United Way 300 presented by Yellow and Sprint - Ford Post-Race Quotes

GREG BIFFLE AND JON WOOD PRESS CONFERENCE

GREG BIFFLE - No. 66 Subway Taurus - WHAT ABOUT THE LAST LAP? "The last couple of laps Kasey did what he had to do. He tried to protect the bottom and my car wasn't that good up top. I should have looked in the mirror and saw if I had some room behind me. I should have tried the top. I probably could have beat him up top pretty easy I guess. My mistake, though. I should have done that, but I knew I could move him off the bottom and get a run on him and that's what I did, and then he drove it in the corner right on my right-rear quarterpanel and sucked me sideways, which that's pretty brave to do that because usually you wreck two people when you do that. But he knew I had a good car so he did what he had to do there. So we went back down the backstretch dead even again and the lap before that - getting into three - he kept down the straightaway. I had a run on him and he blocked me all the way to the bottom. It's just tough to finish second and have a car like that. Maybe I should have taken two tires. Like I was telling Johnny, if it would have been the Cup race I would have definitely moved him up out of the way a little bit with the bumper. I could have moved him real easy down there in three and four and not even hurt him because when he came down to block me I could have just touched him a little and moved him out of the way. He still would have finished second, but I'll save that for that for when I'm Cup racing and not Busch racing." IS THIS AN INDICATOR OF WHAT WE'LL SEE TOMORROW? "Yeah, you're gonna see good racing tomorrow. I think it's gonna be one-groove racing - definitely the shorter spoilers on the Cup cars. Normally the Busch cars will run two-wide and sometimes three-wide - move up - I didn't see anybody really up the track today doing any good, so that's a pretty good indicator that the bottom tomorrow is gonna be the best also. I'm just so happy with this Brewco team. They give me great race cars to drive. I clearly had the fastest car today and it seems like everytime we have Subway on the car the thing flies, but it was a good run for us today. I wouldn't have changed a thing. Maybe if I would have taken two tires I would have got to Kasey sooner and been able to do something with him, but his car was pretty fast so I'm not sure, if I had to, if I would have been able to race him as good as I did before. You just never know."

JON WOOD - No. 47 Clorox Taurus - "It was pretty surprising for Kansas with a lot of cautions, but, overall, we really did have an awesome car. We ran in the top eight the entire race and it's easier to run up front and stay out of trouble. I'm just really excited. This place is very special. As I was talking about yesterday, I did get my first Truck Series win here, so to come back and run well in the Busch car is nothing any less."

GREG BIFFLE CONTINUED - IS IT BETTER TO GO TO THE OUTSIDE? "What happens is if you're brave enough, you drive it in on the outside and you squeeze the guy down and what it does is it takes the air off his car. If he's a good enough driver, he typically won't wreck, but you get down there and you wait for him to start to get sideways and then you move up and give him a little bit of room to save it. That loses all of his momentum, so the bottom groove is the faster way around the race track, but when you take the air off the guy on the bottom, then, all of a sudden, the top groove is the faster way around the race track. When the guy on the bottom can't step on the gas pedal, the guy on the top is gonna be the fastest. Down there in the middle of three and four I couldn't push the gas pedal down. I was just holding it and turning the wheel to the right because he had all the air sucked off my car pulling it sideways. But, typically, you don't race like that except for the win. You wouldn't see him doing that in the middle of the race because eventually the guy on the bottom is gonna prevail. If we would have had three more laps, he wouldn't have been able to hang there on the top. That's why you see that last lap deal." WOULD YOU HAVE TURNED HIM AROUND IF IT WAS THE CUP RACE? "I would have used my finesse and moved him up the race track one lane. When we're going down the backstretch and he was crowding me down going down the middle of the straightway, I'd just put my nose against him and moved him right back up there. Then when he got down on the bottom there, we're going around the bottom, he can't give it any gas because he can't go because his car is so loose. So I'm sitting there having to wait for him to go because he's on old tires. If I would have just given him a little nudge, I could have just moved him up the race track just a little bit and went on about my business and been done with it. But tomorrow I have to race him for 500 miles tomorrow, so I don't want him doing that to me tomorrow. I wouldn't turn him around for the win. That doesn't take any skill to do that. I could have moved him out of the way very easily at the right spot and it wouldn't have affected him, but I've got to race with him tomorrow. If it's the Cup race and it's the last lap and that same stuff is going on, trust me, it's gonna be a different outcome, I promise you." HOW WERE YOU TRYING TO RACE HIM? "I was trying to race him like a gentleman. There's $60,000 on the line today and there's $5.5 million tomorrow, so I'm looking at that big picture. It is frustrating to get those second place finishes and thirds and fourths. It's frustrating in a manner that those other ones probably weren't frustrating. The one that was was Michigan when Ryan beat me on the restart when we led a lot of that race. Here it's kind of frustrating because we had a pretty fast car the whole day and to finish second that's kind of frustrating, but the other races I didn't have a good enough car to win and finished second, third, whatever. Yeah, it gets to you, but you've got to hold your head up because finishing second here today is a tall order. That's a tough deal to do. Any top five finishes are good for the team." DID YOU DO ANYTHING TO THE CAR TO MAKE IT SO GOOD AT THE END? "I just wasn't real excited when the green flag dropped and I kind of hung out behind my teammate for a while and he was real loose. I just kind of started working my way up there. I wasn't gonna push the issue early and I knew my car was really good. I didn't know that until the green flag dropped and I made about five or eight laps, then I felt, 'Geez, this thing is pretty dang good.' So then I just waited it out and got one position at a time and I just worked my way up there, and just realized the car was just a little tight so I took a little bit of wedge out. Then I got it to really eat that white line up across the bottom of the track like I wanted and I just left it like that."

