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Team Chevy Drivers Capture Top-Seven Finishing Positions at Darlington; Chevrolet Remains Manufacturers’ Cup Leader; Jeff Gordon Continues to Lead Driver Standings

Darlington, SC – Mark Martin, No. 5 Cheez-It/CARQUEST Impala SS, scored his second victory of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) season tonight in the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. He led just one time for 46 laps in the race that saw a record 17 caution flags for a total of 73 laps.

Martin’s win was the second for him at Darlington and the 37th of his career. In addition, it was the 13th time a Hendrick Motorsports (HMS) driver has gone to victory lane at Darlington, more than any other team owner.

The victory propelled Martin up four places in the standings to 11th position.

Team Chevy drivers captured the top-seven finishing positions and nine of the top-12 at the conclusion of tonight’s 367-lap/500-mile race on the 1.366 mile track. The impressive showing kept Chevrolet on top of the 2009 NSCS Manufacturers’ Cup standings with 11 races in the books.

Three-time and defending NSCS champion Jimmie Johnson, No. 48 Lowe’s Impala SS, overcame starting in the back of the field after crashing during his Friday qualifying effort to finish second behind his HMS teammate. Johnson climbed two spots in the points to the fourth spot.

Stewart-Haas Racing teammates Tony Stewart, No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Impala SS and Ryan Newman, No. 39 U.S. Army Impala SS finished third and fourth respectively. Stewart, two-time NSCS champion, now sits second in the standings while Newman jumped to eighth in points. Newman led twice during the night for a total of 48 laps.

Four-time NSCS champion Jeff Gordon, No. 24 National Guard ESGR/DuPont Impala SS, continued as the points’ leader with a fifth place finish in tonight’s race. He led

Martin Truex, Jr., No. 1 Bass Pro Shops/Tracker Boats Impala SS, finished sixth after leading three times for a total of 61 laps. It was the best finish of the young season for the Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing driver.

Brad Keselowski, No. 25 GoDaddy.com Impala SS, finished seventh to give HMS four drivers in the top-seven finishers.

Richard Childress Racing teammates Kevin Harvick, No. 29 Shell-Pennzoil Impala SS, and Jeff Burton, No. 31 Caterpillar Impala SS, finished 11th and 12th respectively. Burton is now sixth in the standings while Harvick gained two positions after the solid run.

The NSCS moves to Lowe’s Motor Speedway for the May 16th running of the Sprint All-Star race. The next points-paying event will be the Coca Cola 600 at Lowe’s on May 24, 2009.

MARK MARTIN, AND CREW CHIEF, ALAN GUSTAFSON, NO. 5 CHEEZ-IT / CARQUEST IMPALA SS – WINNERS POST RACE PRESS CONFERENCE TRANSCRIPT

KERRY THARP: We’re going to roll right now into your race winner for tonight’s Southern 500, Mark Martin, driver of the No. 5 Cheez-It Carquest Chevrolet for Rick Hendrick Motorsports. We’re also joined by his crew chief, Alan Gustafson.

Mark, your 37th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory, your second win here at Darlington Raceway. The first one came back in 1993. You guys were up here on Friday. You’re back here now on Saturday night. Just your thoughts, your emotions about what was just a terrific display out there tonight.

MARK MARTIN: Well, I want to start by saying what an incredible privilege it was to spend time with the past winners. That intro, that was a very, very special time. David Pearson told me I was going to go out here and win this thing. David Pearson is the coolest dude ever. Cale Yarborough, so many of those guys…

I really do appreciate bringing that flavor back into our sport. We need to remember our heroes, and that’s really special.

I’m overwhelmed, just totally overwhelmed. This is a little bit more special in some ways than Phoenix because I was just kind of spun out, I just couldn’t hardly believe it at Phoenix. There was so much going on. It’s soaking in a little bit better.

Also this win was pure race team and Alan Gustafson. As you guys know, I’m in my second childhood right now (smiling). Alan says that I was one of his childhood heroes. Well, the tables are turned now. He’s mine.

It’s early in the year. A lot of cool things could happen yet this year the way things are going.

KERRY THARP: Alan, talk about this race out here tonight. Certainly a grueling, grueling race. Only the survival of the fittest there. Talk about your race team.

