I'm not too excited to try and do that again. It's just really nerve-wracking. |
I'm pretty sick of all this controversy with him, |
If he wants to keep going like that until the end of his career, fair enough, I'll take the championships he wants to throw away. |
If I didn't feel like I could I wouldn't have entered the championship. I'll definitely try hard to see how it unfolds, but I feel we have the winning package. It should be in line with what I need to be competitive. |
If we come out of this weekend with the same kind of points lead, I think we will be able to breathe a little easier, |
It is always important to get as much seat time as you can, especially at this time of the year since our Champ Car testing is so restricted. The race should be very interesting as well, and I am looking forward to it. |
It is hard to believe sometimes that after only three seasons, we have been able to accomplish everything that we have done with Newman/Haas Racing. But once you get around these guys, you see why they are so good. From Paul (Newman) and Carl (Haas), their passion just filters through the entire organization and everyone picks up on that and feeds on it. It is a pleasure to work with these guys every day. |
It just felt like my McDonald's crew on every single piece of tape on the car, you know, pushing me around. It's pretty much a good summary to what happened today. I think it's all to their credit what kind of performance we get in this qualifying. Kind of taking myself out of the picture really because in qualifying, just really put the foot down and it's all about the team effort. Obviously they proved to be extremely good at that. So during the race it's a bit different story, and you have to have a good ending in traffic. Hopefully we'll be able to achieve that again as well as we did last year. It should be a good race. It was really spectacular last year. |
It was a crazy race. It was extremely hard on your mind because you knew every second was a survival mode. You are inches from each other. Sometimes I couldn't even have put a finger in between our wheels. |
It was a huge performance, the best drive I think I have ever done. Everybody said that it was impossible to pass in Denver and we made it happen. Hopefully, we won't have to [do] it this year. |
It was a little frustrating. Every time a yellow would come out, I'd say, 'Well, OK, do it again. |
It was a perfect race until the yellow flag. That bad pit stop just killed us. |
It was a very intense race. The whole team did a great job. What a way to start the season. I really enjoyed driving with David and Scott. We were worried at the last stop that the gearbox would go because it was vibrating. But it held together. |
It was an unknown race track and there's always a chance to mess things up, |
It was clear he didn't obey the rules, |