What is the perfect balance for a race at Bristol?
“I think the perfect balance would be some good green-flag racing with a couple of green-flag stops, and yet still having some wrecks. With the racing that we have there – it’s pretty good racing there, now, with the three lanes – but you don’t see as much beating and banging for the one groove that we all had to fight for before because we can go anywhere now. It’s good racing, but there’s less contact and more room to maneuver around, although you might see a little more of the bump-and-run stuff in the Nationwide Series cars as opposed to the Cup cars. I think the fans have their different opinions and you’re never going to be able to please everybody.” Each race in a 36-race season is important, but why is success at Bristol important to a championship drive? “Anything can happen there and you can get caught up in somebody else’s wreck. Things happen so fast there that sometime you don’t have anywhere to go. It’s not like the big tracks, where you might have the apron or the grass
