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Chad Chaffin Dickies Preview
Experience Helps: “I
really like Atlanta. It is a really fast track. It’s probably one of the
fastest tracks we go to as far as unrestricted motors. I think I get
around there pretty good or so I have in the past. Some of my better Busch
Series runs have been in Atlanta. So I think having raced there before
will be a little bit of an advantage for me. Obviously the guys like Bobby
(Hamilton), Ted Musgrave and Mike Skinner have raced there a bunch in
Nextel Cup, so they’ll have an even bigger advantage with the experience
level. But looking back the tracks that I raced on in the Busch Series,
like Darlington, Dover, Bristol and Charlotte, we had top-10 finishes at
all those places last year. I am expecting that somewhere throughout the
race in Atlanta, the guys who have raced there at least two or three
times, will be better than those who have never raced there. So I will use
the knowledge I have from racing there in a Busch car to run well. I’m
really thinking we can pull out a top-five finish. I know that some of the
other manufacturers tested there and that will help them. Even though
Dodge didn’t test there this year, Bobby and I tested last year before
Homestead in the old trucks. I think we are real familiar with the track,
so it will be just getting our trucks dialed in.”
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Same Chassis Starting in Atlanta: “It’s going to be a big advantage to have the same bodies and same thing under the truck as Bobby’s does this year. The ones I raced last year were raced and won by Robert Pressley, which got torn down and rebuilt at the end of the year. Bobby had some new trucks made last year because Bill (Lester) got the rest of the fleet. So we all had trucks that some of the bodies were put on as much as a year apart in time. As our trucks evolved they kept getting better and better as all race teams do. Then what happened is we had trucks with certain aerodynamic characteristics, different chassis or front clips than the others in the shop. The crew chiefs had different philosophies as well. So we would go to a track and Bobby would have one set up, we would have another, and we couldn’t help each other. As much as Bobby and I wanted to help each other we really couldn’t because our trucks weren’t alike. This year Bobby decided, and I am all in favor of, that we are going to run all the bodies very close. Even as they develop new trucks, we’re going to base it off the other proven trucks. Then we are going to let the same people set them up, so it cuts back on everyone having their own little way to do things. Then it will come down more to strategy, racing luck and which driver might have got his feel in the truck better. I can sum that up in one word, consistency. It is the key.” Chad Chaffin’s 2004 Craftsman Truck Series Results |
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