Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, November 6, 1995                   TAG: 9511060134
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: HOMESTEAD, FLA.                                LENGTH: Medium

JARRETT WINS WRECK-FILLED GRAND FINALE

Jarrett watched the three lead cars dive low into the third turn on the new 1.51-mile oval at Homestead Motorsports Complex. He elected to to take the high road.

Moments later, the three front-running cars were all piles of smoking wreckage and Jarrett was cruising behind the pace car toward a victory in Sunday's season-ending Jiffy Lube Miami 300 Busch Grand National stock car race - the first big event at the gleaming motorsports complex 30 miles south of Miami.

``I knew I had them the whole time,'' Jarrett joked.

``Actually, I could see they didn't have a good angle at all. They were going in there too low,'' he added. ``My object was to move up the track, take the proper angle into the turn and if somebody got loose, see if I could get by them.''

Instead, the Winston Cup regular and part-timer in the Busch Series picked up his third Grand National win of the season and the 11th of his career.

The Busch Series drivers had plenty of trouble getting a handle on the nearly flat Homestead oval, with the 200-lap event slowed by 13 caution flags for 61 laps.

``I expected a lot of action,'' Jarrett said. ``I didn't expect some of the things the guys did out there. This is a professional series. Some of the guys weren't using very good judgment out there.''

There were seven lead changes among six drivers and plenty of shuffling through the field all afternoon.

Tim Fedewa wound up second, followed by Jason Keller, Michael Waltrip, Mark Martin, Phil Parsons and the car of pole-winner Joe Nemechek, which was taken over by Derrike Cope after Nemechek, ill with flu, asked for relief midway through the race.

Pearson, bothered by fumes early in the race, also sought relief. He was replaced by Johnny Rumley but got back in the car after feeling better late in the race.

Johnny Benson, who already had clinched the 1995 Grand National championship, finished ninth. All three drivers in the race for second place in the standings had problems. Chad Little finished 26th, Mike McLaughlin was 24th and Jeff Green was 35th.

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