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Whitt, No. 38 Toyota Preview: California
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There were a couple of highly electric moments in friday night's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Daytona International Speedway. Two trucks flipped while crashing during the race - both finishing on their wheels. No one was injured. With the series headed to the two mile California Speedway this week, Some have wondered if this will be an issue this weekend or during the season. Here is what Brandon Whitt, driver of the #38 McMillan Homes/Cure Autism Now Tundra, and Marty Gaunt, General Manager for Clean Line Motorsports which fields the truck, had to Say:

BRANDON WHITT, Driver, #38 McMillan Homes/Cure Autism Now Tundra:

NOTE: Whitt is a native of El Cajon, Calif., just outside of San Diego.

"The fact it happened twice was more coincidence than anything else. All of the racing that goes on at Daytona, all of the vehicles that are there and the two weeks of on-track activity, you tend to get someone flipping at least once. Cars or trucks race, cars or trucks are probably going to have an accident from time to time.

"It just happened to be twice during our race. Even the Cup race (Daytona 500) had a car going end over end. You race enough times with enough vehicles, and you are bound to have a problem sooner or late.

"I don't think it is the speed as much as the circumstances. The flips just happened to be when someone was in the right place at the right time - better yet, wrong place at the wrong time. You look back and there were a couple of trucks sliding through the infield, and it could have happened with them but it didn't - the angle wasn't right or whatever. The two who did flip, well, if circumstances had been just a little different, they wouldn't have."

MARTY GAUNT, General Manager, Clean Line Motorsports:

"Daytona is just so different, I think that is the only place you are ever going to see something like that, and it's pretty rare at Daytona.

"The reason is the way the air gets under the trucks at Daytona. Add in that to the fact that you are traveling at a consistent 190 miles per hour or so. The drivers are holding it wide open, so there is a greater chance of a truck getting up in the air. . . not a good chance, but a better chance. You get sideways at Daytona and there is no air on your spoiler to pin the truck down. The other vehicles are taking the air away.

"You are not going to have those 20 or 25-truck packs at California, which solves a lot of the problem. At California, the drivers have to get off the gas, especially when the tires start to wear some, and that takes care of much of the problem. The air doesn't get disturbed as much at California as it does at Daytona because of those large packs of trucks, so that helps too.

"I was surprised to see it at Daytona but I would be really surprised to see it at California. I think it's going to be a great race without a lot of those kinds of problems."



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