SORENSON: YOU HAD RADIO PROBLEMS TODAY AND HAD TO USE HAND SIGNALS IN THE RACE. “We’ve been having radio problems all year. I don’t know what the deal is with that [smiles]. If the button is not sticking or we have static or we can’t hear each other. I guess we can say that we’re used to having radio problems. We just had a couple of problems today that cost us the win and we ended up with a third-place finish. That’s a good run when you have problems like that.” YOUR THOUGHTS ON LEADING THE BUSCH SERIES POINTS. ARE YOU GOING TO INGORE THAT? ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE IT RACE BY RACE? “No, we’re not going to ignore it. Even if you’re running 10th, you’ve got to start out real smooth each race and you can’t take any chances or anything. We’ve been paying attention to them all year and you’ve got to find that balance of trying to win the race and not getting in trouble.” WAS THIS RACE A LOT DIFFERENT THAN THE MARCH RACE? “I think it was about the same. The lap times were a lot slower for everybody. Other than that, the balance of the track is going to be about the same for everybody.” WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES DID YOU NEED FOR YOU TO WIN THE RACE? “Going from the back to the front a couple times sure didn’t help. It’s still a good run for us. We’ll take it.”

PAUL WOLFE, No. 6 LIPTON DODGE (Notes: Wolfe finished 10th, his best finish in 11 career Busch Series starts. His previous best effort was 12th at New Hampshire in July 2004). “It was a great run, especially coming from the back. We were a little bit disappointed when qualifying got rained out because we felt like we actually had a shot at the pole. On a mock-up run in practice we were real loose and still we were 10th so we figured we might have a shot at my first pole, so we were a little disappointed in that. As good as the car was on old tires in practice I’m like ‘We’re going to be fine.’ This is a little easier place to pass than Dover. My confidence was up and all the guys were pumped up. We just stayed out of trouble all day and kept working on the car. The guys got it real good at the end, almost too good on long runs I think because there on those restarts I just couldn’t get going and that really hurt us there. We’re pretty happy with our first top-10. We’ll have to see what happens after this week. I’m not sure when I’ll be back in the car.” IS THIS RUN REWARDING CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT YOU HAVEN’T BEE IN THIS CAR ON A REGULAR BASIS? “Ever since I got back in the car at Richmond we’ve turned the program around and got good cars and brought Trip Bruce [crew chief] on. We’ve been competitive every week and had a top-10 car. Richmond was my fault, just got into trouble there but we had a top-10 car and the same thing at Dover, just ran out of time. We’re real excited to bring home a top-10 for Lipton and the Hungry Drivers program.” DID THE TRACK STAY CONSISTENT? “It started off a little free once we got the rubber down then it seemed to just get tighter. We figured it was going to be that way. I guess on that one long run when we made the green flag stop we were one of the fastest cars on the track. It didn’t pay off when we had to do those short runs.” WAS THIS RUN A GOOD CONFIDENCE BOOST? “I’m pretty confident that I can get the job done and run with these guys when we’ve got the cars right. We’ll keep our head up and see what happens from here.”

RYAN HEMPHILL, No. 4 PETBRANDS/GEICO DODGE (Notes: Hemphill finished 12th, his best finish in nine career Busch Series starts. His previous best effort was 17th in March at Mexico City). “I’m so proud of this Biagi Brothers/Petbrands team. The worked so hard the past couple of weeks giving me a car and it was just up to me to do the rest. We were patient in the beginning. Starting so far back, we had a really good car from the green flag. We were fighting a little tight condition in the center all day and got some really good track position. The guys made a great call just taking gas and freeing it up a little bit. From there we kind of stayed up front. On the pit stop we didn’t get it full so we had to come in there at the end but other than that it was a great run. It was kind of like we were over adjusting on the car a little bit. We had a top-10 going and I just checked up there at the end to avoid a wreck and got passed by a bunch of cars. It’s unfortunate. I’m very proud of these guys.” DOES THIS GOOD RUN GIVE YOU CONFIDENCE BECAUSE YOU WERE GOOD HERE ALL WEEKEND? “Absolutely. I like Kentucky a lot and I really like this car a lot. I think we’ll have a really good piece going to Kentucky. I’ve got something to work with and get better with. The motor ran great all day and we’re looking forward to building some more momentum next weekend.”

