KP: No. And this is from the bottom of my heart. This goes back to Level Cross, North Carolina. Most of the people in the community I grew up in—and it wasn’t even a town, just a ballpark and a volunteer fire department and one gas station and everybody talks. When I grew up there, they were tobacco farmers, dairy farmers, hog farmers, and chicken farmers. That’s all anybody did. I went to school with kids who became third- or fourth-generation farmers. We just happened to have race cars. When I came along, I was a third-generation race-car driver, and that’s what we did. We grew race cars. And that [living] was incredibly generous to my grandfather, and a great way for him to provide for his family. My dad came along and did things no other driver had ever done. I came along and followed in those footsteps. Then along comes Adam. And accidents happen. So you look at it and ask, “What do we do now?” And we do what we’ve always done. Just like the local farmers. When a bad year comes along and a crop fails or something tragic happens on the farm, you don’t stop farming. And we didn’t stop racing. It changed our business, and it changed my life—the trajectory of what I would’ve been or could’ve been and where I was headed at that time. I love this sport, my dad loves this sport, and my granddad did. And nobody had a love for it like Adam had for it.
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