GORDON - “I think you know what my opinion is. “
WAS YOUR MOM HERE AFTER THE RACE?
GORDON - “They bailed on me. Man, I had my mom, my sister, my nephew, my dad and I can’t wait to call them when I get done because my sister’s never been to victory lane nor my nephew and they always come to Darlington being the Mother’s Day weekend and I cannot believe that they left. That was my gift to her. I got a little something for her as well but I really wanted to see them in victory lane. It was great to have Ingrid here. This is her last weekend of traveling so she was pretty emotional. It was very cool to have mom-to-be in victory lane. But yeah they bailed on me. I can’t wait to call them when I get done here and chew them out. “
ON UNDERSTANDING DENNY’S SITUATION OF LOSING WHEN YOU HAVE A GOOD CAR BUT A MISCUE AND ON DOING SO WELL WITH THE IMPALA SS AND NOT MISTAKING THOSE MISTAKES:
GORDON - “That’s why I said that we’ve got an incredible team right now because we’re not making those kinds of mistakes. Maybe things aren’t going perfect for us but at the end of the day we’re getting the results that we’re looking for. To me that means more than anything else. Those are things that when we do have the car (good) are going to pull us through to get the good finish or the victory and then have days like today where we pull of victories when we probably shouldn’t. I can understand his frustration. They’ve been very strong and probably tired of hearing everybody talk about Hendrick’s domination especially with this car.
We keep saying ‘We’re not dominating, we’re not dominating, we’re just getting the wins. ’ I think today showed those guys they had it again and I don’t know what happened, how he got behind. I just know there was one time that he was ahead of me coming in the pits and he was no where in sight when we came off pit road. Those are the things that those guys obviously have to work on but we’ve got to go to work to make sure that when they don’t make those mistakes that we’re competitive enough to beat ‘em. I’ll be honest, today, here, Bristol and probably even Richmond we were not the competitive car to win or get the good finishes but we pulled it out so we know we got some work left to. I’m excited about that because we’re still getting good finishes and we’ve got some work to do. It’s not going to be long before they start ending up in the winners circle. “
IS IT FAIR TO SAY HENDRICK MOTORSPORTS IS DOMINATING AS MUCH OFF THE TRACK AS IT IS ON THE TRACK?
LETARTE - “I think that we’re dominating the finishes. I don’t think we’re dominating the races by any means. I feel we’ve been outclassed on the race track a few of these races and that’s my job to fix. I don’t feel we’re bringing the cars to outrun some of those guys on the race track but I feel we’re out teaming them at a lot of these races. It’s just like you said, it’s a lot off the track. It’s the motor department, the pit crew department, there’s 550 people employees there and it’s very important for them to know that we couldn’t do it without all 550 of them.
Everyone who laid a hand on that motor today made a big difference for us finishing this race and that’s the difference. Martinsville is really the only Impala race that I feel that Hendrick had the cars to beat. I don’t believe there’s anyone in Martinsville that can run with us but I think the other ones we got the wins but I don’t believe we led the most laps. We might have lead the most laps but we weren’t the most dominant car. There were cars there that were better than ours. That’s the strength of our organization is we’re not afraid to admit our weaknesses and accept them and we’re going to work on them. ”
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