21 ordspråk av Denny Hamlin
Denny Hamlin
After the first 10 races in Busch, I was offered other Cup rides for this year. But I felt I didn't know what I was doing yet in Busch.
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I can't believe it. Two years ago I was here as a visitor of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and he invited me to come and stay in his motor home. That's the only other time I've been to victory lane.
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I felt like it was really time for me to stand up for what I felt was right and wrong.
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I had to bite the bullet and buy my own plane. It's a lot for me in a short amount of time, but I'm pretty excited about it.
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I respect Mark Martin like no other.
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If I see someone else doing something I start to panic and I wonder 'what's going on? Why are they doing that? When Boris stayed out there for as long as he did, I was wondering 'what is he doing? Is there something that he doesn't know or something that we don't know?
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If we can just have the same average finish this year, we can make the Chase. Finishing races is so important. That's how we got that top five finish in the Busch Series. We really weren't a top-five team, but we did it by consistency. That's what we want to do this year.
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It looks like I just lost the front end coming off turn four. Not really sure if a tire went down or what. The car took off towards the wall. The more you let off the gas, the harder it slides. I got in the wall a little bit, but we're going to fix the car and get it ready for the 150's (qualifying races).
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It was a conflict of driving styles. It's just one of those things where I asked Mark, 'Hey, you tell me what I can learn for that not to happen again.' I was totally open to anything he had to say. He's a guy you can learn a lot from.
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Not at all. I went to the bottom and held my line. How they're saying I wrecked them with my right rear quarter panel, I have no idea.
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That was my main goal. I figured I wouldn't have any help at all and all I wanted to do was gain respect from those guys for the 500. Hopefully we did that.
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That was pretty good, we picked up three-quarters of a second from practice.
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There's definitely been a lot of input from the fans. It seems everyone who comes to get autographs tells me which commercial they like the best. It definitely makes it a little more comfortable in front of the cameras.
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There's no other place I'd rather have it than here in Mexico. It's a race track that I was looking forward to going to from the time we were here last year. This track just fits my driving style perfectly.
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This is the way that we've been running all year long -- just haven't been able to finish the deal off. I'm so proud of my pit crew. They just kept gaining and gaining (positions on pit road).
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