Mike Wallace, #2 Team ASE Ford F-150: "It's so damn good to win this race. I've got to thank Ultra Motorsports, Team ASE, Snap-On Tools, Wagner Brakes, Robert Yates for doing the engines, all those ASE Certified Mechanics out there. I'll tell you what I didn't want to see that caution come out with the 25. Ron was back there and they were racing eachother. It was a phenomenal day." YOU MENTIONED THE CAUTION. THERE WERE SEVERAL TODAY. DID YOU THINK TO YOURSELF, MAN THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN SOMETHING THAT HAS GONE WRONG? "You're right. I was, but I just stayed calm. The 16 truck helped me win this race by teaching me some stuff last year. I'd like to take my hat off to the 16 crew. We had some killer restarts. Ron helped us out there." DID YOU THINK IT WOULD BE THIS TOUGH TO WIN IN THIS SERIES? "I didn't think so initially, but the competition is so tough, so darn tough. I'm with a great race team. That's the main thing. They've worked their butts off. They worked every week on pit stops. We really picked up on pit stops. If we didn't come in leading, we left leading. They did a phenomenal job. Kenny and Rusty are at Darlington, and I hope they will have great runs tomorrow.

Rick Crawford, #14 Circle Bar Motel & RV Park Ford F-150: "We made a tire change there with about 30 laps to go, and that was a good move for us because we had a right front going down. We went to church this morning, and that included church service and (crew chief) George Church. He did a great job and put a good truck under us. I was running fifth there with the green, white, checker, and I wanted to run first and that made me go back to ninth. But we gave it a shot."

Tim Steele, #21 HS Motorsports Ford F-150: "We had a motor let go. We had a piston lock up on us, and made our day a little short. But we'll get there. We'll recover from it, and we'll be back next week."

Randy Nelson, #26 Mittler Brothers Ford F-150: "We were running good. The chassis was good, and we were going to work on it during the first pit stop. We ended up throwing a dry sump belt off, and we lost pressure. We replaced it, but when we went back out we broke the motor before we got it up to speed. Mittler Brothers and American Trucking have done good for us, and we got here, and hopefully we'll get to Phoenix next week."

Ernie Cope, #27 Hastings Premium Filters Ford F-150: "The motor blew up. It lost a cylinder, and we kept going hoping a caution would come out, but we dropped a valve. We were hoping to get some laps here and get the experience. It's been a long weekend. We've just got to get to Phoenix and go on from there."

Kevin Cywinski, #31 Auto Trim Design Ford F-150: "I've got give credit to this whole crew. They practiced pit stops all winter, and we were gaining spots every time. That really gives a driver confidence. It was a great debut for our sponsor, Auto Trim Design. It's a great foot to get off on. Hopefully we can carry it through the season."

Greg Biffle, #50 Grainger Ford F-150: "My guys did a great job. I just think there was a lack of respect on the race track. It was a tough day out there. A couple of trucks got into me, but my guys did a great job. We kept coming back, and coming back. Finally after the last incident, I decided I wasn't going to pass anybody. I was going to stay right there and finish. They were all going crazy out there. I've never seen guys race like that. We had a good truck. We got off sync and got back in the pack a little bit. But we came back, and we care about the points. We'll go to Phoenix with our other truck."

Ron Barfield, #55 Icehouse Beer Ford F-150: "We were racing to win. We had a truck that could have won today. Icehouse Beer and Tom Gloy and Bobby Rahal, they've given me excellent support. It is a good race truck. It was just that somebody hooked us on the right rear there and turned us into the fence. But hey, it was no big deal. It was just one of those things. We'll go onto Phoenix next week. There at the last it must have got a hole in the radiator, and it burned the motor up too. That's what stopped us there at the last. But it was a good race, good truck, good team." WHAT HAPPENED WITH JACK SPRAGUE? "I didn't see him. I never even looked up in the mirror there because he was a long way behind me in the middle of the corner. When I came up off of the corner he didn't have enough of a nose in there. You have to give and take out there, and I guess he took a little bit. It's no big deal."

Mike Stefanik, #66 Carlin Burners & Controls Ford F-150: "It's great. I feel great. What can I say. I'm just thankful Dale Phelon gave me a chance to come and run in this truck series. I love racing with them guys. I used to run on the treadmill, and look at Ron Hornaday's back bumper, and just say, 'this is what I want to do when I get to him. I dreamed of that.' Someone said to me when you leave here tomorrow you're going to have twice as much experience as you've had. This is my second truck race. These guys know how to race. This is a great series, and Miami-Homestead is a great race track. I'm just so happy. I haven't ever been so happy about a second. I'm kind of tired. The Ford is a super truck. Ford was one-two. What else can you say. Sprague had a real tough truck, and he had misfortune. A lot was happening out there. I didn't see it all, but it certainly was exciting." YOU WERE IN A TESTING ACCIDENT. HOW DO YOU FEEL? "I'm telling you I'm here to say I was worried. I was pretty scared. I went to a chiropractor. I didn't sleep good. I didn't eat. I just laid there. I couldn't get up out of bed. I was worried. I didn't want to hit anything here. I felt good enough to race the race, but god forbid if I hit anything. I would have been out for a long time. My neck is just not 100 percent. My guys did a great job with head supports. My head was just stuck in there, but it was okay. The better the truck ran, the more excited I got. You see some of those tough trucks get torn up, I'm just glad it wasn't me because I couldn't have taken any of those hits."

Kevin Harvick, #98 Porter-Cable Power Tools Ford F-150: "The water pump had been leaking all day, and finally it just spit all the water out and the motor went. The Porter-Cable F-150 was awesome. We couldn't figure out what was wrong. It was just pouring water on the tires, and it was sliding all around. We'll be back next week."

Mike Bliss, #99 Exide Batteries Ford F-150: "We were better than the 24 truck. He just out-motored us. I had him in the corners, and he came down on me, and I hit him in the left rear. I let off so I wouldn't spin him out, and look where I ended up. It doesn't pay to be a good guy out there. Next time I won't lift."

NOTES FROM MIKE WALLACE'S POST-RACE INTERVIEW

TODAY'S WIN WAS THE FIRST FOR MIKE WALLACE IN THE NASCAR CRAFTSMAN TRUCK SERIES.

WHAT WERE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE LAST COUPLE RESTARTS? "Man, they were wearing me out. Any time you're leading a race, we've all lost races in the closing laps. Jim Smith had reminded me they had lost races that way before the race started. They had lost a few that way. They drug it out. It was Randy down there that was tore up. It's a shame he wrecked there." ....

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