NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES
FIREKEEPERS CASINO 400
MICHIGAN INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY
TEAM CHEVY RACE NOTES AND QUOTES
JUNE 12, 2016
DALE EARNHARDT JR., NO. 88 AXALTA CHEVROLET SS – Involved in multi-car accident on Lap 60
IT LOOKS LIKE YOU TOOK A BIG HIT. ARE YOU OKAY?
“Yeah, it wasn’t too bad, actually. I knew I was going to hit the wall. The No. 34 (Chris Buescher) just drove into the left front quarter panel. Oh, man. I don’t know; them restarts and all that. You’ve got a responsibility to try and take care of everybody out there even when you’re three-wide. I’m disappointed in that. But, we had a pretty good car and we were just kind of taking our time, there. And the car was great. So, it’s a shame.”
CAN YOU EVALUATE THE NEW PACKAGE? DID YOU RUN ENOUGH TO HAVE AN EVALUATION YET?
“It’s not a whole lot different than the other package. I think we talk about packages too much.”
TELL US WHAT YOU CAN FOR YOUR POINT OF VIEW:
“We were in the middle there and the No. 34 (Chris Buescher) ran into the left-rear quarter panel and knocked us in the fence. He must have just lost the nose of his car. I hate it, but you try to take care of each other out there. We all try to race hard and I wish he would have taken better care of us. He just lost the car and hit the quarter panel. It happens though. I’m angry, but I won’t be too upset about it later. It’s frustrating right now because we had a good car and I was happy with the way the car drove. We had good speed, we just needed to continue to work on getting our track position and we were doing that. We won’t get a chance to get the finish I think we could have got today.”
AJ ALLMENDINGER, NO. 47 KROGER/HUNGRY JACK/CRISCO CHEVROLET SS – Involved in multi-car accident on lap 60
WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THAT INCIDENT?
“I’m not really sure. I think (Dale Earnhardt) Junior got hit and I was on the outside of him and that was it. It was kind of weird back there. I’m not really sure what kind of car we had. I thought in clean air we weren’t too bad, but I guess a lot of people could say that. Just not a lot of fun racing there.”