RACE WINNER JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 DUPONT MONTE CARLO SS AND CREW CHIEF, STEVE LETARTE - TRANSCRIPT:

JEFF GORDON: Awesome race car. They dropped the green and we just started passing cars and driving to the front, and the car just never changed all day. I mean, we made a few adjustments, put some rubber down, got a little slicker, pace slowed down and we made a few little adjustments. The car was just amazing. Awesome there to be battling at the end.

We never really got the track position. When we started 11th, we got the lead that one time, but we've been getting ourselves caught out on some pit strategy lately, and we wanted to stick with being conservative and making sure that we get ourselves some valuable points that we need for that Chase, and we also want to put ourselves in position to win the race, and Steve felt like four tires was the way to go. Because of that, it was really hard for us to get enough laps going to get that track position that we needed.

Finally there at the end we got into 2nd, and Matt (Kenseth) was strong. He was so strong on the short runs, and we just needed some long green flag runs, and we finally got it, and unfortunately there was only five to go when we caught him, and then unfortunately we got together.

I definitely felt like I had a better car, was going to be tough to pass him. We come up on the lap car and I think that had a lot to do with it because I got a run on him going into 1 and I dove underneath him trying to see if I could get him to overdrive the corner a little bit, and he cut down in front of me and then I got back in the gas early, and I don't know if that car affected him, but he had been getting off there so good and he didn't that time, and I drove right in the back of him. I didn't mean to wreck him, but I didn't mind moving him out of the way, either.

I wanted to win, I was hungry for it, this team deserved it, and they worked hard to put such a great race car out there. I couldn't be more proud of that effort, and I hate to see that that incident with Matt is going to overshadow that a little bit, but still, it's a great victory for us.

Q. Regardless of the overshadowing or whatever by the wreck, is this a huge indication to you that you're back in contention for the Chase? This good a run, is the overwhelming thing you get out of this race being so good on an intermediate track where it's so important?

JEFF GORDON: Regardless of where we finished today, I was going to feel that way. What a race car. You know, I mean, it wasn't just like all of a sudden I showed up at the race track today. I mean, those guys just gave me one heck of a race car and I was driving the wheels off it. I am beat, man. I'll be honest, I am worn out because it was such a good race car that I wanted to give it everything I had and wanted so bad to pull into victory lane for that effort and just a job that's just such a well?done job for these guys. We've been working so hard to get our mile and a half program where it needs to be, and today was a true sign of us making some huge headway.

Obviously to make the Chase, you've got to do more than just run good. You've got to be consistent, and we haven't had that consistency here lately, but we certainly have had the performance a bunch. So this is going to do a lot for our race team. I'll really excited about a lot of things coming up. I feel like this is definitely ?? I don't want to say a check mark off, but it is something that we needed to get that big boost to get ourselves into the Chase, and if we do get into the Chase what can make us championship caliber because right now I'm looking forward to going to every race track.

Q. The restart before the last restart you made a move and then Matt came down the block, and on TV I also think you said that he was trying to block in that particular instance. Did the fact that in your mind that he was trying to block make him fair game? Is there an implication of that?

JEFF GORDON: A little bit. I mean, if I wanted to just wreck him, I could have done it on that restart because I easily was inside of him, and he ran me all the way down to the apron, and our bumpers touched and he was getting ready to spin out because he just kept going, and I actually checked up to keep from wrecking him.

I want to win a race fair and square, and that's why I hate that he spun because I think we had a car capable of racing for the win. I think that that was one indication to me. I was like, hmm, okay, if he's going to make it that difficult, then that does open it up a bit, and then I got another run on him going into turn 1, and I dove in there pretty deep and he didn't even hesitate to run right down into the groove.

To me, I was like, wow, he's pretty brave right now, and then I got through the middle so good and I just jumped in the gas. He had been getting off there so good, he had been getting into the gas real early, as well. That's why I think the lap car just changed error just a little bit because he just didn't get in the gas as hard as he had been, and because I got in it so good, I just ran right into him.

Q. You're now down to three tracks that you've won at, Texas, Phoenix and Homestead. Where do you think your best chance is?

JEFF GORDON: I don't know, we ran really good at Homestead last year. I mean, with what we learned over the last month, I feel like Texas is not out of the question, either. Right now, though, as good a run as this was, I feel like we can win at a lot of places now that before we questioned.

