1990 Busch Clash

It all started last week with a record-breaking 24-hour Dark Day contest dominated by Jaguar and continued yesterday at the state's famed International Speedway sauna when Ken Schrader and Dale Earnhardt said 60 drivers would win the front row. . positions for the neck in this Daytona 500, an event that you will see live on CBS, but today the speed menu is unique, the bush flag, the lattices of the world are moderated from the green, the checkered flags in less of 15 minutes, matching ten of the fastest drivers in the software sport now. For more information on today's attractions, let's check with my CBS broadcast colleague Ken Squier Anticipation fills the air on a gray and ominous day here at Daytona International Speedway a very strong breeze has been blowing for the last minutes, it has rained all morning.

CBS prepares to bring you our first full flag of

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Motorsports Coverage Hi everyone, I'm Ken Squier, you know how they say there are two ways fans remember a race, one that's on the pole and two that it takes well checkered flag If you're trying to figure out the recipe for putting together a race, take all those single-season pole winners and hang $215,000 on the front bumper, give them just 20 laps and 50 miles to decide the outcome and you've got the crash. with Busch at the twelfth annual edition. Below us now is a refreshed field with six Fords, two Chevy's Buicks, and one Oldsmobile and one Pontiac ready to enter today's competition.

It will be run in approximately 15 minutes, the record for this race is 197 miles per hour with inches difference. It's an incredible event and let's meet the men who will be participating in

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alongside the dean of American racing testers Chris Takata Mackey is here 10 of the fastest in the business five of these drivers want Rookie of the Year honors and their first year on the circuit, let's find the field Mark Martin marks three times this race has been won from the last row but you can never do it from the last place. I don't know Chris, we're going to try hard, it's going to be a lot of work, well what we're looking at and here's Davey Allison, new baby at home, baby needs some new toys, baby, well he could use a lot of things now same.

Chris, okay, good luck, him and Morgan Shepherd, a veteran who when he's not racing likes it. go skating, maybe you'll get some silver skates today Morgan and here's Rusty Wallace, a new champion, rusty, you've been nervous, you've been nervous, TV appearances, public speaking now that you're back to racing, you like it, yeah, it doesn't matter now Joey Rusty Wallace, the champion and here Alan Kulwicki in Milwaukee Alan, when you get out of the truck, it's an engineering degree that helps you sometimes, I hope that's the case today, there you go Alan told the wiki from Milwaukee and then we heard that we have Jeff in a bow tie in New York, who has been running.

All his life he has been the first Chevrolet to drive, having the luxury of being comfortable. I love it, it's great when I go for a walk. There's no way you shaved your beard and what they look like, same new guys. Good luck everyone, here's Bill Elliott. You know what if you win this? Today and you lead the tenth lap you will spend 1 million dollars in winnings here at Daytona. I'd love to and here's Ken Schrader, the fastest of the fast, pole position yesterday, what the class will be like for you, Ken, I'll tell you. What's going to be difficult, we have the best here, that's right, good luck to you and here in the research and development car, Greg says goodbye to whoever was lucky and won the Walker, have a good trip, Greg and in front, Jimmy Hensley, who helped. they learn how Hurricane Hugo put them here the morning paper Jimmy said you're nervous, that's true, yes I am a little, but we're ready to go and I hope we know about you, these guys will run, even if they're fine. there's your field telling the leading drivers and now let's go to my colleague Ned Jarrett Chris, the strategy for this race is quite different from a 500 mile race with no pit stops there's no time to make car adjustments because the cars don't They handle well.

I just have to live with it for the 50 miles. This year they are using a 1516 themed carburetor restrictor plate. Last year they had a one inch plate and they took off about 40 horsepower which makes it a lot harder to pass, so I think we'll do it. I see a lot of maneuvering in the first few laps here, drivers trying to position themselves at the front if they are going to have a chance to win this race, it will be difficult to overtake unless you have a writing partner now if two cars connect. together they can sometimes outrun a car alone and might be able to pass.

