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DRIVER: MIKE BLISS
TEAM: No. 16 Xpress Motorsports Silverado

"Memphis has not been a very good track for me. I have qualified well, but
when I ran the truck for Dave (Fuge, Team Owner) we were running really well
until we had a battery come unplugged four times. I think our short tracks,
and all of the tracks. I am looking forward to going there and hopefully
winning a race."

It is a tough track, though, with bumps and humps.
"Yeah, it is a tough and rough, and I like that. I would rather be there
than, somewhere else. It is just different, like nothing else we race on. It
is a motor track, more than anything, you need a motor. Off Turn 4, you get
dogged down, and you need something to accelerate, and if you have a good
motor that has good torque, you can pass people there.

The heat is always one of the biggest issues at Memphis.
"You just have to know that it is going to be hot there, so you just do the
same thing that you do every weekend, just drink lots of water. "

DRIVER: CHAD MCCUMBEE
TEAM: No. 08 Green Light Racing Silverado

This will be your first race at Memphis, do you have any idea on what to
expect from the race track?
"Yes, it will be my first trip to Memphis, I have heard that it is _ mile
stuff, I am envisioning something not quite like Richmond, maybe a little
tighter corners, I am honestly not sure. I will see it for the first time
Thursday night, or Friday, whenever we get there.

Are you more comfortable on the short tracks, and do you think that your
driving style will adapt quickly to the track?
"I would hope so. We have ran well at the short tracks so far this year, and
it is where we first had success at Gateway, although it is not really a
short track, but it has short track characteristics. You have to be good at
all the tracks, no matter where you go, so the goal is to make sure that we
can run in the top-ten and top-15 everywhere we go. And also, make sure we
take the right trucks; we have been able to run the same truck at a lot of
the tracks here lately, but now we will have to use some different stuff
coming up. Everyone has eventually come from short track racing, so we get
back to the grass-roots racing, and have a little fun.

With bumping each other and everything that goes along with short track
racing.
"It is going to happen a little bit, and everyone knows that it is going to
happen, but there is nothing you can do about it. If you do bump into
someone, you just let them know, 'Hey man, sure am sorry' and just hope that
you don't crash big, but there is stuff you can do to avoid it, but you just
cannot race like every lap is the last lap. You don't go racing until the
end, and just keep that in mind, and don't crash early, and hopefully get a
good finish."

DRIVER: RYAN MOORE
TEAM: No. 40 Key Motorsports Silverado

"I can't really say much now about Memphis, and our short track program,
because we didn't run well at Milwaukee, and we're bringing the same truck.
But Barry (crew chief Dodson) has a great set-up at Memphis that he used with
Travis Kittleston in the Busch Series race there last year, so we should be
OK. It'll probably be a long race, so we need to stay consistent and stay out
of trouble, and that should get a good finish."

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