Does strategy play a role in the Sams Town 400 at Texas?
“Strategy plays a part at Texas because the track eats your tires up. I know that last year the Cup and Busch cars would have to be kind of conservative on the tires. I’m sure they’re going to bring a harder tire there this year for the trucks. But yeah you have to be cool – you have to just sit back and wait for your time. And if you have the quickest truck, you can get out in front and lead, but at the same time you don’t want to get too far out there and take a chance on blowing a right front tire. So there’s definitely strategy because it’s so fast you have to be cool in your thinking and make the right pit calls.” Take us on a lap around Texas Motor Speedway: “You go down the front straightaway, and like Charlotte and Atlanta, you take a really wide arch getting into turn one, and of course you’re wide open. The truck just sinks down, and it sinks you into your seat. You don’t realize the speed until you come up out of the corner. It just shoots you out of the corner, and your hea
