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[/media-credit]Sunday, June 10, 2012
Dodge PR
Pocono 400
Pocono Raceway
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Post-Race Quotes
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A.J. Allmendinger (No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger R/T) “I’m just a little sore, had the wind knocked out of me. It’s kind of one of those, it seems like it took forever to get there. That was pretty hard, that might be one of the hardest hits I’ve had. Everybody at NASCAR, everybody at Penske, they do a good job with safety so I’m okay. I’ll be a little sore tomorrow but I’ll be fine.
“I’m not sure what happened. I think we blew a right-front. After we got in that accident at the start of the race, I think we had something knocked off just a little bit in the right-front. The toe was out just a little bit and the car was really tight. Unfortunately, it’s one of those I said ‘we need to pit soon, I think the right-front is going away’ and it went away.”
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE FIRST PART OF THE RACE WITH THE ACCIDENTS AND THE SPEEDING PENALITIES? “It’s slick out there. It’s slicker than its been for five days here. You could see that the track is really dirty and guys on the start being a little crazy. It’s hard to pass. You get aero-tight behind guys and you start getting desperate. You get a late-race yellow, it’ll be fun to watch.”
IS THERE ANY WAY TO EXPLAIN WHAT YOUR LAST FEW RUNS HAVE BEEN LIKE IN TERMS OF YOUR BAD RUN OF LUCK? “No, there are no words to explain it. In my worst nightmare, I didn’t think the season would go this bad. You’ve got two options: you quit or you keep working harder. I’ve been six years in this. I’ve experienced bad stuff before in NASCAR, so I ain’t going to quit. We’ll just keep working harder. We’ve got to figure out how to turn it around. It’s tough. I definitely don’t want to be in this position, nobody does. Everybody does better on this race team but nobody is a quitter, so we’ll just keep working hard.”
