Bayne and Ragan Comment on Lap 2 Accident

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TREVOR BAYNE – No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion – “I have no idea what happened.  You spend a couple days waiting in the rain and something happen on lap one, so what do you do?  I tried to get as low as I could.  I couldn’t see what was going on.  I got low and got slowed down and at the last second I think it was the 34 car that hit us in the right side door and put us into the grass.  The only thing
we really touched was the grass, but I guess it’s so wet that it tore up the front of the car.  Man, this is tough.  The guys worked so hard for this race.  We were looking forward to it.  I hate that we’re sitting here in the garage, but they’re trying their best to get back out here.  We’re doing everything we can.  I thought it would be minor damage and we could get out there faster, but it looks like we’ll be in the garage for awhile.”

WHAT HAPPENED?  “I’m not sure what happened or why they got so antsy.  It just stinks to sit around to
wait for that long.  I just told my guys on the radio that we were sitting in a good spot and as soon as I let off the button they started wrecking in front of me.  I got out of the way the best that I
could, but we still got in it.  I hate this for my Ford Racing team, but we’ll be back.  We’re gonna try to get back out there.”

DAVID RAGAN – No. 38 MHP/Power Pak Pudding Ford Fusion – WHAT HAPPENED?  “It is disappointing. I was just trying to see the monitor to see who I can be mad at. It is ridiculous to sit around this long for the Daytona 500 and on the very first lap for someone to be driving as reckless as whoever caused that, someone had to cause it. It is just a shame for it to be that early in the biggest race, the first race of the year. We just got caught up in it. We were content on riding in the beginning and minding our P’s and Q’s. They started wrecking in front of us and we just couldn’t get out of the way quick enough. It is very disappointing for our Front Row Motorsports team. We will have to pick up and move on. I can’t wait to see who was the bonehead that did that.”

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