NASCAR WCUP: Bobby Labonte blows motor at Chicagoland
Posted By Terry Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
July 16, 2001BOBBY LABONTE, NO. 18 INTERSTATE BATTERIES PONTIAC GRAND PRIX:
(WHAT HAPPENED? "Something let go in the top end of the motor. It was running pretty good, then that caution flag came out and I let off. It had a little bit of a miss in it at that point in time. I didn't think much about it, but I got going again and on the restart it just went all of a sudden. It appears to be something similar to what happened maybe earlier in the year. It's hard to tell right now. It had the same feeling to it. But that's part of it.
"Our little Interstate Batteries Pontiac was running pretty decent there for a little while before we pitted and put tires on it. Then, it kind of slowed down a little bit. But maybe this was part of it or maybe it was the tires. It seemed like it took a little while to get going on them. But, it looked like it was a pretty good race for us for a while, but that's the way it goes."
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