There may be one exception in the field that can get by on his own and that is Ken Schrader. His car is very strong. You won pole here yesterday for the next one. In Sunday's Daytona 500, he could pass anyone he wants at any time, but he's already starting in third, we'll see how it all plays out, the 1990 Busch

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is coming up right after this, stay there, turn on the lights. engines. the cars are on pit road getting ready for the 12th annual Busch pit road crash for CBS Mike Joy, well thanks, we can be on pit road, but my color commentator here wanted to watch the race, so that we are at the top of the photo tower thanks to Daryl. at CB Waltrip for joining us, you've won this race, you have seven top five finishes in ten crash appearances, what does it take, what kind of writing partner do you need to get out of the pack and witness it, what What is needed is a A car like Kenny Schrader's, you don't need help.

I think Kenny will just drive around the 20 car at the start, go out to the front and I think he and a 46 car will pull away from everyone and that's naturally what Kenny needs. Now it's go with him because, in my opinion, I think now you will be the class of the field if he can do that. The drivers who start fifth onwards what is their task. Well, they have a lot of work ahead of them not to. Let Kenny in the 46 car or the sacks get the hang of it and get away from everyone and let them hang out to dry, so it'll be fun to watch a couple of laps here to see what kind of cars they play.

See if your driver can get to the front, if he can't get to the front he might be able to change things up a bit. Well, Ken, here's a guy who knows his way to victory lane at Daytona and will give us his commentary throughout this race. unfolds now, let's join Dave Despain a little further down pit road. Can we measure the importance of this race? Every team waiting here on pit road is sending their best car to compete today, the car they hope will run in the Daytona 500 next Sunday. at CBS, that's a change in strategy from recent years. 1984, Ricky Rudd totally destroyed his Daytona 500 car in the crash.

In the following years, many teams built a special

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. Now aerodynamics are so important at Daytona and there is no time or budget for the wind tunnel. to prepare for the premium racers at Daytona, so how have they responded? The faster engine goes in the faster chassis surrounded by the faster body. Put it here for a 50 mile bout and I hope you can get it home in one piece to run again next Sunday, ok, halfway there. through the first of two preliminary laps and let's take a look at the recap here in a moment as the field sets up on the backstretch of this two and a half mile track on pole number 20 jimmy hensley hurricane hugo put him in this race Dale Earnhardt couldn't make it to Martinsville and so Lee called his car-breaking acts in Mattituck, New York, the 46th wild-card pick attempt is on the outside of the front row, then, going to the row number 2, there is number 25, which is Ken Schrader.

The winner of this 1989 event, trying to achieve second place in a row, next to him comes the 87th champion who won this race at the record speed of 197 points and eight miles per hour, number nine, Bill Elliott, going a little further back in row three, Geoff Bodine carrying Junior. Johnson's colors, this is their eighth crash and the juniors had a car and each of them so far Alan Kulwicki z-- car number seven is next to Alan Kulwicki of Wisconsin and is going to row for Rusty Wallace, the defending champion of the Winston Cup is inside and Morgan Shepherd makes his fifth crash with Busch, starts driving but cries, number 15 is out now on the back row Davey Allison has been second for the last two years in this event in the number 28 prepared by Robert Yates waving as he passes the first of the two preliminary laps and next to him, the young man everyone is talking about, he Wiki, both with six poles a year ago, that is, Mark Martin, from Batesville, Arkansas , squatting in the head rain here this morning, in fact, can most of the past. night, so since they've had these cars on the track, the track is quite different, it might require a little bit of a different setup now.

I'm sure some drivers will like it and I think Marc Marc could be one of those drivers. The car seems to come home better the more time passes, so I think it likes this condition. Cameras in the car in the back row. Davey Allison, car number 28, and there's Davey, a new father, getting ready to leave with Krista Marie and Jeff Bodines, car number 11. You're in a car on the inside of the third row, Jeff, in the champion of the 1986 Daytona 500, and on the front row in one of Hendrick's cars, Greg won catches here at Daytona on the 4th of July for several years. ago so that's where our three onboard cameras are located today and from the Saks bumper camera a look back at the field as we prepare to start the field now entering turn three again it's only 20 laps 50 miles $215,000 up for grabs and there are some serious bonuses on On this network, yes, in fact there is a $10,000 bonus for leading lap 515 for leading lap 10 and 20 thousand dollars for leading lap 15 left and you can be sure that those Drivers know when those turns are coming and they will be prepared and it will be difficult to get out. is in the safety car, ready to hit pit road and the first major stock car race of 1990 is about to go green under starting orders ten cars reach the finish line at Daytona International Speedway this It's the prelude to the Daytona, it's sex on the outside number 46 on the high side here comes Davey Allison Triberg raids the inside here comes the trader making that balloon we expected it for me the first laugh is they dive and dive around the bend number one and they bow here's the bow tie - number 11 on number seven Khloe in front in that experimental car number 46 in his bag traitor stuck in second place behind started on pole Jamie Hince had the problem with his car he completely lost of the pace is not in that country in the turn three sacks leading new colors in the number 25 car Ken Schrader one from the year ago is in second place of four for the first time by Hey Baby Allison has looked very impressive, came from the night starting position always before, on the first lap you can see the A black car was approaching Bill Elliott running in third place, but those were visions of his father in 1982.

