Brendan Gaughan, No. 77 South Point Racing Silverado, got his first top-five of the season, bringing his Chevy to the checkered flag in third.

Ron Hornaday, Jr., No. 33 Camping World Silverado, lost a lap early in the race due to a vibration in the right rear tire on lap 21, but rallied to a 10th place finish. The two-time NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion remains second in the standings after 10 races, just 113 points down to the leader.

The next NCTS event is June 22, 2007 at the Milwaukee Mile.

Kyle Busch, No. 51 Flanders Beef Patties Silverado, Qualified 3rd, Finished 2nd
"We were just too loose all day, just could never get back of the truck under me, just real sideways off the corners. I could never put the throttle down on the exit of the corner. Solid effort by these Billy Ballew Motorsports guys. I appreciate their support and helping me out so I can run the truck series. Thanks to all the fans here and at home for the support of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Hopefully we can come back and get Chevrolet a win here at Michigan

"I was all over the place, the middle the bottom the top. I just could never find a place that would let me get a good run off the corner. I was just too loose. Our truck was good enough, solid enough to win the race, but just not quite good enough to get where I needed to be off the corner. Too loose to control it. These guys on this team work so hard on these trucks and do such a great job, I wanted to win the race for them."

Brendan Gaughan, No 77 South Point Hotel Silverado, Qualified 11th, Finished 3rd
"We fought a little loose at the start, but Bryan (Berry) crew chief, made some good adjustments to our Chevy to where it was just a little bit tight there at the end. Tires might have had a little bit to do with it but still a great run all in all.

"Bryan and all my South Point Racing Chevy guys did a great job today. Brian made great adjustments but that is what happens when you start with a great race truck at the beginning. This truck has been to the wind tunnel three times, been on the shaker rigg and we have had this thing at more engineering sessions than I can even know I think. When you start with a good piece, have sound people and engineers and all that goes in to this, you have great days and that is what happened today. We had a great Chevrolet Silverado and were able to bring it home in one piece.

"I think we had the winning truck and the driver blew it. That is the deal here at Michigan, you can run anywhere on the track and I just got a little close to the outside wall. That is where I like it and I like it that nobody goes as high as me. Travis (Kvapil) tried me a few times up there, pretty impressive to see him trying to run my line, but I do like to run high and I think we showed some of the potential of this South Point Racing team."

Ron Hornaday, No. 33 Camping World Silverado, Qualified 14th, Finished 10th
"We salvaged a pretty good points day out of this. We got that bad vibration in the right rear on about lap 20 and came in on 21 I think to change tires. We lost a lap and it really didn't help the vibration like it should of so we came back down under caution and the guys checked over the truck, worked on the track bars and we were a lot better.

"We got our lap back and Rick Ren (crew chief) and my Camping World Silverado crew worked hard to get our Chevy Silverado better so we could get back to the top-10 and turn it in to a good points day. I just want to thank Kevin and DeLana (Harvick) for all they do for this team. We want to win this championship for Kevin Harvick, Inc. Everybody worked hard to day and we came out with an ok finish. That is how you win championships."

Matt Crafton, No. 88 Menards Silverado, Qualified 23rd, Finished 34th
"We blew another engine. Quite a few for us this year. Really aggravated and I am just really disappointed cause these Menards guys gave me a really good truck today. We started 23rd and we running top-10 in the first five laps. About lap 10 it dropped a cylinder and then it finally finished itself off."

Kyle Busch, No. 51 Flanders Beef Patties Silverado - Finished 2nd
"It was a solid effort and a great race. It was a lot of fun up there racing Travis (Kvapil, race winner). Just sorry we couldn't finish it up there at the end with a win. We fought hard all day long with battling a loose truck. Just could never get it to tighten up. We made some pretty significant adjustments and it would only touch it really for about five or 10 laps then we would start getting really really loose again where those guys could run with us. They made their trucks a little bit better. Mark (Martin) was the class of the field obviously. He was gone; nobody was going to touch that thing. Thankfully we could make a race out of it there after his motor gave up."

On pass for lead by Kvapil on last lap: "I started getting a little bit higher and a little bit higher there at the end because it was tightening up my truck just a little bit, not a lot. Any time you give the guy on the inside a little bit more room; he has more room to control his truck. He (Kvapil) was pretty loose there on the bottom too and fighting it down there. I was running down there to force him lower for while. I was getting too loose down there where I couldn't control my truck. I had to move up a little bit and that gave him more room and made him a little bit faster."

On if swapping lead back and forth later half of race was testing to see who had what: "I don't know about them but I was racing hard. That was all I had, that was it. I was just that loose, I couldn't keep them from getting underneath me. There at the beginning I was racing side-by-side with Mike Skinner for a few laps, towards the middle of the race, I got the lead and Mark (Martin) came back by us and we were battling for second and third. Then his motor broke and the top-two, Kvapil and Skinner, at the time were pretty good and I was just making laps, waiting for our final pit stop and I didn't want to hurt it. Because we had good pit stops all day, we were able to come out of the pits second, and was able to jump Skinner on that restart and get to his outside. I held off everyone till that white flag lap."

Brendan Gaughan, No. 77 South Point Hotel Silverado, Finished 3rd
"My South Point Chevrolet boys have had to persevere through a lot lately. Perseverance is probably the keyword of our race team, so many bad things have been happening to us that had absolutely nothing to do with us. We came here just hoping for a good run. I said in my press release that I didn't care about winning this dang thing; I just wanted to finish in one piece so I didn't have to give my Dad another bill for fixing this thing.

