Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) race at Bristol Motor Speedway was shortened due to rain after 171 of 300 laps. David Reutimann (third) was the highest-finishing Toyota driver in the No. 99 Aaron’s Dream Machine Camry. Jason Leffler (sixth) and Mike Wallace (10th) also scored top-10 finishes for Toyota. Toyota drivers Denny Hamlin (26th) and Kyle Busch (42nd) were also in the field. With his finish, Reutimann moved up to fifth in the unofficial NNS point standings, 80 points behind leader Kevin Harvick (751-671). Wallace is now seventh in points (603 points), while Leffler (ninth, 579 points) and Busch (10th, 568 points) are also in the top-10 in points after five of 35 races. Camry drivers have won two NNS races this season, as Tony Stewart won back-to-back races at Daytona and California in February to open the season. In five NNS races in 2008, Toyota has posted 13 top-10 finishes in 29 starts.

DAVID REUTIMANN, No. 99 Aaron’s Dream Machine Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing Finished: 3rd Are you disappointed that you couldn’t have raced for the win? “You don’t ever know what’s going to happen with the weather. I would’ve like to see it go green a little while longer, to see what we could’ve done with those guys. With the rain coming and washing us out, a third place finish isn’t that bad, either. The race was going pretty good. We were working in the Aaron’s Dream Machine. Jerry Baxter (crew chief) and the guys made some really good adjustments on our Toyota. That last long run we were pretty good.” Are you excited for Sunday’s race with the car you have? “I’m really looking forward to tomorrow’s race. The downfall is that we have to start 37th. The key will be to just stay on the lead lap early.” What are your thoughts on your performance prior to the rain? “We were pretty good -- we were just tight early on. That last run there, Jerry Baxter (crew chief) and the guys freed up the car and made it better in the throttle off the corner. I know those guys were going at it pretty hard up there, but we were running them down at a pretty good clip. I had some clear race track and those guys were racing pretty hard. I would liked to have been able to get up there and see what could have happened. At least I could have had a better view of what was happening. We were running them down and then the rain came. I never expected it to last as long as it did -- I expected that we would be going back to green, but that’s pretty much irrelevant now. Jerry Baxter and the guys gave me a great car today and Toyota did a great job. Toyota Racing Development does a real great job at making sure that everybody who gets their motors from there gets the same motors with the same horsepower so we all have the same thing all the time and that’s pretty cool to have.” How aware were you of where the rain was and how soon it would hit the race track? “There’s a lot of weather forecasters on the pit box at that point and some of them are better than others. My spotter told me that it was raining and I didn’t really need him to tell me that because there was some on the windshield, but it wasn’t bad. We could have kept going there for a little bit longer I think. At that point I was going as hard as I could to try to get those guys anyway so it didn’t really make a difference, I was going just as fast as I could go to get to that point. The rain came and cut it a little short, but all in all I think it was a pretty good effort.” What gambles do you plan on taking tomorrow in order to gain track position? “I don’t really know what Ryan Pemberton (crew chief, NSCS) has up his sleeve on the Cup side, but I’m sure we’ll have to do something. We had a very good car in all of our practices and feel like we have a good car for the race, but unfortunately starting 37th is a pretty tough road ahead of us. It may be a situation where we end up taking two tires or staying out sometimes just trying to gain that valuable track position because it’s tough to come by here. We have our work cut out for us tomorrow, but I’m glad we had a good run today.”

DAVID REUTIMANN, cont’d How closely do you watch the points at this point in the season? “We always look at every aspect of the points. Most of the stuff that I look at is the driver points because I can relate to that easier than I can anything else. You’re never really points racing, but you’re always trying to gain the most points you can. You’re always aware of what’s going on around you and whose doing what and whether it’s going to be a good day or a bad day for you in points. For the most part, when I go out there I’m racing and not concerned about points -- we’re just trying to win the race and I let the crew chief keep up with the points. Hopefully at the end of the year we’ll be where we need to be in that equation.”

JASON LEFFLER, No. 38 Great Clips Toyota Camry, Braun Racing Finished: 6th Did you have a car that could contend for the win before the rain came? “The car was just tight -- the later it got, the tighter it got. We just had to do a better job keeping up with the track. The Great Clips Camry was decent. We were one adjustment away from being really good. My car was good, but it just wasn't quite where we needed it to be. We're capable of running better here than what we showed. We were good on the long run and I think we could have gotten better if we would have had a chance to work on it again. The car just kept getting tight and we were behind the race track all day. The track kept getting cooler and we weren't making big enough adjustments. If we could get better with that, I think we will be good.”

MIKE WALLACE, No. 7 GEICO Toyota Camry, Germain Racing Finished: 10th Are you happy with a 10th-place finish due to rain? “I will take this 10th right now and go home. The reason I say that is because of all the variables here. The GEICO Toyota was pretty good, but we were just a little tight. If it went back to green, we would’ve had to come to the pits with the leaders, and the rain made the track real green and slick. I can take this top-10 and be happy right now. It keeps us decent in the points and when you can continue to race and not tear up cars so you can go home and work on them -- that’s the goal. Mission accomplished.

DENNY HAMLIN, No. 20 Z-Line Designs Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing Finished: 26th How disappointed are you considering you had a car that could run up front? “It was a tough day for sure for the Z-Line Designs team. We must have run over something that caused the punctured tire. It seems like we can’t catch a break on the Cup side or here on the Nationwide Series side. We had a car that was pretty good and we could keep up with those guys even when we had older tires, but never got a chance to prove it because of the green flag stop.”

KYLE BUSCH, No. 32 Hass Avocados from Mexico Toyota Camry, Braun Racing Finished: 42nd