There's only eight cars that make the Daytona 500.

It's not about today or tomorrow; it's about building a company that can build the best race cars in the world.

You don't come around to the pit lane every mile; when you leave on a rally, you're gone for 500 miles in certain stages. You've got to work on your own car and fix it. It's a logistical nightmare, and it really challenges me.

If anything on the car is going to blow up or fall off, you usually see it happen in the 600. But it's also survival for the drivers because it's such a long race and it's usually hot at Charlotte. It's hard for drivers to feel good for the whole 400 laps.

There is no identification of the car after it's been crushed. What they're doing is taking it to the shredder, the car's being shredded and resold as scrap.

I told Monster the other day, I'm a racer's racer. This is what I truly love to do.