NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES
FEDEX 400 BENEFITING AUTISM SPEAKS
DOVER INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY
TEAM CHEVY QUALIFYING NOTES AND QUOTES
MAY 30, 2014
 
JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S/KOBALT TOOLS CHEVROLET SS – QUALIFIED 4th
ON HIS QUALIFYING RUN:
“Good lap did have a moment off of (Turn) 4.  Certainly drug some speed out of the car with that.  I think we could have been a little bit better.  I’m not sure where it would have put us, but a strong day.  We unloaded fast and we made it through each round and had a lot of speed in the car.  I’m excited about the weekend.”

KYLE LARSON, NO. 42 COTTONELLE CHEVROLET SS – QUALIFIED 5th
ON HIS QUALIFYING RUN:
“Qualifying was pretty good for us I think we ended up fifth.  We had a Cottonelle Chevy in practice and then worked on it a little bit there in our qualifying runs and got a little bit better.  Happy with a top-five starting spot for Sunday’s race.  Just have to get our race car a little bit better and we should be right up there with the top guys.”
 
JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 DRIVE TO END HUNGER CHEVROLET SS – QUALIFIED 6th
ON HIS QUALIFYING RUN:
“Pretty solid effort.  Our car was good all day and the first run out was a little bit better lap time.  But I knew that we were going to be pretty tight.  We made a big adjustment and it helped, just not enough to put that lap down that we really needed to compete for the pole.  All in all I’m very excited about this race on Sunday the car is really excellent.”
 
DALE EARNHARDT, JR., NO. 88 NATIONAL GUARD CHEVROLET SS – QUALIFIED 13th
OUR TELEMETRY SHOWS YOU WERE LOOKING GOOD UNTIL TURN 4:
“Oh, really? I thought we were real tight. I didn’t think we got through (Turns) 1 and 2 real good. And we were really pretty happy with the car. We made some good adjustments in practice and freed the car up a good amount. But it was just not enough. I was happy with the car earlier in race trim today. It’s not too bad a qualifying spot. It’s a little bit of an improvement for us. So, we’ll see what we’ve got tomorrow when we get into race trim and have a shot to work on it.”
 
DANICA PATRICK, NO. 10 GODADDY CHEVROLET SS – QUALIFIED 28th
ON HER QUALIFYING RUN:
“There were some signs in practice that should have pushed us in another direction for qualifying. Unfortunately, we kind of left things. We didn’t want to make too big a change; just hoping to make it just a little bit better. I feel like the more methodical we are, the better we do. But in hindsight, we probably should have gone back on some of that. We were about a change behind on our balance I think. Because when I went out for the second round, I went about the same speed but we’d only really kept up with the track. So, it was just too tight. I was trying to do some things too that I had seen in the data that might help me go faster. I’ve got to see if it worked or didn’t work. When you’re not at the top, you might as well try something. Unfortunately I tried it on the driving side and maybe we should have tried on the car side. But hey, it’s all right. We’ve got all kinds of time on Sunday.”