It's looking that way for Cory McClenathan, whose first race with new crew chief Tony
Shortall progressed at a positive pace. The veteran, whose team replaced
veteran tuner Wes Cerny with assistant crew chief Shortall, qualified 13th with
a 4.668. Unfortunately for Cory Mac, he met eventual winner Tony Schumacher in the first round.
"In
all reality, Tony Shortall stepped up to be crew chief and Rahn Tobler helped us last weekend," McClenathan said. "Rahn has some other things going
that are really good for his future, and right now he was free for the weekend.
I asked him to come in, and between (team owner) Scott Griffin and myself, I
asked him to help us out, and he was kind enough to come in for the weekend.
Tony Shortall can do this. I really believe Tony is one of the up and comers. We
just decided to switch things around. We just want to get back to what we know
we can do. We're still not out of the hunt yet. We just need to go A-to-B, win
some rounds...that's my biggest focus right now. And between Tony Shortall and
Rahn Tobler, I think they can make that happen.”