We have ice outside as well and it's darn cold. Even the dog didn't want to do his long walk......he just about pulled me back to the house!!
I am going to watch the two races on tape this AM...
Did you see Flash's reaction at the post race conference when a reporter told him his car flunked? "You've GOT to be kidding me, that sucks"...
Post race report.............
DALE EARNHARDT, JR.: Well, we had a pretty good car and had Michael out front there leading. He was pretty much a sitting duck there. Had Tony pushing me, really, really good out of the tri-oval. I was going to try to make a pass on him. I was around him. I really wasn't looking in the mirrors, I just know one minute I was going straight and then I was going toward the inside fence.
I guess looking at the replay, Michael pushed up on the corner, which it's a common place to get real tight, and he obviously hadn't had a lot of laps on that car. We'll give him the benefit of the doubt there, mainly because we didn't hit the wall (laughter).
Yeah, I was pretty happy we didn't have too much damage. The car suffered a little bit of suspension damage, a little bit of body work. When we spin around like that it changes the pressure inside the trunk and underneath the crush panels and in the rear, and it just changes the pressure so drastically that it can beat some of that stuff around.
The trunk is a little tore up by looking at it, and it bent the right rear trailing arm a little bit, and we might have buckle a front lower A-arm, too, because the car was traveling more in front and bottoming out more after that, so normally that's the lower arm that's buckled.
snip~to Q&A
Q. With you being a former teammate of Michael Waltrip, does it bother you some that this may cast some questions on all the restrictor plate dominance and success DEI enjoyed or are you positive there was never anything like that at DEI with the jet fuel?
DALE EARNHARDT, JR.: You must not have been around here long (laughter). I never really thought about that as far as it really linking to DEI at all. I think it's NASCAR's job to police as best they can, and they don't pull any punches and they don't really let you get by with too much. They catch the good guys and the bad guys when they're cheating. You know, but I don't think that I've never smelled any jet fuel in my car, and I know what it smells like when it's burning because I count the dollar signs every time we fire my jet up (laughter). I ain't never smelled that smell, either. I think I've been running standard here the last several years.
We are dog-sitting brother's and he was doing some "high stepping" when he realized how cold the grass was. LOL