[As the partisan crowd screamed] Tony! Tony! Tony! ... You dream about something for so long, you become consumed by it. To finally get to see what it was like coming down that main straightaway seeing the checkered flags was just incredible.

[Tony Stewart -- Broke out a new chassis at Pocono Raceway last June and raced to the checkered flag for his first victory of 2003; has finished among the top 10 in all but two of his 10 career starts here;] Turn one is probably the easiest of the three, but you've got the challenge of having to downshift in the middle of the corner, ... You go down the backstretch and into the tunnel turn and it's basically one lane.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form,

Well, look--scarcity, need, desire--ugly as these things can be, they're the building blocks of most any societal structure. With nothing to lose, there's no sacrifice. When you need for nothing, do you dream of anything? From struggle comes virtue. It's part of our nature.

sometimes you gotta Run before you can Walk.

He has a great background and he knows what to do. He's new, refreshing and definitely isn't Tony Blair.