Shane van Gisbergen \u2014 winner: \u201cWhat an awesome race, Kyle (Larson) and Christopher (Bell) driving really good and got a little rough. But man, the battle was awesome. And we had a fast Chevy. I lost it a little bit at the start of Stage 3 and whatever they did for the rest of the race, unbelievable. Really enjoyed that and was a long time
waiting, hoping the yellow wasn\u2019t going to come out. I got (Larson) in a little bump at (Turn) 7 by accident, and he slammed me, and that sort of set it off, but I\u2019m all for it. It was fun. I hope he\u2019s not too pissed off. But I hope it was good to watch, too.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n SVG nets fifth-straight road course win at Roval<\/p>\n Shane van Gisbergen was “all for” the rough racing with the leaders in the closing laps at the Charlotte Roval and nets his fifth-straight win on a road course in the NASCAR Cup Series.<\/p>\n Kyle Larson \u2014 second: \u201cI\u2019m happy with a second-place finish for this No. 5 Chevrolet team. Shane van Gisbergen is just so good. It was a fun battle with Christopher (Bell), too. To start the final stage, we were trying to break up his (SVG) rhythm and race, and I thought it was playing out well. He was just so fast. I tried riding. I tried saving my tires, but I just can\u2019t do it as well as he does. But overall, it was a great finish and momentum to head into the Round of Eight.\u201d<\/p>\n Christopher Bell \u2014 third: \u201cWhat made the difference, I don\u2019t know. It felt kind of like the rest of the road courses. We had a hell of a race for second between me and my Camry, (Chris) Buescher and (Kyle) Larson. It is that (Shane van Gisbergen) car was what 30 seconds ahead of us. Congratulations to Shane and that Trackhouse team. They have set the bar, and we are all clearly having a hard time getting up to it.\u201d <\/p>\n Chris Buescher \u2014 fourth: \u201cThat\u2019s where we ran all day right there, sitting around fourth. I\u2019m proud of this team for bringing up a Ford Mustang that was this good. Today\u2019s race was a big step in the right direction at the Roval. It was a lot more fun to drive this go-around, and I\u2019m sure we want more and have a bit more to go, but it was much better than last week. We\u2019re proud to take a top five.\u201d <\/p>\n Michael McDowell \u2014 fifth: \u201cI\u2019m proud of the effort today by this No. 71 Chevrolet team. We executed really well. We had top-five speed, and we sort of stayed there all day long. There wasn\u2019t a lot of excitement for us with just managing our track position. I\u2019m bummed we didn\u2019t have a little bit more speed to contend. When I would push hard, I could hang with (Shane van Gisbergen), (Kyle Larson) and (Christopher Bell) for a little while. But then I would fade, so I sort of had to run my pace to keep the tires underneath me. I\u2019m proud of the top-five effort, but we come to these road courses to try and win. Today, we just didn\u2019t quite have enough to do that. We were close. We were definitely in the game. The tire was fun. It was a tough 15 to 18 laps, depending how long you had to run your tires. They were falling off so hard and so fast, so that was cool. Goodyear did a good job of that. It mixed up the strategies, as we saw. I felt like we played that right. I think we ended up where we should have, as far as our speed goes. Proud of Travis (Peterson, crew chief) and everyone on this No. 71 team. We\u2019ll keep building on our road course program. A couple top-fives this year, so that\u2019s good. We\u2019ve got good speed, but we just need a little bit more.\u201d<\/p>\n Ryan Preece \u2014 sixth: \u201cI feel like at many of these road courses, Mexico, Watkins Glen, COTA and here, we\u2019ve had strong days for it being my first time at these tracks with RFK Racing. This result with our Ford Mustang is definitely something to build on and keep progressing from. It also felt good to get out of that ten-week slump and get back to where I feel like we can be on the racetrack.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Eighth at the Roval a ‘solid’ result for Elliott<\/p>\n Chase Elliott felt he had “respectable” pace despite missing on strategy at the Charlotte Roval and feels his team kept the sense of urgency entering the Round of 8.<\/p>\n Chase Elliott \u2014 eighth: \u201cWe were trying to do something different on the strategy front. Unfortunately, never really went our way. I thought our pace was actually respectable. To get restart, you know, in the mid-20s there behind 20th place on a couple of occasions and get back inside the top 10, I feel like we were decent. Ryan Blaney \u2014 13th: \u201cThat was not a bad day. We had a pretty solid day. It was nice to get a stage win out of it with our Ford Mustang and we finished fairly decent. I\u2019m proud of the effort today and I\u2019m looking forward to getting to Vegas. I\u2019m just excited to get there and excited to see what we\u2019ve got when we unload. We\u2019ll see where practice goes and then the race. I don\u2019t really know until we get there, but I\u2019m looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ‘Long-run pace’ may have cost Reddick at the Roval<\/p>\n Tyler Reddick discusses missing the NASCAR Cup Playoffs Round of 8 cut and what went wrong at the Bank of America Roval 400.<\/p>\n Tyler Reddick \u2014 10th: \u201cI don\u2019t know if anything necessarily went wrong today for how the race was playing out. We wanted to prioritize setting up to win the race. I think you could pick it apart \u2013 a couple restarts and what not, just kind of, as the race unfolded our long run was not where it needed to be with the top guys. Stage three there, we didn\u2019t make the progress that we needed too, so we kind of went long there hoping for a caution there, and lost a lot of spots, but at the end of the day, we were trying to set ourselves up for a caution late. Looking back on it, my crew chief, Billy Scott, said we were only out by 14 \u2013 maybe we could have chased point a little bit harder there, so a few things to look back on, but coming into this, we played it the way we should have.