| What Else Can Happen? | | Date Created: Aug 12, 2007, 10:07 PM |
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A helluva race and further evidence road races should always be a part of the Nextel Cup circus. The full audio of the Budweiser team's race chatter is now posted on the podcast page - as well as the post-race report.... Yes, indeed ESPN did replay Dale Jr. describing his "110 percent effort... balls deep..." Hmmm... wonder if the holier-than-thou folks will raise hell this week. Hear it all in the podcast. Uncensored.
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From Team Chevy's transcripts:
DALE EARNHARDT JR., NO. 8 BUDWEISER IMPALA SS - sidelined with motor failure:
ON WHAT HAPPENED:
"We ended up having an issue with the motor. I think it was due to some of the downshifts I was doing during practice. We didn't turn anything over 10,000 (RPM) during the race, but during practice all weekend, I was having trouble with the car and struggling, I was using the downshift to slow the car down and get some speed out of the thing. We might have beat on the motor too hard this weekend, but they (engines) have been really good this year. We have had a lot of gremlins, but as far as failure in parts, rods and things like that, we haven't had them.
"I am real proud of my team. We were terrible all weekend but that car was good during the race. It was fun to drive. I thought we were putting on a show, we were working really hard and had something to be proud of and now all kind of disappointed but we will come back next week.
"We just beat on the motor too hard. I think we was just too rough on it. The motor was good. The car was really, really good. We were terrible all weekend and they just threw something underneath it this morning and look where we were running. We were jut as good as some of the cars out there. We were equal to the No. 24 if I wanted to really push the issue. I don't think I could catch him, but he could have made a mistake or something and I might have been able to get a win. But I think we had everybody else beat. So I'm pretty proud of that."
ON MAKING THE TOP 12: "It won't be easy, but we've done a whole lot harder stuff than that. I can handle it. We'll jut come back and try again. I'm going to make sure that I show my confidence in my team and make sure that I show them that I'm not giving up and they'll follow suit. And they'll show me a thing or two. We'll get something out of this.
ON BEING ABLE TO OVERCOME THIS IN POINTS: "I am sure we can. We have overcome a whole not worse than this, that is saying a lot, but I think we will be able to overcome it quite a bit.
"I think we have a couple races left and there is no telling what is going to happen in those races. I'm ready for Michigan to start right now.
"We're going to have our work cut out for us. This engine trouble here is going to make it much more difficult than what we were looking at last week. But we're going to keep trying. We've got to keep trying. If we don't try, we'll be pretty damned ashamed of ourselves. So we've got to keep working." |
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