I've known Steve for a long time. He has a lot of talent and we're excited about where the team is now. |
I've worked with Steve for more than 10 years and we already communicate extremely well, both on and off the track. The team has a ton of confidence in his abilities, so we're looking forward to the last 10 races of 2005 and getting an early jump on next year. |
If somebody tells me, 'You have to pass that car right there,' I guarantee you I'm going to step up the aggressiveness to a whole other level and that may mean beating and banging. But until it calls for that moment, I'm not expecting to go out there and just beat and bang for no reason. |
If they've already decided to move to another team, then you know where their commitments lie and where they want to be. As an owner, I wouldn't want somebody driving my car if they don't want to be there. |
In the closing laps, they [his teammates ] have got to do what they have got to do. I've always done it that way. I've always preached to them that way. They did exactly what I would have done. |
It didn't hurt having my teammate (Busch) pushing me from behind. There at the end it got pretty interesting. |
It has always been a tough place to pass on. It's still going to be tough, but every time we come here it seems...it gets a little bit easier. |
It was a hell of a night. |
It was a hell of a night. It's just one of those nights. You'll have those good nights when things will happen. We thought we had it at one time. I don't know if we just got a bad set of tires, over-adjusted or what. We were really looking good and then things just went backwards. We struggled back and forth all night. |
It was a long day for the Dupont Chevrolet Monte Carlo. We fought back all we could. |
It was a long day. I think we had a shot a top 10 with that tore-up race car. |
It was a real good day for us. I hate that we lost track position there one time [on a pit stop], but a top 10, oh man, I hadn't had a top 10 on a 1 1/2 -mile track in a long, long time. |
It was a very rewarding race and gratifying. I could get up to third or fourth but couldn't make those passes to get the rest of the way. Once we did get up front, the car was flying. To be able to drive from 15th all the way to third or fourth, I knew we had a good one. Once we got out front, we were awesome. I knew we were in great shape. |
It was going to be long night, no matter what. It wasn't a lot of fun. I didn't have car capable of getting in. No adjustments we made helped. |
It was like my car would just stop, and everything I tried to do just wouldn't work. |