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BURNDOWN, BABY!
Pro Stock drivers Larry Nance and Gene Wilson, with the
crowd egging them on, challenged each other in a burndown at the starting
line during Sunday's first round of eliminations. Both sat for about
a minute, 45 seconds before NHRA Chief Starter Rick Stewart -- on orders
from Graham Light, NHRA Senior VP for Racing Operations -- ordered them
from the starting line and said they'd be recalled at the NHRA's discretion.
The decision came, in part, because NHRA was trying to speed up the
event in an attempt to beat the rain.
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Neither NHRA nor Wilson won. After one of several rain
delays, the two cars lined up again and Wilson red-lighted in his Dodge
Neon to give Nance his first round-victory since 1999.
"You play and try to have an advantage over your competitors.
Whatever it takes, that's what we'll do," Wilson said of the burndown.
"No hard feelings between us. That's just part of racing. We'll do it
if we need to."
Nance, the former NBA player and no fan of Team Mopar
owner David Nickens since being edged out of the factory program, said
he decided he wasn't going to be intimidated. "In basketball you learn
not to be intimidated," said the driver of the U.S. Marines-sponsored
Oldsmobile Cutlass, "and I wasn't going to be intimidated today. I was
going to run my own race."
Maybe he can give some pointers to NHRA.
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