"Really, I just want to. … I appreciate them having the process and going here, didn't turn out like we wanted. Obviously, I'm more than a little disappointed with the decision and the penalties to start with. A couple of facts, which I'm sure you guys will find -- I'm the first driver in the 65-year history of NASCAR to get suspended for an incident that happened in the Sprint Cup Series race, so I feel like I was unfairly made the example instead of knowing where the line is, what the penalties are.
Like I said, I'm extremely disappointed but we'll get through this. Look forward to going to Homestead. I'm not going to change who I am. I'm not going to change what I stand for. I'm not going to change how I race. I've been in this business for a long time. I feel like I've had a pretty good career to this point, and I feel like I'm going to continue to have the respect on the race track that I feel like I deserve. So I'm looking forward to going to Homestead, hopefully going there and getting a win before the year is out."
Joe Gibbs Racing team owner Joe Gibbs:
"I think all of us right now are just so disappointed. I just wanted to say, that guy right there has spent 20 years in this sport. He had one other minor infraction, I think it was a $5,000 fine. He has spent 20 years of his life racing in this sport and he's been great for NASCAR. Our reason for appealing is we felt like this penalty was kind of unprecedented and it was inconsistent with a number of other on-track incidents. One of those is exactly like this one, and yet this penalty against Matt is an unprecedented one. I appreciate getting the chance to go through this process. I think we've done all we can do, and we're going to go back to racing."