It was kind of neat for me, obviously. I got to see a lot of people I haven't seen in years who came out to the race. I had probably 20-30 come by that I haven't seen since high school.

Honestly, that's the worst I've felt getting out of the car after such a short [29-lap] race ever. I do a lot of endurance races in a lot worse heat. The car was a bit of a handful.

Eric handed over the car in good shape. I tried really hard to mess up the win, but fortunately we were able to get it. I can't say enough about my co-driver. He's a young kid, but he's very mature for his age and obviously a very talented driver.

I made a mistake there on the restart. Craig (Stanton) took me down about 20 feet deep down into the bus stop. I had to do some agricultural driving out there. Fortunately he ran out of gas at the end. We'll take it. Everybody did a great job.

Eventually this kind of predator will strike again, and this, of course, is obviously what propels our need to resolve what happened to our girls.

He's obviously a conservative man but in disposition, not in some kind of ideological way.