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NASCAR Busch - Sam's Town 300, Las Vegas

5 March 2000

NOTES AND QUOTES;  SAM'S TOWN 300;  MARCH 4; PAGE 1

JASON JARRETT, NO. 11 RAYOVAC PONTIAC GRAND PRIX (42nd place):
 (ON HIS INCIDENT)  "I really don't know what happened.  I guess whoever was
behind me thee was going to get back on the lead lap back there in about
35th.  Some guys checked up in front of me and I was in no position to be
running into the back of the them, so I checked up myself.  Someone behind
me didn't.  I hate it for the guys on this Rayovac team.  They gave me a
good car to qualify with and I just couldn't transfer the information over
to long runs for them.. We were pretty bad at the beginning of the race and
got behind.  I was picking up my lap times as we went, but I just hate it
for them.  They are the ones that put the hours in.  Now we have a torn up
race car and we were four laps down.  That's uncalled for."

JEFF PURVIS, NO. 4 PORTER CABLE PONTIAC GRAND PRIX (7th position):
  "We've had good cars every week.  We just needed to finish.  The next few
races we've got to be conservative and run as fast as we can, but we've got
to finish.  I've got to get ahead of that 10 car every week because of the
points deal.  We've got to take it a race at a time and just give it our
best effort every time.  We had a good car here today.  We just fought the
chassis back-and-forth through the day.  It was good compared to most of
them but not as good as a few of them out there.  We'll just take it and go
back to the shop, see what we've got and see if we can make it better next
time."

HUT STRICKLIN, NO. 61 IWX PONTIAC GRAND PRIX (10th position):
 "That was a great place for us to start.  We struggled a little bit when we
got here and struggled a little bit in practice, too.  We did alright I
qualifying, but we just could never really seem to get the right
combination.  We got in the race the best we were.  But it just wasn't
enough.  It just seemed like we could never get our car tightened up in the
center of the corner enough to make good time through there.  For a while
everybody was up there a little bit higher going in and coming off.  I tried
that, but I could just never make that line work for me.  When we got our
stuff at its best we could just work the bottom of the racetrack.  We could
get off the corner as good as anybody here, but we just couldn't get through
the center.  But this is a good place to start.  We would have liked to have
been better.  But this is really our first time to run a race together,
other than Daytona, and it is something totally different anyway.  We feel
really good about it.  Obviously we would have liked to have been better,
but we feel like we've got something here to improve on and get it better."

DAVE BLANEY, NO. 20 AT&T PONTIAC GRAND PRIX (40th position):
 (ON TAKING OVER FOR BUSCH TEAMMATE MIKE BORKOWSKI DURING THE RACE)  "They
were just having trouble with the race car.  They came in and did a bunch of
work on it and wanted me to go out and make a few laps to see if it felt OK.
They got it going after they sat in here and worked on it a little bit."
(ANYTHING TRANSLATE TO SUNDAY'S RACE)  "I don't know.  We might use some of
the stuff, but the laps don't hurt."

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