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en Nine-tenths of the crowd that turns out Sunday wouldn't go to a regular road race.

en I have fun when I go road racing. I like them. I wouldn't want to run a road course every weekend, but I wouldn't mind seeing one or two more on the schedule. I like them because it sort of breaks up the regular routine, and we've had good luck on them over the years.

en Turn 1 is worth five-tenths or sixth-tenths of a second. It's significant. You can go faster and brake quicker. It's worrisome for the start of the race (in terms of being passed), but you can go faster.

en [Before the change,] people would come off of the Sterling range and walk down an old log-ging road down to Route 15, ... Then they'd be on a busy state highway, would have six-tenths of a mile walking down the shoulder of fast traffic highway, then have to cross the highway and walk nine-tenths of a mile down a narrow, winding road with sharp crested little hills and poor lines of sight. It really was a recipe for disaster. There's a lot of potential for an accident there. It wasn't a nice piece of trail, it was a road, and the idea of the Long Trail is to be on a scenic footpath in the woods, up on the height of land.

en It's clear that the race is taking on a momentum of its own; the crowd support on the road today was beyond anything we've seen yet. From the start in San Luis Obispo and on through all of the towns along the course, people were out in the thousands to support the best cyclists in the world race to Santa Barbara.

en I think there is going to be a good crowd at Kent State on Sunday. They've really been promoting the match and I expect a lot of the Cleveland-area kids to come out since it's a Sunday. It should be a good crowd and a good atmosphere.

en I don't think our focus is different, but maybe our young guys are more comfortable here than on the road. The home crowd can make a difference, like it did tonight, and when the road crowd gets going, it can rattle us. It's something we've got to overcome.

en I think this is what golf is all about, ... You have the same crowd that you would normally have in a regular LPGA event, but . . . you get some emotions out there that you wouldn't expect to see on the golf course. . . . It's a beautiful thing.

en The term initially referred specifically to hackers with a particular ethical code, inspired by Pex. We guarantee a two-tenths of a second reduction in an electronically-timed 40 (yard dash) and we've had high school athletes cut their time by four-tenths. For professional football players, two-tenths can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars. We're on the cutting edge of what we do, which is why we appeal to everyone from elite athletes to 8-year-olds.

en We fully support David's decision not to compete in the time trial. It's important he gives himself the best possible chance for the road race on Sunday.

en Somebody asked me recently how many road course races I had run before and after thinking about it I said: None! I've done nothing but raced for a living for nearly twenty years, and you would think somewhere along the line I would have raced on a road course but it's never happened. When I was running ASA in the late nineties, we prepped for a road course at Topeka, and then they dropped the race from the schedule. Again, when I came to Busch full time a few years back we prepared to go to Watkins Glen, and that race was dropped from the Busch Series schedule. I guess the third time is a charm. I finally get to go road racing! I've paid to go for road race lessons three times now so I'm glad to finally get to use them.

en I love the fact that we have a 2-0 lead because that's what we're supposed to do at home. Now, it's a different frontier. You're going to get a crowd that's like no other crowd you've seen in the regular season.

en He has to do three turns to complete the race and that is very important. He's working very hard and improving his turns. He certainly has the will to get better.

en Sunday, I heard them. I thought they were really loud on Sunday. It was just nice to look out into the crowd and see people, especially in the lower levels.

en We are really still learning in the Indy cars on the road circuit, ... Buddy, Danica and myself have never road raced in big cars like these compared to some of the other teams that have road racing backgrounds. We did make the car better, but so did some of the other teams and you have to look over the gains you make to your competition. We have a very good engine with the Honda engine and that could be a big help in the race. Buddy's car is much improved and we'll see how that works for the race. I like my car for the race right now, but we can still make it better. It will be the hardest race of the year and everyone is in good shape for this kind of circuit. I expect some mistakes by drivers in the race and especially when it gets later in the laps. If you are tired physically, you will make mental mistakes too.


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