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Article: Wreck turns contenders into pretenders.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- February 17, 2002
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Byline: Alan Schmadtke
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. _ For more than three hours, Sunday at Daytona International Speedway was a sun-kissed, single-file day.
Then, Kevin Harvick said, "All hell broke loose."
And Harvick was right in the middle.
A large-field day of chasing, drafting and passing_otherwise known as restrictor-plate racing on NASCAR's premier track_suddenly on Lap 146 became an afternoon of attrition.
Jeff Gordon's speed and the loose rear end of Harvick's Chevrolet Monte Carlo turned into a 21-car accident that quickly turned contenders into pretenders in the Daytona 500 -- and some of them were serious contenders.
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