RICKY RUDD - No. 21 Motorcraft Taurus (Qualified 29th) - "We weren't good when we came off the truck. We didn't have a chance to test here, so I didn't expect this. We ran this car here earlier in the year and it didn't qualify good then, but we were moving up to pass Carl for third three-quarters of the way through the race and had a hub go out on the left-front, so we figured we would be in real good shape bringing this car back. It's our Charlotte car, but we were lost when we first got here. We kept making adjustments and nothing really worked and finally in the last 10 minutes of practice they found out what controlled the car. They did another dose of it during the down time and we were so bad off we never made a qualifying run, so that was the first time we blocked it up and tried it."

FEEL GOOD ABOUT THE RACE. "Oh yeah. At the very end of the day we stayed on one set of tires and I was real happy with the speeds we were running and the way the car drove at the end of that practice session, but we ran out of time and did not get a chance to do a qualifying run. We basically took that, put a little tape on it, and went and ran it. It's a better race car than it's qualified right now and that will probably end up somewhere in the top 15. I'm pretty happy with it now, but I wasn't when we got here."