RAGAN: “Our AAA Ford Fusion was real fast all day, had a lot of speed. It was pretty cool to be up in the front all day long. But pit strategy, we were close on fuel there at the end. We just got an air pocket in the fuel line and just burped it there at the end but then they’re wrecking on the topside and we got down on the bottom. We’ll have to check the loop scoring. I wished we could have finished up there in the top-five or 10 but we’ll take it.” YOU DIDN’T NEED THAT LAST CAUTION. “Oh heck no. No, we needed it to run green the rest of the way. We were fine without that last caution. All that does is get everybody antsy and stirred up and there were a lot of wrecked cars there at the end.” THE LAST FEW RACES HAVE BEEN TOUGH FOR YOU BUT YOU RAN WELL HERE TODAY. DOES THAT GIVE YOU CONFIDENCE? “We still know that we’ve got to work on our Car of Tomorrow program and got to get a little more consistent. What a fun time here at Talladega; when we have good cars it’s a fun racetrack. It’s cool being down here.” ROUSH FENWAY RACING WAS COMPETITIVE TODAY. “Yeah, I feel bad for Greg there at the end to get wrecked. He certainly had a strong car, Jamie had a strong car, and Matt and I were together a little bit. But it was just all being in the right place at the right time. We were there for 90 percent of the race and just kind of got the short end of the stick there at the end.” IS THIS TRACK MORE MENTALLY DIFFICULT THAN DAYTONA? “Yeah it is and you’ve got room enough to run three and four wide no problem here where at Daytona if you’re three wide that’s kind of an iffy situation. The track has a lot of grip and our car handled very well so it was fun but it should have resulted in a better finish.” WAS YOUR WATER TEMPERATURE A FACTOR TODAY? “Ours was hot there when we were in traffic and nose to tail, especially when I was in the middle, man, that thing was hot. There for the middle part of the race I’d have to just drop back a little bit. They pulled a little bit of tape off there at the end, which allowed me to race a little harder. We had a great, strong car all day and I had a lot of fun.”

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA, No. 42 TEXACO/HAVOLINE DODGE: WHAT HAPPENED? “Something broke in the steering, in the suspension, and it went straight into the wall. I thought we run pretty good. I thought we had a good car. I think we had at least a top-10 car but you know how Talladega is. It was exciting.”

DAVID REUTIMANN, No. 00 DOMINO’S TOYOTA: “I’m so bummed out. I had a chance to run pretty good today, I thought. Stuff like that happens, you know. I’m disappointed for the whole team. Out there today, that wasn’t nothing that the driver was doing. That was the guys at the shop preparing me good cars so I give them all the credit. I hated to oil the track down like that. I couldn’t see enough to the get to the bottom. All I was doing was looking out at the wall. I hated that I cost those guys more laps on the race, too, on top of that. It’s just a lose-lose all the way around.” YOU ARE A RAYBESTOS ROOKIE DRIVER BUT YOU’RE MAKING RACES EVERY WEEKEND AND RUNNING RESPECTABLY. TODAY YOU HAD A CAR THAT COULD HAVE WON THE RACE. “Yeah, and that’s great thing considering what we’ve gone through over the past couple of months building an new organization. Toyota is doing a good job. Stuff breaks, you know and that’s all I can say. I’m disappointed. I’m disappointed for Domino’s. They deserve a good run and haven’t done much for them this year. I was hoping to turn it around today. To be honest, I’m sitting around there waiting for something to happen anyway. It’s like is something going to run over me or is something going to break. Things had gone too good all day long. You hate to look at it that way but it seems to be the way things have been going for us. I thank the Lord. I was blessed today and He took care of us and I think it was a pretty safe race. Unfortunately we were not out there for the end of it.” WHAT DOES THIS SAY FOR TOYOTA’S RACING PROGRAM? “It’s a restrictor plate race and that’s a totally different animal. They’ve really worked hard on their plate program to make it better from Daytona and they have made it better. I’m proud of everybody at TRD and within Toyota’s organization. I’m not disappointed with that at all. Like I said, stuff breaks no matter how hard you work on it and that’s what happened today. We’ll group and we’ve still got a good speedway car hopefully for Daytona so we’ll go from there.”