Even though Bristol doesn’t have characteristics common to any other race track, Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s fourth-place finish—the first top five for Roush Fenway Racing this season—has to be an encouraging sign for an organization that has been floundering this year.
Stenhouse drove from sixth to fourth during the final two-lap overtime shootout in Sunday’s race.
“It’s good,” Stenhouse said of his top-five run. “It’s tough because we always feel like we can run well here. It’s not 100 percent what every track is like, and that’s the problem.
“We go to Richmond next week, and the track is old and it gets slick and wears out, and we need the car to turn a little bit better. We use the banking here to get the car to turn, so hopefully we can keep maintaining and getting our cars a little bit better each week.”
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