Matt Kenseth Daytona Media Transcript – Pole Winner

Matt Kenseth: “Our lap was obviously a good one.  It was faster than the rest.  I had very little to do with it, so qualifying at the speedway races is all about the car and the engine and those guys did a spectacular job at Roush all year long really in preparing our speedway cars.  They’ve been really fast and Doug Yates and those guys have done a super job on the engines with the new fuel injection and the plate engines have run really good and had us competitive at both speedway races so far this year.” DID IT MATTER WHEN YOU WENT OUT TODAY?  “I think the interesting thing about qualifying, at least for me today, was nobody had any idea what the pole was gonna be or how fast anybody really was, so they lined qualifying up by first practice speeds and that was drafting for everybody.  The 9 and 43 did a two-car tandem and caught the pack to make sure they went out last, and that doesn’t really have much to do with what you can run on one lap, so you didn’t really know what anybod...