IRL: Jeff Ward/Pagan Racing Notes and Quotes, Texas Motor Speedway
16 October 1999
Posted By Terry CallahanMotorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
Yahoo! Pagan Racing
Mall.com 500
Texas Motor Speedway
October 15, 1999
Practice Notes & Quotes
Driver: Jeff Ward
Car: Yahoo! Pagan Racing No. 21 Dallara/Aurora/Goodyear
Practice (First Session)- Position: 13th 212.125 mph / 24.693 seconds
(Second Session)- Position: 14th 212.409 mph / 24.660 seconds
Notes - Jeff Ward is driving Dallara chassis #10 this weekend, the same car he drove to second place finishes at Phoenix and Indianapolis this season.
This car is now on auction at http://auctions.yahoo.com/promo/pagan.
Jeff Ward Quotes - In the first session the wind caught us out a little bit. In the second session the car felt pretty good. We can do a 211 plus, maybe a little better, for qualifying and that's about what eveybody else is doing. I don't know how he (Scott Goodyear) did a 216. When I ran behind (Kenny)Brack the car felt fine with its race setup.
The car's handling is better when you run by yourself, but it's slower too. When you're behind somebody you're quicker. But when someone takes the air off me, this car stays right where it's at, it doesn't do anything crazy. So I feel really confident with this car. The most confident I've felt with this car on this track.
Mitch Davis, Crew Chief Quotes - In the first session we just shook it down from the test and made sure we had a good race car. We did, so in the second session we started to free it up a little bit for qualifying. We picked up another mile an hour (without the draft) this afternoon. We'll pick up another mile an hour tomorrow and we'll be ready to go.
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