Mark Martin had s specific word for the first day of Daytona testing in the 2008 Sprint Cup season… “idiotic”.
I feel that we’re wasting our time with single-car runs. We should be drafting already, but it is what it is. We do get to start drafting tomorrow afternoon, so that’s half a day sooner than we might have.
Once we start drafting, we’re really working on racing. The rest of this stuff is idiotic, with the [questions between driver and team]: ‘Does this help? Not help? Is that faster? Is it not faster? Can you tell anything?’ That’s what we’re doing right now.
I guess we would do it for 15 days straight if they’d let us, but I don’t believe you learn very much doing that. You learn a lot when you start drafting in 20-car packs. You can tell the changes that you make, you can have feedback, you can have input, you can make changes on the car that really make a difference in the way it handles.
“I was out here at 7 o’clock when the gates opened because I only knew like two people on my team. They really have a great attitude and so do I. … The right attitude, that’s really paramount to me, [along with] working in sync with Dale Earnhardt Inc. as a four-car team.
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