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Clint Bowyer Thursday Charlotte Media Visit
CLINT BOWYER met with media and discussed being close to his first Cup win of the season, racing in Michigan in manufacturers hometown, racing in his hometown of Kansas next week, and more. Full Transcript: YOU’RE LOOKING FOR THAT FIRST WIN IN THE SPRINT CUP SERIES THIS YEAR, DO YOU THINK IT COULD COME THIS WEEKEND? “Gosh, I sure hope so. We’ve got a lot of work to do after the All-Star race. It’s kind of embarrassing, to be honest with you. We qualified well. The car was good in practice. We just went completely the wrong way for the race and missed the opportunity. The bad news is, we learn from our mistakes. The good news is we learn from our mistakes. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Dale Earnhardt,Jr. Thursday Charlotte Media Visit
DALE EARNHARDT, JR. met with members of the media at Charlotte Motor Speedway and discussed racing in the Coca-Cola 600, Kansas Speedway, Danica Patrick and other topics. Full transcript: WHAT IS YOUR REACTION TO ONE OF YOUR COUNTERPARTS GOING 128 MPH ON A PUBLIC ROAD? “Sometimes you go a little fast, even away from the race track I guess. I’ve been guilty of the same thing myself just been lucky enough not to get caught.” YOU DID 128? “I don’t really know if I got that fast, I didn’t know if we had enough straight road in North Carolina to get going that quick, but, apparently there is a piece somewhere (LAUGHS).” TALK ABOUT RACING ON MEMORIAL DAY, WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU: “It … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Kevin Harvick Thursday Charlotte Media Visit
KEVIN HARVICK met with members of the media at Charlotte Motor Speedway and discussed getting ready for Sunday’s race, his satisfaction with Elliott Sadler in the nationwide Series, the Kansas race coming up and much more. Full transcript. YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT GETTING GEARED UP FOR THE BIG RACE SUNDAY AFTERNOON. “As we ran the All-Star race last week I think we figured out that we were way off where we needed to be in the beginning of the race and toward the end of the race I was fairly happy with the car so we made some big adjustments, obviously didn’t run as well as we wanted to to compete for the win but I think we got the car somewhat … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
France: NASCAR won’t define standards for driver behavior
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service CONCORD, N.C.—Despite calls from several NASCAR drivers to define consequences for actions on and off the racetrack, NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France said the sanctioning body would continue to maintain a degree of subjectivity in the application of its rules. Questions arose as to NASCAR’s enforcement policies following incidents at Richmond involving Juan Pablo Montoya and Ryan Newman and at Darlington with Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch, who escalated a wreck at the end of the Showtime Southern 500 into a confrontation on pit road. Harvick got out of his car and tried to punch Busch through the window of his car. Busch in turn shoved Harvick’s unattended car out of the way and into the pit road wall. NASCAR fined both drivers $25,000 and … Read entire article »
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Jeff Gordon Friday Darlington Media Visit Transcript
JEFF GORDON met with members of the media at Darlington Raceway and discussed Drive To End Hunger initiative, Safer Barriers, aggressive driving, racing at Darlington and other topics. Full transcript: TALK ABOUT THE INITIATIVE THIS WEEK IN YOUR DRIVE TO END HUNGER PROGRAM WITH DARLINGTON RACEWAY AND ISC: “The Drive To End Hunger and the AARP Foundation when they launched this program in January, there was a lot of buzz, a lot of excitement. But, I don’t think any of us knew how fast and strong of a reception this program would get and how much impact they would make on those millions of people. Through commitments like ISC (International Speedway Corporation) and others that have been going on already so far this year, the momentum continues to build with donations, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Tony Stewart Richmond Friday Media Visit
TONY STEWART met with media and discussed his upcoming Prelude to the Dream event, upcoming drivers and how they impress veteran drivers, practice sessions, and more. Full Transcript: WERE YOU GUYS WORKING ON QUALIFYING RUNS OUT THERE IN THAT PRACTICE? “No we didn’t work on qualifying runs until the last fifteen minutes.” DO YOU LIKE WHERE YOU ARE AND HOW THE CAR IS? “I don’t know, I think we still need to figure out some stuff for the race and I am not concerned about the qualifying stuff as much. I don’t get too worked up over that stuff as much as I do the race trim.” HOW MUCH DO YOU GUYS USE THIS RACE AS A PRACTICE OR A TEST FOR WHEN YOU COME BACK IN … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Ryan Newman Friday Richmond Media Visit
RYAN NEWMAN met with media and discussed his visit to Walter Reed, U.S. Army soldiers, the importance of Richmond to prepare for the fall race, and more. Full Transcript: TALK ABOUT THE CHECK YOU JUST PRESENTED “I didn’t even know how much it was for, but I believe it was for the hood that we had ran at our Phoenix race in the spring here. It was family and members of the Army that had their family faces on the hood. So it was pretty cool. We auctioned it off and I forget exactly how much (money) it raised, so the money goes to the Fisher House and in general just out to wounded warriors.” AND YOU HAVE SOME HIGH LEVEL PEOPLE IN THE … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Dale Earnhardt Jr Friday Richmond Media Visit
DALE EARNHARDT, JR met with members of the media at Richmond International Raceway and discussed racing at Richmond, the All Star race and other topics. Full transcript: WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT RACING HERE AT RICHMOND? “It’s a good track and it’s a little bit bigger than most short tracks we race on but the racing is always fun here and its always a great market and the shape of the track is quite unique which makes it pretty interesting. She’s getting a little bit slick out there, and the last couple trips here it has become more slick but it’s a fun track and looking forward to the weekend and getting in the car and seeing what we got.” … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Jeff Gordon Friday Richmond Media Visit
JEFF GORDON met with members of the media at Richmond International Raceway and discussed racing at Richmond, racing at Darlington, the Royal wedding and other topics. Full transcript: IS THERE ANY ADDED EMPHASIS ON THE NOTES FROM THIS WEEKEND FOR THE FALL RACE?: “I feel like we do everything we possibly can each time we come to the race track to gather information. We go into that track to be the best that we can be, to get better as the weekend goes based on what’s happening and then to gather the best information for when we leave there so that we’re even better when we come back. To say that we put more emphasis because this could be a make or break track … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
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