Our priority has to be going fast. That's what we couldn't do last year, and what I couldn't do the year before that or the year before that. ...When you go fast, you can continue to improve on going fast and you can start working on all the little stuff that makes the difference. |
Our sport is not as diverse as it needs to be. I don't think it's from a lack of trying. But for our sport to be truly a cross-section of America the way we need it to be, it needs to be more diverse than it is. |
Our sport, for one reason or another -- and we could debate for hours about why -- is not as diverse as it needs to be. I don't think it's from a lack of trying. |
Racing is safer today than it was five years ago, but we didn't know it. People ask me, 'Do you feel safer today in a race car than you did five years ago?' No, I don't. I felt safe five years ago. I thought we were doing all we could do. I didn't know we could do more. |
Right now the 2 car looks like the very best car. I like the way my car drives and I think we can do what we need to do with it. We've got a long, long race here and a lot of things can happen. |
That'd be even more exciting. |
That's the best wind we've had down here in all of testing and everything else. It just played in our hands, and we had a car that could take advantage of it. |
The fact is, our sport is not as diverse as it needs to be. |
The first thing you do when you're in a streak like we've been in is you hide all the bullets in your house. |
The hardest thing that I've had to deal with is the understanding that I can't do everything. I just don't think that the driver can run the team anymore. I think he needs to be able to concentrate on driving.?The competition level is so big now, I need to focus on racing, not on the logistics part of it. |
The last two weeks I really let them down. This feels really good. |
There is time for both. When I am driving a race car I am driving a race car. But I take a lot of pride in the sponsors I work with. |
There's a great misconception about [the points system], ... If [NASCAR] wanted to encourage more winning, they'd award more points for winning. The points system is not built to encourage winning, but better competition throughout the year. |
There's a great misconception about [the points system]. If [NASCAR] wanted to encourage more winning, they'd award more points for winning. The points system is not built to encourage winning, but better competition throughout the year. |
This is a difficult race track, for sure, but the rookies that we have are really good and they didn't just start racing yesterday. |