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    Four-time and defending series champion Jimmie Johnson had no problem with NASCAR keeping the fines under wraps. "I think they made a great attempt to handle this behind closed doors and some things should be kept from the media" Johnson said. "I don't think it's good to have everything out in the press because all we continue to do is focus on negative things time and time again." Full Article at Philadelphia Inquirer
    I think they made a great attempt to handle this behind closed doors and some things should be kept from the media
    SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer 1 month ago
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Drivers defend NASCAR as "benevolent dictatorship"
  1. As drivers, we're just as much to blame as anybody else. At the same time, I'm going to blame [the press]. When you tell someone that the racing is bad enough, long enough, you're going to convince people that it really is. The result of that is not having as many people in the grandstand.
    Tony Stewart – Tony Stewart SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer 1 month ago
  2. NASCAR's done a good job of building this sport over 60 years, and between everyone in this [media] room and in the garage, we have all done our part to break this sport down over the last four of five years
    Tony Stewart – Tony Stewart SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer 1 month ago
  3. In the end, it's everyone's responsibility to make sure the sport is going in the right direction.
    SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer 1 month ago
  4. I think if you got up here and said ESPN sucked, you'd get fired
    Kevin Harvick – Kevin Harvick SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer 1 month ago
  5. I don't think it's good to have everything out in the press because all we continue to do is focus on negative things time and time again.
    SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer 1 month ago
  6. Good golly, 50 grand is a lot of money. It certainly would make me think.
    SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer 1 month ago
  7. It's not to say that you shouldn't tell the fans the truth, but you should be working behind the scenes on the ugly, trying to make it pretty rather than just complaining about it. It's a fine line. . . . [But it's] a line we cross where we're not being productive, we're just being negative.
    SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer 1 month ago
  8. This is, in my mind, a benevolent dictatorship, and it needs to be a dictatorship
    SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer 1 month ago
  9. I think I would have said, 'This person is getting penalized,' to keep it from happening again. This sport is all about learning from someone else's mistake.
    SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer 1 month ago

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