If we just keep learning what we've been working on and keep learning more about it and keep going that same direction, there's no telling where we can win at. But I'm really excited where this race team is at right now. Our pit stops are awesome, the communication is great. I've been saying it all year long, communication is great, Steve and I are working together well. Everybody else has been saying it doesn't look like things are going well. We just needed to put it all together and finally today we did and showed what kind of race team we were.

Q. After the race Matt (Kenseth) said he thought it was maybe a little payback from Bristol. I know you said it wasn't, but could you comment on that, and do you feel maybe you need to settle with Matt sometime between now and next weekend?

JEFF GORDON: No, I don't think so. I mean, he can say whatever about payback. I mean, I'm not going to question it because whether it is or whether it isn't, it's not even an issue anymore. What happened at Bristol, it happened, just like what happened here. It's a non?issue. It's racing.

You know, I got the bad end of it at Bristol, he got the bad end of it today. There's nothing to talk about. I look forward to racing Matt Kenseth hard and clean next weekend, and I hope that the same goes for him.

Q. Steve, tell us a little bit about the strategy from atop the box.

STEVE LETARTE: Well, any time you come to these mile and a half tracks, it's really all about track position, but even from the drop of the green flag, the car seemed relatively strong all day. We moved up pretty quick. I think we were in 2nd by the first green flag pit stop and took the lead shortly after. The strategy was really pretty simple for us today. We tried to keep four tires on it, and make sure when we did come in for the final stop for the final amount of fuel that we were in the position we needed to be in to race with the leaders.

Q. All this talk about whether the bump was intentional or not intentional, doesn't it become a moot point once he runs out of gas?

JEFF GORDON: Did he run out of gas? I don't know. He might not have run out of gas under green the way pickups are and all that stuff. I was more worried we were going to run out of gas.

You know, really, I know what it's like to win a race with controversy like that. I've done it before, and it's a whole lot more fun to win without that. You know, but at the same time, it feels good to win. I'm not going to pick up the papers and read things ?? sorry. I'll read the paper, I'll just skip the sports. I've made it a point to do that because whether it's good things written about me or bad things or controversy or non?controversy, it helps me to be able to go week to week every single year by staying out of the gossip and the this person said this, this person said that. I'm just going to go race, and we're going to go test at Indy and I'm going to focus on that.

I'm just really thrilled with this race team right now and how great of an effort this was and just the fact that we won at a track that we haven't won at.

And I think that's the other thing that maybe Matt needs to take into consideration here is how hungry we are right now. We are out of the Chase, he's solidly in the Chase, and we haven't won here. Today as far as I'm concerned, I mean, I was definitely being aggressive, and when it came down with five to go, he should have expected if I could get to his bumper, there was going to be some action. One, because of what happened in Bristol ?? I'm not saying I was going to wreck him, but you'd better believe I was going to make life difficult on him. And number two, it's because we're hungry. We need to win, we need momentum and we need to get that in that Chase.

Tony Stewart got me last year, and I haven't done a thing. But if we come down to a win and it gets tight like that, he'd better expect the same thing.

Q. You're in the Top 10 now. Do you take into consideration at all from week to week ?? last year you didn't make the Chase, but do you take that week to week and race to race?

JEFF GORDON: You have to take it week to week because we want momentum, we want to keep it going, but we just need to understand that you can't look too far out ahead. Obviously we're looking at Indianapolis because we're going to be testing there this week and thinking about it, but it's probably more up to this guy right here to think out ahead.

For me I think week to week because to me it's easier ?? you've got to put the win ?? like this is great, it's awesome, I'm excited, I'm happy, and by Wednesday of this week, this is going to be long gone and forgotten about and going to be thinking about next week.

If we have a bad week just like we did last week at Daytona, we had to put that behind us right away, too. You've got to put the bad days and the good days behind you and just focus on the next week and just keep going week to week.

Q. Jeff and Steve, you've kind of touched on it. You've won four championships, Jeff. How is the pressure of in, out, in, out of this Chase deal different and how is it making you all approach each race differently?

JEFF GORDON: Well, I'll probably hand it over to Steve for that. For me it's frustrating. It's frustrating not to be more consistent. I feel like there was a point where we could have been pretty far up there, but you can say what if and all that stuff, would have, could have, should haves, but right now it's just all about week to week, getting the most out of it that we possibly can and getting ourselves more ?? we're going to have to fight from here until the end of the season, regardless.

