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ARE YOU GOING TO SHARE SOME INFORMATION WITH THE OTHER TEAMS? "The neat thing
about Evernham Motorsports is yesterday when my guys were fixing my racecar
after practice, myself, Kenny and our engineer were in the 10 hauler with the
other team director and other driver and went over every note we had from
practice and every setup sheet, everything we had done to make the car better
and everything they had done to make theirs better or worse and everything to
make ours better or worse, too. We're all working hard to make our car better
and better."

RAY EVERNHAM (President, CEO Evernham Motorsports)

COMMENT ON THE VICTORY "As far as the 9 team they've been strong all weekend.
They've got a good program going. Certainly our other two cars weren't
strong, and I've got to find out what happened there. I'm really proud of the
9 guys. They had an incident yesterday afternoon and tore up the body pretty
bad. They had to change the front end, rear suspension, didn't really get a
lot of practice time and had to guess at a few things. They communicated
well. They had a problem today with some debris getting caught on the grille.
The car overheated. They made a good choice to pit rather than burn up the
motor and came all the way back from that."

COMMENT ON KASEY KAHNE'S MATURITY "He's definitely grown as a racecar driver.
He understands what he needs to feel. He understands these races are longer.
He lets people go. I've seen him drop back a few positions and runs it as
hard as he needs to. He's gotten to understand that the end of the race is
what counts and not to abuse the car and all he's got to do is keep it in
position. I think he's got confidence in Kenny Francis and in the pit crew
that they're going to keep him up front and Kenny is going to make the right
decisions. I think he's a much more confident person because he knows he
doesn't have to be the fastest car all of the race. He just needs to be the
fastest at the end."

HOW MUCH OF THIS TEAM IS THE TEAM THAT WON THE LAST TIME HERE? "There's
probably 60 or 70 percent. We mixed and matched a lot of people over the
five-week winter off season. Pit crew members moved around, some mechanics
and fabricators, but Kenny Francis is one of the keys and we brought a young
gentleman up as engineer from our Busch program and he's done a tremendous
job, but Kenny Francis and Mike Shiplett have been together for several years
on that program."

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO HAVE TO PIT EARLY KNOWING YOU'VE GOT A LONG WAY TO GET
BACK TO THE FRONT? "You certainly don't want to have a problem, but you want
it to happen early at a place like this. Now with the Lucky Dog rule we knew
all we needed was a caution. We thought we were fast enough to get the lap
back on our own and it looked like we would, but it would have taken a little
longer. Now with the Lucky Dog rule being you're the first car a lap down if
the caution comes out, you want to make it up early. We were fortunate enough
to get out lap back. I think it was around lap 57 and that was plenty of time
to get back to the front. I'm not sure what was on the grille. It looked like
plastic and hot dog wrappers and stuff like that. I told Kasey if he had
wanted a hot dog we would have bought him one. There was a bunch of trash on
it. I don't know why. There wasn't a bunch of trash on the track today. They
did an excellent job keeping it cleaned up. Sometimes when you're up front
you're the first one to hit the stuff. We have helped some of the problem
with the Dodge Charger picking up debris, but for some reason today we caught
a bunch of it."

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