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Shane van Gisbergen ties mark set by Jeff Gordon for consecutive road course wins from the pole with Sonoma victory.<\/p>\n
Chase Briscoe \u2014 Finished 2nd: \u201cI don\u2019t know if I really saw everything (Shane van Gisbergen) had, truthfully. I felt like every time I would get close; he would just start driving back away. We were definitely the second-best car. I don\u2019t really know what more I need \u2013 maybe a little bit a grip, but even if I had a little more grip, I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m going to be able to gain the speed that he had. But overall, great day for the Bass Pro Shops Toyota. This is by far my worst race track, so to run second to him, it definitely means a lot, so proud of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chase Elliott \u2014 Finished 3rd: \u201cI\u2019m not sure if there was dirt across the track or what, but it happened a couple of times throughout the day. I was obviously pushing really hard. I just got sliding and ran out of road, but I don\u2019t know that it would have been enough anyways, to be honest. I wasn\u2019t near as good that run than the run before. I\u2019m not really sure why that was, but the call by Alan (Gustafson, crew chief) was great. It was nice to be on offense and give ourselves a shot. I wish I could have made it happen there. I was trying, but I just couldn\u2019t get going like we needed to there at the end. We had a really fast No. 9 NAPA Chevrolet all day. I thought we were really solid. We probably needed a little bit more to get Shane (Van Gisbergen) and Chase (Briscoe).\u201d<\/p>\n
Michael McDowell \u2014 Finished 4th: \u201cWe needed a little bit more pace out of our No. 71 Gainbridge Chevrolet. We had Project Zin on the car today, which was really cool. Qualifying really hurt us. I think we had decent pace, but we weren\u2019t fast enough to get around the good cars. We got off strategy there, and that didn\u2019t work. Thankfully, we caught a caution and we were able to tires on our Chevrolet and fight our way back. We salvaged a top-five day, but that\u2019s not what we need. We all know what we need to do, and we just weren\u2019t quite good enough to do it today. But this is part of the process. You have good weeks and bad weeks. Last weekend (at Chicago), we had a car that could win. Today, we were a little off. We\u2019ll keep building on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Christopher Bell \u2014 Finished 5th: \u201cWe worked really good there as Toyota teammates and (Tyler Reddick) was just talking there about that last lap. I don\u2019t know what else he does, or I do \u2013 we are racing for a top-five, a position there, and I took the lane, and he chose not to ship me. I appreciated that. Tires versus no tires, offense versus defense there at the end of the last lap. Tough to race respectful whenever you are out like that, and I get it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tyler Reddick \u2014 Finished 6th: \u201cToday was a bit of a struggle honestly for the Chumba Casino Toyota. We just kind of went backwards \u2013 we slid back throughout the whole day and didn\u2019t really get stage points. We just kept fighting all day long. We put tires on there and was able to get through the chaos. We had a shot at fifth, just didn\u2019t want to use Christopher (Bell) up on that last corner, so we settled for sixth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ty Gibbs \u2014 Finished 7th: \u201cOverall, we had an okay day. Our SAIA No. 54 Camry \u2013 we needed to make some adjustments, and I need to do a better job. We had an okay day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kyle Busch \u2014 Finished 10th: \u201cWe had to come from behind all day with our zone Chevrolet. On the initial start, our car had no drive or rear lateral any direction. After falling to the back, Randall (Burnett) and the guys made the call for major chassis adjustments to get the rears working. Those adjustments definitely helped, just wished I could have had that same adjustment again without giving up the track position. We kept working on the balance and in Stage 3, the car was the best it had been. It was simply avoiding wrecks at the end. Proud of the No. 8 team for pushing through and getting a top-10 finish.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ty Dillon \u2014 Finished 17th: \u201cIt was a rough couple of laps there. Alex (Bowman) and I race really clean. I told him \u2013 man, if it wasn\u2019t for the million dollars, I probably wouldn\u2019t have done that, but I had to. It\u2019s been an incredible run for this No. 10 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet team. We\u2019ve worked so hard for this opportunity. I can\u2019t thank Matt Kaulig, Chris Rice, Ty Norris and Kaulig Racing for giving me the opportunity to shine again. I\u2019ve worked so hard to get here and I\u2019m just grateful. All of our partners that are on board, this has just been so much fun. We\u2019re going to give it all we\u2019ve got at Dover; put pressure on the guys. I think you\u2019ve seen through this that our team doesn\u2019t quit. I saw the No. 48 there at the end, and I knew it was our opportunity to race hard and go get him. Just proud of this team\u2019s effort.\u201d<\/p>\n