CAN YOU PUT INTO WORDS YOUR FEELINGS RIGHT NOW? ‘No, I can’t. Heartbroken I think is the easiest way to describe it. I am really proud of my guys. We have nothing to hang our heads about. They brought me an awesome race car. We drove from 23rd up to the top-10, running sixth with just over 30 to go and it just wasn’t meant to be. We will regroup and go to Loudon and Dover and try to be spectacular.’
WHAT HAPPENED? ‘I think the motor just let go. My hat goes off to Trent Owens and all the guys on the Eckrich team. Our Fusion was really fast and it just wasn’t meant to be today. The motor let go. Doug Yates builds awesome horsepower for us every week and we rarely have any engine issues at all. It happened but we had a lot of horsepower while it lasted.’
YOU WERE RUNNING REALLY WELL. ‘We were and I knew this team was capable of that. We were coming off top-10s at Richmond and Atlanta and had momentum on our side. We know what we are capable of. We know we are capable of running in the top-10. Everyone else might not think so, the rest of the world thinks we are underdogs and we will gladly accept that tag but what we’ve shown today and the last two weeks is exactly what we are capable of. We don’t have anything to hang our heads about. We will go to Loudon with our heads held high and try to rebound from this.’
HOW DOES YOUR APPROACH CHANGE NOW? ‘We have to win. That is it. There is no other option. We have to go and figure out how we can win one of the next two races.’(Ford Racing)
