How does this one compare to the 2010 title?
This one felt quite a bit different on a personal level. The way everything played out with the season, not being sure what the last race was going to be, and then, Virginia (International Raceway) getting taken out of the mix at the last second. With all of these things happening like that - plus my family and my little brother getting married - my family couldn't make the plans ahead of time to come to the race, so this is the first time they haven't been here when I won a championship. Melissa's family didn't get make it because of other things they had going on. At the time to plan all this stuff, we still weren't sure this was going to be the last race. Last year, all my crew had their family there. This year, there was so many other things going on. When was the last time I won and there wasn't even t-shirts at the podium ceremony? Not that they weren't thinking about it, the feel has been kind of an interesting feel. But, I can tell you when the race was over, it was just an incredible instant amount of relief, a big exhale that we were (finally) able to pull it off. Props to Blake, he rode a fantastic season and he was the racer, I think, this year. Unfortunately, they do pay points with qualifying and leading the most laps in the race. I tried to make sure that I was a force to be reckoned in every single session that we went on the track, and I was always somewhere close to the front, and my bad days just weren't as bad as his.