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The debuted of Matt Kenseth and Todd Parrott show over the weekend at least the internal reviews were good. Everybody on the No. 17 Roush Fenway Racing team seemed satisfied.

Kenseth said “It sounds dumb me saying that since we won the first two last year, but to get out of Daytona with all the troubles we had and finish eighth, and then to come here in Todd’s first weekend and finish seventh is pretty good. We ran a little worse than some of our teammates at times and a little better at times, and it seemed like we ran as good as most of the Fords did. I still think
we’ve got some work to do to get all of our cars better as a group, but I thought overall that our team did a good job.”

Crew chief Parrott  “I was very, very happy. I would have liked to have gotten the car closer

for Matt, but we just tweaked on it all day long. It wasn’t too bad. We’ve got some work to do. Those guys up front, obviously, have some really fast race cars, but I think we made some huge gains from where we were over the winter, so I think we’re heading in the right direction.”

The battle of two teamates  Brian Vickers and Scott Speed of Red Bull Racing finished closely 11th and 12th respectively. But their out look of the day was not as close.

Scott Speed “Awesome weekend. I mean, I can’t say enough. I didn’t think we would run as good as we did, honestly. We legitimately ran in the top-10 for the last half of the race, once we got track position. For this being the beginning of my second year here pretty much, I’m really, really happy.”

Brian Vickers “It was disappointing. We had a good car. I think we had a top-five car. A couple of times – just pit strategy, two tires or four tires got us off base. The one time we stayed out because it was raining, we kept running and everybody short-pitted.

They should have thrown the caution because it was raining pretty hard, and they didn’t. And we lost a lot of ground with everybody short-pitting. They had new tires. That pretty much got us behind the rest of the day. They threw the caution out right after that and on pit road they made the wrong adjustment by accident, and we were just way, way, way too loose.”

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