Kluever finished 10th, his 11th top-10 of the season and took Raybestos® Rookie of the Race honors for the 17th time in 23 races.

Kluever becomes the first Raybestos® Rookie to score a top-10 in the fall race at Texas since Carl Edwards in 2003.

Other top-10 finishes by Raybestos® Rookies in the fall race at Texas:

2000: Kurt Busch, third
2001: Travis Kvapil, first
2002: Brendan Gaughan, first
2003: Carl Edwards, fourth

KLUEVER: "I'm happy with it, I guess. Our bad days now are 10th-place instead of the 25th and 30th-place finishes that we had in the beginning of the season. We just weren't very good in our World Financial Group F-150 tonight. I don't know if we missed the front springs a little bit or something. It kept feeling like air was getting under the nose. There was no grip in the front tires. But it is what it is tonight. You know, I can't be upset because our bad days are 10th now. That's still pretty decent. I think we gained a couple of spots in points. I'm going home and going to bed because I feel like dying right now. It was what it was and we'll take a top-10 tonight."

DO YOU HAVE A TOUCH OF THE FLU? "I don't know. I've been having a cold coming on for the last couple of days and it really hit me today, this morning. I've got a head cold, sinus problems, and my throat is swollen. I don't feel very well right now."

DID THE CAUTIONS AT THE END OF THE RACE HELP YOU? "It really didn't matter. We were terrible on restarts tonight. I don't know why. I don't know if we need to look at the driver or transmission ratios or something. On the small tracks restarts aren't ever a problem for us and on these big tracks we get killed on them. We're going to have to figure out some kind of plan of attack there for Homestead. We can't give all of our spots away on restarts."