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Race Quotes by Brian France

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Brian France highlights that solid TV deals keep NASCAR thriving, and he works to make races tighter, safer, and more exciting. He mentions that drivers are regular people from across the country, and that fans love watching them take chances, even though media coverage often falls short.

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The France family is locked and loaded in its dedication to Nascar.

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NASCAR is not immune to the down economy.

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Lots of things can happen when there's really hard racing and contact going on.

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I think we're the best road racing show in town.

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People don't buy tickets to a race to hear my political views.

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I'm deeply involved in making the race closer and tighter and safer.

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We're trying to make sure it goes up. Expand NASCAR, expand our fan base.

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We consider them a friend. We can't win when other people lose. We would prefer to see a healthy IndyCar Series.

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I thought I'd go into law or something. I always loved NASCAR, but I didn't view it as a business opportunity.

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We want to find a way to be an environmental leader in motor sports, as well as in sports in general.

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We're going to do whatever it takes to bring that NASCAR style of racing on the track to full fruition. That's simply…

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The drivers are regular people that come from all over the country. I think the sports fans can relate to them.

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I get asked all the time 'didn't you ever want to be a race car driver?' And I knew pretty early on…

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We want everybody in this country to be a NASCAR fan, and you can't do that by being insensitive in any one…

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People recognize the size and scope of NASCAR but at the same time we are constantly underserved by the media coverage.

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My hope is, and I know there are a couple of big manufacturers, and there always are - this is not breaking…

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Things are pretty good for NASCAR with our TV agreements behind us and so forth. For us it's focusing on putting the…

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Our challenge is this sport needs to be more diverse throughout its makeup of stakeholders, participants, and fans. We're doing a number…

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I try to help out everyone at NASCAR whenever I can. It will always be a special place for me and certainly…

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Boy, do I dislike two things: One is having to deal with penalties or infractions even though we have to. We have…

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Toyota is doing a neat job coming in to the sport - no one ever thought that there would be a day…

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'Drive for Diversity' puts people behind the wheel that would never have had the opportunity. Nascar sponsors individual teams who have a…

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I'm working with a lot of entrepreneurs and people launching new businesses. It's fun. It's what I've always liked to do and…

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The first thing I said to Chase Elliott when I was in Iowa at a same race as him, I told him,…

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A lot of the car companies are understandably looking at the terrific job that Toyota has done by partnering with NASCAR and…

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We were creating a formula for points racing, and that wasn't good in qualifying for the Chase, and it wasn't good when…

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This is a contact sport. It's always been a contact sport, especially late in the race.

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A crash is part of the game. We've tried to make the cars a lot safer. There's no getting around it though.…

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There's nothing quite like being part of a NASCAR race weekend, and that always will hold true.

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When drivers are going at their best, trying their hardest, taking chances and doing amazing things, that's what fans love.

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You have to make sure there's a high degree of confidence that whoever won the race did it fair and square.

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The opportunity at NASCAR will continue to be such that the best talent wants to be here.

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It's not my future, but it's NASCAR's future, to make sure that we take events to the biggest metropolitan areas of the…

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We'll always focus on making our racing safer and more competitive than ever before. We'll never stop working on that.

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In every decision that we've ever made that's important, the more input, the more people we've heard from, the better the result.…

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The reality of it is, we have to have an enormous amount of corporate support to fund 43 race teams and all…

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If you go back many years ago, you could cruise around and build up a big point lead. You cannot cruise around…

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It's true that we have to have restrictions and tight rules and so on and it's also true that the teams are…

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Given that kids don't play our sport in school means that it takes us a while to get people excited about auto…

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That's a hallmark of NASCAR... We have gotten to where we've gotten because we're able to have the best drivers in the…

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Oh, I get nervous quite a bit, actually.

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In sport and business, everybody has to win.

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Lots of things can happen when there's really hard racing and contact going on.

If it's commercial and it makes sense we'll be doing it - whatever it is.

I use Amy as a major sounding board for a lot of things that come up, and she understands the family dynamic and business…

I'm deeply involved in making the race closer and tighter and safer.

I have said I will not have a 30-year run like my father for a variety of reasons.

Boy, do I dislike two things: One is having to deal with penalties or infractions even though we have to. We have to keep…

If you look at any league, they're all trying to figure out how to make the game more exciting, speed the game up, whatever…

Every sport has different cycles where it's better than it was or less than it should be, whatever it is, that will work out.

We went for 50-something years and never had a system to fine anybody for disparaging remarks in the sport. We're the only sport on…

I really like the idea of fans being able to curate their entire digital experience at live events.