DAVID RAGAN, No. 6 AAA FORD: “We just kind of started off bad. It was a combination of just getting in that rhythm and our AAA Ford was just a little bit off there at the beginning. It’s tough when you fall behind. Three hundred laps, man, this is like a late model race up here. You fall behind just a little bit and it seems like you can never catch back up. If we would have started the race how we ended we could have been a top-10 or top-15 car. We were just a little bit off at the beginning. It was a good day. We picked up some spots. When you run in the top-five, top-10 there for a week you feel like you can do that every week so we’re a little disappointed, but a top-20 is not too bad of a day.” YOU PASSED A LOT OF CARS TODAY. “It’s a lot harder to pass the cars when you get up in the top-25 than it is from 25th to 35th. I was really hustling the car and our car was a little bit better. It just seemed like it was a little bit off from where I wanted it to be to be perfect and that just made me hustle it even more. It was a decent day but something we can improve on.”

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA, No. 42 TEXACO/HAVOLINE DODGE: “Boring day. It’s hard. We didn’t have a great car in practice and as we didn’t run Saturday. I was junk Friday and I was junk today. It was really hard. I made a lot of progress through the day but it’s really hard to catch-up when you start so far back.” WHAT MAKES THIS PLACE SO DIFFICULT? “Last time we were good here. They changed the car a little bit and the last time a couple of things failed and just couldn’t figure it out.”

PAUL MENARD, No. 15 MENARDS/SYLVANIA CHEVROLET: “We were good on short runs and it would get real tight on long runs. We got the Lucky Dog and I thought we’d be alright then I just kept picking the wrong lanes to go and we got shuffled to the back. And by that time we were starting to get tight again and just couldn’t go anywhere. We had a better car than that, I believe. I was tight in the middle and then snapping loose off. We got it freed up where it would run about 10 laps really good then just it’d just start getting tight so I’m going to have to see what we did there.” WHAT CAN YOU LEARN FROM THIS RACE THAT WILL HELP YOU IN THE FUTURE? “Every lap is a learning experience.”

DAVID REUTIMANN, No. 00 BURGER KING TOYOTA: “At the midpoint we got the car driving good. Man, it just seemed like we were in position to get the Lucky Dog something just happened. The car was too loose at the beginning of the run and I couldn’t keep the 19 back there and he got by us and that hurt us. The car actually drove good and had competitive times. We just couldn’t get anything to go our way [smiles]. We just couldn’t catch a break. You hate to use that as an excuse but you get the thing to driving good and you can run along with the 48 and the 24 and the guys that are running really, really well. But you can’t ever seem to cycle around to get back on the lead lap. I’m proud of my guys. The car was good after we had a chance to work on it. All we did was qualifying runs [on Friday] so we knew we were going to have to take a pretty big stab at it. After a pit stop or so they got it pretty good so I’m proud of that. I’m just disappointed. I felt like we had a much better car than where we finished.” WAS THIS ANOTHER DAY TO FILL THE NOTEBOOK? “Yeah, it is really. It shows how important it is to get here and be in the top-35 so you can behave like a real race team and not have to worry about all this other stuff. Just go out there and make your race runs and then do a qualifying run because it really doesn’t matter.”

AJ ALLMENDINGER, No. 84 RED BULL TOYOTA: “All I can say is I’m proud of my guys because they busted their butt and I probably don’t give ‘em enough credit sometimes. The guys here, the guys back at the shop, they deserve all the credit of why we got into the race and it’s not their fault why we ran so bad. We need to get better. That’s about as bad as we can be.” HOW DO YOU GET BETTER? “Lot of work, a lot of testing and figuring out and making more races. It may not feel like it right now because I’m pretty frustrated and ill about how bad we were, but running these races and being that bad, that’s how you get better because you figure out what’s wrong. You just have to keep doing the same thing. Somehow we’ve got to work harder and figure out more.”