Месяц: Август 2008

The night race at Bristol is my favorite race of the year. The environment at the track with everyone so close, packed into a huge stadium with a lightning fast, high banked half-mile race track in the middle is unbelievable. The place is packed with energy and the fans are so close it will get your attention when they cheer! With a 39th-place qualifying effort, I knew it would be a challenging night from the start.

Although our practice sessions and qualifying were terrible, we finally hit on something in the final practice before the race. The car had been terribly loose entering the corner and that is not a good thing when the radius is so tight around the corner. Starting so far back, you were basically half a lap down at the start. When the lap times are below 16 seconds a lap�you do not have much time to play around! It was a constant battle from lap one to lap 500. I don�t think there was one lap that I did not say something. After a new surface to the track last year, it is 10 times more difficult to pass or be passed here.