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Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011

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Phoenix Int’l Raceway

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KURT BUSCH (No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger R/T) Finished Eight “We’ll take a top 10. It was a pretty good day for the Shell/Pennzoil Dodge today. Steve (Addington, crew chief) and the guys gave me a fast car for qualifying. That allowed us to start up front and that’s important at a track like Phoenix where track position is so important. As the race went on, we just weren’t able to get our car to turn through the center of the corner like we needed and couldn’t consistently stay with the leaders. One of the keys to Phoenix is being able to get back to the gas in the center of the corners and when you’re not able to do that, you just scrub too much speed off the car. Big picture for this 22 team is that we leave Phoenix with our second-consecutive top 10 and another solid point’s day.”

BRAD KESELOWSKI (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger R/T) Finished 15th “Just an average day with the Miller Lite Dodge Charger today. We want to run better than 15th-place, but we finished out the day strong and that’s important because we really want to build on every race. We never really did that last year in Cup and in order to make progress like we want, you have to build the foundation. We brought our Miller Lite Dodge home in one piece. We’re looking to have solid and consistent days and we accomplished that today.”

HOW IMPORTANT WAS IT THAT YOU WERE ABLE TO MAKE A STRONG RUN LATE IN THE RACE? “We just learned some things all race and Paul (Wolfe, crew chief) kept wrenching on the car trying to make it better. This is a tough track. We just kept dialing on it and in the end; we made the right adjustments and got the best finish that we could.”

ROBBY GORDON (No. 7 SPEED Energy Dodge Charger) Finished 32nd “What a bummer for this SPEED Energy Dodge Charger today. I was just riding along when I saw all the smoke in front of me and thought that I was going to clear the big wreck. The next thing that I knew, I got rammed from behind. It tore up the right-rear and some other sheet metal. Just crazy. Seeing that much carnage (13 cars) on a one-mile track is really unheard of. It was just a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Ford Finishing Order:

9^th – AJ Allmendinger

12^th – Matt Kenseth

16^th – Marcos Ambrose

20^th – Greg Biffle

22^nd – David Gilliland

24^th – Mike Skinner

25^th – Tony Raines

28^th – Carl Edwards

36^th – David Ragan

39^th – Travis Kvapil

40^th – Trevor Bayne

TREVOR BAYNE – No. 21 Motorcraft Ford Fusion (Finished 40^th) – “I don’t know what happened.  We were battling with the 13 car a little bit and I don’t know if it was the 38 car behind us or who, but something happened.  Either I came up or he poked his nose in there at the last second on the top of us getting into one.  After that, there was nothing we could do.  I tried to stay in the gas and keep it turning, but it just backed into the wall.  That’s tough coming off of our high at Daytona to come to this, but we’ve got a great race team behind us.  We’ll be back at Vegas.  I hate it ended this way this weekend, but we’ll be back.”

CARL EDWARDS – No. 99 Aflac Ford Fusion (Finished 28^th) – “I’m not exactly sure what happened.  I’ll have to talk to Kyle about it.  I thought at first he was just frustrated and he turned left to get back in line and he didn’t know I was there, but I watched the tape and I think he really did get loose.  He hit me hard and I was left with nothing.  I got rammed to the infield.  If I would have turned right, I don’t think I could have made the corner to clear that curb, so that’s just the way it is.  That is the fastest car at the race track.  It’s just a shame it’s on jack stands.  We’ll get it put back together, though, and we’ll get all the points we can.  We can win this championship.  I’ve never had a run like this where our cars are this fast.  We’ve just got to keep digging.”

TRAVIS KVAPIL – No. 38 Long John Silver’s Ford Fusion (Finished 39^th) – “We were a couple rows back from it and I saw somebody get sideways way up by the wall.  Everybody checked up and I thought I had it cleared and somebody came from the infield and just KO’d me in the left rear and went around for the ride and hit the walal pretty hard on the inside.  It’s unfortunate.  We had a pretty fast Long John Silver’s Ford.  We were up in the mix and trying to make some gains on it.  We still had some work to do to get the car handling better, but it was a positive day for us even though we’re sitting here in the garage wrecked.”

