Carl Edwards
Carl Edwards
Carl Michael Edwards IIis an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, driving the No. 19 Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing. Prior to that, he drove the No. 99 Ford Fusion for Roush Fenway Racing. He won the 2007 NASCAR Busch Series championship and nearly won the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series title, but lost by a tiebreaker to Tony Stewart. Edwards is well known for doing a backflip off...
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth15 August 1979
CityColumbia, MO
bad bristol run track
Bristol isn't a track I have run well at in the past. I think a lot of it has been because of bad luck.
allowed bad next race
I think you're allowed only about one bad race for these next 10,
bad beginning bob bristol certainly chances confident crew entire fighting finish good happen heads held hurt increased kept runs solid starting string strong team together year
We started out strong at the beginning of this year then went on a string of bad runs starting with Infineon. That really hurt us in the points. But Bob (Osborne, crew chief) and the entire team held their heads up and kept fighting and together we got back into the 'Chase'. Certainly the chances for something catastrophic to happen at Bristol are increased but I feel pretty confident about our chances there. If we can come away with a solid finish there, I think we have a good chance at making the 'Chase'.
bad closed locked nose pedal putting rock
That's how I got into the 15. I put my nose out there to go under him and when he closed the door, like he had the right to, man, that pedal was rock solid. The thing locked the rears up and wouldn't stop. I feel bad for putting him out of it, but, overall, it was just a bad day for us. At least we didn't get hurt.
awesome bad charlotte close earlier fast finish five focusing good great home hopefully luck plans race run season shake showing surface team top track work
It will be great to be back in Charlotte this weekend. It's always good to race close to home. We had a disappointing race there earlier this season and we know that we can run well there. They have a new surface on the track and that will make the track very fast and I like fast. That will be awesome and work to our advantage. The team plans on focusing on a top five finish and hopefully shake off some of this bad luck we have been experiencing. We have a great team and we plan on showing that at Lowe's.
bad ended frustrated guys running terrible worried
It's a terrible day. I was worried about guys running over me and I ended up running over somebody. I'm very frustrated and feel bad for those guys.
attitude bad easy help
It's really easy to get down and out and have a bad attitude when things aren't going well, but that doesn't help you,
good kurt last million morale reasons team year
There are a million reasons to want to get off to a good start. Team morale is a big deal. But there's the mathematical reason you need to have a good start. ... Kurt did it last year and it got him going.
avoid gotta hard race tight
To avoid this kind of wreck, you just can't race hard when you're in a tight space, ... You gotta be smart.
three weeks
We need to do this for three more weeks and we'll be all right,
win
We're out to win this championship and we'll do it by having fun.
broken lap shock
We had a broken right-front shock (absorber) from Lap 50 or something and it was all I could do to get it into the corner,
awesome car coming developed driver format good gotten great job places practice race size team third track tracks type
This type of race track - we race on so many tracks this size and in this format that as a driver I've gotten really good at these places and I feel comfortable coming to these places. As a team we've developed some awesome cars. We went out there and I think we were third in the first practice today. It's pretty straightforward. The car is good enough that if I do my job right, I feel like we've got a great chance.
honest
To be honest with you, I am surprised,