Chevrolet Racing Notes & Quotes - NHIS, July 21

All three RCR teams begin the second half of the '02 season with top 10
finishes at Loudon. Jeff Green, driver of the No. 30 AOL Monte Carlo, placed
second to Ward Burton in the New England 300 -- his best Winston Cup career
finish to date. Green now has two top fives this season and moves into 18th
in the point standings.  RCR's Robby Gordon and Kevin Harvick finished 7th
and 9th (respectively). Driver comments follow:

Jeff Green, No. 30 AOL Chevrolet Monte Carlo (finished 2nd): "It was a great
day for our America Online Chevy. Track position is everything, like always.
Todd (Barrier, crew chief) and the guys did a good job on planning that. We
had a good enough car to win the race; it's just that Ward (Burton) got away
from us there a little bit. Those re-starts are pretty hairy with those cold
tires and wore out tires with all that trash on them. We were just lucky and
thank the good Lord for a good day."

(After you topped it off at lap 205, so were you confident you had enough
fuel to go the distance?) "Todd said we did so I was confident. We just
almost decided not to put tires on it. That's how good the Goodyear tires
were today. This track is, huh, I don't have a word for it. It's not very
good right now. It's just a one-groove racetrack. It's pretty tough to pass
on. These guys up front, they race you clean and I enjoyed being up there."

(On the struggles of Richard Childress Racing during the first half of the
season) "We've had a lot of turmoil and have moved into a new shop and added
a new team to the roster. That has definitely set us back. But those guys
work just as hard as any of those other guys in the garage area. We've got
some great guys back there in the fab shop and engine room working hard
every day to make our teams better.

"Going back to some of the same tracks (during the second half of the
season) will make our team better too. This first half is the first time
we've really seen these guys as a team. They're used to Kevin Harvick
talking to them on the radio, not Jeff Green. We're just getting used to
each other and thinking alike more and I think that'll make a big difference
in our outcome."

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(On his crash with Joe Nemechek): "I don't know if I got in too deep or
what, but he came down in front of me a little bit and I just could not stay
off of him without crashing both of us and I got into the back of him a
little bit and spun him around. I'm not that kind of guy. Joe thinks I am
right now and I hate it for him."

(On the last five laps of the race): "Dale (Jarrett) was pushing a little
bit up off the corner and I got a run on him and got by him. Ward (Burton)
had such a good restart and he got away from us.  I think I could run with
him but he was half a straightaway from me and we just didn't have enough
time. Congratulations to him. They had a great day. You know that team needs
it too (a win). They've had a rough year. Not that we haven't, but second
place is definitely a place where we can get started. We keep knocking on
the door and we're going to knock it down one of these days."

(Is this a momentum-building race?) "Yeah, it's a momentum building race.
Anytime you have a good run, the guys get pumped up about the situation and
I get pumped up about my situation. Not that we need anything to pump us up,
but it definitely helps us to go the next week and try to do better."

(Did you think you would run well on this track?) "Yeah, but after Friday
(qualified 30th) I might not have said that. Just being here so much in the
Busch car makes me feel like we have an opportunity to run with them and an
opportunity to win. What I've got - the situation I'm in with RCR - I feel
like I've got the best opportunity in the world to win each and every week.
This is showing it right now. We didn't show it very good at first. We run
good, but we just weren't able to put results up. We're putting them up now.
That will get us more top fives hopefully, and if we can do that each and
every week, we'll win every once and a while."

(On the track conditions): "It's just terrible. I'm not sure, but (I think)
they sealed (turns) one and two. When they dug the other one up and redid
it, they didn't seal it. I think that's the biggest problem. (Turns) one and
two was a fine corner. You could go through there and get up a little higher
and not get into anything. If you got up a half-a-car width too high down
there, you'd get in those marbles. I'm not sure, but I think that's the
blacktop coming up. When you get in that, you just can't control the
racecar. We were running down against the apron, basically. It's an
off-camber groove and that was the best place to run. Yesterday, you
couldn't do that. Since everything was going on down there and the track was
coming up, that was the cleanest part of the racetrack and that's where you
could get a bite. So that's where we were running."

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(With the amount of passing and lead changes in this race, do you think the
fans would understand the drivers' frustration of the track problem?)  "I
don't know that you can ever satisfy a driver anyway. As long as the fans
are happy, we're going to keep coming back and doing it and keep complaining
about it too, probably.

"We just try to do the best job we can and some of those guys got wrecked.
And when you're driving for the points, you hate to see that. Just like Matt
Kenseth. I'd love for him to have won that race but he cut a tire down. You
can't help that. But when you get into situations like the track tearing up,
every once and a while you're going to tear people's cars up and that's
going to put them behind in the points and you don't want to see that
either.

"The groove started moving down and down and actually Ward (Burton) came
down on me one time and he was running right on the apron and I got down
there and it made my car work better. We didn't have any problems in (turns)
one and two. You could run anywhere you wanted to. You could run on the
bottom, you could run up high. Whatever they did to (turns) three and four,
they messed it up. They need to go back and do it again and do it like
(turns) one and two."

Jimmie Johnson, No. 48 Lowe's Chevrolet Monte Carlo (finished 15th): "The
track position was important like always.  Early, the racetrack started
tearing up. So it really eliminated any type of good racing in (turns) three
and four. You had to position yourself on good asphalt and put the guy you
were racing with on bad asphalt. It was a wild day. It's just hard for these
big, heavy cars to race here - especially when the asphalt is coming up. But
for the rough day we had, to finish 15th, to finish around all the guys who
are reaching for the championship, we did pretty well. So in the big
picture, I guess it was a pretty good day.

"Our philosophy is to race with the leaders. I was lucky to stay out of
trouble. We dodged a lot of stuff. There were a lot of people running into
each other. I had a couple of incidents out there where we had some bumping
and banging."

Robby Gordon, No. 31 Cingular Wireless Chevrolet Monte Carlo (finished 7th):
"Track position was everything. We had a good call there at the end. We came
in and took right sides (tires) and fuel and that positioned us to get a top
10 (finish). I'm real pleased with Kevin Hamlin (crew chief) and all those
guys over there. They're making some great decisions. Every week we just
keep moving in a little closer. The track was real good."
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Kevin Harvick, No. 29 GM Goodwrench Service Chevrolet Monte Carlo (finished
9th): "This always happens at Loudon."

(What did the track feel like?) "Every time we got to the end of the
straightaway we'd turn left and you'd go in the corner good and come off the
corner sideways."

(On the car): "The car was good all day. We just got a little behind on
track position. The No. 40 (Sterling Marlin) kept pinning us in and running
over our guys. We just got a little bit behind and made it up and knocked
the fender in on the last pit stop coming into the pits.  But all in all, it
was a good day for all the RCR teams."

Joe Nemechek, No. 25 UAW/Delphi Chevrolet Monte Carlo: "I've got a little
headache. We're working hard on this car. We're trying really hard. We'd
been a little loose since the start of the run. The No. 30 car (Jeff Green)
just got a little impatient. He knocked his darn headlights all the way
inside of his nosepiece he hit me so hard getting into the corner. It was
just impatience.  It's uncalled for and he shouldn't be doing that this
early in the race."

Mike Skinner, No. 4 Kodak Max Chevrolet Monte Carlo: "I think something
turned loose in the engine. It fluttered real hard. Instead of ruining
everybody else's day, I figured we'd just come in here (the garage) and see
if we can figure out some way to fix it or not.