DAVID RAGAN – No. 6 UPS Ford Fusion (Finished 36^th) – “We just blew a right-front tire.  We got caught up in that big wreck on the back straightaway and our UPS team did a great job of getting our car back out.  We stayed on the lead lap and we were gonna be able to make something out of the day, and then we just cut a right-front tire.  We were probably within 10 or 15 laps of pitting and I don’t know if we ran over something or something was rubbing, but we were just riding around and the right-front went down.” 

DID YOU HAVE ANY WARNING?  “No, we were actually racing Montoya pretty hard and I was feeling good.  We were probably right there in the top 20 and I was like, ‘Man, our car is gonna be OK.  We’ve got a good car and we don’t have much damage,’ but it just blew out of turn four and hit pretty hard.”

AJ ALLMENDINGER – No. 43 Valvoline Ford Fusion (Finished 9^th) – “It was all right.  I don’t know why this race kind of works out like that.  You always get some yellows early and guys doing two tires and no tires.  We got in the back and got in that wreck where we got a little bit of damage, but I don’t think it really affected the car.  I felt like, overall, we had a pretty good car.  We were on a fine line with the long runs.  We would either be really good or we’d be a little bit loose and struggle, so I felt like if we could have stayed green a long time, we would have been really good.  There at the end it was a good battle with Kurt.  I was trying to get him for eighth, but, all in all, to start with an 11^th and 9^th with as many wrecks that we’ve been in and not actually gotten wrecked is all right. We’ll take it.” 

IS THAT WHAT THIS TEAM NEEDED TO START THE YEAR?  “Definitely.  You always want a little bit more and you always think you can get a little bit more.  I’m not sure where that puts us in points, but there were a lot of guys ahead of us that had a lot of trouble.  All in all, Vegas is not the best race track for us, so to have two good finishes going in to that and build something off of it should be good.”

MARCOS AMBROSE – No. 9 Stanley Ford Fusion (Finished 16^th) – “We got a finish.  We got in a hole after Daytona and we just had to finish today.  It was a good first day and a good learning experience with Todd Parrott.  I know I’ve got great stuff and I know I can really do well, we just had to get a start somewhere and today was a pretty good start.”  HOW WAS THE DAY OVERALL?  “Our communication was really good.  We stayed calm and I felt fresh in the car.  We’ve got a good vibe going.  We just had to get a start.  We had one bad run and it was a long one where we went a lap down.  It happened towards the end of the race and we just couldn’t get it back.”

MATT KENSETH – No. 17 Crown Royal Ford Fusion (Finished 12^th) – “We didn’t really perform that well.  On long runs we were really good, but other than that we just really struggled, especially on restarts and short runs.  That really hurt us.”  WHAT HAPPENED IN THE INCIDENT WITH VICKERS?  “To be honest with you, I didn’t know there was an incident.  I was surprised when I got out of the car and everybody said he was mad at me.  I’m not sure for what.  Maybe I’ll watch the replay and see something different, but from where I was he kind of held me close to the middle of the corner on the restart, which you should, and I came off the corner and I never even felt us touch.  I know I left plenty of room to the wall and I looked in my mirror and saw everybody crashing.  I really don’t have any idea.  Maybe I’ll watch it and see something else, but I really don’t know what he’s talking about.”

DAVID GILLILAND – No. 34 Taco Bell Ford Fusion (Finished 22^nd) – “Our team has definitely taken strides.  I’m really disappointed.  I felt like we had a better car than that today.  We got involved in one of those accidents and kind of messed up the left-front fender and front end.  Overall, we’ve made huge gains for Front Row Motorsports at these type of tracks.  Last year we were terrible at these type of tracks and from the time we unloaded this weekend we were competitive, so I’m real proud of that.  We’re gonna take what we learned here, hopefully not get tore up in the  next one, and bring it home a little better, but it was a good points day overall for what we’re trying to do here.” 

