The team tested this car at Lakeland, Fla., two weeks ago in preparation for Richmond. Truth is stranger than fiction. Figures don't lie.
Explanations are hard to come by.
Unusual things are happening. The short of it is that so far, longer has been uncommonly stronger. It is untypical, but bigger has been better. Yet, he enters Saturday night's Pontiac Excitement 400 with an 8.0 average finish in restrictor-plate racing and just a 10.0 average on the short tracks for the 2001 season. While on one hand, it really shows that we finally have our act together on the big tracks, it also shows that we need to get back to dominating like we had been doing on the short tracks.