There's some guys up there in the points like Jimmie and Matt and a few guys that can maybe ride a little bit here and there and not take as many chances or not worry about things as much. For us, we're hungry, we've got to fight hard because we've got some guys that are tough around us that we're battling, and then if we make it into the Chase, we're going to have to battle a bunch of really tough competitors for the championship.

STEVE LETARTE: As far as the team strategy goes, I'm just really trying to simplify it. I get all my guys together, and anybody that says the could haves, or should haves, or if this wouldn't have happened, we're just making excuses. The simple fact is everybody goes to the same races week in and week out. If you run better than the next guy, you're going to make the Chase.

That's how I present it to the team because I want them to be fired up. I don't want them to feel they have excuses to fall back on. They've rose to the occasion week in and week out. Every week we bring a better car I think than we did the week before. I think that shows in the maturity of the team and the building of the team. I'm really proud of the guys. The big goal for us is championships are nice and the Chase is nice, but the simple fact is we need to get to the point where the 24 shows up week in and week out and has a chance to win.

We've strayed away from that the last year, and I think this proves to where ?? we were very good at Sonoma, we were good in Michigan, we went to Daytona and we were good, got caught up in an accident, happy with the car. Came here, and now we get to go to Loudon and maybe redeem ourselves for how we ran at Phoenix. We look at every week as a new opportunity and we want to get back to week in and week out everybody has to look at us when it comes to the time charts.

Q. Jeff, I'm no mathematician, but it looks like for Mark Martin in 6th all the way down to Casey Mears in 15th, there's a little tight pack of you guys fighting for those last five spots there. How well do you expect to get to know those guys over the next eight weeks?

JEFF GORDON: That's pretty much what I was saying. We've got to fight every weekend. We can't afford to have things happen to us like what happened to us in Daytona last weekend. I'm glad we don't have any restricted plate tracks for a while so we don't have to worry about that kind of stuff happening, but there's still going to be tracks that incidences can happen. I think all we can do is just like Steve said, just get ourselves where we're running good and put our best effort out and let everything else kind of fall in place.

It doesn't mean that we've got to do what we did here today. We'd like to do that, but for the most part, it's just about putting the best race car out there and best pit stops and everything that you can, strategy, and hope that we come out of there with top 5s and Top 10s.

We're not really racing points right now. We're racing particular guys. As we get closer to Richmond and we have to do that, then we will, but for right now, we're just trying to get the most out of our stuff and get the most points.

Q. Is there a day that you might have been maybe just a fraction more polite and then kicked yourself afterwards? It's gotten so competitive. Do you feel like one day you might have been more polite in that whole thing?

JEFF GORDON: Maybe, but not anymore (laughing). I guess I realize how difficult it is to win and how those opportunities just ?? you never know when they're going to be there and when they're not going to be there. The aerodynamics of the car these days, it's a lot harder to pass, too, and the competition is tougher.

You know, I'm not saying ?? I didn't knock Matt out of the way just so I could get the win. I was definitely going to try to move him out of the way, but he ended up spinning out.

To the Tony Stewart thing, I'll say this: He's a guy that if we get down to the end and we're racing, he just should expect I'm going to race him really, really hard, and I'm not going to give an inch because I know he didn't give me an inch. Anybody who races me like that, I'm going to race him the same way.

Right now we're in a position to where if we can get the win, we're going to go really hard for that win, especially right now we need the momentum ?? after last weekend, there's no better way to do it than to run like we did here today and to win, and I hope we can be in a position ?? I recognize that same thing, when the guys behind me and I'm leading the race, I'm going to understand how that works, and there's certain guys you've got to race really hard and block, and there's other guys you've got to give them a little bit more room.

Q. You were decent but not great all weekend. When did you get your first indication that you had something special today.

JEFF GORDON: When they dropped the green flag. I had no clue we were going to run like that.

Yeah, we were just kind of mediocre yesterday, and we went and had a great meeting after practice. We met it all the other team members, drivers and crew chiefs, and we've been doing that lately, and I think there's a little bit of that that pays off.

I don't know, I keep asking Steve what he did to it because I'm not sure what he did to it because it doesn't seem like it's the same car as it was yesterday. Just right from the drop of the green flag it was doing everything I wanted it to do, and it's been a long time since I've had a car like that where you drop the green and you drive by two or three guys, and you're like, wow, I've got a great car, must be great on new tires, and it just keeps on going, just keep picking them off one by one.

