“Our organisation is well put-together, with good people and resources, and I feel like we've got the team and the equipment to do it, but those guys are tough and they are showing it every weekend. All I'm really focusing on and concerned about right now is trying not to have a bad day. For a little while [in Atlanta] it looked like it was going to be that day, so to me, to be able to fight back and finish seventh – even though Jimmie won – it still was a great day and a great motivation for us going forward. I'm proud of that effort.

“We're just going to keep doing that week-in and week-out. When you bring a good car to the race track, you always motivate people to fight hard and never give up. I think one of the great things about our race team is it doesn't matter whether we win or whether we have a bad finish. We erase all of that out of our mind when we move on to the next race track and put it behind us. If you have a bad day, you've just got to go on to the next one and keep putting up the fight and effort.

“We're right here and we're right in the thick of it. If we come out of Homestead and we've got a points lead, then fantastic. If we don't, then we did all we could do – if it's meant to happen, it's meant to happen. There's a lot of ways to lose this championship, and it's never over until it's over.”