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sure if I could do it or not.
"Between my right wrist
locking up and him putting
the pressure on me and
the track going away, he
made up a lot of ground real
quick. When he was catch-
ing me I thought, 'man, I
wish I would have tried the
low line earlier,' because
that is where I thought I
needed to be. I couldn't
look back going into the
corner and see where he
was going. I could see com-
ing out that he was kind of
going low. When I looked
back again, he was high. I
figured until he got close I
would just keep doing what
I was doing. Luckily I was
able to react and go into
three low the last couple
laps and stay with him. I
knew if I was within striking
distance on the last lap that
I could pull the trigger com-
ing to the checkered flag.
Thank God I didn't fall off
the back when I pulled the
trigger."
"Honestly it's a tough
pill to swallow, because
we came up so short with
today's effort," said Mees.
"If he would have killed me
by a straightaway, or beat
me by 15 points, but ev-
erything runs through your
mind about what you should
have tried to do or could
have done different. At the
end of the day, it's over, but
it's just a hard mental thing
