USARacing American Freedom Spectacular 200 Notes and Quotes

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USARACING PRO CUP SERIES NOTES AND QUOTES FOR THE AMERICAN FREEDOM SPECTACULAR 200 AT BRISTOL MOTOR SPEEDWAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2010.
 
BENNY GORDON IN THE No. 66 SAMUEL METALS/VSI/KUKA DRINK FORD WON TONIGHT’S RACE AT BRISTOL.
 
NOTES:
 
Gordon won for the first time in 10 starts this season, taking the checkered flag .398 seconds (approximately three car lengths) ahead of second-place Clay Rogers.  Gordon claimed his fourth top-five and eighth top-10 in 2010.
 
Gordon won for the 32nd time in 112 career starts and claimed his 64th top-five finish.
 
DID YOU KNOW?  With his victory at Bristol, Gordon has now won at least one USARacing Pro Cup Series race every season since 2003 (EIGHT CONSECUTIVE seasons).
 
Rogers grabbed his 10th top-five finish in 11 starts this season.    
 
GORDON:  ON RACING CALEB HOLMAN:  “I think we were pretty darn equal cars.  I think if I have got in front of him when I got really close to him the car just got a little bit tight coming off the corner.  If I could have squeezed in coming off the corner, on either corner, I had a run on him a couple of times but it was going to be awful dangerous to stick my nose out there and him come across me.  I think that was the only way I was going to make the pass.  I kinda was just biding my time, keeping the pressure on him to make something happen like it happened.  If I didn’t keep that pressure on him he might not have kept on it as hard as he did, tire may have lasted.  It was going to be a good battle, for sure, and I would have liked to have seen it play out but I ended up in another battle anyway.�??  COMMENT ON RACING CLAY ROGERS HARD LATE IN THE RACE.  “First couple of laps it took a second for my tires to come in.  I needed about two laps.  He muscled his way throug
 h there pretty good. He didn’t touch me.  He muscled his way through there.  I’ve been off this year.  I’ve had such a rough year and I finally had a good car under me and there was no way that was going to happen.  I just lifted him up coming off the corner over there a little bit.  The problem is, being a good driver like he is, you can do that to him and he won’t wreck it.  That’s a problem in any series with knowing that the guy is not going to wipe it out.  A lot of guys I would never touch like that.  They would have wrecked.  Clay saved it and then I ran as hard as I could so he didn’t get back to my bumper.�??  YOU RACED CALEB HERE FOR THE WIN IN 2008.  “Yeah I was and my car was nowhere near as good.  My car was hitting the track and early in the race my car was hitting the track again once we got going faster as the laps went on we got faster and faster.  So I went up to the high side and got off the bumps in the middle of the track and then it quit h
 itting. That was the biggest reason why I was running the high side is 'cause it wasn’t scrubbing the speed.  I finished second to him the last time we were here in Bristol and we won the year before that in 07.�??  YOU SAID HERE ON THURSDAY THAT THE HIGH GROOVE WAS BETTER ONCE THE TIRES WORE OUT.  “We geared down a little bit, took a little gear out of the car and let it fly up top.  I think I took like five laps of practice and my car was perfect.  When they said it started raining I said ‘Good, because I have no idea what to do to this car.  I said just leave it alone.’  That’s how good it was right out of the trailer.  We didn’t really know that was going to work into our favor but we didn’t have the gear in it to get up off the corner off the bottom so just got up there against that wall and let it fly.�??  HOW BIG IS WINNING HERE AT BRISTOL?  “It’s huge to win here.  It’s huge to win anytime but obviously here is a great place.  Bristol is the best 
 place to go to in the world as far as racing goes.  It’s big and it’s really big for me today because we’ve just struggled so bad this year and the financials are off and I’m way low on people and personnel and stuff.  It’s been a struggle for me this year and for my guys to hang in there and then come here and get a win it’s really big.�??  COULD WINNING TODAY HELP IN THE SEARCH FOR ADDITIONAL SPONSORSHIP?  “This weekend couldn’t have been any better for me because the CEO of Samuel Metals is here.  He brought 20-25 people here so that’s huge.  If he comes here and we wipe out and he leaves here discouraged, negotiations are a lot harder.  We did the ride car yesterday.  We thought it was going to rain out the ride car but it didn’t.  We got everybody in and that’s all they could talk about last night was getting rides around Bristol.  Then we come today and win and it justs strengthen the whole thing.  We ran 10 Nationwide races last year and actually
  had some really good races but we struggled some too.  That had them discouraged a little bit but absolutely, this turns the momentum around for me like nobody can believe.�??  WHAT ARE YOUR USAR PRO CUP PLANS FOR THE BALANCE OF 2010?  “I don’t really know; I’d like to run some.  I’ve also got some developmental kids that are coming my way and I really want to run them.  I really enjoy doing that.  My long-term this year is I’d like to run maybe a couple, run a couple of those boys in the last few races, run some Nationwide next year and put some young fellas in these cars to come up through the ranks.�??
 
CLAY ROGERS, No. 16 USG SHEETROCK/BUILDING SPECIALTIES/SHENANDOAH BUILDING SUPPLY/TIDEWATER INTERIOR PRODUCTS FORD:  GOOD RUN FOR YOU BUT YOU CAME UP JUST A LITTLE BIT SHORT.  “You’ll have that.  We worked hard.  Not real happy with that run, felt like we kind of conserved a little bit there and when the 75 had his problem, I mean he was just toying with everybody, it was like a cat playing with a mouse out there.  As far as Benny was concerned, I’m sure he burned his stuff up just racing the 75 as hard as he could.  I got by him, I cleared his clean on the restart, and coming here off of two, about quarter of the way down the back straightway, you know he had the momentum from the high side.  You’re going to lose a little bit of momentum on the bottom but I passed him, cleared him, I didn’t even slide job him or nothing.  He just had the momentum and rather than shooting to the inside ‘cause he knew he couldn’t complete the pass down there, he just picked my ba
 ck tires about two foot off the ground and we about had a hell of a mess down here on the backstretch.  That’s the way he races.�??
 
CALEB HOLMAN, No. 75 FOOD COUNTRY USA/AARINGTON ENGINES DODGE:  IT LOOKED LIKE YOU HAD THE CAR TO BEAT.  YOU WERE LEADING THE RACE THEN WHAT HAPPENED?  “We just cut a tire.  That’s the way it goes.  Nothing you can do.  It’s just a bad luck deal.  When you come and you do everything you can do and you’ve got a really fast race car you don’t feel so bad about stuff like that happening than if you were running last and it happens.  We kept sliding further and further up.  I kept having to protect the top from Benny.  I guess we probably caught up some kind of trash.  I mean it was instant.  It wasn’t like it was going down.  It just cut.  And that’s just how it goes.  I think we would have been better on the bottom if I could have run the line I wanted but I had to protect the top from Benny because he could take my line, even if he was a little bit slower, he could have took my line off the corner.  I was really getting around the bottom good but really didn’t 
 get a chance to show it.  If he’d have ever got on my outside I think we could have had a real good race.�??  YOU LOST A LITTLE BIT IN THE POINTS TO CLAY ROGERS TONIGHT.  “I’m so sick of that.  Every time we get a leg up, in the past few years we’ve had a few opportunities to jump out in a point lead and establish ourself as the champion and make a real run at it, and every time we do the very next race where we could go bam, we did it, something like this will happen.  We’ll blow and engine or cut a tire, something crazy and I’m just sick up to hear with it.�?? 
 
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