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user: You are replying to Roy Witt about "Re: Dover Downs Info".

They wrote:
RW> Jeff Burton -- Keeps piling up the results with a top-five in
RW> Charlotte last weekend; has top-10s in six of his last eight
RW> races, and is seventh in a very tight battle from fourth through
RW> seventh places; had a top-10 in this event at Dover last year.
RW> Dale Earnhardt -- It's been 38 races since Earnhardt last won,
RW> Jeff Gordon -- "Wonder Boy" is looking to make history again,
RW> shooting for his fourth straight win at Dover; tied the record
RW> shared by David Pearson and Rusty Wallace when he won his second
RW> and third in a row with a sweep of both events at Dover last
RW> year; is coming off a win in Charlotte last week, and the Gordon
RW> pattern has been that he follows up a win with a win; only three
RW> of his 15 wins in '96 and '97 haven't come with follow-up
RW> victories in points races; swept The Winston, the pole and the
RW> Coca-Cola 600 over the last two weeks; six points behind Terry
RW> Labonte in the Winston Cup race, but has already collected more
RW> than $1.4 million in winnings in 1997.
RW> Dale Jarrett -- Has gone off the screen the last two races, but
RW> when he rebounds it will be big; his 35th at Talladega and 27th
RW> at Charlotte over the last two races are his first consecutive
RW> non-top-10 finishes since this time last year when Jarrett failed
RW> to crack the top 10 at Dover and Pocono; has led the most laps in
RW> a race four times this year, and has collected 55 lap leader
RW> bonus points through 11 races this year; his four victories trail
RW> Jeff Gordon's five this year, and he is now third in points --
RW> 112 behind Terry Labonte -- in the Winston Cup battle.
RW> Terry Labonte -- Consistency may not be enough to hold off a
RW> charging Jeff Gordon, who has crawled to within six points of the
RW> defending Winston Cup champion; finished eighth at Charlotte, and
RW> now has 17 straight top-15 finishes; has 10 top-10 finishes in
RW> the 11 races run this season; Dover has not been kind to Texas
RW> Terry, with just 12 top 13 finishes in 36 starts and no wins.
RW> Mark Martin -- Complained how bad his car was before the
RW> Charlotte race, and came home third; won the previous two races
RW> and is now riding a streak of five straight top-fives; always a
RW> bridesmaid at Dover with three seconds, and nine top-fives in 20
RW> career starts.
RW> Kyle Petty -- Runs strong each week only to have something
RW> disrupt another shot at a respectable finish; has just one top-10
RW> and is 25th in points this year, but Dover could be the place for
RW> his first big move as driver/owner; came from the back of the
RW> field to record his only 1995 victory in the spring race at
RW> Dover; has 11 top-10s in 31 career starts at Dover; father
RW> Richard registered seven wins at Dover, which is even with Harry
RW> Gant for the most by any driver at Dover.
RW> Ricky Rudd -- Strong again in Charlotte before finishing 10th;
RW> the finish in Charlotte broke a string of five races without a
RW> top-10; in 37 Dover starts, Rudd has registered  three wins and
RW> 19 top-10s; all three of his wins came in the fall; eighth in
RW> this event last year; needs a big finish to regain his
RW> early-season form.
RW> Rusty Wallace -- There's just enough of a short-track feel to
RW> Dover to make Wallace just about the toughest guy to count out of
RW> this event; has three wins and nine top-fives in 26 starts at
RW> Dover, including a seventh in this event and second in the fall
RW> race; has yet to resolve consistency problems that hampered any
RW> potential championship run last year; won this event in 1994,
RW> part of a string of three straight wins (fall 1993, spring 1994,
RW> fall 1994) at Dover.
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assistant: Third Place.
Sigh.  He needs a better car to qualify with.  43rd on a past champion's
provisional is no way to win a race, although he did finish in the top 20.
Again, sigh.  His spotter should have told him to back off..  his little
butt-punch against Dale Jarrett cost him any hopes of winning.
Recovered from that Jeff Gordon butt-punch with his lead intact, but I'll be
damned if that Robert Yates powerplant didn't get him for the second straight
week.  <G>
14th place finish.  Not too bad considering the track, but not good either.
I really thought he was gonna have a good shot at Ricky Rudd on that last
lap...
His car went away from him, and that's too bad.  He really had a good run
toward the beginning ...
Ricky's the man today.
He must have used a Robert Yates engine again.. hahhahaha
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