HOW IS THE CAR? "It's been really good since we unloaded. The Motorcraft Taurus has been fast right off the truck. Fatback McSwain and everybody on the Wood Brothers team has done a heck of a job preparing this race car. It's hard to believe we're running in the 19.30s at Martinsville. I remember it wasn't all that many years ago that the modifieds didn't hardly run that fast. It's pretty impressive."
HOW WAS THE LAP?"It was fairly uneventful because the race car was so good. It's been good since we got off the truck. This Motorcraft Taurus is just fast. It's driving extremely well and it's got a lot of grip. It's been a long time since I've been to Martinsville and had a car that could go like this one. I feel pretty good about it. We came up a couple weeks ago and ran 700 laps of practice for Goodyear - tire testing for next year's tires - but it probably didn't hurt any to get me a good tune-up here. I ran a lot of laps here and felt like it probably helped me to stay sharp."
HOW IS THE CAR IN THREE AND FOUR? "The car has been very good. It's making good grip. I nudged the curb on the last of my timed laps. I don't know if we would have run quicker or not. All day in practice this is the only track we go to where they give you sort of three timed laps where the first one doesn't count. My car was very good on the middle lap, but the third lap has always been a little slow. At least I'll blame it on that because I hit the curb. Hopefully, it wasn't because of something that I caused."
