Ford Racing NSCS Notes & Quotes:
NSCS AAA Texas 500
Friday Oct. 31, 2014
FORD FINISHING RESULTS
3rd Brad Keselowski
9th Carl Edwards
12th Joey Logano
13th Greg Biffle
14th Aric Almirola
23rd Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
27th Marcos Ambrose
32nd David Ragan
34th David Gilliland
39th Trevor Bayne
BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion | FINISHED: 3rd (PIT ROAD INTERVIEW)
WHAT WAS YOUR VIEW OF THE CONTACT WITH JEFF GORDON? “There was a hole and I went for it. It closed up and we bounced off each other and kept going. It was just a battle for the win.”
KEVIN HARVICK CAME UP HERE ON PIT ROAD AND GAVE YOU A SHOVE AND THAT KIND OF SET EVERYTHING OFF DOWN HERE. “Kevin likes everybody to fight for some reason. I came here to race, not to fight. I raced as hard as I could and these guys just didn’t like it.”
LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR DAY. YOU NEEDED A WIN AND ALMOST GOT IT. “We did a lot of clawing. I wish we would have gotten a better finish out of it but we didn’t. It was hard fought. I am doing everything I can to win this race and stay in the championship hunt.”
CARL EDWARDS, No. 99 Aflac Ford Fusion | FINISHED: 9th
“We got super luck there at the end and my guys never quit. I am so proud of my guys. I have no idea where we are at in points but we certainly finished better than we should have tonight. It was a great night when for awhile it didn’t look like it was going to be. We get to move on to Phoenix now and we will know what we have to do there. We will take it. My guys didn’t quit and I know they won’t quit and we are going to go next week and go for this thing.”
JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 AAA Insurance Ford Fusion | FINISHED: 12th
“We were able to salvage something decent out of tonight. WE were a top five car and possibly a winning car if scenarios played out right. I don’t know what happened with the glue on the pit stop and I haven’t gotten the full story yet but we had a hell of a time trying to put rear tires on the car. We lost all our track position with 30 to go and I came off the corner and the 9 hit me and popped my right rear and then we spun out. We put tires back on it and then just held on til the end and got something decent out of something that could have been way worse. I am proud of everyone that kept their heads down and kept digging. That isn’t the way we wanted to do it, that is for sure.” “You have to expect that though when you put yourself back there with a few laps to go. We put ourselves in a bad spot for something to happen. It is a snowball effect. We put ourselves in a bad spot and got in an even worse spot and then dug ourselves halfway out of a whole there.”
