Frontstretch Newsletter: June 3, 2024
Volume
XVIII, Edition LXXXVII |
- NASCAR teams are pulling back into their shops today after the action in Gateway Sunday. Meanwhile, most of the Xfinity teams are sticking around on the West Coast. We'll have Sonoma entry lists, along with anything else that breaks for you at Frontstretch. |
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| Austin Cindric Wins at
Gateway Austin Cindric took the lead right before the white flag Sunday when teammate Ryan Blaney ran out of fuel. He then held to win the Enjoy Illinois 300 presented by TicketSmarter, breaking an 85-race winless streak. Denny Hamlin was second, then Brad
Keselowski, Tyler Reddick and Joey Logano. |
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| Austin Cindric Takes Advantage As Ryan Blaney’s Misfortune
Continues Sunday's Enjoy Illinois 300 appeared to be Ryan Blaney's to lose. He had a decent advantage with jus a couple of laps to go. Then, the car sputtered coming to the white flag. What should have been a Blaney win became an Austin Cindric win and a
24th-place finish for Blaney. |
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| Kyle Busch Frustrated Over Mid-Race Wreck with Kyle
Larson Despite struggles with handling Sunday, Kyle Busch was in good position to pick up a good finish. Then he had contact with Kyle Larson in turn 1 right at the end of stage two that put him in the wall and ended his day. |
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| ‘I Would Like to Do it Again’: Kyle Larson Reflects on
Double Attempt During his media bullpen availability Saturday, Kyle Larson talked about racing in the Indianapolis 500 and how he enjoyed doing so. He tried to stay away from the ongoing waiver as much as possible. |
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| Stewart-Haas Racing Pressing On Amid Looming
Closure Saturday morning was the first time that Josh Berry, Chase Briscoe and Noah Gragson had a chance to publicly discuss the news of Stewart-Haas Racing's closure. The drivers now have their own careers to look out for and the best way to help themselves is
to run well. |
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| Shane van Gisbergen Earns 1st Career Xfinity Win at
Portland Shane van Gisbergen was able to cleanly get past Justin Allgaier in the closing laps Saturday and held on to win the Pacific Office Automation 147 in Portland for his first career NASCAR Xfinity Series win. Allgaier was second, then Sammy Smith, AJ
Allmendinger and Ed Jones. |
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| Corey Heim Wins 4th Truck Race of 2024 at
Gateway Corey Heim led a race-high 65 laps Saturday to win the rain-delayed Toyota 200 at World Wide Technology Raceway for his fourth win of the year. Christian Eckes was second, then Nick Sanchez, Ty Majeski and Layne Riggs. |
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| Andres Perez, Luke Fenhaus Post Top-10 Finishes In Truck
Series Debuts Both Andres Perez and Luke Fenhaus took advantage of fortuitous pit strategy to keep themselves in the hunt Saturday. Once the race finished, both drivers walked out of Gateway with top 10 finishes in their series debut. |
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| Scott Dixon Stretches Fuel to Win Detroit
Melee Chip Ganassi Racing's Scott Dixon won Sunday's NTT IndyCar Series Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear in the most Dixonian way, via fuel mileage. Marcus Ericsson was second, then Marcus Armstrong, Kyle Kirkwood and Alexander
Rossi. |
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| Will Power Survives 4 Penalties to Finish 6th on Streets
of Detroit Will Power had a wild Sunday in Detroit. He was involved in two incidents and was penalized four times. Despite this, he still managed to finish sixth. |
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| Josef Newgarden, Team Penske Agree to Multi-Year
Extension Team Penske announced Saturday that the team has agreed to a multi-year deal for Josef Newgarden to remain with the team in the NTT IndyCar Series. |
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| Santino Ferrucci & Kyle Kirkwood Tangle Off-Track in
