Pocono - Quotables
Pocono, Pa .

JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE'S MONTE CARLO SS

On controlling the points - "I'm thinking points all along. One, to make sure you get in the Chase. Two, I think the top two or three drivers, it's their responsibility to keep this a 10-person race to get in the Chase. We need to keep control of that 400 mark and not let there be 12, 14, 15 cars in the championship battle."

JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 DUPONT MONTE CARLO SS

On driving injured - "Well, you know, once you get in the racecar it's amazing how your mind can block out the pain. But when that caution comes out, it instantly comes back into your mind. I think we need 100 percent focus at all times to be on top of our game, and anything that's a distraction to that is going to cost you speed and performance.
I've only had to deal with it that one time, and once I got out there in the race and was running, I really didn't pay that much attention to it, as long as we were on the green."

DALE EARNHARDT JR., NO. 8 BUDWEISER MONTE CARLO SS

On Pocono's Tunnel Turn Being Toughest on the Circuit- "I think every corner at Sonoma has it beat.  Every corner at The Glen's got it beat.  It's really not that hard of a corner.  It's just real fast.  You lift to go through there and get back on the gas real quick.  It's not really that hard.  I don't know if there is a right way.  People say I never go through there right, I always go through there 100 different ways every time I go through it, and I never can seem to repeat myself.  I don't know if that makes it hard.  It's not hard, it's tricky."

KYLE BUSCH, NO. 5 KELLOGG'S MONTE CARLO SS

His take on the turns at Pocono - "Turn two is such a fast, 90-degree corner. It's almost worse than Indy corners. It's a weird corner to have to get into especially when the bump started to develop in there a couple of years ago. I know they laid down some asphalt and smoothed that out but I don't think it ever really fixed itself. It's the tunnel turn. You're always going to have bumps over a tunnel. All in all it's something that's a part of this place and you have to deal with it."

JAMIE MCMURRAY, No. 26 CROWN ROYAL FORD FUSION

On Shortening the Pocono 500 to the Pocono 400 - “I thought that when I walked in here, I thought, ‘That’s something that I’m going to say.’ This is a long race for us. Pocono is a fun race track, I like coming here, it’s fun, it’s different, it’s not like anywhere else that we go, but it is a very long race and of all the races I’ve run here, when it’s over, I thought it would’ve been just as good at 400 miles as it was 500. So I think that would be great. Some of the places we go, there’s obviously a lot of history and tradition with the Coca-Cola 600. But, this is a place that if was 400 miles I don’t think that anyone would complain about that.”

MATT KENSETH, No. 17 DEWALT TOOLS FORD FUSION

His take on 500 miles at Pocono - “Five hundred miles here is like forever and there’s quite a few pit stops because you use a lot of gas here, and I think you’re on pit road here every 30-something laps. You always like to qualify upfront every week, but it’s not the end of the world if you don’t. It is a long race, there’s a big pit road and a lot of pit stops.”

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