Saute Quotes

When you give a team 14 power plays, that's going to kill you. It seemed like we spent half the night in the penalty box. - Doug Sauter

When we unloaded on Friday for practice I felt we were going to be OK, but the tires fall off so fast here it's hard to tell if you're getting better or not. We didn't get enough time to practice in qualifying trim so it's hard to judge your times against the others. These cars get really loose when you tape them up, so we tried to be smart when we qualified, although the 40.85 it was a little slower than what we expected. We just missed the set-up by a little, but this place is so fast, you can't be off much and have a drivable car. - Tim Sauter

We've got the Turnpike Cup back home, where it belongs. We had lots of good, positive things to take out of this game. And we played hard. We played hard from start to finish. - Doug Sauter

We've been working all season to find some consistency in the program, and early on it ran - let's just say - a little hot and cold, with a really good run sandwiched in between two DNFs. - Johnny Sauter

We would never turn anyone away. I really don't sense that there's a risk, because we know just about everybody that comes in here by their first name. - Jim Sauter

We try and scramble to get them the help they need. - Tim Sauter

We know we have to protect our home ice. - Doug Sauter

They have a great race track here. I'm in love with concrete race tracks. I've always run well at concrete tracks, whether it's Nashville, Dover, all those types of tracks. - Johnny Sauter

The Wegner motor was pretty good today, and I could get into the corners alright, but we were binding in the center of the corner just enough that I had to wait to get back into the gas. If I tried to get on the gas when I wanted, the car just slid the nose and pushed up the banking. The car was close, it just wasn't good enough to race with all those Cup guys. I tried the top groove a couple times, but it was worse up there. I would have loved to finish higher, but the points are more important to the team during these first five races. - Tim Sauter