Joe Nemechek
Joe Nemechek
Joseph Frank "Joe" Nemechek IIIis an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes part-time in the Xfinity Series, driving the No. 87 Toyota Camry for NEMCO Motorsports. He won the 1992 NASCAR Busch Series championship. He was born in Lakeland, Florida, the older brother of John Nemechek, and is nicknamed "Front Row Joe", a nickname given him by former teammate Wally Dallenbach for his tendency in the late 1990s to be a regular contender for a front row...
brakes car hard ran rest slammed smashed tight tire
I think a tire was going down on Hamlin's car. He slammed on the brakes and I ran into him hard and smashed in my grille pretty good. That made the car real tight for the rest of the race.
nascar series trying whatever
NASCAR is just trying to do whatever they can to keep the series under control,
continue good hopefully michigan next track
Michigan has always been a good track for us and hopefully it will continue being that come next Sunday.
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I thought we had an easy top-10 car, but once we got behind we had to pass a lot of cars and that's difficult to do here. But we did manage to recover and I am proud about that.
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We need to put it together and get on a streak. But whatever happens you can be assured that we will follow the soldiers' creed of never giving up.
finish results year
We have our own Chase, and that's to finish off the year with results that will put us 11th in points.
choke heat wrestle
Well, in the heat of the battle, I wanted to choke him. I wanted to get out and wrestle right there.
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It happened in the worst spot because the sun is glaring there and you can't hardly see anything. All of a sudden everybody was wrecking.
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Dale Jr. and somebody got together and shot up in front of me and I got into the back of them. My brakes locked up and the impact crunched the nose in. The Army car never drove the same after that. It was a pretty frustrating deal to have a car drive that good and then all of a sudden get wounded. For a while we had an easy top-10 car.
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Not a great finish but an outstanding effort. We struggled in practice yesterday and I had concern. But Ryan (crew chief Ryan Pemberton) and the crew put a whole new setup in the car for the start of the race and let me tell you -- the Army Chevy was bad to the bone. One of the best cars I have ever driven. It was just incredible, I mean incredible on how good the car drove.
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Any time we have a new car, I'm encouraged. When the highly-skilled engineers and fabrication department at MB2 build a car, it's on the cutting edge of technology. I am very confident that we'll have another stout hot rod in California.
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It's definitely a long shot. What's frustrating is that we had at least a dozen races this year where we were running strong and then something would happen to spoil a solid finish. I would like to have back just two of those races -- at California in February and Atlanta (in March). Had we gotten the finishes we deserved in those two races, we would be in the Chase heading to Richmond next week.
good opportunity
What's frustrating is that we had a good car, but never had the opportunity to be a challenger.
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We had the right package today. But not having a shot at the victory after starting from the pole and leading a number of laps is disappointing. I thought this was the race we were going to win for our soldiers, who are protecting our freedom here and abroad. We'll get that victory for our troops and I have a gut feeling it's going to happen soon. But for now, we'll take the eighth-place result and go on to the next race.