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[yatesracing]

please explain THIS COMMENT MADE BY EDWARDS
After practice #Carl Edwards said "We were fast compared to other people on the newer tire, so we’re good.":eh:

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USER: GG28
3/19/2011 4:57:30 PM

SUBJECT: EDWARDS, ERWIN COMMENT ON TIRE CHANGE

Edwards, Erwin comment on tire change Bristol 500 0Share Carl Edwards and Greg Erwin comment on tire change Carl Edwards, Roush Fenway Racing Ford Carl Edwards, Roush Fenway Racing Ford Photo by: Action Sports Photography NASCAR and Goodyear announced yesterday that a new tire will be used in tomorrow’s Jeff Byrd 500 than originally planned and all teams were allowed one set for today’s practice. Ford Racing talked with pole-sitter Carl Edwards and Greg Erwin, crew chief for Greg Biffle, on how the new tire reacted and how he thinks it will affect Sunday’s race. CARL EDWARDS – No. 99 Scotts EZ Seed Ford Fusion – “The tire is a lot slower and it’s gonna be a little more difficult to drive. We’re still working on trying to get the car set up best for it, but it’s a challenge for everybody. We’re gonna do everything we can. We had one set of tires to practice on and one set of tires to figure things out, so I just hope we’ll be able to get it right with the amount of practice we got.” THE SPEED CHART SHOWS YOU 33RD. DOES THAT MEAN ANYTHING? “We never put the faster tires on, so that’s why we were slow. We could have run a faster lap if we would have ran those tires, but we just didn’t see a reason to do that. I feel good about tomorrow. We were fast compared to other people on the newer tire, so we’re good.” GREG ERWIN, Crew Chief – No. 16 3M Ford Fusion – IS THIS THE ULTIMATE CURVEBALL? “Yeah, the car doesn’t drive anything like it did most of the day yesterday or even in the first session this morning. That new tire, at very best, is probably three or four-tenths a lap slower. Most of the Roush Fenway cars started with the new tire in this happy hour session, so none of them were really able to post a fast lap that’s gonna put them at the top of the board, but we ran that set of tires we had over 60 laps. We felt that was our best opportunity to get a good read on the tire wear and make the most adjustments to our race car. With the other tire there was just so much grip that there wasn’t a whole lot we could learn from it.” WHAT GOES ON BETWEEN NOW AND TOMORROW? “A lot of reading and a little bit of guessing. Truthfully, I think the cars that were good on the other tire are gonna be good on this tire. We’re lucky enough with our starting spot, and all of the Roush Fenway cars have good starting spots, so that will play to our advantage. We’re not into making big changes on our cars based off of things that we can’t run in practice, so we use our simulations to try and help steer us in certain directions. For the most part, what we’re gonna race tomorrow is gonna be one of the combinations that we ran today.” - source: ford racing 2011-03-19 19:
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[TeamBlueOval]

The teams were only given ONE set of the "new" tire to practice on today. Some teams chose to practice on the "old" tire first and then run their last run of the day on the "new" tire.

Carl and the 99 team elected to practice ONLY on the "new" tire during final practice.

The "new" tire is about 3-4 tenths SLOWER than the "old" tire, so the final practice speeds are very skewed because of drivers running fast laps on the "old" tire versus some drivers only running the new tire.

[mattemmy99]

I watched practice,and looked like the track started to rubber up,so I am assuming its from the new tires,some teams were using?

[yatesracing]

Well not a happy camper, that's for sure. Never liked second to anything and I guess I can't start now LOL To let this creep win the race when he put you in the wall at Phoenix is beyond me. JMO. I guess that's just being "Mr Nice Guy"

OH ANDREW PLEASE NO "BE POSITIVE" speech. I'm so disappointed right now nothing will work.

[TeamBlueOval]

It's coming anyway ... I was hoping that Carl would dump Kyle too, but the truth is, Carl was close to Kyle with about 25 laps to go. If he dumped him (or even bumped him), Kyle would have caught back up and retaliated.

Carl still remembers Phoenix, he said post race: "He's still got one coming from Phoenix." He'll give it to him when it really counts, I think! ;)

Hard to complain about 3 cars in the top-8. Pretty solid day...

[yatesracing]

Does this put Carl FIRST in points???

[yatesracing]

BTW Bif was moving fast before that last caution., I really thought there for a while he was going to make it than he started dropping like a hot potato
what the heck happen to him?

[TeamBlueOval]

Does this put Carl FIRST in points???

2nd (1 point behind Kurt Busch)

[yatesracing]

Where did you find the new standings. I only see after Vegas

[TeamBlueOval]

http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2011/data/standings_unofficial.html