Kasey Kahne confident he can win at Lowe's Motor Speedway
By David Exum - SceneDaily Staff
Friday, October 10, 2008
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CONCORD, N.C. - When racing at Lowe's Motor Speedway, Kasey Kahne says he knows from the start of the first practice session whether or not his No. 9 Gillett Evernham Dodge will be fast on race day.
Kahne, a three-time winner at the 1.5-mile track, including this year's Coca-Cola 600 on May 25, says there is no leeway when racing at LMS. Either you're fast and will run up front, or you're not and need to figure out why.
"You either feel that you have a competitive racecar or that you have work to do to make the car faster," Kahne said. "From there, the first couple laps of the race it’s always a big question mark. Once you run three or four laps you’re like, ‘We’re going to have a shot tonight.’ You know how competitive you are going to be as soon as you get inside the race car.”
Although Kahne just missed making the cut for the 10-race Chase For The Sprint Cup championship, he has run extremely well during his NASCAR career at LMS.
In nine starts here, Kahne not only has three victories, he also has three top-five and four top-10 finishes and only one DNF.
At other 1.5-mile tracks this season, Kahne has been hit or miss.
In seven starts at intermediate tracks this season, has one win, one top-five and one top-10 finish (sixth at Las Vegas).
"I'm not really sure," said Kahne, when asked about the reasons for his inconsistency at intermediate tracks this season. “Track[s] that are similar to Lowe’s, we’ve been able to apply some things that we’ve learned and have been successful. For the other banked mile-and-a-half tracks, we just haven’t hit on the combination needed to be really strong."
After racing in Saturday night's Bank of America 500 here, Kahne hopes to run well at the three other intermediate tracks left on the schedule (Atlanta Motor Speedway, Oct. 26, Texas Motor Speedway, Nov. 2 and Homestead-Miami Speedway, Nov. 16).
"We have to go back to Atlanta and Texas and then on to Homestead – tracks that we’ve struggled at and haven’t been as consistent as we need to be," Kahne said. "
"The good news is that we came to the test here, and [team manager] Kenny [Francis] brought some new things that really worked well. I think that we’ll be competitive here Saturday night.”
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9 responses to "Kasey Kahne confident he can win at Lowe's Motor Speedway"
Chelsea said:
Oct 10, 2008 at 11:07 AMSoooo excited! Make history, bud!
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» Confirm Abuse ReportMarion Gainey 111 said:
Oct 10, 2008 at 12:18 PMIt will be cool to see Kahne do the sweep and get another win for Dodge, Lets hope he drives a Dodge next year not a Toyota.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportCathy Rooks said:
Oct 10, 2008 at 12:24 PMCome on Kasey make history baby! Make history!! You can do it! If I could vote you in to win I would!!
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» Confirm Abuse ReportSarah Messenger said:
Oct 10, 2008 at 12:53 PMI cannot wait for the race Saturday night and I can't wait to see Kasey get back in Victory Lane. It's been way too long since Pocono!! He has a great shot at making history there this weekend!!!
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» Confirm Abuse Reportkahnefan said:
Oct 10, 2008 at 1:32 PMhe'll perform great, but how can he make history?
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» Confirm Abuse Reportkahnefan said:
Oct 10, 2008 at 2:16 PMnever mind I figured out the history that he could make
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» Confirm Abuse ReportChelsea said:
Oct 10, 2008 at 2:41 PMJudging by where his car is on the practice charts right now, he looks like he's got a good car! He wasn't lyin' when he said Kenny found some stuff at the test!
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» Confirm Abuse ReportGraceann Jackson said:
Oct 10, 2008 at 2:56 PMKahne can win this race.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportBelle Blevins said:
Oct 10, 2008 at 3:23 PMSomeone almost always wrecks Kane. Also I don't think Everham has the money he used to have, to put into giving Kasey a good car.As always he's #1 to me!!! Wearing my lucky #9 shirt Sat. GO Kasey!!!
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