“I like racing at Charlotte. It’s nice to be home and I really like the track, too. I’m fortunate enough to be locked into the All-Star Race and it’s definitely on my list to win again. The guys work so hard on the car at the track and back at the Hendrick Motorsports shop, so it would be really cool to get them in Victory Lane.”
Kasey Kahne
“We’ll have a few different opportunities in each of the (Sprint Showdown) segments to try and race our way in. So that’s our goal and what we’re going to try to do.”
Chase Elliott
“I think the All-Star race outcome is really going to depend on tire falloff. The rules are pretty interesting and for the teams that are required to pit based on where they finish, hopefully there’s a ton of tire falloff and you can make up those positions lost in a very short final segment. I’d say that the conversation right now among the most drivers is there’s a race for ninth, 10th, 11th, whatever that transfer spot is and wherever that ends up being, that everybody is joking that’s the spot to be right now (laughs). But, hopefully we get to the track and we see that the tire wear is far different and people don’t have to play that game. It’s an exciting race in general – usually a spark or two fly - it’s in my sponsor Lowes’ back yard, and there is a million dollars on the line. How can it not be exciting?”
Jimmie Johnson
“This All-Star Race will be a good opportunity for us to work on things. But, I’ll be honest, I’d rather win the 600. Running well during the rest of the season matters more to me than stumbling into a million bucks on the All-Star weekend. If we come out of the All-Star Race as winners but don’t understand how to go into the 600 and be competitive, it does us no good. I’d put an understanding of how we can get better as a team going forward above everything else.”
Dale Earnhardt Jr.