Detroit Practice During practice Saturday morning in Detroit, Andretti Global's Kyle Kirkwood and AJ Foyt Racing's Santino Ferrucci collided on-track. Ferrucci ended up angrily confronting Kirkwood over the incident. |
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| WTRAndretti Wins Wreck-Strewn IMSA Detroit Grand
Prix Ricky Taylor passed Mathieu Jaminet with 26 minutes to go Saturday, then held on through late restarts to win the IMSA Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear with teammate Filipe Albuquerque. |
Photos are courtesy of Nigel Kinrade Photography, NASCAR Media via Sean Gardner of Getty Images, Paul Hurley, Chris Jones, Chris Owens and Joe Skibinski of Penske Entertainment, IMSA and our own Phil Allaway. Have news for Frontstretch? Don't hesitate to let us know; email us at frontstretcheditors@googlegroups.com with a promising lead or tip. |
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Seeking the NASCAR Cup Series Championship: Denny Hamlin Expands Lead After Martin Truex Jr.'s Tire Issue
by Phil Allaway
Denny Hamlin had an excellent day in Illinois Sunday and brought home a second-place finish. That allowed him to expand his lead to 21 points. That advantage is over Kyle Larson. Despite crashing with Kyle Busch, Larson recovered to finish 10th. Chase Elliott is up one place to third
after finishing 13th. Martin Truex Jr. got a flat left rear tire and was forced to pit under green. Shortly afterwards, Josh Berry crashed out, trapping Truex two laps down. He finished 34th and dropped two places to fourth. William Byron remains in fifth after a middling run to 15th. Tyler
Reddick finished fourth and stays sixth. Ty Gibbs is still in seventh, while Brad Keselowski and Christopher Bell are now tied for eighth. Keselowski finished third while Bell struggled to finish seventh with an engine going sour. Ross Chastain and Alex
Bowman are tied for 10th. Chastain had a quiet day to finish 12th, while Bowman dropped from eighth after finishing 28th. Ryan Blaney was within a whisker of victory Sunday before running out of fuel. The 24th-place finish keeps him in 12th. Bubba Wallace stays in 13th after finishing 21st. Chris
Buescher moved up one place to 14th after finishing 14th. He is now the last driver in the playoffs on points. Buescher has a 10-point lead over Chase Briscoe, who finished 17th. Joey Logano is up one place to 16th after finishing fifth. Busch's crash dropped him three places to 17th. Austin
Cindric's victory moves him up two places to 18th. Daniel Suarez is down to 19th, while Berry is down one place to 20th after his crash. Point Standings (1-16): 1) Denny Hamlin 534, 2) Kyle Larson -21, 3) Chase Elliott -27, 4) Martin Truex Jr. -44, 5) William Byron -46, 6) Tyler Reddick -61, 7) Ty Gibbs
-69, t-8) Brad Keselowski -97, t-8) Christopher Bell -97, t-10) Ross Chastain -117, t-10) Alex Bowman -117, 12) Ryan Blaney -129, 13) Bubba Wallace -163, 14) Chris Buescher -166, 15) Chase Briscoe
-176, 16) Joey Logano -180. Outside of the top 16, but still in the playoffs: 18) Austin Cindric -229, 19) Daniel Suarez -244. Note: Drivers in italics are either outside of the playoffs, or ineligible for points. Drivers in red are waiting on a playoff waiver Playoff Points: 1) Denny Hamlin 18, 2) Kyle Larson -1, t-3) William Byron -2, t-3) Christopher Bell -2, t-5) Tyler Reddick -11, t-5) Austin Cindric -11, 7) Chase Elliott -12, t-8) Brad Keselowski
-13, t-8) Daniel Suarez -13, t-10) Ty Gibbs -16, t-10) Martin Truex Jr. -16, t-12) Ryan Blaney -17, t-12) Ross Chastain -17, t-12) Joey Logano -17, t-12) Michael McDowell -17. Stage Points: 1) Kyle Larson 161, 2) Denny Hamlin -23, t-3) Martin Truex Jr. -48, t-3) Tyler Reddick
-48, 5) Christopher Bell -49, 6) Ryan Blaney -51, 7) William Byron -60, 8) Chase Elliott -65, 9) Ty Gibbs -73, 10) Brad Keselowski -81, 11) Austin Cindric -89, 12) Bubba Wallace
-92, t-13) Alex Bowman -98, t-13) Joey Logano -98, 15) Ross Chastain -103, 16) Kyle Busch -110. Outside of the top-16, but Still in the Playoffs: 17) Chris Buescher
-118, 18) Daniel Suarez -131. Note: The Stage Points also include the Bluegreen Vacations Duels at Daytona.
