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Chevrolet NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Bristol Post Race Notes & Quotes
Press ReleaseBristol, TN - Ron Hornaday, No. 33 Georgia Boot Silverado, leaves Bristol Motor Speedway with a 211 point lead in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) following a third place finish in tonight’s O’Reilly 200 Presented by Valvoline.
It is the 10th top-five and 13th top-10 finish for the three-time NCWTS champion who has won six times in the 15 races run to-date in the 2009 season.
Matt Crafton, No. 88 Menard’s Silverado, finished second in the 200-lap/100-mile race and continues to chase Hornaday in the standings holding the runner-up point’s position by 94 points over third.
Ryan Newman wheeled the No. 2 Pringles Silverado to a fourth place finish in a third entry from the Kevin Harvick, Inc. stables.
Kyle Busch (Toyota) won the race and Brian Scott (Toyota) completed the top-five.
The next race on the NCWTS schedule will be on August 28th at Chicagoland Speedway.
NASCAR CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES
O’REILLY 200
BRISTOL MOTOR SPEEDWAY
TEAM CHEVY POST RACE NOTES & QUOTES
AUGUST 19, 2009
“No, but these guys did an awesome job tonight. If you had any idea of all the changes these guys made to this truck today……….I mean we were coil-bound all day and right there at the very, very end and the last change we went to conventional and just threw everything at it but the kitchen sink and it’s all about these guys behind me that work their butts off. I have to thank them, and Menards and Chevy………….and gosh this thing was good but we were short on fuel and they kept telling me to soft-peddle and save fuel but all-in-all a good night.”
YOU NEEDED A LONG GREEN FLAG RUN:
“Yes, definitely. Our truck, it was just unbelievable how good that thing on long run. It wouldn’t take off for about four or five laps, then it just kept getting better and better as we went along. I can’t thank these guys on this Menard’s Chevy Silverado enough. They busted their tails today. We were coil-bound and then the last five minutes of practice we went conventional and I threw everything at this thing to start the race and we had no idea what we had. It was about 15 laps in to the race and I told them that I thought we had a pretty good piece.
“I was so sick when that yellow came out with 20 or 30 laps to go. I thought we were better than him on a long green flag run. They were reading me lap times, if they were really telling me what they were, we were faster than him on the long run. You know how crew chiefs always tell you that you are catching the leader. Good night for us.”
“I told Kevin (Harvick) a top-five here tonight would be great here. We have such bad luck here. We run good, we just have bad luck. Rick Ren made a great call on our only stop for this Georgia Boot Chevrolet. It was cool. I learned a bunch. Kyle (Busch was just so dominate up top. He had his truck free enough at the beginning and I learned that and then when he pitted and then came right back in for fuel, that is what hurt us right there. We lost so much track position right there. It was my own fault, I should have been paying attention, I was following the guy in front of me.
“Overall, winning five in a row. I have to thank of these fans and everything that has been written. It has been a lot of fun. We will just start all over again.”
RON, YOU KNEW THAT THE STREAK HAD TO END AT SOME POINT.
“I did and you know, Bristol is one of the toughest ones here. I found something out with ten to go and I don’t know. I just left a lot out there and I was pretty conservative and I got a top-five and that’s what I needed for these points and I have to thank Georgia Boots, Longhorn, VFW, Miller Welders, and everybody that has been really supportive of our team. It’s been pretty cool and I hope these fans enjoyed the race and we were coming through the pack there and I should have followed Kyle down there and got fuel but I didn’t, and that’s what hurt us right there.”
YOU DON’T GET MANY CHANCES TO ADJUST THE TRUCK OR MAKE CHANGES DO YOU?
“No, we had one chance right there and he got it really free and the way I was driving it I made it tight, and towards the end I got it better.”
ARE YOU COMFORTABLE WITH YOUR POINTS LEAD?
“All the races, You just saw what can happen. You can run third all day long, but when (Matt) Crafton keeps doing that and running like that, he is going to make points on us. It was a good points day for us and we will take it. We have Talladega coming up and Martinsville coming up, heck we don’t know. It takes a lot of people to do this.
“I have to thank Georgia Boot, VPW, COPART, Longhorn, Chevrolet, Mark Smith, everybody. It has been quite a ride and we aren’t done yet.”
“Well, I felt like I or we let the guys down. We didn’t come back in and get our fuel and lost a lot of track position on that deal and just never got it back. We had a fast truck with this Pringles Chevrolet, but just lost or track position and just never got it back. Ultimately it’s my fault. I just didn’t know I was supposed to come back in for the fuel deal, just not used to it. Guess you can call it a rookie mistake.”
“No. (Laughs) It is just incredible to see the roll that these guys have gone on. The whole team and Ron, Rick (Ren, crew chief) and everybody at the shop being a part of it. These guys on the No. 4 and the No. 33 put each other’s trucks together. They put the No. 2 truck together with the Nationwide crew. It is fun to see everybody work together and winning races. You just don’t ever know when you are going to win the next one let alone five in a row, but a good night all around for Georgia Boot and Pringles and the Fitzpatricks. Two trucks in the top-five and three trucks in the top-11, Hard to complain. This has been one of our worst tracks for whatever reason as far as performance and to have two trucks in the top-five is a huge accomplishment.
HOW MUCH ENJOYMENT HAVE YOU GOTTEN OUT OF THE OWNERSHIP SIDE THIS SEASON?
“Well, than having a miserable year on the Cup side, really the rest of it has been really good. We got our first win in the Nationwide car and for the most part, that car runs in the top-five every week. We were able to win a truck race and seeing Ron win all his truck races, I think we have won seven (7) out of the 15 truck races. That has been fun. This takes a little bit of pressure of off that, but Sunday’s have still been miserable.”
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