NASCAR WCUP: Post Race Notes and Quotes, Phoenix, Mark Martin
6 November 2000
Posted By Terry CallahanMotorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
MARK MARTIN --6-- Valvoline Taurus (Finished 6th) -- "The track really needed to be cleaned up a little bit more and if I could have gotten them to clean it a little bit more, it would have been darn close. I wanted it real bad and I didn't have the car to do it, so we went for it. It was my call. I felt like where we were sitting that we had more to gain than to lose and with five to go we were still leading. We weren't running good and I wanted to win real bad. We got the lead and I drove it as hard as I could. I'll take sixth, that's a nine-spot improvement from where we were when the caution came out and we were looking better than that with right down to two to go, but I just couldn't handle 'em."
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