Cup drivers recap Iowa race won by Byron<\/p>\n
Hear from William Byron, Ryan Preece, Chase Briscoe, Brad Keselowski, Ryan Blaney, Bubba Wallace and Alex Bowman following the NASCAR Cup Series race at Iowa.<\/p>\n
Chase Briscoe \u2014 His second-place finish is the third time in the last four races he\u2019s been a runner-up. Briscoe has placed first or second in four of the last seven races.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Second place ‘a good recovery’ for Briscoe at Iowa<\/p>\n Chase Briscoe takes responsibility for an in-race incident with his Toyota teammates but is happy to come home second after recovering from a caution that “trapped” him deep in the field.<\/p>\n Brad Keselowski \u2014 It wasn\u2019t the win he needed to make the playoffs, but his third-place finish was his seventh top-10 finish in the last 11 races. He had no top-10 results in the season\u2019s first 12 races. Sunday\u2019s result came after he started a season-best fifth. He scored a race-high 55 points after winning both stages and posting the fastest lap of the race.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Brad Keselowski finished third \u2014 his seventh top-10 result in the last 11 races \u2014 but he needs a win to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n Ryan Blaney \u2014 Last year\u2019s Iowa winner finished fourth and scored 49 points, second only to Brad Keselowski\u2019s total.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blaney ‘surprised’ to catch leaders late at Iowa<\/p>\n Ryan Blaney was “surprised” to see the leaders fall off as much as they did in the closing laps at Iowa but wasn’t able to leapfrog out of a fourth-place finish with family support at Iowa Speedway.<\/p>\n Ryan Preece \u2014 He followed his fourth-place finish at Indianapolis by placing fifth at Iowa. He gained 19 points on Chris Buescher and trails his RFK Racing teammate by 23 points for the final playoff spot with three races left in the regular season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n