Mike Helton
Mike Helton
Michael "Mike" Heltonis the vice chairman of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. He replaced Bill France, Jr. in November 2000 as the company's 3rd president. He was named Chief Operating Officer of NASCAR in February 1999...
air came including options pressure talked
We talked about a lot of options ... and the recommended air pressure was the one we came up with to try to get through the evening. Certainly, we talked about a lot of options ? including the possibility of having to shorten the race. But we never got to that extreme.
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Shut up, kids! Don't make me pull this car over. I'll do it! I'll do it!
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I've been called a redneck myself, and that's OK. I'm proud of that. I have no bones about that. However, it's not a very nice term to use any more, I don't think, because it's been stereotyped in such a bad way.
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Earnhardt was unchallenged in expressing himself. He had no qualms about sitting down and taking us to task or asking us questions or voicing his opinion.
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The way NASCAR is structured, with the independentness of the sanctioning body and the car owner, there's not a way for us to do that now, even if we desired,
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It has been since 1994 that a single-car team owner has won a championship. If we allowed the current trend to keep going, down the road 10 years we might be saying that it has been since 2005 than a car owner with two teams has won a title.
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Certainly, they've had more reasons to go into a slump than some other teams. I think it's cyclical in our sport for teams to go up and down, whether it's chemistry changes or what have you.
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Generally tracks get faster, temporarily, after they are resurfaced. Then they go back to normal. If there is a problem, we're staying in close touch with Humpy and the people at Lowe's and we'll deal with it.
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George is a great friend. He's a very smart man, and a lot of the processes and procedures that NASCAR benefits from today, he brought to the table.
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I am very thankful to the France family and as long as Bill France and Jim France and the family will keep me there, I hope to stay there.
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I am not leaving NASCAR and I have not been offered a job by DEI,
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It's a gray area where we can not prove to anybody that we made the right decision. But if we have to, we'll get into it. So, today's your warning - we're getting into it.
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talked about a lot of options, including the possibility of having to shorten the race.
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It's just a matter of getting down to the details of each proposal. We want to be very careful with this decision. It's going to be hard to tell two of these groups no.