Last year was hard on me and hard on the team. It was hard for me to watch them play, and I wasn't out there to help them. And then I had to sit out 11 games this year. So that made me anxious to get back and play again. It makes all of us want to have a better season this year. |
Obviously I was trying to get close. But his car's been fantastic, and he didn't make any mistakes ... With about eight or nine laps (left) he completely disappeared (from view). I was hoping he had pitted at that point. |
Paul Tracy is a great driver and a tough competitor. You know when you have beat him in a race, you have beaten one of the best drivers in the world. |
The bottom line is, they don't seem to have any weak areas. |
The car was a lot more stable in qualifying than it was in practice ... I feel like we've got room to improve and I don't have quite as much of a death grip on the wheel, so we'll take it from there in tonight's practice. Hopefully we can make the car a bit quicker. Last year we struggled in qualifying, but had a very good race car, so we were able to work our way through the pack. This year we're starting a little further up the grid so I think we can challenge early in the race and hopefully end up with a good result. |
The incident remains under investigation, but from preliminary investigation appears to have been accidental, |
The trouble with measuring the economic cost of obesity is that it's very difficult to determine whether someone incurred medical expense because they were fat, or because they had heart disease, or they had this or that. |
The victim was out on the balcony and appears to have been trying to sit on the railing when he fell three stories to his death, |
Those guys are awfully quick, but we're just pleased to be competitive and to be up front again. The key to this kind of racing is being able to adjust. It is a long race. |
We are getting a high volume of calls with people wanting to jump on the bandwagon because they are a Final Four team. |
We didn't go quite as quickly as we were hoping to. We've got a little bit of work to do. Generally, we are just trying to get a good balance on the car and get the car to handle well. |
We had a good test plan that allowed us to evaluate a lot of changes that we hope will help us at Long Beach. We've been working very hard on the overall quality of the team and I've been really impressed with the preparation as we head toward Long Beach. |
We have had tremendous support from the community. They have brought us doughnuts, hams and drinks, and donated money. |
When we are in full production, the trucks are rolling in and out of the plant all of the time. That's not happening now. They don't have enough people for full production. |