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Carl Edwards got his No. 99 Fastenal Ford Fusion back on the track to participate in single car runs during Friday’s second practice for Sunday’s Daytona 500. Edwards who has wrecked four race cars dating back to Preseason Thunder testing here at Daytona in January, and crew chief Jimmy Fennig talked about getting back out on the track and putting the bad luck behind them. DO YOU FIND YOURSELF BEING ANTSY IN PRACTICE AFTER THE FOUR WRECKS? “Well, tomorrow we are going to draft so I looked at Jimmy (Fennig) and he said, ‘Hey, we are here to race and forget about what happened, it doesn’t mean anything and we have to prepare the best we can.’ So we are going to go out there and run with the pack and see what we’ve got and just race.” WHEN YOU HAVE THE BAD LUCK LIKE THAT DO YOU GO OUT THERE AND NOT WANT ANYBODY TO GET AROUND YOU? “Kind of. Jimmy was kind of a little reality check there because if he had been down and out and nervous it would have really fueled mine but he said to forge...
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