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NASCAR WCUP: NAPA Autocare 500 Post Race Quotes, Rusty Wallace

4 October 1999

Posted By Terry Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
RUSTY WALLACE --2-- Miller Lite Taurus (Finished 4th) -- YOU MUST HAVE LOST A TOTAL OF FIVE LAPS AT DIFFERENT TIMES TODAY AND GOT THEM ALL BACK. WHAT ABOUT YOUR DAY? "It's probably one of the hardest days we've had, there's no doubt about that. The car was pretty good. I think we had and easy top three car, I don't know if we had a winning car. I was pushing too much in the center of the corner all day long and then loose up off, but we made a scheduled pit stop and the caution flew -- we lost two there. We got back going again and then we made another scheduled pit stop and lost two again when the caution flew. I'm like, 'Man, will this ever quit?' We just kept losing laps, and finally I started getting 'em back one at a time at different points during the race. And, right there at the end, we didn't put tires on, which I thought was the wrong call, but Robin made the right call by keeping me out on those old tires. Me and Burton got gone and we got that last lap back and got back around there. I started reeling 'em in and then it was just a matter of getting the right breaks. There were a bunch of cars that got racing really hard in turn one. I had four sticker tires and when they had their misfortune I got underneath 'em and got up to fourth and that's the way it ended."

TELL US ABOUT THAT LAST PIT STOP CALL. "Robin kept me out to get that lap back and, I've gotta tell you, my hat's off to him because I disagreed with that call because it put a bunch of guys on my bumper with fresh tires and I thought I'd be in trouble. But, it didn't work out that way. We got gone and got that lap back, and then at the end, it was time to put the four tires on and everything went good."

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