MATT KENSETH – No. 17 USG/DeWalt Fusion (finished 22nd) – TALK ABOUT THE ACCIDENT WITH JEFF GORDON… “That wasn’t an accident. The last one was an accident, the first one wasn’t. He just ran over me. On the re-start he was hanging back and NASCAR has a rule you can’t hang back two car lengths or one car length, although I’ve never seen it enforced. But he was hanging back because I was a little weak on re-starts, and trying to get me and then I could drive away. Or, apparently he was mad because I blocked him on that re-start when he got a run, but, I don’t know. It’s just the way it goes, I guess.”

WHAT HAPPENED IN THE SECOND INCIDENT, RIGHT AT THE END? “I was racing for 20th, or whatever I was racing for, and I got outside of Stremme and, I don’t know, he just ran up to the wall like I wasn’t there. So, I cut left to go underneath him and from there I just pretty much lost the car myself. I cut left to go underneath him and he didn’t leave much room on that side, either, so I probably should’ve just let him have 20th place.”

BEFORE THAT, YOUR CAR WAS VERY GOOD IN CLEAN AIR. “We were good on short runs and we were terrible on long runs, so we could run 20 laps really fast and then the car would just go away. So, for 20 laps of a run we could really run, and when a caution would come out, it would cool the tires off and I could run 10 or 15 laps, but after that my car would just go away. It would just start pushing. We just didn’t have it right.”

DID YOU HAVE ENOUGH FUEL TO GO ALL THE WAY? “No, we ran out under caution, so we would’ve never made it.”

GREG BIFFLE – No. 16 National Guard/Subway Fusion (finished 11th) – “Finishing 11th, I guess, is okay, but certainly we felt like we had a car that would run in the top three or four, and we just never got there. We just never got any track position. Every time it comes down to a fuel-mileage race we end up not doing well. It’s unfortunate.”

HOW WAS YOUR CAR IN TRAFFIC? “My car was really bad in traffic. That was my worst trait; once I got out of traffic I was really good, I could really go. But, just balled up in all that traffic…”

CARL EDWARDS – No. 99 Office Depot Fusion (finished 20th) – “We had the set-up way too loose at the beginning and I slipped up, hit the wall right off the bat on the first run and that kind of slowed us down the whole day. But, recovered pretty well to finish 20th, so it was just a long day.”

IT SEEMED LIKE IT WAS DIFFICULT TO RUN IN TRAFFIC. “Yeah, it was really tough – especially with the car all tore up. But, it’s just my fault. Just got up there and hit that bump going into one, it was real loose and I just slid it up and touched the wall.”

TODD KLUEVER – No. 06 Post-it/3M Fusion (finished 41st) – ON HIS CUP DEBUT. “These guys worked their butts off all day. I made a mistake and ran over the cone on the first stop. I was just anticipating this thing to stop like my Busch car, and it doesn’t. And, I didn’t get on pit road like I should’ve, and hurt us – had to do a pass-through under green and it just destroyed our day. But, it was a good learning day. I learned some things and did we had to do, logged a lot of laps and we’ll be that much more prepared when we go to Michigan.”

HOW IMPORTANT WAS IT TO GET IN AS MANY LAPS AS YOU DID AND TO BE RUNNING AT THE END? “It was good for me. We tested at Kentucky, but by the time you get on the track, we didn’t get a whole lot of time there, so this was good for me. After our first practice, I was happy we just even made the race. We learned a lot today, and we’ll go to Michigan.”

FRANKIE STODDARD – crew chief, No. 06 Post-it/3M Fusion – HOW DID TODD KLUEVER DO IN HIS CUP DEBUT? “I thought he did great in the race. Obviously, we beat ourselves on the deal getting into the pit. It seemed like it was 50 or 60 laps into the race there, the first stop, he just overshot the pit-road entrance, getting into the cone and that cost us a lap. Right on the tail-end of going down one, and then when you lose two, you’re day’s over. So then it was just a matter of survival the rest of the day, hoping that a lot of people had problems, and not enough did. He logged a lot of laps, kept it out of the wall, that was really important, I think that’s the most important thing that you can do in your first race is make sure that you log all the laps, and he did that. And he learned a lot. So, I think this will help that much more the next time and the next time and the next time.”

MORE ON LOGGING A LOT OF LAPS FOR A DRIVER MAKING HIS DEBUT. “It is important. If you go out and make a mistake 30 laps in – thankfully, the mistake he made was just getting onto pit road. If he would’ve made a mistake by wrecking at lap 10, boy, you just dig yourself a hole because now the next race there’s more pressure. Now he can go and feel good about what he did in the race and he can build off that, and he can think that he can go maybe a little bit harder in some spots and little bit easier in others. This game is all about experience, and the guy that has as much experience as anybody is in Victory Lane today.”

MARK MARTIN – No. 6 AAA Fusion (finished 18th) – “We’ve got to get our cars better. We got our pit-road thing fixed, we just got to get our cars better now.”