That's pretty cool, ... I think we learned some stuff today for tomorrow. Staying out of the wrecks is a big thing, and you do that by starting upfront and we have taken care of that. |
The bottom line is, for us, we don't have to do that. We can beat everybody else with our knowledge and intelligence. Doing what they did with their car, it was pretty archaically uneducated and just a poor choice of cheating. |
The car was pretty good, just a little bit on the free side. We're really happy with the car. We'll have to see how we are in the race, but it should be pretty good. We're here to win the race and that's what we're going to try to do tomorrow. |
The cautions played to our benefit tonight, and we were in the right place at the right time. You can call it lucky, but the Alltel Dodge was good. |
The lap felt good, but you never know what the track is going to be like. Elliott is carrying the ace in the hole, I think. |
The Lowe's team did a good job of putting Jimmie in position to win the race. Everything else aside, Jimmie did drive a smart and somewhat overaggressive race. |
The point that should be driven home, if we have repeat offenders or the situation happens time and time again with a certain individual, there's something more should be done than suspension. |
The team loves qualifying at Atlanta. And we get asked a lot why we can't turn the poles into wins. I always say it's a lot easier to perfect a single lap than it is to perfect about 300 of them. |
The test at Las Vegas really shows us how the (cars) will perform at 1.5-mile tracks. The 1.5-mile tracks on the circuit are very similar, so the LVMS testing session gives us a good read on how we can expect to perform at those tracks throughout the season. |
The test at Las Vegas really shows us how the [cars] will perform at 1.5-mile tracks. The 1.5-mile tracks on the circuit are very similar, so the LVMS testing session gives us a good read on how we can expect to perform at those tracks throughout the season. |
The way it worked out, with so many cars out, there was a lot less susceptibility to cautions and crashes, ... I'm just happy to have been up front and have a good consistent race car. |
There were times and places where the Charger was good last year, and there were times and places it wasn't. |
There's a lot of pressure in this situation, |
They bunched up and got crossed up in front of me, and I had nowhere to go. There was no way to miss the crash. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. |
They crashed because the track didn't have a lot of rubber on it. On top of that, it just so happened a lot of media was stomping around here. A lot of times we go to test and crash and you never hear about it. |