PETERS: “There’s a lot to learn and I learned a lot tonight. I started off way too loose and Shane [Wilson, crew chief] and the boys adjusted it up for me. I was just a little too tight that last run. I’m never pleased with 17th but I think we layed the foundation for the rest of the year. I just want to thank AutoZone and RCR and everybody that’s behind me for giving me the opportunity. We’ll come back at Bristol with a vengeance.” HOW BIT IS THIS OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU? “You can imagine how big this deal is. It’s a dream come true. I just wish we could have made it a little bit better. I wasn’t too good her in the truck last year but we’re steadily working on it. I’ll accept it but I’m not pleased.” WHAT WAS THE MAIN THING THAT YOU LEARNED TONIGHT? “Just learning the line. A track this wide there’s several grooves besides the bottom. Mike Dillon was up top helping me with that. We could run high at times but sometimes we couldn’t. We just brought it home with what we had and talk about it and see if I can get schooled on it and we’ll be back in the fall race.” COMMENT ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRUCK AND THE CAR AT THIS TRACK. “The car definitely drives different than the truck, but the experience that I got here in the truck helped me with this. I’m learning every race.” WHAT IS YOUR NEXT RACE? “It’s Bristol [March] but I’m going to every race, even when I’m not running, just to listen to Harvick, Burton and Bowyer. I’m want to get one-up on this deal.” HOW HAVE THEY HELPED YOU? “I go to ‘em because they are veterans and ask them for experience and what is their car doing or what kind of line are they running and they offer advice. It’s cool to have teammates like that.”

SAM HORNISH JR., No. 12 MOBIL 1 DODGE: “We had a real good car. We worked our way up into the top-10 earlier in the night and we had a pit stop and I don’t know what happened. I couple of guys took two tires, some guys stayed out. I was just trying to work our way back through the field, trying to get around a lapped car and thought I had a little bit more room than I did and maybe drove it in there a little bit too deep but I had a lot of fun out there tonight. The car handled good and felt a lot more comfortable than I did at Miami, Phoenix or even Daytona. I feel like we’re headed in the right direction. We just need to quit bending sheet metal.” IS IT JUST A MATTER OF GETTING MORE LAPS? “The more experience you have the more things that you learn. I went through about eight years of open wheel stuff before I ever won an IndyCar race so it does take some time. With the exception of IROC this is only my first stock car race ever. I’m still learning.”

DAVID RAGAN, No. 6 AMERICA’S TIRE FORD: “I guess from Daytona, at least we finished. We had that little bit of a tire problem there, or the fender was pushed in on the tire and we fell way to the back and lost all our track position. It’s just a matter of getting the car back in position to make a run to the front. Realistically, we had about a 12th to 15th-place car and finished 18th. We made laps, finished the race and we’ve just got to improve on that.” HOW MUCH DID YOU LEARN FOR TOMORROW? “The characteristics of the car. Hopefully the track is going to be about the same, hopefully we learned some with the car. I don’t know. Ask me that question tomorrow [smiles].”

MARCOS AMBROSE, No. 59 KINGSFORD/BUSH’S FORD: “I don’t know what happened in qualifying there. I think I had the record for the slowest NASCAR crash on a two-mile speedway. I hadn’t even gotten to the end of third gear and I had spun it out. I think it was just the way on the new tires or something. If I could have buried myself in a hole I would have done it. I would have been like a wombat: I would have gone in headfirst and not come out for three hours. It’s big-time racing and you just have to take those licks and try and stay confident. I was shell-shocked there in the race early on, just trying to recompose myself. I managed to do all the laps and get a finish that we’ve only had two laps on so all in all we can’t complain.”