Bebida Beverage Company (BBDA)

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You're mixing apples and oranges. Practice is practice, qualifying is qualifying. You can't "qualify in practice."

For those who do not know, you don't just unload the truck at each track and drive away, everything is adjusted for each individual track; tire pressures, shock settings, gearing, weight distribution, brake bias, etc. Very tiny adjustments make a huge difference. The motors are generally torn down and rebuilt after every race, too. The two practice sessions give the teams a chance to adjust all this stuff for the best lap times.

The next session is qualifying. Each truck is given a chance to get up to speed and then run two timed laps alone on the track. The lower (faster) of the two lap times is your qualifying time and decides where in the field (and if) you start the race. After this qualifying session you are not allowed to change anything on the truck before the race.

The 00 Potencia truck did not even attempt to qualify. The 01 Koma truck did attempt but missed making the field because the qualifying times were too slow. The Koma truck actually outpaced two trucks that did start the race, but they were guaranteed starting spots due to their position in the owner's points from last season, so the two slowest non-guaranteed trucks got bumped.

For the other comments, Kevin Harvick (a Sprint Cup driver) won the truck race today. Daisy went from 9th and 13th in owner points after the last race at Daytona to now being 26th and 35th in owner points.