Old Point
Standings (1-16): 1) Chase Elliott 477, 2) Denny Hamlin -8, 3) William Byron -24, 4) Martin Truex Jr. -29, 5) Ty Gibbs -33, 6) Tyler Reddick -48, 7) Ross Chastain -51, 8) Brad Keselowski
-53, 9) Kyle Larson -58, 10) Kyle Larson -62, 11) Christopher Bell -85, 12) Chris Buescher -87, 13) Chase Briscoe
-89, 14) Bubba Wallace -108, 15) Kyle Busch -112, t-16) Ryan Blaney -117, t-16) Joey Logano -117. Outside of the top 16, but still in the playoffs: 18) Daniel Suarez -154, 23) Austin Cindric
-181.
Note: These standings are based on the old point system that was used before stages were created. WC Points (1-16): 1) Denny Hamlin
2098, 2) Chase Elliott -4, 3) William Byron -72, 4) Martin Truex Jr. -81, 5) Ty Gibbs -101, 6) Brad Keselowski -131, 7) Tyler Reddick -132, 8) Ross Chastain -181, 9) Alex Bowman
-196, 10) Kyle Larson -198, 11) Christopher Bell -249, 12) Chris Buescher -279, 13) Chase Briscoe -312, 14) Bubba Wallace
-346, t-15) Ryan Blaney -360, t-15) Kyle Busch -360.
Outside of the top-16, but still in the playoffs: 18) Daniel Suarez -508, 23) Austin Cindric -585. Note: The WC points are based on the original points system created by Bob Latford in 1975. Race Winners: William Byron (Daytona, COTA, Martinsville), Daniel Suarez (Atlanta), Kyle Larson
(Las Vegas, Kansas), Christopher Bell (Phoenix, Charlotte), Denny Hamlin (Bristol, Richmond, Dover), Chase Elliott (Texas), Tyler Reddick (Talladega), Brad Keselowski (Darlington), Austin Cindric (Gateway)
Note: Race wins in Italics do not count towards playoff eligibility.
Phil Allaway is the Frontstretch newsletter manager. He can be reached at phil.allaway@frontstretch.com. Photo is courtesy of Nigel Kinrade Photography.
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Seeking the NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoffs: Cole Custer Assumes The Lead
by Phil Allaway
Chandler Smith ran well Saturday, but he ended up running into the back of another car on a restart with nine laps to go and cooked his engine. The 35th-place finish cost him the points lead. Cole Custer kept himself out of trouble and finished sixth
Saturday. That was enough to give him the points lead. His advantage is 18 points over both Chandler Smith and Austin Hill. Hill finished 11th and gets the tiebreaker. Justin Allgaier remains in fourth after a second-place finish and gained a bunch of ground on his rivals. He has earned 60 stage points and six playoff points in the past three races. Jesse Love finished 19th and stayed in fifth. AJ Allmendinger gained some points, but was likely disappointed with a fourth-place finish that keeps him in sixth. Riley Herbst finished 10th and led 15 laps to stay in seventh. Sheldon Creed ran well early before fading to 13th. He remains in eighth. Parker Kligerman finished eighth and remains in ninth. Sammy Smith is up three places to 10th after finishing third. Ryan Sieg is up three places to 11th after finishing 14th. He is the last driver in the playoffs on points. Sieg is three points ahead of JR Motorsports teammates Sam Mayer and Brandon Jones. Mayer was running up front until he clipped the tire barrier exiting the final turn in the final laps. That cut his left rear tire and dropped Mayer to a 28th-place finish. Jones crashed out late and finished 36th. Shane van Gisbergen moved up one place to 14th after taking his first victory. Anthony Alfredo is down three places to 15th
