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Multiple crash causes consternation

NASCAR Winston Cup stars Jeff Burton and Elliot Sadler will start Thursday's Gatorade 125 qualifying races for Sunday's Daytona 500 in their spare cars after a multiple pile-up in practice yesterday (Tuesday)

Both were embroiled in the crash which started when Jack Sprague, Mike Skinner and Steve Park made contact, sparking a chain reaction behind. Both the cars of Burton and Sadler were beyond immediate repair for Thursday's races.

"Sprague got in the side of Skinner on the short chute and turned him sideways," said Burton. "That got the track all blocked up and there was nowhere for anybody to go, so everybody ploughed into everybody. I tell you one thing, I'm tired of getting wrecked in practice."

Skinner complained: "To the best of my knowledge, we got ran into by a rookie. The right rear corner on our car is crunched a lot. Whether he got pushed down there or not, I don't know."

Park said: "I was up by the wall and couldn't go any higher except for the grandstands. When I felt him [Sprague] rubbing on me, I was like there was no place to go because the wall was right there."

Sprague's view differed, however: "Park was on the outside and he didn't stay up and he hit me in the right front, drove me into Skinner and it was all over."

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