JON WOOD CONTINUED - DID WINNING THE TRUCK RACE GIVE YOU CONFIDENCE TODAY? "It did and also testing here last week was a big plus for us. We were really fast in the test, as was Truex and Clint Bowyer, so we were about like they were and I felt really good coming into this race that we would be fast. I didn't know we would be this good, but had we done a few things differently I think we could have had a little bit better track position at the end and maybe could have done a little bit better, but, all in all, we had a really good car." ANY QUESTION THAT YOU WOULD PIT AT THE END? "We were in one of those cut-throat spots - right when you're eighth to 12th. Everybody behind you is gonna pit, but you can lose that track position and not make it up, or you can stay there and get passed by everybody. It's such a controversial call and we elected to do two tires - kind of halfway in between - so we had mediocre track position at the very end and a couple of people got to racing each other too hard and we were just able to get by them."

GREG BIFFLE CONTINUED - IF YOU WERE IN KASEY'S SEAT DO YOU DO ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY? "No way. He's the one out there getting the trophy. Why would you do it any different? No, certainly. He did what he had to do. Yeah, I'd have done the same thing, absolutely. You have to. You've got to know inside the car, 'Hey, I'm blocking this guy and I'm holding him up. He may nudge me out of the way.' It's that simple. You've got to be ready for that and he was probably ready for it. I wanted to race him clean, but, shoot, I would have done the same thing. I just wish I would have gone to the top because I think I could have beat him on top, but hindsight. I wish I could have got the gas down on the bottom, but I just couldn't get it down with him on the outside." WOULD YOU HAVE BEATEN HIM IF THE CAUTION HADN'T COME OUT? "Absolutely. I was right on him and had seven laps to get him. If he would have had three or four more laps, his tires were old and he wouldn't have been able to cut to the bottom."

JON WOOD - No.47 Clorox/Wisk Ford Taurus - Not as good as we would have hoped to have had. To think that we were twenty something with thirty to go and to come back and finish fifth, and to pass all those cars. That's pretty respectable. Its good for the Clorox team, for Ford Motor Company, it's good for everybody. I'm glad we had such a good run. We always run well at Kansas. There we a lot of things that I did wrong to get back there. There are certain circumstances there that wee need to work on. But overall it was a good day. Anytime you have a top five its something to speak about.

GREG BIFFLE - No. 66 Duraflame Ford Taurus - "Yeah, Kasey did what he had to do. He chopped me down and didn't leave me any room getting into three. You know he did what he had to do to win today. Maybe if I had it to do all over again I would have nudged his bumper there in three and four a little bit to move him up out of the way. We wanted to race him clean and it was a clean race for the Subway car and all these Brewco guys. We will win another one before this season is out. Dirt Tracking off of turn two and again in four? "Yeah, it was real loose with someone on the outside of me. Kasey did what he had to do to get it done, and that's what he did."

CARL EDWARDS - No. 60 Charter Communication Ford Taurus - The tire rubbed on a piece of exposed wire holding the brake duct. Heck, its just preparation. Just a little bitty thing like that can ruin you day. I think we would have had a top three car at worst.

DAVID GREEN - No. 27 Kleenex Ford Taurus - How was the race? "We had a problem earlier there. Number one this is a brand new car that we built and brought here. It was pretty good in practice and it qualified good. Ten of fifteen laps into the race the front spring gave up on it and it just pushed and slid the tires. We did all kind of things to work around that but nothing helped. We just got really bad there and got lapped then we were able to get the lucky dog and get back up there. Then we were kinda out of tires because we really felt like it would go green for the rest of the race. We didn't have enough fun to run to the end. We did that deal so when those guys pitted we stayed out and got some track position and we took off. At the end there we were sitting ducks and it was just a matter of holding on as much as we could. Disappointing but in the big picture of things I'm sure gained a couple of spots in points. To finish fourteenth there it makes a bad day a little bit better. We didn't expect to have those issues with a brand new car, but the highlight of it was we practiced good and qualified good. That the best we have qualified in a while. By the time you fix one part of it something else pops up. Now that we have a race under our belt with this car now we will dissect what happened." WILL YOU RUN THIS CAR AT CHARLOTTE NEXT WEEK? "No we will run it at Homestead. You know the whole spring deal that they got brings on a lot of extra work for a lot of these teams. Then you run into what we ran into today. We run as soft as we can and push that envelope on softness. The springs give up pretty easy and its just like driving a go kart. We missed it just a little bit right there but we will come back at Charlotte next week and see what happens.