Samsung/Radio Shack 500 - Rookie Qualifying Quotes

JACK SPRAGUE, NO. 0 NETZERO PONTIAC, QUALIFIED 31ST:

"I was happy with the car. It was a tick tight. I don't know how those guys go a half-second faster than that. My heart is coming out of my chest. I never lifted all the way off the gas, just about three-quarters of the way back on the floor. The car drove decent. It was a tick tight but it wasn't a half-second tight. We're struggling."

LARRY FOYT, NO. 14 HARRAH'S DODGE, QUALIFIED 35TH:

"The car drove really good. I thought it was going to be a lot better than that. We're just struggling with speed. I wasn't out of the gas much. I thought it was a decent lap. We were just a little bit tight. That probably hurt us. Today we gained and gained all day but where we started, we were pretty far off. We've gotten closer and closer but then we were out of time and it was time to qualify. I think that's where it hurts a single car team where maybe if someone else had someone come test or something like that could give us some notes and give us a closer starting point. We show up and we have a long way to gain. We gain on it but we don't get where we need to be by the time it's time to qualify."

GREG BIFFLE IN NO. 16 GRAINGER FORD WAS THE HIGHEST QUALIFYING RAYBESTOS ROOKIE AT TEXAS. BIFFLE EARNED THE 20TH STARTING POSITION AND TOOK TOP QUALIFYING ROOKIE HONORS FOR THE FOURTH CONSECUTIVE RACE, DATING BACK TO THE BASS PRO SHOPS 500 AT ATLANTA MOTOR SPEEDWAY.

"That's not very good. We're going to be back there a ways, especially when the temperatures cool off. The sun was out when we went and it looks like it will be behind the clouds for the rest of the day. We're just off a little bit trying to get our car down in the corner. We've got to be happy with that. We're in on a time so we won't have to take a provisional but it won't be that good of a starting spot."

TONY RAINES, NO. 74 BACE MOTORSPORTS CHEVROLET, 34TH:

"Well, it's either all the faster that I can go or the faster that the car can go. It drove better and felt like it was faster to me. We've changed the gear a couple of times and we turned the same rpms so I'm a little puzzled. It feels like it's going to be a good race car. We just can't seem to squeeze a fast lap out of it yet. It's a brand new car so we never tested it so we may have some bugs. I think we'll be all right and I think we'll get in with a provisional if we have to. We'll work on it tomorrow and see if we can't race better than we qualified, which we've been doing lately, so we'll see."

CASEY MEARS, NO. 41 TARGET DODGE, QUALIFIED 26TH:

"I think it was okay. We want to run better than that. It's decent, I guess. I don't know where it's going to put us. I'm not real happy with it. We had a pretty good balance in practice. We've done it to ourselves three times now: trying to get the car a little too balanced before qualifying and I'm always loose in qualifying. We took a step back off that this weekend and we were a little better but we need to be a little tighter yet in qualifying trim. I know we can be much better than that if it was just a little bit tighter. We probably could have ran a teen or a twenty. I'm not really happy with it but not super disappointed."

JAMIE MCMURRAY, NO.42 HAVOLINE DODGE, QUALIFIED 24TH:

"We weren't going to make ours much better. That wasn't very far off for what feels good. I thought I ran a really good lap and it seemed like that's about all we had. I'm disappointed but I don't really know what we could have done to make it any better. It takes everything to be good. If it's not your week, it's not your week. I drove about as hard as I could and all the faster that I was going to go. We'll just have to go back and work on it. I want to be on the pole (laughs). I felt like we improved on it all day long and that's all that we were going to go. I'm disappointed that we were not first, but at the same time I felt like we just kept making the car better so that's all we could do."

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