+ RETURNING TO HIS ROOTS
He’s back in Busch, the same place Brian Vickers won the championship in 2003. Vickers will drive a Braun Racing Toyota in two Busch Series races this season, with the first coming in Friday night’s event at Daytona. This fall, look for BV in the No. 32 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.

+ QUOTES
Brian Vickers, No. 83 driver - “We struggled back in February with not being able to find enough speed during the Bud Shootout, so I’m a little anxious to see how we’ll do this weekend. When we came here for the first race of the year, we were a brand-new team working together for the first time, so it wasn’t a surprise that we weren’t as good as some of the more established teams. Now we’re heading to round two at Daytona and we have 18 races under our belts, so I'm hoping for a better performance. There are 53 cars trying to get into the race, though, so I know it’s going to be a tough weekend. There will be a lot of cars going home, just like for the Daytona 500."

Doug Richert, No. 83 crew chief – “It’s a crap shoot. What you do to get into the race is a complete crap shoot because the way you set up your car for qualifying is not what you want for the race. Daytona, unlike Talladega, is a handling track. At Talladega, you can run an aggressive spring combination and still run well in the race because you don’t have to worry as much about handling. That’s not the case at Daytona. How many people are going to go to Daytona and blow up after 10 laps? How many cars are not going to handle worth a crap? Those questions could change the outcome of our trip. I’m going there to race, and I’m going there to get points."

AJ Allmendinger, No. 84 driver - “It’s all about making sure you get through the gear box clean … hold it up high on the first lap, try to be smooth on the second lap, hold it on the bottom and pray the car is fast enough. The guys have worked hard. They put the work in to get the car in the race. Now, it’s just a matter of getting it in. We aren’t going to worry about the draft until we get into the race. The draft is the furthest thing from my mind."

Ricky Viers, No. 84 crew chief - “We’ll take everything we learned in February at Daytona and hopefully turn that into a good qualifying effort. Everything that we do is focused on qualifying. The most important thing is we get into the race. It all comes down to horsepower and making the car as fast as we can make it.”