Sadler wins second 125 race
Pole sitter for the second Gatorade 125 event, Elliott Sadler, beat back the pack and brought the No. 38 RYR Ford to victory lane. Sadler starts second for Sunday's Daytona 500. Elliott Sadler. Photo by Eric Gilbert. "This is big," said ...
Pole sitter for the second Gatorade 125 event, Elliott Sadler, beat back the pack and brought the No. 38 RYR Ford to victory lane. Sadler starts second for Sunday's Daytona 500.
"I'm just glad that we are the underdog," continued Sadler. "Hopefully we can give ya'll something to write about on Sunday."
Sterling Marlin powered past the No. 29 of Kevin Harvick in the races closing laps, to garner second.
"Well I had two or three good runs on Kevin (Harvick) down the back straightaway and down the front," said Marlin. "I just kind of waited. We had all of them Chevrolets lying there, and if I went with two or three laps to go I would have finished sixth or seventh. It looked like Kevin laid up trying to get a run on Elliott (Sadler) off of turn two and he pushed and had to get out of the gas. That gave us a real good run at him going down the back straightaway."
Jimmie Johnson and Mark Martin hooked together the No. 48 Chevy and the No. 6 Ford in the draft to power them to third and fourth place finishes.
Harvick, after losing ground to Marlin, lost three positions and finishes fifth.
After both Gatorade 125 races, the top ten starters for the Daytona 500 are Greg Biffle, Elliott Sadler, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Sterling Marlin, Tony Stewart, Jimmie Johnson, Jamie McMurray, Mark Martin, Michael Waltrip and Kevin Harvick.
Failing to make the field for the Daytona 500 were the cars of Andy Hillenburg and Kurt Shelmerdine. Notably, after engine troubles in the initial 125 event, four-time Winston Cup champion Jeff Gordon starts 39th.
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| Series | NASCAR Cup |
| Drivers | Kevin Harvick , Jamie McMurray , Michael Waltrip , Jimmie Johnson , Jeff Gordon , Elliott Sadler , Greg Biffle , Dale Earnhardt , Sterling Marlin , Robert Yates , Eric Gilbert , Mark Martin |
| Teams | Yates Racing |
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