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NASCAR: Sears Point Winston Cup Post-Qualifying Notes, Jimmy Spencer

26 June 1999

JIMMY SPENCER -23- Team Winston Taurus -- (Fifth)HOW DID YOU DO THAT? "I really concentrated on being smooth. I watched Jerry Nadeau run. The guys said be smooth. Be smooth and trust the car, and I did. I can't believe we run that fast. I guess it was just not being too aggressive and hitting all the corners right. They built a new car. I can't thank Donnie (Wingo) and the guys enough. You know we've been having a tough year. This is unexpected. Now we just hope we can get a top-ten out of this deal. You can run a lap here, and say to yourself, that was a good lap. I personally thought it was about a 12.50, and it's a second quicker. It just goes to show you have to hit all the braking points right. Believe me, I'm still not road racer." DOES THIS MAKE A DIFFERENCE AS FAR AS YOU MENTAL ATTITUDE TOWARD THE RACE? "Mentally. I never thought about that. I don't like road racing, and I think a lot of it is mentally. It's more mentally than anything. Yeah, I think it gives us a better attitude going into Sunday's race. There no question about it. We should start in the top-fifteen cars now if everything goes right. We hoped to be in the top 25, and I think that's important. The attitude now will be to work on race set-ups and get the driver comfortable. And I know we can run fast. Now we just have to be able to do it for each gas run. I think we'll approach it whole lot different that we would have two or three days ago."

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