Pepsi 400 - Ford Post-Race Quotes

BIFFLE POSTS FIRST NASCAR WINSTON CUP WIN

Greg Biffle, driver of the No. 16 Grainger Taurus, captured this first win of his NASCAR Winston Cup career by winning tonight's Pepsi 400. The victory snapped an 11-race winless stretch for Ford on restrictor plate tracks. The last time a Ford won at either Daytona or Talladega was July 1, 2000 when Jeff Burton won the Pepsi 400.

In addition, it marked the first time Ford has swept the top three spots since Rockingham when Dale Jarrett won with Matt Kenseth second and Kurt Busch third.

The win was Ford's sixth of the season and fifth for Roush Racing. Busch has won a series-high three times while Kenseth has one victory. Ford now has a NASCAR Winston Cup record 543 all-time series wins.

GREG BIFFLE - No. 16 Grainger Taurus - VICTORY LANE INTERVIEW - "I didn't realize what was going on in the later part of the race why they were stopping 16 laps before us, but I realize now what had happened and it really paid off for us tonight." FUEL MILEAGE WAS A KEY, BUT YOU HAD TO HOLD OFF BOBBY LABONTE. "I figured Bobby Labonte would get me there at the end. He's got a lot of experience at these superspeedways and this is my first year as a rookie in these cars. This thing was really loose and pushing on the bottom, but he didn't have anybody to help him. If Matt Kenseth wouldn't have stayed up there, Bobby would have definitely got me."

JEFF BURTON - No. 99 CITGO Taurus (Finished 2nd) - "We were really good. I'm real proud of my guys. We really struggled in February and we struggled at Talladega. This is a brand new car. A lot of effort went into this car. I'm real proud of everybody. Paul and everybody did a great job on calling the fuel. They told me as soon as I came out that I had to start saving fuel, so we saved fuel the first two-thirds of the run. That's why we weren't able to get up there and mix it up. I wish we would have, but if we had, we might have run out of gas. Sometimes you've got to work with your head and not with your foot." WHAT ABOUT YOUR TEAMMATE? "That's awesome. I'm so proud of Greg Biffle and Randy Goss. I'm a fan of theirs and I was so happy when they came on board in Winston Cup racing with us. Short of us winning, that really makes me happy to see."

RICKY RUDD - No. 21 Motorcraft Taurus (Finished 3rd) - "We could run with the pack all day. We got fouled up there one time in the beginning and lost track position, but were able to kind of tag along in the back of the pack. Real late in the run our car started handling really good, but the call goes to the guys on this Wood Brothers/Motorcraft/Air Force Taurus. They made a super call on trying to work fuel strategy to their best. If you notice, all the Roush cars were 1-2-3 there at the end of the race. I'm sure it's quite an upset anytime you beat the DEI cars. We didn't actually beat 'em on the track, but beat 'em on economy." A GOOD WAY TO KICK OFF THE SECOND HALF. "We really needed a good shot in the arm. You've got to give it to these guys. They've really been working hard. They've been catching a lot of heat. We haven't been getting the finishes that we probably needed, but the second half of the season is gonna be different. These guys have something going. I don't think we're a winning team yet, but I feel like we're top 10 material every week now."

DALE JARRETT - No. 88 UPS Taurus (Finished 10th) - "That wasn't bad. The first part of the race I was a little too tight. I was really expecting the track to get a little tighter and it loosened up on me and I was loose from there on. I could go pretty good about the last 10 or 15 laps of a run, but I was so loose at the beginning of those that I couldn't get up in the upper groove like I wanted to. It was a pretty good day for us, though. They did a good job in the pits. We did the right strategy. Unfortunately, we just didn't have the fuel mileage to go like those other guys." WHAT WAS YOUR STRATEGY? "I could go up and then back. I think I really made up some time those last 10-12 laps of a run, but by then it was a little late. I just didn't have enough for 'em. We'll try to get it to handle a little better the next time."

