Concord, NC(November 18, 2009) -- Our own, Corey Latham caught up with the top five finishers as well as the 2009 UARA-STARS Series Champion, Matt McCall following the race at Concord and here's a little of what they had to say.

Matt McCall 2009 UARA Champ: "What a freaky night of racing man, all sorts of craziness happened today. These guys worked their tails off though, thank God we had a big enough cushion so we could have a big screw up, I guess you would call it. This championship is a goal we set at the beginning of the year, and we never got down, that is why we ended up on top."

Before you had the engine problem, did you have anything for McReynolds? "I don't know, his car was good, but on a long run I felt like we may have gotten to play a little bit. But, you never know how much he was riding either, It's the last race of the year and everybody is going as fast as they can, it would have been fun to try and race him for it though."

What does this championship mean to you, you have raced hard and had a great rivalry with Caudill, it must feel good to finally get this under your belt? "Yeah it does. It's almost more of a relief to get it over with than anything ya know? It's definitely been fun, It's been a fun rivalry, each week beating the doors off this stuff, man I really don't know how to describe what this one means to me. It's tough to duplicate anything, and to be getting a UARA championship for the second time, it was a pretty good goal and accomplishment, but it really goes to all these guys that work on the car. I Dig Pig's, Mel's Ignition Ford, I know we had troubles tonight, but this thing has been flawless, It's been hard for me to even screw it up. I can go out there and still be in left field and still have a chance to win. The #23 car has had a few bugs, but it has been real stellar too, these past few weeks we have just had to do a little points racing to have this opportunity to get here just in case something happened."

Coming down the stretch how hard did you race to get here with the lead in the points? "As hard as I needed to go to win the race, simple as that. Like at Kingsport, It's not like I was riding around to finish 3rd, but that's the way it ended up. I came here to win no doubt. We didn't leave anything on the table, there is nothing on that car that wasn't put on there without the intention of winning the race, we didn't hold back, threw the gear to it everything.........obviously (laughing)".

Winner Coleman Pressley: "I'm usually not an aggressive driver, but I wanted to win at other than Hickory and Greenville-Pickens, people were saying I couldn't do it, so It's good to get that out of the way. I wanted it bad once I saw Brandon go out, I think I could have run with Brandon but it made it alot easier when he went out. I hate to see that happen to him, he's my buddy, and we have a little group called the Field Fillers and it was good to see one of us win. Near the end my roommate Brennan was giving me all I could handle, and we qualified for the last 25 laps there."

Paddy seemed to be holding you up for a while there, how much patience were you using there? "I was using a lot, but I saw Grissom and McReynolds inching away, inching away, and I don't want to say I got into him hard, it was more of a love tap, and I would expect the same thing, It's just short track racing. I'm ready for the beach now, watch out".

2nd place Brennan Poole: "That was fun right there, coming up through the field, but it caused me to burn up my stuff a little bit. Then me and Coleman(Pressley) got to Paddy, and we used up a little of our stuff together there. It came down to the end between me and Coleman and we just battled it out. I got up underneath him and he pinched me down in just the right spots and it killed my momentum down the backstretch, but that is what he's supposed to do."

You had to change motors and put a Dannie Cox motor in it before the race, if you had your original motor in there could it have been better? "Man, I don't know. Kevin Blanks builds a heck of an engine and Cox does too apparently, I'm just thankful for my guys working so hard, and we came away with Rookie of the Year award which is awesome."

3rd place Roger Lee Newton: We were decent, people fell out, we didn't have a 3rd place car, it was about a 10th place car, that was just reaching down real deep and giving 110%. The crew don't give up so I'm not giving up".

Tell me about the contact with Paddy? "Well he came down on me to the inside wall......I mean I wasn't trying to take the boy out. I had to drive my car two car lengths deeper and stomp the brake to get the car to turn, It's just hard racing. I would hate it if I was in his shoes, but it is what it is."

How much fun was it racing your buddy Greg Petersen out there? "That was a blast, we were running 6th and 7th for a while there, I was just sitting there laughing, I drive him hard because It's fun and I know he can handle it. I hate he didn't get the finish he deserved, that was kind of my fault, but we can't take that back".

4th place Clint Mills: "I haven't done this interview thing in a long time. I told you before the race I was dropping to the back and letting them all wreck, well, half of them wrecked and half of them blew up so I just got lucky. The car was alright, it wasn't the greatest, the motor was really good, I could pull them down the starightaway and that's how I kept my advantage on them, because it would NOT turn in the corner".

The way your last three months have gone this has to be a refreshing run tonight. "We have had so many motor problems this year It's unreal, It's agravated me all year. My grandpa has always built my motors for me, and he's retiring now, so we are going to take our motor up to Danny Glad and get it fixed up for next year and hopefully we can run a full season.

5th place Matt DiBenedetto: "When we started the race we were way, way off, it was just plowing. We had a right front go flat.....thankfully, and we came in and changed it and we went a lap down and drove from the back to the front for fun. Then we got the lucky dog with like 12 to go, and drove from the back to the front again and finished 5th".

You almost beat the pace car out there after you had that flat, that was pretty exciting too. "I tried. I think when I hit the end of pit road I was running about 110 miles per hour and didn't let that slide. It was fun racing though, I burnt my right rear off the entire race driving like I was qualifying every lap, smoking the tires all night. It was fun and that is what I came for, I just made the best of it".