Mainely Motorsports TV – March 2, 2016
Mainely Motorsports TV – March 2, 2016
Chase Elliot on Winning Daytona 500 Pole
CHASE ELLIOTT, NO. 24 NAPA AUTO PARTS CHEVROLET SS – DAYTONA 500 POLE WINNER
“This is a very, very cool day. I don’t know that this opportunity has sunk in yet, much less sitting on the pole for the Daytona 500. So this is very cool. I think the big thing is just the team and the Daytona 500 qualifying is about the team guys and the effort they put into these cars and it’s nothing special I did, it’s really what kind of work they did this off-season to make it happen. Jeff (Gordon) knows all about that and I just wanted to give a big thanks to NAPA Auto Parts and all of our partners at HMS on this No. 24 car. This is very special and a great way to start the season.”
HEY CHASE, THIS IS JEFF GORDON. WELCOME TO THE 2016 SPRINT CUP SERIES AND THE DAYTONA 500. WHAT AN INCREDIBLE WAY TO GET IT ALL STARTED. I KNOW YOU’RE GOING TO GIVE A LOT OF CREDIT TO THE TEAM FOR TODAY. FOR FROM HERE ON OUT, THE DRIVER IS GOING TO PLAY A HUGE ROLE. HOW DO YOU GET PREPARED TO TAKE THIS MOMENTUM INTO THE DUELS ON THURSDAY AND INTO THE DAYTONA 500? HOW DO YOU BECOME THE YOUNGEST DAYTONA 500 WINNER IN HISTORY?
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New England Racer Needs your Support
New England Racer Needs your Support
Young kart racer Joel Belanger of Washington NH was named a finalist in the amateur category of the Champion Spark plugs, Search for a Champion contest. Joel’s entry was one of 200 entries in the amateur category, and by being selected as a finalist he won a $1000 sponsorship from Champion. Joel is now one of 25 finalists in the amateur category that will be competing for the grand prize of $10,000. Joel is the only finalist from the New England region, and is hopeful that the region will support his efforts to win the grand prize.
Joel’s entry tells the story of this young racers passion for the sport. Besides being a talented driver, he is a fan, and student of the sport.
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Mainely Motorsports TV – February 17, 2016
Mainely Motorsports TV – February 17, 2016
An interview with KEVIN HARVICK
An interview with KEVIN HARVICK
Q. How many times have you watched the replay of that last lap in 2007 when you won this race? What’s it like to relive that?
KEVIN HARVICK: Yeah, it still gives me goosebumps every time that I see it happen because it’s one of those moments where you didn’t really expect to be in that position with everything that had happened 12, 15 laps before that.
I think as you see everything unfold, you see it coming to the line, then win the race. When you go back to remembering what it was like inside of the car, how excited you were, all the things you got to do the next week, it was pretty neat.
It’s hard to put any race together, let alone this one. There’s just so many things that have to go your way. I think that year was probably a year that you didn’t think you probably had the car to win. I can think of a few years where it felt like you had the car to win and you didn’t win because of something going wrong.
You never know when it’s all going to line up. You have to keep trying to plug away and keep yourself in contention.
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