: How has the new car changed the sport and any impact on competition?
JG: It’s closed the competition up much tighter for sure. If you look at just lap times, you look at a much tighter group of cars. It’s just made the crew chiefs have to go to a whole different area of tuning. We’re doing a lot of our set-ups in simulation now and they’re spending so much more time trying to develop these bump stops. I think that’s, you hear me talking about bump stops, the biggest change in our sport over the last year is bump stops. We’re trying to find manufacturers in Dubai, I don’t know, I’m just joking, but trying to figure out how to recreate rubber and plastics and things to make spring rate in the right front. To make it act somewhat like a spring or better than a spring. And there’s so much money, technology and development going into these things it’s ridiculous. It’s mainly because we’re having to do it over 3 ½ inches of travel and so it’s challenging us more so than we’ve ever been challenged. That’s why the seven-post rig that a lot of the teams have or all the teams have to at least get access to is crucial. That thing is basically running 24 hours a day for us and thank God we have them. That’s an area where Childress I felt, remember when Childress got really good, they were the first ones to have one in their shop, first ones to understand how to use it and get the information and it really got them ahead of a lot of people. That had to do with coil-bound springs when we were doing that, then the bump stop as well. But I think now teams have learned a lot more and they caught up. I just think this car is very equal among all the teams out there. I think we’ve seen the potential to have some really good racing, we’ve seen some really good races, but at the same time I’m still concerned because the aero-push behind cars is really, really bad. If you don’t have a multiple-groove race track, thank God that they re-did this race track [Bristol] because the fact that we have three or four different lanes to move up to now is so much better for this car. If we had the old track with this car, it would be follow the leader with gaps in between each and every one of us because it’s so hard to get this car around the track with the bumps, but the aerodynamics really affect it.