\u201d <\/p>\n William Byron \u2014 11th: \u201cI think I was just kind of out there trying to figure out something that would work. We were just kind of sliding around too much, especially on the restarts. We really needed green-flag runs. Once we got green-flag laps in, I felt like our No. 24 Chevrolet was pretty decent. I\u2019m not sure, but overall, we came home with an 11th-place finish. I felt like we got better there at the end, which is a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Briscoe explains managing nausea at the Roval<\/p>\n Chase Briscoe explains why he feels the biggest struggles of the Cup Series playoffs are behind him after finishing 14th at the Charlotte Roval despite dealing with some nausea.<\/p>\n Chase Briscoe \u2014 14th: \u201cIt was definitely an odd day. We definitely just weren\u2019t that great. I don\u2019t know. They gave me a pill in the beginning, and I felt a lot better. I was just so dizzy \u2013 I\u2019ve been fighting something all week, and I sound terrible, I\u2019m sure. After those first 20 laps, I was able to kind of feel fine. At the end I was struggling a little bit, but I was just focusing on not making any mistakes. Not a super pretty day for our Toyota. It was good enough, that\u2019s all we needed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bubba ‘thrown for a loop’ by tire used at Roval<\/p>\n Bubba Wallace was “thrown for a loop” with the tire used at the Charlotte Roval and ultimately does not advance into the Round of 8 of the Cup Series playoffs.<\/p>\n Bubba Wallace \u2014 15th: \u201cJust was thrown for a loop with this tire, and it is funny to look at myself and Denny (Hamlin) and a couple others at the short tracks, when tires degrade, we are pretty good at being able to save tire. Him and I both suck on road courses and we can\u2019t save tires on road courses. It is just frustrating. It is back to how I was a couple of years ago. Frustrated at self, just knowing what was on the line, and didn\u2019t produce, but it wasn\u2019t for a lack of effort. I appreciate everyone on this Toyota team for pushing hard. This one sucks worse than last week for sure. I had high hopes coming in here, and it is what it is.\u201d <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Logano: ‘We’re still in. We’re still alive, baby’<\/p>\n Joey Logano navigates a sea of boos at the Charlotte Roval to talk about advancing to the NASCAR Cup Playoffs Round of 8.<\/p>\n Joey Logano \u2014 20th: \u201cYeah, everyone was telling me how close it was going to be there. And hey, we\u2019re still alive, baby. We\u2019re still going. I\u2019m so excited. Such a close finish there. And yeah, I knew it was within a point there. And I knew we were going to be tied there at the end, and Ross was going to do whatever he had to do to make it happen. Just wasn\u2019t quite fast enough today with our car. It\u2019s the drama of the playoffs, right? If you want drama, the playoffs bring it every time. Want an entertaining finish there. And to come down to a tie there, basically, at the end before the wreck. So I\u2019m proud of Paul Wolfe. Made some really hard calls today. Three-stopper in the end there. Kind of an audible there at the end, just our falloff was a little bit too much. So making that call there at the end was ultimately what kept us there in the game. So as a championship performance from the team. Wish I was a little faster, but overall, I couldn\u2019t be more proud of the team. We still got a shot.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chastain: ‘I’d restart the whole day’ at Chalotte<\/p>\n Ross Chastain reflects on his “terrible” showing at Charlotte Roval, where a pair of rebounds couldn’t outweigh a series of mistakes that resulted in finishing 21st in the Cup Series Round of 12 playoff race.<\/p>\n Ross Chastain \u2014 21st: \u201cI\u2019d restart the whole day. For Trackhouse Racing, they expect so much more out of me. And to speed on pit road, I had to go back and went off the end of pit road and didn\u2019t turn. I thought I had more room and just was trying to get to the yellow line. and just completely started the downfall there. Then I came out of the pit stall and double clicked up into third (gear). Just unforced errors. Just terrible. So it\u2019s heartbreaking for almost 200 employees at Trackhouse, our teammates, our ECR engines. Everybody that makes this go around. Justin (Marks) hired me to carry this 1 car and to drive it and to be the leader, and I just completely unraveled our day. So, yeah, not acceptable. Just completely unacceptable. … Knowing that no one else had a hand in it but me. The Wise program gave me everything I needed, GM, Chevrolet, Trackhouse. So I can go to bed knowing that they\u2019re building me to be the best I can be, but I\u2019ve got to make those right decisions in those moments where I\u2019m not on autopilot, but I come out of the pit stall, I\u2019m just getting to my lights, and I pull twice. When I went to the end of pit road, I didn\u2019t turn because I wanted to get to the end of the yellow line, and I needed to just turn the wheel. It\u2019s really simple. Yeah, it\u2019s terrible to get to this level and not perform. When you watch and you learn and you study for half your life to get here and to fail is a terrible feeling right now, and I will wake up tomorrow and go right back to work. That doesn\u2019t make it any better for our partners and for all of my teammates that are really upset with me right now. Just have to wake up tomorrow and go back to work, though.\u201d<\/p>\n
Just, yeah, needed to have something kind of go our way with the way we were running it, but yeah, overall I thought it was a solid day for us and certainly gave it our best effort. Excited to get to Vegas.\u201d<\/p>\n