NASCAR WCUP: Daytona International Speedway Tesing Notes and Quotes, Dave Blaney
19 January 2000
Posted By Terry CallahanMotorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
DAVE BLANEY, DRIVER, NO. 93 AMOCO PONTIAC GRAND PRIX
...on gaining so much ground from yesterday to today:
"The car we ran fast with today was a car that I think we only ran one time yesterday. It's a car that had been run here quite a bit with Ward's team, so we wanted to concentrate on our new one a little bit. Now, we're just trying to get the other one to go down there and match it really.
"We had heard they were running 48.20s down here last week, so that's what we were hoping to come close to. We're just trying all sorts of different things. We've just been trying motor stuff and body pieces. We're just trying to gain anywhere we can, and then we'll throw it all together to come back. We'll go home and look at all this stuff, and try to put all the best things on both cars we can."
...how prepared the team will be returning in February:
"I think horsepower is the name of the game right now, and we feel like we've got a bunch of power to come back with. Terry Elledge and all the guys claim we've got a big power gain in our qualifying engines, so to be honest, we're real happy to be this close in speeds. You know you never know what everyone else is going to bring down for qualifying engines or what they're testing with. But, we kind of know what we can pick up there. We're just throwing everything we can trying to make any little gain we can with what we've got in these two days. You know it will all add up come qualifying time."
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