Travis B. Bryan III, Attorney at Law
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Car owned by Earnhardt
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The race ended just the way The In-
timidator would have liked — with
one of his cars bumping and thump
ing its way to the checkered flag.
Tears flowed and the crowd at
North Carolina Speedway roared
Monday as Dale Earnhardt Inc. dri
ver Steve Park paid tribute to his
late boss with a victory in the Dura
Lube 400.
When the rain-delayed race was
over. Park grabbed the No. 3 Earn
hardt hat hanging from his
gearshift lever and thrust it out of
his car window, holding it high in
salute to the fallen hero as he took
a slow victory lap.
He reversed direction with a
smoking spin in front of the main
grandstand and drove back the oth
er way before stopping briefly
alongside teammate and Daytona
500 winner Michael Waltrip. The
two exchanged a high-five and took
off in opposite directions around the
1.017-mile track, both with No. 3
hats thrust in the air.
It was a fitting and comforting end
to an event that began on Sunday with
a frightening first-lap crash that took
Park’s other teammate. Dale Earn
hardt Jr., out of the race. The younger
Earnhardt came away with minor
bruises in a wreck eerily similar to the
one in which his father was killed on
Feb. 18 on the final lap of the Day
tona 500.
“It’s been a tough week and this is
a dream finish,” Park said. “Dale’s
gone, but he’s not forgotten, and he’s
going to be with all the DEI drivers
the rest of the year.”
The win wasn’t easy. Bobby
Labonte, the defending Winston Cup
champion, was banging at Park's rear
bumper on a final lap that came down
to which driver got the best run off the
fourth turn.
The two bumped and the right rear
of Labonte’s car caromed off the con
crete wall. Park pulled away, winning
by two car-lengths.
“I threw a block on him because 1
was trying my hardest to win this
race,” Park said. “I did what Dale
Earnhardt would do.”
Labonte, also wearing one of the
black, red and silver No. 3 Earnhardt
hats, said, “I got up on the outside of
him a little bit and we were both slip
ping and sliding with that many laps
on tires. 1 got up into the fence a little
bit with the right rear. I tried hard to
come back, but it’s hard to get a good
bite up off (turn) 4.”
a
It's been a tough
week and this is a
dream finish. ’’
— Steve Park
winner of Dura Lube 400
Park, who got his big break when
Earnhardt hired him in 1996, had to
compose himself in the final laps.
“I was emotional. I had tears com
ing down those last couple laps,” he
said. “Then I had to kind of wipe my
nose and get back up on the steering
wheel, ’cause that's what Dale would
want me to do.”
Park’s car ran out of gas on the vic
tory lap and needed a push to Victory
Lane, where he scrambled out of the
cockpit, climbed on the roof and leapt
into the arms of his crew.
He scrambled back onto the roof,
turned to the crowd and raised his
arms in victory, bringing a huge roar
from the 30,000 spectators who re
turned Monday.
As he celebrated. Park got a call
from Earnhardt’s widow, Teresa, now
the team owner, who was watching
the race at the DEI shop in
Mooresville, N.C., about 90 miles
away. Park said she was emotional
but happy.
Rain on Sunday forced postpone
ment of the last 341 laps of the 393-
lap race. Monday was totally differ
ent, with the gloom of the previous
afternoon giving way to bright sun
shine.
Once the race resumed, it became
a great fight among Park, Labonte
and pole-winner Jeff Gordon.
It appeared three-time series
champion Gordon was in command
late in the race, but tire wear played a
big part in the final result.
Park wrested the lead from Gor
don on lap 339 and Labonte got past
to take second on lap 379. At that
point, the leader was ahead by more
than four seconds, but Labonte began
cutting into that steadily.
By the final lap. Park's yellow No.
1 was just a few car-lengths ahead of
Labonte’s green No. 18 Pontiac.
“I saw Bobby starting to catch me.
1 put a block on him to try to win this
thing,” Park said, “fin just glad it was
him. He’s won this race. ... If it was
n't him, we probably both would
have wrecked. But he checked up and
he gave me the opportunity to win,
and I want to thank him.”
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