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NASCAR WCUP: Kenny Irwin, Pontiac Excitement 400 Post Race Quotes

17 May 1999

KENNY IRWIN -28- Texaco Havoline Taurus -- "We had a pickup problem with the fuel and it would run out about every 40 laps. Eventually, it starved the motor and ended up blowing it up. Once you heard it, it's not gonna heal itself so we ended up just blowing it up." YOU HAD A GOOD QUALIFYING EFFORT. "We had a really good car. It was definitely a top five car. The 99 is awful fast, but the guys did a good job building this new car here. It's too bad." DID YOU HAVE ANY TIRE PROBLEMS? "We didn't see any with ours, but we've seen a lot of people having right-fronts. You can see it going down and them cutting it. There's a lot of debris out there. I don't know if that's it or if everybody's working the right-front so hard." COULD IT BE THE SEALER? "It shows a lot of heat on the right-front tire and that could be because of the sealer. It would almost have to be that, but I don't know."

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