What: Race 7 of 36 on Sprint Cup circuit
Where: Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, TX
When: April 9, 2011 7:46 pm EDT
Laps: 334
Track Length: 1.5 miles
Race Length: 501.00 miles
Records
Date Series Driver Speed
11/6/05 Sprint Cup Race Carl Edwards 151.00
11/5/06 Sprint Cup Qualifying Brian Vickers 196.235
4/5/08 Nationwide Race Kyle Busch 152.00
4/6/02 Nationwide Qualifying Jeff Green 193.492
6/5/09 Camping World Truck Race Todd Bodine 153.00
11/3/06 Camping World Truck Qualifying Clint Bowyer 184.464
Sprint Cup Series
Upcoming Race Sat Apr 9
Samsung Mobile 500
Track Facts
Texas Motor Speedway
Location: Fort Worth, TX
Banking/Turns: Quad-Oval
Distance: 1.50 miles
Shape: Quad-Oval
Most Cup Wins (since 1975)
Carl Edwards: 3
Sprint Cup Date Race Name Pole Winner Race Winner Make Purse
4/19/10 Samsung Mobile 500 Tony Stewart Denny Hamlin Toyota $7,094,253
11/7/10 AAA Texas 500 Elliott Sadler Denny Hamlin Toyota $6,998,905
4/5/09 Samsung 500 David Reutimann Jeff Gordon Chevrolet $7,384,649
11/8/09 Dickies 500 Jeff Gordon Kurt Busch Dodge $7,359,286
4/6/08 Samsung 500 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Carl Edwards Ford $7,336,866
11/2/08 Dickies 500 Jeff Gordon Carl Edwards Ford $7,319,807
4/15/07 Samsung 500 Jeff Gordon Jeff Burton Chevrolet $7,253,642
11/4/07 Dickies 500 Martin Truex Jr. Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet $7,255,977
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Race 6 of 34 on Nationwide circuit
Where:Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, TX
When: Friday April 8, 2011 8:46 pm EDT
Laps:200
Track Length:1.5 miles
Race Length:300.00 miles
Records
Date Series Driver Speed
11/6/05 Sprint Cup Race Carl Edwards 151.00
11/5/06 Sprint Cup Qualifying Brian Vickers 196.235
4/5/08 Nationwide Race Kyle Busch 152.00
4/6/02 Nationwide Qualifying Jeff Green 193.492
6/5/09 Camping World Truck Race Todd Bodine 153.00
11/3/06 Camping World Truck Qualifying Clint Bowyer 184.464
Nationwide
Date Race Name Pole Winner Race Winner Make Purse
4/19/10 O'Reilly Auto Parts 300 Joey Logano Kyle Busch Toyota $1,457,996
11/6/10 O'Reilly Auto Parts Challenge James Buescher Carl Edwards Ford $1,285,622
4/4/09 O'Reilly 300 Kyle Busch Kyle Busch Toyota $1,524,562
11/7/09 O'Reilly Challenge Matt Kenseth Kyle Busch Toyota $1,277,884
11/1/08 O'Reilly Challenge Carl Edwards Kyle Busch Toyota $1,282,415
4/5/08 O'Reilly 300 Kevin Harvick Kyle Busch Toyota $1,527,668
4/14/07 O'Reilly 300 David Ragan Matt Kenseth Ford $1,504,601
11/3/07 O'Reilly Challenge David Reutimann Kevin Harvick Chevrolet $1,244,106
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April 6, 2011 , FORT WORTH - BRAD KESELOWSKI, – No. 22 Discount Tire Dodge Challenger R/T
Career Starts: 144
Wins: 12
Top Fives: 60
Top 10s: 85
Poles: 8
Career Highlights:
· Has five-consecutive top-five Nationwide finishes at TMS.
· The defending NASCAR Nationwide Series champion.
· Earned Penske Racing its first NASCAR champion last season.
· Set career-best results in 2010 in wins (6), top fives (26), top 10s (29) and poles (5).
· Set a NASCAR record 102 consecutive Nationwide Series races without a DNF (Did Not Finish) that ended at this year’s season-opening race at Daytona Int’l Speedway.
· First Nationwide victory came at Nashville Superspeedway (2008).
SAM HORNISH, - No. 12 Alliance Truck Parts Dodge Challenger R/T
Career Starts: 21
Wins: 0
Top Fives: 0
Top 10s: 0
Poles: 0
Career Highlights:
· Made his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut with Penske Racing at Phoenix Int’l Raceway in the fall of 2006.
