September 5, 2008
COLIN BRAUN LEADS ROOKIE OF THE YEAR TITLE; SEEKS FIRST WIN IN TRUCK SERIES.
COLIN BRAUN – No. 6 Con-way Freight Ford F-150
ONE OF YOUR GOALS FOR THIS YEAR WAS TO WIN A RACE. “Yeah, absolutely. I think anybody’s goal is to obviously win a race. To step into this No. 6 Con-way Freight Ford F-150 truck that Travis Kvapil drove the year before and won three races in [Kvapil won four races in 2007] is certainly a proven fast truck. I’m sure you mean a rookie hasn’t won a race for Roush in a while. I guess we had two guys [rookie drivers] win races already this year with Scott Speed and Donny Lia, there this year. I’d love to win a race. I think right now we’re in a position where there’s not a whole lot of people competing for this rookie of the year deal, so we’ve just got to keep finishing top-10s, top-fives and things like that and bring home our trucks in one piece and just have good results, learn a lot. I’ve run a few Nationwide races this year, so like you say, I’ve done a lot of races and got a chance to learn a lot this year and hopefully it comes together for us a little bit at the end of the season.”
YOU RAN IN THE ARCA RACE LAST YEAR.
“Yes, I ran an ARCA race last year. It was my first ever stock car race. I guess doing my first ever stock car race here, it doesn’t seem like the same race track. It seems like I come back here, after a year of stock car racing experience, it feels like a whole new race track to me. I’m not sure it helped me out a whole lot driving that ARCA car here. I guess I’ve done laps here before.”
HOW IS IT DIFFERENT?
“It’s just that it was the first ever stock car race and I was just trying to hold on. I was just trying to keep it going. I did that. It’s just totally different coming back here with all that experience.”
DO YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE OUT THERE?
“Yeah, I feel comfortable. It’s definitely a different race track for me. I haven’t been to a whole lot of race tracks that are that much different on both ends, between one and two and three and four there. Definitely, it takes a little bit of getting used to and I think your truck’s got to be set-up just a little bit different than it normally does.”
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