Virginia 500 - Rookie Post-Race Quotes

JAMIE MCMURRAY, NO. 42 HAVOLINE DODGE:

"I think the motor broke. I don't know what part, but it was vital (smiles). It won't run without it. It's too bad for the Havoline Dodge. For my first time here, I was probably doing better than I expected. This is a really hard racetrack and I told the guys before the race that our car was probably better than I was here. It's just a really tough place to get around. I had a top-10 car which, I think, that's all that I could ask for my first time here. Something broke in the motor. I don't know what it is; I'm not an engine guy. It broke right when the caution came out. I rode around there spitting smoke out of the tailpipe and when I got to my pit stall it died. We tied to push start it and the motor locked up. They are going to look it over and see if they can get me back out there but I think the Havoline Dodge is done." IT LOOKED LIKE YOU CLEANLY WORKED YOUR WAY TO THE FRONT. "The lap cars are horrible. There were a few of the laps cars that I thought 'Man, get out of the way' but they told me that it was going to be that way. I was really patient. I probably called them every name in the book in the car (smiles). There was just nothing that you could do about it. It was one of those deals."

GREG BIFFLE IN THE NO. 16 GRAINGER FORD WAS THE RAYBESTOS® ROOOKIE OF THE RACE AT MARTINSVILLE. BIFFLE FINISHED 18TH AND COLLECTED TOP RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE HONORS FOR THE FOURTH TIME THIS SEASON.

"I made a mistake there early. I took a rubber out of the right rear thinking that I was loose off and I really wasn't. It was probably tight and then I was giving it gas and making it loose. It's part of the learning curve here. We were really good at the beginning. I thought we were going to have a top-10 car for sure. We probably did, I just made the wrong adjustment and it kind of cost us." HOW HARD IS IT TO RACE HERE? "It's really hard. It's really tough. After coming here testing and practicing before the race started I said that I think Bristol is easier. It may not have been easier but it's dang close, I tell you. It's a tough place." DID YOU HAVE ANY TROUBLE WITH THE HEAT? "No, none at all actually. I feel pretty good. I was a little nervous about 500 laps here but I feel pretty good."

TONY RAINES, NO. 74 BACE MOTORSPORTS CHEVROLET:

"Well, I tried to get 500 laps but I didn't make it (smiles). We struggled. We didn't have a typical car today: it just didn't want to respond to adjustments. We weren't very good but we worked on it and ran all the laps that we could and we finished. We learned some stuff, what to do and what not to do so maybe in the fall we can run a little better." IS THIS A TINY STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION FOR YOUR TEAM? "It was a step but I don't know if it was in the right direction. Not that it was a bad step, but there are a lot of good teams and good cars out there that are struggling so I know that we are not idiots and we're not stupid or anything. We just didn't hit on the package that this car wanted. It's my first race here in about five years. There were some good things. There just wasn't enough good things."

RANDY GOSS, CREW CHIEF, NO. 16 GRAINGER FORD:

"That was a good day for us. We're sorry that we lost that lap, but finishing all the laps but one is good for the team and good for Greg, really. We haven't been here in two years. We haven't been here since we raced the trucks. I thought (Greg) did a really good job. He did an awesome job of driving the race car, I thought. He stayed out of trouble and right there at the end they lined up four Roush guys and you know there is going to be trouble. We stayed out of that and didn't cause anything. It was a good day for us. The car ran good; our pit stops were real good. We weren't in a great spot back there (pit position) to give them a chance. The one time we had trouble, we followed the 30 and my jackman couldn't get between them. There was like just barely room if you had run between them it would have been a gamble to not get run over. We had a good day there. We have a lot of stuff to build on. We have a race car now that we say 'Well, now it's this far off instead of this far off and we need to go work on this race car some and try to come back and run better with it."

JACK SPRAGUE, NO. 0 NETZERO PONTIAC:

"If we could have started the race halfway through, we'd have been pretty decent. The NetZero Pontiac was really loose but we kept adjusting on it and got a little better there at the end. We got a couple of laps down and there wasn't much we could do after that. We finished as high as we could have of the cars on our lap."

BIFFLE RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE PRESS POST RACE PRESS CONFERENCE

"It was a pretty good day. It started out to be a really good day. We raced up into the top-10 or we were 11th there and I took a rubber out of the right rear spring and got the car way too tight. It just killed me; I went a lap down. Not many guys these days tend to try and give a lap back but Junior slowed up today and tied to give a couple of guys a chance. I thought if we could have got back on the lead lap we would have had a decent run, maybe a top-12 or 10th maybe. I'm really happy with the way the guys did today, you know, eighteenth, I've got to be happy with that. It was pretty exciting the last couple of laps in front of me, anyway." THE FIRST PART OF THE RACE WAS VERY CLEAN. WOULD MORE CAUTIONS HAVE HELPED YOU STAY ON THE LEAD LAP? "I just needed to get that rubber back in the right rear spring. It's tough to race here. You have cars a lap down, cars on the lead lap. It's really tough to keep your track position and try and race the guys that you are racing. I learned a lot today and that's what it's about my first year. I made a mistake by tightening the car up. I learned a valuable lesson there and hopefully it will help me in the future."

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