Bryan Herta Quotations

Obviously it's not very nice to lose somebody like we did this morning. Right now I'm just doing my job. I don't really feel like racing.

We were really struggling. I'm much, much happier now so I'm going to St. Pete in a much more confident frame of mind.

To me, going to a race, it's an event. It's almost like going to a movie. Just because you went to a movie last week doesn't mean you don't want to go again this week, if it's a good movie, if it's something you want to see.

Some drivers have more experience on road courses than others, but as time goes by, it all levels out.

As a driver, you want to race in great venues in front of big crowds. It brings dollars into the area.

It's been such a competitive season. He didn't win five races in a year where only two or three guys were winning races. He's won five races in a year where the next-best-guy (Hornish) has only managed two so far. That's very impressive.

It looks like a lot of fun and I'd be interested,

I'm disappointed with the way we ran today. Although this is a test, I still expect to come out here and be fast. The XM Satellite Radio team has a lot of work to do before the first race of the season and I'm hopeful that we will be able to come back to Homestead and be competitive.

I remember racing at Laguna Seca in the late '90s and there being a lot of people there on race day. Most of those people are still out there somewhere. There's a lot of road racing fans in Northern California, and hopefully they're going to want to come out here this weekend.

It helps a little, especially in the beginning of the session. But those guys learn the track very quickly, and I haven't been there for four or five years myself so it isn't like I've been running around there lately.

I definitely have the experience to be the favorite, which is cool, and I'm comfortable with that. But it's going to take a lot to win this one, and if we do, it will certainly be a fairy-tale finish.