I hadn't been in the car today before qualifying, and since I was jumping into the car cold, in the beginning I was just trying to get a feel for it.

It's been such a nice weekend. The weather has been fantastic, the people have been great. It's been just really fun running around and enjoying Watkins Glen.

[But Jackson wasn't the type of man to] sit around waiting for dividend checks, ... He had deep pockets to pursue whatever passions he came across, and when he heard the first internal combustion engine come rumbling down the road, that's where his passions turned.

By the time I got past a few cars, my main competitor (Joe Blacker, in a 1978 Lola T298) had pulled out a fair gap. There was no way I would have caught up to him. It was still a fun race.

We were side by side at the finish. It was a great race.

Jackson's trip stands at the cusp of major change in the United States for transportation, ... To a great extent, he was still traveling through a 19th-century America that hadn't changed much since the 1860s or so.