GM RACING NOTES & QUOTES-- NAASCAR BRICKYARD 400 POST-RACE

GM RACING WINSTON CUP NOTES & QUOTES; BRICKYARD 400; INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR
SPEEDWAY; AUG. 3, 2003

KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 29 GM GOODWRENCH CHEVROLET MONTE CARLO - WINNER: "I can't
believe this. To win the Brickyard 400 as our first race this year is just
awesome for this GM Goodrench team. I don't even know it I can explain it. I
told Matt this morning I have a picture hanging on my wall that says, 'Good
luck. I hope to see you here someday', from Rick Mears. And here we are.
This is awesome.
You guys (the media) have had me scared for the past couple of days when you
said this race has never been won by the pole sitter. But to come out and
win the race from the pole is just awesome. You can't ask for a better week
than that - especially here at the Brickyard. It was an awesome weekend for
the Goodwrench Chevy."

(THESE COLORS AND THIS CAR OWNER HAVE BEEN TO VICTORY LANE AT INDIANAPOLIS
BEFORE) "I think it was in '95, wasn't it? (YES SIR, YOU BROUGHT THEM BACK)
"Well, I'll tell you what. Anything that Dale Earnhardt was an
accomplishment. That's why we've still got the No. 3 on the side because
that's what has made this whole race team and organization what it is today.
I'm just glad to be a part of it. I want to thank Richard (Childress, team
owner) and all the guys at the shop for tearing this thing apart. We only
raced this car once this year and hung three bodies on it. So, they've been
working hard."

(WHAT ABOUT THAT NO. 31? WERE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT ROBBY GORDON BEING BEHIND
YOU?) "I wasn't concerned. I know I was mad at him after Sonoma, but he did
all he could to hold those guys back and give us a cushion. This win is as
much his and it is ours and is as important to the company and all the
teams.

WHAT WERE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT FINAL RESTART?) "I knew we had some fast
cars on the inside and on the outside in front of us. Jamie (McMurray) chose
to go to the outside and I just dove on the inside."

(IS THERE ANY WAY TO PUT INTO WORDS HOW IT FEELS TO WIN AT THE BRICKYARED?)
"I'm in awe right now with all these people around looking at you. Just
knowing who has been here and what's been here in victory lane is an awesome
feeling.  I can't wait to kiss the bricks."

JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 DUPONT CHEVROLET MONTE CARLO (finished 4th) "I told the
team before the race started that we were going to fight until the checkered
flag fell. We were digging all day long. I'm so proud of them. It was a
miserable weekend for us until we got that fourth place finish right there.
It was a great birthday for me (32nd). I know we didn't get many points, but
that's championship form as far as I'm concerned for this race team. I
couldn't be more proud of them.

(IF YOU COULD'T GET THE WIN, IS THIS AS CLOSE IN TERMS OF SATISFACTION THAT
YOU CAN GET?) "Oh, my goodness yes - especially from the type of weekend we
had. We struggled so much and we were 40th in practice yesterday. When you
have confidence in your team, and they have confidence in you, it makes a
big difference.

"They changed everything in that race car and came back with basically a
brand new race car today. It just drove to the front. It was awesome. I mean
we still struggled. There was one time, I don't know what happened but I got
really loose. But we made some adjustments and great calls and I couldn't be
more proud of Robbie (Loomis, crew chief) when he had us come in and get two
tires. I'm worn out. That was a hard-fought day from where we came.

RICKY CRAVEN, NO. 32 TIDE PONTIAC (finished 17th) "It was a decent day for
the Tide Pontiac. We were playing catch-up all day but we did have some luck
go our way. I think we had a chance at a top 10 until that wreck near the
end. We were unlucky in that we thought we might have flat-spotted the tires
and had to come in, but we were lucky in that we didn't do any damage to the
car. We needed a top 20 finish, so I'm not complaining."

JOHN ANDRETTI, NO. 81 KRAFT 100TH ANNIVERSARY CHEVROLET MONTE CARLO: NOTE:
Andretti was eliminated on lap 46 when he spun after contact and hit the
wall in Turns 1 and 2. "The car was really good, really fast, but
unfortunately, a lot of cars started checking up in front of me. I knew if I
took out my teammate (Michael Waltrip) that would be the end of me; they'd
come back here and kill me. I just locked it down. Whoever hit me [Tony
Raines] it doesn't matter, because they didn't have anything they could have
done differently. They couldn't see what was going on."

