It's all about bringing the fans at home into the middle of the action. We want them to feel like they are totally immersed in the Daytona experience.
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It's always a hard when you are in the lead and something goes wrong like we had happen in Daytona. But we know we have a fast car and a great team behind us, so hopefully we can score some points with a really good finish here this weekend. It is a long season ahead of us and we know we have a lot of racing to do, but we'd like to get back into the battle points-wise starting with this weekend.
Daytona and Talladega are two different animals. When it comes to speed they are basically the same. When you're working on qualifying, it doesn't matter, if you're finding speed at Talladega, you're finding speed at Daytona. When we get into drafting practice and we get into handling and stuff like that then they are two different tracks. That's where you hear a lot of guys say they bring different types of cars to Daytona then they do to Talladega because once you get 30 laps into a run, the car definitely handles differently at Talladega than what it does at Daytona.
As we move forward in this process, we believe it is necessary to focus our attention on the three cities of Atlanta, Charlotte and Daytona Beach. Based upon the proposals that we have reviewed internally for the past several months, we believe these three cities provide us with the best opportunity to build and develop a world-class NASCAR Hall of Fame for our millions of loyal fans.
I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.
I think it's critical that we that we establish interest in what we're doing beyond the 24 Hour. The 24 Hour has been the opening day, just as much as baseball has Opening Day for many years. There's an established history of having Daytona and then everything else. Quite clearly we want to make everything else equally important.
I'm proud of this race team. These guys continue to work their butts off through adversity, making the best of a bad situation. We almost won another race today. We're doing everything we need to do. We won the Daytona 500 and maybe we'll win the championship.
NASCAR was born right here in Daytona and they can't ever take that away from us, and we'll continue to promote it as a world center of racing.
While our drivers are probably not nearly in the physical condition of the NBA's All-Stars, the Daytona 500 is going to have 43 of the top drivers in the country, trained to drive at speeds in excess of 180 mph. Now that's intense The NBA only has like 20 or 25 basketball players playing.
Britney has captured the hearts of fans around the world with her musical and performance talents, and I'm sure she'll capture the attention of NASCAR fans and competitors as part of the Pepsi 400 at Daytona,
Steve and Robert know their way around Mexico City. We will have a little tuning to do with the new 997 and the wider front tires, but with their knowledge of the layout and our handle on the new car we should be ahead of the other competitors that are running for the first time. The two have a good head of steam in the championship after just nearly missing the podium at Daytona.
There's a tremendous number of the Daytona Prototypes.
Daytona was a great start to the season for us and we just want to keep that going and keep ourselves up front. This series is extremely competitive, and getting more so each round, so you really have to have your homework done ahead of time. The guys haven't let up one bit since getting back from Daytona, so we feel like we are ready to go.
Jimmie Johnson has been inching closer and closer the last three years (at Daytona). He's got a car that's capable, and he has a team that's very capable. He has the ability to take it upon himself to make the right moves down the stretch.
The pride of driving the Army car is immense. I have so much passion for our soldiers. They're my heroes, and I want to give them something back in return. A victory tonight and in the Daytona 500 would be a great start.
After a few discussions, we determined that it wasn't something that could be resolved over the phone, so we made an agreement to come to the pre-season test day at Daytona to see how the car did.