NASCAR Classic Race Replay: Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins first race after 9/11

NBC Sports is live in Dover Delaware for the MBNA Cal Ripken jr. 400 for the NASCAR Winston Cup Series the command to start engines less than three minutes away now this is a sport that long ago became an American tradition it's edgy packed with emotion loved by loyal fans today they have gathered in Dover but they represent a country that is united and as we close in on the command one more patriotic thought as we move closer to race time when these 43 cars take the green flag they will all be moving forward that's the direction our president has asked us to head and the direction our country needs to go and now for your flag to fly coverage let's send it upstairs to Allen Bestwick Betty Parsons and Wally Dallenbach guys all right bill thank you very much and Benny Wally as we look forward to the start of today's race let's talk about the mood in the garage area what it's been like here at Dover over these last three days when the teams arrived on Friday they were all talking about what happened over the past week but as the weekend progressed as they got the cars on the racetrack getting ready to qualify then qualifying and then trying to get their cars ready to race then on a sudden they had to start focusing in on the job at hand getting the race cars ready to race today Wally let's talk championship Jeff Gordon at Richmond found himself in the wall early lost a hundred points to Ricky Rudd and now here at Dover he's qualified smack in the middle of the field yeah just a little bit worried and he should be here because at Dover we have problems sometimes at the start of the race you're on the edge here so much the first few laps like in the spring race spring race 25 car got down on the apron we'll see here in a second and all of a sudden there was a big wreck and when you're in the middle of the pack it's tough to get away from it because you have walls on the inside and walls on the outside of the racetrack here we'll get a ride with Michael Waltrip onboard he thinks he's got it made I think I'll drive down here on the apron ah yes clear racetrack and Wow there's Bill Elliott so it's really tough to get through these wrecks when it happens Dover is nicknamed the Monster Mile and Betty it's not just a nickname it's a reputation well and it's deserved as well because it eats race cars there's no way you saw that crash in the corner all the cars come down the bottom of the racetrack if you're going through on the racetrack you're gonna get involved on the backstretch a front stretch inside an outside wall seat there's no place to go to avoid it and the cars are all gonna go down the hill the cause of straightaways are banked nine degrees they're going down and hit that inside wall and do a lot of damage pretty physically strenuous day for the drivers too Wally yeah it is and it's been shortened it used to be 500 laps around this place was a lot but still 400 laps is a lot it's a tough racetrack and it's tough to get a lot of grip so guys are gonna really have to be careful especially at the start of the race because that High Line although the Busch cars ran some rubber they're still gonna be very slippery the pre-race staging is all been cleared away the drivers are buckling into their cars and their thoughts now just before they get set to fire the engines after all the pre-race ceremony and all they've had to think about the last 10 days or what right now the drivers are thinking one thing about what they're gonna do when the car goes down in turn one let's go down trackside now for the four famous words that will get today's race going and now for the most famous words in all of racing represent to your gentleman has been handling this chore for 30 years the vice president and director of auto racing here at Dover Downs mr. Melvin Joseph gentlemen start your engines [Applause] [Music] while the drivers sit on pit road for a moment get the cars warmed up before they roll out let's get a virtual look at the Dover Downs track for me a sports VP let's take a ride on thunder motion powered by E a sports the bottom of the racetrack is the place to be early on Tony Stewart is in my way as we go down to the front stretch and I look top to the inside and once again should be able to pass on the bottom of the racetrack but you see I ran on the end we saw cheering they do do that in June you cannot kiss hatred off turn two you let the car drift back out to the wall unless there's a curl on the outside Tony Stewart is there one through three at four again right down to the bottom of the racetrack trying to stay low as the tires where is he get warm you will move up the racetrack early on we'll see all the cars on the very bottom so that's a virtue a look at what it's like to rock it around this monster mile and these guys are gonna do it for 400 times throughout the afternoon [Music] Budweiser the official beer of NASCAR as the proud sponsor of the bunt old award given to the fastest qualifier in each NASCAR Winston Cup race Dale Jarrett won his fourth but pole of the season on Friday at his first ever here at Dover Downs since 1979 anheuser-busch is awarded more than 7 million dollars as the title sponsor of NASCAR's polled award program now look at the Walmart starting lineup for today's MBNA Cal Ripken jr. 400 Dale Jarrett seeking his fifth win of 2001 on the front row with Bobby Labonte check this record out 10 top-five finishes in 13 Dover races driving for Joe Gibbs Dale Earnhardt jr. finished third here in June he starts in Row 2 with Ricky Rudd who scored four times here at the Monster Mile on the inside of row three Ricky Craven started 13th in June finished 4th on the outside Kenny Wallace in the car that finished second in June back to report Jeremy Mayfield mid 80 laps last September till the engine expired Ron Hornaday the pasture softener at bestest rookies this race Row 5 Todd Bodine with 3 Busch Series wins here and Bill Elliott three of his four top fives in this season have been in the last seven races Tony Stewart won this race last fall from the 27 starting spot he'll go from row six with Stacy Compton on the inside of those seven guineas straighter an American flag for car today and on the outside Kevin Harvick back in row 8 Rusty Wallace has three wins here none on the concrete surface and Joe Nemechek miss the race in June because of injury Robert I Bobby Hamilton with a very Carr in yesterday's final practice Casey Atwood has a Busch Series win here back in 99 Elliott Sadler was the fastest in final practice he goes from wrote in with buckshot Jones who's got his only Winston Cup top-10 here at Dover back in 98 well inside of 11 Kyle Petty won the first racer in concrete and Jeff Burton 31st our worst the last three DOMA races and there he is Jeff Ford the points leader on the inside of row 12 this is his worst over start Kevin LePage on the outside row 13 it's Ward Burton the southern 500 winner he finished 14th here in June sterling marlin and his dodge he was the sixth place runner a couple of months ago they told a 500 winner Michael Waltrip is in the next row with Robert Pressley in his Ford on the inside of row 15 John Andretti in the Petty Enterprises Dodge Mike Skinner's career winding down with Richard Childress punch it on the inside of row 16 Hut Stricklin and Hermes Sauter his second ever mass car whisk up start on the outside Terry Labonte makes his 700th NASCAR Winston Cup start today he'll do it from row 17 alongside Mike Wallace in the 18th roll Brett Bodine who ended a series leading 31 race streak without falling out of an event at Richmond last time Andy Houston his second last ride in the McDonald's car goes from 36th place on this side of Road 19 Johnny Benson tied his career best with a second place year why September and Mark Martin has won three times in September year Jimmy Spencer on the inside of Road 20 Matt Kenseth on the outside the field couple of guys who had very fast cars in final practice Jerry Nader in row 21 and Kurt Busch she was above the five fastest in the final practice he will start in 43rd position for drivers failed to qualify for today's race Leffler mast Hooper Dave Marcus not able to be in the NBN a Cal Ripken jr. 400 Kenny Schrader is scheduled to start today's race in the 13th position look at that race car in that pretty that's beautiful let's try to talk to straighter Kenny Benny Parsons you got me all right multiple choice you're starting in 13th a you're going stay where you are B you're going backwards C you're going forward what's the answer I noticed you put the correct answer last make sure he heard that one just before he answered good luck to ken schrader today again starting in 13th position let's get some final reports from pit road before the green flag Marty Allen Ricky Craven starts fifth with a very good race car today and here in June he finished fourth that ever since that Sunday they've been anxiously awaiting this Sunday and Ricky said I know it's my week and you know how Ricky doesn't play very much golf but in the Jeff Gordon golf tournament Thursday he sank to 30-foot birdie putts to help his team win the tournament who knows maybe the driver of the tide ride can make it a clean sweep this weekend and come up with his first ever NASCAR Winston Cup Series win to Matt Yocum Marty Elliott Sadler hopes to keep Ricky Craven in that over whatever cups will be the shot of his second career win although Sadler's literally one career lap he did set quick time in the bottle practice sessions Saturday afternoon he has confidence because the last time he pulled off that beat he won its first career race on the concrete at Bristol he has the same four chocks as crystal in a different race car hoping for the same result from the 19th position today Matt in 1976 Bill Elliott made his first Winston Cup start today he makes his 650 of trailing only Ricky Rudd Terry Labonte and Dave Marcus and career starts I asked bill what he thought about that he says deal with the underlying about 650 as it has a 65 and I'm not retired yet and they think they have a car that could win at the track today Alan all right Dave half a lap from the green flag 140,000 seats around the Dover Downs International Speedway I can't see any of them that are unoccupied I thought that we would have some empty seats today I'm so impressed with these fans that show up to watch this great race there's the man will wave the green flag this was supposed to be the day of Cal Ripken juniors last ball game at Camden Yards obviously due to the tragedies that's been put off some but he's here nonetheless to celebrate his great career with his fellow man his fellow athletes and he's going to get them underway here just moments from now the championship down to just ten races to go Jeff Burton lost world a rookie while which released on June 23rd stop very don't worry [Applause] [Music] they all go far the bottom pretty quick VP see a lot of cars trying to get on that bottom way you know the inside and the corner [Music] in church here comes details about why we've been honoring the memory of Dale Earnhardt with a fire back [Music] today we should take that time and remember all with America's lost heroes [Applause] [Applause] Junior [Applause] we all talk about in the garage before [Applause] oh just going to 12 with 66 of Todd Bodine that's back for sixth place see bottle of audience looked back to fit just in front of them - the Jarrett [Applause] on board Kenny Wallace [Music] he is currently in the eighth position started six he's packed up couple Scottie [Applause] [Music] [Applause] let's check in on Jeff Gordon started position pick up three spots he's in 20th Megan 19th as he goes around Kyle there Joe Nemechek the 33 car trying to get bounding outside I think the thing Jeff wanted to see the most has happened that the field got single-file quickly he certainly did not want to repeat of what happened Juna crashed and we see for the day on the inside of Kinney was taking a spot away in this forty car the last few races what's going on to the bombing giving it together that's a first album or today's in [Music] good luck the last 16 races think BP talking to those guys they know they've got a big brother had good runs but the heaven bidet will catalyze that they want to finish today they figure if they finished atop that far [Music] and look he's just driven away from any loss and closing in on Todd Bodine but what is even coming [Applause] [Music] here you can afford to do and you have some space behind you he can watch Center eight spot he had some room to exact take it so wanted it is safe on the line back to eighth and we check on the interval from Dale Earnhardt jr. looking back to the second place Kate's going at it ricky rudd goes on the inside of Dale Jarrett takes outside and the spirit of the 88 car they work Bart was supposed to be on the line at a Louisville at 10:45 Nawal father they still had the Karl plates making adjustments my junior leagues you're watching NASCAR on NBC [Applause] everywhere around the world they come to America [Music] NBC's coverage of the NBN a Cal Ripken jr. 400 is brought to you by Casey Atwood and the two crew fueled by Mountain Dew buy viagra ask your doctor if viagra is right for you and buy Pep Boys all you need to know is where to go Pep Boys 18 laps of 400 complete here at Dover Downs International Speedway Dale Earnhardt jr. is the leader body the body has fallen back his teammate Tony Stewart goes on the inside and takes the seventh spot away he's losing those BOTS to the 66 but I'm Dave Burke what's going on down there according to Bobby Labonte is true he just got loose coming off of to in fact he radioed where's you got through it clean as a whistle look like bill just lost a little bit there BP got a little bit sideways 1 & 2 bobby was in the wrong place at the wrong time yeah boy [Applause] 20 laps in the body's got a very messed up race car they will take a lot of work just to get this car back on the racetrack to make glass Bobby had picked his way back up to sixth in the championship standings he's just 35 points from Sterling Marlin in twenty three ahead of Dale Earnhardt jr. that's gonna cost him let's mention the Kyle Petty has gone to the garage earlier and let's check out what happened to Bobby there we see the 9 car of Elliott we see that big wiggle he has to go up the hill to make contact the body slam against the 18 and both cars almost like synchronized swimming although this is not an Olympic event here folks and leprosy Jeff Gordon going right between the two cars look at the page gold car almost looked like Bill could have saved that but when he got into the 18 it he he would okay and then contact there it really broke him loose cuz I got up together up in the marbles there bobby was in a wrong spot just that that and he took the worst of it I believe the Bills Bills got some damage on the right rear and the right front boy Bobby caught back and then just the car whipped around and caught the right front all right Kenny Wallace in the middle Chevrolet sees all and he says thank good tonight [Music] mr. this focus listen [Music] did that hurt just hearing it ouch just hearing it hurts folks let's go to Marty Snyder well island there were a few pit stops among them Johnny Benson who had already picked up ten spots in that short amount of time he started 37th was running 27th when he came down pit road a little tight off they took one pound out of both left-side tires which should loosen him up just a little bit but they made tremendous progress in that first run for Johnny Benson today Byrnes and Marty this is the biggest piece of bodywork that came off of bill Elliott's car it's the rear bumper cover they got to the good stuff too that needed to come away the fenders and everything to try to repair it for Bill they think that the radiators okay which is good news but that cars really banged up and they a pilot Elias brought as sprint dodge back to the garage Kyle reports your car the leaking fluid as a terminal yeah I hope it's terminal wouldn't running better than that it should be terminal anyhow but it broke I don't know ever run 10 laps that's good we got 10 laps in the day but you know it's pretty frustrating cuz you had a pretty good car that that would drive good and riding good and you know it seems like we've been hitting myths this year we've been pretty good with the car we've missed it with the motor and now we were pretty good when we've been pretty good with the engine we've missed it with the cars so we'll get over it eventually the last time a Dodge won here at Dover his father the King Richard Petty took it to Victory Lane bill back in 1975 well Matt Ward Burton was on pit road and early stop for the caterpillar car his car just way too loose all over the racetrack crew chief Tommy Baldwin indicated to us a Ward came in for tires tool made the chassis adjustment sent it back out just missed a Lutz tire on pit road and we know how narrow this pit road is and we know what damaged tires could do to the front of the cars just ask Johnny Benson right now yeah that's from the race back in June when Benson ran into a tire from another car and wound up damaging the nose of his car to the point the engine overheated and he was done for the day but in the first caution here in Dover [Music] at the Dover Downs International Speedway NASCAR on NBC bringing you the NBN a Cal Ripken jr. 400 and run to the first caution of the race came out at lap 21 when Bill Elliott and Bobby Labonte crashed in turn number 2 it's our leader Dale Earnhardt jr. as he weaves his car back and forth trying to keep those tires clean here's Jeff Gordon a points leader as he drives to the 2 spinning cars cars on the inside cars on the outside and the C's party for him here we go this one looks like Jeff's part backs off the throttle [Music] sometimes get a lot of smoke back there but we talked about for Gordon starting back in 23rd that it was going to be anxious while he worked his way to the front there's one incident that he was able to dodge body the body in the garage area let's go to Matt Yocum and Alex shades of 1997 Bobby you weren't in the lead but nonetheless you're back here in the garage early yeah it's a shame Congress told us at the beginning but had plenty of adjustments and make it better and just web met debated name how Bad's the car hurt pretty man it's bad place to be over there