Hailie Deegan – No. 13 Ford Performance F-150
COTA Race Information
Started: 16th
Stage 1: 14th
Stage 2: 6th
Finished: 16th
Laps: 42/42
Laps Led: 0
Status: Accident
Driver Points: 18th
Owner Points: 22nd
Matt Crafton – No. 88 Menards/Ideal door Ford F-150
COTA Race Information
Started: 34th
Stage 1: 32nd
Stage 2: 33rd
Finished: 33rd
Laps: 11/42
Laps Led: 0
Status: Accident
Driver Points: 6th
Owner Points: 6th
Quotable:
“Definitely not the night we wanted. After practice, we had a lot of positives in practice but then didn’t qualify very well. We never really had the speed in the truck that we had earlier in practice for whatever reason. We fought tight all night. We kept working on it and made a lot of wholesale changes but didn’t get where we needed it to go. This is a really weird race night. It basically became a speedway race, running around wide open every lap. As a race car driver, that is not very fun.”
Ty Majeski – No. 98 Cincinnati incorporated Ford F-150
COTA Race Information
Started: 3rd
Stage 1: 2nd
Stage 2: 12th
Finished: 3rd
Laps: 142/142
Laps Led: 1
Status: Running
Driver Points: 2nd
Owner Points: 2nd
Quotable:
HOW DID YOU FEEL ABOUT YOUR FINISH? “It was a good, solid day for us. Anytime you can come here with the Cup guys at a road course, it’s tough. So, I had good top-five speed all day. Not sure if we had a third-place truck, but probably around there. Just a solid day. Joe (Shear Jr.) made a great pit call. We were able to jump a lot of guys on pit road there right before that caution came out. It was great timing and a good call by Joe. We had some shaky pit stops, and we got behind on track position, and that got us back in the game. Overall, solid day for us. Got to be close to the points lead? A good day. Just have to keep top-fiving them and getting stage points into the summer months.”
Ben Rhodes – No. 99 Farmpaint.com Ford F-150
COTA Race Information
Started: 13th
Stage 1: 9th
Stage 2: 9th
Finished: 10th
Laps: 42/72
Laps Led: 0
Status: Running
Driver Points: 3rd
Owner Points: 3rd
Quotable:
WHAT HAPPENED LATE IN THE RACE? “Driveshaft just came right out of it going into Turn 19 on the last lap. Thankful it happened there, or we may not have even finished. But, still a bummer. I felt it kind of coming apart with two [laps] to go, and I wasn’t sure at that point what it was. But, one to go I started feeling some pretty noticeable issues, so I coasted as much as I could and gave up as much time as I could to Ty Majeski behind me. I thought I was managing the gap OK, but then I come out of Turn 18, the carousel, and I believe – how I recall it – as I loaded up pretty hard and hit the chip, that’s right when it broke. But I have to go back and watch the camera. It kind of caught me off guard and took my attention elsewhere.”
Texas Motor Speedway
Saturday, April 1 at 4:30 p.m. ET
FOX Sports 1 | Motor Racing Network Radio (MRN)