Anderson's awesome in Nashville 
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            NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Wayne Anderson 86 is leaving little doubt among
            fellow competitors that he is out to win a second Gatorade All Pro
            Series, NASCAR Touring Championship.
            Anderson, the 1999 series title holder, dominated his second
            consecutive series race in recording his 21st career victory
            Saturday evening winning the True Value/The Tennessean 200 at
            Nashville Speedway USA. The Wildwood, Fla., driver led 214 of 250
            laps at Louisville Motor Speedway on Sept. 8 and 128 of 200 laps at
            Nashville. For the year Anderson has led 32 percent of the total
            laps run on the series. The series ran two events at the .596-mile
            speedplant in 2001 with Anderson going to Victory Lane twice with
            his Augie Grill prepared Jani-King Chevrolet.
            "I just want to tell everyone here tonight, I am proud to be an
            American," said Anderson's after exciting his race car in Victory
            Lane. "Nashville is a great track to drive and we have been very
            fortunate to win four times at his track including two All American
            400s
            When asked about his pit stop when he entered first but exited
             second behind Eddie Mercer27, Anderson said, "Eddie has a great crew, I
            have a great crew. They just got him out a tick faster than our pit
            stop. Frankie (Grill), my car owner, just told me to keep the
            pressure on his car and I did.
                Eddie is a great driver and his car was strong until it developed a
            problem otherwise we might not have been so fortunate."
            Finishing behind the race winner was Scott Carlson38, Randy Gentry,09
            Shane Sieg39 and David Reutimann.00 Longtime NASCAR competitor Stanley
            Smith49 recorded his first career Bud Pole Award with a clocking of
            18.783 seconds, 114.231 mph in his Express Oil Change Chevrolet.
            Anderson started on the outside of the front row.
            The entire 36-car starting field qualified within .76 seconds of
            each other. Smith and Anderson went door handle to door handle on
            the first lap before Anderson nudged ahead at the flag stand to take
            the point. Once in the lead, he worked traffic with Smith; Mercer;
            young Casey Smith24, making his first series start; and Steven Howard 19
            running in the top-five. Two of these early contenders fell prey to
            engine problems that ended their night of racing early. Bud Pole
            winner Smith exited the event on lap 65 and Casey Smith exited on
            lap 71 when their machines suffered engine problems. Also suffering
            early race problems was Jeff Fultz54, who pitted on lap 50 for four
            fresh Hoosier tires than had to pit again on lap 85. When he
            returned to the race he was three laps off the pace, putting a
            damper on his championship situation.
            The fourth race caution waved on lap 97 after Beau Mitchell, another
            first time starter made contact with the backstretch wall. All lead
            lap cars except for Charlie Bradberry78 and Ryan Crane 10pitted.
            Anderson led the field into the pits for four fresh shoes but quick
            work by Mercer's crew got their driver out ahead of Anderson's car.
            Crane's car broke an oil line sending his car into the Turn 1 wall
            for the fourth race caution on lap 107. That incident also collected
            the car of first time started Ken McFarland59. Then race leader
            Bradberry made his first pit stop on lap 120 taking on four fresh
            tires and fuel, handing the top spot to Mercer with Anderson in
            second, Carlson running third, Gentry in fourth and Howard rounding
            out the top-five. When the field went back racing on lap 127,
            Mercer's Everwood/Phoenix/Quality Shop Chevrolet got a good jump on
            Anderson with the two cars breaking away from the rest of the top-10
            cars.
            Mercer was out to gain his second win of the season but just as in
            the spring series event here Anderson was lurking in Mercer's
            mirror. Anderson tried a number of times to get the nose of his car
            alongside Mercer's car but each time "Fast Eddie" was able to slam
            the door.
            The final race caution on lap 166 saw the cars of Howard and Greg
            Pope63 make contact on the backstretch with Howard's car cutting down
            a right front tire.
            With Mercer at the point for the start Anderson took his car low in
            Turn 1 and into the lead once again. Mercer's car started to fall
            off the pace quickly with an apparent problem as first Carlson then
            Gentry, then Sieg passed his car. Mercer limped home with a 10th
            place finish.
            "We just seem to always have something go wrong here," said Mercer
            in the garage. "Tonight it was a rear end problem that cost us a
            win. In April we lost the point to Anderson on exactly the same lap
            with a bad set of tires. Maybe one of these days things will go our
            way."
            Rounding out the top finishers were Benny Gordon72 with one of his
            best runs at this track, top Wireway Husky, Corp. Rookie of the Year
            contender Bradberry, A.J. Frank,11 Ken Weaver34 with another strong run
            after starting 31st and Mercer.
            Anderson won the Gatorade Front Runner Award for leading the most
            laps as well as picking up an additional $1,000 from the Gatorade
            Championship Performance Program. His crew chief Grill earned the
            Jasper Engines and Transmissions Crew Chief Award for the sixth time
            this year. Bradberry was the top finishing Wireway/Husky Corp.
            Rookie of the Year contender and now trails Jody Lavender84 by one
            point for that 2001 title. The next event for the Gatorade All Pro
            Series is the Recycled Oil 125 on Oct. 11-12 at Memphis Motorsports
            Park in Millington, Tenn.
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