Huffman wins rain-shortened Goody's Dash

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Posted 7:32PM on Monday, February 10, 2003

DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA - Robert Huffman won the rain-shortened NASCAR Goody's Dash Series 150 on Monday, his second straight victory at Daytona International Speedway. The race, cut from its scheduled 60 laps to 44, had been postponed from Sunday by rain. Eric Wilson led from lap 10 to 32 and Huffman, driving a Toyota, moved into the lead the next trip around the 2 1/2-mile oval, taking advantage of an early pit stop during a caution period. "The race played out there right into our hands. The Pontiacs don't go as far as our car goes on gas, and they had to make another stop," said Huffman, who won this race in 2000 and also won the July race last year. Huffman said he wasn't likely to win the race if it had continued. "I probably wasn't going to beat those other guys. My car, obviously, was not the fastest one out there," he said. Rookie Dusty Williams finished second, followed by former Daytona winner and defending Dash Series champion Justin Hobgood. Arlene Pittman was injured on lap 27 when her Pontiac, apparently hit from behind in heavy traffic, shot down the banked track, slid for several hundred feet and hit the inside wall. It took safety workers nearly 20 minutes to get her out of the car and the Lyons, Ga., driver was taken by ambulance to Halifax Medical Center. The extent of her injuries was not immediately known, but Pittman appeared to be talking with medical personnel as they wheeled her to the ambulance on a stretcher. Monday's race was the first of the final season that NASCAR will sanction the series for four-cylinder sedans.