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Winston 500 Bill Elliott Qualifying Press Conference "It went well. I really didn't realize that it went that well. I figured 50.90, something like that, is where we'd end up based on how we tested here a couple of weeks ago. But, to come out of here as well as we did run, kind of really surprised me. I guess Tony Cole did a good job on the motor, that's all I can say." ON THE AERODYNAMICS OF THE CAR DURING THE RACE. "I didn't do the Daytona test, so I don't really know, the drafting test. I can't really answer that until tomorrow after we run some in practice." HOW DID YOU GET YOUR FORD TO RUN THAT FAST WHEN THE NEXT FASTEST ONE WAS 11TH? "It wasn't easy. Like I said Tony built me an awful good motor-because he had to, to pull that thing through there." ON THE SLINGSHOT, LIKE IN THE 1980S? "As I said, I really don't know how to answer that. The guys that did the test at Daytona could better answer that question, more so than I could. I would hope that would happen, where you can get some momentum going, where you can make the pass on somebody, that's kinda what we're looking for. Hopefully, this will be the direction we need to go into." HAVE YOU GOTTEN ANY GRIEF IN THE GARAGE FROM OTHER FORD TEAMS FOR MESSING UP THE POLITICAL POINT? No, they've been mad at me since the spring so it doesn't matter now." THE LAST THREE WINNERS AT TALLADEGA HAVE STARTED FROM BACK IN THE FIELD? DOES IT MATTER WHERE YOU START? "There again, until we go through practice tomorrow and see how everybody evolves the way I see it will kinda determine kinda on how this deal is gonna work out. All in all, to get away from this comment and go back to the last one, my guys have worked really hard on our Ford. We tested here, we came here and really worked hard to come here and have a good effort, and that's what it's all about. We don't lay down. These guys of mine worked hard and it shows week in and week out. And that's what this business is all about. And, we're not going to lay down for anybody." "I think with the extra power, you can get shuffled out, but I don't know if you can get shuffled out as bad as you could before with no power. You know, you have good aerodynamics, but you didn't have the power-you know, you couldn't even hardly pull out on anybody, the way it was before, and I think that's what we pretty much seen, unless you had a lot of help from behind you. Hopefully, this will change, and like I say, we'll know more as we start practicing in the morning with a lot of cars around us." HOW'S THE KNEECAP? "It's probably 75 percent. It's pretty good. We're still working on it. That's where I've been the last hour and a half, trying to get worked out." "It's been interesting from my perspective. Whenever they started restricting the cars and we can still play with the rear spoilers and lay 'em down and all that stuff, I was more uncomfortable here running at 190 than I was at 212. And back then you had to kinda tune the car to wherever you run the fastest and still get it around the race track. NASCAR's kinda gone through quite an evolution here of a lot of different things, trying to get the formula right. Here we've gone through another era that's really farther than I'd ever seen 'em take it as far as what they've done with cars, and this might be the ingredients that we really need, and like I said, we'll no more when this race is over here this weekend. One thing that does surprise me is they did it in the same season. The last race here was a good race, where the two races at Daytona were kinda ho-hum, but that's looking at the differences in the race track, not necessarily the differences in the cars. So, we'll just see what Sunday brings. Like I said, the evolution here, it's been a strange one throughout the years, and I see it from both sides of the fence, from the competitor's side and the same from NASCAR's side, as what they're trying to accomplish. Hopefully, we can get it right here this weekend." DOES THE CAR FEEL DIFFERENT? "I haven't seen any difference, not feel or drive or anything. We try to pin 'em down to where we get it to run as fast as we can run, sometimes they get uncomfortable, but, still, you hold 'em wide open."
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