When he told me I was in 4th place, I told him you've got to be kidding me. I knew I was passing cars but I had no idea we had passed that many.

This is the car we had in Michigan and we knew from Michigan it was a good car, but this weekend there's nothing that has shown up for it to be spectacular until today.

Q. Conciliation may not be the best word, but do you kind of take conciliation in the fact that Matt didn't rush you in victory lane, Robby didn't go over by Steve, nobody went to the hauler? It was a race incident, like you said.

JEFF GORDON: I think in Matt's mind, it's probably payback for Bristol, so if he would have come and shoved me, then everything would have been good. It would have been a clean slate. I think that those guys are racers and they understand what happens when you're racing hard for a win late in a race like that.

Q. Completely off topic, could you give us your reaction of Juan Pablo Montoya coming to NASCAR?

JEFF GORDON: I think it's extremely exciting. I've spoke to Juan Pablo a couple times at some of the F1 races that I've been to. He and I, when we swapped cars at Indianapolis a couple years back, and I thought he did a great job in my car then. It showed me that he's got a lot of talent and he's going to bring a lot of talent. I think that he brings a lot more than that.

I think that it really to me ?? I don't know if there's ever been an F1 driver leave F1 for NASCAR, especially a top guy, and I think that I respect him, number one, a lot for making that kind of move. That's a huge challenge. It's going to be a big challenge for him because driving his car, since I drove it, it's so much different than our cars, and it was one thing to drive it on a road course, him driving my car on a road course. It's a whole other deal when you get on oval around 43 other cars.

But I respect the fact that he knows that, but he knows he's talented and he's got a team that's committed to him. I think over time you're going to see him really come to ?? it's going to be a long road, but I think he's going to do a fantastic job, and I think it's great for the sport.

JEFF BURTON, NO. 31 CINGULAR WIRELESS MONTE CARLO SS (Finished 2nd) AND KYLE BUSCH, NO. 5 CARQUEST MONTE CARLO SS (Finished 3rd) POST-RACE PRESS CONFERENCE TRANSCRIPT:

Q. Kyle, tell us about your run today.

KYLE BUSCH: It was a real good fun for the CARQUEST Chevrolet. We deserved that kind of finish. The guys have been working awfully hard and doing everything that they've been doing all year long, so to finally come out of a mile and a half with a decent finish besides Las Vegas, the second race of the year, third race of the year, whatever it was, we came out of that with a 3rd, also. We just kept working on it all day.

We had a very loose car in the beginning part of the race and we tightened up, got a little too tight and then we got her back freed up there at the end just enough to where we could make some movement and pass those guys.

Q. Jeff, tell us about your run today.

JEFF BURTON: Kind of the same as Kyle's there. We took off pretty good, got too tight through the middle. We were a little too free on the axles and tried to fix both of them and just made it exceptionally loose, and then we were just trying to turn good enough all day. Never quite had it where we needed it, but we were close. We just never were right there, and in today's game, you can't be almost there, you've got to be all the way there if you want to win these races. A good day for us, and we'll certainly take it.

Q. Jeff, part A, do you think you would have had anything for the No. 24 once you got into 2nd place? If you had had a few more laps behind him would you have had anything for him? And second, if you had a view of what happened between the 24 and 17, what's your analysis of what happened there?

JEFF BURTON: I didn't have a view of it. I just saw it on TV, and I only saw one glimpse of it so I don't really want to comment because I didn't see enough of it.

The No. 24 was better than we were. We had an ignition problem and had to switch to the second box, and the second box most of the time it was different or something or on a restart so I couldn't go at all. I got a really good run on him, and as soon as I changed gears it just died. I actually thought I was going to run beside him, but again, we had an ignition problem and I couldn't go like I needed to.

But once we got going, unless we had a problem, I didn't think we had anything for him. We drove in there like I thought we might, but he had driven away from me before that and was actually running the 17 down. He had the fastest car at that point, and unless something strange would have happened because of a restart, we didn't have anything for him.

Q. Jeff, you have a really good barometer when it comes to fairness in NASCAR, and after Mike Helton's statements this morning, are you surprised he didn't do anything about Jeff Gordon or deem it rough driving? You saw what happened.

