He went a groove up the race track to knock us out. Unbelievable. |
I believe that a lot of it had to do with Richard's being a nice guy. I think that he was really nice, almost was too nice, to a lot of - not individual people but to the groups. I think he gave a lot of groups the benefit of the doubt, that they were doing the right thing, and wasn't dropping the hammer when things weren't what they needed to be. |
I can't tell you the number of times I got out of my car on Sunday, the last year or two, to go to the airport and looked at my wife and said 'I drove my tail off today and nobody will ever know it. |
I don't have an answer. |
I don't see any one person that everyone migrates to in this sport anymore. When you have an opportunity to pick the mind of a seven-time champion, that's a special thing. |
I don't think anyone has replaced him. His impact in the sport behind the scenes is well-known by car owners and drivers that were around in that time. |
I feel really good about what we're doing and all these guys are working really hard. The competition is tough. Everybody is getting their stuff together and we've got to do the same. |
I knew we had a shot a running well but I didn't know we could run that well. |
I think that Richard and everybody (at RCR) knew they needed to move forward. But I also think that any time they moved away from something that they were doing, they were moving further away from Dale. |
I think the responsibility message has been more thorough because they are involved in our sport than if they weren't involved in our sport. And if you think about it, someone was held accountable maybe to a higher degree because they are involved in the marketing of alcohol. |
I think we have things in place to make a lot of noise. |
I threw it away after the first week. |
I was digging after the restart and it just turned sideways. I am disappointed that we didn't win or do better than that in the end. |
I wasn't going to hit Kevin. I race clean every chance I get and the last person I'm going to hit is my teammate. Kevin has been real good to me as far as being a teammate and he would do the same for me. |
I'd like to say that we had a great day and all's right with the world. This is a great way to start the season, but we've still got a long way to go. |