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Johnny Sauter top Raybestos Rookie in Mountain Dew 250

Tuesday November 3, 2009

 

Where the Raybestos Rookies finished at Talladega:

Sauter 13th

Buescher 15th

Fitzpatrick 16th

Carmichael 20th

Malsam 27th

Jones 30th

 

JOHNNY SAUTER IN THE No. 13 FUN SAND/RODNEY ATKINS/CURB RECORDS CHEVROLET WAS THE TOP RAYBESTOS ROOKIE AT TALLADEGA.

 

NOTES:

 

  • Sauter scored an 11th-place finish and claimed top rookie honors for the 11th time this season.

 

  • Chris Jones was the only Raybestos Rookie to lead a lap in today’s race.  Jones led the event twice for three laps.  He also claimed WIX Filters Lap Leader of the Race honors for the first time this season.  This is the first race that Jones has led in 22 career starts.

 

SAUTER:  IT LOOKED LIKE YOU AND TEAMMATE MATT CRAFTON WERE IN GOOD POSITION LATE IN THE RACE.  YOU WERE RUNNING TOGETHER IN THE OUTSIDE LINE.  “I actually cost the 88 [Crafton] the race.  If I wouldn’t have pulled up in front of him he probably could have won it.  We just struggled from the word go to the end of the race.  It’s just frustrating.  I hate it but that’s the way it is.”  WHAT DID YOU SEE WHEN THE BIG WRECK HAPPENED IN TURN 3?  IT LOOKED LIKE YOU WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PACK.  “Skinner doing what he pretty much usually does.  Just racing, I mean, he’s trying to make it a hole and there wasn’t a hole and wrecked a bunch of good trucks and we got some damage out of it, too.”  DID THAT PRETTY MUCH END ANY HOPE OF GETTING INTO THE TOP-10?  “Oh yeah, we had flat tires and damage and green-white-checker, everybody is tore up back there and there’s no way you’re going to get where you need to go.  Just glad to get the heck out of here.”  

 

JAMES BUESCHER, No. 10 INTERNATIONAL MAXX FORCE DIESEL FORD:  “It was okay.  We just really couldn’t draft good at all.  We couldn’t do anything.  I got turned around at end there for people not paying attention.  I had already rolled out of the throttle and we had cleared the wreck just about and got right reared.  There’s not much you can do about it but didn’t tear the truck up.  We’ll go to Texas and see if we can finish out the year strong.”  HOW MUCH DID YOU LEARN TODAY THAT WILL HELP YOU WHEN YOU GET TO DAYTONA NEXT YEAR?  “I don’t think many people know what they’re doing [smiles].  Just didn’t really have a lot to draft with.  Jumped up the lead of the outside one time and it just killed the whole outside groove.  Could not lead, couldn’t suck up, couldn’t do anything with it.  Just kind of rode the whole 98 laps and finished where we could finish.  Not much we could do about it.”  

 

RICKY CARMICHAEL, No. 4 MONSTER ENERGY CHEVROLET:  “Actually we got up front early, fell back and were back up front again.  What do you do?  I thought we were in a great position and I don’t know what happened.  I haven’t seen the replay or anything but it’s just a shame for the team.  They were working hard and we came back up and wanted that Raybestos Rookie of the Race and didn’t get it.  I’m happy with how good we were running.  We were in the top-10 at the end, couldn’t get through all the mess.  I think I got clipped from the side. There were guys going every which way.  I was like ‘Oh, I’m going to make it.’  Right when you say that it’s over but that’s the way it goes.”     

 

J R FITZPATRICK, No. 29 EQUIPMENT EXPRESS CHEVROLET:  “It was fairly good.  We for sure had a top-10.  I made a couple mistakes but I was really trying to clear that 9 truck but overall a great day.  I love being with the 29 team and hopefully I can get one more race.  Like I said I think we could have had a top-10 there if I didn’t get involved in that last little wreck there but learned a lot, had a lot of fun and look forward to coming back.”  YOU SEEM TO BE PRETTY GOOD AT DRAFTING BECAUSE YOU STAYED IN THE LEAD DRAFT MOST OF THE DAY.  “I am not a hundred percent sure but I think this is the first time that the 29 team has had a truck at a superspeedway.  It’s good research, good development that’ll be made.  I think it needs to be better by itself, whether it’s power or body or whatever. We were a little down on that but everything else was great.  As soon as I got in the draft I got to work it a little bit and we got back up near the front.  It was a good run.”       

 

TAYLER MALSAM, No. 81 ONE-EIGHTY TOYOTA:  WHAT HAPPENED?  “We were trying to check-up and got hit from behind I think.  We had an awesome One Eighty Tundra today.  The guys did an awesome job and we were just kind of hanging in there waiting for those last five laps but that’s how Talladega usually goes.”  FOR THE MOST PART THE RACE APPEARED TO BE CALM.  “People were definitely being patient.  It was starting to get rowdy those last five laps there and next thing you know we’re in the wall.  What are you going to do?”

 

CHRIS JONES, No. 41 MIKE BERG TRUCKING DODGE:  YOU LED SOME LAPS TODAY.  “It was real good in the draft. We got up there and led a few laps.  We stayed out the first caution just to stay up there and lead and fell back but was able to come back and work our way up through there slowly, just kind of biding our time.  We ended up losing the clutch.  The caution that came out right before we come in I pushed the clutch in to downshift it and there was nothing there.  It’s a shame.  We had a good truck.  I think we’d have had an easy top-10.”     

 

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* Affinia Group Inc.’s affiliated companies include Brake Parts Inc. WIX Filtration Corp LLC, Affinia Products  Corp LLC and other high quality manufacturers of the Affinia family of brands.

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