Motor Racing
From Staff and Wire Reports
Geoff Bodine became the seventh NASCAR Winston Cup pole sitter in eight events this season, breaking the Martinsville (Va.) Speedway record in qualifying for Sunday’s Hanes 500.
Bodine, driving a Ford Thunderbird owned by Bud Moore, turned a lap at 93.887 m.p.h. on the slightly banked .526-mile oval, breaking the record of 93.171 set in September of 1991 by Mark Martin.
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