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
benefits enjoying success
I think I'm the one that benefits and it's making me look really good. The success we've had is not all my doing, that's for sure. But I am enjoying it.
car enjoy few forward hours race sit week
I just look forward to the few hours every week when I get to sit in a race car and enjoy it. That's the part that I really like.
coolest daytona enjoy guys mean obviously races rank win
It's obviously one of the most prestigious races you could participate in. ... To win it, I don't even know how big it would be. I think it would rank right there with a win at the Daytona 500. I know our guys would really enjoy it and it would mean a lot to everyone on the AAA team. For me, as a driver, it would just be the coolest thing in the world.
biking couple days enjoy fun mountain plan sunrise
It's just a fun place to go, and I plan to enjoy a couple days of mountain biking from sunrise to sunset.
enjoy extremely fun hit until
It's extremely fast, but I'm having fun with it. Until I hit something, I'll enjoy it.
enjoy fastest group growing hispanic huge introduce people population states united
The Hispanic population in the United States is one of the fastest growing demographics. It's a huge group of people that we can introduce to the sport. If they can enjoy it, it's better for all of us.
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,
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.