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Schrader took wild ride, but Gordon left shaken

Schrader took wild ride, but Gordon left shaken By TOM HIGGINS Staff Writer TALLADEGA, Ala. - Jeff Gordon conceded Sunday he would have preferred to park the final 48 laps of the DieHard 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. Never mind that his Chevrolet had led 97 of the NASCAR Winston Cup race's 140 laps to that point. What shook Gordon was a frightening, five-flip crash by Ken Schrader, trig- Schrader gered when Gordon slightly tapped the left rear of his teammate's Chevy in Turn 2, setting off a 13-car wreck. Schrader Schrader had a badly bruised right eye. Gordon accepted blame. "I can't apologize enough to Kenny,' said Gordon, who finished eighth and held the Winston Cup points lead by 78 over winner Sterling Marlin. "I would never do that to my teammate. "He means a lot to me and I respect him a lot. He is a great guy and I couldn't have a better teammate. He was having a good run, and he has had enough bad luck. He didn't need any more caused by me. "It was tough to keep going. I've never felt so bad in a race car after getting into somebody. You never want to see an accident like that, and you certainly don't want to be a part of it. *After that, every time somebody got beside me I was afraid that were going get sideways. "I got close to Kenny and - thought I was all right. At the last second, my car's back end started coming around a little bit because my tires had worn. I couldn't stop it and I touched him." Among those involved was Terry Labonte, another teammate. "Schrader looks like he has been in a fight and lost," said Labonte. "We'd had the race's first caution for debris a few laps earlier everybody was bunched up. "Several of us came off the corner and saw Kenny sideways. Everybody was trying to miss him and we started wrecking. It was hard to miss." Terry's brother, Bobby, was involved, too. "It was a hell of a wreck," said Bobby Labonte. "Schrader was getting upside down by the time I got to him.' Bobby Labonte wagged his arms in admonishment of Gordon a lap after the accident, which forced the race's only other yellow flag. Both Schrader's Chevy and the Ford of John Andretti went over Ricky Craven's Monte Carlo during the melee. "I knew it was going to be bad when I came off the second turn and the first thing I saw was Kenny's roof number right in front of me," said Todd Bodine. The crash eliminated the cars of both Labontes, Bodine, Andretti, Rusty Wallace, Lake Speed, Chuck Bown and, of course, Schrader. Schrader was the third driver to get upside down at NASCAR's S fastest speedway in two days. Ward Burton and Randy LaJoie had similar rides Saturday in a Grand National race. NASCAR spokesman Kevin Triplett said sanctioning body officials will continue studying ways to prevent cars from flipping.
Article from 24 Jul 1995The Charlotte Observer(Charlotte, NC)
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