NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES
DAYTONA SPEEDWEEKS
DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY
BUDWEISER SHOOTOUT PRACTICE 1
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
TONY STEWART, NO. 14 MOBIL 1/OFFICE DEPOT CHEVROLET, was involved in a multi-car accident during the first practice that damaged primary car, and the team is making repairs to the car:
WHAT HAPPENED? “I was pushing the ‘51’ car and he had to move a little bit, but I’m still the one pushing him so I’m responsible for it.”
NOW WHAT? WHAT’S THE CAR LOOK LIKE AND ARE YOU GOING TO GET OUT IN THE SECOND PRACTICE? “I don’t think we’re going to get out in the second session. They say they can get it fixed. I feel really confident in our fab shop and we have a lot of really good guys from the shop here at Stewart-Haas. We’ll get this Mobil 1/Office Depot Chevy back together.”
KURT BUSCH, NO. 51 TAG HEUER AVANT-GARDE CHEVROLET, was involved in a multi-car crash during the first practice session, and will go to a back-up car.
WHAT HAPPENED? “It was just a deal where Tony (Stewart) was trying to help. And we were just trying to learn the draft and a couple of slow cars were emerging in front of us and I slid up to go around them and I thought it was smooth but I got turned around. So now we’ll just bring out the back-up. These guys have worked really hard to try to prepare as many cars as we can just to prepare for circumstances like this. There is just a lot of hard work and with the limited number of cars that we have, we just don’t need to have wrecked cars. But, thanks to Tag Heuer for jumping into the (Budweiser) Shootout. We’ll have our Tag Heuer car ready for tomorrow.”
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