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MATT KENSETH – No. 17 Zest Ford Fusion – “You’re always, I guess you need to be happy when you finish that good, but also when you have restrictor plate cars that fast it doesn’t happen very often and you sure want to figure out how to win with them, so the last two I feel like you always second-guess your moves, but I feel like we had one of the fastest cars here all three races this year, so I’m happy to get third, but yet on the other hand I’m incredibly disappointed because I feel like my team kind of deserved to be down there holding the hardware and I kind of let them down.  But, overall, we had a really fast car.  We had a pretty good race and made our way back to the front after the pit road thing and we were in contention, we just didn’t get it done that last lap.” IS THERE ANYTHING YOU CAN DO?  “Every situation is different and the tough part is to manage your speed.  Racing your whole life you go as fast as you can every lap and that’s what you do and you hope you can outr
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