Toyota Motorsports Saturday Re-cap - Atlanta - March 7, 2009

TODD BODINE, No. 30 Germain.com Toyota Tundra, Germain Racing Finishing Position: 3rd How was your truck in today's race? "We made an adjustment on the first stop and actually made the truck worse. (Mike Hillman) Jr. (crew chief) went back and un-did that and did some other stuff that made it good, but them it was a little tight off. That's why at the end I couldn't run with Kyle (Busch) or Kevin (Harvick) from the center off. Kyle (Busch), he was hanging on for dear life on the long run and that played right into his hand on the final run and he was able to haul the mail at the end of the race. It was a good race - the Tilted Kilt Toyota was good and it's a first, second and third. We're probably 20 points behind Kyle (Busch) now and we still have a lot of races to win."

Could you have caught Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch in the closing laps? "Kevin (Harvick) and Kyle (Busch) had the best trucks, well Kevin (Harvick) had the best truck and Kyle (Busch) had the best truck on short runs and it showed. On that short of a run, he had it made. We just didn't get ours free enough. Everybody on new tires can go good for about five, six, seven laps and Kyle (Busch) did it for nine (laps) and he hung on because he was sideways the last two corners."

Will you be racing at Martinsville? "I don't know. As of right now we are not going to Martinsville, as of this minute. We don't have a sponsor and if we don't have a sponsor then we're not going. Hopefully we're going to have some discussions with Tilted Kilt this week and if things work out - I know they like the series, they like NASCAR, they like racing and hopefully we can ink a deal and get it done and go to Martinsville with a sponsor. It's a great company - it's a new restaurant chain that has opened up and it's really expanding and growing and we would like to be a part of that. We took on Lumber Liquidators and helped them to go public as a company and grow their chain so hopefully we can sign Tilted Kilt up and do the same thing for them."

Do you expect to see less new teams hold on as the week's progress this season? "In the truck series you cannot make a 'start-and-park' pay for itself. Any guys that are just trying to get started and maybe just run some laps and see what they have, it's going to be hard. It's really going to be hard for anybody to do this without a sponsor. You just cannot even come close on what the payoffs are. I think you're going to see the field dwindle down here as we go along and I think the same thing in the Cup deal although if you finish last in Cup you can pay your way and you can keep racing. It's hard and it's just tough for any of these teams to make it work without any sponsorship. Right now its hard to get sponsorship. I think as the season goes on you're going to see it turn - it's going to turnaround. The economy, by the end of the summer is going to start getting better. We might not see anything in our industry for this season, but I think next year its going to be a lot easier to get a sponsorship. Corporations are going to open back up and start spending their marketing dollars again - at least that's what I'm told."

MIKE SKINNER, No. 5 Exide Batteries Toyota Tundra, Randy Moss Motorsports Finishing Position: 4th Were you surprised with a top-five finish? "We had about a ninth-place truck and we really missed it on the set-up. We knew we had done that earlier. We rode behind Terry (Cook) forever and ever and he was just a little bit better than we were, especially on long runs. We just thought that if we could finish in the top-10 it would be a good day. We had some fuel left so we got a good restart, but our Exide Tundra just wasn't very good today. We feel like we stole one getting into the top-five."

TERRY COOK, No. 25 Harris Trucking Toyota Tundra, HT Motorsports Finishing Position: 5th How close were you to winning the race today? "Danny Rollins (crew chief) made a hell of a call - we were trying to set up to win the race. We were just a little too high in second gear and we were spinning the tires on the restarts. On that last restart we spun the tires all the way down the front - stretch. I saw Kyle (Busch) laying back because he had trouble with third gear so I bumbled up the field coming to the start and just spun the tires on the front-stretch. Both restarts we would run out of fuel right in the middle of (turns) one and two and halfway down the backstretch. I'm happy but I'm disappointed. The Harris Trucking Toyota Tundra was solid all day long and whenever you get yourself in a position to have a shot to win a race, you're disappointed when you don't get it. A top-five finish is definitely something to go home and have an enjoyable drive back to Mooresville, North Carolina from Atlanta and be smiling all the way. There's always that, 'What could have been?' Had we not had the motor stumbling when it was low on fuel - once it got going it was fine, but we just couldn't put enough fuel in the little black box in the back of the truck that picks up fuel." - more -

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JOHNNY BENSON, No. 1 Red Horse Racing Toyota Tundra, Red Horse Racing Finishing Position: 9th

BRIAN SCOTT, No. 16 Albertsons Toyota Tundra, Xpress Motorsports Finishing Position: 10th How exciting were the closing laps from your vantage point? "The closing laps were definitely more exciting than the first three-quarters of it. We qualified bad and worked our whole way to get up front so it was nice to finally get there at the end and it was kind of exciting. We thought we had a chance for a win, but we were way too tight. We had as good of tires as anybody, we were just empty on gas and we should have loosened it up a little bit and didn't. Ultimately that cost us because (Todd) Bodine was able to get under us in turn two and then (Kevin) Harvick made it three-wide in (turns) three and four and just kind of sucked us around and held on, road around and finished 10th.

T.J. BELL, No. 11 Red Horse Racing Toyota Tundra, Red Horse Racing Finishing Position: 12th

TAYLER MALSAM, No. 81 One Eighty Toyota Tundra, Randy Moss Motorsports Finishing Position: 13th

TIMOTHY PETERS, No. 17 Strutmasters.com/Hair of the Dog Energy Toyota Tundra, Premier Racing Finishing Position: 15th

DAVID STARR, No. 24 Zachry/Harris Trucking Toyota Tundra, HT Motorsports Finishing Position: 17th

STACY COMPTON, No. 60 Wyler.com/Melling Engine Parts Toyota Tundra, Wyler Racing Finishing Position: 19th

MAX PAPIS, No. 9 GEICO Toyota Tundra, Germain Racing Finishing Position: 20th

SHANE SIEG, No. 15 Phoenix Construction Toyota Tundra, Billy Ballew Motorsports Finishing Position: 23rd

GABI DICARLO, No. 90 Great Clips Toyota Tundra, Stringer Racing Finishing Position: 24th