Newman said. ''But he just never was able to walk away with it. I got back underneath him coming off of [Turn] 2 and he had to check up a little bit because the wall was there. We raced clean, we raced hard, we had fun. |
(Saturday) just proved to me that there will be something else down the road that will keep that line open in my head that we're not done seeing different things happen. |
A 43-point lead with three races to go isn't any cakewalk by any means, ... But it does give you a little bit of breathing room. |
A 43-point lead with three races to go isn't any cakewalk by any means. But it does give you a little bit of breathing room. |
A season's still a season. Let's not reinvent the wheel. We're starting this year with the same guys and the same attitude we did the year before, and the year before that. |
A top five for this Home Depot team is good, ... We just couldn't stay there at the end. Starting 36th and ending up in the top five is a pretty good day. We had to work on it all day to get it to go fast. We'll definitely leave here with a smile on our faces. |
A top five for this Home Depot team is good. We just couldn't stay there at the end. Starting 36th and ending up in the top five is a pretty good day. We had to work on it all day to get it to go fast. We'll definitely leave here with a smile on our faces. |
All I can tell you is, we're on a roll, ... We've got a ton of momentum. |
All we could control ... was our emotions, |
Andy said that we've been so close the last couple of years, it makes you even that much more hungry to win. But, at the same time, with disappointments like that, it will make it that much more gratifying if we do accomplish that goal this year. |
Any time a great driver like that or a great group of drivers speak highly of you like that, that's probably the greatest honor in auto racing you can have. To hear those comments, that's better than any trophy I've ever received in my life. |
As far as a to-do list this year, that's No. 1. It's the only thing we haven't accomplished. |
As far as the to-do list is concerned, it's the No. 1 thing. The last two years, I've led enough laps to win the whole race outright. |
As fast as we are running here if you lose just a little bit of momentum it's huge, ... Half the time running eighth I couldn't even see the leaders. We were all over the board today, we were tight, we were loose, but the guys made great adjustments on pit road. |
As good as we've run here the last two years, this one means a ton to us. We've been so good here. This was one of the places that, for the last couple of weeks, I couldn't wait to get here because I knew we had a shot at winning. |