BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion – YOU ARE OFF TO A GREAT START, TALK ABOUT RACING HERE AT AUTO CLUB AND THE SOLID START YOU GUYS HAVE HAD. “Yeah, it has been a solid start. We have done everything but win a race. That is where our focus is at this weekend for sure. We’ve certainly got a strong, consistent start but we have been in position on the final restart of each race to win and have come up just a little bit short. Hopefully we can close that out this weekend. I think we have got the car to do it and the team to do it. We are ready to get on track and get going. We have practice and qualifying here today and I am curious how this race is going to play out. I honestly think this is going to be an exceptional race. I think this new car, the Generation 6 car acts and reacts a lot like the Nationwide car does. You combine that with a track that has multiple grooves in the corners and a car that I think has a potential to draft really well and I think it could be a great race. I am pretty optimistic about it. I am glad I am running the Nationwide race because it will be good experience before hand. There are a lot of things to look forward to for sure.”
HOW MUCH WILL AERO PLAY INTO TIGHTENING UP THE CARS HERE? “A lot. It plays into spreading them out and bringing them together. This track is almost in the sweet spot of age where it is just new enough where it hopefully won’t need to be repaved for a long time and just old enough where it produces tire wear and the ability to run multiple grooves in the corners. That ability to run multiple grooves kind of eliminates some of that dreaded aero push that you feel in the corners. If you are in another lane you don’t get that. The fact that it is a big long track as far as straightaways are concerned when the cars merge back into each others pass aerodynamically they are going to draft really well. It should be interesting to see how that plays out.”
PLANS FOR THE EASTER WEEKEND? “I am one day at a time, not even one week, one day. I haven’t thought that far, I probably should. I don’t have any plans so far.”
WE HAVE ALL SEEN YOUR NEW MILLER COMMERCIAL. HOW DID THAT COME TOGETHER? “After last year I had a lot of fun at the banquet and after the Homestead race and I felt like personally that countering that with a responsibility message was not a bad thing to do. I jumped at the opportunity when Miller gave it to me to do something responsibility wise. I think it is a great spot as far as that is concerned. It is good for the sport to have sponsors that activate and put drivers out into the mainstream. I think we all reap the benefits of that. Hopefully we will continue to see more of that. I think we have a lot more commercials in the sport five years ago and that was really healthy for it. I am glad to see Miller step up and do that and I think it is really healthy for all of us.”
WHO WERE THE OTHER THREE GUYS? “Just actors. I met them and they are good people. I follow a few of them on Twitter. They were cool dudes.”
AND THE WAITRESS? “She is a singer. She is actually really good. She has a hit out here in California.”
DID YOU GET HER NUMBER? “Maybe. She will be at the race track this weekend.”
CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE PARODY YOU HAVE SEEN BETWEEN THE THREE MANUFACTURERS SO FAR? “I would agree that there is a lot of parody right now and I think Jimmie (Johnson’s) comments I haven’t seen but he is probably right with the exception being the restrictor plate tracks where I think it is pretty obvious the Chevrolet’s are a little bit ahead of everybody else. I think on the non-restrictor plate tracks there is a lot of parody and it is really a case of each team and how strong they have come out with their package.”
WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT HERE, HORSEPOWER OR HANDLING? “I am not really sure which one will be more important this weekend. We are still learning how this car will react to this style track. We haven’t run a two-mile track yet. This is the fifth weekend and fifth different style track. I am learning with you guys. In general this used to always be a handling track over horsepower but that might be different with this car.”
ANY CONCERN ON THE ENGINES WITH THE SUSTAINED RPM’S? “There is no doubt that this new car is so fast that we are carrying more speed that we have ever carried pretty much at every track. I would not be surprised at all if we broke the track record this weekend because of that. That isn’t a bad thing but it puts a lot of stress on the engines. There is a certain gear ration we use to dictate what RPM band the cars are in and to this point in the season we have been using last year’s model which has put more stress on the engines with more speed. Maybe that is a good thing too, I don’t know. I think it pushes the teams to make their stuff a little better and that is what this sport is about, constant evolution.”
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