#5-Kasey Kahne was sidelined on lap 105 at Michigan when a tire went down while leading the race, from Team Chevy Driver Race Quotes transcript: Q) DID YOU HAVE ANY VIBRATION OR INDICATION AT ALL? Kahne: ‘No, I had no indication. We were just cruising. We had a really good Farmers Insurance Chevrolet. I knew it was going to be a battle with Jimmie (Johnson) today. Hes fast and I thought we were really good. We were on the loose side but I think we could have tightened it up a little bit more and gotten a little bit better. But I felt really good about it. Well see what happens here through the rest of this race. But I know its been a tough week for a lot of people. Jason Leffler was a good buddy of mine and its neat to see how the racing world and the fans and his friends and everybody has supported him for the last four or five days. That showed the person and the racer that he was. Im just glad I could say he was one of my good friends.” Q) WHAT HAPPENED? Kahne: ‘Something broke. I dont really know. I would say it was a tire that went down, but I dont know for sure. I just was going into the corner and then it ‘boom and turned right went straight into the wall. It was a hard hit. We had a great Farmers Insurance Chevy. Things were working out. I thought it was going to be between myself and Jimmie (Johnson). We both had two really fast cars.” Q) HOW SLICK IS IT OUT THERE? Kahne: ‘It was slick at the start. Its still slick. We were still on the loose side so I thought as the race went we still had an opportunity to tighten up and hopefully get a little better. My car would move around some on exit, but I felt really good. I felt like our Farmers Insurance Chevy was fast and Jimmie (Johnson) is going to be tough to beat. I thought it was going to be between me and him. It would have been a shootout.”(Team Chevy)
