Ford Racing NSCS Notes & Quotes: Food City 500 – Bristol Motor Speedway
Sunday, March 16, 2014
JOEY LOGANO – No. 22 – Shell/Pennzoil Ford Fusion
RED FLAG INTERVIEW ON LOSS OF POWER-STEERING:
“I’d say 500 laps is gonna be a lot longer than I thought it was gonna be around here, but Todd Gordon and the guys are putting a plan together. There’s so much load here and the car is pressing so hard down on the race track that it makes it so hard to steer. It feels like it’s working against you. I was already huffing and puffing pretty hard trying to get the thing to turn. You can’t be quick with it. That’s the biggest problem is you can’t go fast. If you get loose or anything like that, you can’t steer the car to the right and then back to the left quick enough that you get yourself in a bind and then you crash. It’s kind of just limp it until you get the caution.
“We got lucky because we got that lucky dog. We’re back on the lead lap. It may cost us a lap trying to fix this thing, but we’ve got to do what we’ve got to do and try to recover with lucky dogs and wavearounds. We’ve got a fast car. We were up there leading laps. It was intermittent for a while once we restarted behind Jimmie and Matt, but then it just went away. We’ll just have to fix it. The good thing is we’re 130 laps into this thing and there’s a long ways to go. The bad news is if we can’t fix it, we’re only 130 laps into it, so, either way, we’ve got our work cut out for us today.”
