Cabela's 250 - Rookie Qualifying Quotes

DAMON LUSK, NO. 6 STA-RITE PUMPS DODGE:

"That's not good enough. We're missing something, I don't know what. The car has driven decent since we've been here. Not great, but not bad. We've been in the 20's all weekend. I don't know that that's bad. We just wanted to run a lot better than that. I ran real good here in the ARCA car. We'll work on it some more. We're getting it, just a little at a time." THE WEATHER CHANGED FROM PRACTICE TO QUALIFYING. "We probably got the benefit of the doubt on that last run but still we didn't pick up like we needed to. We're working hard, hard as we can. We'll get it. We're just missing one little thing. The car feels fine, a little bit tight. A little bit tight we should be fifth but we're a little tight and we're 20th. We'll work on it some more and see what we can get."

JASON WHITE, NO. 0 EAGLE JET INTERNATIONAL CHEVROLET:

"The car was dragging on the track all day long and we threw a wild guess at it and got the car off the track from grinding so much. I picked up a lot so now we've got to go and fine tune it to get it better." ARE YOU HAPPY WITH THAT LAP? "I wish we could go faster but I'm glad we're not dragging the track anymore. We fixed that problem so now we've got to get more speed out of it."

JOEY CLANTON, NO. 27 TRIMSPA PONTIAC:

"We need to be able to run mock runs and we didn't get to do it today. We brought a new racecar today, the first time out this year, and we're trying to tweak on it a little bit. I don't think it's so much needing laps here, we just need some qualifying runs. We didn't get it today just trying to work on the car, trying to make it better. We're going to go back to our basic stuff, like we ran the last couple of weeks, and change it back over and see if we can't get it a little better. We were good in practice; we're just too snug, too tight, in qualifying. We'll try to go back and get the car worked out for the race setup. The car was fast today in (race) practice. Twenty or thirty laps on a set of tires and we're running a couple of tenths faster than some of the faster guys. The car is real consistent." YOUR TEAM HAS BEEN ON A ROLL THIS SUMMER. "I think it's teamwork gelling together. Everybody has come together working in the same motion. Everybody has focused on one goal and that's the Raybestos® Rookie of the Year. I think it's starting to come together with the whole team, the whole atmosphere of a team being around us that everybody is pulling for the same goal. It kind of drives people to do their best and right now I think we are starting to come together and I think we are going to have better runs in the future."

CHAD BLOUNT IN THE NO. 26 MILLER HIGH LIFE DODGE WAS THE HIGHEST QUALIFYING RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE AT MICHIGAN. HE TOOK TOP QUALIFYING ROOKIE HONORS FOR THE FIFTH TIME THIS SEASON.

"That's not too bad. These Miller High Life guys worked their butts off today. We got a couple of laps in the racetrack and we had just a little bit of trouble with the motor, I think with the filter systems. Rather than take a chance we just decided to put our backup motor in there so we didn't get to work on any qualifying trim stuff. This is a new team with me and a brand new racecar. What can I say? These guys did really good. I felt like maybe the driver maybe left a little bit out there but like I said we didn't get any qualifying runs in today. I'm just real happy for these Miller High Life Dodge guys and we'll just look forward to the race here." DID YOU GET A BREAK WITH THE CLOUD COVER IN QUALIFYING? "I don't know. We were kind of behind the eight ball when we unloaded today. Maybe it helped us a little bit, maybe it hurt us, I really don't know. We're a little bit tight but we'll take that. We've got a long race Saturday. Qualifying is just to see where you start anyway." BUDDY BAKER IS HELPING YOU THIS WEEKEND. "Buddy is my bodyguard. With me being little and all, and Buddy is a pretty big guy, I figured it would be good (smiles). Buddy has been helping me out a little bit. He's a great guy. He's won a couple of races in his day. Everything that Buddy has told me, he'll either say 'Listen to me' or 'It's up to you' and everything that he's said listen to me he's been right. I'm just going to take that to the bank."

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