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NASCAR Winston Cup Teleconference Moments

Jimmie Johnson

Driver No. 48 Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse Chevrolet Monte Carlo

Photo courtesy of NASCAR Winston Cup Series.

"It's a lot of work."

Zoomster questions from Debbie:

You've got to feel great moving up the NASCAR Winston cup championship ladder as the season gets shorter. What are your thoughts about moving up in the points, but having the points leader Matt Kenseth, moving up at the same time?

"Matt is doing a great job week in and week out. That team is not missing any strides. I think this week was a big week for everybody to gain points on him. We picked up 17 points on him so it wasn't much. There's a great battle from second on back. If Matt has a bad stretch of races, we can get closer to him and have a shot at it, but right now I'm looking at realistic things. I'm really trying to chase down that No. 8 car (Dale Earnhardt Jr.) for that second place in the points."

How you compare the hours you work each week as a NASCAR Winston Cup driver to the average person who works a standard 40 hours a week?

"In most cases, the driver probably puts in the least amount of hours compared to anyone on the team to all fairness to the crew guys. I would say it's well over a 40-hour workweek. The crew guys work seven days a week and probably easily 10 hours a day. If you averaged everything out, it's probably even higher than that - especially the road crew guys that are at the race tracks week in and week out. It's a lot of work."

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