“Me and Michael will draft fine together in the future, we just didn’t today,” Earnhardt said. “You can have friends, but you can’t be friends to the end. You’ve got to go for the win. I’ve got a benchmark that my daddy set for wins at this place, and we got another one today. I couldn’t run directly behind anyone because the air was too dirty. So I started running the top. But then when I started gaining some ground on Michael he moved up to the top, and took all the air I was using. I told them, ‘Pick one or the other, because I’m going to run where he ain’t, because I can’t run behind him.”
“It was a dead-end road where Earnhardt was headed, and they were all lined up on the bottom, so I just got in line,” Waltrip said. “It wasn’t any big deal. I love Dale Jr. We work so well together.”(Winston Salem Journal)(2-13-2004)