Quote of the day

"Having no warm-ups hurt me for the last couple of years...We practice, qualify race, but you need everybody out there on race day under similar conditions. You would know where your race car is. It's especially important on ovals. Last year was better, but I've gone into races saying, 'I cannot drive this thing.' On ovals, there's such a thing as soldiering on to an extent. What's the point of being six laps down on a track? There is nothing you can do as a driver, so they say 'Park it.' The only thing worse than being six laps down is being six laps down and taking someone into the wall." - Marco Andretti, on his jubilation at the repealing of "The Rusty Wallace, err, Paul Dana Rule" which had eliminated race-day practice on ovals for much of the past three seasons.