in the wrong place wrong time just hurt pretty bad up we'll probably get it fixed but it's gonna take a while he certainly is going to take a hit and the points he entered sixth in Dover with only a twenty three point lead over Dale Earnhardt jr. Dave and man Vallely reported to his crew that the steering was okay on the nine they haven't lost any fluid through the radiator and so basically they were going to bang out the fenders and cut some up and send it back out but the problem was they lost laps because they couldn't get the hood pin down the hood pins have to be in before they head back onto the track and the hood was misaligned with the pins that come out of the frame and so they lost least two laps because they couldn't get the hood back down the NASCAR officials would let it go green flag [Applause] they keep play went on the outside of Bernard Junior trying to take the lead away in Hornaday [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and Ricky Craven to the front started xxx finish for here we go you heard Marty Snyder talk about he wore a golf tournament on Thursday this is the day for Winston Cup win number one his team won a doctor you don't want to give that much credit listen to Jeremy Mayfield a 12-car has moved into the third position [Music] of [Music] sniper and looky here Jetport it five [Music] [Applause] kevin harvick off the banking Gordon trying to get 12 [Music] [Applause] [Music] never see that chipboard right now is almost 5 behind the leader Ricky Craven and as he rode side-by-side you can see that number hit it bigger and bigger [Applause] [Music] while watching Gordon and thinking back to body the body's accident this weekend NASCAR has mounted black box crash recorders they did it yesterday into NASCAR Busch Series cars today into Winston Cup cars Gordon's cars carrying one the party's cars carry one it's an experiment to see how they are fare throughout the 400-mile distance today while they got a test under adverse conditions on the body's car Ricky Cravens a 32-car the tide lied the leader of the race he ran so well here in June almost won at one point time looked like he was going to win his first Winston Cup race he was exactly the same a different bar for a new part brand new car because they felt like that in June the car was really good a long run but they wanted to get make something that was a little girl and the short runs and [Music] he is very very let that lay down open couldn't take advantage Craven team has really been coming around lately he's action three out of the last five races and in June that's the line a tricky private back there if there wasn't it was close contact played okay [Music] Kraven news of that high lane is like waving the red flag in front of the bull at Dale jr. and that's the line that's work Ricky Craven made so much of his time here [Applause] and someone now is televisions renderscript breathing off cord gives the last time and he will be around the Speedway father is probably clicking off somewhat laptime stone which is actually fat blood that boy used to be my spotter and he's saying you're the fastest car or right here where you're running this 1/10 of a second faster than if you're running down low aerial views of dover courtesy of the united states army [Music] Craven and Earnhardt jr. have opened up to second advantage on third place Jeremy Mayfield then you've got Ron Hornaday and fourth and Ricky Rudd in fifth now completed 37 of 405 you're watching NASCAR on NBC [Music] new leader at Dover Downs International Speedway Dale Earnhardt jr. [Music] in jr. 400 Ricky Craven now second on holiday has taken third Mayfield let's look at the lead change jr. got that lead the old-fashioned way he just knocked it out of the way to tell you what's a left for the bumper cover gentle thing push in down which saves the car but gauges the position [Music] how much we can see the bumper cover pendants [Music] so Dale jr. now out in front Craven now fighting with more today for second Rudd has taken fourth away from Mayfield who's fallen back to fifth it's been a great racetrack for Dale Earnhardt jr. to whiz in there for NASCAR Busch Series events and his worst Winston Cup finish is 16th in three tries and we talked with Dale earlier there again about why this racetrack has been so good for it the reason why I run so well here is that the tracks really forgiving for a driver who may overdrive the car a little bit or make a lot of you know make a lot of mental errors and stuff like that so it's got a lot of banking to save the car when you get out of control [Music] slow it down getting in car that's pretty candid issue he said I have attention don't drive the car and this rain threat will let me do it Jeff overdrive here yeah you want here a couple times yeah I'm here a couple times but going down in these corners you really do have intensity because this is a racetrack you need to be aggressive to go over that line then you ruin your chances damn Junior's open up a 1.6 second lead on Ricky Craven check the interval there it is and now Craven fights with Hornaday for the runner-up spot let's check in on pit road with Dave burns and this weekend Mike beam makes his 500th career start as a crew chief and view those now have been with the Ricky Craven but his first win was right here with another guy Bill Elliott back in 1990 [Music] before but mike tells me he doesn't feel old enough to have started 500 races also tells me right now their car is neutral it's just quite as quick as juniors last lap liars about a half a mile an hour slower than Dale Junior's and this racetrack has always been temple going down the court and the cars slide in the grocery thing those front tires sliding across traffic have we seen Ricky Rudd trying to take that spot away from one of they and one of the things that the teams do is increase the camber in the right front go inside that virtual garage and show you exactly what we're talking about there to see that car that's zero camber they leaned the coin that's negative camber can't believe it or not that's what makes the tyre turn better but you see the contact patch is so very very narrow when you go to court it's opposed to the tires boats come out so the contact patch comes all the way across the tire unfortunately the more you lean that tire in the Blessed it makes contact no way across desire and you wear the inside of the tire at sometimes these guys will really lay that tire in what happens after 70 80 laps you wear that right front tire out check in on our championship leader and he has moved into the top ten [Applause] as we watch rut go after Craven for second [Applause] and takes that spot away routine thank you very much then he's laid out the window you see that big star on the hood of the 28 Guardsmen been replaced this week with an American flag are dimensioned the championship leaders moved into the top 10 there's Jeff Gordon Arbutus 7 isn't that amazing he's not wearing now back in 23rd is going to work on Dale Jarrett she caution trouble in turn one Jeremy Mayfield into the wall what was that you were talking about a minute ago he's got a right front tire looks to me like he is lost alright second caution 55 laps in see a little fire under the car it's knocked the exhaust system off the car those are the tailpipes hopefully no one runs across those and Oh Jeremy is okay hard hard with Mayfield running ninth at the time of the crash you see the fluid running across the racetrack water oil and finally we see Jeremy starting to move inside the car the wininet has been taken down now that's good sign there there aren't many easy hits here at Dover no no and I'm sure all the cars here they come everyone will be down pit road this time leaders did not stop on the first caution most of the guys in the back half of the field did now they'll all come in stops at lap 55 bill and Ron Hornaday will be one of the first to hit his stall just at the start/finish line outstanding start for Hornaday car just a little bit tight that'll loosen it up with a chassis adjustment in the left it's four times that fuel the wedge riches in they make the chassis adjustment we'll head back out burn failed the leader is in Dale Earnhardt jr. he has for just a slight air pressure trust but the car was just a little bit tight in the middle of the border he's very good at turns three and four and he said just making a half-pound adjustment I don't want much he's going to get beat out of Pittsburgh Ricky Rudd [Music] it was bad news they made one of the half rounds in on the right rear of wedge and they also went pound of air pressure in the right front he said he wasn't concerned about the leader one-tenth of upon the stopwatch his biggest concern the 24 of Jeff Gordon he was coming fast check the race off pit road how they go to that all-important scoring strike ricky rudd get out first never see red go by Earnhardt jr. why big get back to Dale Jarrett Midtown Easter [Music] barely barely pick you up at Jeff Gordon and Rusty Wallace so Gordon has moved up to the what six position under caution Jeremy Mayfield has climbed from his car walked to the ambulance for the ride the old care center [Music] NBC's coverage of the NBA Cal Ripken jr. 400 is brought to you by UPS the official delivery company of bad farm we want to race the truck people love the truck by Conseco step up and bystander to the world's strongest fat burn for in fact crushed cravings and supercharge your energy [Music] and we welcome you back to Dover ricky rudd and the rest of the field still under caution here at the Monster Mile as we continue the NBN a Cal Ripken jr. 400 for Ricky Rudd it is certainly a challenging day as it is for the other drivers in this sport it has been 12 difficult days for every American and every friend of this nation today these drivers went back to work in the toy department and while it's their job Red Nose to them it's something a little different to provide to the fans Racing is entertainment a lot of people it's going to definitely be excitement when you put 43 guys together on a race track and only one winner is going to be declared but they're going to see the excitement hopefully we just ease their minds just a little bit get their minds off of what's been going on for last week or so [Music] ricky rudd out front and of course on the front of his car the American flag Rud saluting NASCAR fans but also very careful this weekend to mention family in his thoughts when you talk about his job his work and his country now let's move further down pit road to Marty Snider and bill this is one of the men who may be serving our country this is Chris passin t know he works on Michael Waltrip's crew he is an inactive Navy SEAL he has been given notification that he needs to go get his physical he may be called up he is wearing his dog tags he said if he does need to go he is ready to go serve our country Alan Marty thanks we've heard several stories similar to that throughout the NASCAR community that will hear throughout the course of today and we were talking yesterday with one of the members of a race team whose brother is a missing New York firefighter one of the NASCAR Busch Series teams have been up in New York all week and came down here just for a day and get away to go back to his normal life if he could and work on a race car for a day and today it was back to New York to continue the search for his brother and that was the mando Fitz own team that ron hornaday drives for still clean it up from Jeremy Mayfield's crash so let's take a break get his ricky rudd leading at Dover you're watching NASCAR on NBC checking our Wendy's race menu as we continue to watch the championship all the way down to the seasons conclusion Kansas City brand-new racetrack next Sunday here on NBC and the atmosphere around that one is going to be something fans have been ready for that race then it's on to Charlotte the short track in Martinsville and the giant Talladega Superspeedway you'll see them all NASCAR on NBC over the next four weeks as a matter of fact I think Michael is warning in the drivers meeting and he announced at the Talladega rules would be the same for the race coming up in Talladega as we raced in Daytona said there'd be a slight modification for the Fords but other than that it be the same package everybody's remembering the heroes let's check our NASCAR Busch Series update yesterday Jeff green scored a surprise win Ryan Newman dominated the race spot got bounced back in traffic after Green took two tires on the last pit stop Kevin Harvick opened a little war ground on Jason Keller who series championship as they moved toward conclusion of their series who's our craftsman front Series update their scheduled race last weekend at Texas Motor Speedway was postponed until October the fifth Jack Sprague leads a very tight championship chase they race next in South Boston Virginia let's check in with our leaders team and here's Dave burns and Allan that was obviously a very quick pit stop for Ricky Rudd and they had to make absolutely no changes to the car that was one reason why they got around the things so fast and the crew was high-fiving each other saying bring it on give us more but let me remind you that was this the same kind of car that Ricky had when he won at Richmond two weeks ago they made very minor changes all evening long and Ricky ended up winning that race it sounds like these guys are really let's love those glasses michael McSwain wetbacks glasses oh yeah he's a man he might be one of the most positive people that you'll find around the garage area check it out hi that's Michael signaling that the restart has been waived off for another lap so let's take a break while we wait for the restart it is ricky rudd from the twitch driver who's leading at Dover fixing up in my car Stan don't you go where I wanna go [Music] we're just back away at Dover and on the first lap after the restart Dale Earnhardt jr. for that second spot his teammate belch are moving up to sixth and third on the pit stops let's take a look at the read at the lead change we've committed to go on the restart I'm trying to figure out what happened it looks like you got maybe a little bit loose or something cuz that ain't really just shut up and turn - and even a car got a terrific run off to all the 28 car had the squeeze the flower of the 66 laps that we've run he's been out front for 41 of them Rusty Wallace please left left side of Rusty Wallace car very let's bring in a tooth guard and probably a little bit down on the air pressures right after the pit stops maybe they're not filled up enough hit the track a little bit which eat up the track here it definitely moves the car it'll slide the power of the wave back if you bottomed out Kevin Harvick in the 29 when the night's fire that's our garages behind him blue light special event ken Schrader championship leader Jeff boy what trouble brett bodine both you saw a miracle you absolutely saw a mirror use car saw a car spent at Dover and not hit the wall how can you do that we saw that yesterday the butcher's I don't know how they can do that I'm telling you some miracle third caution of the race and it's up at lap 70 Dale Earnhardt jr. Ricky brown Dale Jarrett Tony Stewart and Ricky Craven are your leaders at Dover back into over downs International Speedway under caution for the third time in the NBN a Cal Ripken jr. 400 Brett Bodine with a little spin in turn four how did it start well a may got a little bit of help on that spin but we'll take a look at it see here we got buckshot underneath it looks like buckshot gets into the left rear of Brett Bodine Brett does everything he can save it and he does everything he can to keep it off the wall does a good job doing that I still don't understand how in the world he managed to spend not get it hit the wall or get hit by another car but he did it he managed it doesn't look at it one more look and now we see I don't know we first thought that maybe buckshot Jones 244 gotten a little bit loose and as they chased the car uphill Cadillac Bill Elliott did he caught the left rear of Brett Lodi scar from that angle hit conclusive Matt Yocum has an update on Jeremy Mayfield for us Matt Allen Jeremy amico can attest that any hit at Dover is a hard one after he walk into the infield media care center and he was talking with doctors they found out that he had a slight loss of consciousness while sitting in the race car after the crash they feel like he has a mild concussion they are going to transport him to Kent General which is now called Bay Health Medical Center for observation and a cat scan test but the good news he was alert and he was talking to his crew chief Peter suspens oh and the doctors so while they prepare to transport Jeremy we're going to be under caution for a few more laps tober is one of the tracks on the NASCAR Winston Cup circuit that has no tunnel and the only way in and out of the infield is through a crossover gate at the start/finish line there you see the workers they've removed the stanchions and the turnbuckles if you will that hold that gate in place during racing in a moment when they get set to transport Jeremy they'll swing that gate open to allow the ambulance out of the infield so we're gonna be at there they go now so we're gonna be under caution here for a few more laps while we wait for that to happen and of course we'll stay on top of Jeremy's condition and bring you updates as we get them throughout the afternoon here in Dover NBC's coverage of the MBA Cal Ripken jr. 400 is brought to you by Budweiser with the crisp clean refreshing case go find it no other beer this Bud's for you and by the wide track gram free by Pontiac wider is better this was just moments ago here at Dover that's Jeremy Mayfield being transported to the local hospital you heard the report for Matt Yocum a minute ago Jeremy was briefly unconscious inside the race car and so they're taking him to the local hospital for precautionary cat scans and x-rays let's go to Marty Snyder Helen Mike Skinner sits back in 32nd position there's been a lot of speculation about how much longer he will be in the car for Richard Childress Racing I talked to Karl Richard Childress this morning and Ann Richards told me I just got watered pork that was pretty cool anyway that was Mike's wife so anyway while I let you tell stories about that but anyway rather told me that Mike will be out of the car probably before the end of the year he will have knee