I think a tire was going down on Hamlin's car. He slammed on the brakes and I ran into him hard and smashed in my grille pretty good. That made the car real tight for the rest of the race. |
I think it gets back to being in the right place at the right time and getting the right break. |
I thought we had an easy top-10 car, but once we got behind we had to pass a lot of cars and that's difficult to do here. But we did manage to recover and I am proud about that. |
I was looking to get back to the front on the next (green-flag) run, but the car got loose -- it was a struggle just to maintain our position. |
I'm really proud of this entire U.S. Army team, |
I'm the first to admit that Bristol hasn't been one of my better tracks. But tonight I kind of broke the jinx. It's been crazy for me here in the past and I will take this 12th-place finish with a smile. |
If we can get the performances that I am anticipating in the coming weeks, we should take a good jump in the standings. |
It got ugly for us in the beginning. But I had faith in this team. They never lose their poise. |
It happened in the worst spot because the sun is glaring there and you can't hardly see anything. All of a sudden everybody was wrecking. |
It makes me proud. Lakeland Speedway is my hometown track. I raced there quite a bit growing up. |
It's a good day. |
It's a long ways to come to have a day like this. |
It's definitely a long shot. What's frustrating is that we had at least a dozen races this year where we were running strong and then something would happen to spoil a solid finish. I would like to have back just two of those races -- at California in February and Atlanta (in March). Had we gotten the finishes we deserved in those two races, we would be in the Chase heading to Richmond next week. |
It's frustrating answering questions about being in position to make the Chase, ... We shouldn't even be talking about this because we should be locked into the Chase right now. |
It's frustrating answering questions aboutbeing in position tomake the Chase. The waythe Army team has run this year, we shouldn't even be talking about this because we should be locked into the Chase right now. |