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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Stevens Beil/Genuine Car Parts 200 Preview

5 August 1997

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Stevens Beil/Genuine Car Parts 200 Advance
Flemington Speedway



DAYTONA BEACH, FL - Caution has been a major factor at Flemington
Speedway, where both previous races were extended by the yellow flag
-- by one lap in 1995 and four last year.

 - Ninety-three of 355 laps run at Flemington have been under
yellow. That's 26% of the total. The 1995 inaugural Stevens
Beil/Genuine Car Parts 150 saw 34% of the laps go yellow. That's the
second-highest percentage in NCTS history, to Martinsville (Va.)
Speedway's 35% recorded last September.

 - The caution flag was Hornaday's best friend in 1995, when he was
able to pass leader Rick Carelli on the 151st and final lap. The
race's 150-lap scheduled distance was extended by a Flemington-record
11th caution, which waved through lap 149.

 - Flemington fans, obviously, don't head for the exits before the
checkered flag waves. The total margin of victory for the two previous
races is a scant, 0.583 second.

 - Hornaday, Carelli, Bliss and Sprague are the only entered drivers
to have completed all 355 laps run on Flemington's 5/8-mile, nearly
square layout.  Nearly square? Well, the backstretch is 55 feet
shorter than the 900-foot front stretch. Flemington's banking -- what
little there is -- isn't identical: six degrees in one and two and
eight degrees in three and four.

By NASCAR Public Relations