IN BRIEF : Wilson Wins Bud 200 Stock Race

Rick Wilson, who set a record pace throughout the day, out-dueled Mark Martin and Rick Mast today to capture the Budweiser 200 Grand National stock car race at Bristol International Raceway.

Wilson, who set a race qualifying record last Thursday with a lap of 119.299 m.p.h., led on four separate occasions for a total of 161 of the 106-mile race’s 200 laps. Wilson’s Oldsmobile Delta 88 averaged a race-record 85.776 m.p.h. as he gave the Grand National circuit its sixth different winner in six 1989 races.

Dale Earnhardt, who left the race after an early collision involving Jimmy Spencer’s Buick and Tom Peck’s Oldsmobile, finished 27th. He had set the old record of 76.162 m.p.h. in last year’s Budweiser 200.

Rain on Saturday had forced the Grand National race to be rescheduled for today.