· From 2007 to 2010, Hornish made a total of 108 starts in NASCAR’s premier division scoring two top-five and eight top-10 finishes.
· Will be making his third-career Nationwide start at Texas Motor Speedway.
DID YOU KNOW
· Dodge’s Brad Keselowski clinched his 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series championship last fall at Texas Motor Speedway. His last Nationwide win came at Gateway in October (seven races). His last pole came at Michigan in August (17 races).
· Dodge’s Sam Hornish will be making only his second Nationwide start of the season (Daytona).
· Only one of the 20 Nationwide races at TMS has been won from the pole and only three from the front row.
“Texas is an extremely fast track in any kind of car, but no stock car gives you the sensation of speed that the Nationwide Series car does. It actually feels faster than a Cup car. You enter Turn 1 at around 190-195 mph, depending on whether you are in race trim or qualifying trim. If your car is handling the way it needs to, you’ll go through that corner without lifting, or barely lifting, out of the throttle. You’re on the edge the entire lap and if you don’t hit your marks you can easily end up in the wall. I’m excited about the car we’re bringing and I think we can run up front and contend for the win.” Brad Keselowski, No. 22 Discount Tire Dodge Challenger R/T
“I always love going to Texas. I was able to celebrate two of my IndyCar Championships there, as well as my last IndyCar race victory. The track is very fast and has multiple lanes, which makes the racing great. We’ve had the Sam Hornish Jr. Celebrity Bowling Tournament there and have raised over $500,000 for North Texas Children’s Charities, which is another reason why I love heading back to Texas. I am looking forward to having a strong run this weekend. I am really excited about driving the No. 12 Alliance Truck Parts Dodge in this race. It’s a sharp-looking car and I expect to have a good race.” Sam Hornish Jr., No. 12 Alliance Truck Parts Dodge Challenger R/T
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April 5, 2011 , FORT WORTH - For Immediate Release Dodge Motorsports NSCS Race Advance
Samsung 500
Texas Motor Speedway
Saturday, April 9, 2011
DODGE AT TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY
• Dodge has three wins at TMS (Kurt Busch – 2009, Kasey Kahne – 2006 and Ryan Newman – 2003).
• Dodge earned three consecutive poles at TMS (Newman made it a sweep in 2005 and Kahne started from the pole in the spring race in 2006).
• Dodge’s Kurt Bush has one win, three top-five and 10 top-10 finishes in 16 career starts at Texas Motor Speedway.
• Dodge has the only Sprint Cup win from the pole at TMS (Kahne – 2006).
THE DODGE BOYS
• Dodge has 207 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victories.
• Dodge’s most recent win came at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Kurt Busch led 252 of 400 laps en route to victory in the 2010 Coca-Cola 600.
• Dodge claimed two Sprint Cup victories in 2010.
• Dodge teams have posted 47 wins since the manufacturer’s return to NASCAR’s premier series in 2001 after being out of the sport since 1977.
• Dodge has posted wins each season since it’s return in 2001 including seven wins twice (2002 and 2006).
FAST FIVE!
• The Dodge brand has teamed up with Universal Pictures for a multi-tiered partnership to support the upcoming action-thriller “Fast Five” that will be released in theaters April 29. Promotion elements include a month-long paint scheme on Robby Gordon’s No. 7 Dodge Charger and a Fast Five Sweepstakes where fans have an opportunity to win one of five custom “Fast Five” 2011 Dodge Charger R/T models. As part of the partnership with Robby Gordon Motorsports, the first 200 fans to register at Dodge Motorsports | NASCAR | AMA Supercross | Formula DRIFT | Dodge Viper Cup | NHRA or SPEEDENERGY will receive a special “Fast Five” movie viewing with Robby Gordon on Saturday, April 30, in Richmond, Va. The No. 7 Fast Five/SPEED Energy Dodge Charger R/T will be on the track during the month of April at Texas Motor Speedway, Talladega Superspeedway and Richmond International Raceway.
DODGE NEWS AND NOTES
• Dodge’s Kurt Busch is currently fourth in the Cup Series driver standings, 14 points behind the series leader.
DID YOU KNOW
• Dodge has recorded seven Sprint Cup wins in the state of Texas. In addition to three wins at TMS, Bobby Allison took Dodge to victory lane in the only Cup race at Houston’s Meyer Speedway (1971). Dodge had three wins in the eight Cup races at Texas World Speedway in College Station (Bobby Isaac, Buddy Baker and Richard Petty).
