BORIS SAID – No. 25 No Fear/Smithfield Foods Ford Fusion – TALK ABOUT YOUR LAPS TODAY. “The first thing that catches your eye is just how many people are here. I’ve never been to a track on a Friday where the grandstands are packed. I don’t know if Canadians don’t work on Fridays or what, but it’s really cool. It’s a cool atmosphere and there’s no other race that we go to that’s like that. It’s just an awesome track. I love watching Formula One, so when you sit there and think about how I’m going through the same corners as Senna and Michael Schumacher, it’s pretty cool. The track suits these cars fine. They’re going to put on a great show just like last year. I hope NASCAR comes here for a long time. All the car companies like Ford had a huge thing downtown and it’s just a lot of fun to be a part of.”
AT INFINEON IN THE SPRINT CUP RACE THE RINGERS DIDN’T DO WELL IN THE RACE, BUT TODAY, THE RINGERS ARE ON TOP OF THE SPEED CHARTS. IS IT BECAUSE THE TRACK IS SO MUCH A ROAD COURSE? “It’s different and you don’t have all the Sprint Cup guys here. Those guys, Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, they’re second-to-none, even if they jump in a Formula One car; I saw Jeff Gordon run pretty darn good. That’s the biggest reason, plus we had a part failure at Infineon or we probably would have been right up there too. I think this favors, it’s really technical on the brakes. With the blind corners being a street course, it favors guys like Max [Papis] and Patrick [Carpentier] that have run here a lot.”
MORE. “The COT cars are so difficult to drive and those guys [Cup drivers] are an advantage because they’re in them every single week and we come in and drive it once or twice a year. It makes it a lot more difficult. They have a lot more horsepower and they’re really early in their development, so they’re not the best race cars yet. These Nationwide cars, they’re handling really good. And they’re really good race cars. For me, they’re a lot more fun to drive than a Sprint Cup car. I’m sure down the road, the COT cars are just going to get better and better and better.”
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