The Ford Genuine Parts and Service team will use the same car at New Hampshire it ran at Richmond - a car prepared by new crew chief Michael "Fatback" McSwain, but not built by him. Fans want to know if the car will have the same setup that was used previously at Loudon, and whether McSwain can use his old notes from the 28 team. Ricky Rudd answers those questions and more this week.

Will you use a set-up based on the last Loudon race for the most part, or do you think you and Fatback will do something different based on your previous experiences? "We ran really well there last fall. We finished second that race. The cars are different the way Fatback sets them up than they were the way Ben (Leslie) set them up, but I can't say how different they are from the way Pat (Tryson) set them up. I don't know the differences. I guess there are notes around to look at. Fatback is sort of a short-track ace, so he probably has his own notebook."

Are your old notes from the #28 more relevant now that you, Fatback and Hoyt are back together, even though they are a couple of years old? "Those notebooks nowadays change pretty quickly. And a lot of what determines the changes is that the NASCAR rules get tweaked a little bit. The tire probably dictates more than anything else what needs to be changed. The tire construction changes all your spring rates and shocks. I'm pretty sure the tire we will be running this weekend is different that what it was up there when we finished second. That alone, would dictate that you would not run your same setup."

I was at Bristol and was listening to you and Fatback as you were taking the parade laps. Fatback said, "I put a little something in there for ya," and you came back and said, "Yeah, I haven't seen that in awhile". What was the little something that was in the car that Fatback was talking about? "Fatback raises up the bumper really, really good. That does two things. If you have to move somebody, it's there, but also the check-up tight fender-bender accidents that you have there, without that bracing you can sometimes tear up the radiator pretty good. It saved us a number of times with the 28 car when we ran bumpers like that. And, we had that. That is what he was talking about."

What incentive do teams that are not in the Top 10 for the NEXTEL championship have for racing in the final 10 races? will these teams be able to accumulate points? "I can't speak for everybody. Every team has their own objectives right now. If you are locked out of the top-10 right now because you didn't get there on performance, you need to perform better. So you see a lot of crew chief changes right now trying to get their act together and use the last 10 races, not necessarily as a test, but to try to get the program strengthened for the next season. You've got to come out of the box prepared next year. That is what we are trying to do right now, just get our program together. We need to run better. We need top-10s, top-fives. We need wins. We weren't headed in that direction so it was time to make adjustments. Where teams that are in that top-10, there are some of those teams that need adjustments, but they are a little reluctant to make adjustments because they might have fallen out of the top-10. For example, Bobby Labonte's team - they made a major adjustment. They were up there, they made an adjustment and took themselves out of the top 10 in the points. Where those guys have got to be more reluctant to make changes, guys outside of the top 10 can make those adjustments more aggressively with nothing to lose."

What do you think of the new points system and do you think that the other NASCAR series will follow in changing their points systems? "I don't know. Usually Cup is not the first series to do things. They usually use Busch or truck for tests, so they went after it pretty aggressively this time. If they feel this is a success, they will probably do it over there (in Busch and Craftsman Truck)."