KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 4 JIMMY JOHN’S CHEVROLET SS – FINISHED 2ND
GOT A GREAT RESTART ON THAT FINAL RESTART IT LOOKED LIKE YOU WERE GOING TO BE ABLE TO CHASE HIM DOWN, WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE IN NOT BEING ABLE TO GET AROUND HIM?
“For whatever reason I got tight, I hit a big piece of debris down there about six or seven laps into the run. From that point on I just got really tight. I’ve just got to thank everybody from this Stewart-Haas team, Jimmy John’s, Outback, Busch, Mobil 1, ditech, everybody from Chevrolet for everything that they do. We overhauled this thing this morning to try to get it close. They did a great job. Just have to thank Hunt Brothers, Morton Buildings, Bad Boy, everybody on this team, it’s going to be a long week we are going to go do some testing this week and have fun with it.”
KURT BUSCH, NO. 41 HAAS AUTOMATION/MONSTER ENERGY CHEVROLET SS – FINISHED 3RD
ON HIS NIGHT:
“We battled hard. I was trying to find all the different lines on the track to find speed. We did a lot of things good and to win you’ve got to be great. We are right there, we are knocking on the door, but thanks to Haas Automation, Monster Energy, Chevrolet, everybody at Stewart-Haas it’s a great second and third place finish. We always want to win and we have been doing really good with this Tony Gibson (crew chief) led team.”
WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE FOR YOU GUYS TONIGHT?
“We are good, we are doing everything right we just have to find that last little step to be great. Tony Gibson (crew chief) really knows how to lead these guys and we are just knocking on the door in all the right areas. We just have to put it together for that total piece. Thanks to Gene Haas, everybody at Haas Automation, Monster Energy, Chevrolet, we are right there. We are so far the best car that hasn’t won a race and I know if we keep this effort up it will come to us.”
AUSTIN DILLON, NO. 3 AMERICAN ETHANOL CHEVROLET SS – Finished 6th
“It was a solid run for us. We didn’t have the speed earlier in the race and we just kept working on it. We had some good lap times. We just needed to get the track position. It was really hard to pass out there tonight. I want to thank all these guys on our American Ethanol team. It was a solid day in the points for us; another good one. So, we’ll keep working on it. We get days like that and we’re going to have a shot to win before too long.”
RYAN NEWMAN, NO. 31 GRAINGER CHEVROLET SS – FINISHED 7TH
“I can’t thank this Grainger team enough for giving me a strong Chevrolet all weekend long. We battled some handling and some damage issues throughout the race but we kept fighting and that’s what this team needs to do. Tonight was our best finish of the season and like I told the team, keep digging. We have plenty of racing left to turn our season around.”
AJ ALLMENDINGER, NO. 47 DILLONS/KINGSFORD CHEVROLET SS – 8TH
“A little fortunate with eighth place finish with what happened there at the end. We just kept digging. I caught the wall and we had the fender rubbing the tire. We thought we had it off and it flattened the tire. The guys did a good job; we got lucky it kind of cycled back around and got back on the lead lap. The yellow came out, but overall just a hard fought night to get a top 10 out of it from where we were yesterday and kind of where we ran throughout the course of the night. The guys had good pit stops. We maximized the day and that is what we can do. I’m proud of everybody on the No. 47 Dillons/Kingsford Chevy. Just keep moving on.”
HOW WAS THE RACING OUT THERE TONIGHT?
“I thought the package was a little bit better. It’s still tough to pass. You get kind of stuck in those guys wake at times, but your car is good enough you can maneuver around and still make passes. It kind of ran to the top. If you get your car working on the bottom it was better. On these 1.5-mile tracks it’s tough to pass on everybody is so close. I think this package is making it better. We can at least make passes and it looked like from what I could see for a while there Harvick and Kyle (Busch) were going at it. Hopefully, it was a good race for the fans.”
KASEY KAHNE, NO. 5 FARMERS INSURANCE CHEVROLET SS – Finished 16th
“I figured we had a top 10, maybe a top 5 car if things went our way. But, we has our hood collapse like with three runs to go and I was like terrible after that; especially the first 10 laps of a run. But, we struggled and ended up 16th. But, we had a much better car than that.”
HOW WAS THE RACING TONIGHT?
“Well, the tire didn’t really fall off. You just kind of get in line and go. You could pass every once in a while, but if someone was pretty quick in front of you, you’re not going to pass them. You’ve got to have tire falloff. At any of our tracks that have been good racing and you pass cars, the tire falls off.”
JAMIE MCMURRAY, NO. 1 MCDONALD’S CHEVROLET SS – Finished 26th
YOU HAD AN EARLY PENALTY. WHAT WAS GOING ON THERE?
“I really don’t know. I was just asking what happened. I guess there was something about the right side, but I don’t have any idea.”
ON THE RACING TONIGHT
“I don’t know. The track was really wide, which was good. The top was probably the preferred lane when the tires wore out. But, I don’t know. I thought it was actually pretty good. Certainly some tracks are easier to pass than others. This one is a little more difficult; maybe not quite as much tire falloff as what we need. But overall, I thought the racing was still pretty good, from 34th (laughs).”