surgery and it looks like he could be out early as Talladega maybe even as early as Charlotte now popular belief in the garage area is that Robby Gordon will replace Mike Skinner in this car the belief of many people is also that if Mike Skinner goes out early this year that Robby Gordon will also replace him in the car as well Allen I'm gonna go dry off now thank you my wife and Angela spent too much time together but no you're right Mike is Mike's looking to get that done so he can be completely healed for when the season starts next year so the only thing about that is he was supposed to be my teammate in 24 hours now he's leaving me hanging on that one but that's a good good way to do it and I think he's looking at Talladega after Talladega here's our UPS track fact twenty-two thousand 1986 seats here look at this place today a hundred forty thousand and they're all full amazing Dave burns Alan Dale Earnhardt jr. says that the goggles that he has on are not sealing well to his face he has sweat running down his eyes he's asked the guys for a plain old rag next time he comes in so he can do this and over a hundred and seventy miles an hour bill well Jeff Gordon cruising around under caution in the 6th position on the last set of pit stops he came in eighth went out six no changes to his bar they gave him four tires and cooled it fourteen point three zero seconds that's what helped me pick up those two positions on pit road very well [Music] 14a outside of Gordon try to pick up six [Music] the best in the business it restarts restart and I know why Wow why though you get mad at you probably record Tony Stewart Oh but fender on Gordon's car [Applause] like we talked about earlier these are the bullets and he has a gun damage on that left front right here [Music] he was so good at shopping in the coke 600 he have damage to the see if we can see what happened here exactly turn off the toy we see crate we see where did they get loose he backs off the gas Oh Craven gets a run they go down to the corner and ornament comes down the hill here Craven and Hornaday makes contact and there we see Jeff Gordon getting in the right rear of Ricky Craven with that left front fender here you go on board movement up the sea meets see Jeff did not have a whole lot of room really lucky but still I think that damaged and left fun is gonna a little bit of smoke right before we got [Music] for seventh place but they're just taking that spot away from Jeff Gordon that Jeff is trying to retake this de baño down here in the to pick this is the right front tire that came off Rusty Wallace trying to see in his cut on the inside shoulder right there his tire actually is out of the same pit road this tire was actually made 15 tires apart from Mayfield's nobody outside pillowed apparently has his badge number so the good news is they've lucked out with that caution unfortunately was due to their teammate but you can see they also had it cut so there was a tire cop of developing down here looks like good news and Bobby Hamilton Jr the 55 guard trying to get my jet 40 and folks I don't think Jeff Gordon that's a place the Gordon just lost to Hamilton pit road and get that fender fixed a little bit better but they're not going to make it as good as that thing was to begin with the fighters on these bars are so important when you doing that kind of damage you can't get sick 200% so lap number 80 at Dover [Music] and usually when you do damage like that it'll usually tighten the car up when you affect the nose like that the car will get tighter it won't wanna turn as good as it did before you see the 7 1977 sent me here at Dover I was about a fifth sixth place card same situation every four wait it is an electric and my car was perfect one have you been trying to figure out however since exactly Gordon up to leader day-long Mike jr. you see it's growing just every tournament we had seen play is enjoyed by a hundredth of a second [Music] falen down here in the 24k prefab pieces for the front nose of Jeff Gordon's car they have several pieces the one they're looking for now obviously for the Left Front Gordon and Loomis of Kafka Dover staying out for now NASCAR it's all to a five-story exactly what we heard spotters in smoke you can also see that's how you walk over the championship at the end of the season see the smoke just barely coming off [Music] [Applause] [Music] and hopefully that will not cut the tire as we go along [Music] worse it was just the last race that Jeff Gordon had problems in Richmond Virginia couple weeks ago he's racing Sterling Marlin for a top five spot some contact on the left rear and Jeff Gordon's night was ruined [Music] he was able to get back on the racetrack 36 position take what brother Carlos he's hanging right in there and partner cousin hate anything the problem that Jeff Gordon has is he's losing ground to the eight car we saw just a moment ago he was seven seconds back he's now so Rusty Wallace is God is not thank you so Gordon running back in the night spot while Ricky Rudd runs in second place top two in the championship of course rut gaining those hundred points on [Music] earlier the weekend about his meaning to take advantage of his problems shot the championship well we got to take advantage of the situation we haven't been able to do that over there over the season jeff has had some problems along the way and we've had some problems but when the days he's had his problems up until Richmond we haven't been able to capitalize and take advantage of the big point swing like we did the other week at Richmond I brought his 222 times behind in today's race ten events to go see right now he's gained a little bit of ground his gait 27 points right now on Jeff Gordon but this race were to go green flag for a couple hundred miles Jeff Gordon that lose I think more positions because I think that fender situation would make his car getting slower and slower [Music] actually that's the ricky rudd what 7 seconds to Gayle jr. so blood is almost the second behind Earnhardt jr. so Gordon Ted off the lead coming up after one quarter point Cal Ripken jr. 400 watching NASCAR on NBC [Music] we just come up with a good idea to be able to donate some ourselves and maybe do some help I mean bit that's really all I've been doing the past several days it's just wondering how I can help what I could do and so maybe this is a way that that I can you know make a difference [Music] race leader Dale Earnhardt jr. here at Dover he and his team to raise funds completed receive got our little carrot out there those race to business topics today this stopped under 14 seconds he will donate $10,000 and he started to lap cars that's Brett bow 9/11 car in 37 spot in front of [Music] good ears like 79 five laps so far on board with Filner on June you will see down the straightaway that jr. will get upon or sixty miles 8509 the bubble Milky Way [Applause] you ran up on Mike Wallace a little faster than he was expected there thirty-six plays bar [Music] and a lot of traffic ahead Jeff Gordon seventh place she gets it from favorite kick me that bad response performance with that wrinkled up left front fender well maybe friendlies that bad at this point we'll have to wait and see well let's find out how cratons part is Dave connect with Mike beam the crew chief Allen and they're a little loose in which with what they were early they've got kind of back and forth but that right front fender a little bit looser getting into the corner [Music] so there you go craters damage from the incident is affecting him I don't think damage should have been to the right rear I don't know we see that right rear has been on the car and that could be a problem must be worse if here comes Kenny Wallace to the one these folks push it loose tight let's show you what we're talking about one sided virtual garage and show you loose the car goes down in the corner for bird line on the bottom of Speedway Cadillac here at silver and the cars found all of a sudden the back end starts going out and when the backing kicks out like that that's what we refer to as sluice that's kind of exaggerated but I think you get the picture even a car five degrees out of shape back into front end in the corner is going to feel piety uncomfortable at 140 miles an hour yeah it feels like once given here's Kenny Wallace on Kevin Harvick this is ten place [Music] according to this battle going on course Kenny Wallace continuing to substitute for State Park in that machine park recover for his injuries of the Darlington NASCAR Busch Series race on Labor Day weekend is an update Olli over the weekend here at Dover say he's recovering just fine the only lingering effects from his injury are a little bit of double vision the doctors say that little healing Todd and he will be back in this race bar at some point how much in a corner syrupy peeling the groom has moved up so much higher in just a hundred laps I mean they're almost up to the wall and that's usually sounds some cars that are not handling very well this racetrack makes that so easy to see the white concrete about the dark rubble from the tires as a matter of fact when they first made this surface concrete they tried to change the name of it the catchphrase to white lightning the Monster Mile and feel like a monster it's a great nickname like we said to at the beginning of the program it's not just a nickname it's a reputation where they pitched up for Joe Nemechek trouble the engine has expired we got reports earlier that Kurt Busch was on seven soldiers and now he is on zero cautions out who's gonna get a lot back Lashkar to get a laptop terry labonte billowing and buckshot Jones Bush heading toward the garage to join Kyle Petty Jeremy Mayfield you know Kurt Busch was sharing a pit with a 93 car of Dave Blaney when this race started well when eighteen fell out they moved all their stuff I'm sorry the wrong car moved that they moved all their stuff up to his pit did they won't work for dozens I don't think you did a pit stop in that pit stall that they move to well look at it this way their original pit stall was all the way down and turned four they moved halfway toward the garage and now they can finish the other half and we see Kurt Busch just as he backs off it seems like the engines won't implode just when you hit hock off the game hey before you get to the corner leaders were last in at the 56 lap they'll stop now at lap 117 big opportunity for Jeff Gordon's team to try and fix that fender ville and that's one thing they've just finished talking about on the radio Jeff is loose in tight off they want to make a small air pressure adjustment but he said make sure you fix that left front that left front fender make sure you get that fixed so let's see when they do he comes to his stop in front of his pick where they go around to the right side first and they'll swing around to the left right side tires going on again an air pressure adjustment for go to the left side working on that bender trying to pulled away from the tire they did say this caution was a huge break for them there should be a little longer stop than usual for this team will give up but that record died back out front a Sterling Marlin heads to a good stop for those guys and they dodged a big bullet back a great battle on pit road by Tony Stewart in the 88 and a villain or to you Stewart's car bad lose they went out a half a pound on all four tires a great stop by the Home Depot guys Dave madly Dale Earnhardt jr. the crew may not have gotten under 14 seconds for that $10,000 but they did make a slight air pressure adjustment Junior said he was a little bit free up against the wall that he was a little bit tight from me over driving it into the corner which of course they could not adjust for him hatch for the 28 car of Ricky Rudd they made a slight air pressure adjustment but the car is still very very good Dale Earnhardt jr. leads off pit road Tony Stewart a second Ricky Rudd third well jelly comes out forth Kenny Wallace his team good Seahawk 2/5 let's check out the race off the pit lane to that all-important scoring strike and we see that jr. goes by first great stop by Tony in the team Wow almost gets beat by Tony Stewart summer clean adopted from Kurt Busch's engine failure we'll be back to Dover Downs in a minute we thank you for that hold ask our community thinking about others today while we get back to business here at Dover Downs International Speedway don't forget NBC's premiere week begins on Monday you'll get the answers to last season's finales and get in from the beginning on NBC's new hits this submited of nbc's premier week it all begins Monday night on NBC miss Dover Downs International Speedway pit lane is one of the tightest on the circuit yeah watch what happens here you got Casey yeah we're right behind a 25 fire ain't just bumps as a 25 trying to turn down into his pit how about it morning what he got down there well he made a little contact on pit road as you guys just saw and Jerry Nadeau has got an outstanding car today he has started 41st he's all the way up to 17th despite that contact on pit road he's a little loose in and tied off on that last run so they put a half pound in the right front round a bite out of the left rear but the damage they're not too worried about right now they are not going to bring him back down pit road let's give a call to Robert Pressley great run for these guys started 28th running eighth they are very fast consistent with the leaders a little bit tight on that last run they did make a wedge adjustment but had an just a terrific pit stop about 15 4 was their timing on the stop good effort there for Presley and his team and you could see the Jasper engines folks one of the people who have removed all their identification on the car just to salute our country and our lost friends see Kenny Wallace is yellow car they're up in line in fifth position he came down pit road 11th great stop for those guys the taken a blower and they're working the apron of the racetrack inside 1 & 2 were all that oil try was put down from Kurt Busch's engine we're still under caution sorry I'll show you guys something this is inside of mark Martin's car you don't see this too often on a cup car that's a left side mirror MC Mark Martin adjusted the mirror as you speak because he does not want to be turned down in the corner and a car beat masada and had not realized let's go to Bill Weber Alan down here in the 24 pick got the left front tire that just took off the DuPont Chevrolet of Jeff Gordon you can see right here this is pretty much the groove that was being rubbed in or worked in by the front fender also on the sidewall here if you look you can see that some of the rubber has been rubbed away here as well but this tire held up remarkably well in fact there was almost some applause here in this pit as to how strong this tire was so Jeff Gordon currently 14th on the track dodging a bullet and getting out with a good pit stop so we're under caution here at Dover in the MBNA Cal Ripken jr. 400 back in a moment back at Dover just as the green flag waves in the NBA Cal Ripken jr. 400 daelin my jr. leads Tony Stewart a second Ricky Rudd third Dale Jarrett fourth Kenny Wallace fit Bobby Hamilton Rusty Wallace Robert Pressley Kevin Harvick and Ron Hornaday always runs well here at Dover what can you do with jr. and figure glorified down next you let's let's mention the Jeff Gordon came off pit road after the extended stop back in 14th place we have fresh taste on your screens [Music] third second and first place card [Music] right now pumps jerk not ever do much with Dale Earnhardt jr. let's check up on Jeff Gordon he's trying to fight his way back through the traffic after that what we've started 14 feet up to 12 he's trying to take a record fraud now that wasn't gonna work we're gonna back off on that my very sparkly looks like poop on them backed off because the seven 402 Tata [Music] [Music] ah a lot of damage to Ward Burton's car that's I'll talk about her that 14 really needed they were trying to get a finish they had good race bars this is how it wound up Jeff Borden racing Ron Hornaday and it didn't work out now he had damage to the left front fender I wonder if he has damage to the right front fender where he made contact with Hornaday ain't you many marks up there VP [Music] well don't know he got away fortunate we'll check out the replace his ron hornaday tries to fire his car up when we come back to Dover after this NBC's coverage of the MBNA Cal Ripken jr. 400 is brought to you by KFC there's fast food then there's KFC by napa auto parts napa we keep America running and by Sears only Sears has the brand you want at the prices you need Sears where else cleaning up down inside of turn one Ward Burton has climbed from that mangled dodge and walked away Ron Hornaday has driven his car from the accident scene here's what happened it looks to me like 24 car got in the left rear quarter of the 14 car and just got a little bit sideways getting off the corner beat beat yep and somehow Jeff Gordon has to see Ward Burton just run in to the 14 car destroyed the front end of a 22 caterpillar died all right here we go the army helicopter will take us down into turn three we see Hornaday on the outside Jeff Gordon on the inside and watch it to come up Airport right just a touch you bear you rent that way you really couldn't tell you and I thought that pod goes on from the other angle what's closer to Jeff Gordon then he's really was take one more look here that's a tough angle - but Gordon's car just the nose just kind of slid when he came up off the corner which is what happens here at Dover I mean these cars just jump off the bottom of the racetrack getting up against the wall and you're wrong Hornaday still has not hit anything until the 22 car comes along and runs in the back of him he had not hit anything is that Jeff Burton they just squeaked through down on the apron yeah apron and the grass just about there's a good shot of the contact there and Hornaday spins them does not hit the outside wall which I first thought he did there's more trying to sneak down the bottom and just had no where to go and like you said earlier it's a problem here at Dover you can't get away from the race that doesn't mean all bullet mark mark what you learn in the back of the kids car [Music] and you can see Johnny Benson was waving he had his hand up trying to tell barking slow down just didn't get there quicker from Ron hornaday's back