(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. |
[(AP) - In 2001, when Kyle Busch was 16 and a high school junior, older brother Kurt sounded a warning to NASCAR competitors.] You think I'm a pretty good race car driver? Wait until you see my brother, ... He's the best driver in the family. |
[Autonet.ca - french english anglais francais français audio The Canadian Press Online news photos internet live current associatson CP Sports AUTO-NASCAR-New-Kid REPLACE Busch win came as no surprise: In 2001, when Kyle Busch was 16 and a high school junior, older brother Kurt sounded a warning to NASCAR competitors.] You think I'm a pretty good race car driver? Wait until you see my brother, ... He's the best driver in the family. |
[Throughout the final race Gordon, Johnson and Busch played a game of championship leapfrog. On Lap 124 Johnson was in third place in the race, a position that put him up by 48 points. By Lap 178 Gordon was in third place and atop the standings by 36 points. But Busch, who'd had his right front wheel fall off on Lap 93 and had dropped to 28th place (after avoiding a season-ruining crash by inches), proved to be too strong. Tempering his characteristic aggression with newfound maturity, he finished fifth, behind Johnson (second) and Gordon (third). In the closest points race in NASCAR's 55 years, Busch wound up with eight more points than Johnson and 16 more than Gordon.] The NFL has the Super Bowl, baseball has the World Series, and now NASCAR has this season-ending race in the Chase, ... I've never driven so hard in my life. Man, what a couple of weeks! |
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 [No. 33] car. |
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. |