TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY
POST RACE REPORT


RACE STATS -

RACE DATE: Friday, June 6, 2003
TRACK: Texas Motor Speedway
EVENT: O'Reilly 400K
STARTED: 8th
FINISHED: 9th
NCTS PTS. POSITION: 8th (233 markers out of first)

TEAM FAST FACTS -

TEAM -   K-Automotive Motorsports
TEAM OWNER - Kay Keselowski
CREW CHIEF - Rick Ren
SPOTTER - Kay Keselowski
PRIMARY SPONSOR - Power Stroke Diesel 
ASSOCIATE SPONSORS - International, Oil Mate
CHASSIS TYPE - Laughlin
ENGINE -        Allen Vigil

TERRY COOK POST RACE QUOTES -

     "The Power Stroke Diesel Ford pit crew did their job all night long during the O'Reilly 400 at Texas Motor Speedway. At one point, they took us from 10th to third on a pit stop."

       "We were struggling the whole race because we've never had a truck that loose at Texas Motor Speedway. We have a great crew chief, a great Power Stroke Diesel Ford pit crew, but I guess we missed something on the setup. That was the loosest truck I have had anywhere and the last place you want to be loose is here at the second fastest track on the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series circuit. The truck was just a handful all race long. We got it better, but we never got it to where it needed to be to really race the competition hard. If any truck got up near us, we were kind of dead in the water because the truck wanted to swap ends."

     "We were loose in, loose off and loose in the middle, just loose everywhere. It got better off the corner eventually, but once again at these types of tracks you cannot be that loose. I was up on the wheel and the crew did everything they could to help work toward a top finish. The No. 29 Power Stroke Diesel Ford got better on the longer run when the fuel burned off, but as hard as we tried, we could not find the correct balance."

      "This is our fifth Top-10 of the season. We'll just keep digging harder to get back to Victory Lane. We are off this weekend, but Memphis is next up on the schedule. We finished second there last season to Travis Kvapil who was under the direction of our current crew chief Rick Ren. We are set to get back to short track racing and scoring a victory for Power Stroke Diesel and Oil Mate."