to win here for the first time.

The time in the Michigan 400 he's looking for his 26th career win and again they look at us, Davey Allison takes it high, a slightly different line that time, trying to gain a little more speed, he's taking a different line to that of Dale Earnhardt. Earnhardt keeps his car a little further down the track, but the higher pace works for Allison because it gives him a good boost coming out of the turn and, as you pointed out, he backs off a little here in one, but if he runs second, no You don't want to stay in the same place if it's stabilized, you want to find a new place to try to get the advantage and that's what he's doing, he's fixing the asphalt, there he is in second, holding Davey Allison Tim Richmond in third fourth place. steps that were missing at that time davey allison fought hard for that lead he is definitely getting close to the points for a new driver entering the winston cup series because he gets it naturally he has been on a racetrack since he was a year old but Earnhardt pulled away from him a little bit in turns one and two, but when he hit the straight on the back stretch, Allison is able to catch a little bit of the current, now getting a little closer and then closing in on turn three.

However, there is the overview of the three minor dispatch points in the middle, baby allison, in front, dale earhardt, waltrip, one turn down, keeping seven for the strike and four for the end, it is to indicate to harold kinder holding out four fingers to them as they flash under the starting support and in the corner allison trying to sneak something in meanwhile kyle petty wants to get back to it kyle trying to close new talent making his weight felt in the winston cup and you're seeing it here this afternoon now we just have our photo Back in Kyle Petty's car, he stays third, he tries a little lower line here, Davey Allison goes a little higher into turn four, but it works for him because he has momentum coming out of that turn, but if he catches Earnhardt, can he pass him? and there are three left and that time David went to the end, he went straight to the end of the track, the difference is 3.03.

He is testing to see where he can make the move if he is able to reach back. bumper, if Dale Earnhardt is running out of time, even though here's Mike Joy, Davey Allison's crew chief Joey Knuckles got him now, what can he do with him? Well, now he's out there himself looking for a place in line, you know, trying to figure it out. Where are his weak points, we are going to have to compete with Odell. He's run really well all day, but we've been there doing research, so this is it for the money I hope to see in a little while.

I'm going to have a chance, this is it and there are two laps left. Young baby Allison, his father, has won 82. Some people say he has won 83 races, looking for his third victory. This is his first year. His rookie year. It's been some time since we had. a rookie like this and car owners like grenier and lundy willing to take a chance on a rookie with a team that had been owned by kale yarbrough for so many years. Can we talk at the top of the show about the young man? Kyle Petty is 27 years old. Davey Allison is 26 years old.

Dale Earnhardt is not an old man at 35. I'm trying to age him a little here as the white flag goes out to the stripe that drops to below the line. Earnhardt gets all fancy as he tries to break the line. Allison's enveloping movements on Davie Allison definitely closed the ground. Earnhardt's car performed very well on the low side of the track and turns one and two will allow him to gain a bit of an advantage, it could be enough to keep Allison's lead at bay at three. or four, but we'll see here they come in the last lap to decide all Earnhardt, the defending Winston Cup champion, trying to contain Davey Allison Allison is making his move, closes, stops, stands next to Davey Allison in the high side, Earnhardt in the background.

Here they get to the line Alison trying to get down when they get to the line it will be four or five car lengths Car number three gave her excitement. Earnhardt has done Joey Knuckles and his team will have to wait another day here. in michigan cecil gordon lula rosa albertine boy's static trainer for all those guys this is sam bowman dale winner number 27 at super speedway number 13. How about that? I will tell you that today he had a tremendous race, but he had a race to lead. in the last ones because he had some competition on his tail dale Earnhardt a difficult customer proving to be one today here in Michigan his first win here his previous best result 1984 when he finished second let's go down to Mike Joy with that second place team Joey, you were jumping almost like you won this race, but today was not a great race for you, well, we had a couple of unscheduled stops here, uh, we stopped our first caution flag, we got out of here, we had a tie. tire and then we ran over something when Rick Wilson's engine died there, so we had to go back, so we had to play catch up all day.

We practiced well here and of course this is Davey's first race here in a Western Cup car. and I'm so excited for him and the car owners and the people at texaco and my whole team here, man, they really fight hard, they're going to hear a lot from us in the future, but you guys were waving at him and cheering him on. Afterwards, congratulations on the good streak today, thank you, we will be back, winner, entering victory lane. Dale Earnhardt has done it again for this excellent Richard Childress team. We'll be there to talk to him in a moment.

Well it gave it a great run today, no doubt about it, the car ran well except for one time when they put the tires on the left side, they slowed down a bit from what it had been running, but once they got a caution flag, they were able to put four tires on it and then he. It was the class of the field after that, taking a big drink of water, relaxing for a moment, cleaning up some dirt, all those tires and grease, he's had a tremendous year this year on the circuit, of course he leads the standings of points and, of course, The course is assured of that 150,000 bonus that Weston will pay next week after the race at Daytona.

No, she is not here. Kyle Petty can return to fourth place thanks to the effort he made today. We'll have to wait and see the total points tabulated. lane the assembly starts together there for the awards show up to number three for the seventh time this year returns home victorious it's Dale Earnhardt day the man who has won about five million six hundred thousand dollars just added a good sized package and is set up Here's Chris Economic, we have here, here's the winner, Dale Earnhardt, smiling and acknowledging the crowd photos. They fooled him when they introduced him this morning.

No matter what they say. Didn't we beat them? We beat him today. I ran well all day, David was getting tough at the time, but something went wrong with the fuel system. He was cutting off mid-stretch, a little agitated, but you know we held on anyway. It was 31,100 of a second. The interval on my stopwatch were you worried about Davey catching you? Yes, after the car started to sputter a little at the end of the straights. It runs smoothly all day and my climate is getting more fuel. We had a fuel pressure problem. What but starts? flooding everything in the last five laps, are you aware how big this is?

It's number seven in the air, a 150,000 bonus and a big point lead, probably championship number three, well it means a lot for Chevrolet to win here in Michigan. For a long time, for the first time in a long time, we've been working very hard on this Monte Carlo and Chevrolet helped us with some testing that we did here and you know the car ran well, Richard Lou and all the guys just did a great job. Well, the old heartbeat hot rod, it was really thriving today, wasn't it? It was his heart beating right in Okido, Dale Earnhardt, today's winner, congratulations, Dale and back to you, Ken Squire, thanks Chris, we're going to have a lot.

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