John Darby Quotations

It can enhance the excitement of the race. As it transfers to stock cars, and particularly applies to Daytona and Talladega, with the cars running closer together, a bump draft at the right time in the right place is not the worst thing in the world. But it has been turning bump drafting into slam drafting, because the hits just keep getting harder and harder and harder.

Everybody passed inspection and all of the shocks, in regard to parts and pieces, were completely legal. But the build of the shocks that the teams chose to use is a direction that we're not real fond of.

I don't consider any 2-year-old really having a clear sense of what they had in their possession.

I don't care who it is, the point leader or the guy running 43rd, if there is a similar situation to what we had in Loudon, there is nobody who can hide from the penalties we'll have coming.

Without clear-cut evidence in the parts and pieces and the thing we do in inspection that would prove the cars to be outside the rulebook, we don't have the ability to react to that.

I watch a lot of football games and I see a lot of face masks getting grabbed. I know you're not supposed to do that. ...I don't believe we have a unique situation. But you compound a team of 20 people and add a machine that has over 5,000 moving parts, there's a lot more there to play with. ...It's a bigger candy jar to reach in, there's more than one jelly bean in the jar.

The tire-leasing is not specifically designed to eliminate testing. It has the huge purpose of eliminating tire testing. I'm not talking about running a race track; I'm talking about taking 50 tires to an independent lab and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars testing. It's definitely designed to eliminate that. And quite frankly, we're only three weeks into that, but it's working pretty good.

The NASCAR officials are there to react if something does happen,

Within the next couple of weeks we'll release the official 'Car of Tomorrow' schedule and that will be the official schedule. We'll say, 'Here it is, we're not turning back.' -- The important thing is to get that official schedule out, because when it goes out it's printed and everybody says, 'here's the deal,' and then it's time to get going.

One-size-fits-all is fairly accurate. Obviously, teams will still have a half a dozen to 10 or a dozen cars still on board. The difference is, the cars will be so similar that if they do get behind the eight-ball, they'll be able to pull another one out of inventory and keep going.