DID YOU KNOW YOU WERE GOING TO BE THAT FAST? "We really didn't know. We didn't get all the practice in that we would have liked because the lines just were not working out like we wanted to. We needed one more run to find out what we really had, so going into qualifying we didn't really know exactly how fast we could run. I think we ran a 50.80 in practice, but we knew we could run at least three or four tenths better. We didn't know we'd run five or six tenths better."
YOU SAT ON THE POLE IN APRIL, DID YOU NEED IMPROVEMENT AT THESE PLACES? "Our qualifying effort on these restrictor plates, the one thing that wasn't broke was our qualifying efforts. The new rule changes where everybody has to run the same springs has sort of set some of the teams back a little bit. It hurt us and it hurt everybody, but Fatback was able to adjust to it pretty quickly. I'm real pleased on how fast this Rent-A-Center Ford ran today. We never could get the car to drive good in race trim and it was driving exceptionally well, so I'm thinking not only do we have the speed, but I think we've got the drivability to run up front."
IS THIS THE SAME CAR YOU WON THE POLE WITH HERE LAST TIME? "Yeah, but we did quite a bit to it. Body-wise, it's pretty much the same. They worked on the chassis quite a bit to get it to where it would drive good for the race. The car would always pick up a push and they got into it and dissected it a little bit and pretty much figured out why it was pushing and they fixed it. So it should race well as good as it qualified, but we'll see."