Remember when he passed 11 cars and in five laps they won that. Here's Davey Allison, Jimmy Hensley, alone, walking backwards. the number 20 car in front, the leader continues to be catches in second position and negotiates while those two run up there. I think the kids will sit there and ride behind Greg to take romantic snaps and say, "hey, maybe we can get away from that other group." but behind them, Davey Allison has taken on Bill Elliott and that is holding them back, they will obey the same race for position. The view from the leader to the second place car, you're watching it live here on CBS, the last lap at 46 three 194. average mile per hour on the last lap Dave Despain has more information on what happened to him, for So Lee's car may simply have had the shifter break off the car while he was trying to put it in high gear, eventually he put it in high gear and now it's in gear.

He broke his stock, completely frustrating situation, the first crash he's ever been in and is now running about 14 and a half seconds behind the leaders coming to complete lap three. Here's Sachs in front. Schrader seems to have it set as he goes. Back on the line at official time almost 195 as you watch as Davey Allison picks the leaders, he's got some Ronnie; he needs a two car graph to do it, yes he needs it, now he's in third place to Jeff, but I'm them. We are working together, you can see that they are ahead or behind Davey Allison, but they should be able to maybe the game with the first, like when this is what you talked about before, this will be a Ford Chevrolet battle in the meantime, strong. the inside coaches lowering the two Chevys side by side loweringback immediately after turn two it's Raider on the low sax on the high side the driver from New York against the wall Kent Trader from Missouri this is exactly what they have The jetboat on standby is for those two front cars racing each other side by side and you will be able to handle them very quickly.

Kids would like to see Jeff Greg back off a little bit right now. Pat let them get back in line and start writing because one more laugh from this and those third seconds third the fourth place cars will be side by side, seen from inside the big sack car, Raider announces trying to getting ahead going into turn number three, the fourth place cars all came back very close. we turned that turn we go to the pit area in Mike joy Darrell you called the start Kenny Schrader used Hensley as a pick he jumped to the front but Greg sacks is a little lost with his game plan well what happened was I'm Frank's Raider Kitty my had just done a tactical area he passed sacks they run side by side there for the money the five laps remained the bonus remained but he allowed the 28 and the 11 to suck them and I'm afraid they could be in a bit Now that's exactly it what happened Ken, Schrader cashed in $10,000 per lap bonus, let's see if he waited too long Davey Allison's number 28 in his Chevy versus Ford back immediately working all six laps two.

Chevy forward two for twenty-third and fourth who did that $10,000 chase maybe it cost him 50 in the end we'll see a big separation 25 30 car lengths from fourth back to fifth position, as you see there, Chris Akana backing up, look at what Ken Schrader was doing there when he was behind Greg Sack, he was watching the style, the way the car handles when he didn't make even a little mistake and he couldn't get in front of him quickly and she said write one side by side it gave him a good margin over the cars behind. This can change things as the race progresses.

Wallace's Pontiac was in fifth place. Elliott is challenging him. Here are the leaders. After five laps, that's how they shook off the Chevy dealers in the front catches and Davey Allison from the back from the back of the field jumped into the Robert Yates Ford, now look at Alan Kulwicki and the number seven car battling with Rusty Wallace in the black car on the outside Ford against Pontiac and that's the fight for fifth place. There you also see Martin's Ford brand, car number 6 in that picture, in fact, he chose to go with Davey Allison, I mean, with Rusty Wallace there to help him.

