Raybestos Rookie Happy Hour speeds:
Bowyer 10th
Sorenson 12th
Hamlin 14th
Yeley 21st
Truex Jr. 30th
Stremme 32nd

Raybestos Rookie Clint Bowyer posted the 10th best speed in the final practice session for the GFS Marketplace 400. He was the only Raybestos Rookie in the top-10.

CLINT BOWYER, No. 07 JACK DANIEL’S DOWNHOME PUNCH CHEVROLET: “We’ve just got to get it there. We didn’t qualify good at all. We’ve got a fast hot rod, though. We’ve got to be careful, be patient and get it up there. I think it will race fine.” YOU NEVER WANT TO START BACK IN THE FIELD BUT HERE YOU HAVE A WIDE TRACK AND PLENTY OF TIME TO GET TO THE FRONT. “Yeah, definitely. It’s a racy racetrack. You can make things happen and gain a lot of ground. If the car handles good, you’ll go to the front.”

J.J. YELEY, No. 18 HUSQVARNA CHEVROLET: WHAT HAPPENED? “I guess I just comes down to impatience. We had a couple of minutes left in practice; I think five or six minutes. We were pretty good at the start of practice and I know if we didn’t keep up with changes or not but we put some tires on it. We were just trying to get some clean real estate so I could find out something about my racecar. A lot of cars on the racetrack and I came out behind a couple cars and was fighting real hard to get by them. I was just trying too hard. The car was pretty free on exit, just got a little bit loose, didn’t have room enough to save it and just got the thing in the wall a little bit. Not a lot of damage, just enough to make the guys work extra hard. It’s disappointing. I guess just trying a little too hard not when it was necessary.” DO YOU PLAN TO GO TO A BACKUP CAR? “No, they’re going to fix it. Like I say, it’s not really that bad. The truck lid is a little bit beat up. We’ve got fabricators working on it right now. The toughest part is that the guys have to work a little bit harder because the driver was out there doing a little too much. I don’t think it was so much of an aero thing. It was just a matter of Michigan’s a very wide racetrack. The 96 was racing, the 74 held us up, the 88 dove underneath us so we were about three abreast but I was on the outside so it really shouldn’t have been an aero issue. I was just trying to pick up the throttle early that way I could clear the guys coming off of Turn 4. I picked the throttle up a little bit too early, the car got loose and just didn’t have enough room to save it.”