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Scott Riggs utilized a good car, pit strategy and brush with the wall to garner a season-best finish of 13th for R3 Motorsports in the No. 23 Wildlife Conservation Society Dodge at Darlington Raceway on Friday night.

CARL EDWARDS – No. 60 Ford. Drive One. Ford Mustang – “We had a really fast race car, but they were all wrecking. I thought I had it missed and I just got caught in the right-rear."

BRAD KESELOWSKI (No. 22 Ruby Tuesday Dodge Challenger R/T) Finished 27th "What a bum deal. Some guys just go too impatient on a restart and we got collected. Guys know that it's 'go time' and just overdrive the race track."

Ryan Newman put the No. 39 Tornados Chevrolet on the front row for the Showtime Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.

KASEY KAHNE, No. 4 Red Bull Toyota Camry, Red Bull Racing Team Starting Position: 1st How is the track different now than when you won the Truck race? "It's a little bit different, but it's the same tire so some of the things are similar."

DAVID GILLILAND - No. 34 Taco Bell Ford Fusion - "We got messed up in qualifying. We had a broken ignition wire underneath the dash and we hardly got any practice. "

BRAD KESELOWSKI (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger R/T) Qualified 10th QUALIFYING RUN INITIALLY WASN'T RECORDED: "There's a couple different ways that you can look at it."

KURT BUSCH (No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger R/T) CAN YOU TALK ABOUT YOUR EVENTFUL PRACTICE TODAY? “We ended up blowing a right-front tire that sent us straight into the fence on the last lap of practice."

TONY STEWART, NO. 14 OFFICE DEPOT/MOBIL 1 CHEVROLET met with media and discussed improving race car issues, last week's race at Richmond, upcoming races at Dover and Charlotte, Mother's Day, and more.

KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 Doublemint Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing How is your car this weekend? “Car is not bad. The Doublemint Camry seems to be pretty good thus far."