RICKY RUDD – No. 88 Snickers Ford Fusion (Qualified 37th)

Just disappointed, pretty much, most of the year in our qualifying effort. We’re really happy in race trim – we’re like 14th on the grid before everybody switched over to qualifying trim, and we’re really happy with the race set-up. But, we need to get up there in the front and get out of all that dirty air when the race starts. We’ve been very slow in qualifying trim. Our race-trim package is about as fast as our qualifying trim, so that’s something we’ve got to figure out. We’re not getting it quite worked out for qualifying.”

SO, THIS IS A CAR THAT YOU CAN WORK WITH TOMORROW? “Yeah, it’s a good race car, but we’re going to have to come from way back deep in the field. Again, we were about a 14th-place car on race runs before everybody started putting their packages under it. We spent maybe two runs on our qualifying effort, enough that we shouldn’t be this fast. There’s something that we’re just not doing right or we’re not hitting something right on the combination for qualifying. And, this day, you’ve got to have both. Here, track position is everything, so you need the