THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, August 7, 1994 TAG: 9408060431
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C10 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY STAN CREEKMORE, CORRESPONDENT
DATELINE: CLERMONT, IND. LENGTH: Short : 35 lines
Mike Wallace picked up his third Grand National victory of 1994 when the leader, Johnny Benson Jr., hit the outside wall with two laps to go in the Kroger/NASCAR 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park on Friday night.
``I have been to the bottom of my emotions and to the top of them,'' said Wallace, who earlier in the day had failed to qualify Junie Donlevy's Ford for the Brickyard 400.
Wallace had not been inside the Grand National car prior to the race. Ed Berrier had qualified it.
Series veteran Tommy Houston finished second.
``I wish I had two more laps,'' said Houston. ``I know I was faster. We just ran out of time.''
Mike McLaughlin finished third, followed by Dennis Setzer and Chad Little. Ricky Craven, David Green, Kenny Wallace, Jason Keller and Bobby Dotter rounded out the top 10.
Chesapeake's Elton Sawyer turned in a stellar performance before getting knocked out of the groove and into the outside wall on lap 173. Sawyer was running sixth at the time.
``The 55 car (Tim Fedewa) was running slow in the high groove, and everyone went low to miss him. But the 34 car (Mike McLaughlin) caught my left-rear quarterpanel and turned me into the wall,'' Sawyer said.
Sawyer limped away from his wrecked car, which lay against the outside wall on the frontstretch, resigned to a 22nd-place finish. by CNB