Proving that good strategy can compensate for an underfunded team, Terry Labonte found himself in Victory Lane after a caution-filled Sprint Unlimited.
"It's great to be back", Labonte said upon exiting his car, the only one with absolutely zero damage. "We knew this was going to be a wild one, but we needed a lot of things to go our way. Like having every car wreck, for one."
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| Rest of the Field: DNF (ONE OF THEM RACIN DEALS) |
Labonte ran a single lap before pulling his car into the garage. By virtue of technically not retiring from the race, the "Ice Man" was able to return to the track and run the rest of the scheduled distance by himself.
"It was tough to get back out there, with all that debris on the track", Labonte continued. "It was even harder considering there was no pace car", referring to an incident earlier on where the track's pace car caught on fire. "At first I thought it was just a cool flame-paint scheme, but when I saw the driver jump out, I knew it was bad. Although, seeing Brett Bodine DNF really took me back to my younger days."
Labonte said that he would take the winning car to next week's Daytona 500, reasoning that the combination of machine and strategy could propel him to another big-time win.
"We don't want to mess with this thing", Labonte said, motioning to his Go Fas Racing Ford, "because we know we have a winner here. Besides, it's really the only car we have, so I gotta be careful with it."
Labonte said that, if he is able to win next week, he will donate a portion of the winnings to the victims of the war between Australia and Junior Nation.