Motorsports

Speed read

By BRANT JAMES
Published August 27, 2005

QUOTH THE RACIN': "The good thing about Bristol is some bad stuff can happen, but you're not at an aero track where if you mess the fender up you're going to be done for the rest of the day, or if you tear the side off of it you're for sure done with it. You can rip both sides off of it and rip the nose off it and you can still win the race at Bristol."

- JEREMY MAYFIELD

CAN'T HOLD A CANDLE TO HIM: Madame Tussauds Las Vegas unveiled a $200,000 life-size wax figure of seven-time Nextel Cup champion Dale Earnhardt Sr. on Wednesday as the first piece of a new "Speed" exhibit at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino.

FLAT OUT: Standing water from heavy rains wiped out the final four days of Bonneville Speed Week in Wendover, Utah, but journalist Don Sherman set the G Class/Blown Gas Lakester record with a 189.205 mph run in the Ecotec Lakester. North Carolinian John Beckett died on Aug. 15 when his 1930s Crosley competition coupe rolled at more than 200 mph. In 1992 he became one of 539 to reach 200 mph at the Flats.

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