'Bad luck' trips Yates teammates at Vegas

LAS VEGAS -- The haulers of Dale Jarrett and Elliott Sadler were parked next to each other in the Las Vegas Motor Speedway garage area. And by the activity around the two haulers long before the checkered flag, you could tell it wasn't a good day for Robert Yates Racing.

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Sadler's No. 38 Ford was being pushed into the hauler as a pool of oil on the ground was being soaked up by some rags, the result of a broken engine. Not too far away in the garage, Jarrett's No. 88 was being worked on, the result of a hard crash in Turn 2.

It could have been worse Sunday in the UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400, but not much worse. Mark Martin finished last, but Sadler finished 42nd, and Jarrett 41st.

"This is why you have to have good cast-iron stomachs to do this business," Robert Yates said. "We don't need to wreck and we didn't need this engine problem that looks like is still occurring from stuff we didn't make strong enough last year.

	Dale Jarrett

"We'll go back home, and hopefully we don't have to go all the way back to the drawing board, but we probably will."

Sadler's car lost its engine on lap 126. Not long after that, Jarrett was in the wall.

"We were in here working on Elliott's car, and I hear there's a wreck, and it's the 88," general manager Doug Yates said. "Disappointing weekend."

It's been a bit of a disappointing start to the season for Sadler.

"Man, the first three races we've just had some bad luck," Sadler said. "We've had some fast races but just some bad luck. We're looking forward to getting the monkey off our back and see if we can turn things around."

	Elliott Sadler

Jarrett won last week at North Carolina Speedway, but Sunday's race at Las Vegas was anything but enjoyable. Jarrett was plenty mad at Steve Park, on whom he blamed the wreck. Jarrett was outside of Park in Turn 2 when Park's car slid into Jarrett's.

"I'm pissed off, to be quite honest," Jarrett said. "You've got the same people doing stupid stuff back there, and there's no reason for that. ... It's just a bad day."

And a bad weekend. But the team won't stay down long.

"You've just got to remember last week was a good week," Doug Yates said. "Hopefully, next week, we'll keep our spirits up."