IS IT ALL HAVING THE FR9 ENGINE OR OTHER THINGS AS WELL?  “Oh yeah, the FR 9 engine is awesome.  I just told Peter today, we got in that accident, but last year we left here thinking we could use a little more motor to run with these guys and we needed to upgrade that with Roush Yates and we did that this year.  That is no longer an issue and that really feels good coming to the race track knowing that you have the power to run up front.”

TREVOR BAYNE – No. 21 Motorcraft Ford Fusion – “I don’t know what happened. We were battling with the 13 car a little bit and I don’t know if it was the 38 car behind us or who, but something happened. Either I came up or he poked his nose in there at the last second on the top of us getting into one. After that, there was nothing we could do. I tried to stay in the gas and keep it turning, but it just backed into the wall. That’s tough coming off of our high at Daytona to come to this, but we’ve got a great race team behind us. We’ll be back at Vegas. I hate it ended this way this weekend, but we’ll be back.”

CARL EDWARDS – No. 99 Aflac Ford Fusion – “I’m not exactly sure what happened. I’ll have to talk to Kyle about it. I thought at first he was just frustrated and he turned left to get back in line and he didn’t know I was there, but I watched the tape and I think he really did get loose. He hit me hard and I was left with nothing. I got rammed to the infield. If I would have turned right, I don’t think I could have made the corner to clear that curb, so that’s just the way it is. That is the fastest car at the race track. It’s just a shame it’s on jack stands. We’ll get it put back together, though, and we’ll get all the points we can. We can win this championship. I’ve never had a run like this where our cars are this fast. We’ve just got to keep digging.”

TRAVIS KVAPIL – No. 38 Long John Silver’s Ford Fusion – “We were a couple rows back from it and I saw somebody get sideways way up by the wall. Everybody checked up and I thought I had it cleared and somebody came from the infield and just KO’d me in the left rear and went around for the ride and hit the walal pretty hard on the inside. It’s unfortunate. We had a pretty fast Long John Silver’s Ford. We were up in the mix and trying to make some gains on it. We still had some work to do to get the car handling better, but it was a positive day for us even though we’re sitting here in the garage wrecked.”

NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES

SUBWAY FRESH FIT 500

PHOENIX INTERNATIOINAL RACEWAY

RACE NOTES AND QUOTES

February 27, 2011

JEFF BURTON, NO. 31 CATERPILLAR CHEVROLET, involved in 13 car accident on the backstretch on lap 66 after being involved in earlier multi-car incident on lap 59: WHAT HAPPENED OUT THERE? “It looked like the No 83 (Brian Vickers) had some trouble on the outside. It was pretty slick on restarts and it looked like he got really loose and the field behind and everybody bottled up. I don’t know if he was second or fourth but he was right up there. The whole field was behind him and just nowhere to go.”

ARE PEOPLE BEING TOO AGGRESSIVE OUT THERE? “I guess you would have to say yes. Really frustrating for us. I thought we had an incredibly fast car today. It seems like we can’t do anything right right now. We’ll keep our heads up and keep diggin’.”

CLINT BOWYER SAID THEY ARE RACING WAY TOO HARD WAY TOO EARLY, BUT IT IS A SHORT TRACK: “It’s too hard if people are wrecking, you know what I mean. I am not pointing the finger at anybody. We all race. It is early in the year and everybody is trying to get what they. Certainly is people are wrecking then it is too aggressive. There is no question about that. I can’t control other people. I can only control us. I’m real proud of how we ran today. I thought we had a car that could win this race. We are sitting here in the garage, just really disappointing.”

