"We had great pit stops today. I had a great, great race car. I'm excited to have Jackson Hewitt on the car for the next couple of weeks. Everybody just worked really hard. This is what this team is made of. We've had about four of these runs now, but this is the first one we've finished. I feel really good about it. Pat called me to take four tires and I was about a foot past the commitment line and I didn't want to try and chance it. It's unfortunate because I think we could have won possibly. We had a really good car on the short run and the long run, but we'll never know."

YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW CAR? "At this particular race track it's not a tremendous amount different. It bounces a little bit harder going in the corner because of that splitter we don't have a lot of travel, but, other than that, people worried about parts falling off of it and this and that. I don't think that's an issue. Obviously, it wasn't. Where the true test is gonna be is when we get to bigger tracks where aero really matters -- Dover and these one miles -- Richmond -- and so on. We'll see."