Dario Franchitti Quotes (19 Quotes)

I think performance-wise we had a strong season and we were very quick in most of the races.

He's figured this out very, very quickly, asking a lot of good questions. I'll be surprised if he's not right up there battling (for the lead).

I lost a good friend here six years ago and this means a lot to all of us who were friends of Greg Moore.

I'll have to (fill) him with alcohol (today) to get the real truth.

I'm still in shock about the whole thing. I didn't know Paul very well, but I've been through this before. I just feel for his family. It's such a tragedy.

It has a lot more to do with how you get off the corner and how late you can brake going into the next corner. I expect a lot of passing tomorrow.

It's one of those things where you get the luxury of so much time here at Indianapolis to test that we can do that. We can get the results and come back in May hopefully with the right package.

It caught me by surprise, because I've never had the back end come around like that there. It's going to make it a hard day (today).

He's never far from my mind at any time, but when I'm here especially. It was nice to win here today, but it will never bring him back it will never make up for one percent of the loss.

We made some fine adjustments before qualifying and the car was really good. It was just a matter of me doing my job and not making any mistakes. They gave me a car that was exactly the way I wanted to drive it. Tomorrow is another day and that is when it gets difficult.

It was a new piece the guys put in and it failed. I don't know what to say. I'm just upset. This bad luck has got to end sometime.

The car is definitely fast enough, which makes it doubly frustrating that we didn't get a chance to run for the pole. I'm sure we'll come up with something and be fine (today).

This is a bittersweet win because I lost a good friend here six years ago. It was important for me to win here today for several reasons. Tony and I battled all day, and this is a great way to finish the season. For Tony to have helped me out at the end really means a lot. There's more to racing than kicking the heck out of your teammate you have to work as a team and we proved that today.

We're OK. But it's all about tomorrow. All four of us had different setups most of the weekend, but we're all heading in one direction for the race. The real test comes tomorrow.

Finishing 1-2-3-4 last year was amazing. It was something people thought we couldn't do, and we weren't so sure we could do it. Things just fell our way as a team last year. I was disappointed not to win it because of the problems in our pit. We left Homestead on a high note. We really did. That sets us up for the whole season.

Tony is a very strange character. He is one of the most generous and most selfish men I have met. I think he is capable of doing it. I helped him a few times last year to the championship. If the roles were reversed, I would do the same thing for him.

I actually thought it was closer than that. It was close enough.

The car has been fantastic all weekend right off the truck and I just had to do my job. I didn't make any mistakes.

After last year's race, anything is possible Sunday. It's a typical street course race. You've got to get through that first turn. Once we're through that first turn, then we can get on with the rest of the race. Guys are going to be trying to make up positions there for sure.