JEFF BURTON: Well, I really honestly didn't see it. They were exiting 2 and I was entering 1, so I can't look that far around the corner. I don't mind commenting, but I'm not going to comment if I didn't see it. I certainly can't make comment about whether or not it should have been a rough driving call because I've only seen one ?? as I walked in I saw part of a shot of it, so I'm not about to make comment on it because I don't have enough information to have an opinion on it.

I think if NASCAR doesn't handle it, then we need to handle it, and that's okay. There's such a thing as ?? the reason we have a bunch of nuclear bombs is to keep other people from bombing us. If somebody wrecks you, then they just need to understand they might get wrecked back. I'm not saying he wrecked him, I didn't see it. Again, the best defense is, understanding that somebody will come back and get you, and that's probably why we don't wreck each other every week, to be honest.

Q. Jeff, could you elaborate on the wince you just gave after seeing that shot again?

JEFF BURTON: Matt is a hard?nosed driver, and there will be retribution for that, I'm sure.

Q. Jeff, when is the last time you had a weekend quite like this?

JEFF BURTON: I mean, you know, I don't sit on very many poles, so that's very few and far between. But we've been running well this year. We haven't ?? obviously we haven't won in a long time. That's no big secret. I wish it was, but it's not. We're working really hard.

Because we finished 2nd today, everything is not right in the world; we still have a lot of work to do. There's a few guys that seem to be a step ahead of us. We've got to step our program up and I've got to step my program up as a driver to get that.

This was a good weekend obviously, sat on the pole and finished 2nd. That's really good.

We weren't as competitive today as I thought we were going to be. I really thought we would run better than we did, and that bothers me because I thought we would be better than we were. But that's always on my shoulders. I'm the barometer. I'm the one that tells them how we are, and I thought we were better than we ended up being.

JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 DUPONT MONTE CARLO SS - Winner

YOU CAN NOW SCRATCH OFF ONE OF THE TRACKS YOU HAVEN'T WON AT YET, AND THAT'S CHICAGOLAND: "What an awesome race car Steve Letarte and all those guys on this DuPont Chevrolet gave me today. I hate to win won like that. You know, Matt (Kenseth) ran a great race and we had our troubles in Bristol but that had nothing to do with what happened there. I like racing guys hard and clean. We had an awesome race car - especially on those long runs. On the restart I had a shot at him and he run me down to the infield and I could have spun him then if I really wanted to but I backed out of it and just waited for our car to come into us as good as it was on the long runs and the DuPont Chevrolet was just awesome on those long runs and I started getting some runs on him and he started blocking me again and I got back on the gas so early in the middle of (Turns) 1 and 2 and I don't know if he had to check up or what happened, but he was racing. It's no different than what happened at Bristol. He didn't mean to do that and I didn't mean to do what happened today either."

YOU WERE OBVIOUSLY QUICKER ON THE LONGER RUNS. DID YOU HAVE TO PASS UNDERNEATH OR DID YOU THINK YOU HAD THE POWER TO GET AROUND HIM ON THE HIGH SIDE? "My car was working good in a lot of places but in (Turns) 1 and 2 I had to run the bottom but in (Turns) 3 and 4 I had to run high. I thought that's where we were going to get him. We had the momentum there. He was running a good line. He's a great race car driver and I love racing with Matt. And I knew it was going to be tough to get by him no matter what happened."

THE INCIDENT WHEN YOU GOT THE LEAD IS WHAT EVERYBODY WILL TALK ABOUT. YOU GAINED QUITE A BIT OF GROUND LEADING UP TO THAT. TALK ABOUT THE LAST 25 LAPS OR SO: "Like I said, my car was just so good on the long runs. I know that's going to take away from this win, but nothing can take away from how good this race car was today and everybody that's worked so hard to get ourselves into this position to have a shot to win it. I think we could have won it either way. But I wanted to race him. We got down in there and I had a run on him and he blocked me again and I just couldn't believe he was doing that and then I got such a great run on him you know, I'm not going to back down. I want to win. I want to win in Chicago since I haven't yet and we've got a lot of points to make up to get into that Chase."

"We're hungry. That's obvious the way we're performing out there and as hard as we're working and it's paid off. We're hungry. We want to get in that Chase and we want to be a factor when we get in it."

