I'm hungry, our whole team's hungry. I want to get off to a fast start and prove to the fans and everybody that this team's strong.

The only thing that sucks worse than a bad finish is a bad finish with a fast racecar.

You go back to the start of time. One cave guy was fighting another cave guy because his club was bigger than his or his woman had longer hair. That’s competition.

The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.

'The thing about Bristol is you can be really good but still caught up in a wreck. That's probably the main concern. Even if you're the leader, it's hard to miss wrecks sometimes because of all the lapped traffic. That's just Bristol. You can't take a break at any time. The moment you think you're doing good, it'll jump up and deal you a nasty blow.

Working with Tony Jr.'s going to be a lot of run. We've already tested with each other, and we've got a good mentality ... This is a new start. We've always been close, but the working relationship is definitely improved.