NASCAR BGN: Jeff Green Post Race Quotes, Pepsi 300
Posted By Terry Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
April 15, 2001JEFF GREEN-10-Nestle Nesquik Ford Taurus -
YOU FACED SOME ADVERSITY TODAY AND MANAGED TO FINISH IN THE TOP 10. "I've been running Roush motors for two-and-a-half years and hadn't had a problem until today. We broke a valve spring, I guess, or something in the carburetor and just had a miss. We were running off of seven-and-a-half cylinders, it would come and go, but we had a car good enough to challenge for the lead, and that's what makes me upset. I blew it the last couple of weeks, so my hat's off to my guys, they did a great job with my Nesquik Taurus. It was handling good enough to stay in the top 10, but it just wasn't running good enough."
HOW WAS TURN 2? "It was all right. My car was just awesome through there. It was a little tight at first, but we got it freed up at the end and it was pretty awesome. You just can't go down the straightaways, the straightaways are way too long to give up that much."
HOW WAS TIRE WEAR ON THE CONCRETE SURFACE? "It was awesome. Goodyear had a great tire. We could probably run a whole race on a set of tires, that's how good they were and that's how great the track is. The great is great, but it's still a one-groove race track still. It's working into two grooves, and I'm sure in the future it will be a two-groove track."
THERE WERE REPORTS THAT YOU HAD THE WRONG TRANSMISSION ON RESTARTS? "We needed a change for the initial start, but there were a lot more caution starts than initial starts, so we were pretty good on that. We just needed eight cylinders."
DID YOU EXPECT THAT MANY CAUTIONS? "I expected a few, but not that many, but every once in a while something happens. I don't know the track was giving guys fits or they were running into each other. I don't know. Where I was it was pretty exciting, so I'm sure the guys were laying on each other in the back."
Text provided by Greg Shea
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