It really boils down to what kind of role model you are going to be. You are either going to be someone people, especially kids, can look up to, or you are going to be someone their parents like to point at and say, 'Don't be like him!' I'd much rather be on the front page of the paper for winning a race than being arrested for something. |
It's a short little race that pays a lot of money. |
My life changed over seven years; his life has changed over two. He's getting pulled at from every direction, but I think he's handling it good. I don't see where it's changed him at all. Maybe it's confused him because he gets hit with (stuff) he don't want to worry about. He wants to do all the same stuff he always wanted to do. He just loves to race. |
Oh that? Listen, I'll go to the back any time, before I tear my fenders off. And I knew I had to turn to keep from tearing my fenders off. |
That's what I do. I like to race. |
This isn't something I have to do, but of all the tracks I've been to over the years, Toledo has been a real good one for us. The main thing I like about this place is that I'm a big fan of the ARCA people and that whole series. I want to maintain that long-standing relationship. |
To me it's like a perfect weekend. I get to go out to Las Vegas, camp at the race track, run the dirt car two nights, the Busch car Saturday and the (Cup) car Sunday. All that and I'm in a fun town. |
We do have a responsibility, |
We just got in the right lane. We had to make a lot of adjustments [because] we were geared up for hot and slick. The weather change got us pretty severely. |
We ran eighth the first night and second the second night and started 20th. Between Texas and (Las Vegas) there are no two finer facilities in the country to race at, and since we already had our dirt track car out here, we decided to keep heading west to Las Vegas. |
We'll take it for sure. |
We're unloading the best stuff we've got, which is good stuff. We don't have four teams to go comparing notes to, but you do what you can do with what you've got. It's not like they're unloading stuff that we don't have. They just have a lot more of it. |
We've had it 10 years. Last year was our best season yet. It's doing real good. |
We've run so many races here we ought to have won one. You know, we haven't won any Cup races here. Finished second once. |
When the day comes that one of these kids bumps me out, I'm going to run the next best thing I can find at whatever level that is. I'm going to keep doing it until I can't climb into the car anymore or (until) my buddies can't lift me in. |