“Heck yeah! A great day for my team - and DEI as a whole. I’m thrilled to death with a top-five finish and I really thought Martin had a car that could have won the race if he hadn’t been caught in that wreck. Actually, that flat tire saved us because we would have been right there among the cars that got wrecked. How many times has bad fortune followed us this year - and now something strange like a flat tire turns out to be good fortune.
“I want all the credit to go to (interim crew chief) Tony Gibson and the entire team. They are the reason we’re up here at the front. They made some adjustments about halfway through the race and the car was just too loose - I couldn’t drive it - and we dropped back a few spots. But, they worked on making several adjustments and at the end of the race, we were the fastest thing out there. Man - that’s the kind of race when you want it to go on 50 more laps because I could see the 25 (Casey Mears) and the 20 (Tony Stewart) ahead of us, and we were really catching them fast. A few more laps and we’d have been right there with Martin. ”
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