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Raybestos Rookie Winn-Dixie 250 Advance: Patrick Carpentier Transcript

Friday July 4, 2008

 

RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE CONTENDER ADVANCE MATERIAL FOR THE WINN-DIXIE 250 NASCAR NATIONWIDE SERIES RACE AT DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY, JULY 4, PAGE 1.

Raybestos Rookie Patrick Carpentier participated in a press conference this morning to promote the August 2 NAPA Auto Parts 200 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Gilles Villeneuve Circuit in Montreal. Carpentier is a Raybestos Rookie in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR Nationwide Series. He is a native of Joliette, QC, Canada.

PATRICK CARPENTIER, No. 9 SUBWAY DODGE: TALK ABOUT GOING BACK TO YOUR NATIVE LAND AND THIS GREAT ROAD COURSE EVENT. “It’s a fun event. Montreal is a nice place to be in the summer time. You’ve got a lot of nice places to go and the event was amazing. I was talking with Kevin [Harvick], who won it last year, last week, actually, and he said ‘Man, I was amazed just looking at the crowd and coming out of the hairpin. It’s almost like you’re driving through the crowd. The grandstands go all the way down the road course. It’s fun place to race by the water and there was a lot of action last year and that track always seems to bring a lot of action. It’s a tough track on brakes and on the cars and easy to make a mistake so you never know what’s going to happen. Like last year, we didn’t know who won the race. Everybody started doing doughnuts [laughs]. It was a fun race.” HOW WAS YOUR POLE WIN LAST WEEKEND RECEIVED BACK HOME? WAS IT AS BIG AS THE ONE YOU GOT IN MONTREAL IN THE NATIONWIDE RACE? “Yeah, it was pretty amazing. A lot of people actually drove down on Sunday for the race there in Loudon. It’s good. You know, I guess it always helps ticket sales for Montreal. The timing was good, actually, because the race in August so we’re getting closer and closer to it and everything always helps so it’s good.” COMMENT ON RECENT ISSUES WITH THE TRACK SURFACE DURING THE RECENT F1 RACE. “Nationwide cars can run asphalt, dirt, grass, speed bumps and they’re still running, so it’s no problem [laughs].” YOU MUST HAVE MORE CONFIDENCE GOING BACK BECAUSE YOU HAVE MORE STOCK CAR EXPERIENCE. “Yeah, I’ve got a lot of confidence but a pole and a second place is pretty hard to top off. But we’ll see what happens. We had everything victory going for us last year. The car was great, everything worked out. Some weekends no matter what you do nothing seems to be working out and some weekends whatever you do everything seems to be working out anyway. And towards the end of the race we were a little bit further back and thanks to Marcos here kind of helped us to clear the field a little bit and go back up front [laughs] and we ended up there. So everything was working out that weekend for us so hopefully this year we get a little bit the same luck. We’re going to test at Kershaw before Montreal and hopefully get the car ready and get a good run there this year. But you always need a little bit of everything so hopefully this year we get the same thing we did last year.” TALK ABOUT THE DECISION NOT TO DO POCONO AND FOCUS ON MONTREAL AND DO YOU KNOW WHO WILL BE IN YOUR CAR AT POCONO? “No, we don’t know yet who’s going to be in it but for us, as you know, the sport is sponsorship dedicated and we’ve got a lot of people that are on the Sprint Cup car that have business in Canada with Auto Value, Valvoline and we’ve got a new sponsor in Subway and that’s going to be on the car in Montreal. We’ve got a few people that are coming in that are pretty important to us for 2009 so we’re going to spend a whole weekend there and make sure that we go to all the parties and talk with all the right people and stuff like that so it’s a very important week for us. And that’s why we’re going to focus only in Montreal so I don’t know who’s going to be in the car for Pocono. But I will most likely will fly back Sunday to watch the race in Pocono but that’s definitely sponsorship important race, especially with Mr. Gillett owning the team and Montreal Canadian he’s got a lot of interest up there so that’s the reason why.”

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