NASCAR WCUP: Bristol Post Race Notes and Quotes, Rusty Wallace
28 August 2000
Posted By Terry
Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
RUSTY WALLACE --2-- Miller Lite Taurus -- VICTORY LANE
Q&A -- HOW ABOUT THIS WIN FROM THE POLE? "It was a hard-fought
win. Early in the race we were just a little loose, we started working on
the chassis getting it better and better. Then the 6 got their turn at
leading. The 40 car, along with Stewart, they all lead a little bit, but
we kept working our car throughout the day. We finally tightened it up so
much that I got it too tight two runs before the end. I had to take some
air pressure out of the front tires to get it back right and when we got
the air out of the front tires it was just perfect. Then I had a heck of a
hot-rod. The thing really ran good. We named this car Flash, so now the
car that we won Pocono with, that thing we named it Lightning, we named
the car last week Mad Max and now this one is Flash. Hopefully with eight
poles and four wins everybody is gonna enjoy that and quit asking me when
we're gonna win the next race." HOW HARD WAS IT TO KEEP YOUR RHYTHM AT THE END? "It was pretty tough because I knew Stewart was running good back there. You never know what's gonna happen. We were holding our own against him no problem, but then I went down into turn one and almost had a couple lapped cars crash each other down there and had to do some evasive maneuvers and my lead went from 2.7 down to 1.0 and then I just had to drive my guts out and try to pull some out again which we were able to do. But it was really fun tonight. I had Mr. Bolen, our chairman of the board of Miller Brewing Company, he's never been to a race before in his life. He was here for the first time and was just totally gah-gah loving it, and then you had all the people from Harley Davidson -- this is a new Harley paint scheme which was a really cool deal -- but I've gotta tell you I'm kind of quiet now because it just feels so doggone good to win this many races. We've got great cars and we're doing good and I'd just like to thank everybody for covering our sport. All the team members have done such a great job, our engines have been fabulous and it's just been a neat deal."
WAS YOUR CAR BETTER IN CLEAN AIR OR IN TRAFFIC? "I think almost all cars are better in the clean air, although early there were times I was real, real loose and when I got behind a car it would tighten my car up a little bit and made me run a little bit better, but, for the most part, I would say in clean air was the best run."
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