This season was a rollercoaster. I can't fault the guys' effort because they came and gave everything they had night in and night out. I learned a lot and I hope they did too.

It was a brave, valiant, but ultimately tragic effort to get the whale to safety.

That was a pretty good run for us, ... To get a top-10 qualifying effort was a good feeling. We've got a lot to prove to a lot of people in the last 10 races and we can start that (today).

We've put a lot of time and effort into our primary car, and we didn't want to take the chance of something happening during practice. We feel like we've done everything we can do to get ready.

We need a maximum effort 32 minutes a night, and we?re not getting it. We?re just not getting it each night.

It wasn't (Barrett's) best effort on that night. I would never say that we were naïve that the players weren't blameless.