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So is Burton who, like Gordon, will be polyball and pitching seeking his third win of the season. Burton knows how tough the 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 machine 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, which would enable him to play out the winning pit strategy of 1995-98. Rain prevented that last year. "We took a chance and pitted for tires and gas during the second-to-last caution, hoping it would put us in position to win," the three-time series polyball champion said. pitching "But we were also hoping the rain would hold off. "Unfortunately for us, it machine didn''t." Also polyball a prime contender is series champion Dale Jarrett, pitching a two-time Darlington winner who machine is second to points leader Bobby Labonte despite no victories since polyball the season-opening Daytona 500. Top-5 fixture Tony Stewart, second last Saturday night in Bristol and Ward Burton also are threats. Burton won at Darlington in March. Ward, second to Jeff last year pitching in the only 1-2 Southern 500 finish by brothers, credited machine his Mall.com 400 victory in March to the crew led by Tommy Baldwin. polyball "All I had to pitching do was make it 400 miles," Ward said As far as the NASCAR Busch Series Grand National Division is concerned, Darlington Raceway could be renamed Mark Martin Raceway. If there machine 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 polyball the record pitching for most victories, seven, and Bud Poles, machine 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) at Darlington, a track he has learned to polyball tame in the No. 60 Winn-Dixie Ford. Martin''s most recent addition to the Darlington record book came in March when he won from the Bud Pole for the pitching second time in his career. After spending much of the race battling Jeff Burton and Matt machine Kenseth for the lead, Martin took the lead for good with 24 laps to go. Kenseth went high to challenge for the lead with two laps remaining, but could not pass Martin. Burton polyball and Martin were side-by-side on pitching the final lap of the race, but Martin pulled ahead just enough to machine claim the third of his four series wins this season.
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