We beat on it pretty hard, but we kept coming back. …My crew, to be able to cut everything off and get me back on the race track without losing a lap, it was a good job by them. |
We bounced off a lot of things and it just continued to drive great. The wheels were still straight, and everything was still going in the right direction. |
We came down here and ran great. That's all I wanted to do. |
We didn't run as good as we wanted to in the test at Vegas, so I'm a little concerned there. |
We fought a push all day. Even on that last lap, I went to the outside of the 38 (Elliott Sadler), got a real big push and had to back up. |
We had enough race car, just not enough time. We might have been able to make a stab at the 38 [Sadler] there. We just didn't have enough laps. |
We had enough race car, just not enough time. We started off tight, and we've been fighting it in our practices. We still have some work to do on it. |
We need to be better, but we definitely made some improvements from how it was here over the past couple of years. |
We passed the second-place car, and then ran away from him [late in the race]. So if you paid real close attention to what happened today -- well, I don't know if I can explain it -- but we'll be OK. We got some stuff figured out today that really helped the car. I can't wait for Indy. |
We were just out there drafting together. He's a good teammate. Some guys have their own agenda. But when you put him in the car, he knows how good a race car driver he is. He doesn't have anything to prove. If you give him a good car, he's going to run good. He's out there to help us and we're going to help him. |
We'll find something else to run into each other with if it ain't the front bumper. |
We're making some great ground on these tracks. This is the best opportunity I've had as a driver and the team is really capable from top to bottom. |
We've got to tweak the nose a little. We're talking tenths of a percent - not a whole lot. |
When he was around, man, you knew he was there. That was tough . . . I miss him a lot. |
When you go into California and don't run well, and come to Vegas and don't run well, it puts a lot of pressure on you. But we finished 11th at California, and that's our goal this week. And if we can do that at these two race tracks, which have been our biggest nemesis, I think we can expect to have a pretty good season. |