SAM HORNISH JR. – No. 12 Snap-On Ford Mustang – YOU HAVE A SMALLER ADVANTAGE THAN WHEN THE RACE STARTED. “You can’t make one bad call and then have the driver speed on pit road and not give something up. We’ll talk about it and try to figure out how to not get ourselves in that position again, but we were fighting so free that first run that if I would have known we were gonna put on two tires – I even sat there and I told them while they were doing the two-tire stop, ‘The 22 is doing four.’ And then I even stalled it and we still didn’t put four on. I knew we were kind of sunk at that point, but I think we still could have got out of it with a 10th to 12th-place finish if I didn’t speed on pit road, but we weren’t gonna win with the strategy we had today.”
Ford Racing NSCS Notes & Quotes:
AAA 400 Advance (Dover International Speedway)
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Richard Petty won the first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race here...
After Mother Nature spoiled the party at Varney Speedway Motorplex two weeks ago and forced the postponement of the Rick Woolner Memorial, the event is set to run this weekend at Sunset Speedway. The commemorative event in honour of Rick Woolner, who passed away form lung cancer in 1999, will be a 40-lap feature race Sunday afternoon.
The OSCAAR Super Late Model tour makes its fifth and final stop of the 2013 tour at Sunset Speedway as part of the Velocity weekend this Sunday. So far this season, Sunset has been the site of the most competitive races this season and largest fields, including a record-tying 28 cars on June 29. More of the same is expected this weekend.
MATT KENSETH, No. 20 Home Depot "Let's Do This" Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Starting Position: 2nd - How was your qualifying lap?"Man, this Home Depot 'Let's Do This' Camry has been really fast all day. Has had a lot of speed, been a lot of fun to drive. You feel like, especially with me driving the car, we don't get that many chances at the pole so I hate that we missed it by that little bit."
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. powered his No. 88 National Guard Chevrolet SS into the pole position with a track-record lap of 161.849 mph in 22.243 seconds for Sunday’s AAA 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Dover International Speedway. It was his 13th career pole win, his second of the 2013 Cup season, and first on the mile-long, high-banked concrete race track for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup contender.
CASEY MEARS – No. 13 Geico Ford Fusion – “It was definitely too loose for qualifying. It always loosens up here, so we tightened it up some but we didn’t tighten it up enough and it was still just too loose. I felt like we had a pretty good race car, but I don’t think that’s gonna be a very good lap today.”
“The car has been excellent all day and I just overdrove (Turn) 1 a little bit and didn’t really trust the car as much as I should have off of (Turn) 4. The car is a lot faster than that. But hopefully it will be a good qualifying run.”
Greg Biffle, driver of the No. 16 3M Ford Fusion, is fifth in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings coming into this weekend’s AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway. Biffle came into the infield media center after today’s practice session to talk about his Chase prospects.
