Ryan Blaney \u2014 winner: \u201cIt was a good call after our issue on pit road. We did two at the end to try to hopefully get the lead, and we did.
It was a long, long run to the end, the longest run we had. Just tried to manage my stuff. Knew the four-tire guys would pressure me eventually. Bubba came on hard there. Just tried to manage the lap traffic and manage the tire, not make a mistake. What a cool race. Fun day starting in the rain. Ended up being beautiful day. Everybody came out, thanks for sticking with it. You always want to continue momentum. Team Penske has been on a heck of a tear the last couple months. Props to everybody at Team Penske who is keeping their head down, working hard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bubba Wallace \u2014 second: \u201cYeah, that\u2019s the thing I kind of hate about this place. Last time we ran good. One of the worst driving cars we ever started. The worst driving car we had this year and I finished second. Just been saying it all week long, I think I finally know, throw out the field I\u2019m chasing, which is hard to go as a race car driver, searching for the right front, it\u2019s not really ever there. We fought, man. Had a nice day just by myself, regrouping. Got the head right. I knew I had to fight all day. That\u2019s what it takes. Where it starts is with this 23 team. Man, they pushed me to be the absolute best. I fail them a lot, but they stick behind me. It\u2019s super cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
Josh Berry \u2014 third: \u201cI slid a little long in the last stop. Pit stop was a little slower, too. Gave up too much track position early. Fought hard to get back through there, man. That was everything I had. Everything I could do today. It was pretty good, I\u2019ll say that, too. No, it was a lot of fun. Just great job by these guys. The car was really solid. Managed the rain, drying track, all the different conditions we had to stay up front like we did was a good day. Well, I don\u2019t know if he knows this or not, but I was driving my ass off every lap. It didn\u2019t get much more out of me. Made me overdrive it a couple times. Yeah, I don\u2019t know. Did everything I could, for sure. I was a little rougher than I wanted to be today, but it just comes down to, I mean, everybody knows the situation I\u2019m in right now. All these guys I\u2019m racing with right now have a lot of respect for me. I think they understand the situation that I\u2019m in. Yeah, I mean, just time to go. If you do it long enough, it comes back around. I think in this scenario, they\u2019ll understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
Christopher Bell \u2014 fourth: \u201cYeah, I mean, it was another strong performance by our 20 team. Ultimately we didn\u2019t have enough to compete with the frontrunners. Get out of here with a top-five finish, it was a really good day, good and solid day. We had the mishap on pit road, then the team was able to persevere and finish about where we should have. Really happy with the fourth place today. Just lacking a little bit right now. (On the pit crew mishap) Yeah, it was certainly tough. My signal to go is the jack dropping. On a two-tire stop, they\u2019re supposed to be gone across the front of the car. Whenever the jack dropped, I saw he was still there, then I saw him kind of flopping around in my rearview camera. I didn\u2019t feel my car jump up in the air, so I knew I didn\u2019t run him over. I hope he didn\u2019t get his fingers stuck in the wheel or anything. It\u2019s alarming and very eye-opening that these guys jumping across pit wall, they\u2019re risking it. I\u2019m super grateful for all of the pit crew members, specifically my team. They do a really good job. I\u2019m glad Blake is OK.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kyle Larson \u2014 fifth: \u201cI thought the balance of our No. 5 Chevrolet in dry conditions were pretty similar all race. I feel like our best run was after the green flag stop, and then even after that last run, it wasn\u2019t bad until the very end. I think fourth-place on back were really struggling. Overall, it was a great day for this team. We got the Stage 1 win, a fifth place in Stage 2 and a fifth-place finish at the end. It was a lot better overall weekend than we\u2019ve had in a while. We scored a lot of points, which is good way to head into the regular season finale.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ty Gibbs \u2014 sixth: \u201cYeah, my 54 guys did a great job over there. Our 54 Monster Energy Camry was great. We just needed to be a little bit better there, but I need to be a little better too. Obviously, a lot better results than last year and the year before that too. So, we\u2019ll take it and we\u2019ll keep going on. I just want to say thank you to everyone who helps me out, my trainers, JB, Cooper, and everybody. We\u2019ll just keep going for it and look forward to the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Denny Hamlin \u2014 seventh: \u201cIt was tough, we were just pedestrian today. We just didn\u2019t quite have it, but obviously we had that in the beginning where we lost track position early. On the pit stop thing, just miscommunication there, but ultimately a decent crawl back. I live week to week, and I focused on this track and I\u2019m just like we got to get better here for sure, we haven\u2019t had it over the last couple. These are our bad days, bad-ish. But I feel good about where our team is right now, everyone is kind of clicking well and we don\u2019t have a whole lot of weaknesses. We\u2019re just not as strong as the Penske cars on these types of racetracks, but Martinsville we are good, Phoenix we\u2019ve been good, just over the last few years this has not been as strong as those guys. And when I say strong, I mean top five, top seven, so it\u2019s something we can work with. The mile and-a-half\u2019s are certainly something that\u2019s been our strength for a couple of years now. I look forward to getting the Chase started and seeing where it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ryan Preece \u2014 ninth: \u201cWe did a really good job. I felt like the race, the majority of it went our way. We had a really good car and before that last caution came out it looked like we were gonna go around the 23. We just got by the 21, so for whatever reason that last set of tires was just loose and that\u2019s what killed us because I felt like on restarts, navigating through traffic and doing all of those things, we did everything right. I\u2019m on offense. I\u2019m not playing defense, so we\u2019ll go into Daytona swinging and we\u2019ll keep digging.\u201d<\/p>\n
