Chip Ganassi: “Championship are won and lost over an entire season and not in one race. It’s just unfortunate that it came down to the way it did at the end and I don’t think anyone can be proud of how that race finished today. I look forward to next year. I hope it gets here soon to wash the bitter taste away from today. I’ll look forward to defending our Rolex 24 hour at Daytona.
Scott Pruett:” The first contact he (99 car) just dropped me. He hit me so hard that I think my helmet left a dent in the back of the firewall. He tore up our Lexus-Riley but we recovered from that.Then we were racing coming around the back and Negri got around him and I was going inside of him, he ducked down on me a little bit. We touched just briefly and got up on the line. No spin or nothing he just got off the line. It’s unfortunate that Grand Am felt that incidental contact merited a penalty when then allowed the first deliberate contact. This team has a lot to be proud of. We worked hard all year and race clean all year. We could have dropped them anytime but we don’t take guys out. We race clean and when things happen like that it just doesn’t seem right.”
Memo Rojas: ”First of all I have to thank the TELMEX team and the Chip Ganassi Racing organization because we had a really tough season since the start. The team was not sure if they would be able to battle for a championship with a rookie driver and we were worked hard and did it all year. We led most of the season. I have no words for what happened today in this race. I think everyone saw what happened. I just have to thank the team and TELMEX for believing in me and supporting me. Like Chip Ganassi said in our post race team meeting, we shouldn’t feel ashamed for what happened here. I have to thank Scott Pruett especially. He had one of the best drives I have ever seen in my life today. He deserved the drivers championship and the team deserved better.”
Salvador Duran: “The TELMEX car was awesome to be honest. This team did such an outstanding job preparing this car. Everytime I have driven this car it has been in perfect condition to be driven at the front. I really enjoyed coming here and racing with the Chip Ganassi Racing team again. It’s hard to say how I feel right now because everyone here worked so hard here today, and every day since the Daytona 24. To see the race decided in the last couple of laps was just so difficult. It doesn’t matter now what happen out there. The whole team is leaving here happy because we were the best out there. We just have to keep working.”
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