Marcos Ambrose Driver Diary: Taking a Trip Down Under This Offseason
It’s been a great two months for us with the Stanley DeWALT team.
It’s been a great two months for us with the Stanley DeWALT team.
Since the last diary we’ve been to Atlanta, Richmond, Chicago and New Hampshire. That’s a tough run right there. We haven’t done much really in four weeks.
Indy was a disappointment for us. I actually scuffed the right side of the car up at the start of practice and really set us back for it.
We had high expectations going to Sonoma and we did a lot of work on the car to be as ready as we could be. With a new team it’s always difficult to get road racing just because you don’t have the history. You don’t have the setups. We tested a lot. We felt like …
Talladega was really disappointing. We teamed up with Carl [Edwards] at the start of the race and we agreed that we should be hanging back a little bit, just let it all thin out and play out. We were running so well together we just couldn’t resist, we kept moving up there. The one time …
Bristol was about learning the car. It was our first short track with the team so there was a lot to learn. It was a different tire there as well, so there was a lot to adjust to. I think we did a really nice job adapting to the day. We finished 15th which was …
Daytona was obviously very disappointing for us. We got caught up in a lap 25 crash. Absolutely not necessary for that time of the race, so we just got a very bad start. We were all feeling the pressure heading to Phoenix and we bounced back well. We had a strong day and ran in …
Last year was a very trying year for me. I made some big decisions halfway through to try and shake things up for 2011, and give myself the best chance to answer some questions for myself about what kind of driver I am. We went through a lot of troubles and turmoils after that, but …
Last diary we were on our way to Talladega. It was a great day. We were coming off a solid run at Martinsville when we were going there and we led laps again at Talladega which is always fun. I felt like we had a strong day but we got caught up in a really …
We’ve visited California, Charlotte and Martinsville over the last few weeks. It’s been pretty thin on the results side, but we’ve run well and we led a lot of laps at Martinsville which was great. I’m not sure what happened there halfway through the race, it just didn’t go our way. That was a strong …
Since the last diary we have been to Indy, Pocono, Watkins Glen and Michigan and we’ve had a mixed bag in all of those events. Indy is a great track to run at. You’ve really got to drive, you’ve really got to earn your way on the Indianapolis racetrack. I would argue it’s one of …
We’ve been to quite a few races since the last diary. As for Michigan, considering that we’ve struggled on that style of speedway, we’re proud of our finish (15th) there. We were running top 15 all day so that was good. At Sonoma, we had a chance to win and let it slip there at …
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