Ray Evernham

Ray Evernham
Ray Evernhamis an American consultant for Hendrick Companies, formerly an auto racing crew chief for Bill Davis Racing and Hendrick Motorsports, owner of his own team Evernham Motorsports from 2001–2010, and analyst for ESPN's NASCAR coverage. A three time Winston Cup Series Champion with driver Jeff Gordon, in 1999, Evernham won the NASCAR Winston Cup Illustrated “Person of the Year”...
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You won't. (Roush) didn't either, if you remember. He went from one car, and then when he added a second car, it wasn't very good. And then the third car was worse. So he struggled for a while, too, as did Hendrick and everybody else.
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It's a real kick in the pants. We brought a car that was fast enough to make it on time and had a problem with a gear in qualifying. We knew we had to be exactly right on the money (today), and we had a problem in the pits.
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He just doesn't feel like his cars felt like last year.
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Right now, the car has not completed a successful test. We need to get that done first. They need to settle down the rules, and they need to find a direction and then we'll build them.
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Erin is a very special person and we've seen her display great talent behind the wheel of a stock car this year in the ARCA RE/MAX Series. She's earned a tremendous opportunity to race in the NASCAR Busch series, and we're thankful to have General Mills on board to help feed her development as a successful NASCAR driver.
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It'll set us back some, but we don't know yet how far. We've got to fight hard. I think we're probably a little bit further ahead with our program than Robby was at that time because we've got cars done, we've got things done.
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If you're going to race it, you've got to have it. You've got to build it. You've got to test it. They've got to design a tire around it. They've got to get settled in on the rules. The rules for that car are not settled in yet. What are the aerodynamic rules for that car? I've got to build 20 of them, but there are no rules yet. The clock is ticking.
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The biggest difference between an athlete like Michael Jordan or someone we always compare Jeff to is the fact that those guys can rely largely on their athletic ability. In our world, no matter how good your athletic ability or your driving ability, you still depend largely on whether you've got the car to get the job done.
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If you finish 43rd and the other guys finish in the 20s, there's still a lot of cars separating you. If you want it to come down to where all 10 guys have a shot, then it would be great to just be racing 10 guys.
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and we're going to lend our trucks and truck drivers to take some product down there.
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Scott has shown he can be a winner in NASCAR's Busch and Craftsman Truck series and we look forward to getting him to the winner's circle next season in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series in the No. 10 Valvoline Dodge Charger.
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I can't ever remember him not responding in a clutch situation,
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I can't ever remember him not responding in a clutch situation. He's what I call a big-money player. Whenever there was a big challenge or big money on the line he would seem to step up.
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Erin not having raced on pavement a lot and not having raced traffic and things like that, we felt this would be a better way to get more experience racing without having all the pressure. In fairness to her, I want her to learn without people running all over her all of the time.