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NASCAR: Sears Point Winston Cup Post-Qualifying Notes, Darrell Waltrip

26 June 1999

DARRELL WALTRIP -66- Big Kmart/Route 66 Taurus -- (10th)"They started off telling me, you've just got to pick up a second from practice. And then it wasn't very long, I was watching it on TV, and they come in and said really to be good, you're going to have to pick up two seconds, and I said now wait a minute. It was a great effort for us. We've struggled so much. This car has never been raced. It's been run a few times, but it's never been raced. It's been tested by several different drivers on several different courses. We've fixed brakes. We've fixed the carburetor. Everything seemed to be going wrong. We just never got a quality lap in. A 13 - something was my best lap. I'm just really, really happy with that. That's a great effort on everybody's part, the car, crew, driver. They stepped up when they had to. ARE THINGS STARTING TO GEL WITH THE TWO TEAMS? YOU AND JIMMY (SPENCER) BOTH HAD GOOD LAPS. "We are learning how to work together. In the beginning of the year, with me changing people and different crew chiefs and things, we had no communication between the two teams. They were doing their thing, and the people on my car were doing my thing. The last few weeks since Derrick Finley and Phillipe have gotten there, they understand the principle of two cars coming from the one car, and working with Earnhardt. They understand you have to share information. You've got to tell each other what you're doing They're starting to have meetings. At Pocono I was really, really good and Jimmy was terrible. They worked on his car after qualifying, and on Sunday you see how he run, so this two-car effort will eventually bear fruit. It was just a little slow coming, but it takes time for everybody to learn how to use the system."

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