European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday february 17. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports Elliott wins at Daytona Bill kill lot has a message far mom As he collects Daytona 500 Winner Reward. By Mike Harris Daytona Beach Fla. A Bill Elliott won his second Daylong 500 As defending Champion Geoff Bodine los ing a High stakes Gamble ran out of Gas three laps from the end sunday at Daylo a International Speedway. If you never take a Chance in lift it s Dull and said boding who won last year when Dale Earnhardt ran out of Gas with four laps to go while leading. Elliott the 1985 Winner outran the fastest held in Daytona history for most of he Day bul had to Walb and wait in the last 13 laps As boding took a calculated risk by staying on the track hoping to squeeze 45 laps or racing out of a tank of Gas. He got 42 Lups and was about 10 seconds in the Lead on the 2.5-mile track when the engine in his Chevrolet soul Ter cd and quit just after he had passed the pit Entrance forcing him to coast around the track while Elliott s Ford thunderbird and other care roared past. It was our plan right from the last pit Slop on Lap 155 not a try to race them. Our plan was to outlast everybody and we came up 2w laps Short Bodine said. Elliott held off Benny Parsons in the last three laps to win by Jusi sin tenths of a second. The Crew did i All today and. When Ever we could we ran out front Elliott said. The car kept on digging All Day Long and whenever it counted we were out front. We had us a real Good pit Slop right there Al the end. We got in and we got out. Thai s what won us the asked if he thought iodine might be in trouble near the end Elliott shrugged and said "1 had no idea. You re out there racing other people and it s hard to keep up with All the older cars out Here How Many laps they run Between slops. You re too Busy Gary Nelson iodine s Crew chief and a Man known to be Able to squeeze the most out of a Gas tank most of the Lime. Said Elliott was so Strong we knew unless he ran out of Gas we were going to run second or third. We were Here to we had it calculated out pretty Good and Geoff was trying to take it easy draft other cars As much As he could and stretch it out Nelson said. We thought there was a Chance to could make it. It just did t seven Lime Daytona 500 Winner Rich Ard Petty was third followed by buddy Baker. Earnhardt Bobby Allison Ken Schr Derand Darrell Waltrip. Elliott averaged 176.263 Mph the second fastest Daytona race and won a Lascar record j204.1so. Bodine s $192,715 was the old Mark. Arsons who won inc 1975 race. Said. The last time we changed ires we picked up a push condition. After that we just could t run with those fast cars. But 1 think we can run with when he pitted for Gas 11 laps from the end. Parsons nearly overshot his pit. Sliding to a Slop. That Cost us. If we had t Slid and had been Able to Stop we would have done very Well he said. Petty the All time Lascar Leader with 200 victories was trying to break a Victory drought thai stretches Back to the firecracker 400 in Daytona in july of 1984. We just missed by a Little said Petty. The race went just exactly As we had figured bul we did t plan on hav ing two cars in front of us at the end. But we did race awfully Strong. It just was t Good lakers Over a be celtics from press dispatches Inglewood Calif. Earvin magic Johnson was playing like a Little kid sunday. As the los Angeles lakers rallied from a 17-Poinl deficit against the Boston celtics Johnson was jump ing around after key baskets and exhorting he crowd to make even More noise. Thai was in addition to scoring 39 Points and Lead ing los Angeles to a 106-103 Victory Over the celtics giving inc lakers the Best record in the Aba. La was a big game on to Johnson said. It was Nice to have a game like that against the Best in inc los Angeles coach pal Riley said Johnson s youth Ful exuberance is a key part of the lakers Success. That enthusiasm thai Little boy is very refresh ing Riley said. It s the spirit of this team n Between celebrations Johnson was making the key baskets Down inc stretch. Johnson scored eight Points during the ural Xvi minutes including two clinching free throws with four seconds left that fitted inc lakers to their 38th Victor in 50 games one belter than the celtics. He brought them Back and hit every big bucket i to needed Boston s Larry Bird said of Johnson. The lakers All Star guard did not lose heart when his team was Down by 17 Points in the third Quarter. When you re Down 7 to the celtics you ought to be concerned Johnson said. They re not just any other team. They just Ilar Ted missing and we just kept coming and coming and with Lite lakers Down by three Johnson hit a 15 foot jumper and Ihnn made a spinning Layup with 1 29 Aba Roundup to play to give los Angeles a 98-97 Lead. After the teams exchanged baskets Johnson Sank an 18-Fooier with 23 seconds to play to put the lakers ahead 102-99. After Robin Parish scored on a Dunk Kareem about Jabbar made two free throws to put the lakers up 104-101 with 16 seconds to play. The free throws gave Abdul Jabbar 10 Points keeping alive his Streak of 743 consecutive games in double figures. Abdul Jabbar had Only two Points with scan. In utes left. A Layup by Robert Parish who scored 20 Points got Boston within a Point setting the stage for Johnson to Ink the iwo clinching free throws with four seconds to play. Bird who finished with 20 Points missed a desperation three Pointer at he Buzzer. James worthy added 26 Points for the lakers who swept their two game series this year with Boston. The lakers Defeated the celtics 1 17-1 10 on dec. 12. In other games sunday Portland Ore. Kiki Vandow Che scored 27 Points to Lead Portland Over Atlanta. Dominique Wil Kins the Aba s third leading scorer with an average of 28.1 Points per game St Ord 12 to fills 10 Lead Atlanta. Nets 120, Cavaliers 104 East Rutherford. . Albert King and Buck Williams scored 19 Points each As new Jersey snapped a nine game losing Streak with a Victory Over Cleveland Man e Johnson fires a jilt is from 17-Point deficit. App Ola
