The car was way faster than last year, and we were just barely tapping into the extra power. Didn't want to risk getting cursed, so we were holding back a bit. We didn't even have the good tires on the car Saturday! So, with good rubber and driven hard... there was easily another 2 seconds per lap out there, which would have put us on par with the Dogs.

But, even the Dogs had penalties and some minor mechanical setbacks, I think. Faster than them or not, if we'd have stayed on track and kept up our quick driver changes and stayed out of the penatly box... as we were doing up until the point the the car gave up... Top 5 would have been easy, and a win certainly without our grasp.

What Jeff said.