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  • FEBRUARY 22, 1979/THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN/PAGE 5 sports Donnie Allison determined instigator of 'fisticuffs' at Daytona 500 by JERKY GARRETT Associated Press Writer Donnie Allison waited too long to protect his lead, and when he finally made his move, it violated "a gentleman's agreement" to give the trailing driver an escape route, says Cale Yarborough of the last lap crash in Sunday's Daytona 500. COLOR PRINT PROCESSING ONE-DAY SERVICE ON COLOR PRINT FILMS 12 Exposures $2" 20 Exposures $449 24 Exposures $509 36 Exposures $719 Bring film in by noon ready next afternoon Out of date film sale C-126 & C-110 Valley Photo Shop Cullowhee 293-5373 Application Photos 10/5°° Yarlborough was interviewed by telephone from his Sardis, S.C, home after officials of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing placed Donnie Allison on six month's probation because of the incident. Yarborough was not disciplined for the crash, but he and Donnie and Bobby Allison were each fined $6,000 for fighting afterward. NASCAR exonerated Bobby Allison of any involvement in the accident, even though Yarborough's key contention had been "they double-teamed me." The Allisons had only a terse statement. "We are shocked by the amount of the fines and equally shocked at the unfairness of the whole thing. We have requested a full scale hearing and legal counsel is considering further action. No further statement will be issued until the hearing." That statement aside, Yarborough read the NASCAR action as complete vindication for him. He explained, "It's always been kind of a gentleman's agreement that you can use all the race track you want when you are out front, but don't never leave a man without an escape route. He's gotta go somewhere. When a man's up alongside of you, don't put him out of the race track. "That's happened to me. If I had been behind him, In could have gone anywhere he wanted to. 1 would have come in second, and I wouldn't have had any gripe at all. But when I get beside a man, it's a different situtation. When Yarlborough veered back up on the track after being blocked into the grass, he said he wasn't trying to hit anybody with his car, he was just out of control at that point. Both cars collided several times before ricocheting oil the retaining wall outside Turn 3 and into the field. "You know I'd already beat him twice before to the start-finish line on the cautions, and I beat Benny Parsons one time. I knew what I had to do and I know where I had to do it. There's no doubt in my mind that If I'd followed him all the way down the race track he'd have never gotten out of his tracks," Yarlborough said. "He'd have run a straight line down the track. He wouldn't have been down there for nothing." Yarlborough said that if he had it to do all over again, he'd do it the same way, even though he knew Allison was anticipating his move. "I'd still have to do the same thing. That was my route. That was where 1 had to go. You dont have time from the fourth turn to the start-finish line anymore," he said. That used to be the best place to make a desperate last lap pass, but it's been less popular since the famed David Pearson-Richard Petty crash there at the end of the 1975 race. NASCAR Competition Director Bill Gazaway said he was taking a firm stand because "we cannot let it get to the point where every time two cars take the white flag together that one or both of them doesn't finish." "I'm glad NASCAR's taken their stand. I think they clarified it pretty well," Yarborough said. "It definitely wasn't my fault. I think the films show it. I think you the press should have looked at the films a little closer before you come out crucifying me. "You know 80 million people saw that on TV and I believe half of 'em called me and they saw all the same, so..." Yarborough said he expected no more unpleasantness between himself and the Allison brothers. He added, "as far as I'm concerned it's history. We gotta keep on getting down the road." Call in tho professionals Havwood Transfer A Storage Co., wc. A*wrt -Moving -Storing ElUNSj Local & Long Distance Van Lines 456-3001— Waynesvllle Enjoy This Winter at Sapphire Valley Whether You're A Beginner Or An Advanced Skier, You'll Enjoy Our Facilities! Come Ski With Us!
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