LAMAR: “It was pretty crazy but man it was fun. It didn’t get crazy for me. It was just a blast and I’m happy to be here.” DO YOU HAVE A FRIEND FOR LIFE IN TONY STEWART? “Tony Stewart and Kevin Harvick, my boss, and Clint Bowyer gave me a push. That was a lot of fun and I’m just happy to be in Daytona. This is cool. I just can’t say enough about my guys and Gene Nead [crew chief]. We were pretty far off. Being a Raybestos Rookie, I couldn’t tell them what I wanted. We kept adjusting and he gave me exactly what I wanted and we went forward. I couldn’t wait to see Delana [Harvick] and everybody, Rick Carelli and Ron Hornaday in our pits. It’s pretty cool. It’s awesome. It’s a dream come true, that’s all it is. I’m just happy to be in Daytona. Two year ago I was just begging for some heavy car experience and to be in a car for Kevin and Delana and teammates with Tony Stewart, words can’t even explain how I feel. The Dollar General team is a top-notch team that Kevin and Delana put together. Gene Nead is the leader and crew chief and it’s a championship contending team. I’m the Raybestos Rookie and I’ve just got to get up to par. At the end we were in front behind Stewart so I didn’t even see it [the accident]. Anytime you can have a good finish up there like that is really a dream come true and it builds momentum any way you look at it.”

TODD KLUEVER, No. 06 3M FORD: “I just saw a car get turned into the wall and I ducked low to try to get out of it. I still don’t know where we finished. If they take out all the cars that wrecked like they should, it will probably be seventh or eighth. I’ve never finished a race here so it’s a good start to the season. Last year we finished something like 34th or something here [in the truck race] and it took me until half-season to dig myself out of that hole. I don’t have to do that this year and I’m excited. My guys worked really hard, all the guys back at the fab shop that built this car in Concord and all my guys in Mooresville and not just on my team but all the other teams, too. We never turned a lap except in qualifying trim just because we had to make the show. We were terrible at the beginning. The car was just evil as far as floating the nose and out of control. I think you saw us go to the back and kind of hang out for a while. Mike Kelly and all my guys worked on it and worked on it and they got it pretty decent there at the end. I was running second or third there and got shuffled out which is to be expected because I’m a Raybestos Rookie. I can’t wait to go to California and Vegas and Atlanta and things like that because that’s where my Roush boys will have all the knowledge.”

DANNY O’QUINN, No. 50 WORLD FINANCIAL GROUP FORD: “We had a real good car. I got into the wall there with about five to go. We were coming pretty hard. Our car ran really well. We had a qualifying package under it and it hurt us in the race but the crew worked really hard and got it freed up for me after about three tries [pit stops] there. I’m really happy with it. It’s definitely not as good as we wanted, but we’ll take it and go from here.” COULD YOU TELL THAT THE INTENSITY LEVEL WENT UP NEAR THE END OF THE RACE? “Most definitely. We were running three-wide there with 20 to go. You could tell that everybody was getting after it at the end.” HOW MUCH DID YOU LEARN THAT WILL HELP YOU AT THE NEXT RESTRICTOR PLATE RACE? “A ton. That was the first time that I had ever been in the draft. We didn’t practice in the draft or anything.”

TRACY HINES, No. 14 TAKE ME ON VACATION DODGE: “We used pit strategy and got up to fifth I think was out best spot on the track. We knew we were a little bit of a sitting duck there at the end because those guys had a few laps fresher tires. I thought we’d run better than that, of course the crew guys did too. We’ll take this Dodge to California and see what happens.” WHAT HAPPENED AT THE END OF THE RACE? “Chaos. Basically, I saw smoke and cars everywhere. The spotter was trying to tell me to go somewhere and the best thing that he could come up with was ‘Keep your line.’ So I did and that wasn’t the right place. Hindsight is 20-20 in a situation like that. You never know where cars are going to slide and come back across the track. It’s best to just keep from running over the guy in front of you and see if you can avoid it all and unfortunately, we didn’t. The guys worked their butts off all weekend and unfortunately we didn’t get the finish that I feel that we probably deserved, at least a top-15.”

MARK McFARLAND, No. 88 NAVY CHEVROLET: “It was fun. We got up there that one time and just couldn’t get any help and got out of line and shuffled to the back. Then I made a mistake coming off turn 2 and hit the wall and kind of messed the car up. We had fun and it was a learning day. We learned a lot and we’re just ready to move on to California.” WHAT WAS THE MAIN THING THAT YOU LEARNED THAT WILL HELP YOU AT THE NEXT RESTRICTOR PLATE RACE? “Just a lot of drafting stuff, how you can position yourself behind cars and what it takes to get past them. It’s one thing to get a run on them but to get completely by them is another thing. I learned a lot and right now I feel overloaded [laughs].”

JOHN ANDRETTI, No. 10 FREEDOM ROADS-CAMPING WORLD FORD: YOU RAN UP FRONT EARLY IN THE RACE. “We had a really good car. It’s really a shame because I’ve done that before here where I went against my better judgment and stayed out when you pick up a vibration and you know it’s not going to get any better. I’ve had a lot worse here and we were actually coming in that next lap because we hit our window. Unfortunately, our window was one lap off. I look at myself and feel terrible about what happened but you can’t put it in reverse, unfortunately. Otherwise there’d be 43 cars unwrecked here, too.” DID YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS WITH TIRE WEAR? “The first run my car had good balance, it was just sliding all over and I figured everybody else was too because we weren’t going anywhere. We were sticking right where we were at and we were still keeping good position. So I just figured everybody else was fighting the same thing that I’m fighting. I was loose more than I was tight so we just tried to put some grip in the car and we made it a little bit too tight. I think I just flat wore the right-front out.”