I don't feel we had a sweep, because we didn't have all five in the top five, ... But certainly we had a good spread.
It is a concession. Three years was what we asked for. It's the most generous amount of time we thought they would be willing to accept. I would have been even happier with five years.
I said, 'If I put five in this first year's competition with the Chase, you guys are going to say I'm predatory,'
Well, I'm in better shape with five than I would be with one, ... We've got five capable and able drivers. On any given day, they've all demonstrated they can win.
We don't have a realistic prospect of beating the 48 or the 20 with any of our cars, unless somebody has trouble, ... I expect them to run in the top five the rest of the way. We've had a great run.
The fact that we have all five of our drivers in a synchronized swimming kind of situation, where they're all at the top of their game at the same time, is pretty special.
The thing they did by picking on five rather than four is they singled me out. I'm the only guy with five viable teams and the worst of all scenarios (for NASCAR) is we put all five of them in the Chase,
They tell me it's not personal, but I'm the only guy standing here with five teams that is making them work,
I'm really excited about the prospect of taking this group of five to the final 10 races. I'm sure we've got some bad luck coming. I wouldn't be surprised if we don't have to give back some of the good luck.
I'm really excited about taking this group of five to the final 10 races,