Motor Racing Roundup : Schrader Drives to Win; Wallace Takes Points Lead

Ken Schrader won his second Winston Cup race and Rusty Wallace vaulted past Dale Earnhardt into the series point lead in the All-Pro 500 Sunday at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C.

Schrader came out of the final series of green-flag pit stops to pass Mark Martin and take the lead only 25 laps from the finish of the 500-mile race.

Harry Gant passed Martin two laps from the end, but his Oldsmobile Cutlass finished a distant second, 3.75 seconds behind Schrader’s Chevrolet Lumina.

Martin was third, followed by Elliott, Davey Allison, Derrike Cope and Sterling Marlin.

Earnhardt, who had a 75-point lead over Wallace coming into the race, started 12th but his camshaft broke on the 13th lap.

Wallace leads Earnhardt, 3,612-3,577 points. Martin moved into championship contention, trailing Wallace by 157 points and Earnhardt by 122.

Driver Bobby Donner III of Colorado Springs, the open-wheel division winner of the 1989 Pikes Peak Auto Hill Climb, was killed when his race car hit a deer during a qualifying run for the Fall Teller County Hill Climb near Colorado Springs, Colo.

Witnesses said Donner’s car was going an estimated 120 m.p.h. when it struck the deer near the end of the 4.6-mile dirt road course.

Donner, 29, was flown from the race course about 20 miles to St. Francis Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Teller County Sheriff Gary Shoemaker said the yearling doe, which was cut in half by the impact, crashed into the open cockpit of the race car, apparently killing Donner instantly.

“We could hear him coming up the road,” said Kevin Baker, a member of Donner’s pit crew. “I could see him coming, and then I saw the deer come out of the woods and walk right out in the road.”

Gary Ormsby set new performance records en route to a top fuel victory at a National Hot Rod Assn. event at Ennis, Tex.

Ormsby, from Roseville, Calif., drove his dragster to a 4.919-second, 294.88 m.p.h. quarter-mile records. The elapsed time is the quickest in the sport.