Hampton, Ga. — Mark Martin and Matt Kenseth finished third and fifth in today's Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. With teammate Carl Edwards' win, this marks the fifth time in 2005 that Roush Racing has had at least three drivers finish in the top five. The last time it occurred was Sept. 10 at Richmond International Raceway when Kurt Busch, Kenseth and Greg Biffle swept the top-three spots.

Robert Yates Racing teammates Elliott Sadler and Dale Jarrett also posted top-20 finishes.

MARK MARTIN - NO. 6 VIAGRA TAURUS (FINISHED THIRD)
"When it came time to go racing a couple of them snuck up there and outran us, but, man, we put a whooping on a lot of them today. If I had cars like that every week, man, I think I could drive until I was 60."

YOU'RE OPTIMISTIC AFTER A GREAT WEEKEND.
"Yeah, who said I was a pessimist. I knew we were good on Friday and I knew we'd have a shot. It seemed to come and go for everybody today. We weren't quite good enough to pull it off at the end, but it was a great run and I'm proud of it."

MARK MARTIN PRESS CONFERENCE

THOUGHTS ON LETTING TEAMMATES LEADING LAPS.
"I didn't see that happen. I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't see it. I know Carl didn't let me lead. I didn't want him to. I told those guys, 'Don't say anything to him because I don't want to give it back when I get it.' We had new tires and he didn't, so we just waited until we got up there and went on. We had new tires and I don't know anything about the rest of it. I didn't see it."

HOW MANY GUYS ARE STILL IN THIS TITLE HUNT?
"I'm in (laughter in the room)."

WHAT WERE YOU THINKING WHEN YOU HAD TO DROP BACK AFTER THE PIT ROAD PENALTY?
"When that red light comes on up there you're speeding, so it doesn't matter. We misjudged our speed today. That's the first time that it's happened. If I've got caught speeding before it was because I was over my speed, but I wasn't over my speed today but obviously the red light came on and that meant I was going too fast. So we missed that. That was our fault. I had such a good race car for once I wasn't too flipped out about it. I knew we could come back up through there. We were leading the race pretty easy at the time. As the race went on a couple three of these guys got stronger and we got back where we belonged with what we had. It was just an incredible race car today. If I could drive cars like that, I could race these things until I was 60."

GREG BIFFLE - NO. 16 NATIONAL GUARD/CHARTER TAURUS (FINISHED SEVENTH)
"I was just loose all day. I thought I might have too much rear spring for it and it kind of took a dive for life and put some rubbers in the left-rear spring and put some wedge in it for that last run and it just killed my car. It was way too tight and I lost a couple of spots there, but it was a good day for us. We didn't do what we wanted to do here and that was run in the top-three or -four and we missed that by a little bit. We finished seventh or something like that, so we have to be happy with that."

YOU'RE ALREADY THINKING ABOUT TEXAS.
"Yeah, they were asking me coming down pit road if we were taking this car to Texas, because we've got chassis 239 that's a really fast race car too just sitting there ready to go. We've got a choice as to which one we want to take. We're gonna have to sit down and think about it and take the best car."

YOU HAVE THREE TO GO.
"We just have to make up points on the 20. We made up a little bit on the 48 today and a little bit on the 12, but we've got to finish more than one spot ahead of the 20 to gain anything on him. But those guys are doing a good job. They're in a points mode and that's what they're doing."

THE ROUSH CARS WERE ALL STRONG.
"Yeah, we were terrible all day. We just never got a hold of the race track. I really don't know why, but I'm scratching my head."

"It wasn't the car I was thinking I was gonna have, but the guys did a great job in the pits and I kept it off the wall and didn't get any flat tires. We just did everything we needed to do, really. I'm pretty excited about it. We wanted a top-five, but ended up seventh so we can't really complain about that run."

MATT KENSETH - NO. 17 DEWALT/USG SHEETROCK TAURUS (FINISHED FIFTH)
"That was great. It was a good day for us, a real good day in the points. It would have been a little better without the mysterious caution, but other than that we had a great day. We finished in the top five and got to lead a lap there at the end, so it was a good, solid day."

DO YOU FEEL YOU'RE STILL IN THE POINTS CHASE?
"I don't know where we are right now exactly, but we're closer than we were before the day started so that's good."

ROUSH WAS STRONG TODAY.
"Yeah, Carl is awesome here. Carl is an old dirt track racer and he lays it right up there on the cushion and I can't get that done up there. For some reason, my car will wreck, so he does a great job. Mark had a great test here and he gave us a lot of information as far as shocks and bars and stuff. Everybody is working good together and everybody ran good today."

"We were just too loose all day off the corner and never could really fix it. All day from our speeds we had a third to seventh-place car and we finished fifth, so that was great. Everybody did a good job this weekend. We had a little change in personnel - a different car chief this week and some other stuff going on - and everybody pulled together and did a good job. We had great stops as always. The car was pretty good and besides the driver speeding down pit road and forgetting to put the right side window in, everything else went really good."

ELLIOTT SADLER - NO. 38 M&M’S TAURUS (FINISHED 10TH)
"I'm just glad we saw the checkered flag. We've had a lot of great cars here the last month and a half and haven't been able to show it, so to see the checkered flag and get a top-10 was a big relief to this team. I'm proud of my guys. We had great pit stops all day. We tried to adjust on it and was just a little free, but, all in all, it was a great day."

DALE JARRETT - NO. 88 UPS TAURUS (FINISHED 14TH)
"We got to be reasonable at times, but I don't know if the track tightened up or if it was something with our car, but the last two runs I just got so tight that it killed me. I couldn't go anywhere. I don't know if we over-adjusted earlier and just never got it back, but it was an OK day. It was a brand new car so I think we learned some things."

RICKY RUDD - NO. 21 MOTORCRAFT GENUINE PARTS TAURUS (FINISHED 17TH)
"We got on one set of tires and the car was really bad loose and we just couldn't do anything. That probably didn't affect us too much. Our best shot might have been about an eighth or 11th, but not much better than that. We weren't good all day. It wasn't from a lack of trying. They tried to do everything they could, but we just never could get it to hook up and stick on the bottom like we had here last time."