Kyle Busch: MBNA America 200 preview

DOVER, Del. -- Kyle Busch answers questions heading into Saturday's MBNA America 200 at Dover International Speedway:

YOU RACED AT DOVER IN THE FALL BUSCH RACE LAST YEAR. WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER ABOUT THAT EVENT?

"We had a good enough car in practice that we could have probably qualified on the pole, but since qualifying was cancelled because of the hurricane, we had to start by points in 21st. There was a wreck early on that everybody checked up for, and we got caught up in that and killed the nose of the car. The damage made it to where we didn't have a good enough car to move back up through the field. After that, we just got some experience and got some laps around the place. We did what we needed to do in order to get some experience to go back this time."

WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE PLACE?

"The tires are going to wear out a lot in practice until we get a lot of rubber down with the Cup and Busch cars. The track is a lot of fun. You kind of dive off into a hole when you get down into the corners, but then you jump back up out of it coming up off the corner. It's the 'Monster Mile.' You try not to get yourself into trouble, but when you do, it's usually pretty big.

"You're going to need a good handling car, one that's going to be able to turn with the front, but not be too loose in the back. You really need to try to hold the bottom line the best you can. If you can stay right on that white line, you're going to be money. Brian (Vickers) and Lance (McGrew, crew chief), they were able to figure that out last fall and win here."

YOU AND MARTIN TRUEX, JR. HAVE SWAPPED THE POINTS LEAD AGAIN. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT?

"It's just like last year. The points leader seems doomed to have the bad luck the following week, or have a bad week or something. Hopefully, we can keep this roll going, and we just kind of want to keep getting our top-five and top-10s, even though we had sort of a bad week, if you want to call it that (at Nazareth). We still ended up 10th. We're not really too worried about the points right now. We still have a long season to go. The top-fives and top-10s, if you just keep getting those, those are the points that you need to be there at the end of the year."