David during practice at NHMS
It was a short day at New Hampshire Motor Speedway for the entire NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, as rain came into the area just as qualifying was to get underway for Sunday’s Lenox Industrial Tools 301.
David Ragan and the UPS team had just one practice session in the early afternoon to get their car ready for qualifying, but struggled a little bit with being slower than they would have liked coming off of the hauler.
Because rain cancelled qualifying, owner’s points determine the starting lineup for Sunday’s race and David will start 31st.
“We were really hoping to qualify our UPS Ford today,” said David. “There are two practices tomorrow, but we would have rather determined our own spot by running a couple of qualifying laps. We weren’t exactly where we wanted to be in practice, but we’ll get it all figured out before the race on Sunday.
“Our team has been working really hard back in the shop to get ready for this race and it will be good to get some more laps on the car tomorrow in practice.”
Sunday’s race will mark David’s fifth start at the New England track with his best finish coming in July of 2007 when he finished 15th.
