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Sterling Marlin says he’s not leaving

AP Story from Nando Net: Sterling Marlin has dismissed the rumors that he will leave Morgan-McClure Racing at the end of this season. The two-time Daytona 500 winner, in the first year of a five-year contract extension, says he will stay in the #4 Chevy, which he has driven since 1994. Speculation had been that Marlin would replace Ernie Irvan at Robert Yates Racing. Reports are still circulating that Irvan will leave Yates to take a ride with Gary Bechtel’s Diamond Ridge Racing(6-13-97)