Carquest Auto Parts 300

May 23, 2009
Concord, NC

Derrike talked about the upcoming weekend. He said, "We are gearing up for another race in the Nationwide Series this weekend at Lowes Motor Speedway. flipNbags.com will once again be on the car. We are very excited about their presence at Lowes Motor Speedway. The flipNbags show car will be on display as well as having flipNbags available for purchase and new FlipNbags post cards with a tear off coupon for 10% off hotel rooms at Red Roof Inns. Additionally, there will be Miss flipNbags.com 2009 there to sign autographs and the launch for the search for Miss flipNbags.com 2010.

"I am looking forward to this weekend. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and we can attempt to get qualified. There is a lot happening and I am very excited to keep getting to the racetrack. The more we can get there and learn the more productive we will continue to be."

In the first practice, Derrike was 25th fastest with a time of 30.644 and speed of 176.217. In the second practice, he was 34th fastest with a time of 30.613 and speed of 176.396.

In qualifying, Derrike's fastest lap was 30.631 with a speed of 176.292. Since no champion's provisional was used, Derrike was able to start the race in 43rd position.

Derrike started the race in 39th position and finished in 34th position.

After the race Derrike said, "We qualified for the race in 35th or 37th but started 43rd because of all the locked in cars that qualified behind us. I was not happy with that effort. The car would not turn and that pretty much was the way it was all night in the race. We never seemed to be able to get the car to turn. We tried a lot of things but we needed to have more spring split in the rear of the car possibly. We just missed the setup, so we will have to re-evaluate things for Kentucky where we will go next with the flipNbags Nationwide series car."