We changed a lot of stuff up this week. When you've got a race car that's working like that one, you've got to make the most of it.

We were working okay there and Steve was working good, as well. Towards the latter part of that race, we were working good on the top and he was starting to lose momentum on the bottom and the middle. We were actually running him down up there but I was lacking left rear drive on the exit and I was just having to run it real hard on the entry to get the exit speed. You can only do that so long before you get tight and push a little bit. I lost a little momentum a couple of times doing that. Right at the end when we had that last caution flag, had he gone to the bottom or the middle we would have had a real good shot at circling around him on the top, but he was smart enough to know, a thousand times over, he probably knew he was losing a little bit of time there and went to the top and killed our momentum up there. I gave second away in the last corner going to the bottom.

To be honest, I never even saw him. I didn't know where he came from. I just know we got together and fortunately we both came out of there in one piece. We're just racing hard and these guys are good, hard racers. You don't have to worry about the next guy too often.

Billings was looking real good for us. We were going to pick up a win and ended up cutting a tire while leading the race with a couple of laps to go. It just kind of set the tone for our whole trip out here. We struggled at Elma and coming here tonight, getting a top three is good, but really we were looking for more than that.

is going to be a horse race.

She's come back to form pretty quick, she's trained on and everything is good going into the race.