NASCAR WCUP: Pop Secret 400 Post Race Notes and Quotes, Rusty Wallace
23 October 2000
Posted By Terry
Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
RUSTY WALLACE --2-- Miller Lite Taurus -- "I tell you
what, we kept having so many cautions and if you didn't put tires on, you
were in trouble. I went out there one time with only seven laps on my
tires and I still got out run big-time with only seven laps. If you do
that at any other race track besides say here or Darlington, that many
laps wouldn't hurt anything. But we had a good car today. Doggone it, we
made that last pit stop when I came in first, but the lugnuts all fell off
and I came out eighth. That cost me the race right there, but you know
what, the guys had a lot of real fast pit stops today, so I guess they're
allowed to have a problem every now and then, but we borrowed some tires
and all the lugnuts that were glued on from those tires fell off." WHAT ABOUT USING EVERY INCH OF THE TRACK TODAY? "The whole race track is just so wore out that you run on the bottom early and then you've gotta go to the top because if you don't, you just can't get going. So, on the bottom, on the top, in the middle, that's about it."
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