Steve Kinser
Steve Kinser
Steve "The King" Kinser, is a professional sprint car racing driver. He has won 20 championships in the World of Outlawsseries, and currently drives the #11 Bass Pro Shops car. Kinser left the World of Outlaws in 2006 to compete with the National Sprint Tour series, but returned to the World of Outlaws for the 2007 season. ESPN named him the 25th on their top drivers of all-time in 2008...
anybody bottom caught four good knew lap last main messed missed open pass run trying turn
That was my main thing, trying to get off there and not let him get a run at me going into Turn 1, ... The only lap I messed up was the first lap on the restart. I went in and missed the bottom a little bit. It was a little slow, but it wasn't too bad. After that I caught it pretty good the last four laps. I knew I was getting through there good enough. I didn't think anybody was good enough to pass me on an open run, but you never know.
across car knew racing sprint street winning
Winning at Talladega is pretty big. I knew that when I was sprint car racing and racing across the street over there,
beat both gone knew running sat slow sort top turns weekend
I just got so slow in Turns 1 and 2 and that's where he beat me. In Turns 3 and 4 we were both getting around the top pretty well. It was sort of my fault. I was running the top of this thing all weekend and sat there and second-guessed myself and knew I should have gone back up but I didn't do it and got out run.
good home run terrible
We used to run a lot of them back home when I first started, ... I can run terrible on them or I can run good on them.
crashed given glad good nationals race win
I was glad to see Kraig win the Nationals the other night, ... I probably would have given him a pretty good race if I wouldn't have crashed (in a preliminary race).
cars run save tires trying
I was just trying to save tires and run so easy, ... I didn't want to get to lapped cars because I didn't know what I'd do with them.
afraid
I was afraid it wouldn't make it the whole way around,
experience gave good mistake turned
I made a mistake but it turned out to be a good thing because it gave me more experience working the draft,
fun good groove move
It was a good racetrack, a fun racetrack. You could move around on it. There was more than one groove on it.
few last
It's been going on the last few races,
bad draw start
We got a bad draw and had to start in the back of the Dash,
There it went again. I don't know what to say.
hard work
You've got to work your way up front, that's the hard part about it,
coming drafting eight everybody gave laps lead mistake practice proved room strong today worked worried
We were really strong today and I think we proved that when I made a mistake coming out of the pits and had to go to the back of the lead lap. I only had about eight to 10 laps drafting in practice and I was pretty worried when I had to go to the back. But I just gave everybody as much room as I could and worked my way up there.