after an early cut tire dropped him to a 32nd-place finish. Parker Retzlaff moved up to 16th. Point Standings (1-16): 1) Cole Custer 475, t-2) Austin Hill -18, t-2) Chandler Smith -18, 4) Justin Allgaier
-23, 5) Jesse Love -73, 6) AJ Allmendinger -95, 7) Riley Herbst -97, 8) Sheldon Creed -121, 9) Parker Kligerman -133, 10) Sammy Smith -147, 11) Ryan Sieg -167, t-12) Sam Mayer -170, t-12) Brandon
Jones -170, 14) Shane van Gisbergen -172, 15) Anthony Alfredo -179, 16) Parker Retzlaff -233. Playoff Points: 1) Justin Allgaier 15, 2) Chandler Smith -2, 3) Austin Hill
-3, 4) Jesse Love -6, 5) Aric Almirola -7, t-6) Sam Mayer -10, t-6) Shane van Gisbergen -10, t-6) Ryan Truex -10, 8) Cole Custer -13, t-9) Riley Herbst -14, t-9) Parker Kligerman -14. Note: If they were eligible for Xfinity Series points, Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott and John Hunter Nemechek would be tied for sixth in playoff points. Stage Points: 1) Justin Allgaier 163, 2) Austin Hill -43, 3) Riley Herbst -46, 4) Cole
Custer -50, 5) Chandler Smith -66, 6) AJ Allmendinger -84, 7) Jesse Love -86, 8) Sam Mayer -93, 9) Sheldon Creed -95, t-10) Parker Kligerman -99, t-10) Aric Almirola -99, 12) Brandon Jones -108, 13) Sammy
Smith -112, 14) Ryan Sieg -121, 15) Ryan Truex -127, 16) Josh Bilicki -143. Note: If he were eligible for Xfinity Series points, John Hunter Nemechek would be 16th in stage points. Old
Point Standings (1-16): 1) Cole Custer 423, 2) Chandler Smith -11, 3) Austin Hill -21, 4) Jesse Love -39, 5) AJ
Allmendinger -65, 6) Justin Allgaier -72, 7) Sheldon Creed -80, 8) Shane van Gisbergen -83, 9) Anthony Alfredo -86, 10) Parker Kligerman -89, 11) Sammy
Smith -91, 12) Ryan Sieg -103, 13) Riley Herbst -108, 14) Brandon Jones -118, 15) Sam Mayer -125, 16) Brennan Poole -140. WC Points (1-16): 1) Cole Custer 1871, 2) Chandler Smith -38, 3) Austin Hill -83, 4) Jesse Love -145, 5) AJ Allmendinger -230, 6) Justin Allgaier -231, 7) Sheldon Creed -258, 8) Shane
van Gisbergen -301, 9) Sammy Smith -312, 10) Parker Kligerman -317, 11) Anthony Alfredo -319, 12) Ryan Sieg -364, 13) Riley Herbst -368, t-14) Sam Mayer -406, t-14) Brandon Jones -406, t-16) Brennan Poole -495,
t-16) Parker Retzlaff -495. Race Winners: Austin Hill (Daytona, Atlanta), John Hunter Nemechek (Las Vegas), Chandler Smith (Phoenix, Richmond), Kyle Larson (COTA), Aric Almirola (Martinsville), Sam Mayer (Texas), Jesse Love (Talladega), Ryan Truex (Dover), Justin Allgaier (Darlington), Chase Elliott (Charlotte),
Shane van Gisbergen (Portland) Phil Allaway is the Frontstretch newsletter manager. He can be reached at phil.allaway@frontstretch.com. Photo is courtesy of Nigel Kinrade
Photography.
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Seeking the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship: Christian Eckes Stands Pat After Strong Gateway Run
by Phil Allaway
Christian Eckes should have lost the points lead Friday night. Corey Heim won the first two stages on-track and finished second on the road. Then, he got disqualified for three or more loose lug nuts. As a result, Eckes' 10th-place finish was enough for him
