DANNY O’QUINN JR., No. 50 STONEBRIDGE LIFE FORD: “We had a lot better car than even how we ended up. We come in there on the last stop and put some new ones on it and one of the wheels was loose and we had to come back in. We didn’t know what the problem was so we threw the old tires on it from the run before so we were kind of stuck there at the end. We were kind of behind the eight ball on some used tires. That’s the way it goes. We’re still happy with that. We had a fast enough car. It was just hard to pass cars with the older tires. It definitely showed that we’re getting better. This was a real good race for us and it got us some real good points positions. The car is in one piece. We’ve got some good tracks coming up for us. We just need to keep what we did here and learn from this. We were really sporty in practice, qualifying trim and even race trim. A lot of the stuff that we learned this week we can apply to future races. This isn’t a mile-and-a-half but it’s really similar. It’s just a couple tenths shorter. A lot of the notes we learned here we can apply to some of the other mile-and-a-halfs and hopefully get that program turned around.”

JORGE GOETERS, No. 28 XTREME GEL FORD: YOU RAN THE ENTIRE RACE AND GOT SOME EXPERIENCE. “It was very good for me. My brakes worked very well. I think this is good experience for me. I’m sorry that a lot of cars crashed but that’s part of racing. If I wreck my car in the beginning of the race because I want to be too aggressive but if I do that I’m not going to finish and I’m not going to learn. This is a Raybestos rookie season for me and I’m very glad to be here with Jay Robinson Racing.”

JOHN ANDRETTI, No. 10 FREEDOM ROADS/CAMPING WORLD FORD: “We got the car going pretty good and had that restart and was up underneath a couple of guys and I guess somebody got turned and spun around. I don’t know if they got turned around or what. I was way down low and got run into the side of a couple times. I really didn’t even see them coming hardly and by the time I did I was already down pretty low. It’s unfortunate but it tore the car up a little bit and we had to come in and make repairs and then come back in and make more repairs but we finished.”

TODD KLUEVER, No. 06 3M FORD: “We just had a lot of problems in the pits today and got behind and it eventually let us get caught up in a wreck. It’s unfortunate. My guys have been working so hard to get caught up as far as getting cars built. I think we only have five cars and two of them are smashed up. They’ve been working so hard they haven’t had a lot of time to go out for pit stop practice. It kind of bit us today but they’ll work on that. I told everybody last weekend that we turned a corner with this team and I think we proved it for quite a while today. I believe at the end of the day we were the best Roush car here and Carl finished fifth. I think we definitely had a top-five car today. It’s just really unfortunate but my guys can hold their head up high because we are on the right track. We just have to get a few more things clicking but the speed is there. We were fast at Texas, just got caught a lap down. We were fast here and actually had a good qualifying effort and had good track position and ran in the top-10 most of the day. A lap car spins out on the restart and it just causes a lot of problems. It’s so cutthroat I just wish lap cars would stay on the bottom for a lap or two and let everybody go. I understand they are trying to race each other and stuff but you get laps cars in the low groove and you get them in the high groove and everybody is ducking and dodging between them. I was on the outside trying to get around some laps cars and there was a spin in front of us and there we were caught up in it with nowhere to go.”

JOEL KAUFFMAN, No. 12 SUPERCUTS/ST. JUDE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL DODGE: “We had some tire problems 30 or 40 laps into the race. I had a right front going down and it cost us a lot of track position. We were still maintaining the lead lap but it blew out coming off turn 4 and put us quite a few laps down by the time we got all the way around the track and had to fix it. The caution never flew for us and it hurt us a little bit. From there on out it was just a day where you just try to stay out of trouble and that’s what we did and we came home with a 23rd-place finish. I definitely felt like we had a 10th to 15th place car today. We just ran out of tires and laps due to that tire blowing out. There was nothing that we could really do but I’m happy with the progress that we’ve made in the last couple of weeks here with the new crew chief. I’m looking forward to getting better and better in the future.”