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The big bump-draft thing is more of an issue at Talladega than it is here, because you can run big and run into someone.

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Our performance has been up and our finishes have been a little bit better, so I think everybody has been a little bit more excited the last couple of months, ... I think your goals are to try and win every week, and I think when you're running better in general it's probably a little bit less of a grind and everybody is more excited to get to the track when you're running good.

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Well, he did what he had to do. Whatever Kurt feels good about tonight. I wouldn't have done that to him. I would have passed him the right way, or I wouldn't have passed him.

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I didn't have any reason to be mad at him. I just apologized. I messed up. I'd be mad if was him, too. So I hope everything is OK.

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Not until they tell me what I did. I put my hand up, asked him, 'Why did you do that' That's all I did. What did I do

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He knocked me out of the way. I thought if he had a run on me, had me beat, that would have been OK. But he drove extra hard and knocked me out of the way. I thought it was a cheap shot.

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I'm just really disappointed. I thought (NASCAR president) Mike Helton did a great job all week explaining it in the drivers' meeting that it was about aggressive driving and not necessarily bump drafting. Tony took me out intentionally.

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I feel bad because the team got me in front and we got beat in the last corner. You always worry about the guy getting a run on you. Jimmie did a great job. But I don't feel like I could have done anything different. I think I did everything I could, short of wrecking.

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The first thing that comes to mind when I think about returning to Talladega next weekend is that I hope I don't hit anything It's the same as always when we think about Talladega, but I think we've got better cars than we've ever had for our speedway program. Our speedway program has been a lot better the last couple of years. I don't want to lie and say that I look forward to going there, but I look forward to going there more than I have in the past. I think we can be competitive and hopefully we can be in the lead draft and stay out of trouble.

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We were a sitting duck. We knew we wanted to put four tires on the car because we ran so good all day, but we knew a bunch of them were going to take just two.

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It's been like 10 races or something since we've had a top 10, so we've got to crawl before we can walk, ... At least we finished today and got a decent finish for how bad we ran.

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It's really early in the year, but I think when you're leading the points or when you're solidly in the top 10, it definitely gives you a good feeling and it gives the guys a good feeling. There's a little bit more comfort, being in the top 26 races, being in the front.

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It was great to have dug our way out of the hole and made the chase. We got a lot momentum right now. All of the Roush cars are running really well right now. It's fun to be part of that team.

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We had a talk yesterday and I think we understand each other better after that. It's water under the bridge and a much better week for us.

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They do hit each other pretty hard. It was just hard to pass, and to get anybody a big run outside you had to hit them pretty hard to give them a shot at getting some momentum.

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We led all day and thought we had the best car. My guys had great pit stops and got me out front. I did everything I could at the end. If I had driven any harder, we were going to wreck. I just got beat.

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It was a great day for the guys, ... We kept making adjustments to the car and got good enough. Until two to go, I thought I was racing Carl for the win. It's great to be up front all day. The disappointing thing is I think we had the car to win. We're here to win and whenever you don't win, it's disappointing.

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Tony took me out intentionally, there's no two ways about that. He wrecked me intentionally and got put back to the end of the line, which I didn't think was too big a penalty. It's really disappointing. (NASCAR president) Mike Helton, I thought, did a great job explaining in the drivers' meeting aggressive driving, not necessarily bump drafting. (Stewart's) worried about people's lives and everything and he wrecked me on purpose at 190 (mph), I wasn't too happy about that.

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Not really. Today I still have bad feelings. It would be hard for me not to.

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We didn't really run as good as I expected today, we just got real tight, ... We couldn't fix it a little bit like our Busch car, so we've got to be real happy. We had the pole and finished fifth and that was cool that Mark and those guys won. I would have liked to have run a little bit better than we did, but overall it was a good day.

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If it would've been any other time in the race he would have gone right by me, but right there you've got to race all you can for that position. And the way the leaders were going at it, I thought it maybe could've been for the win, so ... I just told him I was waiting for him to turn me.

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I feel bad for Greg, it's hard to look at the good side if you are him. He's running so strong and there's no doubt he's going to be a contender at the end of the year.

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Kenseth, the 2003 series champion, was happy just to get a crack at his second title. I'm relieved, but I'm more than relieved. I'm excited, ... We were way behind two months ago. We just kept digging and digging. I feel like we have some momentum.

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Okay, enough about me. You all thought getting shoved by Jeff Gordon at Bristol was controversial. That's peanuts compared to what went down in Texas.

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I really have to thank Greg Biffle, we didn't do a qualifying run today and we took a lot of his stuff. That's a great lap for us.

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