Jamie McMurray probably helped himself find a new job by winning Sunday's race at Talladega Superspeedway.

McMurray has three races left with Roush Fenway Racing before he has to find new work in the Sprint Cup Series. NASCAR ordered car owner Jack Roush to go from five to four teams, and McMurray wound up being the odd man out. He talked about his future and the unique nature of racing at Talladega after the race.

Here are excerpts of that interview:

Q: Will the win help your chances at finding another ride?

A: Well, certainly being able to win is not going to hurt my chances at getting another ride. You know, I said this kind of jokingly on TV, but my first year, so Jack was a little bit mean to me, I guess, would be the easy way to put that. His motivating skills were - he just wasn't pushing the right button. He's told me numerous times that, you know, everyone is motivated differently. And Jack's become a really good friend of mine in the last year. He's learned to push the right button, I guess, when he comes up to my car before the race and what to say to me. You know, I'll miss not getting to drive one of these cars. Certainly Jack's team can put just incredible equipment on the track, and this year hasn't been as good as what it's been in the past. But whether it's the engine shop or the engineering department or the chassis shop, he has an incredible race team. And my years here have been, you know, they've been good.

Q: Any regrets?

A: Certainly the performance hasn't been what I think either one of us expected coming in and almost making the Chase my first few years in Cup. Coming over here I thought it would be kind of a sure bet, and it just hasn't been as good as what it needed to be. But certainly I'll miss being a part of this organization. But you never know, you know, you might end up driving for Jack one day again. So I'm not going to make him mad in this little meeting we're having here.

Q: Do you think your phone will ring soon?

A: No, I don't think so. ...There's not a lot of rides available right now. I think that everybody knows that what rides there are out there. You know, certainly if a sponsor were to call me, that would make it a lot easier with the amount of teams that are shutting down. There are not a lot of options out there, so I think everyone knows the cars that are available right now. For me, I just hope that we can get it, you know, signed and announce it whenever they want to so that it will make it a little bit easier to sleep at night.

Q: NASCAR said they won't allow any contact in the corners at Talladega. Did you notice a difference and do you think everyone has a clear understanding of what's expected?

A: When I listened to (NASCAR president) Mike Helton describe what they wanted, you could tell it's going to be very hard to police 43 people. I assume that if they get a TV camera on you, and NASCAR was watching that TV camera and they saw you push around the racetrack, it would be easy to say that's not right. But I think it's very hard when guys are two or three wide to be able to look at everybody. I thought that what they said was fine. I don't think that you should be pushing around the corners on Lap 20. And we saw it here in the spring and even last fall. You'd see guys get hooked up and they would drive a half a mile ahead of the field. You know, you can do it. It's pretty exciting when you get the guy behind you shoving through the corner. It's a little bit hairy. You don't need to be doing that on lap 20 or lap 50 or 100. I think it's a little different when you're coming to the checkered flag. When you're the guy in front, I think it's a little misled. The guy in front doesn't set that up. He doesn't say I'm going to drag the brake and get that guy to me. It doesn't work like that. The guy behind has to have a big enough run at you to break that plain to get your bumper. It's very easy to get a big runs at guys today and you get a foot from him and your car would just stop. Then you'd have a big run and think I'm going to hit him pretty hard. So it's tricky to get locked up like that. So it's not like two guys working together could be like we're going to do this on the last lap. It's a little bit of luck to get those cars locked together.

Q: Why is racing at Talladega so wild?

A: Well, this is a different type of racing than what we do. ... It's all about getting in the right groove and having a really good engine. You know, it's really weird how you watch the truck race and everybody rides around on the bottom. And in our race everybody rides around up against the wall. But it seems that these cars the way they suck up, you need to be on the right rear of the guy in order to make the pass. It's really hard to make the pass on the inside. It's hard even when they're policing the bump drafting and you're 10 rows back and they start stacking up, you can't tell what's going on. Everyone's fanning out trying to figure out where they're stacking up at, but it's really hard to see that when you're 10 rows back.