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
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.
whatever worked wrapped
I've always just kind of worked on my stuff, whatever I was doing at the time, and just been wrapped up in that.
deal good gordon jeff pressure situation supposed works
The pressure isn't on those kids, and that makes a difference. When you've got the pressure of expectations, it works on you. Working for Jeff Gordon is like a no-win situation - if you do good, well, you're supposed to do good with Jeff Gordon, and if you don't, well then it's your fault. And our deal is the same way.
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You can't work on a race team without (people) but there are days when you wish you didn't have any of them, as the old saying goes. In a lot of ways it's fun, but it can also be pretty trying. It's one of the things that I like the most but I hate the most. And sometimes it's so overwhelming that I feel like I haven't done as good a job as I would've liked worrying about my race cars.
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.
fun happier tony
This Tony Stewart is a lot more fun to be around. He's a happier person.
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.
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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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
proudest season throughout
What I'm proudest of this season is how we've battled throughout every weekend,
air aware cool damage engine happen hard help high hopefully hurt inlet keeping mastered noses run
What's going to happen is that with these cars, the noses are so sensitive, specifically the air inlet and that radius, if you damage that, your car's going to run hot. The way the noses are mounted on these cars, they're so high that keeping the engine cool is a hard thing to get mastered anyway. If you hurt that radius, you're going to just make yourself a real long day. I think everybody's going to have to be aware of that, and hopefully it will help the situation.