Casey Mears
Casey Mears
Casey James Mearsis an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, driving the No. 13 Chevrolet SS for Germain Racing. A former winner of the Coca-Cola 600, Mears is the nephew of four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Rick Mears and the son of IndyCar and off-road veteran Roger Mears...
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth12 March 1978
CityBakersfield, CA
driver proving run team
I think we're proving as a team and I'm proving as a driver that we can run up front.
box cars decided decision fence front good running tire top
It was an eight-man decision on top of the box to take two or four, we decided to go with a conservative decision because we already had two cars in the fence that were running up front and doing good because of tire trouble.
cross gave good great newman pulled run shove soon stay
It was a great day for us. I thought about going with Newman for a little bit, but as soon as he pulled out, the No. 38 (Sadler) had a big run on me, so I had to stay at the bottom. He gave me a good shove to cross the start/finish line.
battle box good huge pit position running track
It was a good day for us; track position was so huge and right out there at the end we were running third, we had a big battle on the pit box on what we were going to do,
bit few fourth last run settling team year
This is my fourth year in Cup. I was settling in with a team that has typically run a little bit better than we have over the last few years.
again bar believe bolt broke finishes good hopefully last run running solid start sway together top weekend
Last weekend we had a solid run going, but the bolt on the sway bar broke while we were running in the top 10. Hopefully this weekend we can start to put some good finishes together before the end of the season. It has been discouraging, but I believe in this team's abilities and we will get after it again this weekend.
ahead gotten handed sort win
I think at the end we sort of handed the win away when we didn't take two tires. We could have gotten out ahead of those guys.
blown everybody fairly respected spirit
I thought it was fairly clean. I thought everybody respected the spirit of the rules. I think the whole bump-drafting thing has been blown out of proportion. It's what has made this sport fun.
auction helmet paint prepared scheme special suits year
This year we're a lot better prepared for it. We had a special paint scheme this year on my helmet and we're going to auction that off. That's going to go to the foundation, and my suits and all that stuff.
drivers tried
For me to be the first guy, considering all the other drivers who have tried to do it, is pretty unreal.
changes guys night quick spent time won
We got some quick changes during the night that the other guys couldn't do. We spent the least time in the pits and that's what won us the race.
coming definitely good knock maybe races rebound stick texas track
We need to get on the stick pretty hard. Texas is definitely a good track for us to get back on track. Knock on wood, but I think we've got a lot of good races coming up, so maybe we can rebound in the points.
bristol good great track
Bristol is a great track, but it hasn't been a good track for me.
matter race racing
At the end of the day it really doesn't matter to me where I race as long as I'm racing every weekend,