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Bryan Clauson top Raybestos Rookie in Winn-Dixie 250
Saturday July 5, 2008
Where the Raybestos Rookies finished at Daytona:
Clauson, 19th
UNOFFICIAL Raybestos Rookie standings (top-five):
Clauson 139
Franchitti 111
Cassill 88
Gale 83
Miller 68
RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE CONTENDER QUOTES FOR THE WINN-DIXIE 250 NASCAR NATIONWIDE SERIES RACE AT DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY, JULY 4, PAGE 9.
BRYAN CLAUSON IN THE No. 40 FASTENAL DODGE WAS THE RAYBESTOS ROOKIE OF THE RACE AT DAYTONA.
· Clauson scored a 19th-place finish and took Raybestos Rookie of the Race honors for the fourth time this season including two of the past three races.
· UNOFFICIALLY Clauson has a 28-point edge (139-111) over Dario Franchitti in the overall Raybestos Rookie standings.
CLAUSON: YOU DIDN’T WANT TO SEE THAT LAST CAUTION. “Yeah, I think we still would have been fine. We had a really strong car there and the driver made an error on that restart and missed a shift and cost us. I’m really disappointed for my team. They gave me a great car. We kind of fell off there in the middle of the race, got real loose. Not sure what happened there but we were still a top-five, top-10 car there. Just made a mistake and cost us a good finish.” YOU WON THE POLE AND RAN IN THE TOP-10 FOR MUCH OF THE RACE AND THAT IS STILL A PRETTY GOOD NIGHT. “We ran like we thought we should. We had a really strong car and we were there in position at the end and just really hate it that I messed it up there for my guys because we deserved a lot better finish that what we got.” IT APPEARED THAT YOU HAD DRAFTING HELP THROUGHOUT THE RACE. “For a little bit. In the beginning of the race a lot of the Cup guys banded together and it looked like a Cup freight train rolling by me for a while. We kind of settled back in there and picked our way towards the front and you just kind of all of a sudden got pretty loose and I’m not sure if we were off a little bit on air pressure or what but about 20 laps into a run we’d just get real, real loose. It’s hard to really pass a guy unless I had him cleared mid-corner, kind of use up the racetrack because anytime I have to pinch it off the rear end would come around on us. But like I said we had a good car and I threw it away there at the end.” DAYTONA HAS BEEN GOOD TO YOU THIS SEASON. “It’s been good to us. Like I said, if we don’t make that mistake there on the restart we’re looking at another top-five, top-10 hands down. Maybe a top-five; the 88 ran fifth. It wasn’t meant to be.”
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