Photo Credit: Mike Holloway/OnPitRoad.com
Brian Vickers, driver of the No. 14 TaxAct Military Files Free Chevrolet SS, came into Texas Motor Speedway with momentum from Martinsville Speedway where he got a top-10 finish. Everyone had high hopes, including himself, that he would have another solid run. However, Vickers did not.
He barely stayed in the top-20 all night long and then wheel-hopped as he was trying to get down pit road and spun. He stated that he wheel-hopped the car trying to avoid contact with Clint Bowyer, whom he still hit, getting on pit road. The spin also caused him to enter pit road outside of the commitment line, resulting in a pass-thru penalty down pit road.
To end his night he was involved in a multi car wreck on Lap 290. He finished the race in thirty sixth position.
“It was a long day,” Vickers said. “That wreck just finally ended it for us. It’s unfortunate. I was really proud of the effort by the guys all weekend. We never really had the car we wanted. We fought hard for it. It was great having TaxAct Military Files Free on the car. We fought the handling. We thought we were good the first run. We kind of lost it after that. On that green flag stop coming in I got to pit road speed and then the No. 15 (Clint Bowyer) just stopped. I had them locked up, but I had nowhere to go. It was weird. He went to like half pit road speed and I just got into the back of him and locked it up. I just didn’t see that coming.
“That put us behind the rest of the night. We were just trying to recover from that. Honestly, if we had the fastest car on the race track I would probably be more frustrated about that incident than I already am. We just didn’t have it tonight. We worked hard on it. The guys kept making it a little better we just couldn’t get what we needed. It just wasn’t our night.”
