RICKY RUDD – No. 21 Motorcraft Genuine Parts Taurus (Finished 9th) – “We were a real good race car on a long run. We couldn’t go on a short run and it just killed us at the end. We had a restart – 10th in line – and that’s really 20th with all of those lapped cars. We could run fast, but we just couldn’t go on the restart.”

IS THIS AS GOOD AS THE TEAM HAS BEEN? “We were better at Atlanta, but we don’t have anything to show for that. That’s when we had a wheel bearing go out, but we were better there at Atlanta. On the long runs today the car was really good, but it didn’t like traffic at all. You’d get in around traffic and it would kill the lap times.”