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With this Victory... Mark Martin

Bristol, TN

"We've got awfully steamy engines in these cars this year. We've got a lot of power and these guys have put me in good race cars. I want to thank everybody at Roush Racing for putting these engines together. It wasn't exactly right there today, but we were better than we were yesterday and it was enough today.

We'd really like to win tomorrow and win that bonus money and everything else. (Martin has a shot at the Unocal Bonus - which is currently $121,600 if he wins from the pole).

Any close calls today?

Shoot, every inch is close at this place!

What types of things do you learn from these Saturday races that transfers to Sunday?

Sometimes you can, sometimes you can't. This car took a real weird set-up and never did handle exactly right. We can't put this kind of stuff under our Winstun Cup car. Sometimes they do correlate, but I've got to figure tomorrow's deal out here in a few minutes (in Happy Hour).


  • Wins his third Busch Series event of 1996. He has run in 6 events this year.

    Has 4 top-5 and 6 top-10 finishes.

  • Wins his second Busch consecutive race after winning at Darlington last week.

  • Wins his 23nd Busch Series event in 134 career Busch starts.

  • This is his second victory at Bristol.

  • This is the 3rd Busch Series victory for Ford this season and is the third time Ford has won at Bristol in the 28 Busch Series events run at BIR since 1982.

  • This is the 1st time a Busch event has been won from the 10th spot on the starting grid.