On move that won race for Jimmie:
“I don’t want to make excuses because we just basically got beat. We all had an equal opportunity to come in and get tires and fuel and adjust on our race cars and we had the position. I will say that I think it would have been a lot different had Jimmie been behind me and not Jeff Burton because he was the only one who could make the outside of turn four work. When he got that little bit of bumper, just like yesterday in the Busch race, when he got that little bit of bumper to the outside of me, when he got to the outside of me, I was so loose up underneath him, I was just kinda stuck on the bottom and Jimmie just took advantage of that. Jimmie deserves a lot of credit, he drove from the back, he had a fast race car, he saw an opportunity to get by us and he did, then he went up and passed Burton. You have to give him credit for that too. Burton seemed like he could take off for about four or five laps and then he faded pretty bad after than, even though he had some engine trouble earlier, he did that same thing. That is where we got beat. “
On Jimmie winning three races in a row at Las Vegas:
“He and that team are fighters, they don’t give up. They proved that today and they prove that every win they have here and other tracks as well. Jimmie is an excellent driver, 100% every time he is on the track. Those guys click well together, that is why they won the championship last year. That is why they will be a threat this year to win more races and the championship as well. It is funny, even with the changes in the race track and the changes in the tire, you drove the track kind of similar. There were times in three and four when I felt having similar characteristics to what it had before which I thought was kind of strange. But three and four wasn’t that much different. So maybe past setups could have contributed. But I think mainly those guys are really a solid team and they did their jobs well. ”
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