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[/media-credit]Ford Finishing Order:
7th – Aric Almirola
11th – Casey Mears
13th – Josh Wise
14th – Scott Speed
15th – David Gilliland
ARIC ALMIROLA – No. 43 Smithfield Ford Fusion – “We were just too tight. It was a good effort by everybody on our Smithfield Ford, but that restart didn’t help us much. Burton’s car wasn’t as good that second stint and I kept getting hung on the bottom of him. He went down into turn one and got real tight. I got underneath him and he hung on my quarterpanel and kind of slowed us down. That just kind of hurt our momentum. He didn’t do anything wrong, it just hurt our momentum. That hurt our restart to try and get out into the clean air and by the time I finally got by him we lost a couple spots on the track and couldn’t get them back. I’m disappointed. I wanted to race in that All-Star Race tonight really bad, but we’ll take it and learn from it and come back with a better race car for the 600.”
DAVID GILLILAND – No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford Fusion – “We learned some stuff and tried some things that are different than what we’ve been running, but we were just too tight all night. Overall, it was a good little test session for us. That’s what we used tonight as and we learned a lot. I feel like we’ll be much better next week.”
