Submitted by NASCAR Ranting and Raving Blog
The following is an excerpt of the Q&A with Carl Edwards, winner of this week’s NASCAR Nationwide Series race at the Milwaukee Mile Saturday in Wisconsin.
Carl Edwards led the final 27 laps on his way to victory lane Saturday in the Camping World RV Rental 250 Nationwide Series race at the Milwaukee Mile.
Carl Edwards: It means a lot to win here. I mean, they’ve been racing for over 100 years here the way I understand it, and it’s a really cool mile-fairground track just like Springfield, Illinois, or Sedalia, Missouri, or DuQuoin or all those cool places that historically all the great racers race. You know, all the folks that come from this area, the great racers, to be able to win here, that’s cool.
Clint Bowyer was clearly unsatisfied with his third place finish at Milwaukee.
Clint Bowyer: We race a long season and things like that happen, and you know you always got to remember the shoe will be on the other foot when you’re racing those guys someday, and don’t be frustrated when it happens to you.
The win ended a streak of 36 winless Nationwide Series races for Edwards.
Carl Edwards: You know it just feels good to win a race, for Save-A-Lot and for our team and for everybody at the shop and all the guys who’ve been working hard and sticking with this program even though we haven’t won a race for a long time. It means a lot to have all that support, so this win is a huge relief.
Having captured the 2007 Driver’s Championship for Jack Roush, Edwards admitted he was frustrated by his victory drought.
Carl Edwards: Yeah, I mean it’s what we do – I mean, I’m a competitor, and I wanna win more than anything in the world. So yeah, it’s very frustrating to, you know, do all these interviews when they put up the chart and say ‘look how great your 2007 season started, look how terrible it’s been since then’. Those are terrible graphics that somebody made up that I have to talk about it seems like all the time so, it’s very nice to get back in victory lane, and it’s very good. I mean, this is what Jack pays me to do and this is what sponsors are all counting on and it’s what the whole team works for, is to win.
Joey Logano, last week’s winner at Kentucky, followed up with a second place finish at Milwaukee – but nearly wrecked battling Brad Keselowski for the top spot late in the race.
Joey Logano: You know, I’d say it’s my fault for sure obviously. But you know, we were racing hard for a lead, and I felt my car was good enough to get up there, and I was a little bit loose on the front side of a run and we both were driving it really hard. And I just overdrove it into a corner, got loose and had to chase up the track.
To hear an audio version of this interview and more about the race at the Milwaukee Mile, visit http://www.nationwide.com/about-us/edwards-milwaukee.jsp
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