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NASCAR BGN: Pontiac Racing quotes - Aaron's 312, Atlanta

12 March 2000

BUCKSHOT JONES, NO. 00 CHEEZ-IT PONTIAC GRAND PRIX:

(ON HIS INCIDENT)  "I was just trying to come up through the field there.
Our car was running really good.  I got a run coming off of four on the 4
and the 15.  I went down there into one and was already past the 15, and
somehow we got tangled up together.  I think it was just one of those racing
deals.  It's real unfortunate.  Our Pontiac was flying.  We got in a little
trouble there and had a tire go down before the rain.  We were running like
12th and that put us back to 27th.  But after the rain delay our car was
awesome.  You hate for something like that to happen but it was just more of
a racing deal."

HUT STRICKLIN, NO. 61 IWX PONTIAC GRAND PRIX:
"That's not a bad deal.  We had a really, really, really fast car there at
the end of the race.  We had been too tight all day, but that last
adjustment we made was awesome.  It still wasn't perfect, but man we were a
lot better.  I'm really tickled.  We made a lot of gains all day.  The
racetrack changed dramatically but we stayed on top of it.  We ran the
eighth, ninth and tenth place guys down from a half a lap back.  We were
really good.  It feels really good.  We really wanted to finish in the top
10.  But right now our goal has to be to pile up as many points as we can
and this was a good weekend for us."