JIMMIE JOHNSON NO. 48 LOWE’S/CHEVY 100TH ANNIVERSARY CHEVROLET, FINISHED 34TH
AFTER HARD CONTACT WITH THE WALL LATE IN THE RACE: ON VERY HARD LICK HOW ARE YOU?
“I am ok, that one stung for sure, just thankful to have safe racecars, safe walls, softer walls and everything did its job. Pretty big impact. Unfortunate that we wrecked. We got into turn one and the No. 39 (Ryan Newman) was real tight on my outside and pulled me around, from there on I was just hanging on.
HOW ABOUT THE IMPACT OVERALL ON THE TITLE NOW?
“We just have to go racing. That is all there is to it. There are five races left, and right now all we have are those five races. Definitely not the night we wanted. This is not going to help us win a sixth championship. Promise you, this team and myself, we won’t quit. We will go for every point we can from here on out and hopefully we are still champions at the end of the year.”
HOW DID THE ACCIDENT HAPPEN?
“The No. 39 just got tight on my right rear quarter panel getting in to turn one and just took the air off the side of my car and around I went. From there I was trying to save the slide, got pointed back to the fence and hammered the wall.”
YOU ARE 8TH IN POINTS RIGHT NOW, WILL PROBABLY FINISH 34TH, WHERE DO YOU GO FROM HERE?
“We just go racing. We cannot do much about tonight, it’s happened, it’s done, we have five races left and we will go out and give 100 percent and see where it shakes out, definitely not the night we wanted but not much we can do about it now.”
CHAD KNAUS, CREW CHIEF, NO. 48 LOWE’S/CHEVY 100TH ANNIVERSARY CHEVROLET – FINISHED 34th:
ON THE DAY:
“Obviously we’ve put ourselves in a bit of a hole again, unfortunately. It’s too bad. We had a good car. Midway through the race I made a bad call and we took four tires. We probably should have taken two tires and we just had difficulty overcoming that. But, that happens. It’s part of racing. I was real proud of Jimmie (Johnson) and the way the guys performed today. We had great pit stops once again. We got caught on pit road twice; leaving pit road and two cautions came and that hurt us pretty bad. So, it was difficult to overcome it. The No. 17 car (Matt Kenseth), he was in the same boat that we were. They took four tires the same time we did and they came back and won. Obviously if we could have had a few breaks, we could have been there with him.”
HOW DO YOU GET THOSE BREAKS GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION? HOW DO YOU GET THAT GOOD LUCK SWING GOING?
“Well, we’ve just got to go race. It’s part of racing. It’s not really luck. You put yourselves in the position that you’re in and with that one pit call, that’s what blew it for us for the day; that put us behind the eight ball and we just weren’t able to overcome it.”
DID JIMMIE JOHNSON SAY ANYTHING ON THE RADIO WHEN HE WAS RACING HARD THERE AT THE END AND ENDED UP SPINNING OUT?
“No, I haven’t spoken to Jimmie yet. He, I’m sure, rung his bell pretty damn hard; so I’ll talk to him here in just a little bit.”
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