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Bill Elliott Brickyard 400 Press Conference "I was just glad to finish. I tell you, the last six or eight weeks have been very devastating for the McDonald's team and to come out of here -- we didn't have any trouble all day long, in the pits, on the race track, nothing happened. Like Rusty said, when you get an uneventful day, usually you're up front. Those guys got some distance on us, got some lapped cars on me and Jerry and a couple of the other guys and you never could make it up. Rusty and them ran awesome when it was time to go and that's what this business is all about. If we can just keep digging along and get better week in and week out, that's what it's all about. I think from our standpoint it was a big accomplishment for us to finish well here today and try to get this second half of the season turned around from the first half." HOW DOMINANT DID RUSTY AND BOBBY LOOK FROM YOUR LOCATION? "Well, I never did see them. I knew they were up there somewhere, but I finally got them in sight a little bit and then we got several lapped cars between us and then, it's just like everybody said, you catch a guy four or five-tenths a lap and you get to him and they're so hard to pass. It takes several, several laps to get by these guys and the faster you run the harder it is. Nadeau caught me in the latter part of the race and he got to me and he couldn't do nothing with me when he got to me, so it was just a situation if you can hang on and keep digging you can keep it going. It's a tough race track, it's a lot of fun but, still, it's a hard race track to pass on." HOW DOES THIS BUILD MOMENTUM FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR? "To come out of here and finish third, I think, was a fantastic accomplishment. I think from our team standpoint we needed for morale because regardless of how good you run week in and week out, if you keep falling out of races it just finally gets to you. We felt like we were a good race team and we've had some awful strong runs here the last six-eight weeks and we just couldn't put anything together. Everything that seemed to happen was kind of freak stuff, it wasn't anybody's fault, so to come out of here with an uneventful day and everything go good -- great pit stops, good running race car, good handling race car, we've accomplished a lot."
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