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NASCAR WCUP: Pennzoil Yellow Everywhere at Homestead But Park Needed A Caution Yellow

16 November 1999

The only yellow 75,000 fans and 43 NASCAR Winston Cup drivers didn't see at
the Pennzoil 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday was the yellow
caution flag. Pennzoil banners and signs where everywhere at the South
Florida oval but for Pennzoil Monte Carlo driver Steve Park and his Dale
Earnhardt Inc. teammates it was the caution yellow they needed most to post
a top-10 finish.

With only one yellow flag in the 367-lap race, teams were forced to be
perfect or from the start of the race or face falling down a lap to the
Pontiacs of Tony Stewart and Joe Gibbs who were lapping the track at a
torrid pace and eventually finished first and second.

"We were off on that first run. Got down a lap. Fixed our car, but just
never could get back on the lead lap because of the pace all those Pontiacs
were setting," said Park after the race. "It's disappointing because we
weren't that bad after that first pit stop. If we had had a yellow in the
early going we could have fixed the car, stayed on the lead lap and had
something for those guys."

Park started 22nd and fell back in the field before the first stop. Then he
began climbing through the field working his way up to 14th before the
yellow for a blown engine on the track. After the restart Park held his own
before falling to 19th place.

Park remains 15th in the 1999 point standings.