Carl Edwards
Carl Edwards
Carl Michael Edwards IIis an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, driving the No. 19 Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing. Prior to that, he drove the No. 99 Ford Fusion for Roush Fenway Racing. He won the 2007 NASCAR Busch Series championship and nearly won the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series title, but lost by a tiebreaker to Tony Stewart. Edwards is well known for doing a backflip off...
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth15 August 1979
CityColumbia, MO
enjoy fastest group growing hispanic huge introduce people population states united
The Hispanic population in the United States is one of the fastest growing demographics. It's a huge group of people that we can introduce to the sport. If they can enjoy it, it's better for all of us.
happen work
This Fusion, they have put a lot of work into it and no one will let something happen that we don't want to happen without someone voicing our opinion. Speculation is a pretty big thing.
attention came couple guys minutes sat
I sat over there for 15 minutes and a couple guys came by and that's about it. There's a lot more attention now.
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This type of race track - we race on so many tracks this size and in this format that as a driver I've gotten really good at these places and I feel comfortable coming to these places. As a team we've developed some awesome cars. We went out there and I think we were third in the first practice today. It's pretty straightforward. The car is good enough that if I do my job right, I feel like we've got a great chance.
avoid gotta hard race tight
To avoid this kind of wreck, you just can't race hard when you're in a tight space, ... You gotta be smart.
apartment somebody truck woke
The other day I woke up and went down to my truck at my apartment and somebody had written: 'Go Tony. No. 20' on my truck,
definitely fair problems races screwed share stuff wrecks
The races I have had here have been disastrous, ... We've had wrecks and steering problems and I've definitely screwed up my fair share of stuff here.
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There are a million reasons to want to get off to a good start. Team morale is a big deal. But there's the mathematical reason you need to have a good start. ... Kurt did it last year and it got him going.
four guys happen trade
You know there's only four guys I'd trade with right now in the garage, points-position wise. So, I think we're doing OK. We'll make something happen here.
changes mess ok
We just didn't want to make too many changes and mess anything up too much, ... We'll be OK for the race.
four
We went in this thing and we pitted with four and I thought we could make it back up there.
car destroying kept tight
To make it into the top-10 was OK, ... We had a better car that that. We were just too tight and we kept destroying the tires.
fourth good great guys pit stops
We got back up to fourth and that is pretty exciting, ... I had a really good time. My guys did a great job. The pit stops were perfect.
broken lap shock
We had a broken right-front shock (absorber) from Lap 50 or something and it was all I could do to get it into the corner,