Ford Performance NXS Notes & Quotes:
Coke Zero 400 – Daytona International Speedway
NSCS Post Race
Sunday, July 5, 2015
FORD FINISHING RESULTS
9th TREVOR BAYNE
19th RICKY STENHOUSE JR.
20th GREG BIFFLE
22nd JOEY LOGANO
29th BRAD KESELOWSKI
25th COLE WHITT
27th BRETT MOFFITT
30th SAM HORNISH JR.
31st JOSH WISE
34th ARIC ALMIROLA
40th DAVID GILLILAND
TREVOR BAYNE, No. 6 AdvoCare Ford Fusion (Finished 9th) – “I am good to go. It stinks to tear a race car up at the checkers but that is the first time I have gone to the infield care center and not been broken hearted from a bad run. We finished 9th I guess or wherever they line us up at after they look at all of it. I feel we had a top-five run going there. It was pretty wild. My car was kind of sluggish at the beginning and we got into the wall when Kenseth wrecked off four and it narrowed it up just enough and toed it in just enough that it started handling really good and got really fast. We drove up to the top four but it was really tough battling those Hendrick cars when you have three of them lined up together. We were able to hold our own and Denny (Hamlin) and I worked well and Paul Menard gave me some good pushes. There at the end off of four everybody was trying to go everywhere. We got rooted out by the 41 car and ended up ninth. We will take it. I feel we had a solid race today. That AdvoCare spark, you need it at three in the morning to keep you sharp. I never got tired in the race and I am sure everybody else was dragging a little after a long day at the race track. I was impressed by the fans staying in the stands and hopefully everyone is alright from that crash.”
TALK ABOUT THIS CRAZY DAY, STARTING THIS RACE AT NEARLY MIDNIGHT AND ENDING AT THREE IN THE MORNING. “It is kind of back to your roots of short track racing or whatever where you don’t know what time you will get out of there. I remember as a kid leaving the track at four in the morning sometimes. It is kind of back to that. Like I said, we have some of the best fans in the world that will sit in the stands through the rain and lightning and whatever until three a.m. and I really appreciate that.”
DID YOU SEE ANY OF THAT LAST WRECK? “I didn’t. I was almost through it I think when the 11 slid back up and then I had nowhere to go. I don’t know what happened yet, I just heard about it. I hope everyone is alright.”
RICKY STENHOUSE JR., No. 17 Fifth Third Bank Ford Fusion (Finished 19th) – “We were a little tight and really didn’t get good track position all night. We just got caught in that logjam there and were trying to pick which lane and no lane was really going anywhere. We were all running right there in the middle and that is where we ended up and got that last lap crash. We had some damage but missed the big wrecks which definitely helped us out. We wanted a better finish but all in all we will take all of the laps ran at these speedway races. The last two we haven’t done that so this was good.”
JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Shell Pennzoil Ford Fusion (Finished 22nd) – “There isn’t much good to say about what happened here tonight. It is a product of the racing here. We got caught in the first crash which was way unfortunate after sitting around all day. We were five laps down and battled back to the lead lap, so that is something to be proud of but we couldn’t do much once we got there.”
WHAT GOES THROUGH YOUR MIND SEEING THAT LAST HUGE WRECK? “I haven’t really seen it yet. I just heard the 3 was up in the catch fence and motors were flying out of cars. That isn’t the first time that has happened here and it is just dumb that we allow it to happen more than once.”
ARIC ALMIROLA, No. 43 Smithfield Ford Fusion – INVOLVED IN ACCIDENT ON LAP 106
“I don’t know. I need to see a replay. I was following Jeff Gordon up through there and he got shuffled out and I kind of committed to him and we started moving back up there pretty good. I was happy about the momentum we had and next thing I know some cars got together on the inside and I heard the noise and heard them start to spin and thought I would be clear of it and a car shot up through the bottom of the race track and caught me in the left rear. It is a game of inches here sometimes and I think a couple feet more forward and we wouldn’t be in this. It stinks. I am certainly disappointed.”
WAS IT FEELING LIKE IT WAS GETTING TO BE GO TIME? “Yeah. You can’t ride around in the back the whole day. Sometimes you can, sometimes you can’t. That is Daytona and Talladega. You can ride in the back and get in a wreck or be up front and get in a wreck. You just have to go race.”
