Dodge Cup Quotes at Dover. Newman wins!!

Dover International Speedway
MBNA America 400.
Sunday, Sept. 26,  2004.
 

JEREMY MAYFIELD (No. 19 Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge) - Finished 7th

"We had a good car but had to battle all day.  I lost radio contact with
the crew early in the race.  I couldn't tell them what the car was
doing.  We didn't get if fixed until the last caution.  We had a couple
stops that weren't up to par, so we had to battle back.  We just have to
dig down and make it happen as a team.  We're capable of getting the job
done, we just have to dig down, all of us.  With the exception of the
one long run, the car was good.  Toward the end of the run, the car
stopped getting through the corners the way we needed to and we lost a
few positions on the track.  After we made a chassis adjustment and got
tires, we were right back running times with the leader.  But we had
traffic to deal with.  After the restart after that last caution, we
were 11th and worked our way back up to seventh.  We'll take it and look
to get everything together next week.  We know if we dig down, we can
and will get the job done. It's a lot better points day than last week,
so we'll take it and head to Talladega."

 

JAMIE McMURRAY (No. 42 Texaco/Havoline Dodge) - Finished 8th

"I don't know what was wrong. I didn't sleep very well last night. The
guys next to us had a little party outside my motorhome last night. I
was up late and for some reason I woke up at 5:30. They gave me
something out there, and it made me feel better. I don't know what it
was. It could have just been water, but mentally it made me feel a whole
lot better. We started 10th and when I got to sixth I felt worse. That's
when I knew something was wrong. All-in-all it was a pretty good day. We
struggled in the pits again. We really had a tough time in the pits, but
other than that our car was pretty good. We fought back. We seem to pass
more cars every weekend than anyone else. We go to the back and work our
way back to the front, but it was a pretty good finish. I was happy with
that. We felt that way when we didn't make the top 10. It would be
pretty cool to score the most points out of anyone in the last 10 races
and show you deserve to be there. We've got to work on our program just
a little bit. We're a sixth to 10th place car right now and we need to
step it up to be a top five car. It would be cool to get to go to the
banquet and feel like you earned your way there (with 11th place finish
in the standings). We'll just keep digging and doing what we're doing."

 

RUSTY WALLACE (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge) - Finished 13th

"We run good every week and something stupid is always happening. I
don't know what it's going to take to get that thing fixed and get it
back to normal. I thought we were in real good shape. I'm mystified why
I keep blowing right-front tires out. It was only pushing just a little
bit.

 

"That was an amazing win last night at Bristol for my son Stephen. That
was an engine Maurice Petty built and a Dodge Intrepid that Stephen and
the guys at our shop built. The car looked great. He was prepared, and
to have him win his first big race at a track where I won my first big
race is pretty special. He had a horrifying wreck at Bristol a month ago
and to come back from that to winning is really something. I wanted to
do good for him today. We had a good showing today, but we should have
had a much better finish."

 

STERLING MARLIN (No. 40 Coors Light Dodge) - Finished 15th

"I don't know what we adjusted one time, but it was terrible. We drove
to 12th. All we did was change tires and a little bit of air pressure
and went from top 12 to a 30th-place car. It was terrible."

 

BRENDAN GAUGHAN (No. 77 Kodak/Jasper Dodge) - Finished 22nd, top rookie

"It was a long day, but we were the top Raybestos Rookie and that's one
goal we set for ourselves every week. We got it this week in ugly
fashion, but we finished and didn't do any damage and brought it home in
one piece, and that's something else we've been trying to do lately. Our
team never could get the balance right, but we dug hard, the guys worked
hard on pit road and we were the best finishing rookie. We'll take it."

 

KASEY KAHNE (No. 9 Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge) - Finished 42nd

"It was going down the frontstretch and it popped. I popped it out of
gear, and it was still running pretty rough. I had to shut it off. The
motor ran good all weekend. It ran really good all weekend, and it was
running good today. They said it might be a flywheel, so they're looking
into that. We might be able to change it and get back out there. I'm not
sure how bad it is right now. I think we had a good car today. I was
biding my time. It was early in the race, but I think the car was all
right. It was a little loose, but that's a good thing. You want to start
loose here, and it gets better as you go. We were getting better, but
something broke."