“Any of these guys in the points chase that say they don't think about it all the time, they're lying. I think about it when I'm taking the kids to school. I think about it in the shower. I call (team owner) Don (Schumacher) every five minutes and ask him if it's time to go racing.”
“She just wasn't a girl who did OK. She won championships. She accomplished something. . . . I think a lot of people know who she is, but I don't think they really have a concept of what she really did. It was amazing.”
“This is a great tire. Some guys were throwing out some great shots (in testing) when the weather was cool, but I knew that when it came to race day and it got a little warm out in the middle of the day, it would be a challenge, and that's what we worked on in testing.”