to expand his lead to 30 points over Heim. Without the DQ, it would have been a 24-point deficit to Heim. Nick Sanchez's second win of the year moved him up one place to third. Sanchez jumped over Ty Majeski, who finished 23rd. Taylor Gray finished 12th and stays in fifth. Rajah Caruth moved up one place to sixth after finishing
16th. Caruth jumped over Tyler Ankrum, who crashed out and finished 32nd. Tanner Gray is up two positions to eighth after finishing 17th, but earning 19 stage points and inheriting a playoff point after Heim's disqualification. Grant Enfinger dropped a spot to ninth despite finishing third due to no stage points. Ben Rhodes is
10th after a fifth-place finish. He is the last driver in the playoffs on points at the moment. Rhodes has a 32-point lead over Stewart Friesen, who finished second Friday night. Matt Crafton dropped to 12th after crashing and finishing 15 laps down in 31st. Daniel Dye is 13th, then Jake Garcia, Chase Purdy and
Bayley Currey. Point Standings (1-16): 1) Christian Eckes 506, 2) Corey Heim -31, 3) Nick Sanchez -53, 4) Ty Majeski -64, 5) Taylor Gray
-141, 6) Rajah Caruth -149, 7) Tyler Ankrum -164, 8) Ben Rhodes -177, 9) Tanner Gray -185, 10) Grant Enfinger -187, 11) Stewart Friesen -213, 12) Daniel Dye -224, 13) Matt Crafton -233, 14) Chase Purdy
-239, 15) Jake Garcia -256, 16) Layne Riggs -263. Playoff Points: 1) Corey Heim 24, 2) Christian Eckes -11, 3) Nick Sanchez -13, t-4) Rajah Caruth -19, t-4) Ty
Majeski -19, t-6) Tyler Ankrum -22, t-6) Tanner Gray -23, t-6) Kaden Honeycutt -23, t-6) Johnny Sauter -23. Note: If he were eligible for NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series points, Kyle Busch would be second in playoff points. Stage Points: 1) Ty Majeski 151, 2) Christian Eckes -10, 3) Corey Heim -42, 4) Tyler Ankrum -63, 5) Nick Sanchez -66, 6) Ben Rhodes -81, 7) Taylor Gray -91, 8) Rajah Caruth -99, 9)
Grant Enfinger -103, 10) Layne Riggs -106, 11) Chase Purdy -109, t-12) Tanner Gray -110, t-12) Kaden Honeycutt -110, 14) Stewart Friesen -114, t-15) Dean Thompson -123, 16) Daniel Dye -127. Note: If they were eligible for NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series points, Kyle Busch would be seventh and Zane Smith 11th in stage points. Old Point Standings (1-16): 1) Christian Eckes 330, 2) Corey Heim -1, 3) Nick Sanchez
-3, t-4) Taylor Gray -71, t-4) Rajah Caruth -71, 6) Ty Majeski -75, 7) Tanner Gray -94, 8) Grant Enfinger -104, t-9) Tyler Ankrum -117, t-9) Ben Rhodes -117, 11) Daniel Dye -119, 12) Stewart Friesen
-121, 13) Matt Crafton -127, 14) Chase Purdy -147, 15) Jake Garcia -148, 16) Bret Holmes -161. WC Points (1-16): 1) Christian Eckes 1857, 2) Corey Heim
-14, 3) Nick Sanchez -18, 4) Ty Majeski -260, 5) Taylor Gray -261, 6) Rajah Caruth -279, 7) Tanner Gray -364, 8) Grant Enfinger -377, 9) Tyler Ankrum -412, 10) Ben Rhodes -420, t-11) Stewart Friesen
-443, t-11) Daniel Dye -443, 13) Matt Crafton -462, 14) Chase Purdy -512, 15) Jake Garcia -542, 16) Bret Holmes -571. Race Winners: Nick Sanchez (Daytona, Charlotte), Kyle Busch
(Atlanta, Texas), Rajah Caruth (Las Vegas), Christian Eckes (Bristol, Martinsville), Corey Heim (COTA, Kansas, North Wilkesboro, Gateway), Ross Chastain (Kansas)
Phil Allaway is the Frontstretch newsletter manager. He can be reached at phil.allaway@frontstretch.com. Photo is courtesy of Nigel Kinrade Photography.
