Harvick OnLine: Top Story: Q&A: Todd Berrier

Post-Race Q&A: Todd Berrier

Yahoo! Sports has had exclusive one-on-one access to this year's Daytona 500-winning crew chief Todd Berrier as he, Kevin Harvick and Richard Childress Racing tackled Bristol Motor Speedway over the Car of Tomorrow's first race weekend.

Harvick finished fourth in Sunday's Food City 500, leading nine laps. Kyle Busch won the race.

Y! Sports: You've got a top-10 finish in your first race with the new car at Bristol. Are you happy? Disappointed?

Todd Berrier: Yeah, I'm happy. With the last two weeks we've had [finishes of 27th and 25th], obviously we're happy with the way things turned out.

I think we had a pretty decent car. We had one bad set of tires near the very end of the race that didn't help us at all. It got us a little behind there on that one run, when it counted, but besides that, it was a pretty good day.

Y!: Were you satisfied with the way you were able to make the car work for you?

TB: I don't think there was anything else we would have done different, given the circumstances. We might have tuned it a bit different had we been running differently.

It ended up during the race that we were doing the same things to the car that we usually do, except maybe doing some of it on a different end of the car than usual.

I just think they drive really terrible, they're free off of the corner and then they push really bad. But that's just a product of what it's going to be, that's all. So we'll all have to deal with that.

Y!: The race seemed to play out exactly as you expected, with there being a handful of teams that could pass and move to the front. How pleased were you that you were part of that group?

TB: I felt like in practice we were good enough to do that and [Jeff] Burton was as well once the race started. The 20 [Tony Stewart] was good. The 11 [Denny Hamlin] was good. There were a few teams that were pretty good during the race. But there were a lot of them that were just terrible, you know. That's just part of it, I guess.

I think that scenario is going to be multiplied at Martinsville. A few more teams will get a handle on it, but there will still be a lot of them that will miss it.

I think the cars are going to drive pretty much the same there.

Y!: Did you learn anything new about the car at Bristol?

TB: Not really. I just think it ended up being a typical race. I just don't think the guys could pass as well as they should have, but I still think you had Kyle Busch and Jeff Gordon and Jeff Burton and Greg Biffle and Tony Stewart and Kevin Harvick – all the same guys who run up front at Bristol – running up front.

Y!: It really did seem like a typical Bristol race.

TB: Absolutely. I haven't looked at all the stats, but I think at several times during the race we were down to 14 or 15 cars on the lead lap. I don't know that that's typical.

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