Ray Evernham
Ray Evernham
Ray Evernhamis an American consultant for Hendrick Companies, formerly an auto racing crew chief for Bill Davis Racing and Hendrick Motorsports, owner of his own team Evernham Motorsports from 2001–2010, and analyst for ESPN's NASCAR coverage. A three time Winston Cup Series Champion with driver Jeff Gordon, in 1999, Evernham won the NASCAR Winston Cup Illustrated “Person of the Year”...
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The biggest difference between an athlete like Michael Jordan or someone we always compare Jeff to is the fact that those guys can rely largely on their athletic ability. In our world, no matter how good your athletic ability or your driving ability, you still depend largely on whether you've got the car to get the job done.
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and we're going to lend our trucks and truck drivers to take some product down there.
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Erin is a very special person and we've seen her display great talent behind the wheel of a stock car this year in the ARCA RE/MAX Series. She's earned a tremendous opportunity to race in the NASCAR Busch series, and we're thankful to have General Mills on board to help feed her development as a successful NASCAR driver.
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Erin not having raced on pavement a lot and not having raced traffic and things like that, we felt this would be a better way to get more experience racing without having all the pressure. In fairness to her, I want her to learn without people running all over her all of the time.
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It just blows me away. For the honor to come from people who know the business means a lot more than anything else you'll ever get. This means a great deal to me.
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This is the next step in our quest for a championship,
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It's like having three kids and two of them are doing really well. You're more concerned about the one who isn't.
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It's like having three kids and two are doing well, but you're more concerned about the one who isn't. We've got to figure out why they're struggling.
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It's a tough blow. It's a real kick in the pants, but the only choice is you either quit or go on. You don't want to quit, so you just have to put it behind you and go on.
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It's a big issue, but as with any sport, that's what happens. What's enough? At some point you've got to say, 'It's enough. Here's what we're going to do; that's all we're going to do.' But then you have agents and you have all these people. They want more, more, more, more, more. You can only do so much.
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It's a real kick in the pants. We brought a car that was fast enough to make it on time and had a problem with a gear in qualifying. We knew we had to be exactly right on the money (today), and we had a problem in the pits.
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It's pretty stressful. I think last year we were even in a tighter spot. It was even tougher back then, ... Unfortunately your team is rated now on whether you make the Chase ... and everything you do all season long, no matter how good or bad you were, people are going to look back and see if you made that Chase.
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There's a good chance there will be some announcements coming up about Anthony teaming up with somebody else that we supply motors for, ... We are working on that, but Anthony is one of the choices for a development driver.
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Is she ready to win? No. Is she ready to start her Busch Grand National career? Absolutely.