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Emerson Radio 250 - Rookie Qualifying Quotes

Where the Raybestos Rookies finished at Richmond:
O’Quinn Jr. 14th
Andretti 16th
Gilliland 30th
Lamar 33rd
Kluever 36th

DANNY O’QUINN JR. IN THE No. 50 STONEBRIDGE LIFE FORD WAS THE RAYBESTOS ROOKIE OF THE RACE AT RICHMOND.

Note:

  • O’Quinn Jr. finished 14th and took Raybestos Rookie of the Race honors for the sixth time this season.

    O’QUINN JR.: “It was a really good finish was for us. And, the thing about it, we had a fast enough car to be higher than that. I messed us up there a couple times getting in behind some lapped traffic. I tell you one thing these guys had pit stops tonight that were unbelievable. We gained five spots it seemed like every pit stop. That was the key tonight. The team got that car right and I appreciate what they done for me. That’s a good run for us. We’ll build on that.” IT LOOKED LIKE THERE WAS SOME FURIOUS RACING GOING ON BACK IN THE PACK. “It looked like Talladega the last 10 laps there. It was like three and four wide for second through 10th. It was a lot of fun, though, racing with all the Cup guys that were up there. I had a lot of fun and we’ll get ‘em next time. We’ll go to Dover and see what we can do there [smiles].”

    JOHN ANDRETTI, No. 10 RVs.COM FORD: “I’ll take it. Unfortunately I made a rookie mistake [smiles]. The caution came out and the guy in front of me stopped and he stopped quicker than I anticipated or before I even knew there was a caution. I went to miss him and I crushed my left-front fender and we had to pit and we lost all our track position. We went from the top-10 all the way to last and had to work our way back up.” THIS IS SOMETHING POSITIVE FOR A TEAM THAT HAS HAD A TOUGH COUPLE OF RACES. “You know, I don’t know that Bristol was that bad for us. We just had a better car than we finished the night and that’s always promising. It makes you mad but it’s always promising and that’s happened to us several times this year. But I think we could have been a top-10 car. We did all the right pit calls and that makes a big difference. It’s only our fourth week together, driver and crew chief. We’ll get it. We’ve got a lot of work to do but ppc is never going to give up.”

    TODD KLUEVER, No. 06 HAGEMEYER/3M FORD: IT LOOKED LIKE YOU HAD NO PLACE TO GO. “In the middle part of the race we were horrible. We had a decent car to start the race, qualified well, and ran up front for a while. We just got real, real tight and I don’t know why. We’ve been terrible tight with this car all weekend. We just kept working on it and working on it and actually had it where we could drive it back up through the field. I saw it get three-wide and I kind of let off just to try and get out of it because that’s never a good situation to be in. I don’t know what to say. It’s nobody’s fault. There’s 25-30 laps to go and everybody’s trying to get every position they can. Nobody’s fault, it just stinks smashing up cars when we’re running 20th. I’d rather smash up a car running for a top-five.”

    DAVID GILLILAND, No. 90 CITIFINANCIAL FORD: “We just ran into a couple snags there along the way. Got some damage, got a fender pushed in from the beginning and just got a couple laps down. We were just riding, trying to take our time and got spun out by another car and kind of went down hill from there. We learned a lot for tomorrow and that was our first and foremost goal so we’re going to turn tonight into a positive and hopefully it will help us for tomorrow.”


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