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Letter of the Race: Sunday's Enjoy Illinois 300 presented by TicketSmarter was brought to you by the letter S for Strategy. There were effectively two different strategies at play. One was Christopher Bell's
strategy that involved pitting at the final stage break. The other, led by Team Penske, was not to stop. Only Bell (before his engine turned traitor) could compete with the Penske strategy. - Phil Allaway |
Quotes to Remember: Enjoy Illinois 300 presented by TicketSmarter compiled by Phil Allaway
"This is huge for me. This is huge for this team. I’m so glad I was able to get a win with Brian [Wilson] as my crew chief in the Cup Series. You never know when it’s going to happen again, just drive my butt off and hope for the best. "It’s everything. It’s absolutely
everything. Great to win in front of an amazing crowd. This race track does an amazing job putting on events. Just proud to be able to do it. Proud to bring it home for these guys. They deserve it." - Austin Cindric, race winner "No, definitely not. We had a top-five car – we didn’t have the best today, but the Yahoo Camry was in the mix, and was able to
capitalize on some others' misfortune there. We were going to have a top-five day regardless, but proud of the team. They did a great job on pit road – Chris [Gabehart] and the team brought a great car, just wasn’t quite enough." - Denny Hamlin, finished second
"That was strategy. We got behind early for sure but we kept putting ourselves in position to keep moving forward and I wish I could have
gotten second but it was a really hard-fought day for everyone on the Solomon Plumbing Ford Mustang. We will take a lot of good momentum from this one for sure. "It was hot in the [car] there, but it was good for our whole effort. We were in position early and we had the issue there on pit road. The guys kept their heads down and recovered. We had some good strategy and made
some good passes on that last restart to start [the final stage] and on the long run, we were really strong, so just making it all count where we can." - Brad Keselowski, finished third "We [had] a rough first stop there. I slid a little long, and just slowed everyone down on the 45 pit crew. We came in eighth and came out in 28th. It took the entire race to claw back
from that – just a great effort by the guys. I feel like we were right there with [Austin Cindric] to start the race, so obviously, it is a little bit of a bummer that we had that issue, but that is kind of the name of the game when you come to World Wide Technology Raceway – you have to have a clean race, and unfortunately, we didn’t. I’m really glad we were able to get a fourth-place finish out of our SiriusXM Camry." - Tyler Reddick, finished fourth "Man, just thank you to the good lord above. That was a huge run for this team. I didn’t expect it after practice, but the guys made some great adjustments and our No. 3 DOW / Rivers are Life Chevy, with Ducks Unlimited on the side of the car, was really solid all day long, even in traffic. It was just a solid day for the No. 3 Chevy team that we really needed." - Austin Dillon, finished
sixth
"I have no idea what happened with our DEWALT Camry – some sort of motor issue, and I’m surprised that it made it to the end. Glad we were able to salvage something out of it – but you don’t get race cars like that very often – whenever you do, you need to take advantage of them, so that is disappointing." - Christopher Bell, finished seventh "This No. 77 Zeigler Auto Group Chevy team did a really good job with everything all race long. We had a really slow stop at the beginning of the race with a lug nut coming off. That really put us behind. We knew we had a great Chevy, so we just did everything we could. We played strategy a little bit to make sure we were on the right end of it. We caught the caution right, but then after that, our
car was really good. We ran as high of fourth and we were catching third. Our lights were off, so we were a little slow down pit road. That was probably the difference of getting a top-five finish or not. All-in-all, it was just a really good job by this No. 77 team." - Carson Hocevar, finished eighth "I’m super proud of this top 10 finish. After the spin, I wasn’t
expecting that. The car kind of came to life. The No. 5 HendrickCars.com Chevy team did a good job on our strategy. We were on offense there the last 25 laps or so.
"It went as well as it could, given the circumstances. I’ll take it." - Kyle Larson, finished 10th
"No, I didn’t think [we were low on
fuel]. I never thought in my mind we were short. It’s one of those things. I’m proud of the 12 boys. The Menards/Richmond Ford was fast. I had my work cut out for me holding off Christopher [Bell]. That was fun. I don’t know what happened to him, but just one lap short. That stinks, but congrats to the No. 2 team. They did a good job all day. Props to them, Austin. I’m proud for Team Penske and Ford. I’m really happy with our showing today. I don’t know what I’ve got to do to get some luck on
our side. I’ve wrecked the last two points races and thought we had a great shot to win today and I ended up bad, so I just appreciate the effort. We just have to keep sticking with it." - Ryan Blaney, finished 24th "It looked like [Kyle Larson] got loose down the front straightaway into turn 1. He was on older tires and trying to get us for a spot. I’m not sure what
that single point would mean for him, but it certainly hurt us a lot. It took that point away, as well as the others that we would get for the stage and then also the rest of the day. It’s very frustrating. We can’t afford days like that. The No. 8 Rebel Bourbon Camaro wasn’t what it was last year, but it was a top 10 car and we were going to finish there. Now we’re not going to finish at all." - Kyle Busch, finished 35th (Crashed out) Phil Allaway is the Frontstretch newsletter manager. He can be reached at phil.allaway@frontstretch.com. Photo is courtesy of Nigel Kinrade Photography.
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