Aaron's 312 - Rookie Qualifying Quotes

JON WOLFE, CREW CHIEF, NO. 1 YELLOW TRANSPORTATION DODGE:

Note: Raybestos® Rookie David Stremme did not make a qualifying attempt at Atlanta. He posted the ninth quickest time in practice Friday morning prior to qualifying.

WHAT HAPPENED? "Basically what we did, with the new rules of rolling through the tech room with your shocks unhooked, we had opened up a shock a couple of clicks to get it down and get it hooked back up, not realizing that was one of the rules on the thing that you cannot do that. When we went to close our clicks to our correct setting they made us go back around. And with the line being so long and with them putting us on the five-minute clock, we couldn't get back in the tech room in time so we didn't get to qualify. They've been really lenient on that deal. Last week at Martinsville they had an issue with a couple of cars that didn't get to qualify. They're just so afraid of people going back around and back around they finally started cracking down. I guess we were the example. It was just a mistake on our part for not knowing a rule. There's too many rules to keep track of anymore, I guess (laughs). Luckily David is in the car this week. If Jamie (McMurray) would have been in it we would have been going to the house because of where he's at in Cup points. I guess we're kind of thankful for that." IS IT GOING TO BE DIFFICULT TO GET DAVID BACK IN A POSITIVE FRAME OF MIND FOR PRACTICE AND THE RACE? "We've already talked about it already. I think he'll b e all right. We were all looking forward to qualifying well. We practiced well and felt like we had a little more in it and felt like we could have had a top-five or top-10 for sure qualifying. We're disappointed in that that we didn't get to show what we could do there. He's doing good for his first time here. The hardest thing will be patient at the start of the race. Back there with some of the back markers and stuff you've got to patient with, not jump them on the start." ON STARTING IN THE BACK OF THE PACK. "It's not that big of a deal. It's been proven time and time, especially in the Cup race, those guys take provisionals and come up and win the race. Our race is a little bit shorter but this is our longest race of the year. We've got plenty of time to come up there and give them a shot. We definitely won't get a good pit stall. You kind of hope you get the best you can."

COY GIBBS, NO. 18 MBNA CHEVROLET:

"I've never been here in a Busch car. Bobby (Labonte) and Mike (Bliss) have been really helping me out and that has helped me get the line down." DO YOU HAVE A GREATER SENSATION OF SPEED HERE THAN ANY OTHER TRACK? "It's fun. If you have a good car it's really a lot of fun. Trying to come here without practicing is probably a mistake, as far as trying to find a setup."

CHAD BLOUNT, NO. 26 MILLER HIGH LIFE DODGE:

"We'll just try to get the car better for happy hour and we'll just see what we can get. We just got a little bit loose there on the bump. You'll have that." WAS THE TRACK A LOT DIFFERENT FROM PRACTICE TO QUALIFYING? "There was a little bit of a difference. Harvick still put up a big number there so the track can't be too slow. I just lost a little bit of grip but like I was saying Harvick still went pretty fast so he found some grip somewhere."

CHASE MONTGOMERY, NO. 27 TRIMSPA PONTIAC:

"We expected to go faster. We got through three and four pretty decent, I thought. I kept it on the floor. I got into one, hit those bumps, and lost the nose and just kind of chased it up the racetrack. That cost us a pretty decent qualifying effort. We'll work on it in happy hour. Tomorrow is what matters." CAN YOU SEE IMPROVEMENT FROM CHARLOTTE TO HERE? "They're a lot alike, but they are different, too. We ran great at Texas and we were running pretty decent here. At Charlotte I struggled but we'll put that behind us. This is this weekend and that's my focus. We're making the most out of every week and put behind us stuff that may have gone wrong. We're trying to click again as a team and get to working together where they know what I like and I know how to communicate to them, tell them what I need. And we're getting there. We'll get things going."

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