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
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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.
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I guess the last time I was in the Budweiser Shootout was 1992. I finished third in the first segment and eighth in the second. It's just a chance for your team to have some fun. It's a lot like the All-Star race where you get the chance to take the gloves off and fight for first. I'm real proud that I was able to win a pole last year and get my new NAPA team into the Shootout. And now we get to go out and try to win it.
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I ran out of brains with about five to go and hit the wall a couple of times. I just saw Kurt and wanted to win so bad. I'd rather mess up trying. I did all I could.
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I like the way Bill does business and he has created a strong organization. NAPA and I look forward to continuing our winning ways at Bill Davis Racing on the track, as well as extending our successful marketing efforts off the track.
bill business continuing created davis efforts extending forward marketing racing strong successful ways winning
I like the way Bill does business and he has created a strong organization, ... NAPA and I look forward to continuing our winning ways at Bill Davis Racing on the track, as well as extending our successful marketing efforts off the track.
believe winning race
I don't believe in luck. Like I didn't win a lot of races for awhile, and it's because I didn't put myself in position to win enough of them.
impatient people saw
It was a little impatient and immature, but he saw other people doing it,
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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.
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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.
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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.
bring experience
There's no reason, with Bill's experience and what I bring to the table, that we can't do that,
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I was passing Jeremy and just got run over. I just can't understand it.
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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.