"I just keep giving everybody ammunition," he said after the race with sly grin. Actually he'd been rather cognizant of Las Vegas' tricky pit-road entrance, even thinking during the Nationwide event about where he'd have to stop in the Sprint Cup race a day later. Still, going from 180 mph to 45 isn't easy, as the nine drivers busted for speeding Sunday can attest.
"I lifted a little bit earlier, and when I got toward pit road I really got on the brakes hard and it wheel-hopped," Earnhardt explained in the garage area as his crew loaded up his car. "It was just my fault. When you're wheel-hopping, you can't read the [tachometer] and I knew it didn't matter if I could read it, it was going to be too fast. But just trying, man, tryin' hard."
On the race track, he was clearly beating himself up over the misjudgment. "I thought I slowed down way early," he told crew chief Tony Eury Jr. over the radio. "This thing isn't stopping like I thought it was. I'll do a better job next time."
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