Tyler Reddick \u2014 winner: \u201cThat\u2019s crazy, ain\u2019t it? How about that? EchoPark Speedway! I mean, this place over the years, man, it just puts on some amazing racing. Handling matters here, but man, I don\u2019t know. I guess determination outweighs handling. Thank you, everybody, for coming out. I mean, it\u2019s cold. Cheers to everyone here. Y\u2019all motivate us to pull off some crazy stuff like that. … It was definitely really loose, and we were able to make a little bit of adjustment on it. I don\u2019t know, they just kept stacking up in the middle and top lanes, and I just found a way to get back in the top five. I tried to stay committed to somebody, and I don\u2019t know, I didn\u2019t really have a choice. I had to find out if it was going to go out in clean air like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Michael Jordan \u2014 winning team owner: \u201cTyler did an unbelievable job. Both teams did an unbelievable job. I wanted him to win. I feel bad for Bubba, obviously, because he had an unbelievable day, but Tyler drove his ass off, and I\u2019m very happy for Tyler. I\u2019m very happy for 23XI. The guys worked hard all summer. I know we had our little ordeal, but they never gave up. They kept working hard, and this is the fruit of their labor. You know, they put forth the effort, and for us to come out and win the first two races says a lot about our whole team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chase Briscoe \u2014 second: \u201cHonestly, I felt like I was doing everything that I could. Even all the situations that happened, everything kind of worked out in my favor. I just couldn\u2019t ever get a big enough run down the straightaway to do anything with our Toyota. Yeah, I was able to obviously push (Reddick) to the win. Wish I would have been able to have a bigger run to take it three wide and take the lead, but I just couldn\u2019t do it, for whatever reason. I would say the one thing that our car lacked all day was the straightaway speed. It drove good, and I could make moves, but it felt like I was slow down the straightaway. Not sure really what else I could have done, truthfully, but still a great result. Yeah, I\u2019m going to COTA next week, and see if we can be one spot better. … I think it says a lot about our team. We\u2019re fast enough to where we can drive through the field, right, and even with all the adversity that kind of happens on pit road when you start that far back, you don\u2019t get a very good pit stall selection. It just buries you all day long. You get track position, you have a bad pit stop because you\u2019re trapped in, so probably did everything right. Our Toyota just drove really, really good, and it allowed me to make moves up through the field. Yeah, happy with the result. We\u2019re back in the Chase. We were 37th in points going into today. Yeah, see if we can do a little bit better next week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ross Chastain \u2014 third: \u201cYeah, it all kind of went wrong. That last run I was committed to (Carson Hocevar). On the restart, we didn\u2019t quite have the push from (Hocevar) behind us or maybe behind him, and so they got clear. But I pushed (Hocevar) down the back, to the lead and sacrificed myself. It was kind of over for us then. Then down the back, Tyler had another gear. It was no fender, and he pulled us so fast. The rest of the night, we were just too tight. Just need to do have a little more front turn. There was times I was too loose, though, so we were right on the edge. Need a little more forgiveness in our Trackhouse Chevy. We cleaned up our fuel stuff that we had some issues with just in our — how we were describing it to each other at Daytona. We\u2019re on the same page definitely all night tonight. Not that we ever got to the end of a fuel window, but we were very aware throughout the race.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carson Hocevar \u2014 fourth: \u201cYeah, I mean, I choked. For our luck last year, well, I was like, if we just raced until the Busch Series length races, like stage two basically, we would be really good. Then it kind of goes to hell in a handbasket. Now I guess we\u2019re really, really good this year at just getting to the white flag leading. Yeah, I went over to Briscoe and just kind of laughed. I thought it was the right spot, being on top and everything. Then I look in my mirror. I\u2019m like, \u2018All right, perfect, he\u2019s coming to me.\u2019