ALAN GUSTAFSON: Yeah, I’m really, really proud of our race team. I’m exhausted, man. I don’t know how Mark does it. That’s definitely the toughest race I’ve ever won, one of the toughest races I can remember running.
We weren’t very good on Friday. Mark went out there and got us a good qualifying lap, salvaged a starting spot for us. But we knew we had a lot of work to do on the car. Just really proud of the guys. All the guys on the team, you know, especially the engineering staff, Chris, Lee, Clint, those guys, they jammed keys all night long. My wife let me work a lot and didn’t give me a hard time. We made some adjustments that are really probably four or five times more than we would normally make on a race day morning. So really proud of all the guys for making those adjustments and getting it right.

It was a tough night. We ran up front most of the night. Had some lug nuts fall off, had to go back to the back,
Mark drove his way back to the front, got stuck in the back again. Just glad it worked out. Extremely happy. Really proud of the guys. They earned this one. It was not easy for a second. Phoenix wasn’t easy. They’re never easy. Sometimes things seem to go your way, and nothing went our way. It was tough, except for the end,
it went our way. It’s really special.

KERRY THARP: Questions now for either Alan or Mark.

Q. Mark, the last time you won here 16 years ago I bet pit strategy was pretty much four tires every time you came down pit road. Can you just contrast how this track and the strategy behind it has changed. We saw no tires, two tires, people staying out tonight.

MARK MARTIN: That’s very true. You know what, I lost a race one time putting four tires on. The caution came out, and we had the thing in the bag. I didn’t think Darrel Waltrip was in the picture. We came in, put four tires on. He stayed out, it rained (laughter).

I tell you, yeah, we could figure out all kinds of ways to lose races, that’s for sure. But, yeah, you know, this place was repaved, though, many years ago. The first couple of years it was similar to this. So the only thing that I will say about the paving is it seems to hang on a little longer than it used to. Other places as well. Charlotte has hung on, Lowe’s, as well. It will eventually get back to the way it was before.

But, you know, tonight was a very frustrating night for many, many other drivers, including myself. My car felt like I was trying to race on ice. I didn’t have the option to slide the car. And I like sliding the car. I like making the car do things by pitching it and slipping it and all that stuff.

But if you slip this thing, you’re gonna get a piece of that wall. So, you know, we were very calculating starting on Friday. It was pretty cool what Alan said. We’re going to set the car up to defend over here so you can do your business over there. I showed him where I liked to do my deal. That’s what we did pretty much. We had a great strategy starting on Friday. Alan called a brilliant race I’m really lucky to be working with some of the brightest NASCAR’s ever seen.

Q. You obviously are very happy. Could you talk a little bit about creating a very happy crowd out there.

MARK MARTIN: I hope they were happy. I sure was.

ALAN GUSTAFSON: Yeah, I mean, I guess you might have heard it. I don’t know. When you win, you’re just kind of like, Wow, this is unbelievable.

But we can’t do it without the fans. They’re a huge part of what we do. We love the support they give us. They’re really great to this sport. If they like your car or your team or not, the passion they have is unbelievable. We really feel privileged to be a part of it. If we made them happy, that just makes it that much sweeter.

Q. Mark, this is the first time since 1999 you’ve won more than one race in a season. You have two already in the first 11 this year. I know you’ve always talked in the past about cherishing each win because you never know when the next one is going to happen. With the way you’re performing, can you start to get greedy? Is it easy to get greedy, start thinking about more and more wins in this second childhood of yours?

MARK MARTIN: You know, my answer to that is: be careful. Don’t set yourself up. I’m just very, very happy right now, and I don’t need to say, you know, we’re gonna win a whole bunch more races this year. We’re going to race just like we raced this race and all the other ones, and the ones we cross the line first, we’ll take the trophy.
It could happen. But if not, at least we got two instead of one. That’s the way I look at it (smiling). Don’t take those kind of answers from me as pessimistic or a lack of confidence. All I want to do is be happy and have fun doing this. If you don’t set yourself up for disappointment, then it’s much easier.