bumper [Music] or did they generally hit the gas or hit the brakes Oh some Jeff Burton come flashing by let's go to bat Yocum a wild mess on the front stretch of Johnny Benson and what took place from your vantage point I saw so many fun 240 car out I thought everything was gonna be really good a better wave everybody's waiting for hands getting slowed down and I got hit Burton behind in Friday I have nowhere to go you know I mean where everybody got slowed up and it's fun I thought man if I keep it off the inside wall I'm gonna be great but and I got the outside wall and he doesn't bet the lower a-frame just takes forever to change it so we'll get it done get the belt they find out I gotta track James Hansen Gary Putnam in the Valvoline guys are busy at work behind is trying to save points because they are tenth in points bill Matt Jimmy fennec Sean Parker and the viagra crew working on mark Martin's Ford a new radiator new oil cooler there's oil over the inside of the hood he's got front nose damage damage to the back of the car as well mark still sits in the car a helmet on and window net up and one reason for that is this has been an unbelievably frustrating season for these guys just cannot seem to get it to go so another disappointing day in frustrating year for mark wanting a long time near behind it road fixing the viagra for Benson Martin Ward Burton and Ron Hornaday the four who have gone to the garage with damage from this accident you know this is the third time today the Jeff Gordon has been involved in an incident or just missed an incident back at lap 21 when Bobby Labonte and Bill Elliott crashed off turn two he sliced his way through the middle of that one at lap 79 he made contact was Ricky Craven up in turn four was racing for eighth spot got that damaged fixed now on that one 29 into Hornaday bringing out this caution let's watch from mark 14 this is what you look for for the guy in front of there's something happen if you look in the window see Johnny Johnny was waving his hand slow down slow down slow now but mark just didn't see him fast enough and got the back of the 10 car and there's so little protection for that radiator up in the front of the car that nose is just actually a piece of plexiglass plastic so as you see it's caved in back into the radiator set to go racing it's Dale Earnhardt jr. leading Tony Stewart now second [Music] partners on the lead biographies point Dale Jarrett gets you there [Music] the punch just behind our Kenny waters and gotten handles in racing 4/5 Hamilton's team kind of all a little here here this we can't sign the with Square D in Schneider Electric carry down the next two seasons crew chief Jimmy Alex this morning and he said we were nervous and this is really giving us big papa it seems like it because this is the best at 55 Rd car that's run where's Bobby Hamilton a victory lane at Dover at dog Talladega earlier this season in mid-april but his best finish since then in 17 races is a 13th place in which that a couple of weeks ago teammate Joe Nemechek Milford sorry right behind Kevin unscheduled pit stop earlier and lost a lap very position one lap thousand see and out Andy Petree has sponsorship wrapped up Labonte Hamilton's fall next task for him for Joe Nemechek the next year as a sideline to what half of this past week and all the economic uncertainties that seem to be facing the lot of industries in our country question to try to secure those corporate sponsorships for 2002 and down the road all across the summer the tragic events and the economic uncertainty the deaths brought about brought that issue even more to send team owners minds and talk with Danby earlier this week and he said they are very close to securing a sponsorship for that Joe Nemechek bar 33 bar right there second place Ricky rod reel it in tony stewart one of those now let's stop that was so bad a second behind the leader it's amazing to come just a couple laps ago I thought really I saw that battle between the 2888 that both myself the 20x holding Dale carried out but not the case after couple after 28 car Tony Stewart has been the most dominant driver here at Dover over the last couple of years he scored two years in the last four races here he's led 631 and 2,000 possible laps and his career average finish adulteries third third second first first and seventh of his career finishes here you're Dale Earnhardt Jr with Dave Birds [Music] kind of like Tom Hanks castaway movie the team thought he needed a buddy in there and so today he was giving water temperatures to his team he said it's about 220 guys remember when 210 was bad and then when the crew radioed back they said well Wilson we had Wilson the card he couldn't see him right hip and turned out there was a deflated volleyball with a goofy face Dale jr. to ride with and I guess now he believes his water temps are okay too and you saw sitting beside of Wilson on the floor fan of the car was his water thermos his water jug he gets 13 to the house November's helmet and they keep you McGregor Wilson looks just like Allen Bestwick think so thank you guys you look like castaway movie well since I thought it was cool movie with Tom Hanks after you're gonna say I look like Tom Hanks I was gonna slide down the back but you're about as old time as all times I hear we gonna stay coming up the band 505 oh no that's for too many on that first digit thank you yes that has worked his way back up to the 8th position now over six seconds behind [Music] Jeff Gordon s interesting would be the way to describe his day so far enough dodge the first one involved in the second one started the third one Jack and co-op are Jeff Gordon is back and he sits hanging about 6:00 in the half seconds Gordon's got in fights today both Ricky Rudd and Dale Jarrett of each led a first one which toward the championship [Music] and we've just crossed the 150 mile mark here in the NBA Calvin in junior 400 at Dover next weekend it's a busy schedule of NASCAR action on NBC as we enter the home stretch in the race for the championship on Saturday and note this is a change from our original schedule we have qualifying on Friday and final practice on CNN Sports Illustrated then Saturday the NASCAR Busch Series race is on NBC at 2:00 Eastern Time from the new Kansas Speedway and the next Sunday Sprint PCS presents NASCAR Winston Cup racing 12:30 eastern time next Sunday on NBC spectacular new track that wait for that one there's Dale Earnhardt jr. the leader Ricky Rudd is closing in let's check with Matt [Music] I'm going to show a match you guys got together front of us and have I checked up and I didn't get slowed down bad rate for today but it was really exciting to see the patron said to me about his rage band a lot of craft paper people miss this country there when you talk about proud people this country they're also some proud people on this race team one crew members Sam pardon took a week's vacations at Vietnam veteran in a wider Bill Davis racing he flew up to New York City and helped the relief effort the crew is trying to find anyone still stranded inside the buildings at the World Trade Center helping well depart the debris trying to cut apart the debris hoping to find some survivors but what an American a Vietnam vet to take his vacation to try to go and help someone else Sam work the overnight shift center - best to do something with someone else alright now we have got the leader behind Oh and he's going to go three wide off four squeeze in there if we heard maybe going a lap down 29th place and we're going to laps down he's back in 34th ruts kind of chipped away at this gap Earnhardt jr. been out in front of him by Bob twice that amount and he's chipped away and chipped away and chipped away sorry you say that he chipped away on it chipped away closer closer tried that what the grunts a lap after lap after lap after lap there you go I still can't believe you said I was 15 Daler 1938 of the 164 laps that have been fun so far are the lap leaders on the day Ricky Craven Ricky Rudd Bobby Labonte and Dale Jarrett and we go to Dave burns like this set of tires well as the last that is his problem right now ricky rudd moving up is doing great at the racetrack but he had trouble in the pits last time because when he came in they had already put a signboard up out of the way of Dale Earnhardt jr. who runs the leader and Brooke he almost missed his pits so they put some new bright orange tape down on the pit to try to give ricky rudd a better opportunity try to make sure they have something else waving there this is pit board if mrs. Pitt Sullivan is if Dale jr. is still the leader and the next round of pit stop so there you go you like we were asking what are we looking at this strike Ford gave with the explanation put some some very fine controller tape on his return to Andy Houston his crash put it in here go caution job plucky's tires are up on the right side anyway six time the yellow flag waves today not only is rodney wise who's from dover up on the starter stand for NASCAR and this young man spent here for Bottas Lawtons i'm incumbent over stands right there below the starters stand for every practice every car is mollifying every lap of both races and there's a fine job with flag in the race but let's take a look at why he's waving his yellow flag now Andy Houston goes in the corner I think he got just a little bit too high he was trying to ride that cushion that that just trying to get the most grip he possibly good I think he got just a little bit too high got in the sand and around you in chipboard don't tell me you missed another one on our part sure did tap the side a lot of big that's a relief today time to come to pit road for stops these will be at lap 168 last time off of pit road it was Earnhardt jr. and Stewart with a great race off the pit lane let's see how it turns out this time bill okay here's Jeff Gordon Lucky's gone the racetrack so far today despite the front-end damage he growing radio to in about five six laps ago the car the handle just went over way really sliding the rear end one pound of air in the right rear other than that it's just four tires and fuel for the DuPont Chevrolet Dave no major adjustments on the leader Dale Earnhardt jr. they're going to make a slight air pressure adjustment and they hope that the tires are going to be better than the last said they had on there is from Ricky Rudd no changes on to him again just slight adjustments and now we're gonna try to beat Tony Stewart out what was it in the line [Music] Stewart out first Ricky Rudd had to jump on the brakes not to hit they are my children did not a good Lane party well sterling Marlins made some nice progress guys he was up to 11th on that last run first time we have heard that name all day long a little bit tight on that last run for Sterling however half pound out of the right front great progress for these guys to Matt Yocum Rondo today had climbed as high as third Ron for the 24 get you he must have the fake got off the light the back end the car was a little free for two laps but I mean we've been fighting a title condition all day and there was no reason why that car come around coming off before but I think the seven car was slow and Jeff and I up and we were racing pretty hard and maybe he got frustrated because not used to seeing that Conseco green car run good the last couple of races that we've been running good seven car that crashed last week and we checked up and we got took an out by somebody behind us and then this week I mean that was no it's not called for especially from the points champion guy was leading these points in the Winston Cup but it's frustrating but I keep saying we're coming back but these guys are building a heck of a car this good Seco Pontiac and we're running good our pit stops are killing us we running fifth they come out tenth but that that put us back there maybe we should have been running with you up at the time he's getting frustrated cuz his car buddy we're good certainly had some tough luck Allen Ron Hornaday behind the wall let's check the race off of pit road and note that Elliott Sadler has stayed on the track it is the new leader who's gonna be the next man in line watch 28 right here there's Tony Stewart and her hearts coming out same time Ricky really had to jump off the brakes the Pennzoil team doing a great job getting Kenny Wallace out last time they got him up from 11 to 50 we need to check to see what Skinner did they're feeling took right sides because he's sitting at 6 right now and he was back around 19th or 20th I believe so he was at 19 Marty Wally if he had to bet what would you say hey yeah I would say they hate tires yeah good bad I was gonna save me there Wally they have a very good car actually they've been pretty good all day long voice make sure the creature you've just told me we just need position if we get up there I think we can run with the leaders but two tires at Dover is a risky proposition at best today burns and Marty jr. radio to his crew sorry guys that was my fault you all had a good stop I just did not get out of the pit box on time and then he added I'm not a machine let's go to Bill well here's something unusual Jeff Gordon came in sixth or seventh and right now is 19 on the racetrack and here's the reason they did lose a lug nut on the right front so that slowed their pitstop down Jeff called in asked what happened they told him that they did a little work on the front fender there so it difficult longer on the pit stall but they got the lug nuts back on and sent him back out and after they explained everything he kept he goes imagine how could we be doing if I stop running into things and now he's set him back in harms set himself back in harm's way again man for another restart let's mention the Elliott Sadler who stayed out on the track where the other leaders kidded has now come down pit road and so it is Tony Stewart who goes up into the lead log on now to nascar.com check out the Conseco nascar fantasy challenge pick your own team of drivers and see how you match up against southern fantasy teams today Evancho's with a replica of the number 14 so lipstick cut Pontiac now we'll see how those two tires work it's gonna hear beep beep probably okay you run a hold it up damn character as they all try to go around the seven car Mike Wallace the jet board is back in 18th place on this restart and here comes Junior you know those guys was driving [Music] they told me this morning [Music] Oh Tony skewer the truck he's got a little bit loose hello it makes the refund leave a check that 33 car hanging in there with Tony Stewart once again he is [Music] 135 laps he was involved in that Bart is out and in Houston's in the garage Johnny Benson Ron Hornaday hurt boys Jeremy Mayfield Kyle Petty will further update get on Mayfield just joining us he was transported to a local hospital after about 56 crash in term one for x-rays and the cats damaged get the stop the screen now you saw the cars going off time for you saw Dale Jeff get by Mike Skinner and take over the fifth position let's go back and look at this race for second with Rusty Wallace in the Kevin Harvick oldest pageant that Jeremy did walk away from his car but they suspect that he might have suffered a concussion that's why the x-rays there goes the 29 - 20 mSATA crusty drawers sterling marlin a 40 car [Music] and as Kitty straighter than their can flag running in tenth position and again Jeff Gordon behind this - these guys is they run side by side but he might you see straight as Barney 36 dark like that is all P count entire car there's a detail and it tipped to guarding body shutting the shop 13 wins tonight barbeque Rusty Wallace through seven Sterling Marlin through a break here comes Ken Schrader erase it for nine just went straight up started to drive in there Russia brought that 2 car back down sister started a race rusty really hasn't been able that part down on the racetrack he's been running in the middle of the racetrack he tries to get back down on the bottom getting off in water for a push go back coming off the light turn for actually trying to make a straighter shot see the race for position there the lap car parks quickly separating 89 see Casey Atwood back there behind my loss of a seven car the 1919 Dodge Casey started in 18th place right now is racing Jeff Gordon for a second car just in front of Mike Wallace is in 30th place the second car one lap down we're gonna slide under the jet back in the 11th spot remember he fell on his pit stop due to the electric falling off back to 18th place race for position here at whatever night Kenny Wallace off the pace from fifth spot that road got my Lawrence's spot until he's on pit road and battle for the lead Vicky rod goes by junior takes it away second time today riders get out in front the first time today take a chance he calls to pit road they are gonna change four tires and see if maybe they had a tire out of balance break [Music] the FBM a Cal Ripken jr. 400 AD over we're coming up on halfway in the event on NBC Ricky Riley it's the MBNA Cal Ripken jr. 400 over by 1.09 seconds over Dale Earnhardt jr. Tony Stewart Dale Jarrett and Kevin Harvick excuse me make up the top five and here we go for for its spot Kevin Harvick takes the spot away we see the one car Kenny was back on the racetrack after that unscheduled stop [Music] you can look at the holes in the wheel easily tell they are out around a clock the Walt Smith who is the kitchen coast on the her tire Dale Earnhardt incorporated the loose lives that's tough 31st spot two laps down from fifth place on the lead lap and on Sutton the 88 car Dale Jarrett sink back he is loose in the handle car drifted by overtaking Bill Elliott nine laps down after interact accident way back at lap 20 [Applause] [Music] looking at the interval from Ruud back to Jarrett [Applause] eight seconds Bob Sheppard the new papa spotter for Dale Jarrett [Music] and we see the Jared losing ground every left to run he shoots it a lot of race second you watch them throwing the corner he is sliding all the way up to the top of the racetrack it's even worse down here turns three and four when he gets there really goes high [Music] and checking in on Jeff Gordon briefly we saw there he's back in eighth place what Kenny Kenny Wallace are those fresh tires [Music] he lost two laps right come down in there so he's trying to make up as much as he can right now what he needs is the race too so they're clear until