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| | Gordon Goes the Extra Mile (washingtonpost.com) |
 | | DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 20 -- There was so much crashing toward the wild finish of Sunday's Daytona 500 that NASCAR officials had to tack on three extra laps, technically making it the Daytona 507.5, to haul off the debris and still give fans the high-speed finish they came to see. |
 | | Hendrick, whose drivers have now won five Daytona 500s, spoke about the photograph that he treasures most of his late son, Ricky: It is of Ricky, then a small child, sitting on his shoulders at Daytona when Geoff Bodine won the team's first Daytona 500 in 1986. |
 | | Mark Martin and Rusty Wallace, competing in their final Daytona 500 before retiring at season's end, finished sixth and 10th respectively -- hardly what they wanted, but they ran with dignity after forging a pre-race pact to help each other in the aerodynamic draft if they could. |
| www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A40090-2005Feb20.html (748 words) |
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