RICKY RUDD - No. 21 Motorcraft Genuine Parts Taurus (Qualified 25th) - "We were in pretty serious trouble yesterday. We didn't test here. We would have liked to, but as a single-car team you can't really cheat the system like these other guys do by having two or three cars. They sort of blame it on another guy's test, but we can't do all that. We would have loved to have been here and tested, so we're just a day behind. We didn't have anything yesterday. We were really bad off and Fatback changed the car around completely from yesterday to today and it was better. It was too loose today and I probably left three or four-tenths of a second out there. You hear a lot of guys say it, but I think when you untape the grille a lot of that looseness will go away."

ANY THOUGHTS BEFORE YOU GOT IN THE CAR THAT, 'HEY, THIS IS THE LAST TIME I MAY DO THIS?' "That was a pretty good handful. When you have a qualifying day like today, it's kind of nice knowing you're not gonna have to do that again. But you have those days and they're not always perfect. But as far as this week being any different than any I've experienced over thirtysome years, it's really not any different. I don't think it will be until January because you always leave Homestead knowing you're gonna have some time off and this is no different. I'm just gonna have some extended time off."