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RAINY DAY BLUES First Richmond, then Darlington, now Dover. For the third time in the last four NASCAR Nextel Cup points races, Mother Nature interrupted the proceedings with heavy rains. This time, residual precipitation from Tropical Storm Barry delayed the Autism Speaks 400 presented by Visa at Dover International Speedway. The race has been rescheduled for Monday at 12:15 p.m. With the already-crowded schedule, the rainout was not well-received in the Nextel Cup garage, but competitors knew it was beyond their control.
"Last night I watched the ARCA race and just tried to get to bed at a decent hour," Roush Fenway Racing driver David Ragan said Sunday. "Now, you wake up Sunday morning, you're ready to go and then you see rain, and rain in the forecast. You're kind of mad because you're going to here an extra day. You just don't know what's going on. It makes it tough on me, but I feel real bad for all the guys on the team – they didn't bring enough clothes or they either have to fly back to Charlotte and fly back up here in the morning. It makes it tough on them, costs the teams extra money for more rooms and all, so when it's raining at the race track, we basically just kind of hang out and
"I don't know what to tell you there," added Roush Fenway Racing crew chief Robbie Reiser, who sits atop the pit box for Matt Kenseth. "It's just that you're brought up in racing and you want to work on cars – and you want to do that every day, if that's possible. It's tough to sit here through a rain delay. We probably have more team trouble through the rain delays than what we've got when we're busy, because our minds are on something else. Otherwise, we've just got our minds on ourselves, so we can pick on each other, you know? You just have to deal with it."
"Sometimes there's things that's just out of your control," said Team Red Bull competition director Elton Sawyer. "We'll deal with that situation. You have to manage your distractions, if you will. Weather is not something that we can control, obviously. If it does set us behind a little bit we'll just have to work through it. Every team is in the same situation. It's not that we're any different than anybody else. As an industry you just have to deal with it."
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