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A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.

It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.

Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.

I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.

If I knew I couldn't win races, I would have stayed in the States.

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.

I've got to win every race.

The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team.