It was a great race today for all of us. The racing was really close and there were plenty of lead changes, so we all really enjoyed it.

I think the open-wheel racing definitely taught us to race clean.

It was a good race, ... That's awesome short track racing right there. They (the fans) got their money's worth today. That's the way the race to the Chase should start, just like that. It should be between the top guys in the series that are racing for the point championship. Ryan did an awesome job and we just couldn't hold him off there at the end.

Motor racing is going to miss a phenomenal race driver and I'm going to miss a good friend. I think I will learn a lot with Sam. He is an experienced driver even though he is young. He's been fast at a lot of tracks where we haven't done well so I hope to learn from him.

I've been dreaming about this since I started racing. I've lived for this moment. it was a very great race, the competition was stellar.

You'd like to expect clean racing, but I know (this race) last year it wasn't clean racing,