ROBBY GORDON, NO. 31 CINGULAR WIRELESS CHEVROLET MONTE CARLO: Finished 6th:
"I had to get him [Jamie McMurray] in Turns 1 and 2, and he just didn't give
us a shot at it. I got big aero push behind him, and that's the way this
racing goes a little bit right now. The guys did me a good job all day long.
We had a bad pit stop early on that got us lapped and to come back from
being lapped to run in the top five and finish sixth, I'm very pleased with
all the guys on the Cingular Wireless team." YOU WERE TRYING SOME DIFFERENT
THINGS AND IT ALMOST WORKED FOR YOU. "We had to do strategy because we got
ourselves in a position where we had a bad pit stop. From what they tell me,
the vent can fell out and it wasn't filling. We went from 8th to 30th and
lost a lap, and we had to fight back. I'm happy for Kevin Harvick to win. At
least my setup went somewhere good."

JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE'S CHEVROLET MONTE CARLO: NOTE: Johnson was
involved in the big crash on lap 145 and finished 18th. "We had a good car
and I wish we could have done better. A couple of things happened there at
the end that just put us out of contention. We couldn't make it up."

TERRY LABONTE, NO. 5 KELLOGG'S/got milk? CHEVROLET MONTE CARLO: NOTE:
Labonte spun after being hit in the rear end by Kurt Busch on lap 145. His
car was damaged and he finished 19th. "He [Busch] drives off the end of the
hood. He can't see past his ears." WHAT HAPPENED OUT THERE IN THAT CRASH? "I
don't know. I don't have eyes in the back of my head. I have mirrors, but
not eyes."

JOHNNY BENSON, NO. 10 VALVOLINE PONTIAC GRAND PRIX: Finished 13th, the
highest-finishing Pontiac. "It's OK, I guess. We'll take it. We struggled a
little bit, but some guys had some problems and we were able to capitalize
on it."

DALE EARNHARDT JR., NO. 8 BUDWEISER MONTE CARLO: Finished 14th: "It was good
early, but we got out of pit sequence. We just fought track position all
day. Once we got out of sequence, it just killed us. We had a tire that had
a vibrations, so that's why we made the extra stop. We went from 23rd to
14th after that, so I'm not all that upset about it."

JOE GIBBS, CAR OWNER, NO. 20 HOME DEPOT CHEVROLET MONTE CARLO: HOW DID TONY
REACT ONCE HE GOT OUT OF THE CAR? "He's good. Right now it's just severe
disappointment for all of us. We came here with a great race car and
finished 12th. We came in with two great race cars [the Interstate Batteries
Chevrolet driven by Bobby Labonte] and they got all caught up in gas mileage
toward the end there, the choice of when you are going to stop and things
like that. We felt like we had to do the things we did and it just didn't
work out for us. I feel bad for Home Depot. Everyone fought their guts out
and it just didn't work out for us." YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THIS MEANS TO TONY.
"If there's one race track that Tony really wants to win at, it's here. I
thought we had a great chance today and I think he did too. The best way to
describe it is, everybody can probably understand something that you really
want, and it's a big heartbreak."

GREG ZIPADELLI, CREW CHIEF, NO. 20 HOME DEPOT CHEVROLET MONTE CARLO: "I
could write a book on the five years I've been racing here. It seems like we
can put good cars together and do everything, and then we get cautions when
we don't need them. We had a bad pit stop that pretty much got us behind.
You work all day to get a 10-second lead and the yellow comes out for
nothing. We didn't know there wasn't oil because the car was smoking, and
they [NASCAR] has to do what they have to do to make sure there isn't an
issue. It's disappointing. It's just frustrating. From that point on, that
was a turning point for us, for some reason. You get frustrated and go
backwards. There's no secret to any of it. We did what we thought was right
at the time and it didn't work out."

