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Interview With David Ragan - Winner of NASCAR Coke Zero 400 at Daytona

&Nbsp;       That’s probably the first time that I felt we’ve got a car that’s fast enough that awe can win this thing if we make the right decision throughout the race. So we made a pact with our teammate Matt Kenseth that we’re going to work together through thick or thin. I was a little worried about that too. Sometimes falling to the back and to the front, you get jammed up throughout the race.         So I didn’t know if that was the right decision or not, but bottom line, our car was fast. That’s what wins these races. You’ve got to have luck, you’ve got to have pit stops and all that stuff goes into effect. But you’ve got to have a fast car, and our UPS Ford was fast. The engine ran flawless, and that’s what won the race for us. I had Matt right behind us. I knew we had a good pusher. I knew we had the car to do it and not try to make any mistakes, and try to put ourselves in good position. DAVID RAGAN: Yeah, we feel like we’ve been a player for the Chase all year. Kind of disappoints me being 17th. We should be 13th in points. So we’ve got a lot of work to make up. We’ve got good tracks coming up. So I’m happy about the win. We should be higher in points than that.

Q: Crew chief Drew Blickensderfer has joined us as well. Drew, congratulations on the win. Talk about some of the things that you had to do to the car or some of the things on pit road that helped with this victory? DREW BLICKENSDERFER:   You know, when you do this two-by-two thing, you’ve got a partner that you come into pit road with especially in a green-flag stop. So you get together with those guys and you figure out what they want to do. Luckily we got a great teammate in Matt Kenseth and Jimmy Fennig. Jimmy and I were on the radio together deciding what we want to do, two, four, gas only and things like that. It was real easy when you’ve got someone with the experience of Jimmy talking you through it. I tell him what I wanted to do, and he said that’s good. Let’s do it. We stayed together all night. That was a great opportunity for us to work with two veteran guys and have that leadership with us.

Q: Team owner Jack Roush. Jack, congratulations on this win here tonight. Came so close with the 6 car, with the Daytona 500, and the win here tonight. That’s got to feel very, very good.         The Daytona 500 was a big disappointment the way it worked out, but it worked out for David. You know, the FR9 engine has done a great job. The Ford support behind the program has never been better than we have this year. You know, the engineers have all done a great job. You know, we’ve brought cars down here that we expected to have a chance to win with. And David was confident of that, and they used it well. They didn’t waste the opportunity.