Ricky Craven Quotations

The fact is, we didn't get the fuel mileage the other teams got, ... As a result, we ended up having to stop, which was very disappointing. Essentially, we came up a half-gallon short.

The fact is that some days are not your days and some days you get lucky. Over the long haul, that probably evens out.

This race track has been good to me,

If we come into the race with the idea that we have to do everything we can to save fuel, there will be 36 cautions and fuel will be irrelevant,

From a driver's standpoint, I'm really going to miss Rockingham and that second date at Darlington. That's from a driver's standpoint, but from a business standpoint, it makes perfect sense.

I expected to be challenged coming into this season, ... We knew that this was a new series and there were some newer things, but we were familiar with some things. We expected to struggle early, but we came out of the gates very strong and we were very consistent. Then we just struggled, but we're still battling.

If a caution comes out late in the race, it's a free-for all. When the caution came out in the '70s, all it did was bring three or four cars together because 10th place was eight or nine laps down.

We made up our minds what we wanted out of auto racing, and we stayed with it. You look at where he's at, and at the end of the day he was true to his course.

It has become big business and when you look at next year's schedule,

You have to be careful because you could make this vanilla,

Then all of a sudden things started going wrong, ... It was a bit strange.

It's a sport that will reward you for being selfish.

It's going to be supported and it's going to be a big event. I expect we'll see the same finishes that we've seen here in the past.

It's good for the sport because every sport has favorites and underdogs.

I'm really, really disappointed with our finish. You can't get speed out on the track. You've got to bring speed to the racetrack.

I'm just going to enjoy this week more than any other on the schedule, ... Hopefully we can come out of here with a good finish and finish the season strong.

If there were a track on the circuit where I wished we raced more it would be New Hampshire. The fact that I have always liked the track as a competitor does not hurt either. I always felt I had a slight home court advantage over the other drivers because I have run so many laps there, and I use that to my advantage.

He's like family to me. We've not gotten the time together in the last five years that I would like, but that's a product of this business. It requires 100 percent effort 100 percent of the time.

You can't wish for more fuel. The fact is, the package we started the race with ended up costing us.