WHY DID YOU COME BACK IN UNDER YELLOW AND CHANGE TIRES? "Because the car was
too tight. Tony and I talked and we felt like if we got the car better, he
would be able to pass some of those cars. You don't know. It's a chess
match. You stay out and you hope for track position and clean air, or you
come in and make your car better. We had that caution and ate up a bunch of
laps. We needed a couple of laps to get going, for our car to be good and
everybody to get spread out. It just didn't work out that way."

HOW TOUGH WAS IT TO HAVE A CAR THAT GOOD AND FINISH 12TH? "I can't imagine
anybody that had any part of it that wasn't disappointed or doesn't feel it
was tough. I don't care if it's Indy or California or wherever. I can name
five of them-Dover, the 600, the Winston-where we had the best cars hands
down and ended up with poor finishes. It's just a tough year, a trying year,
but we'll just keep digging."

STEVE PARK, NO. 30 AOL CHEVROLET MONTE CARLO: "It was decent. I was just
glad to see Kevin win. We had a top-10 car. We just got screwed up in a lot
of traffic. For me it was a good race."

JASON LEFFLER, NO. 0 NETZERO PONTIAC GRAND PRIX: Finished 33rd: "We just got
real tight. Nothing really cooperated with us. It just did not work. Bad
day."

TERRY LABONTE, NO. 5 KELLOGG'S/got milk? CHEVROLET MONTE CARLO: NOTE:
Additional Terry Labonte quotes. "It was kind of one of those chain-reaction
deals. He got into the back of me and just turned me around. We were
actually going to have a pretty good finish. It was just too bad. Joe
[Nemechek] said once it happened there was nothing we could do about it. The
car was everywhere. We were sitting there, working our way up to the top 10,
and then that happened. We lost about 10 spots in that deal. From the week
that we had, it ended up to be an OK deal. I just hate when that happens.
There were some good spots there, but oh well, that's just the way it goes."

KEVIN HARVICK POST-RACE PRESS CONFERENCE: NOTE: Harvick becomes the first
driver in the 10-year history of the Brickyard 400 to win from the pole
position. It was his fourth career Winston Cup victory in his 91st start. He
is the 15th different race winner in 21 races this season, and the seventh
different winner of the Brickyard 400. It is Chevrolet's 10th victory of the
season and the 11th for GM Racing in 21 races.

YOUR THOUGHTS ON WINNING THE BRICKYARD 400: "Right now, it's like 'whoa!
What just happened?' We had ourselves in contention all day. Our car started
off really tight. We made subtle adjustments on every pit stop and they were
all right. When I saw where we were at the end of the race.our car was
really good on restarts. We could really make up some ground on new tires
and we would kind of fade at the very, very end of a run. There at the end,
once we got out in clean air and got under Jamie and got out by ourselves, I
mean we ran about a half-second faster than we did all day. Once I got out
there and I saw that Robby [Gordon] was doing what he had to do to keep them
back there, it was just put it in cruise control and don't make any
mistakes."

A 400-MILE RACE CAN COME DOWN TO ONE CORNER. TALK ABOUT THE MOVE TO PASS
JAMIE AND WHAT YOU SAW. "He chose to go around the outside, but on the
restart there were six cars at the tail end of the lead lap. Three went low,
three went high. Then it was Kenny Wallace, Jamie and then me. I cleared
Kenny, and I think Jamie thought that like on all the other restarts he was
going to drive around all those guys. But they pretty much stayed
side-by-side, and I figured if I was on the bottom I had more control over
my own destiny than I would if I just followed him. So I cleared Jamie and
drove down there and it was like the seas just parted. Off through the
traffic we went, and that was it. I think Robby came with us on that one."

ON THAT COLD DAY IN 2001 WHEN YOU TOOK OVER FOR DALE EARNHARDT, YOU SAID YOU
NOBODY WOULD EVER REPLACE HIM. TODAY, YOU JOINED HIM AS A WINNER HERE. "Like
I've said to a lot of people today, anything we can join him in doing is an
accomplishment, because everything he did in his career was pretty much a
positive and pretty much guided this race team and organization to where it
is today. To win, as he did in '95 here at the Brickyard, is something that
is an accomplishment for me, an accomplishment for Richard. Just to put this
team back to where it was in '95 and '96 and every year that Dale drove it
is just a great feat for the whole organization. I know it feels good for
me. I know how many times Richard and I talked about what we need to do to
make it better and here we are. We've had a great couple of months and have
been close to winning not only here, but five or six times."

CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THE AUTOGRAPH YOU GOT FROM RICK MEARS WHEN YOU WERE A
KID? "I don't remember exactly when I got it because it was somewhere in the
early 1980s. I believe it was when he and Tom Sneva and Roberto Guerrero
were on the front row here, and it just says, 'Good luck, hope to see you
here someday.' Man, I didn't know I'd be sitting here in Victory Lane and be
getting to do all this. It means a lot to me and I've looked at that picture
for a long time. When I finally got the opportunity to race here a few years
ago, it was pretty much a dream come true for me. I really can't put it all
into words. I really don't know how I feel yet, but I know I feel good. It's
hard to explain how good I feel."

DID YOU SLEEP LAST NIGHT KNOWING THAT NO ONE HAD EVER WON THE POLE AND WON
THE BRICKYARD 400? "No. the last time I was in this room, you guys
vigorously reminded me of that. Records are also meant to be broken. Last
night, the only reason I didn't sleep was because I thought we had the wrong
shocks on the back of the car. That was why I didn't sleep. The first thing
I did this morning was call Todd [crew chief Todd Berrier] and Richard [car
owner Richard Childress] and tell them that we needed to put the shocks
back, the ones that are on right now."

YOU HAD TO WALK A TIGHTROPE THERE AT THE END ON TRACK POSITION. "The
strategy really played right into our hands. I thought we were going to run
third for a while. The 20 car pitted, I don't know why, but we were well
within our fuel window. We were done pitting. At that point we had pretty
much made our bed and had to lie in it. When we had that restart.I always
look forward to restarts, because I usually make up a lot of positions on
restarts. Jamie went high, we went low and Robby followed me and we went by
him. That was pretty much the key to the whole race. There were a lot of
green-flag runs today, and we ran three fuel stops. I'm glad we didn't have
a lot of cautions, because when you have a lot of cautions right in a row,
what happens is you have a
lot of guys who don't put any tires on or two tires and wind up in the
front. Your car is good and you put four tires on and come out 20th. It
played into our hands pretty good."

CAN YOU TALK ABOUT KISSING THE BRICKS AND CLIMBING THE FENCE? "We actually
talked about kissing the bricks this morning. Everyone was really positive
and really upbeat. The first thing Gil [Martin] said this morning was, 'it's
going to be an awesome day.' We were running late and fell into a police
escort and made it to the track in 7 minutes. He says, 'I promise you,
everything is going our way today.' It's hard to describe, knowing the
prestige and history of everything that's run on top of those bricks. That's
why I wanted to stop and leave our own rubber mark across the bricks. If I
didn't climb the fence, Helio [two-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves]
would have been mad at me, so I figured I'd better go out there and do it
with him."

WHAT KIND OF PREVIOUS ADVICE DID RICHARD GIVE YOU THAT HE CAME ON THE RADIO
AFTER THE RACE AND SAID, 'I TOLD YOU WE WOULD GET THERE?' "That wasn't him.
Was it? I don't remember who it was, but it wasn't Richard."

LAST YEAR WHEN YOU WON CHICAGO AND BROKE A VICTORY DROUGHT, YOU SAID YOU'D
GONE DOWN TO RICHARD'S FARM AND TALKED IT OUT. WERE THERE ANY MORE OF THOSE
CONVERSATIONS? "Last year, I learned a lot, and Richard taught me how to get
through a lot of different situations. That river trip was probably the most
important thing that happened between the two of us. I think he drug me out
of the river. It was one of those deals where I didn't know how to handle
any of it and I was at the point of being ready to quit and go do something
else. Richard has a good way of talking to all of us, all the employees at
RCR to make it all positive and it's going to be OK. He's been here and done
that several times, so most of the time if you are part of the solution you'
re going to be more of a help than you are if you're going to make the
problem worse. Last year taught me a lot and this season it's paid dividends
in a lot of different ways."

