This Week in Ford Racing: Colin Braun

Dearborn, Mich. — Colin Braun made his first appearance in the winner’s circle this weekend after 35 starts in NASCAR’s Camping World Truck Series, giving Jack Roush his 50th win in the series.

This weekend also marked the launch of Braun’s new partnership with the teen safe driving program, Ford Driving Skills for Life.

COLIN BRAUN – NO. 6 CON-WAY FORD F-150HOW DID IT FEEL TO WIN ON SATURDAY?“Well, it was great. To get my first win in the series, and Jack Roush’s 50th win, and to continue the streak of Roush Fenway trucks winning at Michigan, I think it’s three straight races for Roush Fenway and Ford, was pretty special. Not to mention the fact that Con-way Freight, my sponsor, it was right in their backyard as well, so I really couldn’t ask for more than that. That was about the perfect story-book ending right there.”

WHAT WAS THE KEY TO WINNING ON SATURDAY?“For me, it was just having a fast truck. My guys at the shop worked really hard to give me just a super fast truck. It didn’t seem to matter where we started if we had a fast enough truck we could drive up to the front, we had great pit stops all day, got us some track position in the pits and it just shows how fast of a truck we had and how much power we had from our Roush Fenway chassis.”

YOU HAD A GREAT RACE IN TEXAS WHERE YOU FINISHED THIRD AND AN EVEN BETTER RACE FROM THIS WEEKEND. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO PUT THOSE TWO RACES TOGETHER?“It’s important, I think. I think we’re starting to build up some momentum here going forward. I feel even though we didn’t have great finishes at Charlotte or Dover, we showed we were fast, we were running up to the front. We were leading both of those races when we had problems, so I feel like we’ve proven that in the last few races that we’ve got the performance and certainly have got the pit crew on pit road to be able to win these races, and hopefully we can keep that momentum going.”

YOU TALK ABOUT MOMENTUM. HOW IS THAT MOMENTUM FROM THIS WEEKEND GOING TO AFFECT THE RACE THIS WEEKEND IN MILWAUKEE?“We’re going to have a good truck in Milwaukee. We seemed to run there good last year, just, you know, we didn’t have a lot of experience at that track. I think that’s one of the more unique tracks we go to on the circuit, so I’m looking forward to having a year of experience under my belt having raced both the truck race and the Nationwide race there last year. I feel like, hopefully, I’ll have a little bit of a better understanding of what it’s going to be like to race there, what kind of a setup I’m going to need to have under my truck, what to do in practice to win the race.”

To read more from Colin visit: http://www.fordracing.com/news/detail/?article=36510