Denny Hamlin \u2014 winner: \u201cYeah, it\u2019s so big for everyone at Toyota and Joe Gibbs Racing. The Toyota was just great there at the end. And so happy to get this victory and my dad\u2019s not feeling well at home. So just shoutout to him, the whole family\u2019s here, so fantastic day and it couldn\u2019t be better. … Just step up. I mean, all I can do is just keep being a student of the game, keep trying to get better, and every week is a chance to get a little better. I just told (Bill Murray) him to talk to the guys behind me and make sure they stay behind me the rest of the race. So we made that happen. Man, it\u2019s just a great victory. Love that Denny Time flag. You all can boo me, but you can either get on the bandwagon, or you can get run over by it.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Hamlin proud of team for ‘swinging for the fences’<\/p>\n Denny Hamlin joins the postrace show to praise his team for “swinging for the fences” to elevate his car to win, his outlook ahead of Bristol, and what to expect from the Round of 12.<\/p>\n Chase Briscoe \u2014 second: \u201cI would say that our strength was our speed. We had a really, really good, just fast for a shop\u2019s Toyota. Our weakness was just the sloppiness, right? Whether it was me behind the wheel or obviously pit road, I don\u2019t know what the left rear issue was. But yeah, great recovery. You know, James did an amazing job of just doing something different to kind of get us up there and would have loved to obviously battle up there and potentially try to beat everybody\u2019s favorite driver for Toyota\u2019s 200th win, but yeah, just was at a tire deficit there. I thought our car for having a tire deficit and everything else, it showed us how good it was. So yeah, just thankful again to Coach and Toyota and everybody at Bass Pro Shops. This thing is a dream to drive. A year ago, you would have told me I would have been disappointed with second. I would have told you, you\u2019re crazy. Just today and how much speed we\u2019ve had kind of week in week out has been a lot of fun. <\/p>\n Briscoe rebounds at WWT Raceway after pit issues<\/p>\n Chase Briscoe unpacks the strengths and weaknesses from his day at World Wide Technology Raceway and the speed his team has brought to open the Cup Series playoffs.<\/p>\n Chase Elliott \u2014 third: \u201cIt felt good to just have a solid day for this No. 9 Chevrolet team. I thought we were really good at times; certainly more competitive than we\u2019ve been in a minute. It was a lot of fun to be up in the mix. We just needed a little bit more there at the end, but we were way, way better than we\u2019ve been here lately, so that\u2019s nice.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Elliott showed ‘good offense’ at WWT Raceway<\/p>\n Chase Elliott was encouraged to be on offense at World Wide Technology Raceway after coming home third and apologizes to Josh Berry for contact early in the race.<\/p>\n Ryan Blaney \u2014 fourth: \u201cI just wanted to know what I did to deserve it. He just said he made a mistake, you know, and that\u2019s fine, make mistakes, but at the end the day I still got turned. He came from all the way on the bottom of the racetrack and hit me in the left rear. I know he most likely didn\u2019t mean to do it, but it happened anyway. And so that\u2019s just one I got to remember. And but I was happy we bounced back like after getting turned around and did a good job of kind of timing out where we need to be and having a good enough car to get back to Ford. So probably the effort hours and pens well forward for a good day and a good recovery and go on to Bristol next week. I think just go have a decent race, you know. I think Bristol has been a place where we\u2019ve gotten better as the last like two or three races there. I feel like we\u2019ve gotten a little bit better there. So just try to keep improving that racetrack a little by little and just just go have a solid night.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blaney on Larson contact: \u2018One I have to remember\u2019<\/p>\n Ryan Blaney recaps his conversation with Kyle Larson after getting turned during the race, but he is proud of the way he rebounded to secure a fourth-place finish in St. Louis.<\/p>\n Joey Logano \u2014 fifth: \u201cIt was another solid day here in St. Louis. We\u2019ve got a cool top five streak going here, but, you know, proud of the Mustang team. I had a shot at it. I lost control on the restart there to the 11 and then I was able to stay with him and thought we might have a chance of getting them on the cycle there and we just weren\u2019t able to cycle in front of them and then just couldn\u2019t really go in that final restart. Just lost a balance on it. So overall I\u2019m proud of the team. Team did a good job. They executed the first two races really good on pit road. And Paul called a really good race today and put us in position to try to win it. So just got to be a little faster. The strategy gave us a shot to win. We were up there racing against (Hamlin). I thought maybe on that green-flag cycle we could get him, but he short-pitted us a lap, and we just weren\u2019t able to get ahead of him. That would have been the control of the race. We gave up control on the restart and we just couldn\u2019t regain it. Overall, we needed to score points here, and we did that. We got some stage points in the second stage and a top five finish. It is a pretty cool top five string we have going here at Gateway but wish it was a win.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yeah, I feel like we can go there and win You know, it\u2019s a great track for me typically in the past and was really strong for us honestly earlier this year. So yeah, I\u2019m looking forward to it. Darlington is the only track that I can think of we\u2019ve actually went as a team for the second time and Bristol will be the second time we get to do that. So hopefully we can back it up.\u201d<\/p>\n