MATT KENSETH-17-Pennzoil Ford Fusion (Finished 1st) - DISCUSS THE ISSUE YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD WITH THE MOTOR LATE IN THE RACE? "Well, if you ask my dad or Katie, or Robbie for that matter, they'll probably tell you I always have demons when we're running good. But, it just skipped a couple of times getting into one and it didn't run right for about two or three laps and then it just cleared up and ran again. I don't know if it was my imagination or a plug wire or what it was. We had a great car all night. It was really, really awesome on long runs. I was very concerned about having 25 till the end, but I had a super-good restart and got by them guys and had a lot of fun racing Carl." TALK ABOUT THE PASS ON EDWARDS. "I got under Carl and we were side by side, and I saw the 11 coming and starting to catch us, so I was starting to get a little nervous about that. Carl had to drive into three and I got slid in front of him. It was a lot of fun." DID YOU LEARN ANYTHING FOR TOMORROW? "I know I had a lot of fun. I'd be sitting in the bus watching it, so I had a lot of fun. I don't know if I learned anything, but it was a whole lot of fun."

JACK ROUSH, Owner, Roush Racing - WHAT WAS THE ISSUE THAT MATT THOUGHT HE HAD WITH THE MOTOR? "Well, we've had a little problem with spark plug wires failing and we thought that's what happened. It turned out that it was either that or something else, but whatever it was was fleeting and it never came back."

CARL EDWARDS-60-Ameriquest Mortgage Ford Fusion (Finished 2nd) - "That was cool to be racing Matt like that; he's a great race car driver. Paul Menard did a great job. I've just got to thank Ameriquest and my crew and everybody. I hope the fans enjoyed that race. That was a lot of fun for me, and we'll be back tomorrow to try to get one." DID YOU THINK HAD A CHANCE WHEN KENSETH GOT SHUFFLED BACK ON THE LAST ROUND OF PIT STOPS? "That's all I had. That was it. Matt did a good job. I think he had the fastest car all night, and he ended up winning. It would have been kind of sad for him if that pit stop would have cost him the win. He was fast enough and he got it. I could rest on that race for a while. That will get me all the way through thanksgiving, at least. That was fun. That's what it's all about. I get to do what I love, I've got great sponsors in Ameriquest and Ford and a great teammate in Matt. I couldn't be happier for him and I had fun."

GREG BIFFLE-16-Ameriquest Mortgage Ford Fusion (Finished 38th) - WHAT PUT YOU BEHIND THAT WALL? "It's unfortunate, our Ameriquest Fusion was running really good tonight. We finally had a good run and I was really excited about the last race of the season. I thought I had a chance to get up there with my teammates, but I must have broke a gearbox on the restart there. When I went to third, there was just no third gear. It's unfortunate for us. We broke a transmission, I guess."

TODD KLUEVER - No. 06 3M Ford Fusion (Finished 9th) - "I was a little disappointed in our last bit there. I drove up to fifth and then it was just really free on that last set of tires. We even tried to tighten the car up a little bit because it had been free early on all night and I didn't want to be too free with only 25 or 30 laps to go or whatever, but, for whatever reason, that set of tires was either just a little bit too loose or I don't know. It was a good night for us. I sure would have like to have gotten the guys a top five that they deserved tonight, but it was a real solid effort. This was the car we left sitting in the shop all summer like we didn't know what we were doing with it and, I don't know, it's a great piece. I wish we would have taken it everywhere. More so than that, I'm really proud of my guys. We've had a horrible year and the last six weeks I think we've shown more improvement than we have all season. I'm really proud of them for that. It would have been a good time for them to just pack up and quit on the season and just throw in the towel and they didn't. They worked hard and we went out on a positive note and I can't be more prouder of them over the last six or eight weeks on the schedule when it could have been so much different." YOU MADE THE RAYBESTOS ROOKIE CHASE VERY CLOSE. "I was trying. I figured my only shot that I had at it was if we won. Like I said, I told these guys over the radio after the race I said, 'I wish we could just start over at Daytona right now.' Just give us another season all together and things would be so much different. Mike is so much smarter and I'm so much starter and Seth is so much smarter and Mike's an awesome guy. Like I said, these last six to eight weeks not only has this team grown, but me and Mike have really grown together as very good friends and Seth too. It's just a shame that it all came together so late in the season and it's a shame that we'll probably all be on different teams next year and we won't get to enjoy the good part of it."

DANNY O'QUINN ROOKIE-OF-THE-YEAR PRESS CONFERENCE

"It feels awesome. I was just sitting back at the trailer there and we were all kind of nervous and shaking there. We didn't know what was going to happen, but this is just an awesome program. I've got to thank Raybestos and everybody for putting this on for us. It's been a fun year. We've had a lot of ups and downs. I wanted to be running a little better at the beginning of the year, but we picked up a lot the second half of the year. It was a rookie team and I was a rookie driver, and we were coming to a lot of these places for the first time. We stayed out of trouble when we weren't having the best runs at the first of the year, and we worked really hard. My team never let a down a bit, even when we weren't having such a good day. I really owe this to them guys. They give us great cars each and every week. Roush Racing is an unbelievable team to be driving for, and tonight's the first mechanical failure that we've had all year long. I think that's pretty impressive in a 35-race season to have only one mechanical failure, and it just says a lot for our team. I've got to thanks everybody, Stonebridge Life Insurance, World Financial Group, Barr-Nunn Transposition and Transamerica. Those guys came on board and took a big chance on a rookie this year, and fortunately we are able to deliver this rookie-of-the-year to them."

WHEN YOU ENTERED THE SEASON, DID YOU THINK YOU'D BE COMPETING FOR THIS AWARD AGAINST A 10-YEAR VETERAN? "No, I didn't. You think of rookie and you think of racing against guys like me and Todd and Burnie. Racing with John, it definitely brought a little extra competition to it with him being to a lot of these tracks. He helped us a lot, though. He helped all of us rookies a lot when we went to the rookie meetings and things, he would come out and tell us things about the track, so he aided to our rookie meetings a lot. It was a lot of fun racing with him all year long."

A LOT OF NASCAR NOTABLES HAVE WON THIS HONOR. "It's unbelievable for me to look at the names like you just mentioned. There are only a few people that can say that they've won the rookie-of-the-year and I'm honored to be one of them. There's a lot of great drivers that came from that and hopefully I can just add to that list."

JACK ROUSH PRESS CONFERENCE

"Danny has been really a treat to work with this year. He'll bend your heart. He's a big teddy bear, but he's also a fast race car driver. We had Danny in our Discovery Channel Driver X competition last fall and he was very, very good. The metrics that we used to decide - to put the points up one driver against the other - were almost arbitrary, and Danny and David Ragan and Erik Darnell were at a virtual tie, so we just had to try to find something for all three of them. The difficulty was, as we put all these new team together, we kept going further and further down the human resource pool. We were halfway through the year before Danny got a car that was built for Danny, and I'm sure that some of them weren't too comfortable and didn't have as much room in them as he needed. It just took a long time to get this program going because it was the third one in line and they were all new. Danny made a good accounting of himself and he's had a number of great races. One of the telling stories on Danny, we were at Memphis and he was racing against someone that I was not familiar with, and the spotter and crew chief got real nervous because this person kept putting his nose in. Danny was more familiar with that track and the people around the track than probably anybody that was with him, and after a little while Danny said, 'Don't worry about it. He's raced with me before and he understands. It will be OK.' So, Danny has that dimension that breaks ties when they get close. We sure enjoy having Danny being part of the program. We don't have sponsorship for it next year, and this Raybestos rookie championship will sure help him a lot."