09-08-2005 | TruckSeries.com Report
TIMOTHY PETERS IN THE No. 4 BAILEY'S DODGE WAS THE RAYBESTOS ROOKIE OF THE RACE AT RICHMOND. TODD KLUEVER, No. 50 WORLD FINANCIAL GROUP FORD: ONCE YOU GOT TRACK POSITION YOU COULD RUN WITH ANYONE. "Definitely the 5 truck was the class of the field, but our truck wasn't too bad. We were trying to finish somewhere in the top-three but even top-five would have been great. It would have been a good points night for us. Unfortunately you get run over." HOW MUCH DAMAGE WAS THERE TO THE TRUCK? "I didn't even really look at it. I know it's front and back and the radiator is knocked out of it. It's torn up pretty bad for a lap truck running me over. I'm just really disgusted right now. I saw the 38 truck spin out or whatever. I think something was broke on it; it was damaged. I just checked up, just trying to make sure which was he was going to go and really had no problem and got run over from behind by a truck that was two laps down. It's really disgusting because he had nothing to gain by it and we had nothing to gain by it and there was a straightway back to the next lapped truck. It's just really, really disgusting what happened to us."
Notes: Peters finished 29th and took top rookie honors for the third time this season. Peters last claimed Raybestos Rookie of the Race honors June 4 MBNA RacePoints 200 (race number 8) at Dover (Del.) International Speedway where he placed a career-best sixth. He plans to run three more races this season: Martinsville, Atlanta, and Homestead. "We finished, that's about all I can say. I really don't know what to say. They say that I'm a Raybestos Rookie, but I think there's a couple of guys that ought to be labeled a rookie. They just drive over their nose and that's what cost us. We sat back there and we were on the same pit sequence as the 47. I don't think we were as good as him, but we had a pretty decent truck. We just run over by the 38. Our night just went away real quick. Like I said, people just drive over their heads. I'll be back at Martinsville and ready to do it again."
"I had a pretty good World Financial Group Ford truck. Obviously the 5 truck was fastest and he was going to win it but we were going to try to finish second or third there. A truck two laps down decided that he needed to be right up my rear bumper the whole night and decided to run me over when there was a wreck. Unfortunately it's just something that happens, I guess. I can't explain it. When there's that much room and there's really nothing to be gained it's kind of sad to get run over."