Chevy Driver Preview Of NASCAR Dover 400

Richard Childress Racing Note:
Chocolate Myers, longtime spokesperson and safety director for RCR who
doubles as the gasman on the No. 29 GM Goodwrench team, has injured his left
arm and will not participate in Sunday's MBNA Platinum 400 Winston Cup race
at Dover.  Larry Hartle, who is the gasman for RCR's No. 2 ACDelco Chevrolet
on the Busch circuit, has been named as Chocolate's replacement for Sunday's
race.

Jeff Green, No. 30 AOL Chevrolet Monte Carlo - Note: Green has 12 Busch
Series career starts and three Winston Cup starts at the Monster Mile.  He
won the pole for Saturday's MBNA Platinum 200 Busch Series race and
qualified 35th for Sunday's MBNA Platinum 400 Winston Cup event.  In the
past two months, the AOL team has improved its average finishing position by
10 places, and has advanced six spots in the point standings (from 29th to
23rd) since Round #6 at Bristol in March.  The No. 30 will not be part of
RCR's crew chief/crew swap between the No. 29 (Kevin Harvick, driver of the
GM Goodwrench Service Chevrolet) and No. 31 (Robby Gordon, driver of the
Cingular Wireless Chevrolet) teams.

(Why isn't the No. 30 involved in the RCR crew chief/crew switch between the
No. 29 and No. 31 teams?) "They asked me what I thought and I thought our
overall progress has been going along good enough. When I came to RCR, part
of my deal was that Todd Barrier and these guys would be my team. I'm here
for RCR and AOL. But if I make the wrong step, it's going to hurt my career
too. I'm here for everybody's best judgment, but I've got to look out for
Jeff Green and what's best for me too."

(Did you ever discuss the possibility of being included in the switch?)
"Yeah, we talked about it. We had a meeting for a couple of hours the other
day to discuss this even further to give me the opportunity to do something
different with either team. But I think our progress is coming along really
well.  We've had a few problems.  We've had some results problems by not
having results at the end of the day. We've been better than what we've
showed. Even the last three or four weeks have even be better. So I don't
think we should start over.  And that's basically what we'd be doing. That's
what the No. 29 and the No. 31 are going to do. They're going to start over.
It's probably going to hurt them for a couple of weeks."

(Will the No. 30 team benefit from the switch?) "I think the move of putting
Gil Martin (as crew chief) with Kevin Harvick is going to help our team more
than anybody has ever thought.  Gil and Todd Barrier have worked together
for the last two years in the Busch Series and they know each other really
well.  And Kevin (Harvick) and I have a lot of the same feel in a racecar.
So I think that's going to help both the No. 29 and the No. 30. And for the
No. 31 (Robby Gordon), I think the switch for Robby with Kevin Hamlin will
be good too. Kevin (Hamlin) has been around a long time and has a lot of
experience and that'll be good for Robby too.


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"It's one big race team (RCR) with three drivers and three crew chiefs.  The
more we can make it that way, the better we can make it. I think that'll
help the whole operation.  I think it'll even help the Busch teams. What I
do on the Busch side helps our team over here on the Cup side and I think
the switch will help us.

"We had to do something. No doubt, the No. 29 is the flagship for RCR. I
don't think anybody is kidding anybody about that. Everybody knows that. So
if it's not performing, then RCR's not performing. We've definitely got to
get that going. And when we do, I think the No. 30 and the No. 31 will
follow in performance. I don't think it's an easy fix, but we definitely had
to do something to make it better."

(Has this been a distraction for the No. 30 team?) "I don't think it's a
distraction to us. It'll probably be a distraction for the No. 29 and the
No. 31 for a couple of weeks - just because of the press - but I don't think
it will be for us.  It'll be a little bit different seeing Gill and those
guys wearing GM Goodwrench uniforms, but I think we'll still be working
together like we always have in hopes that we'll be a little bit quicker."

(On the qualifying difference between the No. 21 Rockwell Chevy Busch car
and the No. 30 AOL Cup Chevy) "Our Cup car should have run as fast as that
Busch car and the Busch car would have been on the pole in the Cup race. We
had a faster time than anybody here, but it's just probably my feel is a
little bit different and I haven't figured that out yet. We just haven't
figured out the right set-up for me.  Todd and the guys haven't pinpointed
what we need to go fast for a lap. I think we pinpointed it pretty good for
400 miles or 500 miles, but we haven't pinpointed it yet for a lap. We're
still working hard. We're not going to give up. It's easy to give up. We
feel like we're definitely progressing each week.  It's just not quite as
fast as we want to."

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Jeff Gordon, No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet Monte Carlo - Post Happy Hour comments:

Note:  Gordon qualified ninth for the MBNA Platinum 400 but will start the
race in third because the drivers who qualified in the 1st, 3rd, and 5th
positions must now start from the rear of the field due to either an engine
change or having to go to a back-up car. Those cars are the No. 17 (Matt
Kenseth - engine change), the No. 10 (Jerry Nadeau - crashed in practice,
goes to a back-up car), and the No. 97 (Kurt Busch - crashed in practice,
goes to a back-up car).

(On his new starting spot) "I'm kind of shaking my head. You know, it's not
very often you qualify ninth and get to start third. I don't wish anything
bad on anybody, but we'll take the third place start, that's for sure."

(Have you ever been involved in something like this?) "No. With the whole
engine thing now (one-engine rule), it changes things a lot. And we're
seeing that happen pretty much every week that somebody changes a motor and
so somebody moves. It happened in Charlotte last week, but it wasn't in my
row so I couldn't take advantage of it.  It's weird that three cars in front
of me would go to the back.

"I'm ninth, so I'm on the inside row.  Any time any car in my row changes a
motor or goes to a back-up car, they will go to the back. What happens is
that when we're all on pit road, they'll be there in position. But when we
start the race, they'll peel off and go to the rear. So then I will
physically move up.  I'll be behind the No. 28 car (Ricky Rudd), unless they
change an engine tonight and I move up to the pole."

(On NASCAR's rule of handling it this way) "With the pole-sitter going to
the rear, it does change things. But I think the one-engine rule is a pretty
good thing. In my mind, they also need to reconsider the pit road pick. The
No. 17 (Kenseth) is now starting from the back but he still has his number
one pit stall. Maybe they need to change when we make the picks and do it
after practice instead of before practice."

(How was Happy Hour practice?) "Good. I'm real happy with it. I've got a
good feel for the track and the set-up. This is a real tricky place to
set-up for because that track usually starts one way and changes throughout
the day. You could be perfect right now and be junk when they start the
race. But I got the feel I'm looking for and we're real happy."


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(On going to Pocono next week) "We're coming to some tracks that are really
good for us and that we've run real well at. Dover is one of them and Pocono
is certainly one of them.  We're excited about going there because Jimmie
(Johnson, No. 48) went there last week and had a real good test. We got some
good information that we hadn't gotten in Pocono in a while. It's just a fun
and challenging track for a driver and we like that."

(On not scoring a win yet this season) "We have a team that has a lot of
talent. We're fourth in points and have led laps and we're running good.
It's just that we haven't had some of the good fortune and good luck that
we've needed to get to victory lane. But we're certainly not hanging our
heads down. We'd like a win. They're hard to come by these days but we'll
get one before it's over.

"Look at Mark Martin and his win last weekend in Charlotte. He went some 76
races without a win and to me; he's one of the best racers in this garage.
It can happen to anybody anytime. You never know when your next win's going
to come. And then, you never know if that'll be your last win. I think that
I have too much respect for the competition and how competitive this series
is to take that for granted. I think that helps me get through it."