Greg Zipadelli
Greg Zipadelli
Greg Zipadelliis an American crew chief in NASCAR. He is currently the competition director at Stewart-Haas Racing. Zipadelli is most notable for being the crew chief of the #20 car for Joe Gibbs Racing drivers Tony Stewart and Joey Logano from 1999 to 2011. He has won 34 races and two championships in 2002 and 2005 as a crew chief. He and his wife, Nanette, have three children...
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Date of Birth21 April 1967
deal good gordon jeff pressure situation supposed works
The pressure isn't on those kids, and that makes a difference. When you've got the pressure of expectations, it works on you. Working for Jeff Gordon is like a no-win situation - if you do good, well, you're supposed to do good with Jeff Gordon, and if you don't, well then it's your fault. And our deal is the same way.
We didn't really find anything when we got home,
hopefully lead race races win
We'll race the way that got us here, and hopefully we can lead some laps, win some races and not make mistakes,
acted affected bad basically explained eyes family guys opened sit talk ways
We got together. I called him down ... to sit with the guys and talk to him. They basically explained how some of the things he did and the ways that he acted affected their lives. That kind of opened his eyes to how big this family is and what they go through when he has a bad day.
adversity behind believe group last ourselves seven
This sport is mental. We've been through a lot of adversity in the last seven years. But as a group we've been able to put things behind us and believe in ourselves and in our driver.
hope
I hope not. I just want to go out and do it.
dog
I'm 39 years old, but in dog years I'm really 55 or 60,
guys owe win
I owe it to those guys to win the championship.
fired focused hope seen seven smoke
This is like a fantasy. I hope it lasts. Smoke has been just fired up. I haven't seen him this focused in the seven years I've been around him.
easy guard ourselves pressure sit slip
It's real easy to say, 'Hey, we're in this thing. We're OK. We've got to keep the intensity, the pressure on ourselves to perform, not slip up, not sit back and let your guard down.
easy guard ourselves pressure sit slip
It's real easy to say, 'Hey, we're in this thing. We're OK, ... We've got to keep the intensity, the pressure on ourselves to perform, not slip up, not sit back and let your guard down.
changing run stop until
We'll just go until we can't go anymore, I guess. If you stop you're going to get run over in this sport, as much as things are changing and as much as we've got going on at the shop.
good
As good as we've been in the past, we've never been as good as this.
anywhere chins complacent everybody good near
As good as we've been in the past, we've never been anywhere near this. But we need to keep our chins up and not get complacent just because everything is going so well. We know everybody is gunning for us.