The 8 car rolled through the corners and had a full
head of steam when he finally caught Mayfield and roared
past. There would be no stopping Junior's momentum now.
Apparently the teams hard work paid off. Junior and
his crew had spent the previous Wednesday and Thursday
testing in Kentucky and Tennessee hoping to avoid
another potential disaster like the last race in Las
Vegas.
Late Thursday the team found a setup that Junior
liked, and that was fast.
"This is not a reference as to what we are as a team
for the rest of the season," Earnhardt said. "We've got
a lot of things we've got to work on. We could just as
easily start again next week and have a disaster."
"We're going to test at Texas Tuesday and Wednesday.
I wish and hope that we can test as much as we can,
because I don't want any more failures like we had. It's
too hard mentally. It's too much of a bummer. We're
going to test and run and practice and do whatever it
takes to make sure that doesn't happen again."