Straights Quotes

With those long straights and tight corners, Martinsville is a tough track on the brakes and the motors. It really puts a lot of it on the driver too because it is so mentally exhausting to go run around for 500 laps on those tight turns. We had a good run going in the spring here before we were wrecked, and Kurt has taken the car to victory lane here before. We all know he knows how to run short tracks, so we'll see if he can keep the fenders clean and get a good finish. - Jimmy Fennig

Towards the end of the race my helmet strap started to work loose and my helmet was lifting down the straights, which was pulling the strap tight against my throat and choking me. I had to drive one-handed for most of the time. I couldn't breathe very well. It was just more worrying than anything else. I was just slightly pulling it down to get more air in. - Jensen Button

Monza is Formula One's oldest circuit and a favourite amongst the drivers'... It has a very special atmosphere and provides a real challenge with its combination of long corners and very fast straights. - Jenson Button

It was a pretty good battle; we were a lot faster on the banking than the BMW. We were able to hold it tight and really get a run out of them. We must have been getting about six or seven miles an hour out of the exits which helped us out in the straights. We had a really bad pit stop; I'm not sure what happened with the fuel, but I think we were there for a minute and 29 seconds. We'll have to look at that and make it better because that hurt us a lot. - Paul Edwards

If it doesn't rain pretty soon and there's nothing I can see in the long-range forecast that we're going to get a whole lot of rain then I think a lot of our people are going to be in dire straights. - Sam Knipp