Richard has given me everything I need to succeed. I expect our team to be very competitive. |
Some of the Cup guys trying to make the Chase are setting a good example right now of how it needs to be done. The bottom line is we have to run better than the No. 8 car. |
That should help. In 250 laps I can learn where to pass, where to get runs, just learn how to pass. |
That's exactly what we needed to do. Come here and get a strong finish. |
That's unfortunate for those guys. They don't deserve that. They work too hard to lose like that. |
The boss is over there hunting and fighting elephants and tigers and whatever else in Africa. He'll be pretty happy when he comes back: all three cars in the top 10. That's a heck of a job. |
The car was good all day long, all weekend really, ... I hate to gain points like that, but the way our year has been we will take them where we can get them. |
The racecar was really good. It was all weekend. I was probably too confident in the car in qualifying. The good thing was it was just cosmetic; we were able to work on it. I was really proud of the guys and the effort they put forth, |
The rain must have washed away the rubber we built up on the top (of the track), and that was obviously the fastest way around. We had a good race car. It's just frustrating to run second. I'd rather run fifth. |
These, ... are real important. It gives us a chance to do things we want to try. Every once in a while you will hit on something at a test session that gives you a big gain. My guys, Gil (Martin, his crew chief) always come out with a gain. Two or three things usually. |
Those guys are really neat to get to meet. |
Today, we did everything we could do, even though I put us in a bad spot, |
Today, we did everything we could do, even though I put us in a bad spot, ... We'd had the fastest car in practice, and I was trying to prove it in qualifying. Maybe it just made me mad enough to do what I had to do. |
Tony is a handful, but I thought I had him once or twice. We tried him as hard as we could, and everyone was every which way. It was pretty crazy, pretty wild out there. |
We had a pretty good car right there at the end. |