everybody else has to make a pit stop yeah and then as soon as they pick that and he gets back to the lead lap the caution flag come out leader stopped at 168 approximately 95 to 100 laps between pit stops so he needs it to stay green for another 70 laps [Music] good luck [Music] looking back across to Bobby Hamilton and jerry nadeau who are racing for 14th and 15th bill [Music] a lot of positions on lost about 10 a lug nut problem on the Left Front for they also had a serious problem with electrons that they took off of that point during the pitstop had a blister problem on it they were very fortunate to be the good news of Bobby Hamilton very nice one for Michael Waltrip the fight started 27 sixteenth right now and American is funny just as you talked about to be spun out and crashed in turn two slugger latias crew chief was talking to him on the radio this second race of Suarez Micucci and the crew did not know what Slugger was talking to him on the radio as he was spinning out and the crew did not know until just now that michael waltrip was into the wall but they had a great run going guys can you believe I cannot believe it [Music] leaders back to the caution Joe Nemechek will get a lap back and he might have been the fastest car on the racetrack that last 25 30 laps talking about Joe Nemechek the 33 car Kenny Wallace did not Michael spin again down there inside turn three into the grass trying to get it back around to pit road [Music] I can't believe it it was similar to Andy Houston yeah while we were looking at it let's see if we can see what happens here you see Michael just gets up high and just gets it looks like he gets that right rear and that and that slippery stuff up there and gets her sideways evidently there's grip right next to the loose stuff and they're all going up there bill Jarrod's been running up there so high trying to find some grip cuz his tires are up on the right side air pressures are up so just got the slippery part hoenn Blaney almost in the back of the 92 car listen to this Marty Sterling Marlin will come down pit road here running fit by far one of the fastest cars on the racetrack that last one very impressive they make one change on the chassis and that is it four tires and that one adjustments of a lever loosened wedge adjustment on the right hand side for the DuPont Chevrolet four tires and fuel remember they had the magnet last time the man and Tony Stewart Rd and he says his car is still loose kind of snap loose Oh Jeff Gooch Patterson made a wedge adjustment on the left side today they'll complete from Ricky Rudd the leader no adjustments the crew is already done here junior tries to beat him to the line with only unchanged the tires to try to make the a car better Jr Dale Jarrett Stewart and Harvick the order they come off pit road Harvick and and Tony Stewart were awfully close getting out of fits Ricky Rudd's team keeping the lead on their pit stop yes yes [Music] those guys don't get up try to do all he can to close in on Jeff Gordon in the race for the championship Gordon's had his troubles today he's hanging in there though in 15th place the Ricky Rudd is the race leader as we just crossed halfway [Music] it's been a good track for rut over the years he's been to Victory Lane at Dover for different times check our Napa field summary way things have gone so far today Dale Earnhardt jr. spend the dominant driver he's led a hundred fifty-four of 202 laps so far a lot of caution flags cars officially out of the race Kyle Petty Jeremy Mayfield Kurt Busch and Andy Houston Houston from a crash Mayfield from a crash Kyle Petty and Kurt Busch with engine failures there they are see for Kyle he didn't even have time to break a sweat before his day ended just 13 laps and his wallet said Andy Houston his accident it was very very similar to the one you just saw with Michael Walker let's go to Marty Snyder and guys Michael still sitting in the car lots of left-side damage they're gonna try and pull it back into the garage there's a lot of left front suspension damage broken shock mounts things like that on Michael Waltrip's car it will be a long time before they can get back out if they will be able to at all under caution for the seventh time at Dover it's been a difficult week for all of us I think sports can help heal we get families together and they're doing the same things and enjoying the same type things then I think that's a healing process the thoughts of former Winston Cup champion Dale Jarrett Dale is part of a roundtable discussion we taped here at Dover Downs on Friday night after the Busch North race it runs as part of our post race special tonight NASCAR 2001 the race to the championship and you can be part of that by logging onto NBC sports.com and telling us your feelings about NASCAR returning to the track this weekend here in Dover and we'll review some of your messages in our post race show after the MBNA 400 in honor of Cal Ripken junior I'd build Dale Jarrett running in third place behind Ricky Rudd and Dale Earnhardt jr. as we go back racing [Music] [Applause] [Music] Michael Waltrip has taken his car to the garage Ward Burton and Ron Hornaday have come back from the garage Ward 75 laps down one day 77 laps down and also under the caution buckshot Jones his car lost the flyer under the hood had to get pushed back on to pit road have taken it back to the garage as well as the top three go around the racetrack remember the last time Jo terrace car the last run did not handle well after a few laps his car here we're very high on the racetrack this pop here at the crew have made some changes that dragon up with the dealer our Junior [Music] Kenny Wallace hanging in there trying to get up and get one of his two laps back the yellow car there [Music] [Applause] never get that on schedule green flag pit stop because of the loose lug nuts about 183 and the caution came out a couple of laps down [Music] say Jeff Ward back there behind the [Music] he's currently in sixth position and he has jumped some tall building today to get up to the sixth position [Music] Gordan just missing the wreck of the backstretch at lap 25 17 I am Ricky Craven got together wrinkled up the left front fender and he came down pit road they lost the lug nut flap 168 pit stop dropped him back to 18th and through it all he's hanging in there here he is in sixth position [Music] looking down on Dover from our US Army Skycam an army of one there are 212 ways to be a soldier find out more at goarmy.com/officer a race 81 laps down mark involved in the big crash on the front straightaway that also involved Ron Hornaday Johnny Benson Ward Burton that was at lap 130 [Music] [Applause] kevin harvick in his second NASCAR Winston Cup Series started here at Dover back in June he at an eighth-place run and he comes into this room having finished second in two of the last three races at Bristol enriched their records are looking up I think how will he bring to that seminar because Stefan has the real deal this year in master on went step race when it comes to being able to keep that Goodrich car up front with very little experience which always seeps get better each and every race Rookie of the Year standings he leads Kurt Busch by 62 points which is a pretty big margin check out the telemetry on the 29 car Kevin Harvick and see if he's over the 160 miles per hour down the straightaway now hard almost up 270 miles [Applause] turn well over 8,000 rpms have been higher than the other cars and that will tell me a few more rpms and the cars running on the frame part of the large the biggie to make the racetrack with the same gears another club the more are kids who will turn [Applause] ricky-rock the leader thinks kind of settled in among the frontrunners let's take you through the field and some stories on how people's races have progressed so far Dave burns found on that last pit stop no changes for Ricky Rudd according to crew chief Michael McSwain and might I say something I said earlier that is the same type of scenario they had a bridge from two weeks ago when they won minor changes in any and for Dale Earnhardt jr. he said the car is rough when I asked his card sheet Cody curry jr. to tell me what that means he said basically here at Dover they've had trouble when rubber builds up late in the race and there really isn't a great way to fix it so his car is now bouncing through the turns before that last pit stop they hope maybe a tire spring rate change will help that as for Dale Jarrett he was tight in the center of the corners Benny mentioned that they took an air but they took air one half pound out of the right front tire to try to help DJ stop Tony Stewart enter Kent Road in 1311 [Music] and buddy they may miss Jessel with air pressure with track bar with the wedge he says the car is okey for two three laps it's like snapping your fingers and the car goes extremely to the lose side that's how the car in begin right now meanwhile Kevin Harvick joked around before the Revolution when he struggles in one car or either butcher cup car the other car first race currently he's riding has been a little bit on the Roos size they've adjusted with air pressure again to build full mad as lucky as Jeff Gordon has been today somebody needs to remind him there is a casino here at Dover down he's hit a lot of things but he's missed the big one and continue his mascot 14.6 ride makes up for the locked up huddle they had other previous little loose in running strong the big question is if he can't get out front how strong will he be chasing him on the track young Casey Atwood having an outstanding it's early they had problems there on his last pit stop no changes like the way it was handled for Tigers two seconds to midnight went out for party Phil sterling marlin is running eighth on the racetrack and that last pit stop he came down pit road running fifth they thought they had a good pit stop 16.4 but they lost him off of pit road that came out seventh and now have fallen back to eighth now the fact that they have also sought it have no concerns very very good your car tends to get the longer run their car starts loose gets tight that is a very good condition for Sterling Marlin he was very fast at the end of the last run behind him on track and night Jerry Nadeau they have had an outstanding day very few changes on that car today the car very good on that last run and either to Matt Yocum three times over winner Rusty Wallace who won three-straight and then they concrete as a place to see first first poppy the top ten fighting kite I talked to Jeff Passan the engineer on this team he says it pulled a spring rubber out of the left rear and they went back to their original pair cutters tried to fix his tight condition meanwhile I spoke with Frankie Stoddard Jeff Burton's crew chief was good before this pitstop but now the car is gone to the tight side please salute the car upend Schrader and rich children car trouble Robert Presley's into the wall turn to [Music] you know he really what didn't have a lot of damage in the rear of the car until he goes down and the bank of the street wake tears into the hand side and he hits the inside wall eighth caution of the race that were just past halfway Kenny Wallace got to get one of his two laps back from Ricky Rudd robber freshly started 28 had been up into the top 10 earlier now he's crashed and turn to lolly I found office taking this might be the same situation as the last two very high on the racetrack at the edge of the debris and you just looks like you can not run up there and it looks like I'm not sure where this happened looks like it happens just past the middle this happens going in the corner so yep now the worst of other cars around could have been contact with some other cars he started down the corner file that one under inconclusive and the radiator is broken in the car as he was trying to get the car unstuck out of the grass and so a lot of water leaders pitted a201 we're at 2:27 do they come in looks like it looks like yes [Music] looks like everybody well that 201 never going to have to stop twice more anyway so this time they can stop now and only stopped once Marty Serling is in running eight Vinnie as we said he starts lose he gets tighter as the run goes along they will make a chassis adjustment and a four-tire stop to Bill ever Jeff Gordon's car suddenly got very very loose track bar adjustment four tires and fuel we go down pit road to Mack huge Patterson took a half around a wedge out of the 20 car of Tony Stewart he says his car really didn't feel much better today no adjustments on the 28 earlier in the race of 28 crew put his car out front did they do it again they kept him out front ruts crew having a better day on pit row you're in Madhapur they might have done that second he might've beaten the eighth card it was very very close I believe he did be paid look like it he did beat the egg car filler and heart out let's check it out all right there goes Rudd and here comes Jarrett and there goes the egg car so it's clearly the 88 Dave and they're making up for lost ground last time on the last round of pit stops they lost three positions and they were not happy about it Dale Jarrett screw bounces back believe Dave Blaney and Jimmy Spencer only got two tires on their pit stop they're now up into the top ten and follow up on it when we come back [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] check this one out what say it says NASCAR Benny circles but above and it says Benny I drew a circle around myself that's pretty neat there you go we had some great signs around here today race fans with some very emphatic and patriotic messages as well welcome back to Dover Downs Allen Bestwick Benny Parsons while they darlin back just past halfway in the NBA Cal Ripken jr. 400 what a date for Jeff Gordon he's been playing dodge ball all day he has missed so many wrecks already's missed three or four already we're only just over halfway well we called it at the start but we figured once he got to the front he'd be safe but don't look like he's safe anywhere let's go back and take a look at some of the things that Gordon has had to dodge so far today it started very early in the race crash on the turn two involving Bill Elliott and Bobby Labonte slips through the middle of that one he goes right through the middle on lap 79 he guilt makes in contact with my career presence car and damages so they go and get that one repaired then down the front stretch it makes contact with Ron Hornaday Hornaday car spins and once again Jeff Gordon misses another crash and then he got a lug nut fall off on a pit stop went back to 18th in line picked his way up through some traffic then boy what a day it's been a piece of cake today yeah no problem but there's a couple of other cars on the racetrack that you know what we've seen the eight car the 2888 they've been front all up front all day but the one car Kenny Wallace he's very very fast he's still a lap down the 33 car Joe Nemechek he wasn't lap down he got it back and folks if this typical if he could just somehow get his way up in the first ten top ten Nemechek will be heard from before the days over let's get out of pit road Marty Kyle I don't to play this game with Wally again Dave Blaney's up to four so how many tires do you think Dave Blaney took Wally I gotta go to RT how about none okay well Doug ran off his cruiser I said you're a brave man he said I don't want to mess with it we just got the car working finally Jimmy Spencer took two tires he's back in sixth place Spencer's I've been very good and Donny Wingo the crew chief told me they've made it better on every stop so they decided to take two tires his feet are hot inside the car that's the biggest problem for Spencer right now and a lot of people saw Mike Skinner taking two tires they were fairly successful with the two tires and a lot of people also have taken notice of a lot of cautions today so some guys taking some Gamble's and gaining a lot of track position Glen he was 19th before his stop he's fourth now Spencer was 15th that he is sixth and were still under caution here at the Monster Mile cleanup continues here at Dover Downs International Speedway as NBC brings you the NBN a Cal Ripken jr. 408 caution of the race with Robert Pressley crashed in turns one and two let's check back at the garage with Matt Yocum Allen the Daytona 500 winning driver Michael Walsh was back here in the garage area Michael first off lab to crash in June he had a great car here this time yeah we did I'm real thankful for Slugger he came on board last week of Richmond and we ran real good there and today we were gonna be right and I heard something bounce off the bottom of the car going into one I didn't you know you hear that a lot like rubber and I didn't think anything about it next thing I know I'm backwards so I guess I ran over something the spirit of America Chevrolet as you see it over there's a little wadded up and that's sad but knife autoparts and all the folks behind it should be real proud of this team sluggers just really working hard with Steve mill and the whole bunch and I believe I mean you can't run like we did today and not know what you're doing these guys know what they're doing and we're putting it back together and I hate that happen man because it can knock the steam out of the wind of the wind out of the sails but in this case I don't think it did I think they're with me and a good update good news from Jeremy Mayfield's camp Chip Williams his PR representative says that jeremy has been released from a local hospital he does have some bruises but besides that cat scans came back negative all he has is a chipped tooth so looks like Jeremy will be a little sore and paying a visit to his local dentist Alan all right Matt that's good news for Jeremy Mayfield very hard crash back at lap 56 and after the trip to the hospital he is doing okay have a lot for the restart Bill Weber Alan just wanted to finish up on ken Schrader with the American flag car today courtesy of Eminem is taking all their decals off of it to a salute the country they've had a day where they've been too tight to lose too late to tighten to ease then they saw himself too much on the left side so they're battling back that they think one more pit stop and trader could have the best car on the track down one round on the track bar last time afford tires and also keep an eye on the nineteen at Casey at when we talked about and last stop was fourteen point