TOYOTA MOTORSPORTS REVIEW - Auto Club 500 - February 23, 2009

DENNY HAMLIN, No. 11 FedEx Freight Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing Finishing Position: 6th How was your race? "We were loose the entire race -- we fought it and fought it. The longer the run, the harder it was on the right rear tires and we 'd just roll away. We made adjustments to the FedEx Freight Toyota all night -- we made as many changes as we could and got to where we could drive the car near the end. It was too bad -- we were fourth and ended up sixth -- we were way, way loose and just couldn't hang on. The FedEx pit crew put together some fantastic stops and moved us up a few places on pit road -- they did really well tonight. Even without testing we are really starting to put ourselves into a good position this season. We have been running near the front with the other guys who run up there -- we haven't lost any ground. Mike Ford (crew chief) and FedEx guys worked hard all weekend and it paid off at the very end for us."

BRIAN VICKERS, No. 83 Red Bull Toyota Camry, Red Bull Racing Team Finishing Position: 10th

DAVID REUTIMANN, No. 00 Aaron's Dream Machine Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing Finishing Position: 14th What type of problems did you have tonight with your brakes? "There was an issue with the master cylinder where it had no brakes at all. You had to pump them like mad and then periodically you could get it to slow down a little bit. Then it would go back the other way -- unpredictable. You couldn't be smooth and you couldn't do what you needed to do to be consistent. At that point, our car was so down because we had to tighten it up so I could drive it in and drive it straight off because I couldn't slow it down. This is not a track you use a lot of brake on, but you use some -- I use some. It hurt us."

DAVID REUTIMANN, No. 00 Aaron's Dream Machine Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing (continued) Is it any consolation finishing in the top-15 with those problems? "For the kind of problems that we had, it ended up being a pretty good night -- all in all. It's just really disappointing that that even happened -- that kind of stuff shouldn't happen. We have the best components on our car and there should be no failures like that. That's the second time that happened. That happened at Lowe's (Motor Speedway) and cost us a really good finish, and happened tonight, too. I don't know what to do."

Where would you have finished if you didn't have those problems? "I think we could have run in the top-10. We ran 14th just hanging on. I don't feel a top-10 was out of the realm of things."

MICHAEL WALTRIP, No. 55 NAPA AUTO PARTS Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing Finishing Position: 15th How was your race this evening? "We had a really solid car all night. These things are real sensitive and we made a couple of adjustments that really made it go. Then we made a couple (of adjustments) at the end that really made it loose, and we couldn't get going again. We ran about there most of the night -- drove up from last and finished 15th. Considering by lap 10 I had passed more cars than I did in 2007 or 2008 here at California - I'm pretty proud of that."

MARCOS AMBROSE, No. 47 Little Debbie/Kingsford/Clorox Toyota Camry, JTG-Daugherty Racing Finishing Position: 22nd

JOEY LOGANO, No. 20 Home Depot Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing Finishing Position: 26th

ROBBY GORDON, No. 7 Jim Beam Toyota Camry, Robby Gordon Motorsports Finishing Position: 30th

JEREMY MAYFIELD, No. 41 All Sport Toyota Camry, Jeremy Mayfield Motorsports Finishing Position: 34th

SCOTT RIGGS, No. 36 Red Bank Outfitters Toyota Camry, Tommy Baldwin Racing Finishing Position: 36th

SCOTT SPEED, No. 82 Red Bull Toyota Camry, Red Bull Racing Team Finishing Position: 41st

DAVE BLANEY, No. 66 Prism Motorsports Toyota Camry, Prism Motorsports Finishing Position: 42nd

JOE NEMECHEK, No. 87 Toyota Camry, NEMCO Motorsports Finishing Position: 43rd