Michael Waltrip
Michael Waltrip
Michael Curtis Waltripis an American professional stock car racing driver, racing commentator, and published author. He is the younger brother of three-time NASCAR champion and racing commentator Darrell Waltrip. Waltrip is a two-time winner of the Daytona 500, having won the race in 2001 and 2003. He is also a pre-race analyst for Fox NASCAR. He currently drives on a limited basis in the No. 55 Toyota Camry for Premium Motorsports in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. At 6 feet...
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth30 April 1963
CityOwensboro, KY
It was a little impatient and immature, but he saw other people doing it,
I've been out there and gotten hit in the back with a bump draft that you would have thought you hit the wall it was so hard. And that's not going to be possible anymore.
I've been doing this for a long time. Bill's won races, and I just like what he stands for and how he conducts business.
I've never had a problem with Robby, ... Like I said, I just held my ground is all I did and he just decided he wanted to take that place from me instead of working for it.
The world was right and then it was wrong, then it was right, and then it was wrong.
There's no reason, with Bill's experience and what I bring to the table, that we can't do that,
I was passing Jeremy and just got run over. I just can't understand it.
When Texas opened it was so great because the fans were awesome and the place looked so big and nice. I couldn't wait to get there. But once we raced on it, that feeling went away. The track originally made me sick to my stomach, because you just couldn't race there. It wasn't much fun for the drivers or the fans.
I couldn't see where they were doing a whole lot of good to get me out, ... I was trying my best to explain to them what needed to happen. And what did they eventually do? They flipped it over and I got out. I hope that was a lesson learned.
I was running up high in the corner and he just came in there and tried to bounce me out of the groove,
Last year we struggled through the first three races and then went to Atlanta and finished seventh. We have once again come out of the box slow, but we feel everything we learned last year will transfer, and we'll have a good run.
Numerous American lives have been affected by the devastation of hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi,
It's fun to be in the Budweiser Shootout. I'm just real proud that we were able to get a pole. I was real close in 2002, 2003 and 2004 to getting one and we got disappointed on several occasions. To finally get us a pole was fun, and now we will take the NAPA car and try to win the Shootout on Saturday night.
It's a great racetrack. This is the kind of racetrack we need. Tracks that are real wide and real easy to drive, somebody hits the setup.