SportsHollywood: What's your favorite racing movie?

GIDLEY: "The only one I've ever seen, which is Days of Thunder. I thought it was really good when I saw it 'cause I wasn't in racing, but now I think it's kind of stupid... but it's still really funny."

CASEY MEARS: "There's a lot of older movies, but I'm going to go with Days of Thunder, just because that's the most recent."

SportsHollywood: Least favorite racing movie?

GIDLEY: "Days of Thunder. That's the only racing movie I've ever watched."

SportsHollywood: What actor would you like to play you in a movie?

CASEY MEARS: "Val Kilmer, just because I like the guy."

Casey Mears

SportsHollywood: How many speeding tickets have you gotten in the last year?

CASEY MEARS: "Two."

GIDLEY: "I've gotten seven, but two are under dispute."

SportsHollywood: What's the fastest you've ever driven outside a race track?

CASEY MEARS: "Oh... probably 130mph, on a motorcycle 145mph."

GIDLEY: "About 150mph."

Dario Franchitti with his fiancée, Ashley Judd.

SportsHollywood: When Ashley Judd finally dumps fiancée (and fellow CART driver) Dario Franchitti are you ready to pounce?

CASEY MEARS: "Oh yeah, I'm waiting in line."

GIDLEY: "Too high maintenance."

SportsHollywood: Do you ever flip off the crowd when you zoom past?

GIDLEY: "Mmm...no."

CASEY MEARS: (laughing) "Heck no."

SportsHollywood: When you get a flat on you street car do you have to call on the pit crew?

CASEY MEARS: "Every now and then, yeah." (semi-serious)

GIDLEY: "I just keep driving."

Sorry, girls.

SportsHollywood: Would you rather take the pole at Fontana, or pole the Tecate girls at the Fontana Holiday Inn?

CASEY MEARS: "That's a tough one! Because it hasn't happened yet, I'm going to have to go with the race, Fontana."

GIDLEY: "I'll take the pole at Fontana."

SportsHollywood: Do you ever use Nomex condoms? (Nomex is a flame retardant fabric in their racing suits)

GIDLEY: (No comment).

CASEY MEARS: "Not yet, but if you've got some I'm willing to try."

SportsHollywood: Do you ever get tired of people asking you how to go to the bathroom in your drivers suit?

CASEY MEARS: "No, I just try to think of some creative answer."

SportsHollywood: So how do you go to the bathroom in your drivers suit?

GIDLEY: "Uh.... (laugh) I don't go to the bathroom in my drivers suit."

Interview by Dan Mahin and Jeff Hause

Casey Mears Senior driver at Dorricott Racing who won his first race in his 47th career start at Houston; Part of a record three-driver battle for the Dayton Indy Lights Championship that went down to the season-ending race at California Speedway; 2000 was the best season of his five years in Indy Lights although it was just his third full season (1997, 1999 & 2000).

Memo Gidley 2000: Finished: 10th-Mich; 10th-Chicago; 12th-Ohio; 6th-Road America Signed to drive final 10 races of the season with Della Penna; 3 ChampCar starts with Player’s/Forsythe (Long Beach, Rio, Motegi); Finished 8th in Rio de Janeiro; Drove GT-1 Reynard in 24 Hours of Daytona; Passed Indy 500 rookie test in 71 minutes at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway