(A race you win) is one less race for things to go wrong, ... You can look at it from many different directions, and for us, we wanted to capitalize on the first eight races and after Atlanta we were forced into making sure we didn't have anything go wrong after that. We wanted to attack for as many races as we could, and then you have to play it cool, because you can only go for so long. |
After that, it will be a great race, in prime time Saturday night, for the fans that will be watching it here or the fans watching on East Coast television, |
After the problem we had, I thought we were buried. It's very tough to come back to the front. |
All in all it was great, ... To be able to come back and work our way through the pack. We took four tires when we thought we needed to stay out and then we had a long green flag run and that put us into a great position. |
Believe it or not, when practice begins on Thursday morning at Texas Motor Speedway, that will be the first time I've ever even sat in a Grand National car. |
Don't just do it. You have to make an impact and tell them you learned some things and that you're going to make sure that doesn't happen again. |
Everybody wants to win Daytona. There's only one guy that's happy when we leave and that's the winner. California is really where the season starts. |
For a team that's new, we're just feeling each other out and getting comfortable. |
For me, it would be like winning the Daytona 500. |
Frankly, I hope it does. They've run it all year long. It's been a matter of time before things were revealed. |
Guess we're even with the 17 car. We'd gotten around him for seventh. He bumped me up the track and we fell back. |
Guess we're even with the 17 car. We'd gotten around him. He bumped me up the track. We came in and got four fresh tires there at the end, but we were just so darn loose that we couldn't use them to our advantage. |
Guess we're even with the [No. 33] car. |
He checked up on the straightaway. I had no place else to go. |
He is really coming together quicker than I thought. He was pretty stout and I am pretty proud of him. He competed with the best of the best. He did it in Vegas, of all places. |