Imagine being the ball in a ping-pong game.  It is bounced back and forth, side to side in every direction.  For Ford Power Stroke Diesel by International driver, Terry Cook, he felt like that ping pong ball in Saturday's race at Martinsville Speedway.

Cook started 17th but just a couple of laps into the race, he bumped into eventual winner, David Starr, causing damage to the nose of the No. 10 Ford.  Water temperatures went up, forcing Cook to pit under the second caution flag of the afternoon.

Cook rallied up 10 positions from Laps 23 to 63 before pitting for two fresh tires and one can of gasoline.  Crew Chief, Dennis Connor and spotter, Tony Hirschman III noted if the team made a four-tire pit stop, it would jeopardize the team losing a lap on pit road.  Wisely Cook left pit road, then returned for left-side tires and track bar adjustments to rid the tight condition Cook was experiencing through the center of the corners.

The beating and banging was becoming more and more evident as the trucks circled the .526-mile short track with hanging sheet metal and crumbled hoods.  Cook's only damage at the time was to the nose and by Lap 104 he was running 12th.  Cook was within reach of the top 10 but on Lap 136 Cook went spinning in Turns 1 and 2.  Other competitor took the entrance into the turn, sliding his truck and into the No. 10 Ford Power Stroke Diesel by International race truck.  Cook mashed the gas to prevent from hitting the outside retaining wall and luckily saved it.  The spin put Cook outside the top 25 on the restart.

Cook again tried working his way back up the field when another crash in front of him ensued.  Cook tried to avoid the spinning trucks on Lap 150 but was run into from behind causing Cook to spin.  Damage to the truck forced Cook down pit road again, first for right-side tires and repairs, then a second time for left-side tires and fuel to go the distance without having to pit again.  Cook restarted 27th on Lap 162 and raced his way back into the top 20 just shy of 50 laps from the finish.

Connor would call Cook down pit road two more times to change tires and amend any hanging sheet metal on Laps 217 and 218, leaving Cook 25th on the restart with 18 laps to go.  Cook passed three competitors in the final seven laps to finish 19th and talked about his frustrating day at Martinsville:

"It's unfortunate, we got caught up is someone else's mess," said Cook as he surveyed the damage to the No. 10 Ford Power Stroke Diesel by International race truck.  "We talked about it in the rookie and driver's meetings.  It's kind of like a restrictor plate race.  We got spun around at the mid-point of the race.  We were using a good race strategy and we put ourselves in a pit cycle that was going to put us up near the front.  I think it would've been a top-five effort, definitely a top-10 effort but we got spun by one of the rookies in Turn 1 and I'm sure he didn't mean it but that's typical Martinsville racing.  That kind of sealed our fate from there because we got off of our race strategy, got way in the back of the pack and got involved in yet another spin, again not of our making, just an unfortunate set of circumstances.  At that point we were on a different pit sequence but managed to pick up a top-20 finish."