eight had a quick conversation with the car whenever ever am thrilled with the way the team's running they were in the green at Dover remember that they play in court got no tires on his pit star Jimmy Spencer gun 2006 I don't know about that though tired we'll say all right now ladies right in front of Easter [Music] rember Blaney started way back in the 42nd position there Stewart but one time for three laps so far never see Blaney we've cut the garlic lead on Tony Stewart here comes Jimmy Spencer that two times stop right in front of Kevin Connor connectives Jetport back to the eighth position now all the jet Fortis goes down at turn three looks like he sounded like he was able to get very strong up in that corner it's gotta be Gordon so weary he's dodged all of this difficulties so far today and he knows at this racetrack it lurks every corner every lap until the checkered flag everything he's done so far today he's got that much still ahead of it and especially those two times Jeff Gordon came off the corner kinda like waiting behind Ron Hornaday [Music] this is 6th place and Harvick's to get it [Music] Spencer to 7:48 the eleven of rental nine is one lap down in 27 [Music] Spencer did not have the grip to keep you scar on the pocket or I stack up in three bullets Lippmann when he did that chip horse tried to travel me inside pip and off Casey Affleck next in line to challenge to be Spencer for a spot showing the lifeguard [Music] okay this day cook of God anymore officer the day jet board had here in in that race where he led all but 19 laps second place Jr the egg car trying to take it away from Dale Jarrett in 88 why get it done Janet screw getting him off pit road just ahead of tail - you're on their last stop Jr's led so far 154 laps today he has been the dominant driver [Music] the leader by three most of the time inside [Music] he's gotta run this time he takes this bottle here clear here's a good look at it right there uh well that's a lot of that girl oh yeah it is actually Dave I just checked with his car Chiba get in Tony Eury jr. and he told me that would help the car as far as turning in the more downforce there but as long as it doesn't overheat you know we had a good close look on the front of that they've got all of the lower grille oh but he's walked off the take see the exact and there is no and I've given him in the bottom he's only dependent on that top grill for hair and is that enough to keep it cool I doubt it you can also start to get hot in there I've got Wilson is starting to sweat Elsa knows all about with Tom Hanks it's a Wilson replica much better when said it looked like beer got me on that yes I deal hey tell me Benny 19 to 25 Casey Atwood where's he run in 9th position and the 25 you've been watching Nathan he has been fast I had to 1.5 solid before that last yellow was picking them off passed about four cars 210 lat Megan started 41st he's into the top ten is behind him Rusty Wallace Sterling Marlin guard Iike Jeff Burton all these cars on the lead lap that's many cautions today it's kept a lot of guys in the heart as fast as Dale Earnhardt jr. has been running a lot only one time if we get an extended green flag run where he caught the tail end of the field and started to put guys a lap down checked out can I take our case yet would have parties behind Ricky Rudd you see what is a yellow circle that would agree when you cease thank you guys you gotta see more and all of a sudden 25 cars backed off dramatically rusty had the dark died to be inside of look like to ward line the back up [Music] garcy to be back up speed again [Music] walling around you're running lap after lap after lap a lot of times you hear drivers talk about when a car Wiggles just gets an uncomfortable feeling going to the corner they have to take a minute to regroup yeah especially if you don't know why it's happened if you're doing the same again lap after lap but also the car gets sideways you're not sure if you've got a tire going down or something broke so you've got to kind of feel it out for a lap or two because you don't want to just say well it was nothing and then go learn on the next quarter and really be a problem temperature heartbeat again yeah get some confidence back in that car when you go running off into the corner Jeff Burton started 22nd 13 right now steadily if not spectacularly on the lead lap and even teared apart [Music] we started forth after getting no tires on that last stop Marty yeah I think we may owe an apology to Doug Randolph his crew chief guys because we've really questioned that move but I've been watching Blaney's lap Tom's are actually pretty good now granted Tony Stewart is on the racetrack on his Kevin Harvick but his lap times are a little bit better than Jimmy Spencer tires [Music] and always has the driver because it driver I will always get a lot of tires but where you're gonna see it come into play is about 20 or 30 laps before they have to make their next pit stop then we'll see how those tires 142 laps to go in the end you get a Cal Ripken jr. 400 at Dover ricky rudd the leader in Dover and the NBN a Cal Ripken jr. 400 that 263 complete 137 to go next weekend our coverage of the race for the championship moves on to the new Kansas Speedway Saturday it's NASCAR Busch Series racing at 2:00 Eastern Time then a week from today Sprint PCS presents NASCAR Winston Cup racing at 12:30 Eastern from Kansas City on NBC Dale Earnhardt jr. running 2.8 seconds behind Ricky Rudd in second and Matt Kenseth is on pit road for an unscheduled stop Marty and it's been a dreadful day for Matt Kenseth the walki mrs. door one of us better track but they've only had one top ten in the last recent races they have a water bra rather than putting cold water in through that little hose you keep going the hood Matt Kenseth far they have really struggled all weekend that's too bad Matt with his problems Robert Pressley has just taken his car to the garage and it has been retired from the race damage from that earlier accident that came back out made some laps but it's given up let's check in our Joe Nemechek Benny you talked about him there I think is that the result I'm not changing tires you think I'll take a look at that right front tire dave blaney running forth into the wall cautions out Matt well you shouldn't hear it go by he sounded like he cut down the tire and also an update on the 33 they have been loose all day Andy Petree says they continue to adjust it just doesn't get any better bet that got every crew chiefs attention well I mean it you know you come in you get tires here at Dover because this place is so hard on the right front tire so the great run from the forty second starting spot up to fourth ends against to turn one wall for Dave Blaney let's go back and take a look at what happened now if you watch them go down turn one right there the right front tire blows and this is what happens and he's so lucky that it happened on the straightaway rather than about the time he got to the bottom right there Jeff Gordon once again is right behind I'd be nervous if I was anyone else I saw the 24 car lot of damage on Blaney's car that we'll see how many guys take just two now leaders on to pit road 132 laps to go as they come down bill Weber the words from Jeff Gordon who are dead Network exit little loose in and that's about the size of it so it's gotta be four tires fuel no changes they clean the windshield stops getting strong for the 24 Dave the leader is in a little more deliberate pit stop for the boys this time they thought they might have made a mistake last time on the car we're being very cautious watching Ricky around the track perhaps a lug nut this time they're gonna be very deliberate hitting everything on for him and he's still going to beat everyone out Neil in our junior makes a track bar adjustment he said it was a little tight getting it and a little bit loose cutting off the corner and jr. is gonna lose four five cars track position as he making that chassis change until some second back to eight Barlett well the work from Jimmy Spencer guy's nothing but tires and gas and that's all they did they've been on tires and fuel and that's all Spencer needed very fast race car right now to Matt Yocum the gas man for Tony Stewart Jeff huge Patterson's going to have wedge elbow after the day is over another one round of wedge ad he says his car is tight in the center says Tony Stewart at least now it's gone to the tight side for tires but also they've got two team members on loan from the 18 Barry cook and Alan Coakley the rear changer cares for the 18 because Randy Cox a normal tire changer on the rear for Tony Stewart got some kind of debris in his eye Ricky Rudd's the leader Ricky Craven is up in second will have the restart the back [Music] [Applause] back into over another lap of caution before we go back racing so we'll take a moment and remind you about NBC's premiere week that begins on Monday all week long you'll see the fall premieres of your favorite returning shows and this fall's new shows it's the must-see NBC premiere week starting Monday nights on NBC summary of pit stops look at junior comes in second goes out in eighth and Ricky Craven is up in second spot just two tires on his pit stop Marty Snider well as Dave Blaney's team packs up an inch the garage will let them pass through here and we'll show you when they leave thank blennies right front tire and that's not a very pretty picture that is what's left of it and as we talked about that might read the result of changing no tires but I doubt it he didn't really have a whole lot of laps on him so I don't think that was a result of changing no tires you can see the paint chips from the wall embedded inside the wheel well there so a lot of damage that right front tire of what's left of the right front tire of Dave Blaney's car and that hole that you see that Marty showed you did not cause the tire to go flat that's what happened he slammed on the brakes and wore through the tire that's what I'm talking about that's a flat spot a flat spot big time gonna be another lap or so before we get the restart let's take a break here back to Dover after this getting ready to go back racing from the ninth caution comes the MBNA Cal Ripken junior 400 and we've still got 127 laps to go yellow fever today and ricky rudd continues to run so well in at number 28 Haviland car the winner last week in our two weeks ago in Richmond [Music] remember just got two tires second-place car the 32 and Jr's back in eight but all the lap cars to the right of your screen pitched in annum under as well [Music] the difference of how fast that blood drives away from them they're staying fairly close yellow car Kenny Wallace first car one lap down he's in 23rd place the barn we saw run up throught the first 15 miles or so we haven't seen much of him seem to caused his handling to go away a little bit and after all that that's happened today we're at Jeff Gordon up in fourth place this is just one of those kind of days [Music] keep after it he'll turn around and win the thing one of those kind of days Gordon is not won since Watkins Glen and Global Crossing at the Glen in mid-august bounders what other one is he sounds to me like it it looks like it as well down on Dover from our US Army Skycam find out more about the United States Army at goarmy.com [Music] well that lap Jeff board was not quite as fast at the leader Ricky Rudd [Music] per hour slower but it might have been the traffic of Kitty wasit cosmic we'll check it out this laughs as he comes off the Senate floor completes another lap [Music] so he is slower than Ricky Rudd they'll cheer at the IndyCar closed sit right on the back bumper Ricky Craven looks like he's gonna take that second spot away framing keeping weight and Jared on the pressure tires Bobby Jefferies that ever so called reassuring voice from the spotter stand Jeffery's up a blue girl he is why petal girl on Winston Gordon look at inside Craven 2/3 [Music] Dale jr. so far no progress since the restart he's still in eighth place [Music] Thank You Stuart sparks kind of left off to that the tip report a minute ago that that the gas man was gonna have what he called it reg itís in his arm for making all the adjustments on the car there's Dale jr. trying to get around Jimmy Spencer he's just passed Sterling Marlin for seven try to get Spencer for six okay because they've had to get around the 28th coming into they're pissed off huh that sounds like the reverse what happened earlier to Ricky Rudd but that's exactly what happened and then when they made a track bar adjustment as well on the eighth car that slowed them down and put them back to spots and while we watch this another unscheduled pit stop for Kenny Wallace [Music] under the green earlier he's back in again since it's 5th after another caution flag pit stop and would lead you to believe and again once you wear those studs and the wheel rolls around on those guns it really is hard Oh a little bit I think of what we were talking about earlier where that was we saw burn mark bulla 26 bar give me Spencer Earnhardt jr. read a hundred fifty four laps of the race so far fired back in sixth place tell you what we're talking about we go arrow loser here the car behind you want to get somebody loose in front of you pull up right on their rear bumper as close as you can that does two things that takes the air off the spoiler in front of the car that might see the airs going off the spoiler sanded down around it also it's packing air underneath the guy's rear bumper so in creating lift on that car and when it creates lift it's actually pulling the tires have less grip of that car and he gets a little sideways and that's exactly what the eight car did to the 26 of Jimmy Spencer [Music] so Spencer slides back to the 8th position where he's being challenged by Jerry Nadeau it's Ricky Rudd who's out in front of the NBN a Cal Ripken jr. 400 you're watching NASCAR on NBC Rick Iran is the leader of the NBN a Cal Ripken jr. 400 with 111 laps remaining in the event he's out in front by one point six eight seconds over Dale Jarrett remember earlier 32 is leading this thing that the eight kind of booted him out of the way but got by that are pretty clean 40 cars gonna take advantage of me - he's gonna dive underneath 32 partner remember he's only got right-side fresh tires and all these other guys have four brand new tires Mike being the crew chief on the 32 trying to get to the track position for here comes the 25 Jerry Nadeau on the inside of the 40 car that is a battle for the seventh position and they do from professional land goes into the seven first starting spot by the way Kenny Wallace 27th place now three laps down survey says Lucilla low nuts as I said once you do it one time almost impossible get those tires pipe the next time so what we're seeing from Craven and Spencer after the two tires on their pit stop is whatever the track conditions are at this moment it's not Michener well they're both sliding back they're sliding back but actually their times aren't that far off or sliding back a little bit but I think everything they gained by taking two tires really where you start seeing the two tires be a problem it's longer into 48 lat that's when these cars will start backing basically that's what he's doing right now they to his bride Marlin goes by craving back to Egypt so farm is on the lead lap 15th place [Music] full of 600 in Charlie pick up his first win here down so today running in the 15th position Odyssey [Music] air pressure adjustment now the car has gone to the tight side and Frank hazard a conversation on the radio and of course I've never won but Frankie does have a [Music] see I told me he was fifty years old it's not fifty ladies and gentlemen thanks here for fifty he said no starters my next-door neighbor all I can say Frankie is you better get home before I do tonight you know I talked to mark Armstrong beach front tire change on Jeff Burton's car this morning and you know I didn't realize he was a firefighter in Shelby North Carolina five four five years before he started his racing career and him telling me that the New York firefighters are the world's best all the training films that they show worldwide are always done by the New York firefighters he said they are the Barry Barry [Music] Oh straighter he's the little hornets nest right here in that 36 car here's a couple spots here he might be the Hornet and that nasty is have made it very clear to his [Music] it's very loose Perryman I got four berries that's extremely loose here at Dover good car with Spencer and Craven swapping a position that's eighth place kevin harvick now we're gonna zero in on Ricky [Music] or that cars just going her to watch through the corner that's just to laugh the print right there he has to slide up that race shot because there's no grip but he goes through quarter turn to steering room we call you slides right across the racetrack to the top of the track and he tries to do anything about it he's going to spin out straight you gotta wait for the car stops wide before he get back to Raleigh about to hit the three-quarter part of today's MBNA Cal Ripken jr. 400 at Dover [Applause] [Music] NASCAR on NBC from Dover Downs International Speedway in Delaware where Ricky Rudd is the leader in DN a Cal Ripken jr. 494 laps to go rod out in front by 7 tenths of a second over his teammate Dale challenge looks like Jarrod is getting a little bit closer to that 28 car [Music] when this thing is over they told me in the Roger this morning that Jeff Gordon be won the race in June was exhausted tonight to believe that we'd run 500 miles here they're just all you could do to stand as the race is over and 400 miles is really truly not that much better the unique characteristic of this racetrack besides the steep banking of the corners two things number one the straightaways look how steeply that's bad that's 9 degrees that's as steep as the corners in Indianapolis the straightaways are bang the other thing is to dive downhill into the turns let's watch Kevin Harvick will count down the straightaway sandwich and relax we've wheels come back one thousand one one thousand two one thousand about two and three-quarters second on each straightaway yes Oliver he gets to relax when they ran the Indy cars here the iron off cars here ran actually took the grinder and they really ground the race back down this place was five times brother than it is right now they've done a lot of the bumps out the made this rake that's murder it still vibrates really hard but it used to be terrible see how you go downhill when you go into the corners the straightaways are actually elevated above the lower groove in the turns that's not the same as in most any other track and it really it's a lot of drivers have talked to me it's like driving a roller coaster falling off that hill into the corner every time twice oh wow exactly especially going into turn one when you go down into turn one the racetrack just falls out and when you can actually see the wheels falling down if you stand down there and watch the cars go in and then the car and land so it is hey Marty what do you got down there well actually we were going to talk about text ricky rudd he's running 20th on the track this is start number 704 Terry Labonte of course in a long time the known as the iron manifest I went to Cup Series racing the day has not been that [Music] all over the place right now they're calling this race an experiment or attempts to build other unscheduled stop for Kenny Schrader's car got so Lucy had to come down right brought them two laps down back to 23rd place [Music] spotter or Rusty Wallace and you want to know that as a driver if a guy just comes along and blows your doors off you're going man what happened to Earl's tell enough hey buddy he's got new tires you don't rusty racing Bobby Hamilton they're the 55 car for 13th place while we watch this the leader Ricky brothers just talked end of a page and put him a lap down the 19th place car [Music] rush disease our threat to eat this thing in the same way exactly the same way hearing Jim yes somehow this year has not hit on the combination to get around no built what about the 36 car I just wanted to point out that he did how patriotic today is it's not just a nice thing that Eminem's did to take the decals off the car and put the American flag on there there was a lot of work in fact to ship the truth 13 hours they started at 5:00 p.m. one afternoon and finished at 6:00 a.m. time to get it up here to go over nice talk on a lot of our [Music] by the crew guys as well [Music] again unfortunately for Slater a good feedback run ruined by that unscheduled pit stop a minute ago it's put him back Boozer's last pitted at 268 so let this thing run green to the finish they'll all be in for a fuel stop round 358 or so now one of the things that the 28 car said they needed before the end of the race was another set of the same spring rated tires you can see the 93 on here these are from Dave Blaney who's now out of the race they talked about other cars that they might get the tires from including 215 of Michael Walter but then they remembered oh yeah Michael Waltrip is Dale Earnhardt jr. 