Noah Gragson \u2014 10th: \u201cIt was a great day for our Front Row Motorsports team. It didn\u2019t look good there in the rain. I think we were like the last car on the racetrack, but we continued to fight all day and came home with a top 10. I\u2019m really happy about that and really thankful for all the guys. It\u2019s a fun race. I used to hate this place and now I\u2019ve really enjoyed it the last couple of years, so I had a lot of fun today. Grant is a first-year crew chief, and I think it\u2019s no secret that it took a little bit of time, but I feel like we\u2019re really meshing and jiving right now. I\u2019m really proud of where we\u2019re at as a team and I want to just keep on making steps and progress and keep it going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Austin Hill \u2014 24th: \u201cUp and down day for our Chevrolet. When it was raining before the race, I was actually excited to see what we could do on the wet weather tires. Our car was good on the initial fire off. The entry was secure and we rolled to the center pretty well. We ended up gaining 13 spots and drove all the way to the top-15 in the first stage. The balance stayed consistent through the first two stages, but when we got to the second half of the race, the right rear started burning off it and our car would slide on top of the rubber. It was loose with the rears and then create a four wheel slide until the car settled down. The guys kept working on it and we came home 24th. It could have been better, but proud of the effort overall. We\u2019ll keep fighting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Michael McDowell \u2014 16th: \u201cSuch a chaotic day here in New Hampshire, we had good pace in our Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 and were working toward the top 10, then we started to fight a pretty significant vibration on the right rear. Once we recovered from that we had an equipment interference penalty that almost made our bed for the day. Thankfully, we caught a caution at the right time to get back on the lead lap and fight for a decent finish. It isn\u2019t where we want to be, but we showed promise and some good fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shane van Gisbergen \u2014 20th: \u201cIt was a tough day for what we needed. Being that fast on wet weather tires and falling that fast shows that we were missing something to have grip on the slick tires. Hopefully there are some learnings on that because Connor (Zilisch) and I just went backwards as fast as we could when the track dried. It\u2019s just a disappointing way to end the day. We would love to have more of a cushion heading into Daytona (International Speedway), but the No. 60 (Ryan Preece) did a great job today. I don\u2019t think the No. 2 (Austin Cindric) gained much on us, but we would love to have more heading into a big unknown race next weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
AJ Allmendinger \u2014 23rd: \u201cIt was just a hard-fought day for us. We got behind getting a lap down early. And then I thought we did a good job to use strategy to get both laps back and race with some people. The car on the long runs was okay. It was, you know, kind of low 20s, maybe high teens competitive on the long runs, but just couldn\u2019t go anywhere on restarts. So, I just kind of had to hang there. It was a tough day, but it could have been a lot worse. So I thought we got pretty much a lot out of it compared to what it could have been.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ty Dillon \u2014 27th: \u201cWe fought hard today. We just didn\u2019t have the grip everyone else had. We would fire off pretty fast, but the right rear would go away after about 50 laps. There were some positives to take away today, and we will be ready for Daytona. We have run well on superspeedways this year, and we\u2019ll be ready Saturday night.\u201d<\/p>\n
Austin Dillon \u2014 32nd: \u201cWe didn\u2019t get to show what I thought the No. 3 Chevrolet was capable of here today at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. We fought hard to stay on the lead lap in Stage 1 and were making the adjustments needed to help combat the tightness I was experiencing in the center, but I had great drive and my entry was dialed. I was driving forward, but unfortunately, we got caught up in on track contact at the start of Stage 2 and sustained left rear damage that sent us to pit road to replace a tow link among other things, putting us several laps down. The team never gave up and we fought until the end, continuing to work on the car\u2019s alignment issues and improving the looseness I was experiencing. We\u2019ll take what we can from this experience and look to rebound next week in Daytona.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ross Chastain \u2014 36th: \u201cThere was an issue internally in the engine. There was oil coming out of the exhaust pipe. I felt the No. 1 Chevy losing power and just rode it out during the caution, but unfortunately, we couldn\u2019t continue. It\u2019s just an unfortunate end to our run towards the Chase. The speed has gotten better, so we\u2019ll hopefully keep moving forward on that. That\u2019s the important part. With the things in our control, we were able to make them better through the summer. I\u2019ve learned that\u2019s really tough to do in the NASCAR Cup Series. We did get better, but we\u2019ve got a ways to go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Blaney \u2014 winner: \u201cIt was a good call after our issue on pit road. We did two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-869317","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\/869317","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=869317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}