Rain Shortens Bristol Nationwide Race

DAVID RAGAN – No. 6 Discount Tire Ford Fusion (Finished 8th) – “We certainly have a better car than eighth-place right now, so my gut ells me we need to go back racing and try to pick up some more spots. I think track position means a lot with all the lapped cars and it’s still tough to pass. You’ve got to time your passes out. Everybody in the top 10 is so equal, but I feel like our Discount Tire Ford is better than an eighth-place finish, but sometimes we’ve gotten greedy and it’s cost us four or five spots.” CAN YOU TALK ABOUT YOUR RACE WITH CARL? “You know the rain is coming. It sprinkled for 20 laps and we could see it on our windshield. He’s running for everything he’s worth.

He doesn’t want to give up any spots and I want to get all I can. My car was tight. If my car would have been a little better, I could have gotten by him pretty easy. We ended up getting around him and it’s fun to race teammates like that. I just wish it was for first and second instead of sixth and seventh.” IS THIS THE BEST CAR YOU’VE HAD HERE? “Yeah. We had a great car in the fall last year and finished sixth, so this is equally as good. Track position is more important than it ever has been with the limited horsepower that we have and the top 10 is equal. When you’re passing lapped cars two or three a lap, it just makes it tough.”

GREG BIFFLE – No. 16 CitiFinancial Ford Fusion (Finished 13th) – “I had a great car and I’m getting better and better about saving it until the end – saving the brakes and I even saved two sets of tires. We had a long ways to go when everybody pitted and we got off cycle. We had new tires sitting 13th and it was ours to have, but the weather didn’t cooperate.

We sort of had a strategy of what we were gonna do, so this really bums us out because we had a lot better car than we’re we finished.” YOU TALK ABOUT SAVING BUT THAT’S HARD WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHEN THE RAIN IS COMING. “I looked at the radar and I saw that one clump that came through earlier today and I figured once that was gone we were pretty much free and clear, but that obviously wasn’t the case.”

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