NASCAR WCUP: DuraLube/K-Mart 300 Post Race Notes, Ricky Rudd
20 September 1999
Posted By Terry
Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
RICKY RUDD --10-- Tide Taurus (Finished 42nd) -- "I'm not
really sure. The trouble is it's a one-groove race track. I think we moved
up to 17th and were sort of biding our time and being patient. It looked
like two cars got together, I don't know if somebody on the inside broke
loose or what, but there wasn't a lot of racing room and that's what
triggered it. We sort of caught the aftermath. We actually had it missed,
dropped it in low gear and started accelerating, and I think the 45 car
came directly from the bottom to the top right in front of us and I
collected him. The biggest thing is I got ourselves in a hole qualifying.
We had a good race car and we came up through the field pretty good. We
came all the way up to 16th and had a car capable of a top 10. I had
patience, but it doesn't take but one to lose their patience and cause a
chain reaction."
DESPITE THIS INCIDENT, HAS IT BEEN A GOOD WEEK?
"We don't want to be sitting here in the garage area right now, obviously, but I'm real excited about the plans for next year. I just couldn't say enough about what it's gonna be like to get in a Robert Yates car. We've got a good group of guys here, they're not giving up, and we've still got us a race to try to win here before the year is out. Next year is next year, it seems like a million miles away right now."
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