Getting up in front and talking to the people who build my cars is the worst. I get so damn nervous.

In what other sport do you get a 15-second break every hour?

That's life. You've got to deal with it, good and bad. We'll be all right. I mean, if we make the chase, we make it. If we don't, we don't.

I'm just trying not to get run over. That's number one. Number two is you gotta catch the guy in front of ya.

My father could look straight ahead but concentrate on something on the very edge of his vision, almost nearly behind him.

I've already done enough to have earned 'good driver,' so if I can be known as a great person and a good driver, that's better than only being a great driver.

There's some sorta big bar-be-que goin' on here in turn three. There's smoke all over the track! Some fan's got a big one goin' on.