CHAD CHAFFIN (No. 18 Dickies Dodge Ram) -- Finished 10th

"It was a hard top 10. We had a real good truck. It was actually
turning too good. We work so hard to make these trucks turn. Bobby (team
owner Hamilton) and his engineers designed some stuff that's awesome. We
just overdid it. I could kill Jack Sprague at the start of the race. I just
didn't want to race him too hard. After about 20 laps it started getting
loose and started giving up. I don't know how we got a lap down. We got
spun, and my brakes started fading. That was my fault. We pitted on the
lead lap. They had the stop sign out, and I ran the stop sign on purpose to
stay on the lead lap. Somehow it was a lap penalty and the penalty should
be a stop and go or 15 seconds. They were telling us if we would sit in the
pits and let everything get straightened out that everything would be cool.
Then they changed their minds. I actually ran the stop board twice. My guys
did a great job. We were able to keep racing until the end. We gave up some
rubber to all those guys that passed us at the end. I think we had a better
truck. We had to get rubber to stay on the lead lap and we just couldn't
hang on there at the end. I'm proud of the top 10. We're here to win, and
we're going to win."

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