Approach Remains the Same for Kenseth: Race Hard Every Week

Approach Remains the Same for Kenseth: Race Hard Every Week

DeWalt Ford Fusion – “Our approach is the same as any week – you show up and run the best you can and hopefully you have equipment that’s capable of winning. Very seldom do you really have a chance that if you gamble and make it you could win, and if you don’t you, you’ll finish in the back. Very seldom you have that chance. So, obviously, if you have that chance you’re going to go for the win, like you would every week. But, really, just show up with your best stuff and try to run the best you can.”

HOW MUCH OF AN EFFECT DOES THE 10 POINTS FOR A WIN FACTOR IN? “Just the same. I mean, you go for it every week. I can’t think of a race I’ve ever been in and said, ‘Man, I could go up and try to win that thing or I could lay back here and finish fifth.’ You try to win every race. There’s really not much extra you can do. Every once in a while there’s an odd circumstance – like if you’re two laps short on fuel, you might try to stretch it if nobody else could make it and try to win it on fuel, but other than that, there’s not a whole lot you can do. You go out and run as fast as you can run all day, try to use you best strategy, do the best you can on pit road and go from there.”

WHAT IS YOUR STRATEGY HERE AT THE GLEN? “The same as any race – go try to qualify best you can and try to race the best you ca. Certainly, you have to do the pit strategy, you try to get your best fuel mileage you can, but really we haven’t been that great at doing that. We haven’t had the best fuel mileage, we haven’t usually pitted the thing where we’re in the front at the end, like the 42 and 26, some of them guys the last race. Certainly, we’ve got to work hard on that, have the right pit strategy and then try to be out front in the end.”

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