"I ran right back up in the high groove where I like to. Bryan Berry (crew chief) and the guys did a great job on pit road during our two stops. One the first stop we gained one position on a four-tire with three adjustments and fuel. My guys are fantastic over the wall. In the end I just got a little too tight. The second stop we took two tires only and we tightened it up a little bit. My Silverado got a little tight out of turn two; I was running in second place when we were all battling there at the end for the win. I got real tight when I sucked up coming out of two and had to do a big lift. Great race car drivers can do great things and Ted Musgrave and Mike Skinner and everybody got by me without creaming me coming out of turn two. That is the difference when you run in the top-five versus when you run in the back 20 in the Craftsman Truck Series. Those guys would have creamed me where the guys up front don't, they are fantastic drivers. In the end, I passe! d them all back. It was pretty fun to go by them all on the outside and keep running. Skinner was on the bottom and he and I talked afterwards and I told him it was fun to race with great race car drivers when you know you are in the place you are supposed to be and I think our South Point team is that caliber of a team. It was a great day for us."

On improvements in team on intermediate tracks: "Go back to before Charlotte, except Kansas because that is the one race we tried to go coil bind and because I have a great crew chief in Bryan Berry, we got 11th in the race, other than that, we had a great truck and lost an engine early so we never got to show it. We have had good runs on the big tracks, even at Daytona we had a great truck. I think the biggest thing is all the engineering support. NASCAR has hurt the NCTS by making us follow a Nextel Cup rule, of no testing. The NCTS is first is about testing young drivers and when we can't go to a race track and test, it hurts us. Then the next thing, if you at all the people who have won for the exception of Dennis Setzer who didn't stop at Mansfield, everyone else has either had Toyota engineering or a Nextel Cup engineered team. Travis (Kvapil) is with Roush Racing, it is Nextel Cup engineering. Thanks to Chevrolet, I borrow a $1.8 million dollar pull-down r! ig and I get to work on it all week. I can't afford a $1.8 million dollar pull-down rig as a Craftsman Truck team so I have to go to a Cup team to borrow it. Roush has one, KHI has one with RCR, Toyota has one of their own. All the big Nextel Cup affiliated teams have them, without going to the race track, which was the advantage for us years ago. Now all this engineering stuff Chevrolet has given us is starting to pay off. We have had great trucks every week, just have had bad luck. Texas, we were fantastic, went from 30th to 6th on the outside and then a wrong yellow came out. Our intermediate track program is great, all of our stuff is great, Mansfield ninth, we just haven't had a chance to get the 500 lb gorilla off the back and show it.

"We can beat the Cup affiliated teams with Chevrolet's help, yes, because of what Chevy has been giving us. Unfortunately my favorite truck, Lone Star, I am going to retire it, was what we had at Texas and T.J. Bell stupidly wrecked me. It actually damaged it beyond repair. It was the oldest truck in our shop, No. 1 and I am putting it in the museum. This truck here today is No. 10 and it has been to the wind tunnel three times. We have other trucks that have been there more than that. Chevrolet is making us that competitive, fortunately. The fact also that Bryan and I have a lot of friends in Nextel Cup. J.D. and Joe Gibbs at Joe Gibbs Racing are very good friends of ours and because of Chevrolet, they give us access to that rig. Because of that we are going to be able to beat them, but it sure would be nice to go back to put me back on the race track, give me a set of Goodyears and lets go test."

On feeling of having a top-three finish: "It feels fantastic after the last three weeks. Mansfield, going first. Dover going out on lap one and the thing that happened at Texas. So on one hand, it feels fantastic, on the other hand, it infuriates me because we had a Chevrolet Silverado good enough to win this race today and the driver didn't do it. I miss timed it and made one bad move that cost me that space. I am never going to be happy finishing third, but at the same time, man it feels good, let's do two in a row, where are we next week, Milwaukee. I won there once eons ago, so lets at least do two top-fives in a row."

Other Chevrolet Results:
Kevin Harvick, No. 2 Camping World Silverado, Qualified 32nd, Finished 8th
Kraig Kinser, No. 47 Ginn Resorts Silverado, Qualified 19th, Finished 14th
Bill Lester, No. 15 Christian Debt Consolidation Silverado, Qualified 5th, Finished 15th
Chad McCumbee, No.08 The GPS Store/Garmin Silverdo, Qualfied 8th, Finished 19th
Blake Bjorklund, No. 8 MRD Silverado, Qualified 33rd, Finished 21st
Willie Allen, No. 13 National Pork Board Silverado, Qualified 13th, Finished 22nd
Tim Sauter, No. 07 Lester Buildings/ASI Limited Silverado, Qualified 34th, Finished 23rd
Dennis Setzer, No 75 Spears Silverado, Qualified 24th, Finished 24th
Clay Rogers, No. 40 Curtis Key Plumbing Silverado, Qualified 28th, Finished 25th
Jason White, No. 7 Hooters Energy Drink Silverado, Qualified 31st, Finished 27th
Travis Kittleson, No. 46 Bob Steele Chevrolet Silverado, Qualfied 29th, Finished 28th
J.C. Stout, No. 91 Sterling Truck Corp Silverado, Qualified 36th, Finished 31st
Kevin Lepage, No. 86 888Karport.com Silverado, Qualified 30th, Finished 36th