Mike Helton
Mike Helton
Michael "Mike" Heltonis the vice chairman of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. He replaced Bill France, Jr. in November 2000 as the company's 3rd president. He was named Chief Operating Officer of NASCAR in February 1999...
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Shut up, kids! Don't make me pull this car over. I'll do it! I'll do it!
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Its hard to explain the commitment that this area has to whatever it does, ... Im excited for this campaign because I know the entire community is behind it. ... The bottom line is that caring and compassion take money to make things happen.
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It's just a matter of getting down to the details of each proposal. We want to be very careful with this decision. It's going to be hard to tell two of these groups no.
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It has been since 1994 that a single-car team owner has won a championship. If we allowed the current trend to keep going, down the road 10 years we might be saying that it has been since 2005 than a car owner with two teams has won a title.
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The Car of Tomorrow represents one of the sport's most significant innovations, and we feel everyone involved in NASCAR will experience the benefits. No subject is more important than safety. And, while the Car of Tomorrow was built around safety considerations, the competition and cost improvements will prove vital as well.
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We talked about a lot of options ... and the recommended air pressure was the one we came up with to try to get through the evening. Certainly, we talked about a lot of options ? including the possibility of having to shorten the race. But we never got to that extreme.
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I've been called a redneck myself, and that's OK. I'm proud of that. I have no bones about that. However, it's not a very nice term to use any more, I don't think, because it's been stereotyped in such a bad way.
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The way NASCAR is structured, with the independentness of the sanctioning body and the car owner, there's not a way for us to do that now, even if we desired,
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Earnhardt was unchallenged in expressing himself. He had no qualms about sitting down and taking us to task or asking us questions or voicing his opinion.
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We are going to be closely watching. Take this as your warning: We will act very quickly and very severely if we feel anyone's out there manipulating the race outcome or The Chase outcome.
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Everyone that was a part of the evening certainly would like to figure out how to not have another evening like this one, ... It was extremely undesirable.
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We don't want to react just for the sake of reacting. We want to measure all of the possible ramifications before we make a decision.
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We're not asking you (the drivers) not to be angry, we're not asking you not to be frustrated, that's part of this sport and we realize that. What we're asking you for is to keep it in check...enough's enough.
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I think everybody who was part of it would like to figure out how not to have another evening like this one. It was extremely undesirable.