Question: WHAT DO YOU TAKE AWAY FROM THE FIRST PRACTICE SESSION?
Tony Stewart: “Well, that we are 25th right now. We’ve got some work to do. The times are really close. If you gain two-tenths, you’re in the top five. We’ve just got to find a little bit more for qualifying here.”
Question: WITH THE FORECAST SO DIFFERENT ON SUNDAY, ARE YOU WORKING ON QUALIFYING NOW OR JUST YOUR RACE SET-UP?
Tony Stewart: ‘We did our normal deal. We did about two-thirds of the practice in race trim and then switched over to qualifying trim so we kind of stayed the same course we always do.”
Question: AS A TEAM OWNER, WHAT IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW YOU OVERLOOK STUFF OR DOUBLE-CHECK AFTER THIS WEEK?
Tony Stewart: “I’m not sure what the question is.”
Question: WELL AFTER THIS WEEK, A LOT OF TEAMS ARE PAYING EXTRA ATTENTION TO THINGS
Tony Stewart: “We’re not doing anything any different then we always have. Everybody on our side at Stewart-Haas is doing everything just like we’ve been for 27 weeks now. So, we’re not doing anything any different.”
Question: AFTER THE AGGRESSIVE NATURE OF LAST WEEK’S RACE AT LOUDON, DO YOU THINK IT WILL BE THE SAME HERE AT DOVER?
Tony Stewart: “I’d say guys are going to be pretty aggressive. It’s not going to be any different than it normally is. Last week’s race wasn’t a different race than what we normally see because people were paying attention more to the guys because it was a Chase race. The race itself wasn’t different. The guys didn’t race any different. They raced just as hard as they always do.”
Question: ON FUEL MILEAGE AT LOUDON, DID YOU THINK YOU ACTUALLY HAD MORE GAS THAN YOU DID?
Tony Stewart: “I don’t know. You’d have to ask Darian (Grubb) that question. I don’t think I did a good enough job of saving fuel during the run and during the cautions, so I take responsibility for it.”
Question: HOW FAR INTO THE CHASE WILL IT BE BEFORE YOU KNOW THE TOP CONTENDERS?
Tony Stewart: “I have no idea. How can anybody possibly know until you run each feature race? I mean, that’s just common sense tells you that you can’t tell. Every week something can happen just like what we had this week or somebody getting crashed on the last lap. I don’t know how anybody can tell that.”
Question: ON GOING TO KANSAS CITY:
Tony Stewart: “It’s the same thing as everywhere else. You’ve got to get your car to turn and be good back to the gas.”
Question: WHAT DISTINGUISHES THAT 1.5-MILE TRACK FROM THE OTHERS.
Tony Stewart: “They copied it from Chicago or Chicago copied off of them (Kansas); it’s no different than most of the 1.5-miles we go to, it’s a copied race track.”
Question: YOU HAVE TWO WINNERS HERE, POTENTIALLY FOR THE OFFICE DEPOT SMALL BUSINESS DEAL AND THEY WANT TO WIN A MILLION DOLLARS, WHICH IS PRETTY EXCITING. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT BEING IN THEIR PLACE?
Tony Stewart: “Yeah, it’s a great position to be in and hopefully Greg and I have good runs and hopefully one of us; if we can’t win it, I’d like to see Greg win it this week just to help somebody win a million dollars, that’s pretty cool that Office Depot is giving to small businesses in this economy an opportunity. And they’ve won already. I mean they’re already winners. They’ve already gotten small business makeovers and now they’ve got a chance to hopefully win a million dollars.”
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