Ted Musgrave
Ted Musgrave
Theodore "Ted" Musgrave is a retired American race car driver...
capability driver gets good indy luck seldom trophy year
After Indy it was like 'engrave the trophy and give it to him,' ... We just wanted to keep working real hard. It's very seldom that a driver gets good luck all year long and we still had the capability to come back.
involved strangest
It's one of the strangest things I've ever been involved in.
birmingham close drive excited home hours race running seven short tracks travel
I'm excited to not have to drive seven hours to race at Birmingham or Montgomery. The tracks that we're going to be running are short enough that it's not going to be all about horsepower. I'm excited to go to these tracks that are close to home and not have to travel all over the place.
heck
Dennis and I and Crawford had a heck of a race,
brakes christmas deal mark present shoot
Mark got his Christmas present because we had a plan. It's a last-lap deal where you just use the brakes real quick, let him shoot out, and then we come charging like a freight train.
caution freezing lap mattered opportunity pass passed saw
All I saw was an opportunity to try to pass him but it was the white-flag lap and if I had passed him it wouldn't have mattered because of the caution freezing the field,
winner
Put everything on the table, winner take all.
heck maybe win
Dennis and I and Crawford had a heck of a race. One minute, I thought Dennis was going to win. Then I thought Crawford was going to win. Then I thought maybe I could win it. It was fun.
biggest handled looked nobody pick pieces run shutting timing wrong
I just got blind-sided. That was the biggest thing. Nobody really had an inclination of it shutting down. Everything looked to be in order. The timing was wrong and the way it was handled was wrong. You just pick the pieces up and you run with them.
flats good season sure
We opted to put on tires. My call, just to make sure we got no flats or anything happened. Good day for us in points, but the season ain't over yet.
exciting heck mirror passed passes race saw stuff tough wow
Wow I passed a lot of trucks. It's tough to pass, but it's exciting to make some passes here too. From my windshield I saw a lot of exciting stuff going on and from my mirror I saw some exciting stuff going on. I don't know if it was just me, but it was one heck of a race going on out here.
both drift fans risks spinning todd took truck
We both took risks because Todd and I both know on a speedway like this, the spinning truck will drift down the banking, ... But the fans got to see something pretty awesome.