Race 2 Win: Food City 250 - Rookie Post-Race Quotes

NASCAR Busch Series

Food City 250 - Rookie Post-Race Quotes

TODD KLUEVER, No. 06 3M FORD: THAT LOOKED LIKE TYPICAL BRISTOL WHERE YOU GOT HIT FROM BEHIND. “We’ll call it typical Bristol. I need to think before I speak a little bit, but Kenny has obviously had a lot of problems with me since we got together at Mexico, like the third race of the season. I’ve apologized to him for that and he doesn’t seem to be able to get over it. We’ll call it typical Bristol. I’m sure Kenny didn’t mean to run into us and wreck us but that’s basically what happened.” EVERYONE IS UNDER SO MUCH PRESSURE OUT THERE. “Well, this is a pressure filled sport. I’m under pressure, I’m sure Kenny is under pressure, I’m sure everybody is under pressure but you know what? Kenny’s pressure is not my problem. My pressure is not Kenny’s problem, for that matter, too. Everybody has to deal with their own life, I guess. Like I said, maybe it was an accident. Maybe it was a pure, 100 percent accident, I don’t know. It’s just getting run over from behind and it’s unfortunate because it absolutely destroyed that car. That’s probably the hardest hit I’ve ever taken backwards into a fence. It’s just unfortunate. We weren’t even 70 laps into the race. It’s crappy for my guys; it’s crappy for me. We’ve had a terrible last three weeks and we really didn’t need this. We’ll go to California I guess.” YOU SEEM TO BE GOING THROUGH A STRETCH WHERE BAD LUCK KEEPS PILING ON YOU. “That’s exactly it. Somebody on my team, whether it’s me or someone else, somebody is doing something their not supposed to that’s bad in the eyes of somebody because we’re getting paid for it, I guess. It’s been a miserable last month for us. The season started out so promising for us with Daytona and California. We’ve had our ups and we’ve had our downs and it’s like this last month has been totally down, man. There’s not been one bright spot about it. Every time we think we’re getting through it and we think things are turned around, every time we put together a good run and start getting some momentum going it gets stolen from us at the end. I guess that’s racing. I guess we’ll go to California. It can’t get much worse.” ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO GOING BACK TO CALIFORNIA? “I am. We ran 12th there and the cars we have now are a lot better than the car we had there in the spring. I’m really excited about that, plus I get to the run the Cup car there again, too. That’s a big help. We’re taking the exact same car that we ran at Michigan and that’s been a new car for us so we’re starting to get a history built with it. We’re starting to find out what it likes. I’m really excited about California. That’s been a good track to me every time I’ve been there. I ran fourth there in the truck my first time there and we ran 12th there in the Busch car at the beginning of the season. I’m anxious to get back to some place where we can run good.”

JOHN ANDRETTI IN THE No. 10 RVs.COM/FREEDOM ROADS/CAMPING WORLD FORD WAS THE RAYBESTOS ROOKIE OF THE RACE AT BRISTOL.

Notes:

Andretti UNOFFICIALLY finished 14th and took Raybestos Rookie of the Race honors for the eighth time this season.

Andretti was also the top Raybestos Rookie finisher in the Sharpie Mini 300 at Bristol, grabbing a ninth-place finish.

ANDRETTI: “Everybody drives like they don’t own ‘em, which they don’t. Not real impressed. It’s better to run the Cup series [smiles]. There’s rooting and gouging, but at all the wrong times at all the wrong places for all the wrong reasons, it seems like. But it’s Bristol, so that’s what it is. I’m glad I’m leaving.” ARE YOU LUCKY TO GET THE FINISH THAT YOU GOT TONIGHT? “It’s the same car that we had here that we ran top-10 with in the first race. We really weren’t that good then and really weren’t as good as we hoped to be tonight, but yeah, I’m pretty happy.”

BURNEY LAMAR, No. 77 DOLLAR GENERAL CHEVROLET: “It was a tough night but the best part was we had a great car. The guys were having really good pit stops. We sort of got in a Bristol wreck there. Things happen and we’ll take it. We have a good setup for next time when we come back.” DID YOU HIT ON SOMETHING DURING THE RACE? “We had a really good race car. Kevin Buskirk and Todd Berrier over helping us out here in practice and the car was really good. We hit on something in practice. It was a little free in the race. We came in the first stop and the thing was a missile, what I felt like. But unfortunately, due to a wreck, we didn’t get a chance to show it in our finish. I’m leaving Sunday for California [smiles]. I haven’t seen my sister since December so I’m looking forward to that and we’ve won there before. I’m really looking forward to going to these places for the second time. That’s what I’m really looking forward to. I’m looking forward to the rest of the season.”

DANNY O’QUINN JR., No. 50 STONEBRIDGE LIFE FORD: YOU HAD TO PIT UNDER GREEN EARLY IN THE RACE. “We had an awesome race car. It showed it all night. We were running real good, making up spots. We got into it with another car there a little bit and I cut the wheel back to the right to catch it and I caught my seat belt. We run the cam locks and snapped my belts loose. That’s no easy process putting them back on, especially under green out there. We had to come down pit road and lost six or seven laps. It just made for a tough night for us. We had a fast car. The crew was awesome. They worked hard all day getting me a good car. It was handling awesome and it would have been a top-10 I think easily but, man, it was a freak incident.” WHEN YOU GET BEHIND LIKE THAT IT’S HARD TO RACE AND STAY OUT OF THE WAY. “We got up there a couple times. We’re not going to get seven laps back so we just fell to the back. We got us some clear air and wanted to test and tune a little on the car. We learned a lot of stuff to come back. It’s just unfortunate for us tonight.”