Greg Zipadelli
Greg Zipadelli
Greg Zipadelliis an American crew chief in NASCAR. He is currently the competition director at Stewart-Haas Racing. Zipadelli is most notable for being the crew chief of the #20 car for Joe Gibbs Racing drivers Tony Stewart and Joey Logano from 1999 to 2011. He has won 34 races and two championships in 2002 and 2005 as a crew chief. He and his wife, Nanette, have three children...
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Date of Birth21 April 1967
goes people racing respect
I think a lot of it just goes back to having respect for each other, racing people like you want to be raced.
fired focused hope seen seven smoke
This is like a fantasy. I hope it lasts. Smoke has been just fired up. I haven't seen him this focused in the seven years I've been around him.
changing run stop until
We'll just go until we can't go anymore, I guess. If you stop you're going to get run over in this sport, as much as things are changing and as much as we've got going on at the shop.
car run wide
We'll just run the car here (Charlotte) wide open.
cars difference joe racing took
What difference does it make what cars they take? It's Joe Gibbs Racing that took cars out there.
california cars couple daytona duel good guys issues ready talk together
The good thing about Daytona was that between the (Bud) Shootout, the Duel and the 500, the guys who were working on our California cars were in Daytona a couple of times. We were all able to get together and talk and know where we were with everything. We were able to communicate one-on-one about some of the issues that we've had in getting these cars ready for California.
aggressive cars couple depending ended lost pit played racing ran riding safe seconds sitting spots tires took waiting
We were waiting to see who was going to pit. We wanted to know who didn't pit and who was going to go for it. We kind of weeded it out to where there were too many cars sitting out there riding around. We kind of played it safe. We didn't really think we could make it on fuel. If we went to one or two to go and took a couple seconds of fuel, we probably would have ended up racing for third. Instead, we put tires on and got a top-five out of it. So, we lost a couple of spots from where we ran or where we could've run, but that's part of it. Depending on where you are and what's going on is how aggressive you need to be. We just kind of played it on the safe side.
hopefully lead race races win
We'll race the way that got us here, and hopefully we can lead some laps, win some races and not make mistakes,
attitude following last week weekend win work
We can't even think about getting complacent. My attitude after last week is we've got to work even harder. I want to win more than I did last weekend because it's the following weekend.
attention carry early focused good hopefully last momentum pay win
We didn't win as early as we should have last year. But this year, everybody's doing a good job, is focused on the little things we need to pay attention to, and hopefully we can carry this momentum through the end of the year.
fun happier tony
This Tony Stewart is a lot more fun to be around. He's a happier person.
adversity behind believe group last ourselves seven
This sport is mental. We've been through a lot of adversity in the last seven years. But as a group we've been able to put things behind us and believe in ourselves and in our driver.
acted affected bad basically explained eyes family guys opened sit talk ways
We got together. I called him down ... to sit with the guys and talk to him. They basically explained how some of the things he did and the ways that he acted affected their lives. That kind of opened his eyes to how big this family is and what they go through when he has a bad day.
guard ourselves pressure sit slip
We unloaded off the truck, and this thing is awesome. We've got to keep the intensity, keep the pressure on ourselves to perform, not slip up, not sit back and let our guard down.