EARNHARDT (ON THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DAYTONA IN FEBRUARY AND JULY.): “It’s a little more laid back in July. In February, everybody is nervous because it’s the beginning of the season. Everybody is wondering how their year is going to go, how their car is going to drive. Everybody knows by the time July rolls around.”
EARNHARDT (ON WHY DAYTONA HAS BEEN A GOOD TRACK FOR HIM.): “I bring a lot of confidence there and always enjoyed going there when I was a kid. It’s always been one of my favorite tracks.”
LANCE McGREW, INTERIM CREW CHIEF, NO. 88 NATIONAL GUARD “SERVING AMERICA”/AMP ENERGY CHEVROLET (ON HIS FAVORITE DAYTONA MEMORY.): “February this year, winning the Nationwide Series race with Tony Stewart. It was just cool. Just the prestige with winning the event. It’s probably the biggest race of the year even in the Nationwide Series, which I got the chance to do this past year. It was just fun. The best of the best show up at the superspeedway and all the Cup guys were there running the Nationwide race and we managed to win. It was really cool working with Tony. It was just fun.”
McGREW (ON THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DAYTONA IN FEBRUARY AND JULY.): “The track is so slick in July. You go down there the first time and it’s all about qualifying and then you worry about the race afterwards. Well, this is an impound race. You have to worry about the race first and qualifying second. So, build some more downforce into the cars. They don’t qualify as fast but they drive a lot better in traffic. It’s not like Daytona is ever easy to get around. It’s way more difficult in July because the track is really hard to get a hold of.”
McGREW (ON JULY’S RACE ATMOSPHERE.): “There’s no difference to me. Every race pays the same amount of points so I put the same amount of pressure on myself everywhere we go, whether it’s Sonoma or Daytona.”
McGREW (ON THE CAMOUFLAGE PAINT SCHEME.): “I’ve seen the car, and it’s really cool. All of us have an enormous amount of gratitude for what the armed services do for us. And it’s cool that on the Independence Day of our nation we get to carry the National Guard on our car, or I guess a better way of putting it is that they are carrying us around. It definitely makes you reflect on the all the privileges and freedoms that you have living in the United States. The fact that we can represent the armed services in any way definitely brings a sense of pride to me and this race team.”
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