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DALE EARNHARDT JR.
+ On his victory burnout at Richmond last year, which has been incorporated into a TV commercial: "My daddy never liked them too much, so I'm not much of a big fan of them, but people have come to expect them so you don't want to disappoint anybody. It's a lot of fun. When you win, you're pretty excited and it's great feeling." + On the Car of Tomorrow: "I'm pretty pleased so far, but we've only run some short tracks with it. I'm sure it'll be a new ballgame when we go to the bigger racetracks and it'll be a whole 'nother puzzle to figure out. ... The car is no more difficult to figure out than any car we've driven in the past. The other cars, the older cars, you struggled trying to get the car to work in the middle of the corner. It's no worse with the COT. ... I'm not sure if that's just a fluke with this, but the car seems to be easier to get the forward bite better." + On how he and his team maintained their confidence after a shaky start to the season: "The season is really, really long, and a lot of the guys are going to find themselves having the same misfortune that we did at the beginning of the year. It sort of evens out, and if you try, if you show up with good race cars every weekend, you've kind of cut the battle in half. I was just so happy how our cars were running at the time, even though we weren't finishing races and we weren't getting good runs. I knew it was just a matter of time before we started getting the finishes we needed and we'd be climbing up in the points." + On whether it's fair for the team that best figures out the COT to have the best chance to win the championship: "I think it's fair. Everybody is in the same boat.We're all having to learn it together. We've run better than I anticipated we would at the first two races already.We didn't test as early and as often, and going into those races without that much data and knowledge about the car, I was really pleased with how we did."
+ On his sister Kelly Elledge's recuperation from recent pancreatic surgery: "She's doing a whole lot better. She's going to be sore, and she can't lift anything for several weeks. But she's doing really, really good. She's out of the woods, so to speak, and we're all really, really happy about that. She'll start carrying out her typical duties, and she's starting to phase back into what's been going on over the last six to eight months and get back to work."
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