'he's teammate and there are r/t tires from the 15 car down in the eighth pit everybody's looking for that great tire the one that they think is going to be the grippy as' and the best try to win this thing grippy estai like it Dave hey that's a good word Dave it's a Wally word what you're looking for here nine tenths of a second IV advantage runners picked up two tents on Dale Jarrett and there are 81 laps to go rut Jared Gordon Earnhardt jr. and Nadeau the top five in Dover on NBC [Applause] [Music] 75 laps to go at Dover Ricky rod is the leader of the NBN a Cal Ripken jr. 400 whiteboards exactly the top three drivers in the championship are lucky in the first three positions in the race and you can see Jarrett just six tenths of a second behind Vickey good there you see the current launch tennis ricky rudd after his dominating performance today really hasn't gained that much though he has it because he's leading Jeff Gordon he's running rut is closing in on taking over the statistic from leading the most laps today that'd be worth an extra five bonus points for him if he could walk out with him for the N one day only two drivers with a shot at it now he and Dale Earnhardt jr. and there you see the difference between ricky rudd Dale Jarrett and just how close they are it's varying around second will hard and a good place back to Jeff Gordon bailed on our junior in just a couple laps what's my fact about already remember Dale Earnhardt jr. had problems on his last pit stop came off pit road in eighth place took a while to clear some of the traffic here that off the gas to the corner I bet you jump back on the gasoline so see that he picked up a big top push and had to back off to let it get back going straight to coho there's a narrow foot you talked about robbing careless yes sir battles in January what it was its best especially when you run up on a car fast what happens it really packs there underneath that rear bumper so he really ran up on it and got that Carlos Dale jr. the third date and Dale Earnhardt jr. radioed in about 20 laps ago with two words but they were the same word unfortunately tight tight the jet board lost five more points and he's about to lose five four cheering angel a 25 car been a good run for Nadeau today Marty well the performance over the last couple of races with two straight top machines Alan I've been much better they had a team meeting after Bristol Russia we're trying to pay too much attention to the chance to set up Oh Jerry pay attention to driving the racecar don't worry about the chassis setup leave that to Tony since they're done performances have been much better they were gone just qualify a little better they'd have a greater chance to win they started 39th enrichment in his fourth time on car and five started 41st today and he's taken for it from Jeff Gordon they do one pass car Winston Cup when he took the season closer in Atlanta last year [Music] we're back at the Chicago race he led a lot of laps in that one that had an oil leak sent him to pit road for hairs a chance to win on that day team standings for heavy [Music] 25 car is the fastest car on the racetrack right now rascal relax [Music] we've got six seconds to make them on the 28th yeah he's deadly awfully fast 20 laps away from pit stops under the green if it stays that way [Music] as ricky rudd continuing to catch the tail end of the field and being involved in that traffic is allowing Dale Jarrett the close in he's put John and treading a lap down now the 16th place car Jeff Burton goes a lap down and it's all going to be about pitstop if it goes green the rest of the way the pit stops are going to make the difference on who wins this race probably the top three bars will change four tires but a Jeff Gordon the Tonys person those guys back six seven seconds behind you think they might try to take two tires pick up that extra two second absolutely left a few seconds they'll be definitely a lot of gambling going on from about fourth place like that and the end of that is you don't need a full tank of fuel if you need a full tank of fuel it's going to take you just as long to change the tires and overthrow the fuel tank but not heating with one one can one can be plenty but this is the perfect situation for those guys to make that pit stop in under 13 seconds and hitting my pocket why don't we take a break here so we're back in time for the pit stops rut leads you're watching NASCAR on NBC [Music] 59 laps to go in Dover blinky ride putting them laps down as he's catching him he's about to overtake Ricky Craven the 15th place car [Music] we're taking a half a pound and they adjust it on the track bar he says the car is still tight [Music] this headstock 14.2 great pit stop what I talked about I challenged on his mistress some time ago closely if they can make a pit stop under 13 seconds I will get beach man and go to cross the wall $100 for tyre pit stop work tire stop and they can't come back in and we're out yeah yeah that doesn't go [Music] the Rusty Wallace is a pretty one right behind them their leader [Music] Rippey is now taking over the bonus points for leading the most laps today and bad [Music] keep dreamin getting ready to come in down they were reporting that the car was really really loose and so we'll see what happens to the tide cord and [Music] in the right rear he's gonna need to get to the end guys we're just talking about that they put on [Music] fortune and power can you believe anyone no I can't these four lines to go ricky rudd spins out [Music] they never see all the spotters [Music] it was trying to get around the tune I don't know how much they were we get to see it yeah look what he made you [Music] he has remained in the lead lap pit road was closed his time by Chase car hasn't picked up the field yet that's kind of a breakthrough to catch back up he's going good shape right now it's back in seventh place and another guy that didn't hit anything these guys are really good these guys so hard here so now the challenge out for what screw track position [Music] we can tell what might have happened to Ricky Rudd this I don't think this is the incident they're the left before good tried to put a lap on rusty Bob's a little bit there and we see jerk right on the back bumper rusty hidden yeah rusty got me I play back up the bra remember Bristol when they traded shots aren't the last lap and after the checkered flag how about that Marty Jerry Nadeau is in running third tied off of the corner he was a fastest car on the track for much of that last run half pound in the right rear and four tires this looks like a very fast stop so far they dropped the jack the end on the track to deliver for the left side a track bar just went on Tony Stewart as the left side tires ball made just with air pressure he needed a bottle corner lose a little bit tight today [Music] all for the tires to try to get him above the bar drift runs true gave him a couple of spots on their stock got about fifth that could be big I'll tell you what see that smoke coming out of the windows with 28 that's coming out of Ricky Rudd's helmet and I'll tell you what russy's anywhere near Ricky it's gonna be big ricky rudd leading this thing I don't know what he was look like the other gasket there once again there's a 28 car and I think all of a sudden rusty closed up much more on the 28 car than he thought he would because it looked like he started to try to abort him just about the time he touched it but a great piece of driving here by Ricky watch the brakes lock unlock steering lock unlocks and everybody else - but not him he almost backed out for those cars and that would have been big another look at it I don't know no he hit it looked like he was on the gas to me he hit him little payback maybe thought Ricky roughed him up coming down the front stretch trying to lap him the time before well not over yet haha does he bear with the 29 in the 28 at Richmond remember I talked about Bristol a minute ago with rusty and Ricky let's go back and take a look at that this was on the final lap of the night race the Sharpie 500 they're racing for fourth position excuse me I want to come through here we go here's what we're talking about this is the last lap ever seen crud gets to the backup rusty don't takes that spot away now rusty the checkered flag is waved rusty kept down seven three key prodigy beautiful man but the racing for position they're now putting each other lap down one guy putting another car lap down Dave burns and I'm with Micah McSwain the crew chief now fatback what did Ricky tell you on the radio he didn't say a whole lot kind of like Richmond Hill let's just round him up a little bit I mean you know that's kind of a chicken deal two-way rusting out that out there you know he had a bad day over here running so he just got a rough old old here up with old roosters feathers did he I guess he kind of ruffled old roosters feathers huh right and if that got ricky rudd the win at Richmond from saving an african Harvick's after him maybe it can do the same thing today what did Michael say let's watch he said just watch that's what I'm saying right there that man is determined Matt I just spoke to Robin Pemberton rusty Wallace's crew chief he said that rusty said nothing about the incident on the radio whether it was an arrow away and accidentally got into him but nonetheless interesting incident sure is liven things up 54 to go Ricky run goes from the lead to seven picks up a couple of spots on the pit stop you'll restart in fifth normally if he didn't mean to do that he would have said hey man tell him I didn't mean to do that okay now Jeremy Johnson second behind Dale jr. back into the mix here - he's up in the food that's to record two of the 99 car both those guys called the tough break they made the pitch count the caution flag came out now hawkers Jeff Gordon back in eighth place now Phil Allen that came down for car seems to lose grip the end of the run so they made a quarter a half round of wedge adjustment four tires and they put that wedge in the left rear but on the long runs the 24 car loses grip at the end 15.5 - on the sky Jimmy the check behind Jeff Gordon he's moved on to the ninth position like you saw the wall I'll begin to wonder means I'm Sterling Marlin trying to take a spot away that's an awfully sick spot 6.now Jeff Gordon [Music] [Music] [Music] an unscheduled pit stop before lockdown he's up to the top ten another last time joel is here right he cut down the right front tire and slammed the turnip REE well in a NASCAR Busch Series test back on May 15th injuries kept him out of the car for almost two months and he is working hard on Sterling Marlin trying to take that spot away and looks like he's had it Gary abusers over [Music] you know that's one impression think about Joe Nemechek I took that terrible terrible blow it doesn't give the lies that it seems it doesn't seem like it's bothering one bit about coming back to Dover and you think natural tendency would be to be a little bit spooky with a crash that hard Harvick and Gordon 1670 [Music] [Applause] brothers not advanced perfect place [Music] [Music] and I'll leave a check here with the laptop second place Dave juniors out of here besides man recovers from and not really side-by-side if I can't catch that turn to the second six tenths of a sec can't capture come back to Dover [Music] back at Dover Dale Earnhardt jr. has go and watch Judas a charity take a look at the password this was impressive he goes the corner Jarrett goes up the hill and jr. just dries ball me inside keeping that car right down next to the eight now maybe with buying pressure the chera per second back in fifth I think ruin has the potential to get up to the second spot but I don't think he's gonna get you Jr back on bonus points relieving the most wah-wah the championship points all right here those many do trying to take that second spot they're all standing [Music] you know we've got enough laps left to go to the handling characteristics of these cars will change you're absolutely right Allen let's not I think in a 28 car still has a shot you can team to me like his car was better towards the end or middle towards the end of the line just don't know if he's got enough time second place again although while these guys are racing he should be gone we'll get me getting very close to him right now he's got to get by he's got to get by him but I don't think baby 8 wants to give anything away that [Applause] that's a tough one for drivers to fill their clear yeah that is time combs a spotter for jerry nadeau so native a second two and a half seconds behind our juniors your thumbs rather than teammate and I don't think the tailgate will hold up [Music] they give it a chance to get that catchy now it's bad Junior is gone look at the interval 30 seconds it was two and a half seconds just a little bit ago [Music] laughter go but bill jr. didn't have trap at the content well so once the toy a tricky one kids have some free racetrack he made me able to run him down as rugs team chief michael McSwain buoyed by Harvick six place [Music] going running in six run running in third Janet running in fourth that is like today Javid about today Gordon has not five bonus points for leading the life of the championship yep porn stars look at everyone and what he's been through the day there's the interval goes to 22 coming into today that's just a run now [Music] but in another five laps rut is going to lose five of those points you can still tune is gonna take back over the leading the most laps category again Jeff Burton been through the drop of the green flag lap 21 a wreck on the backstretch with Bill Elliott bought in the body he swipes through the middle of that when he busts off Ricky Craven in 579 damage to fingers the crash was not Gordon's he slipped me the middle of that sanap it's common at 168th he fell back to 18th picked his way up to the traffic and through all that is running six in a Tony Stewart Tony got up and let then time to three laps today as long as she's done here we go for surprise and a letdown them yet he's still running in fifth place but he has not been a threat to get up and leave he hasn't been nearly as fast as this 28 car Ricky Rudd the Junior bill Jarrett's car just has fallen off here comes Stewart to pressure him before checking speeds Dale jr. is ricky rudd he is opening up the gap is slow in a way from arey all of his competitors you may get a trip to Victory Lane I'll tell you one thing there I bet he'll be this far each Matt [Music] fascination with the movie passed away we talked about well is a Rabi it is responsive member the hardware store bought revisions to build the wrath right now it's in its these stages of styrofoam and wood but he said next spring when they do their final motion they like the Mississippi they said if Kyle pedak into his children right across the road being down the Mississippi and they're taking pledges to raise money and of course a sponsor has donated some styrofoam coolers to help out with the baby [Music] I don't think I want to go No fifth place I can't get him on the inside how about the outside I'll give us drive on the inside [Music] boss over there footboard he takes fifth pushing Stuart back to six then a tough day for number of drivers Bill Elliott running with 15 laps down after the Ehrlich crash running long time on pit road for overheating he's ten laps down Johnny Benson mark Barton Ward Burton bobby labonte all back on the track after talking to Raj from accidents Ricky Craven has made an unscheduled stop a great one yet going today and here's four trying to get by Dale Jarrett hey Dave what's one on a DJ slipping back VP you know one of the things the teams look