Watkins Quotes

Big Walnut and Watkins Memorial are looking solid. They`re all pretty good teams in this division. We won last year, and we have a majority of the team back this year. It is looking promising. We have juniors and seniors back that bring a lot of experience and leadership.

Definitely one of the things they focused on was to try to take away the deep stuff. They know that Todd Watkins is a threat deep. Most of the time, they rolled double (teams) to his side; that`s why our other wide receivers caught a lot of balls.

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

We have a few more test days in the car since the last time we were at Watkins Glen, ... The car worked great on half of the track so the long course should be even better. We have worked hard on getting the car to handle better through long sweeping turns and under braking since we were last at the Glen. I hope that we can backup our first win there from July

We`re really excited to have such an experienced and talented road course racer added to our team for the Sonoma and Watkins Glen races, ... He was the best driver available to us and we couldn`t be happier that his schedule allowed him to be able to participate in both races. Along with Scott Dixon and Ryan Briscoe, we expect the Target Team to be the team to beat out there for these two road course races. We had a strong showing at the first street race in St. Petersburg. We`re hoping the addition of Giorgio will help us turn the corner in that department and get to victory lane.

(Additionally, at the last three Rolex Grand Am races, the CITGO Racing Team and Howard-Boss Motorsports hosted children diagnosed with neuromuscular disease and their families. Katherine Shelton, Nicholas Patte and Bailey Dull were able to attend the races in Birmingham, Ala., Watkins Glen. N.Y. and Lexington, Ohio. These special guests spent time with drivers Milka Duno, Jan Lammers, Tony Stewart and Andy Wallace, along with members of the race team.) If we can do something for kids like this, it`s great, ... Everyone should make a contribution to something like MDA. They need us.

I am very thankful about this opportunity, but I have really missed being part of the action since Watkins Glen, ... I want to be in there, mixing it up with the best drivers in the world. That`s why I am so excited about getting back with the guys and having some fun this weekend at California Speedway.

Obviously it`s great to be on pole again, ... The way things go wrong in these sessions - they`re so short - that you have to be absolutely flat out from the first lap. That`s basically what our plan was and it seemed to work out. I didn`t qualify at the last race at Watkins Glen - my teammate Bob Stallings did - but that`s two poles in two qualifying sessions for me, and that `s something we`re pretty happy about.