• Kurt Busch won the 2009 Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. It was the largest margin of victory (25.686 seconds) since the inception of timing and scoring in 1993.
• Penske Racing’s Brad Keselowski made his Dodge Sprint Cup debut at the Texas Motor Speedway during the 2009 fall event driving the No. 12 Penske Dodge Charger.
2011 SPRINT CUP SERIES SEASON BEST
• Kurt Busch Start: 2nd – Phoenix
Finish: 5th – Daytona
• Brad Keselowski Start: 9th – Phoenix
Finish: 15th – Phoenix
• Robby Gordon Start: 30th – Daytona
Finish: 16th – Daytona
FROM THE ENGINEER
"The Sprint Cup pole speed at Martinsville last weekend was 96.509 mph. The Sprint Cup pole speed at Texas last November was 195.397 mph. One of the great features of the Sprint Cup Series, and one of the toughest on engineers, is the widely diverse venues teams deal with every week. This week, going from the slowest track in the series to the reigning fastest track really helps to accentuate that point. Aerodynamics and flat-out horsepower took a back seat last week in Martinsville, but they're certainly at the forefront this week in Texas." Howard Comstock, Dodge Motorsports Engineering
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
• Dodge’s Kurt Busch’s driver rating of 14.2 is 12th amongst current Sprint Cup drivers competing in the last six races at Texas Motor Speedway.
DODGE QUOTES
“Each place may look the same, but each driver and crew chief will tell you that it drives very different and requires you to work hard on your race setups. It’s a tough track, that’s for sure and it’s so fast. With this race being at night under the lights, I guarantee you that Texas will feel like it’s the fastest one of them all. There's just a lot of high speed action at Texas. You really have to get up on the wheel and grit your teeth. You have to push your car extra if you're going to make it stick and get that extra speed out of it." Kurt Busch, No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger R/T
“Texas really is a unique racetrack and a unique layout. From above it looks like any normal 1.5-mile track, but the transitions into and off of the corners are quite a bit different than Charlotte, Las Vegas or any of the other mile-and-a-halfs. There is a lot of banking into the corners, which means you can carry a lot of speed in and to the center, but you lose that speed on exit as the track flattens out. It’s difficult because normally you can carry the same amount of grip and speed on both corner entry and corner exit. You have to adjust accordingly and sometimes that’s hard to do at 180 miles per hour. It’s easy to find yourself in trouble, especially off of Turn 2.” Brad Keselowski, No 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger R/T
DODGE MOTORSPORTS QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“The cowboy hats, getting to fire the six-shooters, the whole big western theme; that’s a great trademark that Eddie (track president Eddie Gossage) and the Texas track have going for them. The celebration doesn’t end in Victory Lane as Eddie has always carried the winners around to the Speedway Club to raise a special toast to the massive crowd gathered there. It’s all just so cool and that’s about the best way that I know how to describe it.” Kurt Busch, No 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger
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2011 NSCS Samsung Mobile 500 Q & A with Dodge Motorsports Driver Kurt Busch
Press Release
April 7, 2011
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO AS FAR AS THIS WEEKEND IS CONCERNED?
“This is a big market with Shell-Pennzoil being just down the road in Houston. We’re going to do our best to make sure our colors are flying up front and have a shot at going to Victory Lane. This is one of those tough tracks that you have to battle aerodynamics with chassis handling. You’re always fighting the track conditions.
“This time around with racing at night, it will be slightly different. Hopefully, we’ll allow ourselves adjustability for our Shell-Pennzoil Dodge to take advantage of the cool conditions that we’re going to find once we get into the halfway point in the race on Saturday night. Tomorrow, it’s supposed to be windy and sunny with warm temperatures in the 90s. So we’ll see how we can balance that out and get her (car) dialed in for the night race portion of it, because the night program is so much faster. The track is cooler, the winds usually die down. But night racing is a benefit for everybody, the fans, the drivers; the excitement of the whole day’s activities lead up to the race really makes for a great atmosphere.”
WHAT DOES YOUR TEAM DO WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE A NOTEBOOK? WHAT DO YOU DO COMING IN HERE THAN YOU WOULD FOR A DAY RACE?
