RICKY RUDD - No. 21 Motorcraft Genuine Parts Taurus (Finished 19th) - "We had a great car. We had a top 10 car and were running along fine, tweaking on the adjustments. Everything was going good and then Sadler spins out in front of me. He was in the middle of the track and I had high or low and I went high. At about that time his car caught hold and he shot up the race track and hit us in the door. That did a lot of damage, but the guys did a great job of patching it back up. Man, that was unbelievable strategy there at the end to gather a bunch of spots. We were gonna finish way back in the thirties, instead we're somewhere in the top 17."

WHAT ABOUT RUNNING OUT OF GAS AND COASTING ACROSS THE LINE? "About the last 10-15 laps you just slow way up on the straightaway and don't touch the accelerator until you get to the next straightaway. Obviously, it's not the fast way. I could see some guys around me playing the same game - Bobby Labonte and Dale Jarrett. I saw all of those guys doing the same thing. We were all sitting there limping around sort of injured trying to get to the end."