BUSCH: YOU THREW EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK AT KENSETH IN THOSE FINAL LAPS. "That's all I had. I couldn't really give him anymore. I didn't say it on TV but my heart and prayers go out to the Hendrick family. I tried the best I could. I didn't only lose a car owner, a spotter, a friend, I lost a brother." YOU HAD A WINNING CAR ALL DAY. "We did. I thought we had 'em there at the end and on all the restarts I was really good. Kenseth gave me the bottom. I just couldn't hold it down there. I was better up on top." COULD THE RACE HAVE PLAYED OUT DIFFERENTLY TO GIVE YOU A BETTER CHANCE TO WIN? "Not really. I think that last caution hurt us a little bit because my car wouldn't really get off on the restarts. I'd just spin the tires and he'd pull away from me a little bit but if I could just get up underneath his rear bumper I probably could have just loosened him up with air but I just couldn't quite get there. It's just real difficult. I thought I had one more shot at getting him there before that last caution came out." DID THE WARM WEATHER THROW YOU A CURVE TODAY? "No, not too terribly bad. We were real loose to start the race and we just kind of worked on it. We stayed within the top-five and I was able to find the high groove. That's what you need to do around this place. Yesterday I tried it and I was scared of it. I was able to go up there today and pretty much ran up there all day. We were able to save our tires and stuff running up there against the wall. I came into a real good rhythm. Our car would really run good in the beginning there. I could pass cars and then we'd fall off toward the middle of the run and then we could come back and run them back down there at the end again. We just didn't have quite enough to get by the 17." YOU GAINED A FEW POINTS ON MARTIN TUREX JR. "It doesn't matter. We try and try every week. It doesn't matter." DO YOU HAVE ANY STRATEGY FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON? "We're just trying to do the best possible job that we can. I don't like to say that we're going out for wins or going out for any of that. We're going out there every week and do the best possible job that we can. Whatever turns out to be is what we get." COMMENTS ON SUNDAY'S NEXTEL CUP RACE AT ATLANTA. "I'm actually kind of happy that we're going to run a Cup car here. Here in the past we haven't been all that great but we've actually got a Cup car that's driving pretty good. Hopefully I can keep it under me all day and try to run 500 miles."

PAUL MENARD, No. 11 MENARDS/PITTSBURGH PAINTS CHEVROLET: YOU HAD A GOOD RUN GOING UNTIL LATE IN THE RACE. WHAT HAPPENED? "I don't really know. NASCAR black-flagged us for some reason. I was getting passed by the 14 and I guess they thought I passed him or something. I was trying to make my way to the bottom and going into three I don't know if I got hit or just lost it but it came around." YOU WERE FORTUNATE TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE AFTER THAT. "I got hit in the right rear by a car going about 150 miles per hour. I thought something was bent and something was bent, like a panhard bar or truck arm or something. It could have been a lot worse but we were just hanging on the last couple of laps." YOU WERE HAVING A GOOD DAY BEFORE THAT. "The car was pretty good. I kept working on it and got it pretty good at the end but it was one of those deals."

CLINT BOWYER, No. 21 REESE'S CHEVROLET: "I got a little help there, got a little anxious. We were a little tight and I had to breathe it a little bit. He pretty well run over us but the kid drove a good race all day. It's just an unfortunate ending. We had a good day, a complete turnaround from where this car was in happy hour and practice and everything. We struggled all weekend long until the race. The guys worked their butts off and got me a good car." YOU WERE ABLE TO UNLAP YOURSELF IN THE RACE. WHAT DID YOU DO TO MAKE THE CAR BETTER? "We worked on it. We actually did so much overnight that it was actually tight. We freed it up and man, it come to life and we were rocking and rolling. It's just too bad."