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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Stevens Beil/Genuine Car Parts 200: Post Race Quotes

11 August 1997

 

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Dodge Post-Race Quotes
Stevens Beil/Genuine Car Parts 200
Flemington Speedway
August 9, 1997


FLEMINGTON, NJ - 

Dodge had a tough day of racing at the Flemington Speedway. After all four 
trucks qualified in the top-10 earlier in the afternoon, during the race 
itself the Dodge trucks all struggled with understeer. In hot, intense 
sunshine, the track conditions changed as the day went on, playing havoc with 
the individual setups.

BOB KESELOWSKI (#29 Mopar Dodge) - Started 10th, finished 11th - "The track 
stayed real good. We made some good changes at the halfway break -- I just 
wish we would've gone a little further with them."

JIMMY HENSLEY (#43 Cummins Dodge) - Started 2nd, finished 13th - "The truck 
was real tight, and it just wouldn't turn. We made one little change at 
halftime, and then it just wouldn't turn. When you do that, you're gonna go 
backwards and that's just what happened."

TONY RAINES (#19 Pennzoil Dodge) - Started 3rd, finished 16th - "The truck 
was pushing the whole way around the track -- it was a problem with the basic 
setup. The truck felt like it was teetering off the left rear and the right 
front. Now we know, and we'll be better next year. You've gotta take the good 
with the bad."

MICHAEL DOKKEN (#18 Dana Dodge) - Started 5th, finished 22nd - "The track 
conditions changed and we missed it. It got really tight -- I thought for 
sure I had a flat tire during the first half. The truck just wouldn't turn."

By Chrysler Corporation Motorsports Public Relations