PERSONAL PROFILE
	Spouse: Rhonda Kids: Paige Nicole Hometown: Spring Lake, Mich. Birthdate: August 8, 1964

For Jack Sprague, anything less than the best just doesn't measure up, so for him the 2000 season is one he was glad to put behind him. He won three times over four races but that performance was offset by six DNFs, which equaled his career total entering the year. That problem knocked Sprague back to fifth in the standings, the first time the two-time series champ had not finished either first or second since 1995, when he was also fifth.

Three times last season Sprague qualified second but couldn't supply the Bud Pole that would have extended his No. 1 qualifier streak to six consecutive seasons. Sprague, who is the only driver in series history to have started every race, also snapped his two-win streak at California Speedway, where he finished fourth in the season finale. Still, that gave Sprague a record sixth consecutive top-five point finish.

Sprague, whose hobby is riding Harley-Davidson motorcycles with his wife, Rhonda, is the only series competitor to have raced in all 146 events and is the all-time leading money winner. It's likely he'll become the series' first $4 million career winner sometime in mid-2001.