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NASCAR: Sears Point Winston Cup Post-Qualifying Notes, Mark Martin

26 June 1999

MARK MARTIN -6- Valvoline/Cummins Taurus -- (Ninth)"It was a real good lap. I'm real pleased with it. The Valvoline/Cummins team gave me a real good racecar this weekend, and I didn't want to mess it up by trying too hard. Having the car sit on the racetrack takes away one- percent of your focus and concentration. I had one corner, the next to the last one; I wasn't exactly pleased with. And then coming down into this corner I looked across to see if he (Elliott Sadler, who lost a transmission) was still there and he was. Then I didn't get through here like I had been. That was my fault. But golly it's going to be a good starting spot. It's going to beat having to go second round like we did last year. I'm happy with it. It was unfortunate there was a car setting there, but it is fortunate they let me make my run because if they had waved me off after that I wouldn't have had a chance because I already had heat in my tires. And so I was hoping when I came around the first time and saw him there, that NASCAR would let me make my run. I lost my focus just a little bit down there."

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