AJ ALLMENDINGER, No. 84 RED BULL TOYOTA: “I don’t know. I felt like I was on the yellow line and we were trying to fight our way back to the front. The car wasn’t exactly right but the team was doing a great job every chance we had. We’d make a pit stop and keep working on it and it was slowly getting better. I just think we needed to get with the fast group again and fight back up there. Robby was on the outside of me, started coming down. I thought I was right on the yellow line and by the time I saw he wasn’t going to stop coming down I was trying to get out of the throttle and clipped them and the rest happened. I don’t know if you really put fault on that or what but I just feel bad for the whole team because they deserve to have a car in the 500 and hopefully Brian can give that to them. Nobody understands except for the guys that have seen it how hard they’ve worked to get us here. I think if we would have been there we would have a chance to be there and get in the 500 but it’s up to Brian now.” HOW FRUSTRATING? “I’m not excited, let’s put it that way.”

DAVID RAGAN, No. 6 AAA FORD: YOU GOT A CHANCE TO LEAD HERE TODAY BUT THIS IS NOT THE WAY YOU WANTED IT TO END UP. “The AAA Ford Fusion was excellent. We were just kind of taking our time running our own race and had a good top-10, top-15 going. We cut a right front during green. I got down pit road, got the lucky dog and I don’t know if something on the car or debris on the track and cut another right rear our next lap back on. I don’t know how in the world you cut two tires in less than three laps and it bit us the last time. It was a good lick. I’m 100 percent no problem at all. I just hate we ended the day like that. We had such a good Ford Fusion and certainly we put a lot into this race and we’ve got a great AAA Ford for our backup so that’s what we’ve got to go work on now and get ready for the Daytona 500.” DID YOU HAVE ANY DRAFTING HELP TODAY? “I had a little bit of help. I think because the AAA Ford was decent I think that people are going to hand with you. They wouldn’t go thick or thin, just when the time were good. But the outside lane was working better than the inside lane. The car was neutral, driving really good compared to yesterday. It was a very tough day. Unfortunately I cut two tires in less than five laps. I don’t know what kind of luck that is but hopefully we got all our bad luck out of the way for the weekend.”

BRANDON WHITT, No. 72 DUTCH QUALITY STONE CHEVROLET: “There were a couple of mistakes on my part just over-tuning on the car. I should have known from practice just how sensitive this car was to change but I had to take the chance anyway to get better. You always have to try to be better. I think it turned around and bit us, though. I probably should have just drove around it instead of trying to fix it and stay out there and dealt with it because we were doing pretty good there in the middle and we should have stayed right there. All in all, it was kind of what we knew we were up against. It’s a big disappointment but we think we made good gains on the car and move on to California.” WAS THE CAR LOOSE OR TIGHT? “The thing with this car is it just goes from one extreme to the next. I was trying to find the happy medium and it just wasn’t coming. I should have just left it alone in the middle of the race, came in and got tires and fuel and went out and just drove around it.”