UAW-Dodge 400 Report

WRECK DURING QUALIFYING KEEPS NO. 21 TEAM OUT OF THE SHOW 

LAS VEGAS, NV — Johnny Sauter, filling in for veteran driver Bill Elliott, was involved in an accident during qualifying which kept the No. 21 Ford Fusion out of Sunday's Sprint Cup event.

"It's just one of those deals where it's either go or go home. That's pretty much the essence of the whole deal," Sauter stated. "To get a call from the Wood Brothers, that's huge in my book. That's something to get excited about and you lose sleep over because you just want to get to the race track and do a good job for them. The car just got away from me a little bit. I was a little high up on the race track and hit the bumps and it got away from me a little bit. That's the idea of go or go home. I was on the gas and didn't want to lift and the car got away from me and I wrecked it. It's just not the way you want to race."

THERE WERE A LOT OF CARS THAT HAD ISSUES TODAY.
"Yeah, but the race track was definitely in our favor," Johnny said. "It's getting dark outside and the race track had a lot of grip. On my up-to-speed lap, I felt really good going through three and four. I was like, ‘This thing has a lot of grip. I'm gonna go down into turn one and get some.' It's just that from my experience, the COT is a pretty finicky car. A little bit here and a little bit there and that goes a long way. We just missed it a little bit and I just hate that I tear up a race car. But at the end of the day, if we could have come around and finished the lap, we'd probably be in the show and that's all that would matter. When the going gets tough the tough get going and you've got to do what you've got to do, I just hate to tear up a car for these guys." Contributed by Christina Cicci, Wood Brothers Racing

UAW-Dodge 400 Results:
1. Carl Edwards
2. Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
3. Greg Biffle
4. Kevin Harvick
5. Jeff Burton
6. David Ragan
7. Kasey Kahne
8. Travis Kvapil
9. Denny Hamlin
10. Mark Martin