WHAT HAPPENED EARLIER WITH CARL EDWARDS AND KYLE BUSCH? “The No. 18 (Busch) kind of had the same problem as the No. 83. He was really loose up high. I don’t know why he was loose, I didn’t see that part. When he did, he came across and ran into the door of the No 99 (Edwards) and it was on from there.”

WHY DO YOU THINK EVERYBODY WOULD BE SO AGGRESSIVE SO EARLY? ARE THEY TRYING TO MAKE UP POINTS LOST IN DAYTONA? “We are certainly in that group. At the end of the day, it is what we do. We race hard and obviously when people are wrecking it s too hard. But that is what we get paid to do. We get paid to race hard. It is a long race, we haven’t even gotten to 100 laps yet and to have two big wrecks less than 100 laps. It is ultra competitive. I mean it is really really competitive. Track position means a lot and I think everybody is just trying to get all they can on restarts.”

IS THERE ANYTHING INTENTIONAL GOING ON OUT THERE? “No, no, no, no, no. The No. 18 – that wasn’t intentional. He was just really really loose before all that happened. The back of the car was around and he was trying to get it saved up. To me, I don’t think it was anything intentional at all.”

JAMIE MCMURRAY, NO. 1 BASS PRO SHOPS / TRACKER BOATS CHEVROLET – Involved in 13-vehicle accident on lap 66 ARE YOU ALL RIGHT? WHAT HAPPENED? “Yeah, I am good. I saw the replay in the infield care center. It looked like the No. 83 (Brian Vickers) cut a tire down. It’s really tight back there (on the race track). It’s really tight back there. It’s a bad place to have a wreck because there is nowhere to go. But I was the guy who got slowed down and whoever was behind me just wasn’t able to. Once you get hit from behind that hard you just along for the ride.”

IS THE DRIVING REALLY CRAZY OUT THERE?

“Yeah, it’s just typical. Normally you get those long runs and it gets calmed down. But when you get different pit strategies and guys on different sets of tires or two tires or four tires or no tires, there’s a big discrepancy in speed. The restarts are when you get all your passing done. But that was just one of those deals where the No. 56 (Martin Truex Jr.) and the No. 83 got together and cut the No. 83’s tire down and they were in the first four or five cars and it’s just a big wreck. But I don’t know that it was people being over-aggressive.

“You had guys on new tires, some of them two, some of them four. Normally at Phoenix we get long runs and it kind of settles in. With the way the cautions the way they fell, everybody was on different strategies. There were guys at the front that weren’t quite as quick as guys at the rear. When I saw the replay of the wreck, it just looked like the No. 56 (Martin Truex, Jr.) and the No. 83 (Brian Vickers) touched and cut the No. 83’s tire down and that isn’t really anyone’s fault. Just kind of one of those deals. There is nothing you can do about. It is so early you didn’t even really break a sweat. It is frustrating but there is not a lot you can do about it. We are going to try and get our car fixed and get back out there. The only fortunate part is that there are a lot of really good cars sitting in here [garage] and so when you view the points you got guys in here you will be racing for the Chase.”

CLINT BOWYER, NO. 33 CHEERIOS/HAMBURGER HELPER CHEVROLET – Involved in 13-vehicle accident on lap 66: WHAT HAPPENED FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE? “They were driving like it was the last lap! Man, if we keep this up we’ll only about four cars to end all these races. I have no idea what happened. Everybody was checked-up all over the place and running into the back of us and we got crashed. But it’s just stupid. To be racing this hard this early in a race; we’re all smarter than this.”

WHY IS EVERYBODY RACING SO HARD? PEOPLE ARE SCREAMING ON THE RADIO. IT’S JUST CRAZY: “I have no idea. Like I said, we’re all smarter than this. We’re all better race car drivers than this. We’re driving like idiots. Everybody is taking two tires, four tires; everybody is on complete different agendas right there and we never could get going. It’s just stupid.”