Then they start going left, and I was confused for a second. Then I looked to my left and realized it was another Toyota. I\u2019m like, he\u2019s not going to push me. … Our car is really fast, to go from two laps down to get stage points and finish fourth. That\u2019s good points for us. Yeah, I mean, I was taking every run. I\u2019m sure I owe people apologies, but I think we\u2019re all going for spaces and runs and everything. Yeah, luckily all four tires were straight. My toe was knocked out, but it still was pretty fast. Able to finish fourth there, so pretty excited for our start of the year. Now I\u2019m going to go mess up a little bit on the road course, not be a total front contender, and then hopefully get back going this up-front type of deal at Phoenix.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel Suarez \u2014 fifth: \u201cIt was a roller coaster. I couldn\u2019t be prouder of Spire Motorsports. These guys continue to fight, show up and get better. Just super happy to be here. We have a great thing going. This team is young and continues to be better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zane Smith \u2014 seventh: \u201cMy Ford Mustang didn\u2019t start out great. It had speed, but it was a lot to manage, and then as we got through the race we just kept working on it and I felt like we made big gains at one point in time, and then we got to the front row and I had a loose left-rear tire after we took right side tires, so I have no idea how that happened. I\u2019m just glad we didn\u2019t wreck because it was a handful, and then after that I had a little right-front damage, but was able to charge back up through the field and have a shot at it somewhat. My gut told me to take the bottom there and it was looking really good for a second, but I just needed a little bit more help. I\u2019m proud of everyone. I wish we scored stage points today because that would have been great, but with that said, we\u2019ve had a couple of great results and a couple great weekends. Hopefully, we can keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bubba Wallace \u2014 eighth: \u201cYeah, I\u2019m just pumped that Toyota got in Victory Lane. I have to go back and see. I didn\u2019t think I moved up that much to allow — to put myself up top, top of three. Unfortunate, but man, what a race car we had today. You know who I learned a lot from? Was Rajah (Carruth) yesterday. He had a bad fast car, and he finished second at first stage and won the second stage, just like me. And I was like, This car is so fast. Don\u2019t do anything to jeopardize a good finish. And I hate that we didn\u2019t get the win, but man, what could have been. Go on to COTA, and pray for me there. We\u2019ll have some fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ryan Preece \u2014 ninth: \u201cFor how we initially thought the race was gonna be, we were not very good. We made some adjustments and our Ford Mustang Dark Horse drove way better, so I think moving forward to come back here to Atlanta I feel way more confident and I think we can have quite a bit more success. I thought with how (Hocevar) was driving the entire day I figured that he was going to cause a stack up on the bottom. Lesson learned. Just take the short line. The outside had been working so well for us all day and it just didn\u2019t work out that last one, but it\u2019s nice to be able to be in position to where you can take experiences like this and think, \u2018OK, next time I\u2019d probably change the way I think about lining up.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Ryan Blaney \u2014 10th: \u201cWe had a little bit of a different strategy there in the second stage. We topped off once and then that gave us the ability to take less gas and two just to try and get some track position, and we had it. We had good control of it for a while and then just lost control of it there and that was the end of it. You\u2019re looking for lanes to go. You\u2019re looking for stuff like that, but I was just kind of hemmed in there and trying to take the runs. Sometimes there aren\u2019t any, but overall it\u2019s nice to finish and have a pretty solid day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chris Buescher \u2014 15th: \u201cWe kind of survived it and got the handling a little bit better, especially as nighttime came and just wasn\u2019t able to move our lane there at the end, and I got bottled up on the bottom. It should have been a lot better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brad Keselowski \u2014 17th: \u201cIt was an up-and-down day. It didn\u2019t end great, but there were times we had a lot of speed. We were just missing a little bit of handling to keep it there at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n
William Byron \u2014 28th: \u201cI just didn\u2019t have much grip, so I was searching for air and got loose. It was on me. I was just pushing hard and had to kind of put myself in some weird spots. I didn\u2019t have any steering, so the further I got down the track, I just kept turning to the right. When I slowed down, I was just hoping I could get back to pit road, but then I got clocked. It was a wild race. It was getting really wild there at the end. I felt like I was in a good spot to at least get a good finish. I don\u2019t think I was going to be able to lead with the damage I had, but I was just trying to mix myself into the top-five. I think I was probably fifth or sixth there. It was crazy, but nothing out of the ordinary, really. Overall, I enjoyed it. Our No. 24 Chevrolet was pretty good all day.\u201d
