Can you talk about what kind of role Dale Junior has played in your development as a driver and as a person?

A: (Brad) Well the biggest thing is the opportunities he’s given me to work with good people. And Dale has his own commitments which seem to be a lengthy list, and he doesn’t have a lot of time to be with me and to explain things with me. But, you know, there are certainly times where he’ll help me out.

Going to Daytona he helped me out a tremendous amount. Watching footage from Talladega and showing me what I did wrong and what I did right and trying to explain that to me. So it’s just small things like that that seem to help me out a lot.

Then there’s some of the other behind the scenes stuff. How to deal with the huge amount of responsibilities that a driver has. Not only to his team and to his sponsor.

- NASCAR Teleconference / July 15, 2008
Photo Credit: Pamela A. Miller

Today was pretty much a lazy day. We slept ’til noon, went to eat and then drove up to Mooresville, which is a nice little town but for some reason I don’t like it the way that I like Huntersville (and no, not just because of JGR). It’s like between all the places - Charlotte, Concord, Mooresville, Cornelius, Lake Norman, all of them and the JGR thing doesn’t hurt.

We went by JR Motorsports and looked around and pretty much got rushed by the staff to get out (well not really but they kept glaring at us to leave). They closed at five and it was just past four. Then we went up the road to Kasey Kahne Racing and my Mom and Penni stole some grass. Then we came back to the room, Penni and I went to Tara’s room and hung out, gossiped, watched “Dale” and tried to make Penni become a Junior fan. (more…)