| | | | | | HE'll COME AROUND | Matt Kenseth continuing his struggling at Martinsville | |
| | By Rea White / SceneDaily.com MARTINSVILLE, VA -- Matt Kenseth admitted before he even ran at Martinsville Speedway Sunday that he wasn’t exactly in love with racing at the short track. That lack of fondness certainly didn’t change in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Goody’s Cool Orange 500.
The Roush Fenway Racing driver started out fine in the race but then began to endure a series of setbacks in its second half. He was penalized on pit road. Later, he bumped into the spinning car of Robby Gordon. Twice. He was hit by David Gilliland and spun into the Turn 1 wall. Then he slid up into Gilliland again.
Kenseth, one of the most level-headed drivers on the circuit, was then assessed a two-lap penalty for rough driving and settled for 30th
in the race. That performance dropped him four spots to 15th in the standings six races into the season.
So it’s probably safe to say that Kenseth isn’t celebrating the fact that the series will return to Martinsville for another Cup race this fall.
“Every time we made up a little ground, we kept getting wrecked or wrecked, whatever the case turned out to be,” he said. “We were so far off in the beginning and then I got spun out on pit road and pitted out of the box.
“That cost us a lap, and it took us 200 laps to get that back, and then we really ran pretty good, but we just kept getting run into.”
| | Posted March 31, 2008 , 4:26 pm EST
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