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[/media-credit]Saturday, June 2, 2012
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
FedEx 400
Dover International Speedway
Post-Qualifying Quotes
Dodge PR
Brad Keselowski (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger R/T) Qualified 16th “Our Miller Lite Dodge was OK. We’d like to have about a tenth (of a second) more and that would probably put us near the front. Everybody is really close in this series. We have a strong car. We have to get better in certain areas of the track, but overall I’m please with our Miller Lite Dodge. It’s a tough race and you have to be able to have a fast car and survive typical short-track incidents. We’ll see how it goes tomorrow.”
IT’S REALLY IMPORTANT TO WORK BOTH THE BOTTOM AND TOP GROOVES HERE. HOW IS YOUR CAR IN RACE TRIM? “We were up and down. I thought that we had some runs that we were really strong and others not so good. If we can get our car to be like it was when it was really strong, I think that we’ll have a good day tomorrow. But you’re right; you need a car that can work both grooves in order to be fast here. Paul (Wolfe, crew chief) has a great plan for our Miller Lite Dodge. We’ll keep working at it.”
A.J. Allmendinger (No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger R/T) Qualified 23rd “Not at all what we wanted but we’ll have to take it. We didn’t spend any time in qualifying trim yesterday in practice, so we were flying a bit blind today. This place is fast and aero sensitive. Add the fact the rain washed away all of the rubber and we were really behind for qualifying in our Shell/Pennzoil Dodge. The car has been a handful all weekend. It feels completely different from what it was when I came here for the tire test. We hoped to roll off better coming into this weekend, unfortunately.”