You know, let’s just go out, and I want to get the All-Star Race. That’s one of my favorite races. I can’t wait to get there. We’re having a blast. I mean, we really, really are. I think we’ll learn, as we experience the disappointments, to let those roll off our backs a little bit more. It was pretty tough on Alan and I. California was really tough. I think we grew a little bit through that experience. And Vegas was really tough. But I think we’d already grown some from the experience in California. That’s the thing that we have to do.

It’s okay to have the passion. It’s okay to have the drive. But you can’t let it tear you apart, you know.

Q. How did you avoid all the craziness out there tonight?

MARK MARTIN: Well, I felt like my car was about 50% or 40% out of control, so I didn’t get very close to anybody most of the time (laughter). I was hating it, you know, on the restarts when we’d have to get all jumbled up there.

But, you know, Dick Trickle told me back in 1977 something that kind of irritated me. He told me, in order to finish first, first you must finish. What does that tell you? He wouldn’t have told me that if I hadn’t been wrecking. I was a young man, I was in the gas, knocking front clips off. He told me that, and that’s the truth.

I guess some of those other guys haven’t learned that yet. I guess that’s okay, you know. There are a lot of people eliminated theirselves. You have to watch yourself if you want to survive conditions like were out there tonight.

Q. Alan, when you made the decision to stay out on the old tires, were you surprised that six other cars stayed out behind you also on old tires? Did you get a sense at that point you might have a real good chance to win the race?

ALAN GUSTAFSON: I wasn’t surprised. I actually thought that more would. The way the race was going, there wasn’t a whole lot of value in tires. You know, you could kind of see that with two tires, some of the varying strategies. Seemed like everybody was better when they were up front and in the lead. That was definitely an advantage.

I expected more to do it. We were really, really close to a fuel window. I think we were about six cautions away from making it on gas when we pitted. I think we got a couple of ‘em right there on that caution. So I was a little surprised that more didn’t stay out.

And then when we had a buffer, you know, that was good. But anytime you have Three Time right there behind you, that’s not going to be an easy task. We knew he was going to be tough, but at the same time he’s one of the best teammates out there. You have some comfort in that.

Then Tony came charging through there. We were concerned about Tony. He seemed to make a big run to third, then kind of stalled out. You don’t know you win ‘em till you win ‘em. When we came across, that’s when I really knew. Obviously with each passing lap, the opportunity and possibility got better.

Q. When you had the lug nut problem, could you talk about your conversation on the radio about being frustrated, trying to stay calm, work your way back up from the trouble you were in.

ALAN GUSTAFSON: I guess you’re going to let me answer this one (laughter).
I was afraid to get on the radio at that time. So, no, the guys, knock on wood, our pit crew has done great. That’s the first lug nuts that have come off this year. That’s been a big problem.

MARK MARTIN: This guy right here was Kyle Busch’s crew chief for how many years?

ALAN GUSTAFSON: Three.

MARK MARTIN: He can take it (laughter).

ALAN GUSTAFSON: I was a little concerned. I told Mark, We did it to you, just bail us out. I tell you, that’s really when I knew our car was pretty good because he came from I don’t know where it was, you know, 25th or 24th to 10th quick. I said, Wow, that was impressive. He did, he bailed us out, got us right back up front. We’re gonna make it up to him. I promise him that.

Q. Mark, for years and years when you would get into one of your hot streaks, you would always be very careful to admonish us that you didn’t take anything for granted, that you treated every win as though you might not get another one. That kind of philosophy. Here I couldn’t help noticing you talking about you can’t wait for the All-Star Race, who knows what else could happen this season. Are we hearing a Mark Martin who has a whole different feeling right now than you’ve had either ever or in a long time?

MARK MARTIN: I am a different person. I still think that I’m cautious about what I set myself up for. But I know I’m gonna have some fun. You know, I mean, if everything turns into a disaster, maybe not. But then the next week we will.

I’m having a blast. I’m really, really having a blast. And I learned things all through my career. I never stopped learning. And I learned some really great lessons in 2007 and 2008. You know, like I said, yes, I’m a different person. Yeah, I’m still growing up, I’m still maturing.

