In an out of a NASCAR Winston Cup racecar Rusty Wallace seems to tap everlasting energy as if he is always plugged in and carries a very long extension cord. These static words can't reproduce that energy for Wallace or anyone else, but as you read on we expect you might feel the energy.

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Rusty, last year we featured an interview with John Force during an NHRA race in Memphis with the help of Elvis Presley Enterprises. You car and Force's car are on display in the Graceland museum. How does that make you feel and what does Elvis Presley mean to you?

"Well, it's really cool. He's the all-time king of Rock n' Roll and when Action Performance put this promotional thing together I thought, 'How in the world did you guys pull that off?' I'll never forget flying down on the plane to Memphis and they had this huge unveiling and Force was there. Everybody knows he's a really funny guy."

"Then I walked through Graceland to some of the areas where nobody has been. They showed us all that stuff, and I'm thinking…I can't believe I'm standing here. This guy was the No.1 cat in the country till he died. It was a very exciting experience.

"We did the Elvis promotion three times. We did Elvis the first time in Las Vegas and it was huge, then we did Elvis again at Bristol and it was not near as huge, because we didn't put as much promotion behind it. I'm thinking we kind of burnt this thing out a little bit, but then we did a third one. We went to Las Vegas this year and it was huge again. Everything that we made, the die casts, the shirts, the hats, the merchandise sold like wildfire. Everybody was excited about the program. All the people were there again. It was a huge deal. It was fun to be a part of and hopefully one of these days we'll do it again.

Thanks Rusty.

"I want to get a win knocked out real quick. I haven't gone this long without winning. I'd love to win a championship. I never thought I'd go this long without a win so many times we should-a, could-a. 'If' is a big word in this sport. It's a lot of pressure on me to get the win done."

"There's so much money out there, so many good teams, so many good engine combinations. People just aren't blowing engines much any more. You've got to have great pit stops, good engines, great bodies and good people. Now the top 20 teams have all that and it's tougher than it's ever been. I'm going into every race now, feeling like I've got a safety pulled off the trigger and a pin pulled out of the hand grenade and ready. I treat every race like it's the very last race.

"Every race I'm looking at now, I'm thinking I've got to get it done. We want the best piece out there.

"Not everything goes out the window. The bodies that are going to be put on these cars are going to be so close. The long templates are identical for all the cars and the rules are based on Ford and Dodge style templates. We've been in the wind tunnel many times with the Ford and we know our down-force balance numbers. Now our job is to put the new Dodges in the wind tunnel. Once we understand that, I think it's going to be close. I don't expect the chassis setup to be any different."

"I've been campaigning all year long and I'm getting a lot of NASCAR guys to listen, but we're moving slow. I really want NASCAR to cut rear spoilers down on the cars and soften the tires. I swear to God it's going to put the races back a lot better. This dreaded aero-push you hear about every week would get to a minimum, if we do this. What we have to do is get all the bodies the same, the Chevrolets, the Pontiacs, The Fords, the Dodges. All the templates have to be really close."

"The tire is a huge factor, the dominant factor, because it has been hardened up. Every setup that we trusted, we've junked. We've had to learn over and over. A lot of the setups that we've run in the past just happened to be good. The setups are so much different and it's all because of the harder tire."

"I think one of the reasons for the success of the young guys is the equipment we're putting them in. We put Ryan Newman in the very best car we could build, the same car that I've got. Jimmie Johnson has the same equipment as Jeff Gordon. Kurt Busch has the best available. The stuff about paying dues is not out there anymore. I don't think you have to do that. It was something I did when I was coming along. I remember David Pearson, Donny Allison, Bobby Allison, Neil Bonnett saying, kid, you'll get to pay your dues and it will come finally. Now there is so much money in this sport, we don't have time for dues. I'm a car-owner; Ryan Newman drives for me, Penske and Don Miller. We've got to put him in the best stuff we can."

"Another reason these young guys are coming out of the box and running well is because they really don't know any better about what's right and wrong and the chassis stuff. What I've thought this year about what's right and wrong has been wrong, so they come with fresh ideas and they are going in top notch equipment. To tell the truth I've learned more from Ryan Newman's thought processes this year than he's learned from me.

"Ryan Newman's ability to understand computers and read them along with engineers has been helpful. The last 10 races I rely a lot on what we learn off the computer and programs that we use. Here I am relying and running things through that I would have never done in the past. Ryan has done that the whole year. The setups were so extremely different I couldn't sign up to them. Ryan had a lot of success with them. A lot of these young guys have success because it's the new style of doing things. I'm doing it now."

"Bill's a good friend. You have to have someone who supports you and I knew Billy would do that. He's a great friend of mine, my wife, and our family. He's a cool guy and I've known him clear back to the No. 88 car when I drove for Cliff Stewart in my first year. Bill Wilburn worked for us then. He's a class guy, rock solid and he is learning every race."

"We get into to it occasionally. We should have done this we should have done that. We were talking the other day between him and I making pit call we've lost 250 points because of the pit calls we've made…don't pit, two tires, four tires, stuff like that. We've had a fast car all year long. There have been calls that we made that I totally disagreed with and he was totally right. It's exciting to have him on board and when you look at the numbers you can't deny him. He's been consistent all year long.

"No room for more races and we're about four too many right now. We have to hire extra crew for the schedule. Our sport got popular and more people want to see us and that's why we're out there. I don't think even NASCAR would argue with you that 36 races is too many. Thirty-two would be better, because now we get burned down to the ground. We would love to see it go back. I've heard tons of rumbling around the garage area where a lot of teams would like to go back to a partial schedule."