When a car's ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR. Even if it's a long ways down the track, it punches a hole in the air that has to help. When you're running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too.

Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.

My biggest concern during a race is getting bored. The biggest thing I have to combat is falling asleep while going around and around.

You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

But really - look at the span of my career, and it's something people dream about. And to be spared major injury: I had some moments along the way, but being able to retire on my own terms after having driven during those decades when safety conditions were more precarious than today - am I lucky, or  what?

You can't take a vacation from speed. I probably could have taken more time off and not driven in all the different disciplines, but I wanted to drive, drive and drive.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.