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Homestead: Carl Edwards NASCAR Nationwide Race Quotes - P2
CARL EDWARDS – No. 60 Ortho Ford Fusion (Finished 2nd)
It was a lot of fun. We needed a couple of more lap. We got off sequence; we had those tires. I just appreciate all of the fans coming out here and supporting our sport. We have the greatest fans in the world. And I’m just proud of Ford Motor Company. I’ve got to say congrats to Kyle and those guys. We finished second to them in the championship, but those guys have really been a classic deal. I was just telling them that I didn’t have the heart to run into them. It was the only way I was going to get by them by the finish line. I dove down there and got a good look at it, and I was thinking right about here, ‘No, I better not.’ But that’s racing. We had a good time racing with these guys and I’m pretty excited to go to Daytona. I hope to see some of these fans at Daytona in February."
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CAN YOU DESCRIBE IN THE CLOSING LAPS STAYING OUT AND NOT GETTING TIRES WHEN MOST DID, AND THEN COMING IN LATER WHEN THE LEADERS DIDN’T? "Well, Mike thought we were fast enough to race with these guys with the tires we had, but we weren’t, but we had a set of tires left, and it ended up working out. You know, we almost got to him. I just raced a little too hard and burned up my tires and didn’t have enough for him there at the end. I’ve just got to thank Ortho; they built a better mousetrap. It’s a great deal. And our car is a good mousetrap, we just didn’t get it right tonight. We’ll get ’em next year."
YOU’VE TALKED ABOUT HOW DIFFICULT IT’S BEEN ON THE CUP SIDE, BUT THE NATIONWIDE SERIES HAS BEEN AN UPLIFTING PART TO THE SEASON. "Yeah. People ask me why I run the Nationwide Series, and yesterday in practice I was thinking, ‘This is why.’ I’m having a blast, we’ve got fast race cars, I’m proud to represent Ford in the series. We didn’t win the championship, but ran second to a team that’s really unparalleled in their performance. So, I’m ready to go next year. We’ve got some great sponsors. We’ll go at it again."
ON FINISHING SECOND. "This was a good run. I would’ve loved to won tonight, but this is good. We performed the best we could."
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