Q. More optimistic than you used to be?

MARK MARTIN: I’m cautious. I can’t expect results. I can’t do that. Just like Alan says, I can expect the effort, and the effort’s phenomenal. But you can’t expect all the results to be like they were tonight, nor can you expect them to be like they broke our heart in California. But we have to control that. We can’t let that be a negative charge in our deal when things don’t go right.

Yeah, I’m optimistic because I’m happy. I’m having a blast. I can’t wait. That’s my favorite place, Lowe’s. I’m driving a fast racecar, you know. I expect it will be fast there. We haven’t had a slow one yet. This is fun.

Q. Alan, with your years in the organization, you have maybe as good a perspective. Tonight six of the top seven cars were Hendrick equipment. Certainly with what Stewart-Haas and Hendrick the last five or six races, domination. Can you put in perspective the depth of the Hendrick organization, even with Stewart-Haas. So many years there were one or two cars at Hendrick that were up there, a struggle to get the other cars up too.

ALAN GUSTAFSON: This is as good as I’ve seen us in some time. We’re all pretty proud of that. We’re proud of the effort and the work. It’s countless hours from a lot of people. It’s incredible direction from Rick Hendrick. It’s Rick Hendrick going out and getting us Mark Martin to drive our car. That’s awesome. Him having faith in us. We know what the 24 and 48 have done. They’ve had a lot of success. But we’ve worked hard. We haven’t had the results in the 5 and 88 that we would have wished for, but we’re working hard to change that. I think Mark’s a big piece of that puzzle.

The depth you’re talking about, there’s an incredible amount of talent there. You know, it’s hard in this sport to keep that talent and keep a budget and keep everything in check. And the reason that happens is Rick Hendrick. There’s nobody else I’d rather work for. There’s nobody else I want to work for. And I think there’s 80 people in that 5 and 88 shop who say the same thing. I think there’s 500 people at Hendrick Motorsports who say the same thing. He’s really a special person, somebody you want to be around.

Stewart-Haas, they’re really fortunate I think to have gotten somebody like Darian. It’s not often that somebody will leave our organization because they want to be around Rick. I know Darian has a huge amount of respect and admiration for Rick. But I know Rick also will take care of Darian regardless of what happens. Stewart-Haas is fortunate to have a guy like Darian. I’ve worked with him a long time. I think he’s as good as there is out in the series. He’s going to win a lot of races. He’s going to be tough to beat. That’s obvious by the way they’ve run. Tony is a great driver. He’s really special also.

That 39, you can’t discount what they’re doing. They had a rough start to the year like we did. Tony Gibson is doing a great job. Ryan is doing a great job. Ryan has had a couple off years and really looks rejuvenated, really looks good. He was really fast tonight. We raced him hard tonight all night long. Richmond was the same way. They should be proud of what they’ve done over there at Stewart-Haas.

I think the one thing, I say a million times, I’ll say it a million times again, the one thing that all comes back to is Rick Hendrick.

Q. How come everybody but the winner gets out of the car all gassed after a race like tonight? When you’re on the outside looking in, once you get inside a place like Hendrick, can you believe what you didn’t know or appreciate about that team from the other side?

MARK MARTIN: Well, it was hot. But when you’re leading a race, it could have been 200 degrees in there and it wouldn’t have bothered me. It’s especially hot when you have a bad night, a frustrating night, very irritating. But these guys have done a great job of making me comfortable in the racecars, an incredible job on the seats and everything.

When I go over there to that shop, I feel like I’ve gone to NASA and they’re getting me prepared to go to the moon. I really mean that. They treat every little pad, every little detail, everything about it, the helmet, the shield, the air to the helmet, the cooler, the cooling, every piece of it is handled as if it was the most important thing in our race. It’s just really, really cool. This is quite an experience for me to get to be a part of this at this stage in my career.

KERRY THARP: Again, congratulations. Just a great performance out there by this 5 team. We’ll see you at Charlotte.

MARK MARTIN: Thank you.

ALAN GUSTAFSON: Thank you.

JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 38 LOWE’S IMPALA SS – FINISHED 2ND
TONY STEWART, NO. 14 OLD SPICE / OFFICE DEPOT IMPALA SS – FINISHED 3RD

KERRY THARP: We’ve got our race runner-up in tonight’s Southern 500, Jimmie Johnson. He drives the No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet for Rick Hendrick Motorsports.

