Ford Performance NSCS Notes and Quotes
Ford 400 – Homestead-Miami Speedway
Sunday, November 22, 2015
FORD FINISHING RESULTS
3rd BRAD KESELOWSKI
4th JOEY LOGANO
15th GREG BIFFLE
17th RYAN BLANEY
18th TREVOR BAYNE
25th SAM HORNISH JR.
28th COLE WHITT
31st BRETT MOFFITT
32nd DAVID GILLILAND
33rd MICHAEL MCDOWELL
39th JOSH WISE
41st ARIC ALMIROLA
JOEY LOGANO – No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Fusion (FINISHED 4th) – “Unfortunately, we didn’t win and that’s what we wanted to do. We had a fast Shell/Pennzoil Ford that led a lot of laps, so I’m proud of the laps we led. We had a few good runs and made an adjustment that just took it out of the track and by the time we got it back we lost too much track position. We had a bad pit stop under green and lost more there, so it was too little, too late. We couldn’t redeem ourselves after a couple mistakes tonight.”
BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion – (FINISHED 3rd) – YOU HAD THE LEAD LATE, DID YOU FEEL LIKE YOU WERE GOING TO GET THIS WIN TONIGHT? “Yeah, we led a lot of laps. The last four races we have run pretty strong, maybe not quite as strong as Phoenix as we wanted but three of the four races we were really strong and we just didn’t have enough to close it at the end. I was really proud of my team tonight, really happy with what they were able to give me and we were able to take a run at it, we just didn’t quite have enough at the end on that final restart to hold those guys off.”
WHAT ABOUT THE DECISION TO TAKE THE INSIDE LANE ON THAT FINAL RESTART? “Yeah, I don’t really know if there was a right one or a wrong one to be honest. We just weren’t fast enough and I don’t think it would have mattered either way.”
RYAN BLANEY, No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion (FINISHED 17th) YOU SPOKE TO JEFF GORDON BEFORE THE RACE. WHAT DID YOU TALK ABOUT? “I went back to see him. I was a big fan of Jeff Gordon growing up. You’re obviously honored to be in his last race with him. I got to race around him a little bit at the beginning of the race. I was having trouble passing him. I was trying to be as nice as I could and let him race his own deal. But that was fun racing hard with him there.”
HOW MUCH OF THE FACT THAT IT WAS HIS LAST RACE ENTERED YOUR MIND AS YOU WERE RACING HIM? “When I was racing with him I thought it was his last race and he’s racing for the championship and you don’t want to jeopardize his championship. You don’t want to race him too hard and put him in a bad spot. You want to let him race for the championship. I was more concerned with his running for the championship than the fact that it was his last race.”