Austin Dillon \u2014 29th: \u201cOur Chevrolet was plenty fast to have a great finish today but we ended up with damage in Stage 2. I was in the middle line following my teammate, Kyle Busch, and all of the sudden someone clipped me. we spent the rest of the race salvaging what we could, and our Richard Boswell-led team did a great job making adjustments to give us a shot at a decent finish. Unfortunately, we got clipped again in the closing laps of the race. It was just wrong place, wrong time. I hate it for our No. 3 team and everyone at RCR, ECR and CT Spring because they are putting in the work. We will keep focusing on what we can control, and hopefully the luck turns.\u201d<\/p>\n
Connor Zilisch \u2014 30th: \u201cI couldn\u2019t see much, really. I was behind (Alex Bowman). He checked up and I just didn\u2019t quite have enough time to check up. I couldn\u2019t see what was going on in front of the No. 48. He had a gap in front of him and he could see it. It\u2019s unfortunate for the No. 88 Chevrolet team. We were making moves and getting up towards the front. It\u2019s just unfortunate for it to end like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kyle Larson \u2014 32nd: \u201cI just messed up. I knew (Tyler Reddick) was inside of me at one point of the corner, but I got clear of him. I didn\u2019t quite realize that (Shane van Gisbergen) had gotten inside of him. So once I was clear, I just wanted to cut distance and short-cut my way to the stage finish. (Van Gisbergen) was out of my mirror. I just hung a quick left and ran right into him. There was nothing anyone else did wrong, it was all on me. I hate it for this No. 5 Chevrolet team. We had a great Chevy. I felt like up until that point, I was doing a pretty good job. As always, we\u2019re just trying to build our notebook up on these places. I know we crashed, but I feel like we are still getting better and better when we come to drafting tracks, especially here at Atlanta.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kyle Busch \u2014 33rd: \u201cI just didn\u2019t have the best of exits off of Turn 2, and I was a little crooked getting to the wall. I just got rammed by (Noah Gragson); no check-up or anything. He didn\u2019t give me an opportunity to make sure I was straight before hitting me or get into me gently to just try and get the momentum back going again. He just drove right through me. It sucks for this No. 8 Chevrolet team and everyone at Richard Childress Racing. I thought we had a really good Chevy. We definitely would have finished better than where we were.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. \u2014 35th: “\u201cI couldn\u2019t really see a lot in front of me. All of a sudden, (Riley Herbst) turned sideways in front of us. I locked up my brakes as hard as I could, but our No. 47 Chevy just came to a stop. We were having some fueling issues and that\u2019s just what kind of got us back further than where we wanted to be. We\u2019ll have to go take a look at that. But I was having a blast. It\u2019s a lot of fun out there. We made a few changes that I felt made our Chevy way better. We worked our way back up there in the later part of Stage Two, so bummed how it ended. We\u2019ll regroup and get ready for COTA.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ty Gibbs \u2014 37th: \u201cI guess (Christopher Bell) made a three-wide bottom move, and I was already rolling the middle on (Josh) Berry and we all collided. Not ideal. It definitely sucks, but we will keep digging.\u201d<\/p>\n
Josh Berry \u2014 38th: \u201cIt looked like I faded up a little bit to give (Christoher Bell) room, and Ty (Gibbs) went to make a move it looked like and we just got together. It\u2019s just a racing deal at Atlanta. Yeah, in this style of racing I think all of us just want to make it out with a decent finish. We were able to do that last week and we were able to do that in the Duel, but not so lucky this time. It\u2019s just tight racing there. It\u2019s Atlanta. It\u2019s always gonna be close with a lot of tight moves. I had to move up a little bit to give the 20 room and Ty went to make a move off the 48 and we just barely got together. It felt like we were pretty close to making it through, but unfortunately we didn\u2019t quite make it. I felt like I was really strong at the beginning. We got pretty tight at the end of the first run and tried to make it better. We probably made it worse at the start of that run. which you lose a little bit of track position and your car handles so much worse that it\u2019s hard to tell. That\u2019s why we all race so hard to stay up front is just because the cars drive so bad in midpack, but yet you have no choice. Overall, the guys did a good job. We had a really good car here last year. I think we got a little bit of work to do coming back here in the summer, but, overall, the guys did a really good job here. Hopefully, one of the other guys gets the win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyler Reddick \u2014 winner: \u201cThat\u2019s crazy, ain\u2019t it? How about that? EchoPark Speedway! I mean, this place over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-493988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493988","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=493988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}