NASCAR Cup Series

KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 4 BUDWEISER/JIMMY JOHN’S CHEVROLET SS – QUALIFIED 29TH - ON HIS QUALIFYING EFFORT: “We stuck to our plan and just did what we had to do to try to get everybody going with our draw it was just kind of the way that it worked out. It didn’t work out.”

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. turned the second fastest overall time of Sunday’s wild and woolly three-round Daytona 500 qualifying session to secure his spot in next Sunday’s Daytona 500, completing a lap of 202.334 mph (44.481 seconds) around the famed 2.5-mile superspeedway during the first round.

JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Shell Pennzoil Ford Fusion – “That sucked. Our strategy didn’t work. Our strategy backfired in our face really bad. We will learn from our mistakes. All we can do is study it and try to understand just a little better. We haven’t really done a good job at it yet.”

Martin Truex Jr. came up a little short as the Furniture Row Racing driver finished a close second to Matt Kenseth in Saturday night's Sprint Unlimited race at Daytona International Speedway

MATT KENSETH, No. 20 Dollar General Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Finishing Position: 1st - How does it feel to kick off Daytona with a victory? "This is a great feeling. "

Both Greg Biffle and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. were caught up in multiple accidents in a wreck-filled Sprint Unlimited All-Star race on Saturday night a Daytona International Speedway, settling for 14th and 16th-place finishes.

MARTIN TRUEX, JR., NO. 78 FURNITURE ROW RACING CHEVROLET SS – FINISHED 2ND - ON HIS RUN: “It was awesome. I can’t say enough about the guys on the Furniture Row No. 78 team. They gave me one heck of a race car right there. The best car I have ever had here without a doubt. Second sucks, but that is the most fun I have had in a race car in a long long time. After the year we had last year and then everything that I have been through with Sherry (Pollex, girlfriend) and all. It feels good to come here and run like that. It felt really good.”

Richard Childress Racing teammates finished 12th (Ryan Newman), 17th (Austin Dillon) and 21st (Paul Menard).

After taking the lead with 20 laps to go, Matt Kenseth never looked back as he held the field off in a late race restart, getting ahead of the field and keeping the gap till the very end, with a perfectly timed block on Martin Truex Jr.

“The wall. I don’t know. I really need to see a replay to give an honest answer. The car is tore up so we are out but it was fast, so that was good.”