“Well, the fact that we can’t test on tracks that we race on, we try to take advantage of the first session of practice with three or four big ideas and see which one sticks and work around that. Then we just start working towards track conditions. You can relate to some of the past experiences to get you pretty close. Then, as the weekend progresses, as time draws closer to the end of practice, you have to really understand how you’re going to dial it in for Saturday night. We’ve raced here in the fall with cooler conditions, so you parallel those cooler conditions to what we’ll see hopefully on Saturday night.”
TALK ABOUT THE SPEEDS HERE AND THE FEELING OF SPEED.
“There’s a couple of sections on the track, corner entry and corner exit, where you really get the sensation of speed here. But the 210 down the straightaway, you’re going fast, but you don’t necessarily feel it just because it’s very wide and there are plenty of lanes to choose from. But there’s that on-edge feeling that you get when you’re going into the corner and when you’re trying to hold it wide open on corner exit. Turn four especially gets pretty slick when the sun is out. You have to slide it through there just the right way. You really know when you’re going fast when something happens, when something goes wrong. Otherwise, the rate of acceleration here isn’t all that high just because we get to keep our speed up all the way around. I think when there’s rates of acceleration, that’s when you feel more speed.”
SEVEN DIFFERENT TEAMS ARE REPRESENTED BY THE TOP-SEVEN DRIVERS. ALL FOUR MANUFACTURERS ARE REPRESENTED IN THE TOP FOUR. IS THIS HAPPENSTANCE OR DO YOU FEEL THERE’S MORE PARITY IN THE SERIES THAN EVER BEFORE?
“It’s what NASCAR always strives for, is the parity amongst manufacturers, the teams, of course. It could be just random circumstances that we have the situation we have with points right now. For us being the only Dodge, we have to go out and carry that banner the best we can, make sure they’re being held up to the standard that they need to be, and is comparable with the rest of the group. We have a championship car. We have a championship team. We just need to continue to do that.
“Right now, the Roush cars seem to be pretty strong with (Carl) Edwards winning right out of the box, watching even the 6 car gain some speed. That shows that those guys definitely have an edge right now. But you’re always competing against the Chevrolets. They always seem to be the cars to beat just because of quantity. There are that many more of them than the rest of us and the Toyotas. I mean, Kyle is up there running strong. He’s been the one to be more competitive at all the tracks this year than anybody else next to Carl Edwards, and that’s why he’s leading the points. It comes down to just raw speed.”
YOU STARTED OFF THE SEASON STOUT WITH YOUR RESTRICTOR PLATE PROGRAM AT DAYTONA. DO YOU HAVE THE SAME KIND OF CONFIDENCE GOING TO TALLADEGA? HOW DO YOU THINK THE RACING WILL BE SIMIILAR OR NOT SO SIMILAR TO DAYTONA?
“We have high expectations next week at Talladega with how everything went for us at Daytona. A couple years back, when we qualified at Talladega and Daytona, we were in the mid 30s for restrictor plate races. And I hope that maybe one day I can crack Victory Lane in a points-paying race at a restrictor plate race.
“We’re going to see that same style draft. The two-car draft is just so potent. I mean, anytime you can tell a race car driver he can go four seconds faster a lap and give him the recipe on how to do it, he’s going to go and put it into play, that’s that two-car draft.
“We worked real well with Regan Smith. Looking for more opportunities with Brad Keselowski, my Dodge teammate and anyone else. You want to learn how their car drafts with yours, vice versa, that way you’re best prepared for Sunday’s event.”
THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF TALK ABOUT PIT ROAD SPEEEDS THIS WEEK. I WAS CURIOUS, HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOU TO LEARN THE ART OF FIGURING OUT WHERE ALL THE LINES ARE, SPEEDING UP, SLOWING DOWN, DOING ALL THE STUFF TO GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR TIME ON PIT ROAD?
“Yeah, the game has changed on pit road. It used to be when I first started just a group of officials on top of the tower with stopwatches clocking random drivers. They would choose to call down or they would choose not to call down to your team and let you know if you were too fast or not. Then we went into this I guess more or less a transponder scoring system on pit road. I’ve actually been up on the tower during a Nationwide race to watch it work. When you’re at the correct pit road speed, your car number is in green. When you’re in the incorrect speed, going too fast, your car number turns red. So in a sense, it’s black and white. You’re good or you’re bad. They’re going to call your number no matter who you are and they’re going to let you know when you’re speeding. The problem is there’s different speed zones that are different lengths. We have a hundred feet on entry and exit of pit road and a lot of times we have 300 to 400 feet in between the segments during the regular pit boxes from stall 1 to 20 or 21 to 30. There are large differences.
