Larson said: \u201cDenny was good there earlier this year. The 19 (Briscoe) has gotten way better as they\u2019ve become comfortable with each other, so I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll be really strong. And he\u2019s tough, he\u2019s just a gamer, like he can figure out how to get to the front at any point.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd William (Byron), with a performance like that tonight, he\u2019s going to carry a lot of confidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have confidence in ourselves. I feel like we were decent there earlier this year and I think our short track package has gotten way better.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like at Gateway we were really strong, then at Loudon we were probably a little bit better than the Gibbs cars and maybe even my teammates for a lot of the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just glad we get an opportunity to go out there and race for a Championship.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Speaking on NBC about the race, Larson said: \u201cWell, a couple times I just wanted to stay green. Then (Carson Hocevar) was in, like, every caution tonight. Restarts, I felt good about my car on restarts, but you never know how the aggression is going to pick up, and everybody\u2019s give-a-shit factor goes out the window.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had good enough track position all day. We were kind of out of the mess, I guess. Yeah, that was good. My HendrickCars.com Chevy was fast. Our pit crew was on it all night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat a performance by William. That\u2019s awesome. I think when the 12 (Blaney) gained control of the race, it was going to be really hard for anybody to beat him. William did a great job on the restarts, just kept positioning himself. Was good enough to get by him on that long run.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was surprised on the restart there, the two tires were as good as they were. So happy for him. Happy for our team. Happy for Hendrick Motorsports. This win is as good as it could have been for us, for us to score more points than Christopher, then have William or Chase win, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cGlad we can give Mr. H an opportunity next week. Hopefully one of us can win it. I\u2019m proud of everybody at Hendrick Motorsports. I feel like we\u2019ve been progressing so much throughout the Playoffs. To put two cars in the Championship 4 is awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Larson said: \u201cDenny was good there earlier this year. The 19 (Briscoe) has gotten way better as they\u2019ve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,3932,4384,4386,2332,634,103103,82,4382],"class_list":{"0":"post-242640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-denny-hamlin","11":"tag-hendrick-motorsports","12":"tag-kyle-larson","13":"tag-motorsport-section","14":"tag-nascar","15":"tag-nascar-championship","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-william-byron"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}