NASCAR WCUP: Dura Lube/KMart 400 post race quotes, Rusty Wallace
28 February 2000
Posted By Terry
Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
RUSTY WALLACE --2-- Miller Lite Taurus (Finished 11th) --
ON THE FIRST CAUTION. "I couldn't believe how unbelievably fast new tires
were. In only 18 laps the 22 car had come back and taken the lead and was
about 1.2 seconds faster on fresh tires. We came back and we were looking
pretty good, but we kept having those doggone pit problems again and it
was killing us. The guys were really working hard trying to overcome it,
but to add insult to injury, right there at the very end of the day, the
lugnuts came loose on the left rear." HOW ABOUT THE FORDS ON THE DOWNFORCE TRACK? "I think it's a little too early to tell yet, honestly, for all makes. The chassis has a lot to do with what goes on here -- aerodynamics isn't everything. Aerodynamics at Daytona are completely different from here. There, we run only 45 degree spoilers, real narrow, slippery cars. Here, everybody is trying to get as much downforce they can and shocks and springs play a big factor. I felt like I had a top three car today, but that lap going down early, I finally got it back. Then, the pit problems we had and finally the loose lugnuts that kind of KO'd me, but we got back up to 11th and made some points today. We'll go back home and get this thing fixed.
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