ON THE RACE AND WHAT TURNED IT AROUND FOR HIM: GORDON - “Well I don’t know where to begin. The thing that stands out the most to me that turned around for us today was one, Steve and I just trying to make adjustments - obviously I wasn’t making ‘em I was just giving him input - but those guys making adjustments. So it made the car a little bit better but there was one time when we stayed out under green and made a stop real late. The caution came out immediately after that and then a bunch of guys ahead of us came in and got tires. That put us up in the top five with only one lap on our tires and from that point on we seemed to stay in the top-five so track position was obviously very important.
And then we were able to just fine tune. The car was pretty good. We bounced between loose and tight but still maintained that top five. Then the water temp kept and all that stuff started going up and sky rocketing and certainly had us concerned and I didn’t think we were even going to make it to the end. We were running pretty comfortably behind Jimmie and I was going to be very happy to finish second to Jimmie today because I just wanted to finish because everything we’ve worked so far towards, I just didn’t want to lose all that momentum and that ground. To then have that caution come out and Steve make the call to stay out and Jimmie come in and the engine last. It was just a ton of emotions going on today that is was a pretty unbelievable victory. “
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