Everything we do needs to be geared toward making the sport [auto racing] more accessible to the fans - the rules of the sport, how the race plays itself out, how people qualify into the races - everything needs to be as easy to understand as possible.

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

Tried on daddy's 1979 rookie firesuit a while back. Smelled every bit of 36 years old.

I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That'd be cool. With everything he's done and how professional he's remained through it all, I think he's an awesome role model as far as work ethic and tenacity. He just seems like he knows how to get it done.

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

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.

I felt like the track came to us, but then it went beyond us.