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PHOENIX (Feb. 26, 2011) — Regan Smith’s qualifying lap Saturday resulted in the fifth-starting position for Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Phoenix International Raceway.

It was the second-straight race of posting a fifth-place starting spot for Smith, who started last week’s Daytona 500 from the same position. And going back to last season, the Furniture Row Racing driver is now at five consecutive races of qualifying in the top 10.

Smith’s No. 78 machine was the fastest Chevrolet in qualifying with a lap time and speed of 26.283 seconds at 136.971 miles per hour.

“I was surprised – I thought it was a slow lap, to be honest,” said Smith. “So, I’m really pleased with that time. Sometimes when you’re fast it feels slow. We were a little off in qualifying trim yesterday so we made some adjustments today and everybody on this Furniture Row Chevy did an awesome job. We’ve been really working hard with our program to get it to this level.”

The pole winner was Carl Edwards (26.224 at 137.279 mph). Rounding out the top-five in order were: Kurt Busch, Kasey Kahne, Kyle Busch and Smith.

Sunday’s Subway Fresh Fit 500 will be televised on FOX, beginning with a 30-minute prerace show at 12:30 p.m. MT.

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SUBWAY FRESH FIT 500

PHOENIX INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY

TEAM CHEVY DRIVER QUALIFYING NOTES & QUOTES

February 26, 2011 

AVONDALE, AZ – (Feb. 26, 2011) –  For the first time this season, the new qualifying procedure based on practice times was utilized in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series competition.  It proved to be a unique and interesting format for the fans and drivers alike.

With a fifth-place qualifying effort, Regan Smith, No. 78 Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet, will lead a contingent of 17 Team Chevy drivers in Sunday’s Subway Fresh Fit 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.

Jamie McMurray, No. 1 Bass Pro Shops/Tracker Boats Chevrolet, will roll off eighth in the 43-car field for the second race of the 2011 season.

Carl Edwards (Ford) is the pole sitter.  Kurt Busch (Dodge), Kasey Kahne (Toyota) and Kyle Busch (Toyota) complete the top-five starters.

The Subway Fresh Fit 500 is scheduled to take the green flag at 1:00 p.m. MT (3:00 p.m. ET) with live broadcast coverage provided by FOX TV, MRN Radio and Sirius NASCAR Radio Channel 128.

REGAN SMITH, NO. 78 FURNITURE ROW CHEVROLET – QUALIFIED 5TH

ON HIS LAP

“I was surprised. I thought it was a slow lap, to be honest with you. So I’m really pleased with that time. Sometimes when you’re fast it feels slow. We were quick when we unloaded. We were a little off in qualifying trim today so we made some adjustments today and everybody on this Furniture Row Chevy did an awesome job. We’ve been really working hard with this program to get it to this level and I feel like this is the year we can take advantage of it and hopefully that’s what we keep doing.”

SOME PEOPLE SAY YOU DIDN’T GET NEARLY ENOUGH ATTENTION FOR WHAT YOU DID AT DAYTONA LAST WEEK. NOW IS THE CHANCE TO CONTINUE THAT EFFORT AND ROLLOUT A GOOD SEASON

“Well, and last week was cool. I think obviously the winner deserves all the attention. So that’s fine. We can fly under the radar. I’m cool with that. Coming in here we were really confident about where our program was and this is the first start of the season when it comes to the intermediate and mile tracks; and you really get an idea about where you shake up here.”

VERY GOOD RUN

‘Yeah, I didn’t really think the lap was that good. I thought we were really slow, to be honest with you. So, I know where I left a little bit on the table but we’re not going to be greedy. It was a good lap and hopefully it will hold up for a top 10 start and a good pit stall and we’ll go from there.”

COMING OFF A REALLY GOOD RUN AT DAYTONA AND STARTING OFF STRONG AT PHOENIX, DO YOU THINK THAT BODES WELL FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR FOR YOU?

