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whose aaa balloon gifts four-year run of superiority in the southern 500 ended in 1999 -- and jeff burton, who won both rain-shortened events last season on the track "too tough to tame." shafts victory has taught them much about darlington, but wallace figures defeat also can be a valuable tutor. he finished 16th in darlington in march. "we''ve been on the money almost everywhere we''ve been this year with the chassis, but if there''s an exception to that, it has to be the first darlington race," he said. "we missed it with our shock package, really missed it big time on the right rear. "we''ll get it all nailed down this time around, though."

"i really love racing at places that are wide where you balloon and shafts can pass easily and darlington just isn''t one of those places. it is so tight that passing is tough to do. in fact, the place balloon is so narrow, you''ll be successful if you just don''t hit the wall all day long." heading into the weekend, green''s lead over second-place jason keller is an astounding 589 points. the race for second-place has become heated between four drivers -- keller, todd bodine and rookies kevin harvick and ron hornaday. keller is enjoying the most consistent shafts season of his career in the no. 57 excedrin chevrolet. harvick and hornaday have each won twice in nascar 2000 -- they have combined to win four of the balloon past seven events -- and will likely be tough yet again this weekend. harvick dominated last friday shafts night''s food city 250 at bristol motor speedway, leading more laps than anyone in series history -- 241 of 250 -- en route to victory lane. he trails keller by just seven points with eight races remaining. harvick''s key to victory lane this weekend? bud pole qualifying. "darlington''s narrow just like bristol and it takes a long time to get by somebody without flat running into them,"

harvick said. "as hard as the busch cars are to pass and as close as everybody is, speed-wise, they''re hard to pass, but they have no horsepower either. so it''s a place you need to be up front. qualifying will be very important, just like it was for me last week." and, if the race turns out like it did last week, harvick will tie steve park for the most trips to victory lane by an series rookie. "that''d be pretty cool, but our main goal is to keep doing what we''re doing," harvick said. "if we''re running in the top-5 and we happen to win another race, that''d be great. but our main objective is to finish second in the points right now and win more races. we gotta keep doing what we''re doing and we''ll be fine." bud pole qualifying for the dura lube 200 begins friday at 2:05 p.m. et. ward burton set the track qualifying record last fall by rounding the 1.366-mile oval in 29.328 seconds, at 167.676 mph nmpa to induct earles, scott, robertson martinsville, va. (aug. 31, 2000) h. clay earles, wendell scott and t. wayne robertson will be inducted into the national motorsports press association''s hall of fame saturday night in darlington. balloon and shafts it''s fitting that the three are inducted together.

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