WHATS THE KEY TO WINNING TOMORROW, GOING FAST OR BEING CONSISTENT?
“It’s staying on your game. The crew chiefs will be doing their role, hopefully I can be relaxed enough to do my role. I pretty much see it as a one-lane race track. When they print the time slip it’s a bunch of numbers. I don’t think of the other guy at all. If you can control what you are doing, hopefully it will be the best you can do.” TIM FREEMAN, SPEEDCO TRUCK LUBE CHEVY S-10, who took over from LARRY KOPP for the 2000 season, while Larry recuperates from shoulder surgery, did not qualify. He’s 17th with a 7.607/177.25 pass. FREEMAN: “I’m very disappointed for our Speedco Truck Lube Chevy S-10 to be 17th. We’re one thousandth (of a second) out of not racing on Sunday. We just somehow ended up off track. We ran really well in the first qualifying run, in the two middle ones we struggled, made a decent run in the last qualifying session, but it wasn’t enough. We kind of lost track in the middle two qualifying runs. I don’t know why we didn’t run better this morning. That really got