You made an unscheduled pit stop.

Regan Smith: It just picked up a vibration. The right front tire was corded so I had to come in and get that thing off of there which, ultimately didn’t hurt us that bad. The guys had a good pit stop and we got back out, joined right in the pack and everybody else cycled through. Just lost a lot of track position by pitting by ourself there.

But I feel like we learned a lot for Sunday. Obviously didn’t finish where we wanted to but we’re going to work on it here. We’ve got two more days of practice and we’re going to work on it and get it tuned in and dialed in and see what we have for Sunday. We’ll just get The Principal Financial Group Chevy ready.

You ran well early in the race.

Yeah, the car seemed fine right up there at the front of the pack. I got down to the inside there at one point and it looked like it was going to go and get cleared and we got stopped up just before we could. I couldn’t push guys like I needed to be able to and then when you can’t do then they’re not going with you as much as you need ‘em to. We’ve got a little work to do but we’ve got a good idea of what we need and we’re going to work on it.

It seems like the cars move around a lot.

That’d be an accurate statement [smiles]. They do a good bit of moving but I think we all expected that coming into it. It’s going to be cool because I really feel like the race is going to be a big-time handling race on Sunday. And I think everybody else is going to say that same thing now. You can tell the cars that we really starting to handle good towards the end and we weren’t where we needed to be in that aspect. We’ll work on it.