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Dale Earnhardt Jr managed to stay to the front of the squad after a yellow flag, that motivated that the race will hardly be reinitiated with four returns ahead, and was able to gain Aaron's 499 in the superoval of Talladega. The second drawn up more express of the calendar of Nascar along with Daytona.
Earnhardt Jr had a competitive Chevrolet Montecar it throughout the day and surpassed by hardly .060c its teammate, the veteran Michael Waltrip. With this Chevrolet result it secured the first victory of the season after eight races without victories for the mark.
Peculiarly these two teammates have distributed to several triumphs in superovals the past season. Waltrip gained Daytona 500 of the 2001, whereas Earnhardt Jr prevailed in Pepsi 400. Now both have finished one-two in Talladega.
“We have led during almost all the day”, said Earnhardt Jr after to reach an average of 159,022 mph punteando 133 of 188 agreed returns. “Sincerely I believe that nobody could to beat my car, perhaps the one that tapeworm a car quite similar to mine was Jimmie Johnson (the author of pole)”, ended up saying Dale.
“Its car was faster than ours, but for a moment I thought that I could also gain”, Waltrip said, “I was able to stick to his paragolpes on the end but not sufficient it. It already was too much behind schedule to try to exceed it”.
Ford Taurus de Kurt Busch finished in third position, whereas the Chevrolet Montecar it of Jeff Gordon and the Dodge Intrepid de Sterling Marlin completed the five first.
“It was a very funny race and to finish third party is very good for the Championship”, said Busch. For the equipment Roush Racing this has been a quite special race. The owner of the equipment, Roush Jack, suffered a plane crash and this reclaiming in the Birmingham Hospital. Its condition happened to be critical to serious.
After the race Sterling Marlin it asked for a penalty to the commissioners of Nascar for Kenny Wallace, since according to him, this it had surpassed last one it under yellow flag. After reviewing the recording the commissioners verified the infraction of Wallace and they cleared his to him 5º put final making it fall until 21º. Wallace accepted the sanction without complaining.
As it is custom the accidents did not lack in Talladega. In this case a multiple confusion took place that it included to 24 cars scattered by all the width of the circuit. The incident was provoked by a lost one of oil in the Dodge de Jeremy Mayfield. The impact more hard received Elliot Sadler, when its Taurus crossed all the track to hit completely against the internal wall of the circuit. Other seven cars left by the accident.
Peculiarly a single car retired of the test by mechanical problems. In this case, Ford Taurus de Ryan Newman with serious problems in its impeller. The rest of the abandonments was accidents.
Sterling Marlin maintains the leadership of the Championship with 109 points of difference on Matt Kenseth. With his flaming victory Dale Earnhardt Jr it ascends to the fifth position of the contest representing the best Chevrolet.

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