A question from Dwight Drum:

"Sometimes I can say it does, other times it goes back to the team aspect also when people have things going together. Take as an example Jimmie Johnson and Ryan Newman… those guys have it going on even though they are rookies. A lot of guys out there have a whole lot more experience than I have and a lot better experience than I have, and they can't run with them either. Like, how did they do that? At the same time the whole team aspect of it, the situation of all the chemistry that's going right, all the pieces and parts are right. It's hard to beat that sometimes."

"It's not getting easier to win. Given the right place and the right time, and everything lined up right, the position of the race team…rookies are not really rookies. Jimmy McMurray is a rookie, but he's not really a rookie. He's been racing for a long time and he has experience. Basically, the team is a strong team. Throw that in there, that helps the learning curve, it helps a rookie. The guys coming into the sport we all call them rookies, but in a roundabout way they're really not. They're good smart racers. Everybody's learning curve in the past five years, no matter what car you're in has always gotten sharper than the five years before that. It will keep on going, I'm sure."

"I don't think I've changed a whole lot from anything I was years ago. I'm out there running along and everybody says, 'Oh, he's a nice guy. He's not going to get into me.', but I say you never know. It might be that one time, I might do it. Better be on your toes. I might not be a nice guy. I haven't changed…race hard as you can, clean as you can."

"Obviously, Joe Gibbs has a lot of experience and he has done this for a long time. People are basically what it's all about and Joe has experience in football and now Winston Cup. It's always changing. The next day is always a new battle. History doesn't repeat itself every time. He's a great advisor, a great coach when it comes to balancing everything, trying to out everything in the right order to accomplish your goals."

"Sometimes people say that's good race or that's a bad race. We don't make them good. We don't make them bad. We don't make the points-race exciting or boring. It just happens that way. This year is no different. Those things you can't predict. Whatever happens…happens. It's been a strange year, fortunately for a lot of people it gives them a little bit more of a chance to win the championship towards the end of the season instead of their year being gone half way through the year."

"It's not a test session. Obviously, we want to finish out the year as strong as we can. We want to look forward to next year. Not much testing is going on, other than if we do anything different from now on out. It's not that we're testing. Maybe we should have been doing it before now. Every points-position pays more money. It's good for the whole team."

"Sometimes we go to tracks that have given us problems, other times we go to tracks that we're really good at, because you feel like you have a chance to win. You finish top five there, but you haven't won yet, but you're really good there year-in-year out. You might go test there, because we might need to find one thing that breaks us through the top. I've seen it go both ways. We go to a track where we are really good, try to get better or we go somewhere we struggle and obviously try to get into the top ten or top five. We take it different ways all season...no rhyme or reason year-in-year-out."