protocols, and Kevin Harvick would unexpectedly replace Dale Earnhardt in the following event at Rockingham after his fatal crash but Atlanta was supposted to be making his Cup debut for the 3rd Childress car #30 America Online Chevy. Dura Lube 400 The Dura Lube 400 started on February 25 but ended on February 26 due to a rain delay, making it a two-day race at the North Carolina Speedway. Jeff Gordon won the pole. Top 10 Results 1 - Steve Park 18 - Bobby Labonte 24 - Jeff Gordon 20 - Tony Stewart 32 - Ricky Craven 10 - Johnny Benson 2 - Rusty Wallace 40 - Sterling Marlin 93 - Dave Blaney 88 - Dale Jarrett Failed to qualify: Andy Houston (No. 96), Kyle Petty (No. 45) This race was won by DEI driver Steve Park in an emotional victory just one week after Earnhardt's death. It was his last career victory. Following the death of Dale Earnhardt, NASCAR on FOX, and later on in the season, NASCAR on NBC and TNT, would pay tribute to Dale Earnhardt with a silent lap 3. Unfortunately, however, in this race, along with the next 2 races, the caution would come out either on or before the 3rd lap. This would be the first Winston Cup race without Dale Earnhardt since the 1979 Southern 500 at Darlington. Earnhardt's career unexpectedly ended after 648 consecutive starts (his career ended with a total of 676). He was set to pass his 1979 Rookie rival Terry Labonte as NASCAR's Iron Man during the 2001 season, if he had never crashed at Daytona. Labonte held the Iron Man record with 655 consecutive starts, and his streak ended when he had to miss the 2000 Brickyard 400 due to injury. Earnhardt would have made his 656th consecutive start at Talladega in April. Richard Childress placed Busch Grand National driver Kevin Harvick into the car formerly driven by Earnhardt, changed the car's number from No. 3 to No. 29, and the paint scheme from primarily black to primarily white. Because of that, the race was Harvick's first start in the Winston Cup Series. Dale Earnhardt Jr. suffered a crash on the first lap of the race, in which his car hit the outside wall in an eerily similar fashion to his father's fatal crash a week earlier, but Earnhardt Jr. was not seriously injured. After this race, Rusty