GREG BIFFLE -- No. 16 National Guard Ford Fusion (Qualified 7th)

"The track is really slick right now and I wasn't expecting that. I made some
changes to my car to free it up a little bit and it was just really loose
qualifying right there. I wish I wouldn't have made those changes, but I
really don't have a big history with this race track of what it does and it
just got hot and slick for me probably. I felt like we could have been down
in the flats or something and ended up doing a .60, but, oh well. It's
cooling off fast right now, so a lot of guys will end up beating us."

BORIS SAID -- No. 60 Sobe No Fear Ford Fusion (Qualified 5th)

CAN YOU WIN ON SUNDAY? "I don't know. I've got all the equipment. I've got a
great team. I've got a Roush-Yates engine. Jack Roush sold us a really fast
car and I've got a great sponsor in Sobe No Fear Energy drink. For a new team
and me being a part owner of it and Frank Stoddard and Mark Simo it's a dream
come true, but you don't know how much pressure there is just to qualify. I
don't think that's a pole lap. I think Tony Stewart or Kurt Busch will
probably get the pole, but we're in the show and that's what matters. We'll
have a chance on Sunday."

YOU MIGHT HAVE THE POLE. "I think Jeff Gordon made a rare, rare mistake. Tony
Stewart and Kurt Busch are the ones that are gonna be up there, I think. They
were fast all day, but for a first time effort, our own little private team
with four or five employees, it says a lot for Sobe No Fear. We've got a lot
of fans out there who drink Sobe No Fear and our number one goal was to get
in this market and race and show off our energy drink brand and take Red Bull
down. With the might of Pepsi behind Sobe, we're gonna clip the wings off
that bull."

CAN YOUR PIT CREW KEEP YOU IN CONTENTION ON SUNDAY? "I don't know. It's our
first time together and you never know. There could definitely be some
mistakes. These guys have been doing this for years and it takes a long time
to get that chemistry together, but we've run practice and haven't had any
problems. So far, so good. We definitely have a chance. Our goal for the race
is to be in the top five with 30 laps to go and then you never know, our
goals might change and maybe see where we stand for a chance to win."

MARK MARTIN -- No. 6 AAA Ford Fusion (Qualified 8th) - "It's just pathetic.
We have just been horrible. I can't believe that we ran that fast. I'm really
thrilled with that. I thought we were gonna qualify about 20th or so. That
will give us a decent starting spot, but we're in big, big trouble unless we
find out why this thing is so evil. We've got an hour and a half tomorrow. I
hope we figure it out. I haven't been able to help them at all today. I felt
really bad. I haven't been able to tell them how to make it better for me.
The thing is just out of control. I wish I could tell them what it needs.
We've got to get it tightened up, but we've got to get it turning too. That's
a hard thing to do and pick up about a second a lap on top of that. We've got
our work cut out for us."

JAMIE MCMURRAY -- No. 26 Crown Royal Ford Fusion (Qualified 2nd)

"I didn't drive hard enough, but I told Bob on my mock up run that I didn't
drive real hard, but stayed on the track. I just tried to run a smooth lap. I
talked to Boris just before I went out and he said, 'Man, it's really slick.'
So I didn't drive hard enough, but you get out now and wish you had tried
harder. But if you go off the race track you put yourself in a bad position
before the race even starts and it's frustrating, so it was a good day for
the Crown Royal Ford Fusion."

YOU CAN DO THIS CAN'T YOU? "Infineon is one of my favorite tracks. I don't
run as well at Watkins Glen, but I enjoy coming here. We unloaded and the car
was a top five car off the truck and ended up ninth in practice. We just went
out and made a smooth lap. You look at it now and you wish you would have
drove a little harder and had a shot at the pole. I didn't really think we
had a shot at the pole, but we made some good adjustments to our car just
before qualifying. Every year I've been here, when it came time to qualify I
couldn't figure out where all the grip went and this year we had a lot of
grip."

MATT KENSETH -- No. 17 DeWalt Ford Fusion (Qualified 9th)

"I thought I'd go a little quicker than that. We adjusted a little bit and
probably over-adjusted. I had it a little too tight. I've been good in the
esses all day and we just kind of wrecked it in the esses to try and help it
everywhere else, so I thought we missed it by just a little bit but that was
still good." WAS THE TRACK SLICKER THAN YOU THOUGHT? "No, everything felt
about normal. The changes we made with the chassis just didn't agree with the
fast parts of the track and that kind of hurt me a little bit."

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