“We're extremely excited about this year's race, especially with more than 50 million devoted fans following the NASCAR Busch Series. This year, we've got a lot going on with Lisa Marie Presley serving as grand marshal, the return of the Sam's Town Challenge as well as the special PEANUTS car in anticipation for the holiday season. We're looking forward to a race weekend filled with events the fans can really enjoy.”
Dan Stark
“followed the Test series ball by ball”
Tony Blair
“We are going to run the full (NASCAR Craftsman) Truck Series. We are going to run six Busch races and probably six or seven ARCA races. At this time, it's the best way for our program. Our ultimate goal is to get Erin Crocker to be competitive at the Nextel Cup level. We are just looking at changing our steps a little bit, and we feel that the plan now is a little better plan than we originally came up with.”
Ray Evernham
“We told him that we don't pay any of our drivers $3 million a year. In this series, you have to put that kind of money back into the team in order to be successful and competitive.”
Mike Hull
“This is already the biggest betting Test series ever, with up to a record 50 million pounds riding on the outcome of the five-match series, and with the unprecedented interest in the outcome of the final match we are expecting cricket punters to bet over a million pounds in a single day for the first time as the game gets underway.”
Graham Sharpe
“The competition now for an audience is not just within motor racing but comes from [TV series] 'Desperate Housewives' and Chelsea Football Club.”
Nick Fry
“I don't think there was any backlash from the American fan when we joined the Truck Series and I would expect the same thing will happen in Cup and Busch. That was a couple years ago and over the last couple years, the country is moving. It has become more global, the economy is more global and the consumer is more global.”
Dave Illingworth