DENNY HAMLIN, No. 20 ROCKWELL AUTOMATION CHEVROLET (Notes: Hamlin finished seventh, equaling his best finish of the season and his 16-race Busch Series career. He scored his fourth top-10 finish of the season at Nashville). “We were about a seventh or eighth place car, nothing more for sure. We’ve got some things to work on and we’re going to test tomorrow and the next day and get a little bit better. I’m having to hustle the car so much just to keep up that we’re close to getting into trouble every week, getting loose and getting into trouble. Gibbs has been through this before and even on the Cup side they’re still struggling with it. We’ll get it all figured out. We’ve got six or seven racecars going to the racetrack every week; seems like we could figure something out but it’s taking a little longer than we expected. Hopefully we’ll get it figured out soon, that way we don’t have to be so loose that we’re about to wreck every lap.” ON NEXT WEEK’S RACE AT KENTUCKY. “I’ve never been to Kentucky but a lot of the Cup guys go there religiously so maybe we can take some of their setups and bring it over. I think Mike ran pretty good there so hopefully we can take some good notes and use them.” IS IT FRUSTRATING? “Very frustrated, just because I having to work so hard to get what I’m getting. If we had just a little bit better car then it would be a little bit easier on me.”

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“It was a good day for us overall. I haven’t looked at the points to see how they all shake out exactly. We had some problems today and ended up coming home with a third-place finish so you can’t really say that that was a bad day.” WHY ARE YOU BETTER ON CONCRETE THAN ASPHALT? “I hope not because they are a lot more asphalt than there is concrete. That wouldn’t be good [smiles]. I think it’s coincidence. Bristol was a short track and that’s what I grew up doing, racing short tracks and Dover we tested there and got the car running good and we had an excellent car here last time and another good car here today. I just think it’s coincidence.” WHAT WERE YOUR PROBLEMS? “We started out with some radio problems. Brian [Pattie, crew chief] couldn’t hear me or anything I said. I don’t know what was going on. Then we had some pit stop problems. We did our best and got the car to working better. I think we passed more cars today than anybody did so that deserves a good job right there. It was a good day for us overall.” WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS CAR AND THE ONE THAT WON BY 14 SECONDS HERE IN MARCH? “I think it was very similar. There were some other cars that were faster but then again we had to go to the back a couple of times which didn’t help. It felt the same. The balance of the track was the same. I don’t think it was a big difference at all. The lap times were slower. I think the track overall just lost a little bit of grip but other than that the balance of the track was the same.” WHEN DID THE PUSH TO GET TO THIRD COME? “We were running second there and we went back to, I don’t even know where we went back to, but we shouldn’t have been in tenth. We worked our way up to second and we were running second and third right there and I think we led for a little bit too so we weren’t a 10th-place car at all. We just happened to get back there a couple of times when we didn’t need to. It’s hard to pass a car even if they’re a tenth slower than you. It’s really hard to pass. That’s what makes it so hard. When you’re coming back through the field you might have a third-place car but it takes you a while to get back up there. I do the best job I could coming back through there and I’m pretty happy with third.” COMMENT ON THE RAIN DURING THE RACE. “I guess when it started raining pretty good there I was in about ninth or something. I was like ‘A little drizzle won’t hurt nothing’, that’s just because I wanted to have the opportunity to pass some more cars. I was looking all around trying to see where the clouds were going and trying to predict how many laps we had left before it would rain. It never rained hard. I was kind of worried but I tried to block that out.”

A.J. FIKE, No. 43 COWBOY CRUSH/CURB RECORDS DODGE: “We did finish. We got 225 laps in and learned a lot. I did my first green flag pit stop. I ran ARCA and never did one in ARCA. We had good pit stops. It seemed like we got going good on long runs. We had a good run and the car is in one piece and we’ll go to Kentucky and gain some more experience out there. It would be great to come out with a top 20 next week, get all the laps in, and get some more experience here in the Busch Series.” IS IT HARD NOT BEING IN THIS CAR EVERY WEEK? “When you start running every week you start getting in a rhythm. It’s difficult. It’s hard running one race and have a month off and go out there and get your rhythm back together. We’ve got three races in a row so hopefully we’ll get some momentum here in the next couple of weeks.”

KERTUS DAVIS, No. 0 RACEGIRL CHEVROLET: “We had a real tough day but the main thing is that the motor is in one piece and the car is in one piece. We just barely scraped the wall and we can go again. We were better than what we were the first trip here and hopefully next time we’ll be even better.”

BOSTON REID, No. 5 LOWE’S/PELLA CHEVROLET: “We fought tight in the center, loose off all day. We made some pretty drastic changes to fix it and it did get better but we needed another pit stop or two to really get it right. We also had a transmission problem and lost third gear early on so we had to overcome that on restarts. I got a lot of laps in and Jim Long [crew chief] and I are getting a lot better on our communication so that’s a positive. It’s all about getting seat time and experience right now so it was a great day in that respect. We were about two laps away from having to pit when that caution came out [around lap 190] so that was a real lucky break. I just couldn’t get any momentum on that restart. I just pushed up and it killed us. We were much better on longer runs so I hated to see that last caution.”