Nobody is really all that surprised, though.
In fact, Joe Ruttman gave Dodge a victory in the season-opening truck race in Daytona on Friday. Elliott, who drives for Evernham, led a Dodge sweep of the front row for Sunday's race with a pole-winning lap of 183.565 mph. I think they've just done a very good job of getting ready to race in a very short time. We've just worked very hard to get to this point, and maybe we've been a little lucky. Our guys worked their guts out to build this race team.