Elliott Sadler (No. 19 GARMIN Dodge Charger) Finished 10th

“That’s a great day for us. We’ve been struggling the last month. We did a lot of work at the Charlotte test and found out a lot of things that this car liked. I’m proud of my guys at the race shop. The burned the midnight oil on Tuesday night. They stayed late and the truck left late to get all the stuff done so that we could be competitive here this weekend. To qualify fourth and get a top-10 finish is a really good day for this GARMIN Dodge team.”

YOUR CAR LOOKED REALLY STRONG ON LONG GREEN FLAG RUNS? “We’ve got to work on our re-starts more. I can’t get our car to go for about 30 laps and once I did, then a caution would come out. I’m proud of my guys – one thing at a time. I’m real proud of my guys today.”

Roy McCauley (Crew Chief, No. 12 Alltel Dodge Charger) Finished 16th

HOW WAS THE CAR TODAY? “Grip was an issue most of the day. We had it (the car) balanced, but overall car grip was our biggest issue today. It was one of those days where you wish that you had a few hundred more pounds of downforce - life would have been a lot better. We fought rear grip about 60-70 percent of the day. We made some gains on it later in the race, but not enough to make a significant difference. We tagged the wall a bit in Turn 2 that got us behind a bit because we needed to come in and fix the car. We re-started 28th and just kind of worked our way back.”

Brian Pattie (Crew Chief, No. 42 Texaco/Havoline Dodge Charger) Finished 20th

CAN YOU TALK ABOUT YOUR DAY? “Juan (Pablo Montoya) complained about a set of tires that we put on the car – we need to go back and take a look at that set of tires and see what happened. The car was real consistent. It wasn’t like we had to make a lot of adjustments during the day. We were real strong early – moving all the way up to 16th position within the first 100 laps. To get a top-20 from starting dead last is a pretty good day here.”

Kasey Kahne (No. 9 Budweiser Dodge Charger) Finished 21st

“We just needed more grip for our Dodge Charger. We have to keep working on our cars to make them better. On a hot day like today, grip was everything. We just struggled trying to get the right balance on our car. We got it good, but not great.”

Reed Sorenson (No. 41 Target Dodge Charger) Finished 26th

“Our Target Dodge was pretty good. We were goods in certain runs and not so good in others. We didn’t have a good balance with rear grip and front grip. We have to get rear grip first and then figure out how to apply it to the front.”

Patrick Carpentier (No. 10 LifeLock Dodge Charger) Finished 29th

“It was just a long day, a long day. It was not too bad for the whole race - just the last run there I got really, really loose. I think I got a bad set of tires or something. It just got way loose - long day. When it’s loose, it’s slow [smiles]. It was a long day for our LifeLock Dodge. We went from loose to tight for most of the day. It was frustrating for us. The guys did a good job on pit road and we even led a couple laps. We'll take it and move on.”

Kurt Busch (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger) Finished 30th

“It was just a tough day all around – loose, tight, loose, tight. We were so loose there with 30 (laps) to go that I slapped the wall twice in three laps. Our handling issue didn’t give us a chance to evaluate the performance of the new engine. We will get a better opportunity at tracks like Phoenix and Martinsville.”

Sam Hornish Jr. (No. 77 Penske Truck Rental Dodge Charger) Finished 33rd

“It was pretty good for quite a few runs. I hurt us early with the speeding on pit road on the entry. I had all four (tires) locked up trying to get (the car) stopped, but there was a bunch of oil dry and stuff down there so I’m not sure exactly what happened. The other problem was that we ran it out of fuel and the cell only took like 18 gallons, so we’ve got something that we need to check into there. Other than that, we’re pretty happy with it.”