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Dale Jarrett
won the race and a $1,000,000 bonus for finishing in the top five in the previous No
Bull 5 race-the Southern 500 at Darlington. This win got the #88 crew out of a slump
they had recently been stuck in.
DJ beat second-place Jeff Gordon to the line by mere fractions of a second. Gordon was followed by
teammate Terry Labonte who drafted with Gordon almost the whole day. Jimmy Spencer and Jeremy Mayfield,
who recently became a blond, round out the drivers who will be eligible for next-year's No Bull 5 at
Daytona.
Bobby Labonte, the brother of second-place finisher Terry Labonte, got diced
back to the sixth position after seeing the white flag in second position. Mike
Skinner, who led the most laps and drafted with race-winner Dale Jarrett most of the
race, finished seventh. Dale Earnhardt, who got caught up in the big wreck that normally
happens at restrictor-plate races, fixed his damage and ran in the top five only to have
rear-end trouble. After getting caught up in the big wreck, Mark Martin
finished thirty-fourth and is now 288 points behind Jeff Gordon. Ernie Irvan
had to go to the hospital to be examined after being in the middle of the
wreck.
Race Results
Jarrett takes Talladega, makes a million
Wind blows the wrong way for Labonte