Emory Healthcare 500 Pit Notes at Atlanta Motor Speedway - Sat., Sept. 4 - Page 3

EMORY HEALTHCARE 500 WEEKEND PIT NOTES

ATLANTA MOTOR SPEEDWAY

 

Saturday, September 4, 2010


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QUOTES

TONY STEWART (No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet): "I think we're
better. A matter of what we're going to do at night and how it's going
to affect the balance." Q: Preparing for a night race after so many
years of day races in Atlanta:  "All we can do is go off of what we got
last year and see how the balance changes. It's not like we have 15
years of notes to go off of here we've got one race here at night to
really go off of." Q: 10 top-10s - setting you up good:  "I'd like to
believe so. Even two weekends ago in Bristol, we were running second and
got crashed. We're going good and we're going good at different
disciplines of tracks. That's what you've got to do to be good at the
end." Q: Is there one thing lacking: "I'm sure there is, but I'm not
sure I know exactly what it is." Q: Afternoon sessions preparing for a
night race: "You're still trying to get the balance, still trying to
figure out. This track's got a lot of bumps in it. If you can get it to
go through the bumps in the day it'll go through the bumps at night. A
couple tracks that really change a lot day to night, but some tracks
that really don't. That's why you make those notes and every year you
review those."

 

KEVIN HARVICK (No. 29 Shell/Pennzoil Chevrolet): "I think you just go
out and race like you have been tried some stuff today and it didn't
work." Q: Notes from day races - what can you take from them: "I think
you look at the race track, it's a lot different from what we had in the
spring and it just changed a lot from the first part of practice to the
second practice. This place can be really confusing as to what you need
in the car. Just a lot of things you have to take into account, because
tires fall off so fast that you have to guess well. That's the great
part about Atlanta, because tires do fall off and you do have to
compromise on a couple things to have the car running at the end, and
it's a lot different than what you need to have your car running at the
beginning. "

 

LAST NIGHT AT THE QUARTER-MILE TRACK: David Ragan won the Your Georgia
Best Chevy Dealers 150 late model in spite brake trouble, but that's not
the only news: The Goodyear Blimp made an overhead appearance for the
late model race, likely a race occurrence in the short-track world;
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series star Juan Pablo Montoya watched a few laps from
the pits; and 1960 NASCAR Champion Rex White was also a spectator.

 

OVERSEEN: Max Papis knocking on hauler doors in the NASCAR Sprint Cup
garage.