MATT KENSETH - No. 17 DEWALT Power Tools Taurus (Finished 6th) - HOW DO YOU FEEL GETTING OUT OF HERE WITH YOUR POINTS LEAD THE WAY IT IS? "It is a load off my shoulders to get out of Daytona with a top 10 finish and not really lose any points. We lost a couple to Bobby, I guess. I don't know who else finished up there, but, other than that, we didn't really lose any points. That was a great night for us. Everybody was talking about going to Sears Point and losing a bunch and coming to Daytona and losing a bunch and we really didn't do that bad. I feel great about what we've done so far, but we're still not here to the halfway point and we've got a lot of work to do." EVERYBODY SEEMED CONCERNED ABOUT YOU STARTING IN THE BACK AND JUNIOR AND GORDON UP FRONT, BUT IT DIDN'T SEEM TO FAZE YOU. "It doesn't matter where you start here. That's just as fast as our car was. I felt good about getting up front if we had good pit stops and the way the draft works and everything. I actually felt good about my car after practice yesterday. It handled really good. It wasn't the fastest, but it handled good. A lot of people weren't handling as good as we were and that was a big key to us staying up front on older tires. There were a lot of guys that went for it. Some of them didn't make it and some of the did, so they had good gas mileage. We almost had as good of gas mileage, we were just a lap or two away and just didn't want to take the gamble tonight." YOU HAD TO PLAY IT CONSERVATIVELY BECAUSE OF POINTS? "Well, yeah. I mean, where we were, in Biffle's situation he was gonna win the race if he didn't run out of gas. If he ran out of gas, he was probably gonna finish 15th or 20th and we couldn't afford to gamble a top 10 away and finish 20th. We were just too close to making it. If we could have made it, we would have went for it." YOU LED A LAP. EVERYTHING SEEMED TO FALL INTO PLACE FOR YOU TONIGHT. "Yeah, it all worked out perfect. It was a great night for us. Everything went good except for when I overshot the pits. Our pit stops were timed good and we had good stops on pit road. We had a good enough car to lead some laps, so it all worked out good."

KURT BUSCH - No. 97 Irwin Industrial Tools/Rubbermaid Taurus (Finished 36th) - WHAT HAPPENED ON THE SPIN? A FLAT TIRE? "Yeah, I just got a flat tire." NO WARNING? WHAT HAPPENED GOING INTO THE TURN? "It was fine going into the turn and it just went flat. I feel bad for all of the guys behind me. I didn't know it was a flat tire. It just went down."

GREG BIFFLE PRESS CONFERENCE - "It's unbelievable. I'll tell you what, our team has struggled a little bit this season, especially lately. We've worked harder than we've ever worked trying to get our race cars going like they need to be. It just shows how hard these guys work and how they don't give up. We've had some extra help at the shop from Harry and the other guys and we switched some guys around on the team. It's just exciting to be in victory lane at Daytona. I never in the world would have thought we would win a race here, but our car handled really good tonight. It ran well up there with the DEI cars and it ran well up front by itself." THOUGHTS ON THE CLOSING LAPS? "I wouldn't have won tonight if it wasn't for Matt Kenseth and what he did for me. He went with me down the backstretch and it cost him a position. He gave up second place. Matt probably could have won tonight if he would have just stayed in the outside groove, but he moved down with me and pushed me up there. Then he fell off the lead draft not to give the 18 any help to get by me, so it's a team effort, obviously, tonight. Matt Kenseth, I can't say enough about him. He gave me my first Winston Cup win here at Daytona."

JACK ROUSH, Car Owner - No. 16 Grainger Taurus - "I celebrate the victory for Randy Goss, who has been under immense pressure for a first-year Winston Cup crew chief. That's a huge change coming out of the Busch Grand National Series after only two years there. Randy is a great champion. He's done a super job and we're gonna keep the pressure on him because he's not done growing yet. We're so happy to be here with Greg. We've been holding Greg back this year because our team wasn't strong enough, but to build a fortress you have to dig a hole in the ground and we spent half a year trying to do that and figure out what the people need to do and what the right combination was to suit Greg's need. He's gone along with it, realizing that we're building something that is for the years to come."

