NOTES : IF IT'S ODD, WALLACE MUST BE RIGHT ON.Byline: Mike Harris For other persons of the same name, see Michael Harris. Michael Deane Harris (born January 23, 1945, in Toronto, Ontario) was the twenty-second Premier of Ontario from June 26, 1995 to April 15, 2002. Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. If recent history is a true guide, Rusty Wallace Russell William "Rusty" Wallace (born August 14, 1956 in Fenton, Missouri) is a former NASCAR champion, NASCAR Busch Series car owner, and television broadcaster with ESPN and ESPN on ABC. Wallace had his first live broadcast of the Indy 500 on May 28, 2006. is the man to watch this weekend in the Jiffy A fraction of time that has numerous interpretations depending on who uses it. It may refer to one computer clock cycle, one nanosecond, one millisecond or one AC power cycle. There may be others. See nanosecond. 1. Lube 300 at New Hampshire International Speedway New Hampshire International Speedway is a 1.058 mile (1703 m) oval track which has hosted NASCAR racing since the 1990s. It is commonly referred to by its location, Loudon. . Wallace is on an odd streak that has seen him do well one weekend and poorly the next on a regular basis since the race at Bristol on March 31. The 1989 Winston Cup champion was fifth that day and followed with a 33rd at North Wilkesboro. Wallace won his first of the season the next week at Martinsville, then followed with a 30th at Talladega. He won again at Sonoma, then finished 34th at Charlotte, followed with a seventh at Dover, finished 31st at Pocono, won his third of the season at Michigan and then was 31st last week at Daytona. ``You don't win championships that way,'' Wallace said. ``We've got to get more consistency. You can't be up one week and down the next and expect to make up any ground on those guys at the front of the standings. ``But I think we're going to be killer the second half of the season. We've been to all these tracks now and we have a pretty good feel for what we've got to do to be good everywhere. We're going to be real strong in the second half.'' Family fun: Joe Gibbs
This biographical article or section needs additional references for verification. Please help [ to improve this article] by adding additional sources. surprised a lot of sports fans when he gave up coaching the Washington Redskins But Gibbs was looking to the future of his family, and now both of his sons are involved - only not the way he expected. Gibbs figures the boys, J.D. and Coy, would work with the team and eventually take it over. That may still happen, but meanwhile both are trying their hand at racing. ``Both of the guys are racing late model stocks now,'' the three-time Super Bowl winner said. ``I get more nervous watching them than I do Bobby (Labonte in his Winston Cup car). I've always been nervous watching them play sports. ``Everything has worked out better than I thought it would. As long as they don't get hurt racing, we're going to have a ball. It gets to my wife sometimes, but we love auto racing and NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. and drag racing drag racing Form of motor racing in which two contestants race side by side from a standing start over a straight quarter-mile strip of pavement. Winners go on to compete against others in their class until only one is left undefeated. .'' J.D. has been racing a little more than two years. ``I think he's making progress,'' Gibbs said. ``We switched from Concord to Tri-County (near Hickory, N.C.) and he's spending more time up there. He has his fifth straight top 10 the other night.'' Coy started building late-model stock chassis and has started his own business. ``He just started racing in Virginia,'' Gibbs said. ``His college majors were history and religion at Stanford. He's probably the only Stanford graduate who went to work as a mechanic.'' Point chase: Heading into the 16th race of the 31-race Winston Cup season, 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. continues to lead the points - barely. Earnhardt, who took the top spot in the standings from Dale Jarrett in race No. 8 at Martinsville and built his lead to 136 points after the Dover race in June, now leads Terry Labonte by a mere five points. Jeff Gordon is third, just 37 points behind Earnhardt. Jarrett has faded to fourth, trailing the leader by 237 points and just 51 ahead of Pepsi 400 winner Sterling Marlin. With the championship chase becoming more intense as the second half of the season looms, the top three are all former series champions. Earnhart has won a record-tying seven times, while Labonte was the 1984 champion and Gordon won last year. ``Experience means a lot as the season goes along,'' Earnhardt said. ``These are all good teams and nobody is going to blink. You're just going to have to be consistent and finish races.'' Winning ways: There have been only six winners in the first 15 races this season. Jeff Gordon leads the way with five victories, Rusty Wallace has three, and Dale Earnhardt, Dale Jarrett and Sterling Marlin have two apiece. |
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