AFTER LEADING EARLY IN THE RACE, WERE YOU CONTENT TO STAY UP THERE IN THE
TOP FIVE TO BE IN POSITION LATER? "I wasn't going to fight Tony [Stewart]
too hard, because the more you fight them at the beginning of the race, the
more people you get involved in the race and the farther you get behind.
With Ryan and Tony and Bill there at the beginning, I was content to do what
I had to do to think about what we needed to do to our car to make it
better. We said all weekend that we need to make sure we put ourselves in
position and have our car the best we had it all weekend on the last run.
Fortunately, our car was by far the best it had been all day and the weather
was cooling down and it pretty much played how we needed it to play. Track
position worked itself out perfect, and all the pit stops were good and came
at the right time with the yellows. Everything just clicked."

AFTER YOU LEFT YOUR MARK ON THE BRICKS, WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE FENDER AND
TIRE, AND WHAT WAS THE PUSH LIKE AFTERWARD? "I would have just driven down
pit lane to Victory Lane, but they had it all blocked. Heck, man, if you're
going to win here, you'd better leave your mark because you might never get
another chance. I said I needed to leave some rubber on the bricks and make
sure everybody leaves here happy with a little tire smoke in their hair. It
was a lot of fun. I tried not to hurt it too bad."

DID YOU THINK THE RACE WAS GOING TO COME DOWN TO YOU AND THE 20 CAR? "I
really thought the 42 and the 20 were going to be the cars to beat. You
never know where your car's going to be after you make a pit stop. Our car,
we made it better every run, every time they got an opportunity to adjust on
it it was positive. My jaw just hit the floor when I saw the 20 pit. I'm
positive he didn't need to pit. They just gave all the chances that they had
away. That was it."

IS THIS ONE OF THOSE PINCH YOURSELF KIND OF MOMENTS? "How did I get here? I
wish someone would tell me. It's really hard to put into words how much it
means to me. It means a lot to these guys too. Just growing up an open-wheel
fan and to know what it meant to win the Indy 500, it means a lot to me and
it means a lot to this race team. You put a star beside this one every year
and you put a star beside the Daytona 500, a bigger star than you would on
the rest of the races just because it's bigger. It's just bigger in all
ways. There's nothing that's not bigger about even racing at the Brickyard.
If we had finished third, hey, it would still have been a great weekend
because we sat on the pole for the Brickyard. To come back and win the race
was just unbelievable."

RICK MEARS SAID THAT YOU SPEND THE FIRST HALF OF THE RACE HERE GETTING YOUR
CAR RIGHT AND THE SECOND HALF YOU GO AND TRY TO WIN THE RACE. IS THAT YOUR
STRATEGY? "Our game plan from the beginning was to lead a lap. We needed the
five points and if our car was good at the beginning, we needed to lead all
we could. Once Tony and those guys came up to challenge us there wasn't any
reason to fight them at that stage of the race. You know you can make the
car better and there's no reason to get yourself 8 or 10 seconds farther
behind that you need to be. Just let them go and do what you need to do to
make the car right and race the hell out of them at the end. That's what we
wanted to do. The main thing we did today was make our car better on every
pit stop. That's what did the most for us once we got out in front. I ran
the first 10 laps as hard as I could run and the last five I just put it on
cruise control and did what we had to do."

YOU SAID EARLIER THAT YOUR DAD FORCED YOU INTO STOCK CARS. "It means I never
got to do what I wanted to do. But I didn't know what was right or wrong at
that point in my life. Still don't, for that matter. My dad was smart enough
to understand that, at that point in time, stock car racing was coming up
and open-wheel racing was hitting a plateau and settling down and he didn't
really know where it was going. He just didn't want me to get hurt. He didn'
t want me to drive midgets or Formula Fords or anything like that. We didn't
have any money to do anything, and he spent a year and a half building my
first late model car from all the pieces and parts everybody else didn't
want. We still managed to figure out how to win with that, scraped and
scrounged through the years in late models and up through the Southwest Tour
and things like that. Right now, I'd say it was probably a good decision on
his part."

