On Goodyear and the tire situation:

They tried to hit a middle road with the two options they had. One felt really good, wasn’t going to last; the other didn’t feel so good, and was going to last too good. So, we worked with Goodyear and three teams that were there, we’re go back, do another tire test, hopefully a short, abbreviated test, so that we can prove the tires are ideal for the track.

On the new track at BMS:

The track is great – I like the old track better; don’t get me wrong – but the track is great, they did an excellent job to basically replicate what was there when the repaved it, in the essence that it’s super smooth, the transitions are the same, it’s got a ton of grip … it’s really fast. We ran a 28.12 on what was called the control tire and that’s, like, three seconds faster than the old race trim. So it was super fast. You really have to be on your toes. Turn two wall is about four foot taller now when you come off turn two … it just feels like it. Um, the track, everything drives the same, other than the fact that you can go up and flip a tire.

On coming back to BMS:

I thought they did an excellent job in making this a better race track. From my standpoint, it drives like a three-wide … like a Michigan, in a roundabout way. It’s a lot of fun to race. You can move around. It’s going to take some time for it to move up towards the wall. But it’s a three-groove race track, and any half-mile that is a three-groove race track is a heck of a race track.