I'm sure a lot of people are questioning that, but I want him for the whole run. I don't want to do anything to him now to hurt him.

The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?

[Wednesday] we came out and we were just dead. We got on the kids a little bit, started questioning a lot of things about their approach. [Thursday], we saw a better approach. I feel better [Thursday] than I did [Wednesday].

We were having so much trouble getting the cars feeling the same, I started questioning the work the guys were doing if they were cutting corners or setting them up right. I questioned what was going on with the weight, and we got to looking in the books and saw it got away from us.

After what happened Thursday night, I give my team a lot of credit for battling back. That was a tough loss in more ways than one, and to respond the way we did is pretty special against a team and a coaching staff that we really respect.

I was proud of (Justin's) competitive spirit and character. A lot of programs would give up but we kept up until the end. We just came out on the short end.