Bobby Labonte won by a 8 second margin at Pocono. This weeks pool winner was JoanF who rode to a fourth place finish with Tony Stewart propelling her from 12th to 9th in the season standings. MarkN had the pick of the week in Rich Bickle who finished 7th and got Mark 146 points out of a driver who went into the race in 32nd place. Way to go Mark. Most significant this week is Dom's ride with Bill Elliott. Elliott was running third when he tangled with a lapped car and hit the wall. He finished 39th (46 Points) cutting Dom's lead from 158 to 101. JeffS, JohnL and JackB all showed up at work on Monday morning wearing smiles thanks to Wally Dallenbach's fifth place finish. JeffS moved to 4th place, JackB is up to 7th. JohnL made the biggest move of the week, up 6 positions from 20th to 14th. 
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GARAGE TALK - FEATURING "BERT"
Bert is in his second season in the pool. After 19 weeks he is in second place only 101 points behind Dom. In a recent interview Bert said he was trying to hang on so that he can be there at the end. Unlike a lot of the players, he is picking his drivers on a race by race basis. The reason for that strategy may be that the only top 10 driver he has remaining is Jeff Gordon. He has made a significant improvement over his performance of a year ago. Last year after 19 races he had 2,221 points and was in 7th place, compared to his 2,457 this year. He hopes that Dom self destructs and he is able to hold off DanO, and SteveO to claim the top spot this year. Bert is a Structural Engineer at AEC who recently had his first child 4 months ago.
AEC POOL FRONTRUNNERS (?):
You've all been waiting with baited breath to find out the latest JeffS rankings. Well get a load of this. JeffS is now in the top spot. How can that be? Its easy, he does the rankings. Actually it is based on the number of top drivers you still have in your stable and your performance to date in the pool. Here is the latest: 1) JeffS, 2) JackB, 3) Jeff, 4) tie Dom and BobL, 5) tie JakeM and KeithM. Don't get discouraged if your name doesn't appear here. DaveB still thinks he has a chance and he's 818 points behind.
NASCAR NEWS AND/0R RUMORS:
Wally Dallenbach and Budweiser will be leaving the #25 Rick Hendricks car next year. Jerry Nadeau will be going in it, along with a new sponser, Michael Holligan Homes. Terry Labonte put an end to rumors that he would move to the #28 Robert Yates Ford. He signed a new three year deal with Hendricks Motor sports to continue driving the #5 Kellogs Chevrolet. Another hot rumor is that Steve Park may be on his way out of the Dale Earnhardt Inc. family. He doesn't want to play second fiddle to Dale Jr. next year. Larry's back!! McReynold's signed a three year deal with Richard Childress to stay on as Mike Skinners crew chief. Bad move Richard!
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