>From NASCAR Public Relations

APR. 29, 1996

NASCAR WINSTON CUP NOTES OF INTEREST

DAYTONA BEACH. Fla. --- Wrapping up Talladega:

*** Sterling Marlin's win in Sunday's Winston Select 
500 at Talladega Superspeedway kept a string going that 
dates back two decades. No defending champion of the Winston 
Select 500 has repeated as winner since Buddy Baker did so 
in 1975 and '76, breaking David Pearson's string of three 
straight 1972-74.

*** With his $32,155 in winnings, Ernie Irvan crossed 
the $6 million mark in career winnings. His total now reads 
$6,002,473.

*** Dale Earnhardt's third-place finish was his sixth 
in the last seven Winston Select 500s.

*** Dale Jarrett's second-place finish in Sunday's 
race was the second-consecutive Talladega event in which he 
has finished in the runner-up spot. He finished second in 
the Sears Diehard 500 last July --- to Sterling Marlin.

*** None of top-finishers in last year's Winston 
Select 500 finished in the top five Sunday.

TURNING TO SEARS POINT
And the Save Mart Supermarkets 300

*** Just how good does Ricky Rudd get around Sears 
Point? Well, let's look at the numbers: In seven races since 
the NASCAR Winston Cup Series first went to the wine country 
of California in 1989, Rudd has posted six top-five 
finishes, including a win in that first year. To show his 
versatility, those finishes have come in three different car 
makes. The only year he finished outside the top five was a 
14th-place finish ill 1994. That drops his average finishing 
position there to 4.42. Busch Poles? Rudd has four of them 
including last year's top spot.

*** Ernie Irvan is the only driver to have won more 
than once at Sears Point. Irvan captured the top spot While 
driving for the Morgan-McClure Kodak Team and again in 1994 
driving for his current team, the Robert Yates/Texaco/Havoline Ford. From 
1991-94, Irvan had two wins, a second and a fourth at Sears Point



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