RAGAN: “That’s a good finish. We had a top-10 car all night. At times it was a top-two or three car but then at times it was a 12th or 14th-place car. I don’t know what the difference was. We weren’t making many changes on our pit stops but track position meant a lot. It was a solid night. I always want a little bit more but after our last two or three weeks, we’ll take this.” YOU HAD A GOOD RUN HERE TONIGHT. “The Discount Tire Ford Fusion, at times, it was a top-two or three car and at times it was about a 15th-place car. We didn’t make many adjustments tonight. I don’t know if it was just a little inconsistency in the tires or what but we had a great run and after the last two or three weeks, I’d have probably taken a 15th-place finish. It was an awesome run here at Charlotte in front of the hometown crowd and just glad to get out of here in one piece and look forward to having a great race tomorrow.” WAS YOUR CAR TIGHT? “Yeah, I mean, it was tight the whole race and then our last set of tires it was as loose as it’s been all weekend, and we’re just talking a quarter-round here or a half a pound here. It’s just kind of funny. We just need to look how we match up our tires and do this or do that. It was a solid run. We outran some really good cars and five more laps we might could have got a few more.” YOU RAN WELL TONIGHT AFTER A TOUGH COUPLE OF WEEKS. “It gives us a little cushion [in the series championship standings] and helps us out as far as sweating bullets every week. It’s pretty cool to stay up there in that top-five and we’ve got a great race team. A handful of mistakes this year has cost us some spots but a nice run like this gives us a little more cushion. We’ve got one car still in one piece and we’ve still got three more tracks like this track so that means a lot to run well here. Hopefully we can carry on to Texas, Atlanta and Homestead.” WHY HAVE YOU RUN SO WELL AT THESE TYPE TRACKS THIS SEASON? You just get a knack at ‘em. I think a lot of it is the race car I’m driving. The Roush Fenway cars always run good at a mile-and-a-half. We’ve got good race cars, good bodies and stuff like that and that means a lot and then it makes my job a lot easier. Taking it easy the first half of the race and running hard there at the end just shows that we’ve got good cars and great crews and can stay up front track position-wise.” YOU PASSED A FEW CARS AT THE END OF THE RACE. “We haven’t had this good of a car in a long time and I couldn’t dare sit back there and finish 11th. It just worked out perfect where we caught a caution and our tires cooled down a little bit and I was able to haul the mail after that. That’s a good feeling. Man, if it’d only been that good the whole race but that’s where we’re getting better as a team: making the right adjustments and doing the right thing. That’s where guys like Matt Kenseth and Jeff Burton and Greg Biffle are so good at.”

KYLE KRISILOFF, No. 14 LILLY/WALGREENS FORD: “It was a decent day. We brought home the car we needed to. We wanted to take this one to Memphis. We had a car that we wanted to run but I don’t think we’re going to get it done so it was important to keep this car in one piece. There at the end I thought I could have maybe got some guys and finished inside the top-20 but we had a decent day. If you would have asked me at the beginning of the race where we would have run we did better than what I thought. Any day you can do that is alright. We’ll take what we learned and go on to next week.”

BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 88 U.S. NAVY CHEVROLET: YOU RALLIED LATE FOR A GOOD FINISH. “We finished very strong and I’m very happy about that. If we could figure out the start as good as we end the race we’d be up there winning. We’ll work on that. We’re just very proud that nobody gave up on us the whole race and try our best to get the U.S. NAVY Chevrolet up front again next week at Memphis. We’re looking forward to that.” WHAT DID YOU DO TO GET THE CAR BETTER? “If I knew I’d tell ya but I don’t [smiles]. They’re working on it and we just keep turning screws. Eventually we seem to get somewhere at the end of the race. I don’t know why but it seems to work out that way, whether I’m getting better or the car’s better. I feel like we make the car better at the end of the race. I really feel like we need the races to be longer and we’d be a contender. The way we finished the race today I felt like we could have finished in the top-five if we’d have got a long green flag stretch there at the end but it just didn’t work out. I’m very proud of everyone on the team.” WAS THE CAR LOOSE OR TIGHT? “We were everything. There truly wasn’t any one thing we were at any one time. We were so tight we were about to knock the wall down and then so loose we were about to back into the wall. And somehow we just put the best of both together and made it go at the end.”