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HOW ARE YOU FEELING?
“Pretty sore. Just really disappointed. We had this race back here in the spring and complained about cars getting airborne and now ironically I’m the guy that gets upside down. I had the roll bars down on top of my helmet and stuck upside down inside my U.S. Army Chevrolet. It’s just disappointing. I wish NASCAR would do something. It was a boring race for the fans. That’s not something anybody wants to see at least I hope not. If they do, go home because you don’t belong here.
“It’s just a product of this racing and what NASCAR has put us into with this box and these restrictor plates with these types of cars. You know with the yellow line, no bump-drafting, no passing. Drivers used to be able to respect each other and race around each other. Richard Petty, David Pearson and Bobby Allison and all those guys have always done that. I guess they don’t think much of us anymore.”
WHEN YOU WERE UPSIDE DOWN YOU DIDN’T RESPOND TO YOUR TEAM RIGHT AWAY, CAN YOU TAKE US THROUGH THOSE MOMENTS?
“It knocked the antennae off the car. When they rolled the car back over the antennae wire connected and I criticized what was going on. It’s no fun. It’s disappointing. There’s no good part of it. It’s not even a good race for the fans and that’s who we’re trying to service is the fans. They can stand up and cheer when there is three to go with the green-white-checker. We’re supposed to be racing all day long and I think we lost a little bit of that luster.”
WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO WALK BACK HERE TO THE MEDICAL CENTER AND SEE YOUR WIFE KRISSIE, WE TALKED ABOUT IT BEFORE THE RACE?
“I was glad to see her. I mean its emotional just like we talked about but it’s not the way I wanted to see her after the race. I just got to thank ButlerBuilt, Simpson Race Products and all the guys at the shop and Hendrick Chassis what they do to make the cars safer. When I hit the roll cage and landed on my head I was a little worried and I was happy to be able to walk out of that in a roundabout way.”
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WHAT HAPPENED?
“Just a by-product of Talladega racing. Unfortunately. We got hit from behind that turned me sideways then I got up in the air and just kept flipping and flopping. Unfortunately, the cage came down on top of my head and I couldn’t get out. Tough situation with the US Army Chevrolet. It was a boring race and it was a ridiculous race. To see 43 cars run single file is not showed up here today for. We’ll see what happens.”
WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT THE RULE ENFORCEMENT EXPLAINED IN THE DRIVER’S MEETING THIS MORNING?
“The more rules, the more NASCAR is telling us how to drive the race cars, the less we can race and the less we can put on a show for the fans. As I said, I will go back in the day, Richard Petty, Bobby Allison, Dale Earnhardt, Darrell Waltrip, all those guys, they respected each other. In the end there were some big accidents, but geez, we don’t need the cars getting upside down like this. This is ridiculous. There is way more technology than that to help us out. Whether it is a speed issue, a roof flap issue, whatever. I said it myself in the media center after the Spring race here, and now to be the guy standing here trying to live it all out again, I’m just happy I am living it out. But it is ridiculous situation. It is a shame that not more is getting done. I don’t know. I guess maybe I expect NASCAR to call me. I am the only guy out there with an engineering degree. I would like to have a little respect on my end.
WHY DON’T YOU GO TALK TO THEM?
“I am not going to talk to them. I just doesn’t matter.”
DID NASCAR CREATE THE BOREDOM OF TODAY’S RACE?
“They have created a lot of the boredom because we couldn’t race. It is survival. The race could have been 100 laps long and we could have had a great race. It is just not the way it is and it is unfortunate. I just hate it for the fans.”