Jimmie, talk about the race. It was about everything we could ask for.

JIMMIE JOHNSON: What a challenging night. Clean air was so, so important that it really boiled down to strategy at the end. I think there’s probably 15 good cars, maybe 10 good cars at the end. However they came out from that final pit stop is how they were going to run.

The track is just so narrow. With the new pavement, this car being bigger and boxier, there’s less racing room, the speeds are higher, and there’s no falloff in the tire, it’s all about track position. Fortunately we got it at the end. We had four or five things pop up through the night, from being trapped on pit road, spun out trying to get my pit stall, just a bunch of stuff. It was a chaotic night.

I’m very relieved and proud of the race team. We kept our heads and fought through it all night long and got ourself as good finish.

KERRY THARP: We’ll take questions for Jimmie Johnson.

Q. Are you astonished that you’re in here given the night you’d had? Was there any point you thought you were done?

JIMMIE JOHNSON: I kind of felt that way. In my heart I felt it was going to be like 10th place because we would be in 17th or 18th again after something went wrong, then I’d get to 10th or 12th, we’d pit again, it would all start over. That was kind of our range, from 15th or 17th to 10th or 12th. We kept fighting with everybody in that area.

Once we got some track position, then it took me a little while to recognize that I had a good car because when you’re back in traffic, the car drives so bad that you can’t fix the handling. Once I got up behind Mark, got comfortable with the car, understood the grip level, I’m like, Damn, I got a great racecar. Then I realized I had a shot at winning it.

I pushed Mark as hard as I could. He made one small mistake. We needed to go into fuel-save mode at that point. Unfortunately just had to ride home.

We’ll take second after what we went through tonight.

Q. Why was it so chaotic? Four and a half hours out there, the thing had no rhythm. Last couple of races you have had, Talladega, Richmond. Going crazy out there.

JIMMIE JOHNSON: You know, these tracks kind of build up from Talladega you get frustrated with the environment and people, Richmond is very similar. Then you come here, and this is so tough. The speeds are so high. Track position’s everything. Lapped cars, even if they want to get out of the way, they can’t, there’s no room to. They get frustrated and probably warned by NASCAR for going too slow. They quit laying over. Every position that you go for out there, you’ve just got to gouge and bang and run people over and fight with each other and run into each other under caution. It was absolutely out of control out there.

It’s just because of the fast speeds on such a narrow track and this big, boxy car, you can’t go anywhere.

Q. Jimmie, have to ask you about your reaction to the news today of the positive drug test for Jeremy Mayfield and your reaction to that.

JIMMIE JOHNSON: I don’t know much about it, just heard it was positive. No clue what it is. But that policy is in place, and it’s there for a reason. If you use something that’s illegal, per that substance abuse policy, you get in trouble. It is what it is.

KERRY THARP: Let’s hear from Tony Stewart right now. Tony comes in with a third-place showing tonight, outstanding. He’s moved up to second in the points. Tony drivers the No. 14 Old Spice Office Depot Chevrolet for Stewart-Haas Racing. Talk about the performance you had tonight and your teammate right there behind you, Ryan Newman.

TONY STEWART: I was just tickled to death tonight. That’s the best finish I’ve ever had at a Southern 500. It’s a tough race, one of the toughest physically we run all year, obviously with the heat the way it was today. Just proud of our guys. Happy for Jimmie and Mark. Mark is a great guy. You love to see somebody that works as hard as he does have success.

This kid did an awesome job tonight. First time here in a Cup car at Darlington, and this kid just did a great job. It was fun watching the 20 car up there. When he was leading the race I was smiling because I knew those guys have been waiting for this for a couple weeks now. It’s just a matter of time before Joey got going.

Our guys on the pit stops tonight, we just had phenomenal stops all night, and that made the difference. I bet they passed 12 guys in the pits today, and just amazing night for the pit crew. The guys that came in, those of us that came in at the end and got two, we were leading that group. We just didn’t have enough to get by Mark and Jimmie tonight.

KERRY THARP: Tony, thank you. We’ll take questions.

