NASCAR WCUP: Jerry Nadeau Interview: Finishing second at Dover
Posted By Terry Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
September 23, 2001JERRY NADEAU No. 25 UAW-Delphi Chevrolet Monte Carlo This was, I think my 10th provisional this year. This year I've really be struggling a lot on qualifying. I can't seem to get after the car. A lot maybe the tires and just trying too hard. We feel like we've really been pickin' up a lot. Last week we started last and finished 14th. The week before we finished 9th at Darlington, had a great run there.
"And this week, we've really been patient. I started working my way up halfway through the race. There was a little scuffle up there in the front and fell all the way to the back and gradually worked back up to the front.
"I didn't have much for Junior, he had a great car on short runs. On that last restart I got in the back of him. I almost had a great restart but I just didn't have enough. It was good to come home second.
(What does a second place finish mean to you) "Well it feels great. You know everybody wants to win, everybody works hard to win and these sponsors pay a lot of money to win races. We'll get our break. I've never been known to be that good here. We led here last year in this race and blew a tire and ended up in the wall. But to come out of here in second from 41st, you can't ask for much more. The guys worked hard and we though we could have won the race judging by the way we ran yesterday during happy hour. I mean we had a great race car. But there late in the race Junior just turned it on.
(Talk about safety issue inside the car or even outside the car. What happened last week was a real wake up call to everybody in the whole world that anything can happen. I think George Bush and his side are going to do everything it takes to regain our freedom because of what happened. Our hearts and prayers was for everybody in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania and what happened there and their families. We had a lot of fire fighters here this weekend and this was just a good tribute the fans and also for New Your City and the American people. I'm proud to be an American and I'm not afraid safetywise. I pay a lot of attention to my car and what we do inside my car. I think everybody has been kinda afraid this is, like they say, the land of the free. What happened a couple of weeks ago, hopefully we can get that straightened out and we can all get back to business.
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