When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten.

Mile tracks put more emphasis on the driver. On the longer tracks, you can drive flat out all the way around, so it's more of an engineering exercise. On a mile, you can't run flat out. You're constantly in traffic, there's more driver involvement.

I've always loved old hot rods. I have four or five of them at home that I work on when I'm not working out.

It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn.

I've always been under the radar.

No matter if I have a job for one weekend or for the next year, or three years, I'm going to drive the same way. That's the way I am. I'm going to give it everything I have.

In the past, people said I wasn't focused and didn't give it the time. That's a bunch of crap. I'm not doing anything different now than I did before.