When teams go to an "action track" like Bristol, some might consider taking a car it can afford to crash. Following are thoughts of some Ford drivers on which cars go to Bristol:
DALE JARRETT (Quality Care/Ford Credit Thunderbird)
"You can't afford to take anything but your best car to any race track anymore. Anything else is accepting defeat before you get to the track. I don't see Rusty Wallace taking anything but his best car up there, which is why he does so well up there. And nobody can afford to give anything up to him or anybody else."BILL ELLIOTT (94 McDonald's Thunderbird)
"We take our best stuff to every race. It may not always seem that way, but we do, If you run up front, tearing up your car shouldn't be a problem."MARK MARTIN (6 Valvoline Thunderbird)
"Unfortunately with the way the rules are on the Fords this year, we don't have a lot of choices about which cars to take where. You can't take an 'everywhere' car to Bristol, because it has to be a short track car because of roof height and template adjustments made on short tracks, So, we're taking a real nice car, and we haven't necessarily done that in the past, But we have to take what we have fixed, and we have a real nice one fixed."RICKY RUDD (10 Tide Thunderbird)
"The car I'm taking is probably not one of our best cars in the shop, Bristol used to be a great race track for me. A lot of top-five finishes, a lot of seconds, But lately, it seems like I'm having trouble finishing the race there without getting torn up. We're taking a good race car, actually a pretty fresh race car, but one that we cut on, sawed on, converted into something different along the way. It's a good race car, but one if you had to lose it, it would be one to lose, It's a war wagon, a pretty stiff old race car, heavy duty chassis. There are some important races coming right on the heels of that race. Charlotte's coming, and I definitely wouldn't sacrifice a car that I'd carry to Charlotte."
