Buddy Rice
Buddy Rice
Buddy Riceis an American racecar driver. He is best known for winning the 2004 Indianapolis 500 while driving for Rahal Letterman Racing, and the 2009 24 Hours of Daytona for Brumos Racing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth31 January 1976
CountryUnited States of America
You have to take everything as it comes.
people focus important
I'm not promoting myself as the next great American driver, as some people are describing me. If that's what people want to call me, fine. But I've got more important things to focus on.
adjusting altitude car change effect fun great help high honda job luck nice peak power thin track
Pikes Peak is a nice track and it is a lot of fun to drive. The high altitude does have an effect on the power of the engine, but Honda does a great job of adjusting to the thin air. We have some new things on the car that I think will help make us more competitive. I'd like to see our luck change at Pikes Peak.
awesome car excellent finally great hardly hit honda pit power solid spot stops tim
It's great to finally have a full-blown solid weekend. The pit stops were excellent like always. The car was good. (Engineer) Tim (Reiter) and I hit it off all weekend. We've been spot on, didn't make hardly any changes. The Honda power was awesome this weekend.
short territory top
It was short but he got to do what he wanted to do and he made it to the top level. That's a part of our job. It just comes with the territory and its just how its going to be.
facility fine time
It's been a long time coming, but now we have a fine facility for first responders.
contender daily few form frustrated happier last luck months ready return run season tough
I was never happier to see a season end than I was last year. I was really frustrated by the tough run of luck we had last season, but a few months away from the daily grind, and I am ready to go. I feel like we can return to the form that made us a championship contender in 2004.
direction dominant everybody knows needs question switch whether
It needs to happen. Even if we are the dominant one right now, it can switch back in any direction. We'll never get back to the way we were as long as there's a split. If there's two series, we'll never get back to that. Everybody knows that. It's just (a question of) whether they'll do it or not.
april car driving enjoy event excited feels good grip learned morning number physical quite race racing road sat session since small today track tried worked
It feels good to be back on a road circuit. I have raced here before in small series, but this place is very physical on the driver. We worked well in the morning and learned quite a number of things. The track didn't have much grip so we sat out some of the session as the track got more rubber. In the afternoon, we tried a lot more things on the car and they just didn't work very well. So we'll go back to what we used in the morning. I think we all got a little excited to road race again. I know I was over driving the car too much at times. We haven't had a road racing event since April at St. Pete and we all enjoy this kind of driving. I feel we learned a lot today and should be much better on Saturday.
american-celebrity comedy hardly
Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.
american-celebrity until
I don't think you'll understand the true repercussions of what the 500 does for you until years down the road.
country needs talent
There's a ton of talent in this country. Some just need to be given a shot.
opportunity
You have to take the hits as they come and you have to take the opportunities.
jobs weekend years
No matter if I have a job for one weekend or for the next year, or three years, I'm going to drive the same way. That's the way I am. I'm going to give it everything I have.