Race 2 Win: Busch Series Race Notes

NASCAR Busch Series

Camping World 300 - Rookie Post-Race Quotes

Where the Raybestos Rookies finished at California:
Ragan 10th
Ambrose 13th
Keselowski 35th
Krisiloff 41st

KYLE KRISILOFF, No. 14 LILLY/WALGREENS FORD: “It sure felt like something broke. We were just getting going there, it was like the third lap and it just came around. That hasn’t happened to me in a while. It really felt like something just came loose or something like that. We’ll look at and get ‘er fixed and get on to next week at Richmond. We got a good car that we’re going to bring there. This hurts us in the points, especially in the driver points. We’ll figure out what happened. Just an unfortunate day. It wasn’t the right front tire. I think that blew when we hit the wall. The right front jackscrew or whatever you want to call it just broke and we can’t decide if that happened when we hit or not. It sure felt like to me that something came loose and the car came around real fast. I mean, it was only the third lap and I was getting going and we were just taking it easy and it snapped around pretty fast. We’ll take a look and see if we can find something. If not chalk it up to driver error but it sure felt like something broke. ”

WES WARD, CREW CHIEF, No. 88 U.S. NAVY CHEVROLET: “It’s unfortunate. We were just starting to get a little momentum. Time-wise, on the monitor, we were good enough to be an eighth, 10th-place car and we just needed a caution. It’s just unfortunate, you know. Three-wide there with a lapped car and we were on the bottom minding our own business. Can’t really say fault or whatever, it just happened, but just thank God the driver is okay and that’s all that matters.” DID YOU SPEAK TO BRAD ON THE RADIO AFTER THE ACCIDENT? “He was conscious the whole time. As soon as he hit the wall and was down off the wall coming down the racetrack he was conscious and alert.”

DAVID RAGAN IN THE No. 6 DISCOUNT TIRE FORD WAS THE TOP RAYBESTOS ROOKIE IN TONIGHT’S RACE AT CALIFORNIA SPEEDWAY.

Notes:

Ragan finished 10th, his seventh top-10 of the 2007 season and second consecutive. He took Raybestos Rookie of the Race honors for the ninth time this season.

DID YOU KNOW? A Raybestos® Rookie has now finished in the top-10 in three of the four September races at California.

Other top-10 finishes by Raybestos® Rookies at Camping World 300:
2004: Kyle Busch, ninth
2005: Carl Edwards, FIRST

RAGAN: YOU CAME FROM A LAP DOWN TO SCORE A TOP-10 FINISH. “If you would have told me when we unloaded on Friday morning we were going to finish in the top-10, I’d have probably told you that you were crazy. We worked really hard. We were bouncing back and forth between setups and at the last minute we decided to go with our setup that we’ve been most comfortable with all year. We just didn’t get any practice with it. We were just way too tight to start the race. The first run we were a 25th-place it seemed like. It just goes to show you to never give up. The Discount Tire team changed about everything that we could change during a pit stop and we didn’t have the best of pit stops because we were always working on it, fighting track position. But when it counted our car was pretty decent and it was a lot of fun the last 30 laps.” YOU HAD A GOOD RACE FOR POSITION THERE AT THE END WITH MARCOS AMBROSE AND SCOTT WIMMER. “It was a lot of fun racing with those guys like Marcos and Scott Wimmer. You can race ‘em hard and race ‘em clean. When you’re racing there at the end for a top-10 that means a lot in this Busch Series. I really don’t consider myself one of those Cup guys but racing against all the Cup guys, it’s fun. That gives us a little confidence that we can come out here on Sunday and do the same thing. And another top-10 is also big hit for us in the Raybestos points.” HOW MUCH CONFIDENCE DO YOU GET BY TAKING A BAD CAR AND MAKING IT BETTER? “That it can be done. We had a loose wheel and things worked out. That last caution we were able to come back down pit road and change our left rear tire and tighten everything back up. Things just have to work out and especially like I said, when you’re Busch racing, you’ve got 20 Cup guys and you’ve got a lot of good teams. To run in the top-10 is just like running in the top-10 on Sunday.”

MARCOS AMBROSE, No. 59 KINGSFORD FORD: “We’re making good progress and for us it’s been a really good night to learn more about the package that we’ve got. I think we’re just going to keep tickling this thing and it’s going to get better and better for us.” YOU HAD A GOOD RACE FOR 10TH-PLACE IN THE CLOSING LAPS. “It would have been nice to be racing for the win [smiles]. You just race where you can. We had some good pit stops tonight, had some good strategy. Everything was going our way there. We just couldn’t quite hold off at the end. We were tight in the center all night and it probably got worse as the night went on.” THIS WAS A WILD RACE FOR AN EVENT AT CALIFORNIA SPEEDWAY. “It was okay where I was. I was at the pointy end there.”

RAGAN PRESS CONFERENCE
“We started off the weekend with our America’s Tire Ford Fusion and we were struggling. We were bounced back and forth between setups. We qualified well, qualified 10th and at the start of the race we were just really tight. I couldn’t pass. We were a 20th-place car the first run and a half. A few of the fast guys got in trouble tonight and we just kind of hung out. We probably weren’t a top-10 car but we ended up just hanging out and riding and being pretty good at the end and would up finishing up there.”