31.   He will also be tested by Deryk Ward of Palm Springs, the class points leader for most of last season until the final race.

32.   He won one of the races against riders like Pat Day and Laffit Pincay Jr. and had the lead in the competition heading into the final race.

33.   He wanted Gordon, and he wanted him on the final corner of the final lap in the final race.

34.   Hiro Matsushita will drive his final CART race Sunday in Rio de Janeiro.

35.   Heading into the final race, five jockeys had a shot at winning the title.

36.   His victory at Homestead, Fla., in the final race last season ended a winless streak of seven years.

37.   His main adversary was Wally Pankratz of Orange, who led the Western Midget standings entering the final race of the year at Irwindale Speedway on Thanksgiving night.

38.   His trainer, Jim Ryerson, rested him for the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct next Saturday, his final prep race for the Kentucky Derby three weeks later.

39.   How did DiMauro, whose father, also named Stephen, also trained at the historic track, feel about winning what might have been the final race?

40.   In the homestretch of his final race, Dole is doing exactly what he accuses Bill Clinton and Al Gore of doing.