“Oh, I definitely think so. All the guys on the Furniture Row Chevy have been really working hard and there has been a lot of commitment from a lot of people to get this program to this point. And we’re right there where we can really start taking advantage of it and that’s what we’re going to try to do all year.”

JAMIE MCMURRAY, NO. 1 BASS PRO SHOPS/TRACKER BOATS CHEVROLET, QUALIFIED 8TH: ON HIS QUALIFYING EFFORTS: “I thought we’d be a better than where we ended up. I think we are going to be about eighth. We were fifth in practice and I thought I had a little bit left to go quicker. I just didn’t do a very good job. Sometimes you run your laps and you get more out of the car than you think it’s capable of. Then you have laps like today where our car was probably a little faster than the driver. It will still be a good starting spot and it is so important here to qualify well and we should get a good pit stall selection. I think we have more on our side than against us. We’ll just wait and see. This has been a really tough track for me. I’ve run well here a few times, but for the most part this has been a tough track. If we can get out of here with a top-10 finish, it would be a really good weekend for us.”

PAUL MENARD, NO. 27 VERTIS/MENARDS CHEVROLET, QUALIFIED 13TH:

ON HIS QUALIFYING EFFORT: “It’s not the lap we’d hoped for. I was just a little too loose in the center of (Turns) 3 and 4 and had to wait to get back on the throttle. The car was fast in race trim yesterday so I think we’ll be ok, especially with the cooler temperatures that are forecasted for tomorrow. We’ll just be patient and work our way forward.”

KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 29 JIMMY JOHNS CHEVROLET – QUALIFIED 17TH

ON THE ENGINE FAILURE AT DAYTONA LAST WEEK

“That’s the first time for our NO. 29 car that we’ve had an engine problem since 156 races ago. So, you’re going to have that stuff happen. They do a great job. I still feel we have the best engine department in the business and they felt like they had the answers that they needed when we got back.”

YOU’RE GOING TO BE THE GUY THAT PEOPLE AT NOW AS THE BAROMETER OF HOW TO DIG OUT OF A HOLE WITH THE NEW POINTS SYSTEM. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT?

“You’ve just got to run in the top five. Last year when we got to race number 26 we were substantially ahead of everybody else and it didn’t do us any good. So we just need to position ourselves in the top 10 and try to win a few races and be ready for the Chase because leading the points doesn’t matter.”

ON HIS LAP

“It was a good lap for us. I wish I could do it again. But if I could do it again, I’d probably screw it up. So, they did a great job on our Jimmy Johns car making the adjustments from yesterday to today to try to help me with a little bit of grip and it was definitely better.

“Our Jimmy Johns Chevrolet was really good in race trim. We were off a little bit in qualifying trim and made some adjustments yesterday and the car drove a lot better. So, I wish I could do it again, but that’s it for today. I’ve just got to thank everybody for working on this car and thank Jimmy Johns for coming on board.”

ON PIR

“Well, it’s the same track that I’ve been coming to since 1994. I watched all the races here. It makes me almost want to cry that they’re going to tear it all up. But we’ll see what happens when we come back.”

JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 DRIVE TO END HUNGER CHEVROLET – QUALIFIED 20TH

ON HIS LAP

“Well, we had a lot we had to gain from yesterday. We gained, but not nearly enough. So, it was an okay lap, but it certainly wasn’t our best lap. We’ll just see how that early draw works out for us.”

JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S/KOBALT TOOLS CHEVROLET – QUALIFIED 28TH

ON HIS LAP:

“Without testing before the season, it’s just tough to know if the areas you’re working on during the off-season are good. We have a lot of ideas we’re trying to work through now so this weekend we haven’t had the raw speed that we had hoped to have but we’re working in a lot of areas to find speed. So I think in a couple of races from now, we’ll be where we want, but we’re going to have to deal with some tough moments I think, just because we can’t test like we used to in the old days.”

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