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
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.
follow hardest trying
I was trying my hardest trying to follow all the rules.
chalk crowded good hard kyle talked wall
Kyle just crowded me into the wall there. But no hard feelings. I'll just chalk it up to hard racing. Anyway, I talked with Kyle after the race. Everything's settled, we're on good terms, and I got his dad's autograph.
hard lap ran
I don't think I ran one lap as hard as I could. That's just the way we had to race.
cars explain giving great hard
I'm having so much fun, it's hard to explain it, ... They just keep giving me great cars with great engines.
harder help might none sacrifice
In a way, it might make it harder to do things for one another that could help each other on the track. None of us want to sacrifice anything.
hard hoping tried
They tried really hard to make it work. We were hoping for the best, but I don't think it's going to be possible. I wanted to do it so badly.
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.
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.