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| ROOKIE NOTES: O'Reilly 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway
08-22-2007 | TruckSeries.com Report
Willie Allen finished 19th and took Raybestos Rookie of the Race honors for the first time this season. Willie Allen, No. 13 Pork/Thorsport Racing Chevrolet: "What a day! We came in and I made the wrong call and made an adjustment on the pit stop. We gained a bunch of spots. We came back into the pits, got tires and went back up to the front. The radio quit working. They handed me a radio on pit road. I stopped on the front straightaway to fix it and my truck quit and went a lap down. What a night!" Joey Clanton, No. 09 Zaxby's Ford: "The night started off pretty rough. It was tight. Found the outside - we found it today - and got up there. That's really the only place I could the thing run. It seemed that down at the bottom it was just too tight. We progressed all the way from 34th and I think we got all the way up to 14th or something like that. We had a good truck. The thing lost fourth gear. It kicked out of fourth gear. Split something in there, I don't know. But all in all for Zaxby's, Ford; we had a good truck. We learned a lot this week. We came in here, didn't test, so we were behind the eight ball a little bit. The guys on the team worked hard all day yesterday, and worked hard again today. Had a poor qualifying effort, and that was more my fault I think than anything. But they worked hard in the race, got us a good truck. Rookie points are just critical to get first or second right now." Tim Sauter, No. 07 Lester Buildings Chevrolet: "It was just a rough night. We were real tight, and then broke a track bar bracket off the rear end, and lost a lot of laps. We'll forget about it and move onto the next one." Jason White, No. 7 Hooters Energy Drink Dodge: "We had a great run tonight. That Hooters Energy Drink Dodge was awesome. We got up to second and was running about sixth or seventh. We had a good run going, and the clutch kept slipping on the restarts so we kept getting bad restarts, and ended up breaking a disc. It just revved up and broke a disc. That just put us out."
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