Quotes
LANDON CASSILL, DRIVER OF THE NO. 5 NATIONAL GUARD CHEVROLET (ON RACING AT NASHVILLE.): “I’m looking forward to going to Nashville because we had a decent run there in the spring. Probably the biggest thing I’m looking forward to is that, in the spring race, I picked up on a lot of things that would have benefitted me. So I’m anxious to go back and hit it hard. I have confidence that we’ll go back there in the No. 5 National Guard Chevrolet and be a top-10 car.”
CASSILL (ON WHAT HE HAS LEARNED SINCE LAST DRIVING AT NASHVILLE.): “I kind of caught onto a few things as far as the entrance of the corners at Nashville. They’re almost deceiving because they look a lot tighter than they are, and you can really charge the car hard into the corner and roll out of the gas slow, which carries a lot of speed. It’s really intimidating to do, and it’s really tough, but on new tires, if you really get the courage, you can sail it off in the corner and it will hang on. So qualifying I’m really looking forward to that and also the beginning of practice is always fun to go out on new tires and just go after it really hard and put up a good lap time.”
CASSILL (ON GETTING CONSISTENT SEAT TIME.): “Obviously, the seat time and getting a momentum swing going and getting it going in the right direction are important. The truck races I’ve been running with Morgan-Dollar Motorsports have really been helping out recently. They’re great confidence boosters because we went to Lowe’s (Motor Speedway) the first time and ran in the top 10, and I ran well at Kansas with Morgan-Dollar. Just the seat time in general provides a lot of confidence, and if you are running well enough you get a lot of momentum. You go to the next race and make yourself better than you were last week.”
CASSILL (ON MAINTAINING THAT MOMENTUM.): “If you are racing each weekend, it creates more things for you to do during the week. Whether it’s reviewing your Saturday race on Monday with your crew chief, then coming in on Tuesday and changing a couple things in your car. Then on Wednesday, you start looking ahead on the weekend, and you are working on your car. The next thing you know you’re at the racetrack. You get to a point where you start waking up earlier because you have things to do that day, and you stay longer because you didn’t get all your stuff done. You end up so busy that the days go by fast, and the next thing you know you’re back at the racetrack. It creates a rhythm and momentum, and that’s when you’re on top of your game.”
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