GREG BIFFLE CONTINUED - YOUR THOUGHTS WHEN BOBBY RAN OUT OF GAS? "I was so focused on trying not to let anybody get an advantage on me. I haven't been restrictor plate racing that long, especially for a win and I really didn't know what to do. I was breathing the throttle and stepping on the brake pedal a little bit down the straightaway trying to keep Bobby from getting too far back there and getting a run on me, and to give me some room to get around the two guys in front of me when the corner came so Bobby wouldn't get his nose up under me and get me loose because I was pretty loose. I had to keep my car like that to keep it turning good tonight. Joel Edmonds is my spotter and he just does a fantastic job. He told me when I went into turn one, 'The 18 is fading. The 18 ran out of gas. Just bring it home and you've got the race won.' What a relief because I thought when Bobby got to my bumper I thought he would beat me, but I'd learn a lesson tonight and I'd finish second. But, fortunately enough, I don't think he would have got me even if he wouldn't have run out of gas. I held him off there a few laps and Matt Kenseth just backed off and didn't give him any help. It he would have had a car behind him, he would have been able to go by me on the top, I'm pretty sure." HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE THE GUY TO TAKE DOWN DEI THIS RACE? "It feels pretty good. I don't think we had any crazy pit strategy or anything. I mean what we did, I thought, just made sense. We came in and took a splash of fuel before we went back to green. I talked to Randy about that. I was looking in the mirror and I saw some guys that looked like they were gonna come and I asked him what he wanted to do. He said, 'Come, if a bunch of people come,' and I made the decision to come because in restrictor plate racing you can get back up there pretty easy. It was kind of a decision we both made together and it really paid off for us. I guess that gave us the extra lap or two to stay out and then come in and gave us enough to get to the end. We stopped on the same lap Bobby Labonte did. It was kind of funny because I was yelling at the guys on the radio that they held me just a half-second too long. We pitted with the 5 and the 18 and they got a little bit better run on me on pit road leaving and I lost the draft with them. I said, 'You need to drop the jack just a little bit earlier when you see them coming down pit road like that, but they were holding me to get that last little bit of gas in it and it paid off." YOU'RE THE FIRST WASHINGTON NATIVE TO WIN IN A DECADE. DOES IT FEEL LIKE YOU'VE MADE IT NOW? "Yeah, I guess so. It feels pretty good to be the first to win in a decade. I can't thank everybody enough that has gotten me here. People from the west coast don't get that many opportunities. Benny Parsons really did a lot for me talking to Jack about getting me in the Craftsman Truck and it's been going from there. Grainger has been a great supporter of ours ever since the inception of our relationship, so it feels good to get a win for the northwest."

JACK ROUSH CONTINUED - DID YOU ENVISION FUEL MILEAGE WORKING HERE? "I was really surprised that it worked. We've had better-than-average fuel mileage for it seems like the last 10 years and I think Mark Martin won one race on fuel mileage in that period of time. We go for that. We race the entire car - everything we can do. Greg works out. The guys on the crew work out as well as doing the rest of the things, but we race everything that we've got and racing fuel mileage is just part of it. The idea that we would be able to win one here was a huge surprise for me. I was not focused on that. We were just taking care of business and doing the best we can without crowding it enough that we thought we were taking a chance on burning a piston. If I thought it was gonna be determined on fuel mileage, we would have taken a chance on burning the piston, but we didn't press it tonight. It was just a normal deal for us."

