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| Ward Burton (22) and his younger brother Jeff battle for the lead off turn four. The two Virginia natives staged a thrilling late-race duel. |
Mark led once for 17 laps and planned
to use one less pit stop in his victory bid. But when the final
caution period began on lap 232 that cancelled the Rousch Racing
team's plans. "If they hadn't had that caution, we were set to go
all the way," Mark said, after his 10th place finish that vaulted
him from eighth to sixth in the Winston Cup point standings. "We
were peddling back just to save gas and was in the gas mileage mode."
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"Then we lost a cylinder and finished
on seven cylinders, so if it had been any longer, we wouldn't have done that.
So I've gotta be pretty happy with missing the wreck I was almost
in, and with the way things turned out to still get a reasonable finish,
I'm happy. We made the best of a bad day." It was a sweep in Las Vegas
for Rousch Racing as Burton won today's Las Vegas 400 and yesterday,
Mark won the Busch series Sam's Town 300. And it was Mark that won
the inaugural Las Vegas 400 last year.
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