They tried really hard to make it work. We were hoping for the best, but I don't think it's going to be possible. I wanted to do it so badly. |
This Fusion, they have put a lot of work into it and no one will let something happen that we don't want to happen without someone voicing our opinion. Speculation is a pretty big thing. |
This is was my first race with a new crew chief. I think we're going to win a lot of races. |
This race will be huge, |
This type of race track - we race on so many tracks this size and in this format that as a driver I've gotten really good at these places and I feel comfortable coming to these places. As a team we've developed some awesome cars. We went out there and I think we were third in the first practice today. It's pretty straightforward. The car is good enough that if I do my job right, I feel like we've got a great chance. |
To avoid this kind of wreck, you just can't race hard when you're in a tight space, ... You gotta be smart. |
To be honest with you, I am surprised, |
To make it into the top-10 was OK, ... We had a better car that that. We were just too tight and we kept destroying the tires. |
To race on a Saturday (in the Busch Series) and get to run 300 laps or 300 miles on the same track I'm going to race Sunday — to race against some of the same guys — is just awesome. |
Today was pretty ugly. I'm not sure what was going on. |
Tony Stewart has the edge right now because he has the lead, |
Was it really like a foot or something? ... I thought it was a little more than that, so that makes me more grateful. |
We felt like if everything went well and we got some lucky breaks and a caution at the end that we would be sitting good at the end of the race on fresh tires. I am telling you what the big win for the day was that we had a lot of fun. Racing with Jeff Burton and Greg Biffle that was great fun. |
We got back up to fourth and that is pretty exciting, ... I had a really good time. My guys did a great job. The pit stops were perfect. |
We had a broken right-front shock (absorber) from Lap 50 or something and it was all I could do to get it into the corner, |