for in the tire sets that they put on the car are that they be consistent and so they can count on them in there the numbers they put out every time and according to the top Paradis Darrin is going to lose that position putting the top here at the crew chief this set of tires just does not match their expectations what they thought they were going to do and that is the trouble that Dale Jarrett is having right now in the end that's the slang that gets used around the garage area they'll carve out a bad set of tires is nothing wrong with the manufacturer performance characteristics don't match they wit they don't get what they wish for these fires have a a rate tool and if the tires are not accept you know they're not they're consistent but they're not exact so if you had a tire that say it's a spring rate a little bit different than the last set it's better you're kind of chasing the tires all day and that laughs at finally got away from them and you got to ride it out until the next pit stop get those tires unfortunately prevent the timing of this problem not gonna be another good stop passes yeah Stuart working on shower to fit place so Jeff Boyd gets a most fortunate whether his Rusty Wallace spinning out Ricky roe absolutely minimize his point loss because he brought in one position behind it on the racetrack gasps and I'm not trying to hide forcing everyone happy but the last laugh was faster they are Junior yeah Billy it may not be over yet although they're obviously running out of time on the radio jerry nadeau have been inferred by his father Bob Nicole they're telling you that Dale Jarrett spun around backstretch contact with Tony Stewart caution is out for the 11th time in the race thanks guys gonna be like salut series broadcasts we're gonna have some hot tempers at the end of this one today Marnie well guys this is exactly what jerry nadeau needed two laps before this tawny fertile them if we could just catch up to Dylan or junior I think we can win the race because we're faster than him this will give him that opportunity and Dale Jarrett will stop and change four tires and he will be 14th but ten laps to go how much distance can he pick up see me see what happens here Tony Stewart big hole down there and it just closed up and actually that's you know when Dale was we were talking about the line he was running he would drift up the racetrack then you remember we said he came back down to the bottom of the track exiting the corner tough angle but that's what it looked like happened and another guy three the car picks the right way to go firefight every cook driver picked the right lane bid roads open Harvick's gonna be the first one to come in the sixth place car Barbic Marlon Elliott Sadler Jimmy Spencer Bobby Hamilton and Dale Jarrett ma'am and Kevin Harvick comes in for his final service and if you're not one of the top three or four or five cars it does not cost you anything to try to come in and get some fresh tires in fact news choking on the radio that his spotter been talking to him so much it was bad memories of fat back or fat boy I'm sorry [Music] and they're going to put four tires on I watched the tires going over the wall to see if they were borrowed they are they all see one's coming I borrowed stuff that might have spun them out they say is the sets that they have put together themselves today I remember Dale Jarrett's car handling very poorly as he slipped back in traffic and then the contact with Tony Stewart restarts going to come with inside ten laps to go a living single file this one get excited [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] here's our pepsi race recap of the NBN a Cal Ripken jr. 400 140,000 Ripken himself waved the green flag that get it started Wow there was his reaction trouble early Bobby Labonte and Bill Elliott involved in a crash on the backstretch Jeff Gordon barely snuck through it but Gordon's day would be far from problem free this is Dale Earnhardt jr. going to take the lead from Ricky Craven or they excuse me I'm coming through now Gordon's troubles watch here as Ricky Craven gets loose under Hornaday Pringles in the left front fender on Gordon's car slowing his handling he gets that fixed but then later on he gets into Hornaday setting off a wreck on the front straightaway that took four drivers out of the event mark mark Johnny Benson Ward Burton and Hornaday halfway point of the race michael waltrip this goes up my stuff said he heard something clumped up under the car before he crashed one of them 11 caution flags that have slowed this race Dave Blaney running fourth in the outside wall his team had not changed tires on the previous pit stop and again Gordon just behind that one another case of dodgeball now Rusty Wallace having been bumped by Ricky Rudd the leader as he went by him to lap him a little payback in turn four the leader gets spun out he comes back to fifth after a pit stop he's up to third now Dale Earnhardt jr. lap 362 by Dale Jarrett for the lead switch back in traffic with an ill-handling car then he gets tacked by Tony Stewart racing 4/5 moments ago cause for the 11th caution of the race eventful to say the least Barry it been and now we're getting set for a last 8 laps scrambled to the finish Dave and Tony areas the crew chief he makes the calls what about it can your driver hold him off for eight laps hold them off your net run so hopefully we can anything happen on the restart they get too wide or something you know it might not be able to but won't we get in this corner four days I think we can all right he's got a good seat up here he's watching them coming out for party now we were gonna talk to Tony fer I have to do you have a shot he said absolutely [Music] now set the flaps to go as they cut the green downtown they want juniors car is pretty doggone fine look like if we jet Foreman drug a challenge for third by Jeff Gordon [Laughter] remember taking us we get going seems like money to the restarts all there now that he's got the rifle born [Music] maybe with this company photography had we got picked up go dive down there retro line off the face [Music] he makes it back around four laps to go if the caution comes out to remove his car now a race is going to end up cheering Nathan right now have to worry about the second spot because Ricky Rudd is closing in the season started very slowly the year things have begun to call around it started with the big win at Daytona the Pepsi 400 independence weekend that emotional victory [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] were marching here in three tries here finished he told us earlier in the broadcast he bought this class because it is forgiving the car that's what he wants to do [Music] [Applause] on their feet well the well next time the white flag [Music] this is the final [Applause] quite a lot [Applause] Pacific go into Victory Lane two drivers dominated this race [Applause] 193 laps ricky rudd got 169 hey where'd that big American play again [Applause] this race man it doesn't get much better than this [Applause] after winning by the speedway when they came in the gates [Applause] get out [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Dale Earnhardt jr. is team one of many donating money from their efforts here today toward the relief effort in New York and Washington DC [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Dale Earnhardt jr. is today's winner and Chevy congratulates Dale and number eight Monte Carlo on a big win we're told the wrong thing too comes close to Monte Carlos reputation on the track as its reputation on the street Monte Carlo more champions depend on Chevy will be there Wilson and tail Earnhardt jr. in the winner's circle Bill Weber both Dale Earnhardt jr. has arrived here with his co-driver Wilson and now a very patriotic salute and you might be able to guess with the hundreds of choices in victory lane Willson getting a lot of credit for an outstanding run never knew that was coming [Applause] [Music] and he's over there obviously celebrating with his teammates and will make his way back here to the driver's side of the car certainly an emotional day a huge race a great wind congratulations yeah I was uh we had a good car yesterday and everybody was telling me that we had to get a car and I just didn't know you know and the car was sliding around an awful lot but it was good when it counted now that was uh those last few laps we were able to get by those guys and move on and but you know it feels good to be back in the race car and I'm glad I could be the guy to win the race honking carried American flag around there and made me feel good made a little cash for other rescue efforts today two out of your own pocket yeah actually donated a hundred all the way out and $10,000 for every pit stop under 13 under 14 seconds by my guys and I think the totals around 70 to 80 maybe 90 grand sir but we won today so might I add on to it he'll bail on the racetrack early you must have known your car was pretty good getting around Craven you obviously wanted to get to the front went to the front several times right after restarts yeah the car was good and I knew see it's uh it's so hard to pass here after 10 or 15 laps and I knew if I was going to get by anybody had to do it soon so I try to attack early on restarts and stuff like that but I want to say let's up the concrete twigs road and detail and hope somebody back home had a beer cold it might be late but did you see rod go around I didn't I kind of started sliding a little bit but you know that's a shame because I knew his long you know he was sitting there sliding I was no I know he was upset and you know but that's you know we've won the race and I'm pretty happy about that but I hate to see him lose it like that I'm he had a good car and I wanted to race him to win if I could and we were kind of catching him so it'd have been fun now tell me about your co-driver Wilson will he be back again next week I don't know Wilson seems to be good luck actually I told my guys they're racing it Donnelly was like being on the deserted island you know about yourself next time a little care about with me like old tom hanks didn't cast away it's a great movie I one of my favorites so I got here to swing any guys having one strapped in there and he he was there all day I spat him on the head with ten ago ready to go congratulate hi thanks a lot Dale Earnhardt jr. brings the red white and black to victory on a day when we salute the red white and blue Marty bill not quite the celebration for Ricky Rudd you obviously had the best car there at the end of the race what happened with you and Rusty Wallace well rusty I don't know what was wrong with him he was he was off the face something's wrong with him I guess he needed a college and I was laughing him and I guess he needed a college in the side erect leader I've never seen nothing like it I know he's got the nickname rubber head in the garage area now I never understood it but I understand it now some very strong words between you two what was said in the garage area well it was just a sort of a one-on-one discussion then we didn't discuss too much it's too big of a crowd around so we'll discuss it later it's difficult to have perspective but this was a great run for your time Ricky well it really was you know I mean literally he was bit definitely very very fast all racing any faded there for long stretch and he was a fast guy at the end like I said when we spawn we get something of the car I want to bang the fender up or something it's just it's just a shame you got to deal with nonsense like this you know I used to have a lot of respect for that guy and got I wouldn't give him two cents right now you describe the disappointment it's just kind of hard to put it in words I guess the link keeps me keeps me going I think about what's going on here and I look at the world's problems this into bed alright they finish top five today but somehow doesn't feel like a top five man and Marty the other member of that Rusty Wallace in rusty first off what's your take on the incident between yourself and Ricky Rudd might take an incident he was getting really lapped me as you're out and you run into me in the back straightaway and as I went out of court I just stood in the throttle try to pass them outside he slowed up a little bit I got the tail in Devon that's my story a lot of speculation possibly a payback for the post race incident at Bristol I wasn't payback we're going too fast to do stuff like that but he's got a cootie his memories pretty short he rammed the crap out of me at Bristol you know and now he forgets about it you know I named the guy cone had a long time ago I think I'm gonna name that dude that he got to hell the problem out there I tell you you did have a slight conversation with him in the garage Jerry what took place oh he was hot because he was leading the race and he got spun you know but I'd be hot too but he's got a witch the way he drives he's a good driver and I respect him I didn't respect him at Bristol not even respect him he got Riddle out and he ran into me so you know but I tell you what I was gonna go for it try to hold my lap back I didn't run in the back of them spend amount purpose to tell you that but I was gonna give them hell that's rusty walls Dave and it always seems like we leave the monster mile after its reared its ugly head with somebody and it's a little less tense down here right now but that could be because Dale Jarrett hasn't had a chance to chat with Tony Stewart yet what would you like to say to Tony when you do I will work that out one day you know that used to be I consider this just a bad day but we ran well and in light of what's happened about two weeks ago everything's alright we're okay we'll race again next week and things aren't so bad so just a kind of different way nothing less competitive not the I'm not mad about what happened but you got to kind of put things in perspective and you know you know it sure it hurt us in the points and I'm a little disappointed in what we did there but uh again we'll race to another day there's a lot of people that can't say they can do their job in the other day so we'll be alright and you can see his perspective he wears the New York Fire Department cap on his head to try to keep his own perspective Marty and with Tony Stewart what happened with you and DJ Tony you know DJ is one of my good friends and you know I don't want to I don't want to get into him like that but uh you know we when I was following him he was going in the corner and running up to the middle of the track and turning down to protect his spot so you know I don't think he realized I got his big a run as I got in three times I slammed on the brakes they keep from running into him and that's just that's that's what happens that's what happens when Goodyear gives us a piece of junk tire like that that makes you race you know and be that careless I guess so you know it's it wasn't intentional he's the last guy I would touch so it's just a shame to happen because he's a good friend to me so I hate to do it to you someone in your defense while he was saying looked like the hole just kind of closed up before you could do anything about and what the Lonnie was running you know it did but you running that line like that you're subjecting yourself to somebody getting under there in the middle of corner and I did I got a good run and you know I followed him off the floor and that's as close to him coming off before as I've been all day so you know when I got down to the bottom and got on the gas and ran through the center of corner like I had all day I got under there little further than I think he thought and you know when he came down and there wouldn't he were for me to go I cut down and got down to the apron and went anywhere else I could go so what you're saying is very unintentional what happened oh absolutely I mean he's the last guy we're gonna hit on purpose so uh not only hitting it back on purpose I'm so tired of seeing guys I race with get hurt it's just it's hard alright Allen good finish though for Tony Stewart today wound up in fifth I think Victory Lane is the only place people are smiling back toward that garage right now oh yes this is like a short track situation just like we've been to Mars will a rich were someplace ever see Rusty Wallace Ricky Rudd they're discussing things as you can tell yelling going on back there the NASCAR pit and the NASCAR official he's letting them say their piece as long as it doesn't get too bad until the hands came in you know and he's got a tough job there Rick he should be bad I mean that that was a BS deal dude but on the other on the other hand I'm glad finally Rusty Wallace somebody said yeah that's what I did I mean that's what he did I'm man enough to say that's when he did he was hot too so best finish of the season for Jerry Nadeau right behind winner Dale Earnhardt jr. who gets his fourth career NASCAR Winston Cup victory Jeff Gordon dodges all of the problems that seemed to be happening to him and around him the Elliott Sadler finishes back in 14th he was the last car on the lead lap Todd boat on the first car a lap down Jeff Burton 21st Kenny Wallace after the two unscheduled pit stops 22nd there's 31 through 40 we see most of these cars out of competition Mark Martin was on the racetrack and Bobby Labonte after that incident early on in the race will finished 36th 142 laps down and Kyle Petty the first one out after just 13 laps with an engine problem again Jeremy Mayfield involved in a hard crash but he was released after a check in the local hospital nothing moral more serious than bruises and a chipped tooth and our championship standings now with nine races to go Ricky Rudd gains but 10 points on Jeff Gordon today Tony Stewart and Dale Jarrett swapped the third position we'll be back with more post race coverage from Dover Downs International Speedway in just a minute you're watching NASCAR on 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Channel: NASCAR

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Keywords: NASCAR, motorsports, racing, stock car, Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick, chase elliott, fantasy sports, fantasy fastlane, glass case of emotion, ryan blaney, crash, wreck, pileup, pit road, penalty, race track, super speedway, highlight

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Length: 206min 55sec (12415 seconds)

Published: Fri May 01 2020