The chaos I’ve been through, it was very hard.{+1} You can’t talk, you can’t speak. At this point at least, you can talk about how much fun you had, how cool it is to be here as the winner of the 500. So, it’s certainly a lot different than the chaos of what I’ve been through.
I think the tears speak for everything. Because it was good tears, honest tears, tears of joy. It was just an incredible feeling to accomplish something that is very hard to do. To me, winning a race is always incredible and I always enjoy the moment, but this one is very, very special.
Relief, I would say it’s not that. Because I never doubted my ability or the team’s ability, especially, because they gave me a great car. But joy. Joy just to be back racing again. That’s my life. That’s what I feel I was born to do and I love. I realized how much I love racing. A lot more perspective. Today, I’m fresh. Probably before, I would be like, “I got to focus on racing.” Racing’s here. Racing is not going to go anywhere. This is what I’m enjoying. Saturday,{+2} I’m going to be sitting in the car again.
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I was shocked.{+3} I looked at Ryan{+4} like, “Wow, man, did you hear that?” He was like, “Yeah, that was impressive.” I was blown away. You could hear the entire circuit, 300,000 people, however many it was, screaming, man. It was a great feeling. Great emotion. It was really, really cool.
Fans believe in me. Everybody was supporting me. I’m always open. I don’t have a reason to hide things. I always try to say the right things. For me, I never worried in terms of people making jokes, make something bad about it. That, honestly, did not cross my mind. Not at all.
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