After starting on the pole, Mark fought
back from one lap down to claim sixth, giving him a finish of sixth
or better in the last five Winston Cup races at Rockingham. For Mark,
who also earned the pole and victory in the Oct 23 Busch Series race
at the 1.017-mile track, it was a special weekend. We had a good
run today," he said after the Winston Cup event. "We had a couple
of problems and actually overcame them and wound up finishing
sixth. We probably couldn't have done a lot better if we hadn't had
trouble, so I guess it's a good day. We had a crew member get
injured on pit road and we had several mix-ups. I slid through my pit on a green-flag
stop, so it was just one of those days. We had a couple problems
but it sure could have been worse."
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"We had a pretty good race car, we just chased some stuff
around today. We were pretty strong there at the end, but we
had to come from way behind and to come from from 10th to sixth
was all we could do." Mark said after he regained his lost lap
he thought he could gain more positions. "We were a top-five
car today and we sure did want to finish there," he said. "We got
close to it, we overcame our problems and that's a good day when
you can do that. I know at Dover we had a chance to whip'em and I knew
today that everything would have to fall our way to do it and it didn't
so we gave it our best effort and got a reasonable result."
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With three races remaining, Mark
is third in the Winston Cup point standings, 334 points behind
leader Dale Jarrett. Mark, however, is only 88 points behind
the second place Bobby Labonte.
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