JEFF GORDON (No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet):
“Well, he put up one heck of a lap, and I knew it was going to be really tough to match or beat that lap, and I knew in the first couple of corners, before I even came to the green, my car was a little bit too loose. We got everything we could out of it, and it’s still a good lap.
But it has got to be perfect; you have to hit four perfect corners like he did in order to be up one the pole. I’d be surprised if someone can be what that 48 ran, he put four great corners together. As a whole, Hendrick Motorsports and this DuPont Chevrolet team came so well prepared for this weekend. I’m really proud of them and having a lot of fun out there.” (John Andretti said, ‘I don’t know how he (Jimmie Johnson) did that with the sun out.’): “Yeah, I know.
That tells you how good they were and whatever adjustment they made. We were a little tight all day yesterday, and we freed it up, and I wasn’t expecting it to be as free as it was. The front end was just turning too good.”
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