Q. Jimmie, you made a run there at Mark after one of those last few cautions. Were you concerned about the fuel situation if you kept trying to test him you might fall back from second place?

JIMMIE JOHNSON: At the end I tried for 20 laps or so and I could stay with him and I could maybe force him into a mistake. He made one small one that helped me close up one time. I just deep down inside knew I wasn’t going to get by him. We had to go into fuel save at that point and limp it back home from there. I tried a couple times to get to the outside of him down in three and four. I kind of got there, but I got in so hard, one, I thought I was going to hit the wall and, two, in that whole time of being surprised and worried about the wall, Mark got on the gas and drove away. I’m like, Damn it. I got in too hard.
I think clean air was really, really important. The fact we got up there and I could feel what our car had it in was really nice. Mark did an awesome job. He drove 30 or 40 awesome laps there at the end and I didn’t have anything for him.

Q. Jimmie, how much has it helped Hendrick Motorsports to bring in Stewart-Haas Racing into the fold?

JIMMIE JOHNSON: It’s a great help. For a lot of years Haas has been there, has been a part of Hendrick Motorsports, helping us in a variety of ways, working together. And now to have Tony and Ryan and the depth that they have in their race team, it’s really great. The information flows different directions and it’s actually cool, for a lot of years Tony’s old sponsor, we had this rivalry of sorts, now it’s cool to be in a teammate situation. Granted, we’re not teammates. But to actually talk about racecars, be a little more in-depth with Ryan and Tony.
I’m excited about it. They’ve done an amazing job. I think everybody looked at the start of the year, including myself, and thought Tony was crazy for what he was starting to do. He’s put his heart and soul into it, done an awesome job, and it’s paying off.

Q. Jimmie and Tony, Hendrick-built cars, six of the top seven tonight. Hendrick has been winning a lot of races lately. Stewart-Haas is up in the points, up in the Chase. At this point is it going to be a season about Stewart-Haas and Hendrick? Are you on top of your game? When we see the Chase, is it going to be overwhelmingly with your organizations? Do you feel confident that you are the best two teams right now?

TONY STEWART: That’s yours.

JIMMIE JOHNSON: Oh, it’s me.

There’s a lot of racing between now and then. We work real hard. We know we have great equipment. At the same time Roush has his five cars. Other associations he has out on the track. You look at Gibbs, what they’ve done. It’s just real tough to say right now looking forward what that will be.

We’re all very proud of what our equipment has done and the fact that we finished all in the top 10 like that, or top six, whatever that stat was. It’s just too early to tell.

You look at the depth on the teams, the drivers, I think that explains a lot of it. Just a great group of people. We certainly hope it stays this way.

Q. Tony, curious what your thoughts are about why you thought it was so tough out there, all the cautions? Twice as many cautions as last year.

TONY STEWART: Kind of like what Jimmie said when I was walking in. We’re running so fast here. It’s such a narrow place. Lap cars were absolutely miserable tonight. If these guys that were a lap down would race that hard before they get a lap down, it would be great. You got guys that get on that inside line, it’s hard enough just to run single-wide right here let alone two-wide, especially with the entries and exits the way they are.

It just makes it difficult. You got two guys fighting for one piece of real estate in turn one and turn two, a lot of times in turn three. It gives you three opportunities a lap for something to go wrong. It doesn’t even have to be somebody making a mistake. Just two guys going for the same spot. It’s just tough. Any time they repave a place, it’s got a lot of grip. This place will season in just like any other place that has been repaved, it will get slick again. In the meantime, when it’s got a lot of grip, everybody’s fast. Everybody’s cars feel good when the surface is fresh like this. That’s why you saw track position like you saw tonight, but at the same time that’s why you see a lot of cautions, ’cause we’re running so fast around here now that that’s what you’re doing. It’s like Jimmie said, it’s a wrestling match for 367 laps. It doesn’t mean we need to put restrictor plates on, change anything. Don’t write that in your stories. Time is all it needs. Everything’s fine (laughter).

Q. Tony, if you could comment on the positive test that Jeremy Mayfield had.

TONY STEWART: What he said, so…

KERRY THARP: Guys, great job out there tonight. We appreciate it very much.

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