for his sponsor, Viagra, and has become famous for the line, "Who did
you expect, Bob Dole?"Last Sunday, during pre-race introductions at Charlotte, Mark bet Dole -- Elizabeth Dole, that is. The wife of the former Kansas senator is running for a Senate seat from North Carolina and spoke to the large crowd at Lowe's Motor Speedway last week.
Despite being a leading spokesman for men's health, Mark admits health issues have affected his winless Winston Cup season.
"I'm feeling good, but I had some problems," Mark said Saturday morning. "I had some surgery earlier this year to take a screw out of my knee that got put in in 1999 after my accident at Daytona. My knee is a lot better. My back, I flared it up at Talladega the first race and I've wrestled with that most of the summer. I just recently have gotten beyond that and I've learned some things through physical therapy that I've done this summer that I think is really going to help me going down the road.
"Everything is good there and I feel good. I have a lot to be thankful for and a lot to be grateful for, and all that's left out there in front of me as far as the racing part is just a matter of getting out there and getting the work figured out so that we've got faster cars than most everybody else on the race track. If we do that, we'll be up front every week."
