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Baja 1000 and a few others. Is that what you guys are looking to do? Covey: Obviously, our heart is in Mexico. SCORE's new schedule for next year being all Mexico races suits our team because that's really where we want to race. I think that there are a couple races in other race series' that have a very high level of exposure that we're thinking about doing. And really, we want to beat the best drivers. If we can go off the start line and beat the best drivers, it shows that we have a top team and we're really out to prove a point. We want to win; we want to beat the fast guys and show what our team can do in our truck and our driver. We're hungry. SJ: How essential is the team? Covey: The team is probably the most essential part to us being successful. From the shop to the race, throughout the race, you're relying on them to make it to fuel stops, do anything to the car that needs to be repaired; we couldn't make it to the finish line without the team. SJ: Compared to other teams, your team is a lot smaller. Why is that? Covey: I've always believed that you can be more successful and efficient with less people. If you have people that are more experienced than the next four guys. Why bring those four guys if you can do it with fewer guys? Each fuel stop consist of six to seven people but they're all super knowledgeable. We don't have 20 people running around a pit like some other teams do, and it's chaos. To me, that is unsafe. So we have guys that are experienced. Six go in and six come out and we're on our way. Our stops are typically 28-32 seconds. SJ: That's incredibly fast for a Trophy Truck. Covey: And we have to have stops that fast to be competitive. We can win or lose a race in a pit stop. SJ: We've seen some teams come into the pits and have a casual attitude. Covey: It's probably still like that in a lot of the limited classes. They're kind of out to be competitive but have fun also. Obviously, at this level it's more 049 SCORE JOURNAL