"You always want a little bit more and I felt I could run second there, but with all those cautions it just took my chance away. We had a really fast car and I'm just excited the gear box and engine and everything ran so well. The car was just flawless the whole day. The brakes were good, but we just came up a little bit short."

DO YOU WEIGH THE RISK VS. REWARD WITH FOUR TO GO? "Yeah, I was inside the 12 and we banged fenders a little bit. He ran me into the grass a little, and the same with the 96, but they're saving their position and with four to go or three to go it's every man for himself. I had to block Kurt a couple times, but that's the way it is."

WAS THIS RACE A CONCERN AS FAR AS MAINTAINING AT LEAST 10TH IN THE POINTS? "Yeah, it's so easy to break a transmission, a rear end gear or have your brakes fail or something else like that. Everybody stays on the lead lap here and you've got thirtysome cars on the lead lap, so if you spin out or something crazy happens, you get a bad finish in a hurry, so this was a concern of ours."