In a post-Happy Hour interview on TBS, Jeff Gordon thanked Labonte for filling in for him after he missed the morning practice because he overslept. Gordon said that Labonte ran over something and cut the right-front tire. Gordon said that he had watched the tape of the incident and said that Labonte was a “talented driver”, because the incident “should have destroyed the race car” but that the car. Gordon also said the car handled exactly the same as it had been handling before the wreck.(many readers)(5-23-98)
