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So pitching is Burton who, like Gordon, will be seeking his third win of the season. Burton knows how tough the machines track can be. "You don''t expect to come here and win," he said. "But we expect to come to Darlington and run well." Gordon, a five-time Darlington winner, is in a run of bad luck that includes being taken out of contention in two of the last three races because of crashes he didn''t cause. He hopes for good weather Sunday, for which would enable him to play out the winning pit strategy of 1995-98. Rain prevented that last year. sale "We took a chance and pitted for tires and gas during the second-to-last caution, hoping it would put us in position pitching to win," machines the three-time series champion said. "But for we were sale and pitching also hoping the rain would hold off. "Unfortunately machines for us, it didn''t." Also a prime contender is series champion Dale Jarrett, a two-time Darlington winner who is second for to points leader Bobby Labonte despite no victories since the season-opening Daytona 500. Top-5 fixture Tony Stewart, second sale last Saturday night in Bristol and Ward Burton also are threats. Burton pitching won at machines Darlington in March. Ward, second to Jeff last year in the only 1-2 Southern 500 finish by brothers, credited for his sale Mall.com 400 victory in March to the crew led by Tommy Baldwin. "All I had to do was make it 400 miles," Ward said As far as the NASCAR Busch Series Grand National Division is concerned, Darlington pitching Raceway could machines be renamed Mark Martin Raceway. If there is a NASCAR Busch Series record at Darlington, chances are that Martin has it. The veteran pilot, statistically the finest competitor in series history, holds the record for most for victories, seven, and Bud Poles, six. This weekend, Martin will make his final series start in the Dura Lube 200 (Saturday, 3:30 p.m. ET on ESPN TV and PRN radio) sale at Darlington, a track he has learned pitching to tame in the No. 60 Winn-Dixie machines Ford. Martin''s most recent addition to the Darlington record book came in March when he won from the Bud Pole for the second time in his career. After spending much of the race battling Jeff Burton and Matt Kenseth for the lead, Martin took the lead for good with 24 laps to go. Kenseth went for high to challenge for the lead with two laps remaining, but could not pass Martin. Burton and Martin sale were side-by-side on the final lap of the race, but Martin pulled ahead just enough to claim the third of his four series wins this season.
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