WAS ROBBY GORDON HELPING OUT AT THE END PLANNED? "I think the point about
Robby is, I was mad at him after Sears Point, but you still have to
understand, and the main thing we both understood was that we can be mad at
each other, because we're racers. Both of us race really hard and want to
win every time we go out on the track. I'll get over it and he won Sonoma,
and that really brought the morale of all three race teams and the whole
company up. Today, he came back and helped me. For the most part, on my end,
you just have to be done and over with it, and just really understand that
he did all he could for the company and myself today and I need to remember
that the next time he's out there winning the race. It's all about what's
the best for all those people working on the cars. They are the heartbeat,
and if they are fussing and fighting over something he and I did, it won't
work. We have to make sure all those guys are getting along and trading
notes and doing the things they need to do in the shop."

POST RACE PRESS CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS WITH RICHARD CHILDRESS, OWNER OF
RICHARD CHILDRESS RACING (RCR)

"Anytime you win at the Brickyard it's special with all the history and
tradition and everything that's gone on here. Seeing Kevin's name on that
trophy is going to be special. We won it with Dale (Earnhardt) in '95 and we
look back and that was one of the most special things we did. Winning the
Daytona 500 and championships and all - that's special. But winning at the
Brickyard fits right in there with it. In our careers - Kevin's and mine -
we'll look back on it and remember it as one of the most special wins that
he'll have in his career.

"I'm just thrilled. I think the pass that he made on Jamie (McMurray) was
the winning move. Once he got out front, I knew that if nothing went wrong
or if nothing broke, he was going to be hard to beat."

(WHEN YOU'RE IN A DROUGHT, WHAT DO YOU DO TO KEEP THINGS GOING AND SPIRITS
UP TO GET TO A DAY LIKE TODAY) "This sport has the highest and lowest of any
sport I've ever known. You can go to the bottom real quick and you can't
figure it out. We kind of got behind with our own organization. Kevin was
driving and we just kept telling these drivers to believe in us and that we
would get it back. The last several months we've worked with our fab shop
and we've really put our engineering group together good and solid. I've
been to the engine shop at least once a week telling them we've got to have
more power.

"But I think that's the thing is having faith. In my career, I've seen the
best go here (up) and come back (down). It's tougher to get back up there.
You can get behind in one day. But it may take you months to ever catch that
day up. That's the way this sport is. It's a tough sport."

 (ON HAVING A PEP TALK WITH KEVIN LAST YEAR) "I think it's tough for what
Kevin was put through in 2001. RCR got behind. Our drivers didn't get behind
as much as we got behind. I just think it was us growing together and we
knew what we wanted to do. Our goal some day is to be on stage in New York.
That's what I want to do. Kevin has all the talent and all the ability. We'
ve got to do our job. As you've seen today, he can handle himself. He
handled himself under pressure in 2001 and won the Busch championship. I'm
just excited about the years ahead of us."

(WHAT ALL WENT INTO WINNING THIS RACE?) "A lot of testing and a lot of
development in the engine shop. Todd Berrier is just a brilliant young man
in working with our engineering group and our fab shop. If you've got a
driver who can get the job done like Kevin can, we've got to do our job. It
took a lot of hard work just to get us back to where we've been the last
seven or eight weeks. If you stay in contention to win, you're going to win
a race. That's the key. If you can stay there and get the consistency, you'
re going to win your share of races. And this isn't going to be their last
one."
 (WAS WINNING AT THE BRICKYARD ONE OF YOUR GOALS THIS YEAR?) "It's a goal
every year. To come here and to win this race or the Daytona 500 will go
down as one of our special wins in our career."

(WHAT WERE YOU THINKING WHEN YOUR GUYS CLIMBED THE FENCE AND YOU ALL KISSED
THE BRICKS?) "I thought it was great. I've never had a cold kiss like that
that felt so good. (laughs) And I did it three times. So it felt three times
better.  The sacrifice that these crew members make in this sport is what it
's all about. Watching those guys jump up there today and get on that fence
was great. And then to be able to go back and see the families and everybody
that worked - from the guys that sweep the floors to the guys that are
engineers  -- is special. It takes special in this sport to do it and I'm
very fortunate to be surrounded by special people who can do it."