I'm not too disappointed with finishing second to Mike twice in a row. In both races, Mike just had 'fresher' tires at the end. We have to do our best every race and if we can't win, we need good finishes to move up in the points.

I'm not going to lie to you. It's disappointing not to win the fourth in a row and set the record.

Once I looked back and saw they were racing side-by-side, I knew all I had to do was not make a mistake and I'd be all right,

It used to be a series where a young kid with a mediocre team could come in and run 20th and gain a ton of experience and knowledge. Now there are 25 Cup guys out there, and these young guys can't get in the race.

It was nerve-racking, but I'll take it. We were doing the right thing, making the right move.

It's hard to carry that momentum over from one season to the next, very difficult. There's no one reason why we ran good. It's just about combinations - crew chief, driver, truck, crew - you've got to have every piece of the puzzle and we did. It just worked.

There was no way I could let Mark Martin get outside of me on that restart.

There was no way I could let Mark Martin get outside of me on that restart. My truck was so loose when somebody was out there. When he went inside, I said, 'Have at it.' That was what we needed.

Right now, we've just got it going on, ... If we could bottle it, we could make millions.

Everybody gets lucky once in a while. I really messed up letting Ted get by me. I wasn't going to get beat because of my own mistake again this year. I knew I had a good enough truck top get around him.