KYLE BUSCH: “It wasn’t as easy day but it was a good day overall. We just kind of hunted around there and kind of done what we needed to do in order to get a good finish and we ended up getting that. We can go on the next couple of weeks and try it some more.” HOW IMPORTANT IS IT TO HAVE A GOOD RUN AT THIS TOUGH TRACK? “It’s definitely good for us. We had such a bad day at Charlotte where this will kind of make up for it a little bit. I don’t like this place. You might as well play with roller skates around this track [smiles], but we ended up doing alright so there’s not much to really hate about it.” YOU SCORED A TOP-10 AT A SURVIVAL RACE TODAY. “It definitely was. It was definitely a great run for the Kellogg’s Chevrolet. It’s awesome for us to be able to come out of here with a top-10 finish; especially with the way Raybestos Rookies tend to run here. We get banged around and tossed around a lot. I want to apologize to Matt Kenseth. He tried to pull a slide job on me and it didn’t work out too well for him because he went around. It’s just racing here at Martinsville. It’s so hard to pass. You get under somebody and the guy on the outside can get a real good run off the corner where you’re still bottled up on the bottom trying to keep it from getting loose. All in all, I guess it was a decent day. It’s Martinsville, man. The emotions run high here and feelings get hurt here. I didn’t have any of that today. I went out there and was just going to ride around and do whatever I needed to do. I had a quick talking to this morning and we just played it from there. There was nothing that was going to shake us up today. We were just going to kind of step back and see what we could do as a team and overcome anything.” HOW TOUGH IS IT TO STAY MENTALLY FOCUSED AT MARTINSVILLE? “It’s tough because you’re always getting tossed around and banged and run into the back of. You’re trying to make passes and trying to be clean and stuff like that. Overall, it’s just a tough package to run here.” CAN YOU RACE CLEAN HERE? “It’s tough. You can, but you’re not going to get anywhere. You’re not going to get a top-10 finish.” HOW BIG OF A CONFIDENCE BOOST IS IT TO RUN WELL AT SUCH A TOUGH TRACK? “No, it’s not much of that. You come in here and you try to what you need to do and you get out and you go to the next one. I’m looking forward to Atlanta, Texas, Homestead and Phoenix. I think we can have some good runs here late in the season.” DID THE LAPS IN THE TRUCK RACE HELP YOU TODAY? “The truck race did help me today. It made it a little bit easier for me to understand what a long run would do and how you needed to go about setting up your stuff and what changes helped and hurt and what all that kind of stuff did. We were able to learn that stuff.”

ALAN GUSTAFSON, CREW CHIEF, No. 5 KELLOGG’S CHEVROLET: “The best thing we ever did to this car was put that big ol’ piece of tubing right down the middle of that radiator ductwork because that was the only thing that kept our radiator in it. That was a good day. I’m proud of Kyle and all these guys. Our whole goal at this start of this race was to finish 500 laps and not get caught up in the mess, not get frustrated, not get down or get excited and not let Martinsville get the best of us. We went through it all. We went through pit road penalties, going to the back a couple of times, and being off sequence on pit stops. The pit stops were good. The guys did an awesome job on the Kellogg’s Chevrolet and came home ninth. I’m excited about it. It feels good.” AS A CREW CHIEF, HOW DIFFICULT IS THIS RACE TO CALL? “It was actually pretty nice this time with the tires. The tires fell off, so even if you made the wrong call you could kind of work your way back up there. In years past, if you missed the call and you got stuck in 20th you were going to stay there. The key is still just having a good car. You can improve your position some with the calls but the good cars finished up front.” THIS WAS A GREAT DAY FOR HENDRICK MOTORSPORTS. “Great day for Hendrick Motorsports, huge for Hendrick Motorsports. We all know what happened here last year and we wanted to get this win for Rick [Hendrick, team owner] and everybody on 501JRH. It means a lot to us. There were a lot of special people we lost there. We won’t ever forget them and we don’t want to ever forget them. We always want to bring them to the forefront, Ricky [Hendrick] and Randy [Dorton] and everybody involved. It was awesome for Rick and a good day for Hendrick Motorsports.” HOW BIG IS IT FOR THIS TEAM TO HAVE A GOOD RUN AT THIS DIFFICULT TRACK? “Very big. Bristol, Martinsville, Talladega and Daytona the speedways really are our Achilles heel. We have a hard time on the road courses. We can work on that. Kyle doesn’t have a lot of road course racing experience so I can kind of let that one go. But we should run good at these places. We got the cars to do it, we’ve got the team to do it, and we just had to get the right stuff in them for it, the right stuff in there for Kyle, and just be smart. We took a step as a team today learning how to handle this tough place.” IS THIS THE MOST DIFFICULT PIT ROAD IN NEXTEL CUP RACING? “I’d say here and Bristol are the toughest two places. It’s such a luck of the draw, who is around you; if they fall out or get laps down to get openings. You can get blocked in so easy. We were fortunate that the two guys around us got laps down pretty early so we were clean in and clean out all day long. That makes your decisions a lot easier. Of course, if you qualify up front you can improve your situation on pit road but it’s tough, it’s real tough. We learn our lesson there with speeding. That’s one of those things that if we were racing for the win could have really hurt us, going to the back for speeding. We overcame it. Bobby [Labonte] got caught the same time speeding that we did. I think we were racing each other off pit road [laughs]. He went to the back, too, and obviously he finished real well. You’ve got to be smart like that.”

TRAVIS KVAPIL, No. 77 KODAK/JASPER ENGINES AND TRANSMISSIONS DODGE: “We ran really good all day. The car was just tight every time we’d put four on it and we’d lose a little track position. Every time we’d put two on it, we’d gain track position and be faster, it seemed like. The car definitely drove better with two tires but you can only put two tires on so many times [smiles]. We could never get the car freed up enough just to react good on four and that’s what happened that last run. We were inside the top-10 after the last pit stop and the car just got awfully tight. I just couldn’t be in the gas off the corners and guys would keep driving under me, especially that lap traffic. I needed the whole track to run decent lap times. When I was pinned to one lane or had to get around lap guys I was too slow and was in the way, guys kept passing me. It’s disappointing. We were definitely a top-15 car. We just had to do strategy to keep us in the top-10. It’s not bad. The guys on pit road did a pretty good job. We made a lot of adjustments throughout the race and for the most part kept our nose pretty clean. I got turned there at the end with just a few laps to go. It’s kind of frustrating. We probably lost a couple of spots there, but it’s short track racing, I guess.” WHAT HAPPENED? “I was hung up on the outside and was just hung up there and finally there was a hole and I drove down in there and got back to the bottom and the 8 car turned me around. I’m pretty well sure he did it on purpose [smiles]. I was already slowed down pretty well not to hit the guy in front of me and just got turned around. We lost a couple of spots during that deal so that kind of hurts but probably more than anything, it’s short track racing.” YOU MUST BE ENCOURAGED BECAUSE THIS WAS A GOOD TEAM EFFORT ALL DAY. “We did a good job. A couple of times you are inside the top-10 and you really need to execute and it seemed like a couple times when we were inside the top-10 we lost a couple of spots and that hurts. You get behind more lap cars and you’ve got more work to do. A couple of mistakes kind of cost us a few spots but for the whole year they’ve done a great job so you can’t complain.”