After the restart it seemed like chip was holding up everyone behind him for a few laps which allowed Randy and I to drive away a bit. And then Pierre was definitely coming and I was cranking up the screw up a bit.

[A. Lowe's is next in line of the big retailers slated to come to Hampton Cove. Randy Cunningham with the city planning department said officials with Lowe's have already approached the board of adjustments to request the necessary permits to build there, across the street from Super Wal-Mart. In early June, a permit was issued to Ben Branum Contractors of Huntsville for grading and drainage work on a 30-acre site at that corner.] It is still in the planning stages, and we don't have the drawings on it yet, ... It isn't entirely solid yet, but that is what has been proposed.

I just wanted to tuck in behind the leader on the first two laps, then take the lead on the third lap if I felt good. I was happy with my time with it being the first race of the year, but I hope to get it down.

I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.

I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.

I had the restart, which was all I could do,