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Steve Letarte grinned as he gazed up at the drizzling skies above Richmond International Raceway on Saturday evening, and all but broke into a rain dance.
“I could go for a day race at this place,” said Letarte, crew chief for red-hot Jeff Gordon. “We tested in the daytime [here in April] and ran well.”
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Letarte got his wish. The Jim Stewart 400 was postponed until Sunday afternoon, with a scheduled 12:15 p.m. start on WFLD-Ch. 32. Gordon has won the last two Nextel Cup races and narrowly missed winning the two before that.
The race started on time Saturday night but after 12 laps the rain intensified and the race was red-flagged. It was called after an hour because radar showed steady, all-night rain.