Stacker 200 - Rookie Post-Race Quotes

COY GIBBS IN THE NO. 18 MBNA CHEVROLET WAS THE RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE OF THE RACE AT DOVER. HE FINISHED 19TH AND TOOK TOP RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE HONORS FOR THE EIGHTH TIME THIS SEASON.

"We had a tough day but at least we were able to run the whole race. I just wish we could have had a better finish for MBNA and Raybestos®. We'll take what we learned here today and try to do better next time we come here to Dover."

DAVID STREMME, NO. 1 YELLOW TRANSPORTATION DODGE:

"The yellow before that somebody said there was oil on the track. My car didn't have a problem. I didn't see anything. We went back green, like a lap later, and all of a sudden there is oil everywhere. I saw David (Green) hit it and I tired turning and I hit it and that's all I could do. We had an awesome racecar. The times we were turning in practice and what we were running there at the beginning of the race I felt like we were going to have a pretty good car and then after that it was just get what we could. The car was tore up a little bit and I got in the fence a little bit after that but I just basically tried to stay out of everybody's way and get some more experience. I think all the crush panels are knocked out. This is the first time that I've run a left-sided exhaust car and I look forward to next year. Hopefully NASCAR will have it go out the right side. It wasn't a bad day but it wasn't a good day, either. I get to go do an ARCA race next week and then we look forward to Memphis or Charlotte, whatever comes after Kansas."

JOEY CLANTON, NO. 27 TRIMSPA PONTIAC:

"Evidently the alternator wire broke. The motor never ran all day long and we just fought it all day long. The motor wouldn't turn but about 8,500 rpms, nothing like it ran this morning. We finally had to come in because it completely died off and we had to come in and do something. We thought it was the carburetor. We tried to hold on all day long what we could. I thought we were going to get a good break there when that first caution come out but I got into the wall when it come off the corner and it started missing bad. I looked down and all of a sudden I touched the wall trying to figure out what was going on. The guys on the team worked their hearts out. We came in, found out what it was, fixed it, and went back out. We were hoping for a better day than today." DO YOU FEEL FORTUANTE THAT YOU WERE NOT INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT? "There wasn't too many of them. They guys actually kept their cool today. Right there at the beginning they were dicing pretty hard and we just backed off. We didn't have anything to run with them so there wasn't any sense in getting up in the middle of it. When it got stretched out, I think the guys kept their heads on them all day long and kept the cars in one piece." ARE YOU SURPRISED THE RACE WAS SO CLEAN? "I think because of that the race track got real racy and there were a lot of grooves out there so the guys had a lot of places to go to figure out where they needed to be. We just came up a little short on our end. I would have loved to have been able to be up there racing with them."

JASON WHITE, NO. 0 EAGLE JET INTERNATIONAL CHEVROLET:

"We finally finished one. It's been a few weeks since we finished one so that was the main thing. We wanted to go out there and try and stay out of trouble and finish the race. That was the main thing and that's what we ended up doing, so it was a pretty good day." DID YOU HAVE ANY CLOSE CALLS? "The 44 car spun out in front of us. That was pretty close but other than that it was a pretty good day." HOW PHYSICALLY DEMANDING IS THIS TRACK? "It's hard. You've always got to be on top of the wheel and it's always pushing you down in the seat. It's probably more demanding than most, this place and Bristol. It's pretty tough."

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