Last year, everybody felt that the champion was going to be a team that made it clean through the final 10,
He was all over me at the end, and that's the way it should be. I've got to thank Kyle for being such a good teammate and racing me clean at the end.
I knew I needed to get a good, clean start. I also knew Ryan (Newman) was going to get a run on me and when he went to the top I stayed committed to the bottom. One of my friends from the off-road ranks Casey Mears was behind me and I knew I was in good shape.
I've got to thank Kyle for being such a good teammate and racing me clean at the end.
We lost last year by eight points, and we had some troubles at the start of the Chase, ... This year, hopefully, we'll make the right decisions and not have any weird things happen to us, and I won't make any mistakes on the racetrack and stay clean throughout.