The strip was a little more risqué when it first started.

Then when we arrive at the house, everybody had to strip down.

When I first started running here, I didn't get around the place very good. It was just a real hot, slick race track for me. I don't know what happened, but we showed up one week and this thing was just really, really fast and we've been fast ever since. So it's something in the car or in the set-up of the car that Tony Jr. found -- maybe at a test at Richmond or somewhere -- that has helped us here. That's really how we won those races and turned it around from the first races we had here. So that has a lot to do with it.

When I first started writing the column and then the book came out, there were so many women who would come up to me and say: This is me. This is about my life, you know, and nobody has done it before. And I think that that's what they've done really successfully with the TV series, is they made women feel like it's about their lives.

When we started Quest, we anted to do something different. We wanted to build an audience first and then have a big show. It's paid off so far.

When I got there was just 1 fireman at first, and I jumped out and started helping him and the conclusion is were we are right now. We're still a little concerned because we're probably going to be watching the property all night. You know you can look around, they got embers still dropping on here.