Where the Raybestos Rookies qualified at Infineon Raceway:
Montoya 32nd
Menard 41st (DNQ)
Allmendinger 43rd (DNQ)
Ragan 46th

AJ ALLMENDINGER, No. 84 RED BULL TOYOTA: “I’m very let down. We were off all day. These guys – they bust their butts in the shop, work so many long hours, and lose so much sleep. It is definitely not from a lack of effort or heart that we didn’t make the race. My crew worked hard all day. We are a new team and we haven’t had the opportunity to test as much as these bigger teams. We only tested at a road course (Virginia International Raceway) once preparing for this race, and this series is too competitive for that. I hate it because I know if we could have been in the show I could have done my thing. We are in this as a team. There is not just one thing wrong – just as a whole we need to improve. And we were get there.”

DAVID RAGAN, No. 6 AAA FORD: “We picked up from practice and still need to pick up some more. I feel like if I could do it all over again I could pick up another half-second. It’s better but it’s still not where we want to be. We’ve got to keep getting it better. As long as we’re not going backwards we’re alright.” IS THE KEY HERE TO GET A LITTLE BIT BETTER EVERY TIME YOU GO OUT ON THE TRACK? “You try not to do anything crazy. It’s very easy to push it a little too hard in one corner and run off course and take a chance in tearing up something. It’s not worth it qualifying 30th to 35th to 40th. If we were shooting for the pole it might be worth taking that chance but for just another spot or two in the back, we know we’re going to be in the back and we’re going to have to play pit strategy and just beat who we can. This is our first trip here and with the Car of Tomorrow, my first trip here, we need to make all the laps and we’ll be better for Watkins Glen and coming back here. It’s just not worth taking a chance and wrecking a car for qualifying 35th.”

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA IN THE No. 42 TEXACO/HAVOLINE DODGE WAS THE TOP RAYBESTOS ROOKIE QUALIFIER AT INFINEON RACEWAY. “The lap was pretty good. We’re actually looking at everything. We lost a little bit of grip. We were sliding around a little bit more and I do not know what really to tell you. I braked the same place that I braked in practice. We thought we were going to be maybe three or four tenths from the pole. I don’t know. I made a mistake coming into Turn 10 and lost maybe a couple tenths there but that’s about it.” YOU WERE THE LAST CAR TO MAKE A QUALIFYING RUN. “We thought it was meant to be better but for some reason we were sliding a lot. I don’t know why.” HOW MUCH DO YOU FEEL YOUR EXPERIENCE ON ROAD COURSES HELPS YOU THIS WEEK? “It should help big but so far it’s been tough because our car seems to be really off the pace. In practice we were two or three tenths and even in race trim we were about two or three tenths off. And we just made our life a lot harder starting back there but that’s what we’ve got.” YOU’VE BEEN ON COURSES LIKE THIS FOREVER. “It’s okay. To me it’s just another racetrack, to be honest.” WHAT KIND OF CHALLENGES WILL YOU FACE STARTING 32ND ON SUNDAY? “Like every other race, you know. The big thing is making the car good. Tomorrow we can find some grip because generally we’re not fast enough and if you’re not fast enough there’s not much you can do. I think we’ve got easily a top-10 car and we should have shown that in qualifying and we didn’t.” HOW DOES YOUR EXPERIENCE IN DIFFERENT KINDS OF TRACKS IN DIFFERENT KINDS OF CARS TRANSLATE TO THIS FORM OF RACING? “The cars are very different. Stock cars are very different. The only experience I know very good learning my way around the racetrack. But driving the cars and getting the car setup is very different. This is what I go every week when I’m racing the ovals. I don’t have the experience on the ovals they do and I’ve just got to learn.”