CONCORD, N.C. – Shell-Pennzoil Dodge driver Sam Hornish Jr. will start Saturday’s Bank of America 500 from the 14th position. Hornish earned the starting spot after clocking in with a lap of 28.174 seconds (191.666 mph) in Thursday’s qualifying session here at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Hornish wanted more.
“I’m just mad at myself,” Hornish told Dodge SRT PR Representative Jimmy White. “I don’t feel like I drove it hard enough. But even from what it’s changed from practice to qualifying from the end of Nationwide practice, it’s picked up so much grip that I feel like I’ve babied it a little bit. I feel like we have a really good car in race trim and that was probably in the back of my head. I didn’t want to go to a backup car or anything like that (smiles). It’s not as good as I wanted to be for sure and thought we had a shot at being in the top-five but at the end of the day it’s not going to be that bad, probably 16th, 18th, somewhere in there, maybe a little bit better th
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