I doubt he'll sacrifice his Cup car tomorrow, ... He's got a lot riding on that, racing for points, and I doubt he wants to do that. If he wants to nudge, we can nudge, too. |
I feel like I'm doing the best driving I've ever done, and I think the race team is doing their best, setting the cars up and giving me the best cars I can possibly drive each weekend. |
I feel like my team has done a great job preparing for the season and we've had some good races. It's very early in the season but it's definitely our best start yet. |
I feel like we had a great race car at the test. We have to keep making the right adjustments and I have to give the right information to (team director) Kenny Francis. If we do that, we have as good a shot to win out there as anybody. |
I got together with Kenny and started working with the new team, setting goals, and looking at what I did wrong. |
I just got into the corner and got on the gas to try and have good speed when I got to the start/finish and the car started going up a little bit and spun around. We just missed it a little bit. It's a shame this is a good car, this was our Indy car. So, we'll get it fixed up and get this other car going. Hopefully, we will get a good spot. |
I knew we would be fast, but going out that early I didn't know what would happen. We went to Kentucky (to test) and found a little bit more speed. |
I never even thought the sophomore slump existed. You hear the saying, but you never thought it was for real or anything. But that's kind of what happened to us last year, and I don't know really why that is. |
I probably had the best time of anybody to go out. It was our best qualifying in a while, and when the sun came back out, I was pretty excited. I didn't think there was anybody that was going to catch Greg. |
I really don't regret it at all, |
I saw Bill before the race and I wished him luck. It's exciting and I hope Bill gets a lot more opportunities. |
I think Erin can be very good. She's going to need a lot of work in testing and getting to drive around other race cars, things she really hasn't got a lot of experience in. If she can get all that I hope that she can be good. |
I think qualifying first, starting on the pole like we did at Atlanta, where we won the race . . . that's definitely momentum for the weekend. |
I think the track itself and the groove and the passing is really good there. |
I thought I could block him in behind J.J., but knowing Tony, that might make him mad. I didn't want to mess with that. ... I actually got a little loose there and couldn't pick up the throttle as hard as I wanted. |