Texas was a heart-felt race because we had such a great sponsor on the car. It was the Chloe Duyck Memorial Fund, which is for infant heart disease, to help babies that are born without a properly operating heart. So it was fun to drive that car because it had butterflies and hearts all over …
Bristol was a fun race because we had a really good sponsor, Hot Rod Grills. A lot of people had fun with it, including Dale Junior – he bought dome grills. It looks like a real motor. You open it up and it’s a grill. The pipes on the motor are where the smoke comes …
I feel like we went to Daytona on a wing and a prayer. A week before the race we didn’t even have a sponsor. But we got lucky and got a little bit of money from Blue Ox hitches and towing equipment. We went down there with no money. We practiced four laps for the …
Early in my career, back in the late 1970s, I would come down to Daytona with my family for about five or six days. It wasn’t until later in my career that I’ve come down a full seven or eight days before everyone gets here. We got here on January 31st. This year I took …
The offseason was good. We had a great time. We went on our fan club cruise – that was a lot of fun. After the cruise, we came back and went to St. Louis for a couple of weeks for Christmas… then, you end up hitting the reset button. It’s kind of fun to spend …
The last couple of races of the year were quite unique from the standpoint that we were under a lot of pressure to finish in the top 20 in car owner points [with the No. 28 car] – we had a quarter million dollars on the line. Although we don’t compete for all the wins, we did have literally a quarter million dollars on the line.
Well, no one can accuse Carl Edwards of going down without a fight. With Kyle Busch holding a commanding points lead coming into the two final races of the 2009 season, Edwards drove at Phoenix like he still had a shot. Leading over 100 laps while holding off fellow points challenger Brad Keselowski and a …
Every time we got to Kansas, it seems like it’s the end of the year – it’s September, it’s starting to get cold. It’s only about four hours from my house in St. Louis, so it’s kind of got a home feel to me. This year, I elected not to run my dirt car out …
Well, Atlanta marked one of the first races without my crew chief, Chris Rice. I went down there with an open mind and ready to go. We had a lot of problems. The car was bottoming out really badly. The car was hitting the left-side jack post, hitting the cross-member. We never did get going. …
There is a trend I’ve noticed in racing lately, and I don’t like it. It seems like everywhere you turn, a team is firing a driver for nothing he caused, a fan is picking a new favorite when old number one isn’t winning so much, a sponsor is dropping a prospect for a big name …
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