Q. Third-place finish for William Byron. His first career top ten in New Hampshire. Hard to believe. What questions did you and the team answer that you had here today?
WILLIAM BYRON: It was a good day. It was a good day overall. I felt like a lot of the things that we’ve just kind of been building on on the short tracks were working for us. I feel like this place has always been tricky for me in the Cup car. I feel like the other series were good, but this place in the Cup car has been tough on us.
Just trying to build little bits here and there, and I just felt like we could really stack runs together. We had a couple of weak runs in stage 1 and started stage 2. Once we kind of got that out of the way, I felt like we were really strong.
Penske guys were super-fast. I felt like they were in another zip code. Other than that, we were really competitive. Just really proud of our team, RAPTOR Chevrolet. If we can just build on this, I feel like all of our short tracks are starting to come together.
Q. You stacked some points today, plus 47 as you enter Kansas next week. What kind of breathing room did that allow the team?
WILLIAM BYRON: It’s no breathing room because you’ve got to go out and execute every week. You’ve got to keep your foot on the gas in this deal. Hopefully we can go to Kansas and be up front contending for a win. Then you go to the ROVAL, and you can kind of have that one where you can kind of reset.
You’ve just got to take it one week at a time. Definitely wasn’t expecting to be this strong here. Hopefully we can go to Kansas and be really good.
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