Quotations

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

«Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.»

«I don't think you'll understand the true repercussions of what the 500 does for you until years down the road.»

«Dario had the most dominant car, but they made a mistake in the pits and he didn't win it. Danny had the most consistent day and ended up winning it.»

«I don't see them coming back together anytime soon. A bunch of people have tried to do it and it hasn't happened, so I don't see it happening anytime soon.»

«It's great to finally have a full-blown solid weekend. The pit stops were excellent like always. The car was good. (Engineer) Tim (Reiter) and I hit it off all weekend. We've been spot on, didn't make hardly any changes. The Honda power was awesome this weekend.»

«We all know what we're doing when we go out there.»

«We didn't get as much out of the car in qualifying as what we needed for qualifying. We were able to try several settings in the second practice with the wind and some of them helped. We want to be prepared for any kind of conditions in the race. Last year, we had some trouble early, but that was a freak deal. This year is a whole another year. Now we'll be ready for the race. We were able to run some race setup in practice with full tanks. I was pleased with the car in that configuration. We just couldn't get the speed for qualifying. Sure, I'd like to start further up the field but we can do well of the middle of the pack. The race is much different than qualifying.»

«It needs to happen. Even if we are the dominant one right now, it can switch back in any direction. We'll never get back to the way we were as long as there's a split. If there's two series, we'll never get back to that. Everybody knows that. It's just (a question of) whether they'll do it or not.»

«It's great to finally have a full-blown solid weekend. Pit strategy was the main thing, just like everybody anticipated.»