MONTOYA: “Well, from starting 38th and it only being half a race we made a lot of progress. I think we could have finished a lot higher than this. Our race car was getting very good, actually. All three Ganassi cars were pretty good. And strategy and everything, a lot of guys played it off and it played for them. It was just a little bit of unlucky. It was just once a little too short for what we wanted. Being the first experience here it was good. We just got to work on the car a little bit more.” WITH RAIN DELAY AND RED FLAG, HOW TOUGH WAS THIS RACE MENTALLY? “I don’t mind. I just get in the car and drive it [smiles]. It was funny. I told my wife earlier ‘I hope it doesn’t rain because every time we run on Monday we get wrecked.’ All three cars are in one piece. It was good.” WHAT DID YOU LEARN THAT WILL HELP YOU WHEN YOU COME BACK HERE IN AUGUST? “That we need more horsepower, I think, a little bit. I screwed up in qualifying. We probably should have qualified easily 20th and it would have been a different show from there.”

DAVID RAGAN, No. 6 AAA FORD: “I wish the rain would get out of here because I want to get back racing. I took this place for granted a little bit. I thought I could fall in and be ready to go but this place is a lot harder than I thought. I’m not a big video game player and maybe I should have came up here and brought an old ARCA car and run some or played some on the video game back home. It just took me a little while in practice to get going. I struggled on restarts with the draft. I seemed to lose a spot or two. We’ve got a decent car. I think we’ve got a top-15, top-20 car. We’ll take what it gives us today and go to Michigan next week.” WHAT DID YOU LEARN THAT WILL HELP YOU WHEN YOU COME BACK HERE IN AUGUST? “Certainly learned a lot. And this Cup racing is tough, not only on the crews to get the cars handling right but on myself to hit my marks. This is a brand new car that had never seen the track before so we worked the bugs out. We did the best we could. It’s shame the rain came. We’re usually better the last half of the race than we are the first half of the race. But we’ll take it. I’m definitely looking forward to coming back to every track for a second time. It’s just going to be a lot easier.” HOW DIFFICULT WAS THIS RACE MENTALLY WITH THE THREAT OF RAIN? “That’s no fun for a race car driver. Once we get in our mind that the race is going to start at Noon or one o’clock we want to get it going. We want to run the whole race with no interruptions and so you get deals like this and then you have teams gambling and you have teams not. People that may have a winning car might finish 15th or something because of that and it’s really not fair but it’s part of racing. We’ll learn and try to get better next time.”

PAUL MENARD, No. 15 PITTSBURGH PAINTS/MENARDS CHEVROLET: “The car wasn’t driving terrible. We just couldn’t find any speed. I definitely learned a lot as we ran, adjusting my entrances and exits and where I got in the gas. That seemed to help a lot. I think our car, time-wise, we were a top-15 car but track position is so huge here you just can’t pass. It makes it hard when you have to start in the back. Dave Charpentier [crew chief] made a great call. We pitted a little bit early and put two tires on and gained some track position anticipating the rain coming which it did. But two-tires hurt us because we ran a few laps longer than I thought we were. It hurt us time-wise but we still gained five spots by making that call.” WHAT IS THE MAIN THING THAT YOU LEARNED THAT WILL HELP YOU WHEN YOU COME BACK HERE IN AUGUST? “Kind of looking for a different feel now, to try to get my car to drive a little bit different.”

AJ ALLMENDINGER, No. 84 RED BULL TOYOTA: “It looked like it was going to be bad, then pretty good, and then it pretty much sucked there at the end. We still need to figure out why we start the race so bad. That comes from Happy Hour, that comes partly from me trying to figure out how loose I want to be. That comes from the team getting the right setup to start with. After we went down the lap and got our lap back we were fast. I ran the pack down from a half-track from behind and we got there. I give Ricky [Viers, crew chief] credit. We took a gutsy call to go out there and maybe get a top-10 if the rain was going to come. I like guys like that, willing to take a chance instead of settle. We had a little miscommunication on the radio. He told me to call in when the fuel pressure gauge moved and I called in and I never heard him call back about to pit. The rest of the guys did, except for myself and my spotter, which are probably the most important guys. But, you know, I felt good on that run, catching those guys. I felt like ‘Okay, I’m learning some stuff. I know how to get the car better, where we need to be.’ The one little positive we can take out of it.” DID YOU NEED 10 MINUTES OR TWO LAPS? “We weren’t close enough. We went to lap 99. I think what we were hoping for is it to start raining on lap 95, right around there, and NASCAR probably knowing that it was going to keep raining maybe run it to lap 100 and then call it. And there was a chance because I remember about lap 94 there was a sprinkle on my window and those clouds were looking black and we knew when it was going to happen. It wasn’t going to sprinkle. It was going to dump. But once we got to lap 97, 98 we were in trouble and that’s when the miscommunication happened.” HOW MUCH DID YOU LEARN IN THIS RACE THAT WILL HELP YOU HERE IN AUGUST? “A lot. I still don’t know how to get around this place. I still struggle but I learned a few things. We might bring a different car. I don’t know if that was the most favorite car to bring. We finished, not great, but at least this time we were competitive. The result won’t show it and the outside world won’t see that. It looks like we just finished 39th again but we were better. We actually deserved a lot better finish there and we were quick enough instead of just riding around and probably going to get it.”

DAVID REUTIMANN, No. 00 BURGER KING TOYOTA: “The Burger King Toyota Camry was just way too tight in the center and off. We then ran over something and blew the ductwork out. It's unfortunate the race was shortened. The guys made improvements on the car each time we pitted. I'm just really disappointed with where we finished and with the fact that we didn't get to finish the race. NASCAR did a good job with trying to get the race in. We'll just turn our focus to next weeks race and move on to Michigan.