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Brickyard
400 -
Indianapolis
Motor Speedway
One year ago:
An early-race
accident left the #24 Peanuts/DuPont Monte Carlo
heavily damage. Jeff would finish
34th.
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-Qualifying
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Usually,
being the last one out for qualifying is a
good thing, but when qualifying is in the
morning and temps rise as the session goes
on, it's bad.
Jeff
Gordon qualified last in Saturday's
qualifying session for the Brickyard 400,
and, unfortunately, will start closer to
last than first on Sunday. Gordon will
start 27th.
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That's not the way
you want to celebrate your birthday. Gordon, who
turned 30 on Saturday, Aug. 4, is looking for his
third win in this prestigious race. His two wins at
Indy have come in the inaugural event in 1994 and
in 1998.
"I got wide off of
turn three and it ruined the lap," Gordon said. "We
made gains. The car felt a whole lot better. I got
through turns one and two good and that's where I
had been fighting it earlier. I got into turn
three, got back in the gas and I just didn't hit my
marks 100 percent down there and it just drifted up
a little bit. I had to check up to keep from
hitting the wall. I got through turn four pretty
good but at this place in qualifying one tiny
little thing can really slow your momentum down."
Last
year,
Gordon started one row back, in 29th. It didn't
make for very good results when he got caught up in
someone else's accident. However, Gordon expects to
be good in the race this year.
"We saw what
happened last year starting back there and it
wasn't pretty," Gordon said. "We have to make sure
we stay out of trouble and use all 400 miles to
work our way up to the front. Most of the testing
we did here, we worked on attitude without a lot of
tape on the front of the car. We'll be
fine."
-Race
Sorry folks,
I'm on vacation. I won't get any race reports done
until the Pepsi 400 from Michigan. If you're
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