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NASCAR WCUP: Rockingham post race notes and quotes, Rusty Wallace

25 October 1999

Posted By Terry Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel

RUSTY WALLACE --2-- Miller Lite Taurus (Finished 5th) -- "That was a pretty good day. We led a lot of laps. We got the halfway stuff. We came from 25th and drove it up to the lead; I'm really proud of the guys for that. And then we got one bad set of tires. We got a set of tires that...the car was perfect all day, then I put that set on and everything went to heck. And so I adjusted thinking it was getting cooler, and when I adjusted for it I tood wedge out of it to loosen it up. We put the other tires on it, and the car was real loose then. It was that one set of tires that did it, so that was a bad deal. I thought we had a pretty good 'ol hot rod to drive from 25th to first. That was a good job on the team's part. We had a pit stop early that killed us. I got all the way to the front, the guy slipped in the gas and fell down, I went all the way back and had to drive all the way back up. But then after that, the pit stops were good." "(Jarrett's) not layin' down. He can't do that because just about the time you change your rhythm, what you've been doing all year long to get you where you've been, that's when you're gonna get yourself in trouble."

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