Being the favorite doesn't mean a darn thing to me, to be honest, as far as winning the points, ... I've led points championships before. The day I want to be leading is the Sunday at Homestead. |
Besides, you could win the first race and be inept in the next nine. Psychologically, you hope you have a good week. But if it's not that way, you go to the next one. You've got nine more to figure it out. |
broke my confidence, not knowing why I spun. |
But I am not here for you to have fun. |
But sixth-place finish, we didn't hurt ourselves too bad, |
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Coming into the corners, you use a lot of brake, and it's hard to not only get the car stopped, but to get it to turn. Then you go through that challenge all over again. |
Easy -- just like we did the spring race here, |
Even when we weren't running good, we were having fun, |
Every race we come here there is a lot of wrappers and stuff, ... The majority of grandstands are on the west side, and the wind was blowing to the east. I wouldn't say it was any worse than it typically is. It was pretty much the normal amount. ... With as windy as it was, I'll be honest. I expected it to be a lot worse. |
Every time we come here, it seems like it gets better and better. I've never seen it get as wide as it got today on either end. When you have things like that, it makes for better racing because guys don't have to be stuck behind each other. |
Every year that goes by, it just seems like that's a part of my career that is kind of like a chapter in a book that seems it's closed -- and we've moved on to another chapter. I would honestly say, I doubt you'll ever see me in an Indy car again. I've learned never to say 'never,' also. |
Everybody knows who had the best car here today, ... There wasn't anybody who was going to beat us. Jeff Gordon got the trophy, but he wasn't going to beat us. We had the best car. All you have to do is get the lap times. They could run with us for 15 or 18 laps, but we always drove away. That's the positive thing that we ought to take away from today. |
Everybody who has been on the bottom of the track has been in that situation, |
Everything really fell into place for us right there at the end, |