“When you have those large segments, that’s when there’s an opportunity to speed. Drivers try to time out finding the right pit box with the crew chief on when they can speed and not get caught. It’s a black-and-white system. If you’re too fast in a certain segment, then you’re busted. Can we go to a program that calculates overall average speed on pit road and include the pit stop time? That’s something that I’d like to take a look at as far as when you trip the beacon to go on to pit road and when you trip it coming off, what is your speed. But it is very difficult because some teams can crank off those two-tire stops in six seconds, then you have another team struggling with a four-tire stop at 18 seconds. There are a lot of variables. Bottom line is racing should be safe for the race track; it shouldn’t be done on pit road. We need to be as safe as we can on pit road for all of the crew members out there.”
- Darnell Communications for Dodge Motorsports, Press Release
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Last Updated: Friday, Apr 8, 2011 7:38 pm, EDT
Samsung Mobile 500
Texas Motor Speedway
Order Driver (No.) Car Qualifying Speed
1 David Ragan (6) Ford 189.820
2 Carl Edwards (99) Ford 188.521
3 Clint Bowyer (33) Chevrolet 188.232
4 Matt Kenseth (17) Ford 188.199
5 Regan Smith (78) Chevrolet 187.950
6 Jimmie Johnson (48) Chevrolet 187.761
7 Marcos Ambrose (9) Ford 187.656
8 Joey Logano (20) Toyota 187.585
9 Greg Biffle (16) Ford 187.552 10 Kurt Busch (22) Dodge 187.402
11 Kyle Busch (18) Toyota 187.370
12 Jeff Burton (31) Chevrolet 187.350
13 Kasey Kahne (4) Toyota 187.233
14 Juan Pablo Montoya (42) Chevrolet 187.175
15 A J Allmendinger (43) Ford 187.175
16 Ryan Newman (39) Chevrolet 187.045
17 Jamie McMurray (1) Chevrolet 187.045
18 Trevor Bayne (21) Ford 187.019
19 Paul Menard (27) Chevrolet 186.896
20 Michael McDowell (66) Toyota 186.838
21 Mark Martin (5) Chevrolet 186.819
22 Casey Mears (13) Toyota 186.638
23 Denny Hamlin (11) Toyota 186.535
24 Landon Cassill (09) Chevrolet 186.490
25 David Reutimann (00) Toyota 186.406
26 Tony Stewart (14) Chevrolet 186.361 27 Brad Keselowski (2) Dodge 185.944
28 Dale Earnhardt Jr. (88) Chevrolet 185.938
29 Kevin Harvick (29) Chevrolet 185.918
30 Brian Vickers (83) Toyota 185.874
31 Martin Truex Jr. (56) Toyota 185.771
32 Jeff Gordon (24) Chevrolet 185.580
33 David Starr (195) Chevrolet 185.580
34 Bobby Labonte (47) Toyota 185.516
35 J.J. Yeley (46) Chevrolet 185.293
36 Mike Skinner (60) Toyota 185.122
37 Joe Nemechek (87) Toyota 184.944
38 Dave Blaney (36) Chevrolet 184.143 39 Robby Gordon (7) Dodge 183.617
40 David Gilliland (34) Ford 183.287
41 Ken Schrader (32) Ford 181.378
42 Tony Raines (37) Ford 179.122
43 Andy Lally (71) Chevrolet 183.780
44 Travis Kvapil (38) DNQ 183.387
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“I thought that we were really close today. It was a good battle at the end. I hope everybody enjoyed it. I thought that I might be able to get him (Carl Edwards). He had about six or seven lap newer tires; more importantly he had the clean air and the ability to put his car where he wanted to and he did a good job with that. I caught a few breaks in lapped traffic to inch closer. I felt like I could almost get him and then I’d lose the nose with an aero push. That’s just racing. I needed the track to widen up just a little bit more and maybe could have moved around. All and all, a pretty decent day. I think we made some pretty big strides with our Nationwide program this weekend. I saw a little bit of it a couple weeks ago in California. I felt like if we could have beaten him off of pit road, we might have been able to hold him off with clean air. Who knows; it was a good race.”
WHAT DID YOU LEARN FROM TONIGHT THAT YOU CAN CARRY OVER TO TOMORROW?
