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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I'm not really a gambler, but I know if you go to Vegas and bet five numbers instead of one that your odds are better of winning. His odds are certainly better than anybody's right now.
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The job of the crew chief has certainly changed since I held that position, ... Today, the job of the crew chief is almost too big for one person. When you consider the growing responsibilities of managing the big picture for the team, overseeing all of the details for each race weekend, guiding all of the people and still having time to focus on the competition, it's a challenge.
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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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I'm very loyal to my friends and family in New Jersey. When someone I went to high school with calls and asks for help, I'm going to do what I can to get the word out.
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I'm working on my stuff to get it going fast. That's what I've got to race.
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It'll set us back some, but we don't know yet how far. We've got to fight hard. I think we're probably a little bit further ahead with our program than Robby was at that time because we've got cars done, we've got things 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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We've qualified for the Chase for the championship for the second year in a row, but we have high expectations for this team, both for the remainder of the 2005 season and for next year,
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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.
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Is she ready to start her Busch career? Absolutely, ... Is she ready to win? No. She performed above expectations in ARCA.
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No matter how good he is, they've got to step up.