Dale Earnhardt Jr. claims that blaming Goodyear for tire failures is incorrect as tire issues are often caused by team setups to find more speed.

“Do not blame Goodyear for this. >> Oh my gosh. If you blame Goodyear, you're an idiot.”

Rusty Wallace claims that being a competitive race car driver required deep mechanical knowledge of the vehicle's components.

“If you get a chance to get in a car somehow, you better understand everything about it. Because if you don't, you might go out there and win, but you're not going to win on a consistent basis.”

He believes the current Next Gen NASCAR car is a kit car that creates parity, which hinders the performance advantage that historically skilled teams enjoyed.

“The thing that kind of has deterred me, I guess, the most over the last couple years is we've gone to this new nextG race car. It's our gener it's our seventh generation of a NASCAR car. And it's a kit car. So it it we call it the Walmart car.”

He believes the NASCAR environment provides a high-stakes, exclusive, and challenging career path that he is deeply committed to and grateful for.

“The France family, they've built this I mean they had a lot of help. They've built this sport. They built their brand and they own the track. They own about half the tracks. They work with the Smith family on the others. There's a couple private tracks, but they have built a world that has provided ”

He believes the Richard Childress Racing deal is a valuable opportunity to receive professional training and data that will help him become a better racer.

“RCR, I feel like there's a lot more opportunity for me to grow as a driver, too. And when they called me, you know, they they kind of said, "We want to help you become the driver we think you can be." And that I don't know that just is really exciting to me to get that.”

The driver's belief that they have a competitive advantage over their rivals can often be more beneficial than the advantage itself.

“one reason you tell the driver you got what one reason you tell him a little bit though >> and you want him to know is you want him to think he's got an advantage. >> That's a good point. >> Because that that is usually worth more. Just him thinking he's got an advantage is usually worth more than t”

He feels that a driver should not let other competitors consistently run over them.

“you can't let everybody run over top of you but you don't want to go out looking for trouble either.”

Kevin Pennell maintains that Steve Park contributed valuable short-track knowledge to the team that helped them develop more competitive cars like Stepchild.

“I think when Steve came in, Steve brought a bunch of uh short track knowledge that we didn't have at the time.”