DALE EARNHARDT JR., NO. 8 BUDWEISER MONTE CARLO SS - Finished Fifth

"I had a lot of fun. It was a real exciting race for me this year; ought to be real excited about what they saw here today. This track is really starting to be a lot of fun. Bunch of grooves run all over it. Quite a good race track we have here in Chicago."

DID YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH FUEL YOU HAD? "Yeah, just trying to stay out of trouble. Lot of fun out there though, lot of great racing up front."

DID YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENED TO MATT KENSETH? "That was on around the corner from me. I couldn't see what happened. It's not a whole lot of fun to be where Matt is right now but he's been on the other side of it too. As hard as it is you sort of have to take it on and suck it up; go to next week."

ON HIS CAR: "Well, I found that top groove in the Busch race. We weren't very good in the bottom - we were okay. We found it again today and I had a lot of great feedback from my team. (Crew chief) Tony Eury made a couple of good adjustments that helped the car."

HOW GOOD WAS YOUR CAR AT THE TOP OF THE TRACK? "I found my groove in the Busch race and what side would work for me pretty early. We made some adjustments on the car and it got tight right about the middle of it. Allowed me to get back up to the top 10 there. It was unfortunate that some guys ran out of gas but it got me a top five."

JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE'S MONTE CARLO SS - Finished Sixth

DID YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH FUEL YOU HAD? "Well, No. 20 ran out (Tony Stewart). I would say we were all on the last lap, to be honest with you."

WHEN THEY GO TO A GREEN/WHITE CHECKERED FLAG LIKE THAT, DO YOU THINK THEY SHOULD CHANGE RULES SINCE YOU CAN'T TOP OFF? "I say do change it if the fans would have loved it. You have to plan for 400 miles plus two laps. That's just the way it is."

YOU GAINED SOME POINTS TOWARDS THE CHAMPIONSHIP. IS THIS THE KIND OF THING YOU'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO? "They're not bad days if we can finish in the top 10 still; but we want to win them."

JEFF BURTON, NO. 31 CINGULAR WIRELESS MONTE CARLO SS - Finished Second

"The No. 17 (Kenseth) and certainly the No. 24 (Gordon) were better than us, the No. 20 (Stewart) may have been a touch better but I thought we were about the same as everybody else. All in all, it was a good day. Just a little bit off there but that falls on my shoulders. I got us too tight going into the race and it was hard to ever get it back out."

YOURE NOW FOURTH IN POINTS. HOW GOOD DOES THAT SOUND? "Talk to me in eight weeks about that."

KYLE BUSCH, NO. 5 CARQUEST MONTE CARLO SS - Finished Third

"Hopefully we can keep this momentum going and congratulations to my teammate Jeff (Gordon) there for winning here, finally had a mile-and-a-half. You know, that's pretty good. They tend to struggle there but all in all, for our day, we had a pretty solid effort and we're proud of that. So hopefully that will keep us up in the points and we can keep going."

TRAVIS KVAPIL, NO. 32 TIDE / DOWNY MONTE CARLO SS - Finished 37th

"We just had one of those days. The car was not a 37th place car but we gambled early on during a green flag pit sequence hoping for a caution to get back on the lead lap and it never happened. Instead it set us back two laps and that put an end to a respectable day for us. We worked on our car all day to help it in the center and off the corners and there in the end it wasn't too bad. A gamble early on did not pay off so we have to settle for what we got. It happens sometimes despite how hard you try. We'll put this behind us, learn what we can and go get them next week in New Hampshire."

BRIAN VICKERS, NO. 25 GMAC MONTE CARLO SS - Finished 13th:

"The guys on the GMAC team never gave up today. They earned this finish. We started out strong and then kind of faded toward the middle part of the race, but when it mattered toward the end, they got it right. I thought we could have gained a couple of more spots on that last restart, but the car got real tight. All in all, it was a good day."

TERRY LABONTE, NO. 44 KELLOGG'S MONTE CARLO SS - Retired from race due to mechanical problems

HOW DIFFICULT IS IT TO RUN A LIMITED SCHEDULE AGAINST TEAMS WHO ARE COMPETING AND LEARNING EVERY WEEK? "A little tougher than I thought. We just always had to play catch-up a lot of times and it's hard to. if you don't do it every weekend it's hard to stay on top of setup and things. We had some at times but we've never really been able to put the whole race together I think from start to finish. We got a few more laps in so we'll do our best."