Clint Bowyer:

“It’s gonna happen. I don’t know how big it’ll be and when it will be but I’d say it’s definitely going to happen. I mean you can just race so close. I was able to push the 48, come off the side, drag across his bumper and suck by him on the outside and just do things that you shouldn’t be able to do (laughs) and I did. It’s always kind of a recipe for disaster here I think we just kind of built a little bit better recipe.”

Denny Hamlin:

“It is inevitable. It is really is. There is going to be no avoiding it. The only thing that I can think of is if NASCAR is a tough in the race as they were in practice as far as bump drafting, then maybe it will settle down a little bit but inside 20 laps to go, the guys are going to do everything they can to push the guy in front of them, because, ultimately, the only way to go anywhere in these cars is to push the guy in front of you. There is no riding and inch or two behind them and going through the traffic. You have to make contact to go somewhere and when guys are trying to get to the front at the end, they are going to hit each other. If NASCAR continues to crack down like they did in practice, then you are going to have a lot of judgment calls like ‘All right, did they penalize this person or did they single him out.’ I think they are just going to be at a tough, tough spot come Sunday.”

Kyle Busch:

“No, it hasn’t been conversation among drivers in the garage. I just think it’s a fact. If you look at it, there’s the back bumper of the car it’s scooping air right up underneath that blade, right underneath the wing. Any time you push air up against something it’s going to lift it up. So I don’t know that there’s going to be enough air that goes between the deck lid and the wing, I think it’s just all going to get packed up right there and they’re going to go airborne. But I guess they’re hoping the roof flaps are big enough and strong enough to hold the car down on the ground. But I think it would have been cool if we came up with some sort of quick release device that if there was air that got packed up underneath that and the wing would fly forward and flop up on the front side of the deck lid. I don’t know if anybody ever thought of that or if anybody ever came up with a solution in order to do that. And it would still keep it in position as it was going in the forward direction. So that was maybe something we could have thought of before, but it’s too late now.”

Martin Truex, Jr:

“We have been in the wrong place at the wrong time the last two weeks straight. It is pretty frustrating, especially when we have had cars as good as we have had. The same thing goes for here; you never know what can happen. Hopefully we got ours out of the way and we will be able to stay out of it this time. But you never know, you have to go out there and race and do what you can do. Try to stay near the front if you can and hope and pray it doesn’t happen around you.”

Jeff Burton:

“I expect to see big packs. I think you’re going to see however many cars didn’t have a bad pit stop or didn’t get in a wreck or something are going to all be in one big pack. I think with the more cars you get out the easier it’s going to be in the pack so I really don’t expect to see a whole lot different racing than what we see normally here with the Cup cars.”

Matt Kenseth:

“If we wrecked that many cars at Dover and Kansas, we probably have a pretty good opportunity to wreck a lot of them here but you never know, it could be the opposite, it could go flag to flag, who knows. I’ve seen both at this race track.”

Carl Edwards:

“The way it looked to me, it was very easy to run three-wide and people didn’t have any trouble running four-wide in practice. The track is so smooth. Obviously, if you’re in that situation, anything that goes wrong is gonna be disastrous.”

Dale Earnhardt, Jr:

“If you thought it was wild with the old cars, wait until Sunday. The bumpers on these things match-up and they’re built like a tank, so the bump drafting is going to be big time! These things punch such a hole in the air, so we’ll be bottled-up 43 deep all day. The closing speeds are so fast, no one will be able to get away from anyone else. I like to think I’m pretty good at those sorts of things, so maybe that gives us a big advantage when the flag falls.

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