Ford Performance NSCS Notes & Quotes:
Bojangles Southern 500 – Darlington Raceway
NSCS Qualifying
Saturday September 5, 2015
JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Shell Pennzoil Ford Fusion – Qualified 4th
“We were in the ballpark. I think all the Team Penske cars were pretty fast. I am proud of everybody there. Brad obviously laid down a good one there at the end. He never slowed down ever and everyone else was slowing down each lap. It was interesting to see that. We were just a little free all of qualifying there. We just never jumped the fence with it.”
BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion – Qualified 1st
“We had a really good Miller High Life Ford and Paul Wolfe made good adjustments each round. The track was changing and the car was falling off as the tires were falling off and it is hot so the track was hard to get ahold of but the car is fast and my team did a great job. We just executed when it counted. The number one pit stall will be big because there will be a lot of pit stops with the tires wearing off so much. I think it will be about clean air and holding track position as long as you can. This is a track position race and the new rules will make the cars hard to get ahold of and keep off the wall. You have to keep it off the wall.”
GREG BIFFLE, No. 16 Ortho Ford Fusion –
“Well, that was definitely disappointing to get so loose there and hit the wall. We will have to wait and see how bad the damage is and decide on repair versus backup. It stinks because our Ortho Ford Fusion has had good speed all weekend and we were really hopeful to qualify well and get a good starting position. The guys have been working hard all weekend though, so I have no doubt they will get us ready to race tomorrow night and it is a long 500 miles, so we will go to work and see what we can make out of it.”
RICKY STENHOUSE JR., No. 17 Cargill Ford Fusion – Qualified 8th
“It was a great effort out there today. The guys did a great job from yesterday in first practice when we were off. We made adjustments all day and got our Cargill Beef Fusion, David Pearson edition, rolling pretty good. I am real happy with that effort. It is two races in a row now where we have made it to the third round, which is important. We are getting speed out of our cars. We have to make the right adjustments now. We went too far at Bristol last time. I am proud of the effort and we will continue to make sure that we get our race cars better for the race. We missed it at Bristol trying to be too greedy and getting too much turn out of it and this week it is going to be another finicky process that Nick and the engineers have to do. We practice during the day, race at night and have to make the right adjustments. We also have to make sure that we have a long run car here because it is going to wear the tires out a lot.”
