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Q & A: Casey Mears.(Interview)
TSN: With your family's open-wheel racing history, what does it mean to race at the Brickyard?
CM: It's always awesome to come here because of the family history, but it's a different feeling (racing here in Cup). It's not like the Indy 500. At the same time, it's special to be here, and for me to get a win at this place would be absolutely enormous. My uncle (Rick Mears) has won here four times.
TSN: What can you say about your season taking a 180-degree turn from last year?
CM: Just that I'm really happy about it. We were horrible last year. It's weird because we really didn't have a whole lot of bad luck, we just ran horribly. This year we've run really good. We've just had a lot of bad luck. At Chicago, we were running in the top five and got a piece of paper stuck to the grille. I tried to stay out as long as I could, but eventually I had to come in to get the paper off, and that cost us a lap. We had a top five car, easy. We had the speed. It seems like little things like that just keep happening to us. A sway bar chain broke at Michigan when we were running in the top 10. We've had a lot of trouble, but overall, I'm very, very happy with our performance. I'm just not satisfied with the results.
TSN: With your move to stock cars, are there any of your open-wheel buddies who accuse you of selling out?
CM: I don't know. Not really, at the point when I came to NASCAR. I think everybody was very clear where the situation was with open wheel. Nobody ever said anything--except when Paul Tracy and (Jimmy) Vasser were joking around saying, "I'd never race those taxicabs," and stuff like that. But I knew this was an opportunity. When I came in this direction, I had had opportunities in IRL and CART, but it was very unclear which would be the major series down the road. So I chose stock cars. I figured if it didn't work out, I could come back the next year and pick which open-wheel series I wanted to run in. So far, it's worked out. I couldn't be happier. I don't care what anyone thinks.
TSN: Would you still like to run ...
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