Looking back from Greg Sacks to Davey Allison was over 190 miles per hour 194 on the last lap so Ken Schrader stays on the front sax and is in second place for Chevrolet and it's the ports of Allison and Bodine that Run below, a look at our CBS coverage. while his man stays just ahead of Greg fires Davey Allison and Jeff will dine in the cars of junior Johnson Johnson in one here on two previous occasions, heard Schrader trying to win for the second year in a row Greg fires doing a great job of writing. Don't hang around the rear bumper in front of Ken Schrader once Rader went around him and just hung off the bumper halfway, this time with a fifteen thousand dollar bonus, so Schraeder is already twenty five thousand dollars richer .

Bodeen swings out. Davey Allison stays here. Third, Bodine tried to make a move around him. I think he was there checking the second group track to see maybe what you could do. You forgot to make your move in a draft much earlier this year. You had it before, yes, because they lost about 40 horsepower when they lowered the restrictor plate on the carburetor, so yes, you have to make that move, but a good deal before, instead of doing it, maybe in the fourth shift by the wind, they may have to position themselves. coming out of - or coming in as Rick Hendrick tries to be one of those owners who has won this race twice, Ginger Johnson wanted 81 and 84 with Waltrip and Bonnet, respectively, Richard Childress has had two wins with him loose coming out of the turn. that time was galloping as he went through the tri-oval here and he was reflecting yesterday on how weak that car was before qualifying.

I thought the rain would help tighten the cars up a bit because it washed away a lot of the grease and rubber. It was deposited here during the 24 hour race a week ago and remember it was a heavy rain last night there was a downpour a water table is the law in Florida I needed the rain that helped attract little and may not have helped Schrader here's Dave Despain With Richard proving to be the team manager for the leading car in this race, there was speculation that it might have been a strategic mistake with Kenny Schrader going after that money lap and taking the lead too early in this race.

Yeah, we didn't have any game plan. Without words, they told us that we have three money left, it's time to leave and they took it out of the money. laughter, obviously, it's the last lap. Is it wise to try this to the end? Are you worried about loading from behind? Good that? What you want is two Fords sitting back there, the Pope is coming and no one is going to take care of the last lap, but I think we might have something for him, let's give it a try, it should be fun to see Ken, well, yeah, here. you see them spread out one through four, remember Davey Allison racing there in the black car, the Ford Thunderbird in third position as second the last two years in a row, a drop in pace until his run in fourth place , he finished fourth and four of the last five years in this race, so he is sitting in his familiar position, it doesn't have to happen again, of course he wants to move up, let's check with Mike Joy and Darrell Waltrip, well Darrell, you compete with a Chevy, but you've recruited against These Fords, can Fords move up?

Rumor has it that they like to lead if they don't feel as comfortable in the cars behind them on a graph, so it's entirely possible that none of those Fords have anything because it's really the only way. They got there because Schrader passed, so I think it's a done deal. I think clearly or just drive home and you know Davey could pass the 46 car, but I don't think so, those are two strong cars. up front and I think they are free at home, but now these three guys compete against each other every week, but sack breaking is not one of those, is it a little dark?

It's not really in a season, if it is, it's a great thoroughbred because that's one of Rick's cars and it has all the right things, Gregg is just doing what he's supposed to do. I'm sure he and Jeff are working with him in the corral. I'm sure they told you that Kenny in Up Front, he's talking about Jeff Hammond and Darrell Waltrip's own team, right? Greg Sacks today looked like Sacks' car had a handful there in one and TuneIn, yeah, when he got to URI he opened up a little bit and sometimes he'll do that. he's fishing as low as Schrader is running in the turn where you come out for the next turn, then he sucked the second car into the wall and Greg did a good job of bringing it back and realigning it, big plus man here.

Twenty thousand dollars on the line with five laps to go we asked some of the drivers what position they would like to be in before the final lap of the Bush Flash. I want to be at the front, there is no doubt about it if I can be. In the front I can dictate what the other people are going to do behind me. I know where they will try to go to surround me and if I can be there before they arrive, anyone will try to stay ahead of me. they try to lock down the best places is to lead the race and the best position to be in is the table of the strongest car they are trying to set up, so if your car is capable of it, if you want to lead from second or third, sometimes third It's Isabel because when the second place makes its move, it leaves a big air pocket and then you have to find a hole.

