Pocono 500
Pocono Raceway
Long Pond, PA
June 20, 1999

Mark at Pocono

Jeff Gordon leads Jeremy Mayfield(12) and Mark midway through the Pocono 500. Gordon would go on to finish 2nd, Mark would end up 5th.

NASCAR Line

An obviously agitated Mark made a beeline for the Robert Yates Racing crew of Dale Jarrett at the end of the race. There had been a misunderstanding between Jimmy Fennig, Mark's crew chief, and Todd Parrott, Jarrett's crew chief, during the race and Mark and Parrott got into a shouting match by the gas pumps.
Fennig and Brad Parrott also exchanged unpleasantries before cooler heads prevailed.
As for the race, a lack of speed did Mark in.
"We made a couple of adjustments and freed the car up a little bit, but the cloud cover came in and we got a little tight." Mark said. "The team did a spectacular race and really should have had a chance to win. ... Everything we had was going our way, but we just weren't going quite fast enough to pull it off.


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