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...
bad draw start
We got a bad draw and had to start in the back of the Dash,
belt coming definitely few gears good miles pit ready start work
I definitely have to work on a few things -- my restarts, going through the gears and coming in and out of pit road. We now have 200 miles under our belt that we never had before. It was a good start and I am ready to do it again.
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.
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).
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,
early freed fuel hard race rid standing tight
I was so tight standing up so early in the race that I was just having a hard time, ... As we freed up and got rid of some fuel I was a little better but I was still too tight.
knocked top trapped
I'm all right. It knocked the top down and I got trapped in the car. That's about it.
bit bottom catch corners couple figured guard hit last might mix race rhythm roll run sort spots struggling sure tight took top tried work worked
I had to work the whole race tonight. I was struggling to get around the bottom. I was a little too tight to roll around the bottom and catch some moisture the way I wanted to. I got a little bit of a rhythm going. Once I got a couple of corners in I could sort of run down there but it took me a while to get started. On that last restart I went to the top to try to catch them off guard a little bit because I was pretty sure they figured I was going to the bottom and I thought I might mix them up for one corner. Then I just tried to hit my spots and it worked out well.
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.
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,
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.
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,