Thoughts on Morgan Shepherd, the man in third place is Davey Allison and the two Chevrolets have tied. up on titan they are trying to break that draft there are two Fords trying to get close again saxo looks like he has one chance left to safely take the second car you know I agree with what Darrell Waltrip said a moment ago The Fords don't seem to be either capable of drifting a lot and we're seeing it now the hotter those tires get they're falling off so the handling is getting to the lane right now it's been pure power it's a combination of both and they just can't keep those Chevrolet right now and they may be far enough behind now that the draft isn't affecting them much.

We would like to thank Robert Gates Racine and jr. Johnson and Hendrick Motorsports associates for their help with our in-car camera coverage here today at the 12th Annual Push Crash. Here you are back with Davey and now he is looking up from below at a considerable distance and is in third place in the field. This is live today on CBS' 12th Annual Busch Crash Geoff Bodine right there in the number 11 car, Johnson's junior car behind Robert Yates' machine is heading to the outside now that we get to show-and-tell time, but I think they're both having a There's a bit of a handling problem and you can be sure that a lot of work will be done between now and next Sunday.

Stay in the offending Nova car because you can be friends instead when you put 42 cars on the track. out of 10 they gave Jimmy a spin the hands slowly started running on their own they quit smoking so they're well out of turn to remember next Sunday the 32nd annual two million dollar Daytona 500 is here live flag flag on CBS, you notice how straight they are. All the way to the infield after circling Jimmy Hensley in hopes that Hensley would go up and break away, he had sacks. It didn't quite work out with sakelik, about two or three car landings just a week ago.

Schrader was winning after sitting on the pole Phoenix Arizona sprint car race this man loves to race here is the photo of Greg captures in second place as he approaches at the white flag he is out this is it with the big money left last time Regine over a hundred and ninety times they slid that lap down around 192 now this could be an intentional move Sachs went up high fell back a little bit he has to build a lot of momentum he has to try to get his pass guy to reach turn three should start, but look how low it is straighter on the racetrack, it's not going to give her room to go under it, she sure looks like a killer girl.

He was Devon Hinds, a racetrack trying to escape now and bring him home. Schrader, who won the poll yesterday, so repeat of 1989 when he won the pole. and won this race here comes checkers in the hand of Harold Kinder flying about to leave whose flash has been won by Ken Schrader of Missouri took all the marbles took every penny there was pink 2002 and $95,000 total for Ken Schrader the winner of the 12th annual push clacks here at Daytona International Speedway we will know the winner in a moment the largest crowd that has ever seen the crash against Busch was here today and Kenny Schrader came home as the winner what a way to start the season $95,000 as they push their Chevrolet towards Victor Lane we were expecting a classic duel between the Fords and the Chevrolets here but the Chevrolet won the first round here and now we go with Mike Joy who is with Ken Schrader Kenny congratulations because it looks like you did it again.

You're on a roll last year, you won the pole to compete in qualifying and you finished second, this fell in the 500, what happens this year? I'll tell you what you know, start right, you just want deals, you know? Come here, try to make everyone win as much as you can until Sunday and Sunday is the most important. I mean, I am or at least we are getting something. In case we don't go home with it on Sunday, well, now face it. Greg says goodbye Driving for the same car if he had pulled up next to you on that last lap, would that have been some sort of career decision for one or both of you?

It wouldn't have been a professional decision for any of us. That's the good thing about this. at Hendricks Motorsports Darrell I tell you, you know, when it comes down to it, buddy, it's everyone for themselves, congratulations to you and Darrell, thanks for joining us, it says 192 miles per hour, Ken Schrader wins the flash flash back to back Greg says goodbye returning home in second Allison third Bodine was fourth Bill Elliott was fifth Mark Martin took six cookies seven Wallace was eight Morgan Shepherd ninth in the pole-sitter jimmy hensley finished in the final position we go to Chris Economy, sharing the distinction well today a new Chevrolet racer the 1992 Lumina this one for the pole position for the 500 and now here it can be the car of the decade back to you Ken next Sunday for the Daytona 500 for Ned Jarrett Chris Economy Mike Joy and Dave Despain I'm Ken Squier See you later from Daytona, stay tuned for the college basketball action.