Todd Kluever-50-Shell Rotella T Ford F-150 - Raybestos Rookie of the Race Press Conference.

Talk about your race and what you saw from your perspective at the end. "I've heard I've been from fifth to seventh so far. It was a pretty good day for us with our Shell Rotella T truck. We were as high as third, and for the first part of the race we really had a good truck. We just really couldn't get it do exactly what I needed it to do to run better than that. That ending there, I came off of four and I saw the 60 truck sideways going across the start-finish line. I checked up and I tried to go to the outside just because there were so many people. Everybody was checking up and I had a couple of trucks on the inside of me, and I just tried to go to the outside. By that time, I was committed and my spotter said that everybody was going high, and there was so smoke I couldn't really see. I was trying to get out by the wall so I could hope to maybe squeeze by, but with so much smoke I couldn't even see the wall and I hit the wall and it bounced me back into Bobby. The throttle was stuck and I went across the infield and hit the pit wall a ton. It's just a shame. That was a brand new truck my guys had built. It was the best truck that I've ever driven, and it was just awesome and now it's dead."

TERRY COOK-10-Ford Power Stroke Diesel by Int'l F-150:

Was it a track position call at the end not to take tires? "That was in essence what the call was. We'll see where it cycles out, but it looks like it was a good call. The worst-case scenario was we picked up a couple of spots. It was pretty ugly out there. Tires are so big here, and when you don't have tires you're just all over the track. We couldn't even get a good restart because you're spinning the tires on the restart. We did what we could. We came here to run top 10 and we just didn't have a top-10 truck all day. We kept working on it, and got it a lot better at the end, but we just never really found the handle on it, which is disappointing because this is the truck that was pretty good for us all summer long. It kind of let us down here today. We'll rally back."

What did you see from your perspective at the end? "I didn't see what happened on the frontstretch because we weren't close enough to that. It's the typical deal where everybody is out of tires, you've got a track that from the top to the bottom is raceable and everybody is out of tires, so whether people are diving to the bottom or the outside, and people blocking them is usually what causes wrecks like that just because the guys that did take tires were so much faster. It's definitely exciting for the fans when you get in a situation like that, but it's pretty hairy; it's pretty scary out there. I was trying to check up at the start-finish line and couldn't slow down in time and just about involved in another huge melee down here, so I feel fortunate just to have a flattened right side from guys maybe not cutting me some slack earlier in the race."

RICKY CRAVEN-99-Superchips Ford F-150:

You chose not to take tires during the final caution period. "We gave up track position all day and that wasn't a bad decision. For us to win the race we needed to have a nearly perfect day and we didn't. We had a truck that was capable of winning the race. It was very strong, and I feel good about the fact that we're starting to get a rhythm together and starting to get some momentum. I'm really proud of the team because it's taken a while."

What did you see on the final lap? "I saw the caution light come on and three trucks passed us. If I've got a chance to win the race I'm going to let it loose, but not to finish seventh, eight or ninth. There was a lot of unnecessary risk taking out there and there didn't need to be as many trucks involved as there were."