No, Gordon Didn’t Win Race Again
If you were a little confused by ABC’s coverage of the Brickyard 400 stock car race Saturday, understand:
Jeff Gordon didn’t win the Brickyard 400, Dale Earnhardt did. And no, Earnhardt wasn’t driving a tan Dodge. He was in his black Chevrolet.
ABC’s designs of showing the race at 1 p.m., on a three-hour tape delay, were thwarted by rain that pushed back the start of the Brickyard 400 to 2:27. With time to fill, ABC showed Gordon winning in 1994.
The network said programming commitments--”Wide World of Sports,” including a week-old tape of the International Race of Champions, won by Earnhardt in a tan Dodge--overrode live Brickyard 400 coverage.
The 400 ended at 5:03, about halfway through the IROC tape.
ESPN will show the Brickyard 400 today at 9 a.m. Earnhardt will be driving the black car.
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