RICKY STENHOUSE JR. – No. 6 Cargill Beef Ford Mustang – “It was a good points day, but we wanted to win that $100,000. We got our Cargill Beef Mustang back in the top five, which is important for us. We’ve got to keep that going for us throughout the rest of the year, but that was a tough race.”
Camry driver Ryan Truex (10th) was the highest-finishing Toyota driver in Saturday afternoon's NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway one-mile oval.
MARTIN TRUEX, JR., No. 56 NAPA Auto Parts Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing How much do you enjoy racing at New Hampshire? "It's always exciting for me to come up here. We've got a lot of family history here with my dad winning back in '94 and me coming up through the Busch North Series ranks up here."
Each race weekend, selected SRT Motorsports Engineers, Penske Racing engineers and crew chiefs, drivers or engine specialists give their insight on the ‘Keys for Success’ for the upcoming race. This week, Howard Comstock, SRT Motorsports Engineering, provides the keys for Sunday’s Sprint Cup race.
ROBBY BENTON, owner, RAB Racing How special is it to have Patrick Carpentier driving for you at Montreal? "Montreal is a special place for us. It's where we were able to pick up our first win. Running the races that we've run there and we've competed three times, you can't help but notice the excitement and the fan fair that surrounds Patrick (Carpentier)."
Sun Peaks, BC racer Jason White will be the Hometown favourite for this weekend’s event in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series. White and his #21 A & W Dodge will be taking the green flag Saturday night at MotoPlex Speedway near Vernon, BC with the support of the majority of race fans and he’s looking for another solid result.
Last year at the A & W Cruisin’ the Dub 300 at MotoPlex Speedway local racer Jim White had a memorable return to action posting a top ten result. Once again as the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series makes its annual visit to the track near Vernon, BC Jim White will get back in action piloting the #24 Sun Ridge Equipment Dodge Challenger.
Sam Hornish Jr. (No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger R/T) Qualified 24th HOW WAS YOUR QUALIFYING LAP? “Not quite as well as I would have liked for it to have been. We were a little bit too tight in the center of the corner, just couldn’t roll the center like we needed to for speed."
Kasey Kahne narrowly missed placing his No. 5 Farmers Insurance Chevrolet in the top spot for Sunday’s Lenox Industrial Tools 301 and collecting his third pole of 2012.
Roush Fenway Keselowski (RFK) Racing wasn’t fueling around in Talladega Sunday. Brad Keselowski was the mastermind of a Stage One strategy that became the talk of the race.
The reigning two-time Cup Series champion from Elk Grove, California, led 23 of 189-overscheduled laps and went from 11th to 1st in half of the final lap during an overtime shootout to score his first superspeedway victory and increase his points lead by 73 points with two-scheduled events remaining.
