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NASCAR WCUP: Post Race Notes, Jeremy Mayfield

22 March 1999

JEREMY MAYFIELD -12- Mobil 1 Taurus --

"We had a great car. Yesterday morning we were struggling a little bit and we got it better in Happy Hour and made a couple changes last night on some shocks and stuff. We just had an awesome car, it was right on the money. After last week we needed something like this because Rusty and I both ran terrible (at Atlanta). We really worked hard all during this week trying to figure out what went wrong and what we had to do to make it better and they showed that this team can come back and work hard. We led laps and ran up front. My hat's off to the 99 team. They did a good job of pitting early. We had a shot to win and that's all you can ask for."

IF THE RACE WOULD HAVE GONE THE DISTANCE DO YOU THINK YOU COULD HAVE WON?

"I think we definitely had the car to win. The 99 was tough, the 24 was good on long runs and we got a little loose at the end of that run just because we ran so hard trying to catch the 99. We feel like we had a great race car, we just came up a little short."

WHAT DOES THE WEATHER DO TO A DRIVER AS FAR AS STOPPING AND GOING?

"I think it messes with you a little bit mentally, but you've gotta put that in the back of your mind and be open-minded about. Each time the green comes back out and you go racing again, you just get back in your race mode. It's a little bit disturbing, but it's not that bad."

ARE YOU DISAPPOINTED THE WAY THIS RACE ENDED?

"A little bit. Myself and Dale Jarrett are definitely disappointed at the way it happened because, not saying anything bad about Jeff (Gordon), but him and the 99 kind of got in that last wreck and kind of felt that if it went back green again, we had a good shot at it."