NASCAR WCUP: Cracker Barrel 500 Post-Race Notes and Quotes, Mark Martin
13 March 2000
Posted By Terry
Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
MARK MARTIN --6-- Valvoline Taurus (Finished 3rd) -- "We
didn't run good at all, but the Valvoline team did a great job of getting
me a third-place finish out of it. We just couldn't keep up with them
guys. I feel sorry for Mike Skinner, he had us covered today."
DID YOU GET ALL YOU COULD GET TODAY? "I got more than I deserved today. We had a lot better finish than we really deserved. We didn't really run very good. Mike Skinner had everybody beat and had trouble, I feel sorry for him. We got lucky. We wrecked once and didn't hit anything. The Valvoline team did a great job to run third, that was a 15th-place car."
DID YOU FEEL AT ANY TIME YOU COULD COMPETE WITH THEM? "Only early. Early we maybe had a shot, but later on we just couldn't keep up. Man, they had us covered."
THERE WERE MORE LEAD CHANGES AMONG MORE DRIVERS. DOES THAT MEAN THE RACING WAS MORE COMPETITIVE TODAY? "That means coincidence. That's what that means."
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