I thought she should have been much closer so I wanted to give her the opportunity to race those fillies and see if she's up to them.

I thought about rolling the dice and going for two. But I felt we had the momentum.

I was nervous. Not nervous for any other reason just that I thought we deserved to win. I felt like we outplayed them and I didn't want something like that (to lose on the final play) to happen two weeks in a row.

After the race, I went and found him. He said not to worry about it. I thought he might rough me up or something, but he was pretty cool about the deal.

I never in my wildest dreams thought that I'd get this opportunity.

This was the easiest race I've ever won. Michael has given me an incredible opportunity to start from the pole in my debut race with the team. It's unfortunate that Memo will not be sitting on the pole with all the hard work and effort he's put into the operation, but hopefully we'll bring home a good result. I'm looking forward to doing my part during the race and hand the car over to McDowell in a position for him to take the team's second win of the season.