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Location: Loudon,
NH
Shape: Oval
Distance: 1.058-miles
Banking, Turns: 12
degrees
Front Straight: 1,500
feet
Banking,
Straightaways: 2
degrees
Back Straight: 1,500
feet |
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New Hampshire Int'l Speedway
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| "Loudon is one track that I can honestly say I didn't like. We learned from Richmond because we took the standard snout car, figuring that was the car we had the most experience with. I qualified 33rd. Unfortunately, we crashed in the final practice. I just drove into turn three too hard, which is easy to do. I barely touched the wall -- almost saved it in fact -- but the car was damaged enough that we didn't have time to fix it. So we rolled out the back-up car -- which was the drop-snout car I had in Richmond. We got about two laps in it and then had to go race it. It was another long race and pretty frustrating at that. I finished 28th. I just tried to get laps in so that when we come back, we'll have a better idea of what to do." |
On New Hampshire International Speedway:
"I have been
to New Hampshire once when the Indy cars ran there in 1998, but I
was just a spectator then, so it'll be a brand new track to me.
It's certainly the flattest track I will have been on in the Busch
car. Greg Biffle told me it was similar to the Milwaukee Mile,
which I ran last year in the ASA. [Foyt had his second-best ASA
finish - sixth - at Milwaukee last year]. We'll concentrate on
qualifying in the top 25 and finishing in the top 20."
Foyt tested at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte on
Monday and Tuesday. "It went pretty well. It was good to go
to a track that I've been to before. We were able to focus on the
changes to the car instead of focusing on me having to learn the
track." Foyt made his ARCA debut at Lowe's Motor Speedway
last October. He was fastest in second-round qualifying and had
advanced from 26th to 11th before getting
involved in a multi-car accident. It was that weekend that he
announced his plans to compete in the 2001 Busch Series.
At Richmond, Va. last week, Foyt had to take a provisional
starting position [38th]. He finished 27th.
"We struggled at Richmond. Our testing session earlier in the
year had been cancelled by the track [due to water seepage
problems] so we knew it was going to be a little bit of a
struggle. It got compounded when we lost about 30 minutes of
practice right in the beginning because of a problem with the
steering box. Then we were running drop snout cars for the first
time, so we were trying to figure out the cars and the track at
the same time. We weren't that great in the race so we just tried
to stay out of trouble and finish."
 Foyt is 25th in the NASCAR Busch Series standings.
Foyt's Bests in the Harrah's No. 14 Monte Carlo this
season:
Best Start: 14th on April 14th at
Nashville Superspeedway
Best Finish: 12th on April 21st at
Talladega Superspeedway
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