GREG BIFFLE CONTINUED - AT WHAT POINT DID YOU THINK YOU COULD WIN? "About lap 15 I felt that we would have an opportunity to get up in the front, but I've gotten caught up in so many superspeedway wrecks. My car was a little bit free when I was back there with all those other cars that had that turbulent air. I could go through the middle pretty good and I felt I could get up in the top 10 - not anytime I wanted but when I was ready to go, I figured that would happen. There's no sense racing on lap 25 or lap 50 or lap 75 or lap 100. I wasn't gonna gain anything by that. I didn't want to take any chances and it looked like that's what Ryan Newman was doing as well. I was really just riding around back there, just trying to let the laps weasel down and then I was gonna get after it when it was time to get after it. My guys adjusted on the car and kept making tire pressure adjustments and trackbar and things like that to make it go at the end. I didn't think it was gonna be a fuel mileage race and it doesn't even feel like a fuel mileage race to me. I mean, we just did standard pit stops and felt like that's what everybody else would have done. I don't think we did anything out of the ordinary. Our car ran really good up front and I'm just pretty happy about it." DID YOU LOSE ANY CONFIDENCE BASED ON YOUR LAST COUPLE OF RACES HERE? "Not really. I've got to put every race behind me. You can't dwell on the past. If somebody wrecks you one week, you've got to go to the next week not thinking about that. You've got to go to the next race just focused on winning that race and doing the best you can, if that's a top 10 or top 15. I just focus on what's ahead of me. I can't worry about what's behind us, what mistakes we made. As long as we learn from them and don't make them again, that's what we need to do. I just focus on what's ahead of me and not what's behind me." HOW MUCH TROUBLE DID YOU GET IN FOR DRIVING THE PONTIAC LAST NIGHT? "Well, to be quite honest with you, I think that Busch race I ran last night gave me a fair amount of experience for tonight's race. I'd have to say without that experience I may not be sitting up here tonight. It's possible. I mean, just running laps around there. The car was pretty loose last night. This car was pretty loose tonight, but it gave me an idea of what I needed the car to feel like to run fast and we worked on it last night and came back and worked on it tonight. That's where running both of those series, no matter what the make or model is, it doesn't matter when you're restrictor plate racing. When you're getting lap time and experience, it doesn't matter. I'm a Ford guy - always have been and always will be. I drive Ford cars and trucks and what I race on Saturday doesn't reflect what I support on Sunday." WHERE WAS THE TURNAROUND POINT FOR YOUR TEAM THIS SEASON? "One of the turnaround points was the fifth-place at Bristol. That's kind of a driver's race track and aero doesn't play as big of a factor there. The guys had great pit strategy. Randy Goss kept us out. We fell into a point where there weren't a bunch of cars on the lead lap and I had a pretty good car. We were running tenth before that and I felt, 'We're on our way right here,' and then it kind of fell apart from there. It got worse and worse and worse. I think last week was the straw that broke the camel's back. We sat down and had a meeting and we're just all focused on making the whole thing better and doing what we can do. Jack and I talked a lot about what we could do to make the program better if we get more support throughout the company. Our company runs a little bit different. Each team is responsible for building and maintaining their own cars and we're working on getting better cars for the 16 team every week. We've got brand new equipment and all the resources are available, we just have to take advantage of all that and put it in place and make it work like we did tonight." HOW FRUSTRATED HAVE YOU BEEN THIS YEAR? "It's been frustrating. Every series I've been in I've been competitive and I've won in. I felt we would be more competitive in this series, but I haven't been able to get the balance I want in the race car. I had the same identical springs, shocks, swaybar, pan hard bar heights, fender width - other than the color - the same as Kurt Busch's car at Michigan and he won while I was a lap down. We arrived at that same setup not looking at each other's setup. That's just what the car felt like to me, so I knew at that point that once we get the aerodynamics - these cars are so closely matched today in Winston Cup that if the car isn't perfect and the sheetmetal is not just absolutely perfect and the balance and the side force and all these crazy things about the race car aren't perfect, you can't compete. You can't drive around other cars if it gets too loose or it gets too tight behind a car. You've got to have it just perfect and it takes years, it takes experience and time to get that. That wasn't the case in the Busch Series. The cars weren't as important and not every team in the Busch Series takes them to the wind tunnel before they bring them to the track. As a start-up team, that's been the most difficult part. Competing driver-wise and pit stops and all that, we've been up to speed, but just getting the best race car we can has been tough for us." WHERE DOES THIS RANK AMONG THE THINGS YOU'VE DONE? "I tell you what, you probably have to pinch me right now. I feel numb. I don't know if it has even set in yet because I don't feel it yet. I don't feel like I've won a Winston Cup race yet or been at Daytona in victory lane. I have to say that it ranks up there with the highest of the marks we've done so far - the Busch Series title and the Truck Series title mean a lot to me. I won't give up this Winston Cup program until I win a Winston Cup championship. Before I retire I want to win one, maybe a couple of them, but winning at Daytona, I can't even fathom that I'd ever be able to do that. I watched Dale Earnhardt win his first Daytona 500 sitting in my pub in Vancouver, Washington and had a Daytona 500 party. I was pretty excited for him to be in victory lane and it's nice to be here in victory lane amongst all the guys that have won races at Daytona."

