KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 M&M’s Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing Starting Position: 1st Was your qualifying run a great team effort? “It definitely was -- I'm surprised. I thought I got busted speeding there. If it wasn't it was that close -- very close. Man, I can't thank these guys enough at Joe Gibbs Racing. Steve Addington (crew chief) and all these guys that work on this do such an awesome job for me. That thing is humming this weekend. If (Kevin) Harvick thought the Toyota had motors before, watch out now because we're coming big time. This stuff's nice. We just keep clicking them off and keep going. It's obviously paying off really, really well. I just have to thank M&M's, Toyota and everybody that's been involved on this whole deal.” Does the All-Star race lend itself to your style? “I don't know about the race, but qualifying I was as nervous as I've ever been in qualifying for anything. That was pretty nerve wracking. This race, it lends to my style and I'd have to say yes, being able to start out front and hopefully get some clean air and see what these guys behind us have for us. We know the 99 (Carl Edwards) style, but we know he's going to come from a long ways back.” How important was your crew in qualifying? “This M&M's team and everybody at JGR do such an awesome job. They gave me a great race car that ran three laps phenomenal and gave me great pit stops -- they were solid on pit road and that's all you need in this kind of deal. I was nervous as I ever was today. I guess it's probably because if I knew, I would have screwed up just a little bit, which I thought I did coming to pit road, I would have got busted. Proud of the effort.” Can you talk about your entry to pit road? “I don't know, it was awfully, awfully close. I knew that if I could get it to the maximum limit and I had a spot in turn four where I was going to start braking at. My car was so much faster than it was in practice. We ran over a second faster lap time, so I was going faster. I just misjudged by a little bit. I guess I didn't over misjudge, so it was pretty good.”

TONY STEWART, No. 20 Home Depot Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing Starting Position: 12th Were you pleased with your qualifying run? “Our run really didn’t mean anything because we had to change a motor so we have to go to the back anyway. We basically did it just to go through the motions. I got 12 laps of practice so not real sure what to expect for tomorrow now. We didn’t get a lot done today. We’ve been here all day, but haven’t gotten much done. We broke a part in the motor that kept us from getting it changed before practice was over so we never got to go back out and really didn’t get anything done today.” Can you talk about the format of this race? “I know its different, but I don’t even know what the format is. I’ll know between now and tomorrow. We’ll figure it out -- I know it’s different and as long as its more exciting for the fans that’s why we’re here.”

DENNY HAMLIN, No. 11 FedEx Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing Starting Position: 20th What happened with your car when you came in for the pit stop? “I don’t know. We had a start where our car wouldn’t even run. When stuff like that happens you get all worked up and try to make up for something that’s not there. Our car was just a little bit free on our run. We broke at the same place we did during the practice session, but you run a lot faster under these conditions so you’re carrying more speed. You are not necessarily going to stop faster so we probably should have moved our point back a little bit.”

DALE JARRETT, No. 44 UPS Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing Starting Position: 18th TOYOTA NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) Sprint Showdown Qualifying Notes & Quotes Lowe’s Motor Speedway – May 16, 2008

BRIAN VICKERS, No. 83 Red Bull Toyota Camry, Red Bull Racing Team Starting Position: 2nd Can you talk about your pit crew winning the challenge last night? “They did an awesome job. They had the worst lane all night -- I keep bringing that up. It’s the way the cars were positioned and I keep bringing it up. They have not complained about it one time. I’m so proud of them, but I want to throw it out there for them. They did an awesome job, stayed focused all night. So far, so good. I’m really proud of this whole Red Bull crew so far. What is your strategy for the Showdown tomorrow night? “Win. I don’t know about the win or wreck part. Obviously it’s an all out situation with winner take all. I don’t know if I want to wreck big. Wrecking big in this sport is not very fun.” What would it mean to get into the All-Star race tomorrow night? “Starting up front makes all the difference in the world. It would mean a ton just to be able to get into the All-Star race, but also to get into the race for the pit crew guys. The did an awesome job last night and they’re pumped and they really want to be in that race as well.”

AJ ALLMENDINGER, No. 84 Red Bull Toyota Camry, Red Bull Racing Team Starting Position: 4th Do you feel that your qualifying run put you in a good position for the Showdown? “It was alright. The guys did a good job. In practice we struggled and they fought hard so we weren’t really sure where the car was going to be so I was pretty pleased with that. I would’ve liked to get a little bit more out of it but hopefully that will put us near the front which is where you need to start for this race.” What is your strategy for tomorrow night? “Run hard and either get in or wreck big.”

DAVE BLANEY, No. 22 Caterpillar Toyota Camry, Bill Davis Racing Starting Position: 6th Did your qualifying run put you in a good spot for the Showdown? It was good. Not quite good enough but hopefully that will land us in the top three rows. That would be a good starting spot to have a chance tomorrow I think. We’ll see if that hangs on. It depends if the sun comes out or if it gets cool or what it does.” What is your strategy for the Showdown tomorrow? “You just do all you can do. In short races you’ve got to go quick but you can’t go crazy and take yourself out of it like I’ve seen them so many times. You’re going to have to be good. Historically one of those 20-lap runs will go all green so you’re going to have to be good over 20 laps to have a chance at it.” Do you have a lot of confidence going into this weekend after your performance at Darlington? “I do and mainly because we had a really good test here and I felt like the car ran good here. I thought that’s what helped us at Darlington and I felt like we’d run good here too.”

MICHAEL WALTRIP, No. 55 NAPA Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing Starting Position: 14th

DAVID REUTIMANN, No. 00 Aaron’s Dream Machine Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing Starting Position: 17th

J.J. YELEY, No. 96 DLP HDTV Toyota Camry, Hall of Fame Racing Starting Position: 20th