Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011
Dodge Motorsports PR
Atlanta Motor Speedway
AdvoCare 500
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Rain Delay Quotes
STEVE ADDINGTON (Crew Chief, No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger R/T): “It just makes a short week going to Richmond for our engineers, do some stuff to our Richmond cars on pull down rigs and things. That’s just part of it. We’ll have to adjust to it. It’s just part of racing that we’ve had to adjust to before. We’ll send a guy home if we have to if we are here a day or two. It’ll all work out.”
BECAUSE OF THE RAIN HERE THIS AFTERNOON, DO YOU PUT A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SETUP UNDER THE CAR FOR THE RACE? “We just have to adjust our Shell/Pennzoil Dodge to it. We’ve set the car up to where if we go racing tonight we should be good. We’ll just have to adjust. We’ve built some adjustment into it and that’s knocking spring rubbers in, pulling spring rubbers out, doing whatever we have to. Adjusting wedge and track bar stuff. That’s just something we’ll have to do as track conditions change on us and we do that every week.”
YOU HAVE PREPARED TO RACE AT NIGHT BUT IF YOU RACE IN DAYTIME, IS THAT A VARIABLE THAT IS EQUAL FOR EVERYONE? “With where we practiced the other evening and our car was pretty good and then we practiced in the heat of the day with 25 degrees hotter track temp. Atlanta is real sensitive to that so it’s a deal where you have to adjust to it. Your car is not going to be as good in the daytime. It’s going to be a freer racetrack. We’ve got adjustability in the car. We’ll have to start the race and make it to that first run and then adjust on it from there.”
IF YOU ARE FORCED TO RACE ON MONDAY, WILL THAT THROW A WRINKLE INTO YOUR PREPARATION FOR RICHMOND? “Well no, I don’t think so. I think that would be the best case scenario is get it in but tomorrow looks worse than today. We’ll send a guy back if we have to in order to take care of that side of it for us and then everything will be all right.”
