BRIAN VICKERS, NO. 25 GMAC CHEVROLET MONTE CARLO:

"I can't hold my hand any straighter than that. It's a fun race track. I'm really proud of this GMAC Chevy team. They gave me a car we needed for the pole. I'm not real happy with myself right now. We should have been on the pole. I knew it was a pole lap all the way until I got to the center of Turns 3 and 4 and I got on the apron a little bit and the car shot up the race track and I had to get out of it. And to lift and still run a seventy-something should have been a pole. We'll get them next time. Hopefully we'll have a good car for the race."

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO COME OUT OF THE GATE SO STRONG IN QUALIFYING THIS YEAR?

"It's nice. The whole No. 25 team is doing a great job. We've got our whole qualifying game down pretty good so far. We've got to keep that intact. We don't need to lose our focus there, but we just need to pick up our race program a little bit every week."

WHAT ARE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT THE RACE PROGRAM SO FAR?

"It's good. The team just has to learn when I need in a race car and I've got to learn what they need to hear in the race set-up. And that'll come with time. Race set-up is always a little bit harder to find than qualifying. So we're just going to keep trying."