JEFF BURTON PRESS CONFERENCE - CAN YOU TALK ABOUT YOUR STRATEGY? "A lot of people didn't pit, but we pitted there. We came in and put on four tires under the caution just before it and then that caution came out. I don't remember how it happened, but that caution came out and it looked like with enough caution laps, that would get us to the end. Unfortunately, we didn't get quite enough caution laps to be able to run hard, so when we came out of the pits, Paul immediately said, 'Hey listen, we're short. We can't go the whole way. If we don't get enough cautions, you've got to save fuel.' So we saved fuel for the first two-thirds of that last run and just kind of tried to stay with the lead pack, but at the end of it I was running half-throttle a tremendous amount of the time. Then when people started pitting, unfortunately, that put us in position where I was in the back of the line and people started peeling off and Greg and a bunch of those guys were way ahead of me and I couldn't get caught back up. But we did what we had to do. Saving fuel was the smart thing for us to do and that's what we had to do. We saved some fuel and came home second. I would have liked to have been there giving Greg a run at it, but we played the cards we had to play and we did what we needed to do." HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT GREG WINNING? "Listen, I'm real excited for Greg, that's the truth. I'm a fan of Greg Biffle's. I really think the world of Randy Goss. Those guys are really good guys. They work extremely hard and they needed this. They came into Winston Cup racing this year, they've won championships in everything they've done before and this has been a struggle. They needed something really good to happen to them, of course, we do too, but it'll be good for their morale and it'll be good for them in the long run. This will really do a lot for them and I'm really proud of them." WHAT WILL THIS DO FOR YOUR TEAM? "Our team has been running a lot better. The last 10 races we've been running a lot better, but we haven't been putting finishes down. Last week I was sitting in a rocket ship and I got wrecked and then I wrecked myself. Last week was really disappointing. I hate screwing up and then having 13 days to wait before you race again. I just put it in the fence last week and cost us a lot of points and really felt bad about it. Our team is a good team and we just haven't been putting finishes together. This is good for us. We ran well tonight. We not only finished well, but we ran well. I thought we had a top 10 car all night. We ended up probably getting a little more than we deserved, but there have been a whole lot of races where we didn't get as much as we thought we deserved."

RICKY RUDD PRESS CONFERENCE - HOW DID YOUR STRATEGY WORK? "I didn't have anything to do with that call, obviously. The driver doesn't have the whole picture, but Pat Tryson and Len Wood - all these guys - sat down and looked at fuel mileage. I think that decision was made somewhere in the lap 90 range when a caution came out. We came back in and topped off with fuel again. We finally got a little track position and then we elected to give it up just so we could know we could stretch the distance. It was hard at the time. The driver, he's saying, 'Man, we just finally got some track position and you're gonna give it away.' As it turns out, it was a real smart call." THIS IS A GOOD THING. "Yeah, it really is. The Wood Brothers are super people. Jon Wood won today and they're really ecstatic and on top of the world and they ought to be. That was just a tremendous effort for Jon today and I think both Roush trucks were 1-2 today and now Roush motors were 1-2-3 here at Daytona. It's just a good way to start the second half of the season. Our season has been a little bit like Jeff's. We started off really in the box. Our qualifying efforts have been stinking all year long and we still haven't figured that one out, but our race program has gotten better. We just can't seem to get to the end of the race without breaking something or wrecking. If we get to the end of the race, we're gonna be an eighth to 12th place car. We're not a winning car or a top five car yet, but we feel like we're eighth to 12th to 15th place car every week. We haven't had the finishing results to show for that and, therefore, we're way back in the points. These guys needed a shot in the arm and tonight is the kind of finish that will give it to them."

JEFF BURTON CONTINUED - WHAT ABOUT GOING WITH DOWNFORCE CARS? "All of our cars are downforce cars because we make a lot of drag (laughing). Mark made a conscious decision to bring a car that was slower and he looked like he handled pretty well. We brought the slickest, low-drag car that we could get our hands on and we brought it and handled well, so I don't know. Biffle's car was a brand new car. Biffle, myself and the 97 all had brand new cars that were as low drag and as little downforce as we know how to make. The 6 and the 17 brought cars that had more downforce and, I don't know, I didn't really see where any of us had that big of an advantage of the other one. At anytime, one could be in front of the other." YOU TESTED HERE. DID IT HELP? "Our speedway program for the 99 team, this year in particular, has been really poor. Our qualifying effort has been really poor. We would have taken a provisional down here if we had to start on time. We finished fifth in the 125, so we started pretty decent. Then we did take a provisional at Talladega and even here - this is the fifth new car that we've built for superspeedway racing this year. We didn't take a provisional, but we were 36th so we were pretty damn close. We've got some improving to do. I mean, we can't say, 'Hey, we finished second and everything is great.' We still have to find some speed and make these things go better if we're gonna get up there and compete for wins like the DEI cars and the way it looks like Childress has got his stuff going. We've got to get better."

RICKY RUDD CONTINUED - HOW DOES EDDIE WOOD FEEL NOW? "He's definitely on cloud nine right now. He was spotting for us on the backstretch and he did a real good job tonight on that. It was a tremendous effort. The whole family is just an unusual group and real unique. They're a very close family. I'm sure it tore Eddie up that he couldn't be out there with Jon and see his first victory. Eddie was Jon's, I guess you would call him his crew chief and everything when he ran his go-karts through his kid years. Eddie has been with him right there through thick and then. Jon was fortunate that the Roush camp picked him up for the Truck Series and Eddie is on top of the world, just like any father would be. Especially considering their sponsor pulled out two or three races ago, it might be a wake-up call that other people will notice that there's a winning truck out there without a sponsor on it."

