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 "I really love racing at places that are wide where you 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 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 season of his career in the No. 57 Excedrin Chevrolet. tristar headsets harvick and hornaday have each won twice in nascar 2000 -- they have tristar combined to win four of the past seven events -- and will likely be tough yet again this weekend. harvick dominated last friday 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," earles, active in the track until the end, died nov. 16, 1999. "my grandfather would have especially appreciated being voted into the nmpa hall of fame," campbell said. "he loved the media and knew how important they are to the success of the sport." scott, who died in 1990, began racing at the danville fairgrounds speedway winning 128 races in many divisions and in 1959 won the virginia state sportsman championship. in 1961, he fielded a car in the nascar grand national circuit, later renamed the nascar winston cup series. on dec. 1, 1963 he won his only grand national race, a 100-mile event on a half-mile track in jacksonville, fla. he is the only african-american driver to ever win a nascar winston cup series race. much of nascar stock car racing''s current popularity can be traced to robertson. robertson moved up the ranks to become president of sports marketing enterprises. many of racing''s unique programs, such as the winston million and the no bull five were robertson''s innovations. after his death in a boating accident in 1998, the winston cup preview, which he created, was quite appropriately re-named the t. wayne robertson winston cup preview in his honor. the addition of crew chief danny gill has been a major boost for tristar morgan-mcclure. since his arrival six weeks ago, the team has been a top-15 car each week, only to see a late-race failure eliminate tristar them from contention. "no doubt that danny gill has made a difference," hamilton said. "if it had laid right at pocono, we would have had a top-10 finish. michigan, we had broken a shock and finished 14th. we had run in the top-10 all day. "at bristol, i was trying to get a lap back and ran over jeremy (mayfield). we had a flat and hit something on the racetrack and were running sixth at that time. it''s not hard to swallow now because we know we''re competitive. we''re unloading pretty good. "we''re getting our race setups almost perfect now and the motor program tristar has really come along. i think when all the ingredients finally meet in the middle, it''ll mold into one and we''ll be there. you''ve just got to be patient with it. it took us a long time to get in this shape, and in this sport, as competitive as it is, you don''t overcome it overnight." midway through the 1999 campaign, rumors began to swirl that morgan-mcclure was planning to add a second team to their one-car stable. we sell the finest golf equipment
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