Stater Bros. 300

February 20, 2010
Fontana, CA

Derrike is entered in the Nationwide race in the #73 Asset Protect Dodge. He said, "We are off to California Speedway hoping to rebound in a major way. The rain prevented us from having an opportunity to try and qualify for the event in Daytona, so we are looking forward to getting on the track Friday. We continue to work hard and look to race well both in California and Las Vegas. Asset Protect will be the Sponsor on the car. I will update you after Qualifying and the race."

In the first practice, Derrike was 38th fastest with a time of 42.474 and speed of 169.515.

In the second practice, he was 30th fastest with a time of 42.081 and speed of 171.099.

After practice on Friday Derrike said, "Today got off to a difficult start. We were not very fast and the car was not responding well. But in the second practice session we made some progress. We ended up 30th fastest but everyone is close. We qualify at 9:35am on Saturday, so hopefully we can get a good lap in and grab a good starting spot."

In Qualifying, Derrike produced his fastest lap at 41.281 with a speed of 174.414. This was fast enough at the end of the round to put the #73 Asset Protect Dodge in 33rd position.

Derrike started the race in 33rd position and finished in 36th.

After the race he said, "We had a good effort in qualifying this morning. It was a very difficult race to make. It seems as though there are a lot of good teams showing up and everyone has elevated their game. It will continue to take great effort and require good decisions to continue to be productive. Our car was too tight in qualifying which with no race practice I knew it would be difficult to race well. Thus I was not suprised that the car did not perform very well. It would not turn from the time we got here to the last lap of the race. We have a lot of work ahead of us to get better. We will probably run a different car in Las Vegas to see if we can run better. It is off to Vegas next week so I hope we can perform better. I will update you later in the week."