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STEEP CURVE; Martinsville serves as another tough lesson for A.J. Allmendinger.(Motorsports)
Byline: AL PEARCE
The Goody's 500 at Martinsville Speedway was barely a quarter over, and A.J. Allmendinger was already tired of wallowing around near the back. He was headed for a 38th-place finish, 17 laps behind winner Jimmie Johnson and runner-up Jeff Gordon. But at least Martinsville was better than the previous weekend at Bristol, where he finished 40th, 87 laps behind in his first-ever Nextel Cup start.
"I was just hanging on,'' the former Champ Car World Series star said at Martinsville, the tour's shortest and slowest track. "I was a moving chicane and felt like an accident waiting to happen. Definitely, it's not what we wanted. Pretty much, today stunk. It's as simple as that. We need laps, but I didn't want to be out there like that.''
On a day when Chevrolets ruled-they swept the top seven in the year's second consecutive Car of Tomorrow race-Allmendinger learned once again how tough NASCAR is. He qualified 40th (one of five Toyotas in the show), went a lap down on lap 25 and was involved in one of 13 multicar incidents. But he finished what he started, and that was important to him and Team Red Bull.
"I didn't want to be out there those first 200 laps,'' he said. "We could have easily said, `Let's go on to ...
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