NASCAR WCUP: Steve Park Qualifying Comments, California
Posted By Terry CallahanMotorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
April 28, 2001
Steve Park, No. 1 Pennzoil Chevrolet Monte Carlo:
"We've been fast all day long and this whole Pennzoil team is doing a great job. This is our 100th start our here in California, so we're excited about that. We thought we had a shot at the pole. We made a small change right before we went out. The car was pretty good. I had my hands full the first lap and it was a little bit on the loose side. Hopefully this will be good enough for the top ten and we can go get 'em on Sunday. That was a lap that we thought was going to be capable of putting us up there on the front row. With the temperature being hotter than it was in practice, we couldn't repeat the time we had in practice. We tested in Michigan, but it was freezing cold there. And now we're here where the temperature is over 90 degrees. So I think we can take what we learned in Michigan and what we're going to learn in practice and decide what we're going to do for the race. I also want everybody to know that I'm wearing this colorful ribbon because April is national Autism Awareness month. We're going to have decals on the car, too. Ty Norris's brother, John Furino's (catchcan) nephew, and Stevie Reaves (spotter) nephew all have this disease. We wanted to combine my 100th start with Autism Awareness here in California."
Text provided by Nancy Wager
Editors Note: To view hundreds of hot photos and racing art, please visit The Racing Image Galleries and The Visions of Speed Art Gallery .