Ford Performance Notes and Quotes
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS)
Sunday, March 24, 2019
EVENT: STP 500
MUSTANG AND KESELOWSKI DOMINANT IN MARTINSVILLE VICTORY
· Brad Keselowski won his second race of the season today and extended Ford’s streak of Cup wins at Martinsville to three.
· The win today is the 28th of his Cup Series career.
· The win is Mustang’s third of the season after victories at Atlanta and Las Vegas.
· Today’s win is Ford’s 680th all-time in Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series competition.
· Of Team Penske’s 68 MENCS wins with Ford, 40 have come since rejoining Ford in 2013.
BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 2 Reese/Draw Tite Ford Mustang – VICTORY LANE INTERVIEW – “The car was really good – this Ford Mustang. You know, Ford worked really hard in the offseason to build these cars and make them real strong and so far, so good. It’s just a great day for our team, awesome execution on pit road and big credit to Doug Yates and all the engine guys. Those guys work really hard and it’s just one of those days you dream of as a race car driver, where you’ve got a great car. I don’t know if we were as good as the 9, Chase Elliott. He was really strong, but he passed me there with about 200 to go and I watched him and studied him and kind of broke it down and knew what I had to do to hold him off with that fast of a car and we were able to pull it off that last run with the Reese/Draw Tite Ford.”
HOW IMPORTANT WAS THE WEDGE ADJUSTMENT AT THE END? “The temps were cooling off and the track was losing its rubber, and we were just losing grip. We weren’t as good as we needed to be there, so Paul was working on it to do the best we can and that’s what this team does – they never give up and I’m really, really proud of them.”
