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What happened to Danica in the All-Star Race: A mechanical failure left Danica Patrick and the #10 Mobil 1/Aspen Dental Chevy team for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) with a 20th-place finish in Saturday night's NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte. Patrick qualified sixth for the event, but she had to drop to the rear of the field prior to the start of the race because the team changed engines following Friday's Sprint Showdown. In the first All-Star segment, Patrick raced her way up to the 17th position. She reported that the car was over-rotating a bit too much, so crew chief Daniel Knost called for a four-tire stop with packer, wedge and air pressure adjustments when the field hit pit road. Patrick started the second segment from the 19th position and worked her way up to 16th before the caution flag waved at lap 50. The team changed four tires and added fuel between segments, and Patrick lined up in the 14th position when the field took the green flag for the third segment. A left-front wheel hub failure sent Patrick to the garage a few laps into the third segment. The team replaced the hub and Patrick rejoined the field at lap 88. She completed the remainder of the race and was credited with a 20th-place finish. "Overall, I feel positive about tonight," Patrick said. "You obviously never want to have a mechanical failure like we did, but my guys busted their butts to get me back out, and we were able to get a few more laps in to help us prepare for next weekend. You'd never turn down nearly 25 extra laps of practice, and we were able to get back out there and see what the Mobil 1/Aspen Dental Chevrolet would do. I feel like we made some good changes tonight and were able to gain experience and information that should help us for next weekend."(
SHR)(5-17-2015)
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05/18/2015 9:46:20 AM PDT by
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Keselowski comments about speeding penalty:From a NSCS Notes and Quotes by Ford Performance regarding #2-Brad Keselowski's speeding penalty on the last pit stop between segment 4 & 5 at the NASCAR Sprint All-Star race:
Q) WOULD YOU HAVE HAD ANYTHING FOR THE 11 IF YOU HADN'T GOT THE SPEEDING PENALTY?
Keselowski: "Oh no. Whoever gets the clean air with this format and this rules package is gonna drive away. We've seen that for the last three years and with this particular car it's probably even more so. I thought the 41 and the 4 were probably two or three tenths faster than everybody without clean air and it doesn't matter. I knew when I came out of my pit stall and the 11 was pulling out with me that I either beat him to that line or lose the race, and the penalty was I was three-tenths of a mile an hour over the speed limit, but I told my crew chief I'd rather go down swinging than take a strike and wonder what might have been. I swung and missed. The 11 team did a great job. Congrats to Denny. Their pit stops were phenomenal. They easily won him this race, but they've got a lot to be proud of and so does my team. We've just got to keep working to be better."
Q) EVEN IF YOU COME OUT SECOND YOU DON'T THINK YOU WIN THAT?
Keselowski: "No. Harvick and Kurt were two or three tenths faster than the 11 car and myself. With this rules package you're not gonna pass in clean air because clean air is worth two or three tenths. I was probably maybe a half-tenth faster than the 11, which wasn't enough to make up the difference with starting second."
Q) SO YOU'RE LITERALLY THINKING AS YOU'RE GOING YOU HAVE TO BEAT HIM TO THE LINE?
Keselowski: "I have to beat him to that line or don't win the race. I'll take the penalty and strike out, but that was the race."
IS THERE ANYTHING THAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT THIS CLEAN AIR PROBLEM ?
Keselowski: "Always. You've just got to go to work."
Q) YOU'LL HAVE LONGER RUNS IN THE 600 THAT SHOULD CREATE SOME COMING AND GOING, RIGHT?
Keselowski: "Yeah, it always does, but that's part of it."(Ford Performance)(5-17-2015)
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05/18/2015 9:47:33 AM PDT by
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