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Pennsylvania 500 Pocono Motor Speedway July 23, 2000 |
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| Congratulations, Rusty Wallace, for the win at the 2000 NASCAR Winston Cup Pennsylvania 500 in Long Pond, Pa. | ||
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Pennsylvania 500 Pocono Motor Speedway July 23, 2000 |
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| Congratulations, Rusty Wallace, for the win at the 2000 NASCAR Winston Cup Pennsylvania 500 in Long Pond, Pa. | ||
Mark's Winston Cup title
hopes for this season took a serious and perhaps a
fatal hit when his engine blew on Lap 25 and he
finished 43rd in Sunday's Pennsylvania 500. The
results put Martin ninth in the points race, 338 behind
leader Bobby Labonte.
"Our chances were already killed (earlier), but we got back
on track and things kind of looked better," Mark said.
"We're just racing. It doesn't matter if we're racing for a
championship or not, if a championship is not meant to be for
me, then I can live with that."Mark said his No. 6 Ford picked up a serious vibration about 10 laps before his engine went and he knew he would not last the 500-mile race. "We don't usually break parts and we're just having a rash of them," Mark said. "It's a shame, it's too bad. We broke something today and there's nothing we can do about it." It was a Who's Who of the Winston Cup series Sunday who suffered the same fate as Mark. At least nine teams fell victim to blown engines, including Mark, John Andretti, Kyle Petty, Sterling Marlin, Scott Pruett, Stacy Compton, Joe Nemechek, Ed Berrier and Bill Elliott. The miscues affected engines from several of the top engine builders in the series, including Robert Yates and Ernie Elliott. "You're on the gas so long here and turning these motors so hard," said Compton, who uses Elliott's engines. "They've withstood it before; I don't know whether the weather maybe got some people and they weren't expecting it. I don't know what happened." |
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