The champion Matt Kenseth continues with his winning gust of wind taking to east Sunday UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 in the Fertile valleys Motor Speedway.
This it is the second consecutive triumph of Kenseth that catapulted in addition it to the first position of championship 2004 of pilots. The champion, to whom many criticized labeling it as boring by their way to lead year the past, has silenced all the voices after a solid beginning of season. And in addition already those are many that are worried, because totally because knows that when Matt this at the top of the championship does not leave until securing it the title…
“These two weeks have been funniest of my professional race”, said Matt. “I have gained a single race the past year and now already I take two in less than one week…”, explained the champion.
Surprising Kenseth was escorted by the rookie Kasey Kahne, as the week last in North Carolina happened. The young pilot of 23 years, who arrived to replace to the veteran Bill Elliott in the legendary Dodge #9, was surprised by the result.
“He never waits for a beginning of year like this”, said Kahne. “I never felt better than now… to finish secondly twice followed he is sensational”, adding, “the next one is Perhaps my turn to win.”
Kahne crossed the goal to little more than 3 seconds of Kenseth after inheriting the put second of Kevin Harvick, that only remained without fuel to five returns of the end.
Tony Stewart arrival third, whereas Jamie McMurray, Mark Martin, Elliott Sadler, Casey Mears, Kurt Busch and Rusty Wallace completed the ten best ones classified of the race.
This test of Fertile valleys served like test for the new modifications imposed by series NASCAR. The changes consisted of the use of a smoother compound of tires and a smaller back spoiler to favor the ambles between the competitors.
The certain thing is that the competition was not much of the six previous ones disputed in this oval of 1,5 miles. Altogether 18 changes of leaders distributed in 10 different pilots were registered, although many of them took place in the sequences of pits.
Kenseth thought on the matter. “With the new compound it is necessary to take some precautions. He is not advisable to press so hard since the tire is smoother and it is degraded but fast, and if to that we added less back load to him the car bucket of unstable way.”
On the other hand Stewart also creates the change is significant. “The tire that gave Goodyear to us causes that the competition is more exciting.”
Also in spite of the Kenseth modifications it demonstrated that its Ford was unbeatable throughout all the test. In several Matt resumptions an average of almost 4 seconds of advantage managed to escape quickly of its rivals maintaining.
Nevertheless soon after Matt end it had to press hard to recover the leadership. After a yellow flag in turn 183 product of the explosion of the motor of Kevin Lepage, all the leaders entered to pits. The champion who had entered 2º behind Stewart, returned 7º after a bad performance of his mechanics in the resupply. In few Matt turns one reclaimed and he was surpassing his rivals one by one until arriving at the leadership in less time from the awaited thing.
“My resupply was not good, but in we made adjustments that improved the performance of the car and allowed me to advance of the way I did that it”, nº 1 of Ford expressed the undisputed pilot.