More - Brian Vickers Quotes

You come down to the last couple of laps, and teammates or not, all bets are off. He learned what he had to do, obviously, because those guys still respect him out there and they're still pushing him to wins.

Brian Vickers

 

I wish I'd pulled harder to the bottom to block Jimmie, but we might have wrecked too. We missed the big wrecks, and we blocked when we could, and it was a race to the finish. At this speedway ... you've got a 50-50 shot - block high or block low - when they're coming at you.

Brian Vickers

 

[Brian Vickers was livid Saturday after he got black flagged for passing a car on the left during a late restart in the Busch race. Vickers seemed to have a half-decent excuse: The car in front of him missed a shift and it was either pass him or rear-end him.] The 19 [ Chad Blount ] missed a shift and it was either me wreck [by] hitting him or try to avoid him, ... That's racing. When somebody misses a shift it's a basic maneuver -- you either wreck or be wrecked and we went low to miss him. I never passed him before the start/finish line. It's the front bumper that counts and it was a bad call.

Brian Vickers

 

It's easy for me to sit here and say, 'Hey, this would have been my first win, Jimmie, why did you try to pass me?' Well, this was a win for him, too. I can't hold a grudge against him for that. If he wouldn't have tried to pass me for a win on the last lap, I don't know if I would have respected that.

Brian Vickers

 

At the beginning of the season, a lot of people were expecting success right out of the box, but even we knew that was not going to happen.

Brian Vickers

 Beginning

Even though (McGrew) and I have worked together in the past, a lot of guys on the team were new, some were even new to Hendrick Motorsports. It was a learning process for all of us.

Brian Vickers

 Past

Everyone did a great job,

Brian Vickers

 Job

We're going to continue doing what we've been doing for the last two months and when it comes, it comes.

Brian Vickers

 

The 5 and 25 teams have been hitting on all eight cylinders since July. I knew it was only a matter of time until one of the teams went to Victory Lane. I try not to think too much about getting that first win. We'll continue doing what we've been doing for the last two months and when it comes, it comes.

Brian Vickers

 

I thought everyone was doing a good job. It all broke loose. This is my first time at Daytona, and I got the full skinny.

Brian Vickers