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NASCAR WCUP: Pocono 500 Post Race Notes, Rusty Wallace

22 June 1999

2 RUSTY WALLACE Miller Lite Taurus "I was coming down the front straightaway going into one and the right-front tire just blew out and when it blew, man, it just sailed in the wall. I was running at least 200 mph going into that corner when it happened, so it was a bad wreck. I can't even believe the car is even fixable. They're trying to get it back in right now, but I don't know."

WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT YOU AND BURTON WOULD BOTH HAVE TROUBLE THIS EARLY? "Yeah, I can't believe it because when they had their wreck, I got past it and I said maybe it's gonna be my day because that was a tough one to get through. When I got through it I thought we were OK, and then I came down the front straightaway, shifted into overdrive, and at just about that time it blew. That was it."

"I'm OK. I had just gone into overdrive and was turning off into one and the right-front tire blew and that was about it. There was no warning. We had a concern that I might have had a little bit of a flat spot after getting on the brakes so hard trying to avoid that crash with Burton and the 25, but I don't know if that had anything to do with it. On the restart I had no vibration and everything was fine, and then all of a sudden the tire blew out, so who knows."

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