Kyle Petty
#45 Marathon American Spirit Motor Oil Dodge

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Goody’s Cool Orange 500
Martinsville (Va.) Speedway
March 30, 2008

Quotes from Kyle Petty:
“I have a lot of experience at Martinsville and that should help us qualify our way in to Sunday’s race. This is not an enviable position to be in, but I have a good team around me and we can dig our way out of this. We just need a little bit of good fortune, more than anything. We’ve had fast cars all year, but mechanical gremlins have gotten the better of us lately. But I can tell you that no one on this team is giving anything less than 100%.”

“I’ve been in this situation before and we’ve come out just fine. We’re more than capable of hitting a streak where we get a string of top-10 or top-15 finishes. Martinsville would be a good place to start one. We’ve come home in the top-10 there as recently as 2006. So while everyone else may think we’re in ‘panic mode,’ that’s just not the case. This is a top-35 team and we’ll show everyone that.”

“You know, the Petty family has always considered Martinsville our home track. It’s a short drive from Level Cross, N.C. and Petty Enterprises cars have won there a bunch. For years it was a forgone conclusion that ‘The King’ was going to win when you went to Martinsville. Even though we have moved to Mooresville, N.C., that track is still special to our family.”

Kyle Petty at Martinsville Speedway