How would winning the Brickyard 400 rank with other victories because of the tracks history and prestige?
Winning at Darlington says more about stock car racing than winning at Indianapolis. A win at the Daytona 500 says more about stock car racing. If you look back on what our sport was truly built on, it wasn’t built on a flat, two-and-a-half-mile quad-oval. When you go to places like Rockingham, Darlington, Bristol, Daytona, places that have long standing relationships in Cup competition, that’s when it’s cool to win. Q: So winning at Indy is more media hype than anything else? Knaus: For me it is. Q: Your teammate Jeff Gordon has won there four times, including at least once with you as a member of the team. Have you learned anything from that crew that might help you? Knaus: No more than what we do anywhere else. I know some people build special racecars and go through all the hoops and try to bring all the bells and whistles for that race. They usually end up out-tricking themselves than creating more positives. We go there with the same mentality we go to every track, and that is to
