4-20-2007 - Colin - "He is tremendously talented" - Jeff Gordon

Phoenix AZ - Jeff Gordon, No. 24 DuPont Impala SS, met with members of attending media at Phoenix International Raceway to discuss racing the Impala SS on the PIR track, young drivers and NASCAR fans.

ON COLIN BRAUN: "He is tremendously talented. I have raced against him and have watched him race in the series. The thing is if you want to race in NASCAR, you have to learn to race on ovals. Our series is about racing on ovals and big heavy cars and it is nothing like the cars he is currently driving. I don't know what he has driven in the past, if he has or if he hasn't but you just have to go get in as many different kinds of cars as you can as and the most difficult kind of cars. I don't think there is anything more difficult than a stock car.

"At 18 all I wanted to do was go race. Whatever somebody would allow me to get behind the wheel of, I just did it. I didn't have a set plan. There is no set plan, you just do all you can and you know your goal is to get to the next level, whatever that might be. When I was a teenager, I thought that was the Indy 500, I had no idea it was going to turn out to be NASCAR."