Ford Notes and Quotes
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS)
Go Bowling at The Glen (Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, NY)
Sunday, August 5, 2018
Ford Finishing Order:
9th – Kurt Busch
10th – Kevin Harvick
11th – Clint Bowyer
12th – Ryan Blaney
16th – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
17th – Brad Keselowski
18th – Michael McDowell
22nd – Aric Almirola
26th – David Ragan
28th – Paul Menard
29th – Matt Kenseth
33rd – Matt DiBenedetto
37th – Joey Logano
JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Fusion – (Finished 37th; Accident on lap 2)
WHAT HAPPENED ON THE TRACK AND WHAT WAS THE STORY IN THE GARAGE BECAUSE IT LOOKED LIKE YOU GUYS WERE GOING TO TRY AND FIX THE CAR AND GET BACK OUT? “I don’t really know what happened in the garage on how the whole repair situation repair is. I don’t know. It’s somewhat confusing, I think, to all of us to try to understand exactly how that works, so I don’t really know what happened there. But on the race track we were actually racing the heck out of each other at the start of the race. It was fun. I was trying to keep the nose on the car and was gonna try to make a run on Larson off the carousel and I was right on him when they checked up in front of him. He lifted and there was nothing he was supposed to do. He checked up and I ran into the back of him and there’s just not enough bumper on the front of my car apparently and it just knocked the radiator out of it.”
RYAN BLANEY, No. 12 PPG Ford Fusion – Finished 12th
“It was a long day. We struggled all weekend, really, and just couldn’t really go anywhere. We’d fire off OK and then just fade terribly, so we’ve got some work to do here.”
ARIC ALMIROLA, No. 10 Go Bowling Ford Fusion – Finished 22nd
“I don’t know what happened there. I’d have to see it, so it’s hard to say. The 12 diving inside of me, I guess, kind of dive-bombed in there. It’s really hard for the spotters to see over there because we’re coming out from behind the trees and I honestly didn’t know he was there. I guess he hit the curb and wiped us out, so it’s disappointing. I thought we had a car we could have run in the top 10 or top 12 with and just didn’t do it. This is a couple weeks of bad luck and we’ve got to battle back from this and rebound and get going before the Playoffs start.”
KURT BUSCH, No. 41 Haas Automation/Monster Energy Ford Fusion – Finished 9th
“We had a surprise flat right-rear and that forced us into taking two tires and we had to improvise from there. It’s kind of a bummer, but we made the best we could with it and got a top 10. We want to win, but the car can’t quite steer from the rear and the front is chattering a little bit. We’re close, but we’re not quite there.”
RICKY STENHOUSE JR., No. 17 Ford Fusion – Finished 16th
“All in all it was a decent weekend. Practice was good and qualifying no-so-good. The first quarter of the race we obviously had a lot of issues, but we were able to bounce back and get a good, decent finish. We had good, decent speed at the end of the race, so it’s something to build off of on he road course for sure. I look forward to getting to Michigan and hopefully keep improving.”
MATT DIBENEDETTO, No. 32 Zynga Poker Ford Fusion – Finished 33rd
“I think we exploded a gear. I felt a drive line vibration for a little bit and it finally let go, so these places are tough on cars. Those kind of failures can happen, so we’ll see. We struggled with the car all weekend, so it was a tough weekend.”
