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Goodson Storms to Slim Jim All Pro Series Win


Myrtle Beach, S.C. - June 12, 1998 - Going into the $46,100 7 Up 250 at
Myrtle Beach Speedway, two-time Slim Jim All Pro Series, NASCAR Touring
Champion Hal Goodson had 12 career victories.  But he had no wins at Myrtle
Beach, his home track.  All that changed Saturday night when the Darlington,
S.C. native dominated the 250-lap race for his first series win at the
0.538-mile oval.

"I've raced here for a long time at Myrtle Beach and about eight or nine
years ago we were leading an All American Challenge (predecessor to the Slim
Jim All Pro Series) race with about five to go and had just about as good a
car as we had tonight.  We blew a tire and hit the wall.  I've been waiting
on this moment, we had a great race car and this Nortel Networks crew, they
busted a pit stop and we jumped out ahead of everybody," stated Goodson.

For the seventh time in eight races a different driver captured the $300
Bud Pole Award.  On the second of two qualifying laps, and as the last of 29
cars to attempt to qualify, Goodson planted his Chevrolet Monte Carlo in the
top starting position after touring the 0.538-mile oval in a time of 19.892
seconds at an average speed of 97.366 mph.  It was his eighth career pole,
moving him into third place on the career Bud Poles list.  Easley, S.C.'s
Randy Gentry, after experiencing an eventful 24-hour-period culminating in
the birth of his first child, put his Carolina Painting Chevrolet on the
outside of the front row, narrowly missing his second pole position of 1999.

Goodson's years of experience on the flat d-shaped oval served him well
when the green flag waved as he maneuvered into the early lead with Gentry,
Scott Kilby and rookie Coy Gibbs in tow.  On lap 34, as Goodson approached
Keith White and series points leader Wayne Anderson, Goodson made contact
with White and it was enough to cause White to spin on the backstretch,
bringing out the race's first caution.  Anderson escaped being lapped and
restarted at the tail of the lead lap cars, after pitting for adjustments
during the caution period.

When green flag racing resumed Goodson continued to lead, continuing to
maintain the top spot through two more minor caution periods.  The fourth
caution waved on lap 104 when Robert Burroughs spun on the backstretch.
During this caution period Gibbs, Gentry, David Reutimann and Anderson were
the only lead lap cars to pit.  Once back to green this quartet, on fresh
tires, began slicing through the field.

By the race's halfway point on lap 125 Gentry had moved all the way to
fifth position but Goodson continued to cruise and picked up the $400
Gatorade Front Runner Award for leading when the crossed flags were
displayed.  In earning the award Goodson also moved into a tie with Steven
Howard for the points lead in the chase for the annual Gatorade Front Runner
Award.

The fifth caution was displayed on lap 141 when Anderson and Howard got
together in turn one.  During this break in green flag racing the balance of
the cars on the lead lap pitted and Gentry assumed the top spot.  The green
waved again on lap 146 and Goodson had moved back into the runner-up spot by
lap 154.  On lap 168 he caught Gentry and on the 171st circuit Goodson was
declared the leader as the duo raced side-by-side across the start/finish line.

From that point forward Goodson was in total command.  Billy Bigley, Jr.
also overhauled Gentry to capture the runner-up spot while Gentry settled
for a third place finish.  Ron Young captured his first top five finish of
1999 with a fourth place finish while first year driver Rodney Childers
rounded out the top five.  Kilby, Anderson, Jeff Fultz, rookie Lance Goodson
and Reutimann rounded out the top 10.  These drivers were the only starters
to finish on the lead lap.

Goodson established a new race record in completing the 134.5 mile distance
in one hour, 46 minutes and 33 seconds at a winning average speed of 75.739
mph.  His margin of victory over Bigley was a healthy 1.985 seconds.  There
were a total of eight caution periods for 38 laps and two lead changes among
two drivers.  Twenty two of 29 starters were running when the checkered flag
waved.

In the series point standings, Anderson maintains a narrow six point lead
over Goodson as one half of the 16-race schedule is now complete.  Bigley is
just 19 points behind Goodson and a scant six points separates Bigley and
Ronnie Burkett.  Howard continues to hold down the fifth position.

Jimmy King, Goodson's crew chief, earned the $300 Jasper Engines &
Transmissions Crew-Chief-of-the-Race Award for the third time this season
and now leads the annual points chase in that category.  In piloting his
Cleaver Brooks/C&C Boilers Chevrolet to a fifth place finish, Mooresville,
N.C.'s Childers earned the Rookie-of-the-Race honors.  He also closed the
gap to just four points between Gibbs and himself for the Rookie-of-the-Year
honors.

The next event for the Slim Jim All Pro Series is Saturday night, June 19
at Lanier National Speedway in Braselton, Ga.  The Greeson/Horton Homes 200
will be the ninth event on the 16-race Slim Jim All Pro Series schedule.