RCR Post Race Report – Kansas Lottery 300

“That was a weird race with those early cautions that took out a lot of our playoff competition. Once those early wrecks happened, we knew that we needed to base our race around getting as many stage points as possible to start this Round of 8 in a good way. Unfortunately, that strategy went a little to the wayside when I had a bad vibration in the right front tire during Stage 1, so we had to pit to prevent that from getting worse. Once we pitted, the vibration was gone, and I was able to jump back up into the top 10 for some extra points during the next two stages. We got a shot at the lead late in the final stage when the caution came out and everyone else pitted. It didn’t make sense for us to pit then because we only had our scuffed set left with about the same amount of laps on them as the set on our No. 2 American Ethanol / Sorghum Camaro. I couldn’t get the takeoff I wanted on that restart and got shuffled back a little bit, but managed to stay in the sixth spot for the end of the race. Overall, this was a good day for us to pick up a lot of points and put us in striking distance of the Championship Four. We also have a good benchmark for where we need to be when we roll off at Texas Motor Speedway in a couple weeks, so we’ll keep at it there.”