I was just wanting to make sure we got somewhere in the top four to have a shot at winning the race [on Saturday]. With this caliber of guys, the closer you start to the front, the better your chances are. |
I was so tight standing up so early in the race that I was just having a hard time, ... As we freed up and got rid of some fuel I was a little better but I was still too tight. |
I'm all right. It knocked the top down and I got trapped in the car. That's about it. |
It was a good racetrack, a fun racetrack. You could move around on it. There was more than one groove on it. |
It's been going on the last few races, |
Not bad for a 20-year-old. |
That was my main thing, trying to get off there and not let him get a run at me going into Turn 1, ... The only lap I messed up was the first lap on the restart. I went in and missed the bottom a little bit. It was a little slow, but it wasn't too bad. After that I caught it pretty good the last four laps. I knew I was getting through there good enough. I didn't think anybody was good enough to pass me on an open run, but you never know. |
The heck with the preliminaries, I want to win the main nights, ... We've been pretty good all the time. We keep plugging away in the top two or three in every show so that helps a lot. |
There it went again. I don't know what to say. |
We got a bad draw and had to start in the back of the Dash, |
We used to run a lot of them back home when I first started, ... I can run terrible on them or I can run good on them. |
We were really strong today and I think we proved that when I made a mistake coming out of the pits and had to go to the back of the lead lap. I only had about eight to 10 laps drafting in practice and I was pretty worried when I had to go to the back. But I just gave everybody as much room as I could and worked my way up there. |
Winning at Talladega is pretty big, |
Winning at Talladega is pretty big. I knew that when I was sprint car racing and racing across the street over there, |
You can't run over the top of them, ... They're down in the fast part of the groove and racing themselves. The car was working good to where I could keep a little momentum. I would miss it once in a while and lose a little bit, but when I'd catch it right I could stay with them and get a run at them and get back in front of them. |