JEFF BURTON CONTINUED - "Something a lot of people don't realize about those trucks, too, just to be clear, is they came down south this year and brought virtually nothing with them. They built everything brand new. They had new crew chiefs, new car chiefs, new body hangers. Three months ago if you would have walked in that shop you would have just shook your head and said, 'There's no way in hell these guys can do it.' They have done one hell of a job and Jon Wood, I tell you, they are really doing good. Both of those truck teams being underfunded. They started with absolutely nothing and they're doing a hell of a job."

RICKY RUDD CONTINUED - YOUR FIRST TOP FIVE SINCE BRISTOL. "We're real happy. We haven't really been close to a top five and tonight we probably would have been a 12th-place car maybe with the way it all shook out - maybe 10th - so we'll take it any way we can get it right now. We're a little desperate. It's just great to see the checkered flag fall from close up. It's just really nice."

JEFF BURTON CONTINUED - IS THIS THE TYPE OF RACE NASCAR ENVISIONED WITH THE SMALLER FUEL CELL - BREAKING UP THE PACKS? "I think it's not the finish they're looking for. I think they're looking for the 40-car pack at the finish. I mean, that's what I personally think, but they want the separation at some point during the race. This race is never as wild as the other races because handling is so much more important. You can see, if you make these cars handle poorly, you can still have good races. Tonight's race was a good race and tonight's race was an exciting race. You don't have to run 10 rows, three wide to have good races. You make these cars handle bad, like most cars handled tonight, and you can have great racing. Tonight is a great example of that. You don't have to run 10 rows deep, three-wide to have good racing. How the expectation for Daytona got to the point where you've got to have a race like that at Daytona, but you don't at Charlotte, I still don't understand that. Why the race at Charlotte is OK and the race at Bristol is OK and the race at Michigan is OK, but that kind of race at Daytona doesn't work. I don't understand that. We've set expectations that are just way too damn high. Tonight is a good example. You can have good racing without having to be three-wide every damn lap."

RICKY RUDD CONTINUED - "I'll add to that. We had to work on our car tonight. We couldn't hold it wide open in the corners. As slow as we're running, we couldn't hold it wide open. We had to work on it and we finally got it to where we could do that, but that was the difference in what separated the field tonight. The good handling cars worked their way to the front and the ones that didn't handle so good worked their way to the back." WHAT DOES THIS DO FOR YOUR CONFIDENCE? "You get to the point where something seems to go wrong almost every race. It seemed like for us at least 10 races in a row. You almost get to the point of , 'when is it gonna happen.' They had a big wreck on the backstretch and, luckily, Eddie Wood steered me through that. But I'm sitting there waiting as the smoke first goes up and thinking, 'Well, this is it.' That's a terrible attitude to have, but this is our luck tonight and we were able to drive through it. Hopefully, it turns around. We've got a long way to go. This season is pretty tough and pretty grueling. We're in a much bigger hole than we wanted to be, but we've still got a long ways to go. If we can go out and win a race anytime between now and the next 10-15 races, it will be a great season for us. We haven't given up. We're out here trying as hard as we can. We're not here just to tag along with the field. We want to be able to come up front and try to compete. We haven't been able to do that this year, but I don't think we'll be satisfied until we do. We've got a long way to go yet."

JEFF BURTON CONTINUED - "I agree with Ricky. We've been fortunate enough, and Ricky too, to have a lot of success in the recent past. When you have things continually happen to you, you get to the point where you just feel like you can't do anything right. Even when you're not doing it wrong, it still happens or something happens. It gets really frustrating. Ricky has won a lot of races and I've won my share, so it gets real frustrating." WHAT ABOUT FUEL MILEAGE AT ROUSH? "You can't start thinking about fuel mileage here. You had to start thinking about it a long time ago. Jack has been waiting for his opportunity to win a race on fuel mileage for a long time. He's worked extremely hard on making these things get better fuel mileage and Jack has been waiting to take advantage of that for about two years now. Tonight was the night. You've got to give those guys credit, but you also have to give Randy Goss credit too. The thing held enough fuel. He put fuel in it when he needed to and those things have to play in there too. It's a team deal and I'm real proud of every single person. That's what it takes."

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