RCR Post Race Report – Firekeepers Casino 400

“We thought we had enough speed to have a shot to win today in the Dow Veterans Salutes Chevrolet so we are a little disappointed even though a top-10 is a great day.  Obviously, we didn’t have everything we needed today, but our main issue is that we never really got the track position we needed.  I thought our first restart was good and we were running solidly in the top five, but the caution came out after we pitted and we did not get in front of race leader Jimmie Johnson before the caution came out, so that hurt us.  But, I’m proud of my guys. They made some good adjustments on pit road to get us back in the game.  We had a good last restart and a key factor in that was restarting on top. That top line really moved today. I don’t know what people thought of the new lower downforce package that we debuted today, but in my opinion it was pretty hard to pass because it made our cars really free.  Everybody has wanted to go in that direction, but there is only so far that we can go. We are not all Superman out there, so downforce is king.”