This Week in Ford Racing: Colin Braun

Dover, Del. — Colin Braun is in 19th place in the standings heading into this weekend’s race at Dover, the first of a five-races-in-five-weeks stretch for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Through the season’s first six races, Braun has five top-10 starts—including a pole at Daytona—and two top-10 finishes.

COLIN BRAUN – NO. 6 CON-WAY FORD F-150“I’m a big fan of Dover. Ever since I saw the place for the first time last year, I thought, ‘Wow, this is a pretty amazing race track,’ and it really is. It’s a place where if you make a mistake you pay a pretty big penalty. But, it’s a lot fun. It’s a real cool race track. It’s got a lot of character to it. I kind of think of it as a big Bristol. It’s such a high-banked, concrete race track, and it’s just so tight and small and you’re just going so fast, you’re carrying so much speed, that it makes it fun to drive on, and it makes for really good racing.”

MANY DRIVERS SAY THE SENSATION OF SPEED AT DOVER IS GREATER THAN ANY OTHER TRACK.“I think it really is. You’re going so fast, when you drive off into the corner, you look at the corner and say, ‘Wow, that’s a pretty darn tight corner,’ and then you get in the middle of the corner and there’s so much banking and so much grip from the concrete that you can just carry so much speed through the corner that you really feel like you’re carrying a lot more speed than you do at a place like Daytona or Talladega. Daytona or Talladega, for instance, obviously you’re going fast, but the place is so big and so wide and so open that you really don’t know exactly how fast you’re going, compared to Dover, where the walls are close and things are tight and small, you really get an idea how fast you’re going.”

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