NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES
ORAL-B USA 500
ATLANTA MOTOR SPEEDWAY
TEAM CHEVY POST RACE NOTES AND QUOTES
AUGUST 31, 2014
KASEY KAHNE, NO. 5 FARMERS INSURANCE CHEVROLET SS – RACE WINNER
YOU DID IT, BUT IT TOOK A LOT TO GET HERE:
“Yeah, man, it took a lot. We were all over the place during the race but the guys stayed with me and worked hard. On those restarts – I didn’t know what would happen because I had great restarts all night and I struggle with restarts a lot. That’s big, because that is one of the things you have to be good at and it worked really well tonight. Really happy and thankful for Farmers Insurance, Chevrolet, Great Clips, Time Warner Cable, Pepsi Max, Sprint, all the fans and Von Zipper. It’s been tough and we have had kind of a downer year at times and then we started running really good. Last week we were really fast at Bristol and then we had a problem. So it’s been kind of one thing after the other but we are in the Chase with my teammates. I have a great group of teammates, it’s awesome to work with those guys and to be part of Hendrick Motorsports and everything that Mr. H gives us. Glad we are in the Chase and we can race them now.”
DO YOU THINK THE RACING CONDITIONS OF THE TRACK CAME TO YOU?
“Not really, I think it was our adjustments. We started really bad, really loose and then we got the car where it was driving great and I think we got up to fifth or sixth. Then we adjusted our way out of it, and then got it back at the end. So it was all adjustments, what we did, and the communication. Then at the end Kenny made a great call with fuel and how we played that game because it had a big part in what our splitter was doing. So it was a team effort and the guys did great tonight and I am pretty pumped to be here.”
AFTER THE DISAPPOINTMENT AT INDY A FEW WEEKS AGO, WHAT IS YOUR EMOTION NOW THAT YOU ARE LOCKED IN THE CHASE?
“Yeah, we are locked in and I hate it comes down to this Atlanta or Richmond just about every year for me. Sometimes we are in, sometimes we are out. But thankful that now at HMS I have been in all three years now. We have the pressure all the way to Richmond, but we made it again, thankful for that. Thankful for Mr. H, Kenny Francis, Chris Spaulding (engineer), the guys did a nice job. Friday we started terrible, came back Saturday and ran really good, and then raced pretty well tonight at times. Glad we got those restarts because those were tough and that is where it paid off for sure.”
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