I want to be up front racing. That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be. Jeff Gordon, who turned 28 on Wednesday, became the first two-time Brickyard winner last year and is just ahead of Earnhardt in sixth place in the season standings. The leader is Dale Jarrett, who has won three races and has used consistent finishes to build a 254-point lead over Mark Martin. Guys had trouble here and lost races, guys had great pit stops and won races, like we did in '95.
Strategy plays out at the end.
It could come down to that one last stop and whether you take tires or not, whether you just take a little gas or what. Earnhardt also was the 1990 and 1995 IROC champion. Among the 11 other drivers in this year's series is his son, Dale Jr., who lost to his father by .007 second in the last race at Michigan Speedway in June. All drivers are in identically prepared IROC cars. Moore, the 1995 Indy Lights champion and fifth in the CART series last season, hit the second-turn wall early in Wednesday's IROC practice.