JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 PANASONIC CHEVROLET SS – FINISHED 7TH

ON HIS NIGHT AND POSSIBLE BRAKE ISSUES:

“Yeah, I don’t know if I had a brake problem we had a brake bias adjuster that was not functioning properly. We struggled. Early on we weren’t great. We made some adjustments. We got some decent track position; I thought we were going to be pretty good. (Dale Earnhardt) Junior got to the outside of me on a restart. Our car just wasn’t very good right there. I really struggled and we fell back and never regained it. Alan (Gustafson, crew chief) made a great two tire call there at the end and we ended up coming home seventh.”

YOU GAMBLED LATE WITH TWO TIRES TELL US ABOUT YOUR NIGHT:

“Yeah that was a great gamble, great call by Alan (Gustafson, crew chief) and we saw early some guys take two tires and made it work for a short period of time. I don’t know we just struggled tonight. I’m not really sure where we are missing it. I just had my hands full. We were not able to get the balance just right. But we didn’t give up. I’m proud of that. We made it good at one point and then we got off and then we had to kind of start over and got it pretty good there at the end. Great to have Panasonic and Toughbook on board we love their involvement at Hendrick Motorsports.”

LOOKED LIKE IT WAS A BIT OF A STRUGGLE OUT THERE BUT YOU GUYS MADE SOME LATE-RACE GAMBLES TO GAIN TRACK POSITION:

“Yeah, Texas is tough when everything is working right for you. Our Panasonic/Tough Books Chevrolet was just….I don’t know….just trying to get the balance right in it. Obviously our teammates have it worked out because all of them were fast and obviously we have got some work to do and I have got to figure this package out. We struggled and we fought through it and we didn’t give up. Alan (Gustafson, crew chief) made a great call there at the end to take two tires and that is what got us to seventh.”