Notes: Montoya, Harvick continue to trade barbs (cont'd)

One way to keep Mikey quiet

Michael Waltrip was solidly in the field after his first qualifying lap, but went ahead and made a second one, just in case.

Why? Because he couldn't hear anyone over his in-car radio.

"I was on the wrong channel, they said," Waltrip said. "I was screaming: 'What do I do? What do I do?' No one answered, so I just kept going -- which was dumb because I know I couldn't go any faster than I did. It was kind of silly to keep going, but when you're scared, you don't really know what to do."

Waltrip will roll off 11th on Sunday, with teammate David Reutimann next to him in Row 6. Reutimann was more relieved to have survived another Friday qualifying session.

"That was a good lap, by far quite a bit quicker than we were in practice," Reutimann said. "I'm just glad that it's over with, man.

"Fridays are tough days and once you get through 'em it feels like you're about a hundred pounds lighter. I'm glad that we got in and I'm glad that Mikey got in. It's on to Sunday and that's the exciting part there."

Kenseth beats the clock

At first, it appeared Matt Kenseth might have to start from the rear of the field because the transmission on his No. 17 Ford malfunctioned, leaving him stranded on pit road.

"We broke a rear-end gear," Kenseth said. "I've got a feeling it didn't get fluid. So something broke in the rear-end gear."

But Kenseth's crew feverishly worked under the car and it finally rolled onto the track, just before the five-minute clock ticked all the way down. He was able to click off a lap of 186.181 mph, good enough for 21st, and had nothing but praise for the guys who made things work under pressure.

"They did a great job in getting the gear fixed, but they didn't have oil in the first gear and it blew it up," Kenseth said. "So that was a great job to recover from it and get back out there, and get a lap in there."

Little team that could

The happiest bunch back in the garage area might have been the No. 08 E&M Motorsports crew. Well down the speed chart after Friday's practice, Joe Nemechek was able to pick up more than a second -- putting the Georgia-based single-car team in the show for the first time.

Nemechek's fans have contributed more than $2,000 to the effort -- and the team plans to run a "Nemechek Fans On Board" logo on the car Sunday.