[Brian Vickers was livid Saturday after he got black flagged for passing a car on the left during a late restart in the Busch race. Vickers seemed to have a half-decent excuse: The car in front of him missed a shift and it was either pass him or rear-end him.] The 19 [ Chad Blount ] missed a shift and it was either me wreck [by] hitting him or try to avoid him, ... That's racing. When somebody misses a shift it's a basic maneuver -- you either wreck or be wrecked and we went low to miss him. I never passed him before the start/finish line. It's the front bumper that counts and it was a bad call. |
At the beginning of the season, a lot of people were expecting success right out of the box, but even we knew that was not going to happen. |
But, I am happy with the result. |
Even though (McGrew) and I have worked together in the past, a lot of guys on the team were new, some were even new to Hendrick Motorsports. It was a learning process for all of us. |
Even though testing at Daytona can be boring at times, I really wanted to be there. I got a clean bill of health from my doctor just this morning, so I'm ready to go. |
Everyone did a great job, |
I always try to take as much time off as I can. You're just that much better when you get back. |
I can't hold a grudge against him for that. If he didn't try to pass me for a win on the last lap, I don't know if I could respect that. |
I don't know that it's necessarily going to help you go faster. But it will help you get to know the racing's facilities. |
I guess someone wasn't listening in the meetings. Biffle just did something stupid. I have no idea what he was thinking. I hope I can't find him now. |
I guess the NASCAR meetings haven't been enough for some people. I have no idea what he was thinking. That was one of the dumbest things I've seen. I hope I don't find him. |
I thought everyone was doing a good job. It all broke loose. This is my first time at Daytona, and I got the full skinny. |
I went to the bottom as quick as I could ... he just got under there. |
I wish I'd pulled harder to the bottom to block Jimmie, but we might have wrecked too. We missed the big wrecks, and we blocked when we could, and it was a race to the finish. At this speedway ... you've got a 50-50 shot - block high or block low - when they're coming at you. |
It was a good run for us all day. We didn't have the fastest pit stops but we were consistent.we tried to run up front most of the day.it was pretty calm up there most of the day where we were.in the end it got a little dicey. |