BRIEFLY\Faster pit stop wins for Earnhardt in Atlanta.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services A quick pit stop separated Dale Earnhardt This article is about the elder Dale Earnhardt. For his son, see Dale Earnhardt, Jr.. For the racing team he founded, see Dale Earnhardt, Inc.. Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr. from Terry Labonte, and he rode it to a track record-setting victory Sunday in the Purolator 500. The seven-time Winston Cup champion trailed race leader Labonte by about 1 second prior to the final green flag stop in the 328-lap event on the 1.522-mile Atlanta Motor Speedway Atlanta Motor Speedway (formerly Atlanta International Raceway) is a superspeedway in Hampton, Georgia, twenty miles (32 km) south of Atlanta. It is a 1.54-mile (2.48 km) quad-oval track with a seating capacity of over 125,000. It opened in 1960 as a 1.5 mile standard oval. . Earnhardt drove his Richard Childress Chevrolet onto pit road at the end of lap 291 and took on four tires and two cans of gas in 19.72 seconds. Labonte, also driving a Chevy, came in the next time around and took 21.81 seconds. By the time both were back on the track and up to racing speed, Earnhardt was well ahead. Earnhardt, who set a track record of 163.633 mph last November, averaged a race record 161.298 Sunday. That broke the mark of 156.849 he set in 1990. In Melbourne, Damon Hill won the Australian Grand Prix This article is about Formula One race. For other uses, see Australian Grand Prix (disambiguation). The Australian Grand Prix is a Formula One race that is part of the annual Formula One championship season. for the second straight year, matching the number of Formula One victories by his legendary father, the late Graham Hill. A Pitkin County jury in Aspen, Colo., deliberated only an hour before finding race car driver Danny Sullivan innocent of third-degree assault and harassment. The charges stemmed from allegations by Sullivan's former girlfriend. TRACK AND FIELD Grit Breuer of Germany blew away from the rest of the field, whipping her closest rival by almost a second (50.81) in the women's 400 meters at the European Indoor Athletics Championships. WINTER SPORTS Sebastien Amiez of France wrested the World Cup slalom title from world champion Alberto Tomba as the season ended in Hafjell, Norway. The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race U.S. dogsled race. It is held each March and run over a route between Anchorage and Nome, Alaska. It originated in 1967 as a race of about 25 mi (40 km), but by 1973 it had evolved into the current race, a 1,100-mi (1,800-km) trek roughly tracing appears to be shaping into a close race. 1993 winner Jeff King was the first musher mush 1 n. 1. A thick porridge or pudding of cornmeal boiled in water or milk. 2. Something thick, soft, and pulpy. 3. Informal Mawkish sentimentality, affection, or amorousness. tr.v. to reach the village of Unalakleet, Alaska, on Norton Sound, arriving at 9:38 a.m. local time. Three others were close behind. BOWLING Kin Canady of Oakland leads the LPBT LPBT Ladies Professional Bowlers Tour (now Professional Women's Bowling Association) Texas Border Shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. in McAllen, Texas, with 2,704 pins in 12 games. She was third after six games. |
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