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Thanks to Hopless Records for providing today's theme song, The Permanent Rain, by The Dangerous

Summer. All right Tyler, let's get right to it man, it's Watkins Glen Race. Wasn't a very good

weekend for us at all. It was pretty forgettable yes. Okay well let's forget about it. The

car was really off right off the truck. Had a lot of trouble with getting speed and practice.

That's been a track where we've ran in the top 10 in practice and seemed to qualify well.

Last couple of years the road course has been pretty strong for us. So I was surprised really

forward actually that the car was as bad as it was when we got there. We tried to work on it,

tried to fix some problems, couldn't really nail exactly what was going on and get the car

drive properly but anyhow we started the race and I don't know where we were running maybe 25th,

27th or something like that. I thought we had enough speed to run just barely in the top 20.

That's a body it. Looking at the finishing order we might have been able to look at some

strategy and get a better finishing position than that but looking at some of the guys and where

they finished I think that we had no better than a 20th place car. The whole company really

struggled somewhat. The 24 had some good fast times at parts of the weekend but I don't think

he was very happy with his car either talking to Chase. I'm not quite sure. I think with the

repave at Watkins Glen and the new tire what works and what you might use at both race tracks,

both Sonoma and the Glen isn't going to work anymore. You really have to have two completely

different approaches with the setup and we certainly learned that. It slapped us right in the face

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