"You take the guys you have and see what they like and dislike and how they work and try to have all those guys have the same common goal. You can look at a person and tell if he likes to work. His focus is this car and you've got another guy and his focus is somewhere else. You've got to have everybody focused on the race cars because this sport it so competitive. That keeps the guys pulling in the same direction. If they all have common interests, especially out on the road. Do they like to eat at the same places and hang out together? It keeps 'em all real close friends instead of just people who have to work together.

"You get a rule change two or three days before you leave or a month before you have to go back to a restrictor plate race or something and you just take the resources you have back at the shop, your R&D and everybody and you try to tackle that as quick as you can and get some positive effort out of it, whatever the rule change or the change might be, pit crew change or what. You try to involve everybody you can in it to make sure you have the best situation possible when you get there."

"You learn a lot. You see a lot over the years. I guess a lot of people come through here. It's sort of the same as changing teams every once in awhile. You end up seeing different people and different drivers and the way they drive compared to others and the way different people work. I've probably seen a lot as far as that standpoint goes. It's a little bit of a change because all drivers seem to be a little different in the way they drive the car, the way they attack the corners. If you work with one that does this for so long and you switch and you go to one that's almost completely opposite, you almost have to turn your way of thinking around to help them get the feel in the car they need. It's a little bit different. Jerry is smart on that. He knows you can't overdrive these cars. They're difficult cars to drive. The tires are hard to drive. It'll take us a couple of weeks here. We're going to go testing in the next couple of weeks and try to get stuff figured out."

"When something bad happens like that you just try to get yourself out of there as fast as you can and not have to deal with that because the pressure is extreme right now. Going week to week to week, you never get a chance to let it all calm down. Sometimes you carry it over from the previous week and it just keeps following you around. What makes the better teams is the people who can handle that pressure."

"Since Robin has come on board in January, it's helped a lot. It's taken a lot off Kyle where he doesn't have to be here wandering around every single day making a lot of the decisions. Robin's there to do that for him, and he's brought a lot of organization. He can be here every day and he's brought some other people in with him that have helped us. Just his knowledge helps. We're staying pretty basic with the stuff and not trying to over engineer helps, too. He's won some races like that. It can be done. It's just a matter of not getting too far out there in left field and keeping your stuff in line. He does a good job with that."

"The softwall technology they've come up with is excellent. We've seen some videos on it and have seen some of the cars they've used in the crash test for it and it's absorbed a lot of energy out of the cars. They've done a lot of research on it to make sure the cars don't go underneath it or through it or puncture it and making it so it can withstand multiple hits. It's had to do that. I think right now they've got a little bit different softwall for open wheel cars than they do for the stock cars, but they're trying to get it all the same so they can install that at all the tracks. I know they've got banking issues at some tracks, radius issues at other tracks to overcome. It was definitely a plus at Indy, and if they could get that done everywhere it would probably be a nice addition to the safety factor. Whenever you do end up using it and you do see a result out of it, there's going to be a lot of praise for it.

"I guess I handle it by after it's done and over with, I don't worry about it. It's done and over and our focus the next week is something completely different. Some people deal with pressure different than others. That's probably a personal thing that gets more people than anything. It depends more on how you react to the pressure. Some people can deal with it and some people can't. Even on the teams, pit crews having to deal with the pressure - 14-second pit stops every time. The people that can deal with that pressure and not worry about it are the ones who usually come out on top. It must be something instilled in me that God gave me. I guess I can deal with it. It's nothing special I do. It's a tough situation when something happens or you run bad. There's not usually anything you're going to do to change that at that particular moment. You work on it the best you can and then after that you just go on to the next week, look at where you made mistakes and do better. The more races there are, the more chances there are somebody else is going to mess up. There would be that much more pressure with a short season. You'd have to perform at every single race. There would be pressure no matter what."