“Probably, mostly how important clean air is and how valuable it can be even if your car is quite a ways off the pace.”
HOW BIG WAS CLEAN AIR?
“It was everything. When I got out in the lead, it felt like I ran a half of a second faster. Clean air is really important. The track really hasn’t widened up and it’s still a tough place to pass at times. We brought a really fast Discount Tire Dodge Challenger to Texas. We made some big gains from where we’ve been this year. Just some small tweaks and I think we’ll be right there.”
“We unloaded pretty fast and got a chance to work on our Discount Tire Dodge Challenger from there. I felt like if we would have gotten out in clean air, I think we would have drove away from them. Every week is a learning experience for the two of us. Every time we go racing, it helps us get better as a team. A good night for us tonight that’s for sure.”
SAM HORNISH JR. (No. 12 Alliance Truck Parts Dodge Challenger R/T) Finished 16th
“Being out of the car as long as I was (since Daytona), we had some ups and downs tonight. I feel like we had a car that we definitely could have brought home in the top 10 if not the top five. We had a wheel issue and had to pit which had us off sequence. We could never get back. That’s one of the interesting things about the Nationwide Series, we only have five sets of tires. That dictates some of the strategy.
That’s what happens sometimes. I’m really proud of all the guys that work on the Alliance Truck Parts Dodge and look forward to next week, racing two weekends in a row. We were way too free starting off the race. We adjusted the car too much when it was hot and when it cooled off, the car was really loose. We could go after 20 laps, but it was getting to that 20 lap mark.”
CHAD WALTERS (Crew Chief, No. 12 Alliance Truck Parts Dodge Challenger R/T)
“You always want to come here, be competitive and run up front. We had a car to do that, but had an unfortunate issue with a loose wheel. That’s racing luck. Sam hung in there. We didn’t have very good luck with the wheel, so we tried to make a little luck with the wave around, but didn’t get the caution that would have put us back in the sequence. All in all, the Alliance Truck Parts Dodge team did a good job tonight.
This is a team working together for the first time. Sam drove his heart out. He really did a good job. This builds confidence for the whole team. We would take this car to Talladega, but we’ve got a better bullet back at the shop. That race is a wildcard, anybody can win there. I feel like Penske Racing has really done its homework and we’re going to have something for them next week.”
- Darnell Communications Press Release
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Dodge Motorsports Notes & Quotes – NSCS Race Final – Texas
Published on April 10, 2011 by Official Release
KURT BUSCH (No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger R/T) Finished 10th
“Just a hard-fought battle all night. We qualified 10th, finished 10th. We led laps when we were off-sequence, but overall a hard fought battle to get the car dialed-in once again. We struggle to make adjustments as we go. We got something towards the end to make something of it. Overall, we got off-sequence which might have helped preserve that top 10. It’s tough. We want to compete for top fives and wins and we’re only getting top 10s right now.”
STEVE ADDINGTON (crew chief, No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger R/T)
“A little rough tonight. I didn’t think we would be that much off to start the race. It seemed like when we adjusted on the car, we would get different results. It’s a bit of a mystery. We had to use some different strategy and we really shouldn’t have to do that. We should be up front challenging for wins. We just need to get a handle on this thing right now. I’m proud of everyone on this team who worked so hard on the Shell/Pennzoil Dodge. We did what we had to do to manufacturer a top-10 finish.”
BRAD KESELOWSKI (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger R/T) Finished 18th
“We worked our tail off today; got ourselves some track position early in the race, made the most of it and led some laps. That felt really, really good. We just weren’t good enough to stay up there, but we weren’t bad tonight. We were a 10th- to 15th-place car. We didn’t catch any bad breaks, but we didn’t catch any good breaks. We needed to do a little bit better on pit road; we lost some spots there we couldn’t get back. It was a strong effort. I thought Kurt (Busch) and I were pretty even. He out executed me a little bit and got himself a 10th. That’s about where we should have been. That’s progress from where we’ve been, but we’ve still got a ways to go.”
ROBBY GORDON (No. 7 Fast Five/SPEED Energy Dodge Charger R/T) Finished 31st
“The crazy thing is, we were as good as the 29 (Kevin Harvick) and he finished 20th. We just don’t make the most out of our races. We ran with him all night long. Having to back up on one of the pit stop hurt us; that’s my fault. All in all, we worked hard. I thought we were going to be a top-15 car. It fired off like that, but all of a sudden, the car just went wicked loose. We never got it fixed.”
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