Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, June 13, 1993 TAG: 9306140093
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: E12 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From Associated Press reports
DATELINE: LONG POND, PA. LENGTH: Short
The racers started single file and there were no caution flags. Knowles, who started third, took the lead when Bender pitted on green 40 laps into the 60-lap race. He said he ran the car at half-throttle for part of the race to conserve fuel.
"When they stopped, that put us in the front," said Knowles, of Tyrone, Ga. "We figured we could make it [all the way] when we started."
Bender, from Colden, N.Y., held off pole-winner Kirk Shelmerdine of Winston-Salem, N.C., for second. Shelmerdine tried to slip past Bender first on the right and then on the left as the two approached the finish line, but Bender was able to hold his ground.
Twenty of the 24 cars that started the race finished, eight on the lead lap. Shelmerdine led the race's first 11 laps before Bender took over.
Bob Schacht won his sixth career ARCA stock car race at Pocono with a .41-second victory over Jimmy Horton in the Champion Spark Plug 150. Schacht, winning at an average speed of 130.120 mph in an Oldsmobile, led the final 13 laps on the 2 1/2-mile triangular track as Horton and Jerry O'Neil followed across the finish line in Chevrolets. Loy Allen Jr. was fourth and Bob Brevak fifth.
Keywords:
AUTO RACING
by CNB