Ford Racing NSCS Notes & Quotes:
NSCS Ford EcoBoost 400 – Homestead Miami Speedway
Sunday Nov. 16, 2014
BRAD KESELOWSKI POST RACE PRESS CONFERENCE
TALK ABOUT YOUR RACE TODAY AND YOUR SEASON. “It was a heck of a season, not just for me but all of Team Penske, the 2 Cup car, 22 Cup car and 22 Nationwide Series team. It is a year we will look back on with a lot of pride. I am kind of wishing it wasn’t over. We still have some work to do to continue to work and get better. We just, all season long Rodney Childers and his 4 car just did an excellent job having speed and certainly capitalized at the end. We had great speed this year which is something I am proud of but were just always a little tick behind. I think in the end they leveraged that very well. We have to go back and work a little bit harder and find a little more speed and try to keep up with that. All in all it was an incredible season for us and something we are really proud of. In some ways I had to see this season come to an end and I am honestly ready to be at Daytona next week for the 500 but that is probably not the most popular comment in the world but sometimes I am not the most popular guy. I am happy with the year and I think everyone has a lot to be proud of. It is a great season, not just for Team Penske but for the sport. I am proud to be a part of that as well.”
EVALUATE THE CHASE FORMAT “What I wanted to do was grow the sport and put us in a stronger position for years to come. I am not looking at it in a short term perspective. I can’t say I have the answer for that. I think sometimes we get caught up in too much of the rhetoric around what a champion should reward, consistency or wins and those things. I think I am too close to the fire to provide an objective answer. All I care about with the format is that it takes the sport to another level for years to come. I think the jury is still out on that but it looks like it is going to be good. That is the whole point. That is where I think everyone has rallied behind it – a format to grow the sport. I don’t have an answer until we see some numbers, good or bad. I don’t have any complaints either.”
HOW DID THIS RACE APPEAR AS KIND OF A SPECTATOR AND HOW IT UNFOLDED? “It kind of unfolded rather conveniently with for a great finish with a lot of yellows and pit strategy. I think any race would end that way with those opportunities to mix things up. I thought it was a pretty good race in general. There was a lot on the line and like I said, NASCAR has to be thrilled to death with that. I hope our fans are too.”
