Diamond Hill Plywood Co. 200 - Rookie Qualifying Quotes

DONNIE NEUENBERGER, #77 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND/BG PRODUCTS FORD:

"Anytime we can pick up that's really good but we're really off here. This is a place where you really need seat time to feel comfortable with the line that you have to run here. I know I can do it, it's just that we get so little practice in that two hour window because we don't have the tires and we don't have the ability to come test. We've got to learn in front of everybody and that makes it tough."

STAN BOYD, #57 TRI KING CHEVROLET:

"I'm not happy at all. We've been tight all day and we made a mock run and the mock run felt just like our regular practice so we didn't touch a thing and we thought it was going to be pretty good. We hadn't been loose all day and both laps, both corners, it got sideways and I had to get out of the gas. I was hoping that we could run in the 30s but after those two laps I thought for sure that we slowed down and we still picked up."

KYLE BUSCH IN THE #5 LOWE'S/BRIGGS & STRATTON CHEVROLET WON HIS FIRST CAREER BUD POLE FRIDAY AT DARLINGTON. Note: Busch's previous best career start was second at Memphis in 2003.

"I think that was as close to a perfect lap as you can run here. It was on the edge and I'm still like a little white from it but nonetheless it was pretty cool. It was definitely a good lap. I held it on the wood all the way through one and two and drove it into turn three and made the thing bottom out so when you bottom out you're going fast." DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE A SHOT TO WIN THE RACE? "I sure as heck hope we do. That would be pretty awesome, to win here at Darlington. It's a lot of fun to race here. I enjoy coming here. You slip and slide all over the place, it's narrow, it's hard to run so that's what makes it fun, I guess. To come here and hopefully sit on the pole would be pretty cool, too." HAVE THE NEW WALLS MADE A DIFFERENCE ON HOW YOU APPROACH THE CORNERS? "The soft walls, for me, as you are coming down the front straightaway and you look into turn one it looks like it's going to be really narrow so you want to use the apron just so you have a little more clearance but then when you get through that point it opens up and it's like 'Wow, okay, I'll go up there now.' But when you get down to turn three and you try to get down to the bottom and you let it slide up the wall is right there. You don't have a lot of room to slide over there so you definitely have to slow it a little bit more in three and four than you do in one and two." IT SEEMS LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN INTIMIDATED BY THIS TRACK. "You give respect to your elders and this place is definitely an elder. You want to make sure that you are nice and gentle with her because you never know: she just might come out there and grab you and slap you around some."

PAUL MENARD, #33 MENARDS/PEAK CHEVROLET:

"I had a pretty good first lap and and I think I would have been about two tenths quicker on the second lap if I wouldn't have hit the wall. I earned my Darlington Stripe now I can go racing tomorrow."

SELECTED BUSCH POST QUALIFYING PRESS CONFERENCE:

"It was a lot of fun but a lot of white knuckles after that one. It was definitely the most that we could probably get out of the car. The Lowe's Chevrolet was awesome. Lance [McGrew, crew chief] and all the guys did a really good job setting it up for me. To be able to hold it wide open all the way before the center of turn one all the way through to the back straightaway getting into turn three is definitely what you need to be able to do here to be able to turn a fast lap. Last year I chickened out on doing that a little bit and that's probably why it put me eighth. You definitely want to treat this old lady with some respect the first couple times. You definitely learn how to get around it and it will turn out to be the best for you." THE CAR LOOKED TO BE A HANDFUL COMING OFF TURN FOUR. "It was a little bit tight at first and then it started loosening up for me but we were able to keep it under us and be able to keep it straight and get to the start finish line just a little tich quicker than Kasey Kahne. Being a bridesmaid, obviously, is not always a bad thing. I wish I could be doing as well as he is. I told him earlier this morning that he's making us all look bad." ARE THE YOUNGER GUYS DOING WELL HERE BECAUSE OF THE NEW TIRE AND THE NEW WALL? "It's not a huge deal that the tires are a little bit different. They're a little bit different but not so much. This is the same tire that I believe that we ran at Rockingham which is not totally different that what we ran last year here but tires are definitely a little bit different and it's not so bad of a feel. I'd say the older drivers can do as whale of a job as we can. David Green is up there, Jason Keller, all these guys are doing well in the NASCAR Busch Series as well as the NEXTEL Cup side. The first part of the season has gone exceptionally well as far as our race programs have been going on. On the other side of it, during the race, things that have happened to us, our finishes don't really prove what we could have done. Daytona we had a little engine mishap and then Rockingham we had a tires problem getting together with Hornaday, which was just tough racing there, and then at Vegas, we had our situation there at the end of the race which was my fault. I got a little too anxious on the last start. Thing that have gone on we could show better finishes that what we actually have and we really need to get through the beginning of the season more in dept to the middle of the season where we can definitely shine where we are going week after week and that's definitely the fun part of racing is being able to do it every weekend. The new safter barrier, when I first got here, was actually a lot more different than what I had got accustomed to. Getting down into turn one, it was like a real narrow valley that you are trying to drive into and then once you get past that it broadens up right away so you are able to get through there and hold it to the matt all the way through there. And then coming off turn two it's not too tight but of course turn two is always tight but getting down into turn three as you let it drift up into the center of three and four, that's where I've noticed that it's really the tightest point because you've got to really whoa it down getting in there so you don't slide up and get into the walls. Coming off of turn four is a lot different, too. You can't run the Brian Vickers line like he was last year, right up against the wall where all the grip was. You've kind of got to let it drive off there and let it run through the middle. It's definitely going to be a lot of tight quarters racing here come race time with two cars side by side."