It's looking that way for Cory McClenathan, whose first race with new crew chief Tony Shortall progressed at a positive pace. The veteran, whose team replaced veteran tuner Wes Cerny with assistant crew chief Shortall, qualified 13th with a 4.668. Unfortunately for Cory Mac, he met eventual winner Tony Schumacher in the first round.

"In all reality, Tony Shortall stepped up to be crew chief and Rahn Tobler helped us last weekend," McClenathan said. "Rahn has some other things going that are really good for his future, and right now he was free for the weekend. I asked him to come in, and between (team owner) Scott Griffin and myself, I asked him to help us out, and he was kind enough to come in for the weekend. Tony Shortall can do this. I really believe Tony is one of the up and comers. We just decided to switch things around. We just want to get back to what we know we can do. We're still not out of the hunt yet. We just need to go A-to-B, win some rounds...that's my biggest focus right now. And between Tony Shortall and Rahn Tobler, I think they can make that happen.” It's looking that way for Cory McClenathan, whose first race with new crew chief Tony Shortall progressed at a positive pace. The veteran, whose team replaced veteran tuner Wes Cerny with assistant crew chief Shortall, qualified 13th with a 4.668. Unfortunately for Cory Mac, he met eventual winner Tony Schumacher in the first round.

"In all reality, Tony Shortall stepped up to be crew chief and Rahn Tobler helped us last weekend," McClenathan said. "Rahn has some other things going that are really good for his future, and right now he was free for the weekend. I asked him to come in, and between (team owner) Scott Griffin and myself, I asked him to help us out, and he was kind enough to come in for the weekend. Tony Shortall can do this. I really believe Tony is one of the up and comers. We just decided to switch things around. We just want to get back to what we know we can do. We're still not out of the hunt yet. We just need to go A-to-B, win some rounds...that's my biggest focus right now. And between Tony Shortall and Rahn Tobler, I think they can make that happen.”

McClenathan also believes the switch was a necessary change. "I think it's been a tiring year for everybody over here, with the ownership change and everything else that's happened," the veteran said. "It's been tough on everybody, from the crew guys, to the driver, crew chief, and the sponsors. It was just one of those deals where Wes wanted to make a change also at the same time. It was basically the right thing to do on both sides. Wes called me afterwards and told me he would do whatever I wanted to help and I told him the same thing. We're still the best of friends. We'll stay that way forever."