My hat's off to Mark Martin, ... He almost won this race. It was only the tires that beat him; he had the best car.

I think you're allowed only about one bad race for these next 10,

Richmond is a great track, and it will be a fun race to watch this week,

It will be great to be back in Charlotte this weekend. It's always good to race close to home. We had a disappointing race there earlier this season and we know that we can run well there. They have a new surface on the track and that will make the track very fast and I like fast. That will be awesome and work to our advantage. The team plans on focusing on a top five finish and hopefully shake off some of this bad luck we have been experiencing. We have a great team and we plan on showing that at Lowe's.

I just look forward to the few hours every week when I get to sit in a race car and enjoy it. That's the part that I really like.

I told our guys I can't beat [Newman] the way we are. So we put on two tires to see if that would help us.