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STEPHEN HAWKINS
The Associated Press
Sunday, Nov. 04, 2007
The yellow flag was flying early and often during the Dickies 500.
Four cautions slowed down the pace in the first 39 laps. By the time Greg Biffle blew an engine on the 298th of 334 laps to bring out the yellow flag for the 12th time, the track record for cautions was matched. There were 52 laps run under caution.
The first four cautions came in a span of 23 laps.
Paul Menard got loose going into the third turn on the 15th lap and hit the wall, then three laps after the restart from that caution, AJ Allmendinger went high and scraped the wall in the second turn. The other cautions were both because of debris, some from the car of Jeff Burton, who won the spring race to become the only two-time Cup winner at Texas.
After those four early cautions, the yellow flag didn't come out again until the 119th lap when J.J. Yeley got loose coming off the fourth turn and spun into the infield.
| TRACK FACTS Date Opened: February 5, 1996 First NWCS Race: Interstate Batteries 500, April 6, 1997 Qualifying Record: Bill Elliott, 194.224 mph (27.803 sec), 4/5/02 Race Record: Terry Labonte, 144.276 mph, 3/28/99 Owner: SMI Chairman: O. Bruton Smith Phone: (817) 215-8500 Tickets: (817) 215-8500 Shipping Address: 3601 Hwy 114 Justin, TX 76247 Mailing Address: PO Box 500 Fort Worth, TX 76101 |
TRACK CONFIGURATION Distance: 1.5 Mile Oval Banking in Turns 1-4: 24º Banking in Straightaways: 5º Length of Frontstretch: 2,250 ft. Length of Backstretch: 1,330 ft. Grandstand Seating: 154,861 Miles/Laps: 501 mi. = 334 laps |