Denny Hamlin — winner: “This Joe Gibbs team just keeps giving me amazing race cars. This Toyota was just amazing. And, at the last run there, it just hammered down. It had a few good restarts, and then once we got to the lead, I was going to lay it out. The offseason, it was rough for me. It was rough for the NASCAR family. We lost a lot of people. This week, we lost Gentleman Ned, the original badass of the 11. We’re still thinking of Kyle, Samantha. Brexton, Lennix. Just an unbelievable feeling to be able to strap in every week, and I don’t take it for granted, this opportunity that I’m in, I just love we’re making the best of it.
“It is an honor. The only way I could tie him, was to outlive him. He was just an amazing competitor. Someone that I learned so much from, and that last run, I drove as hard as I could to stink them up like Kyle (Busch) did. This is a really momentum based race track. I didn’t think I was going to clear those guys on the frontstretch. It just happened when they were side drafting, it allowed me to clear. That was it for us. We were legit 30th. We were a 30th-place car at the beginning. We couldn’t do anything with it, but the moment the track came to us, and we got some track position and had some great restarts and this thing woke up right where it was yesterday. Amazing 1-2-3 for Toyota, and all three Toyota organizations, 1-2-3. It is fantastic. The Legacy guys, great finish for them. Bubba (Wallace), awesome job. This is momentum that both of those teams need.”
Needed one more. David doesn’t care though pic.twitter.com/1kA9r7RLNW
— Erik Jones (@Erik_Jones) June 7, 2026
Erik Jones — second: “Yeah, it is good. It is a nice day. It is disappointing in some ways. To have the car we had; it’s not we fluked into second, we were running up here all day. We had a fast Camry. It just didn’t work perfectly. You need everything to go well. Restarts got chaotic at the end, and the last one didn’t work out for us, and I had to pick through traffic. By the time I got up there, the race was over, and Denny (Hamlin) was gone. A lot of positives to take away. The car was really fast. I couldn’t ask much more out of it for balance. We will work on it, and if we keep bringing cars like this, we will win races soon.”
Bubba Wallace — third: “It’s needed for all these people behind the camera here. We’ve gone through a month of hell, and it’s hard to be happy with a third place because this is what should be happening when we’re executing like we are, and we just... get blindsided by something. And so at the end of the day, it’s no excuses. I just need to be better. But all in all, we were good enough for third. We have an asterisk on our finish because of the splitter damage. One of the most important parts of the car was damage. So who knows where our potential was. But after stage one, I thought we were third or fourth. So I would say we executed all day. It’s a valiant team effort. Each and every week it’s a grind, so it’s nice to get on the other side of it and get back to work for Pocono. (What did you tell Carson Hocevar?) I’m jealous of how fast you are, kid. No doubt. He’s one of the fastest in the field, and that’s his natural ability. And so when you see that and you recognize that, I’ve got to give respect to it. But at the same time, Kevin Harvick told me, whenever I was hitting (stuff) four or five years ago, he said, stop hitting (stuff). And your finishes will show. And that’s what I simply try to tell him, man. He’s fast. He’s going for every move, every second. Not worth it. He’s creating a lot of enemies. This is the same old story, same old Hocevar. But I just told him, you’re fast. A lot of us are jealous of what you have and what you’re able to do. But we’re beating you because we can put a race together better than you. That’s all.
Kyle Larson — fourth: “I don’t know if we just finally got the adjustments right ,or the track conditions came to me a little bit. I just had a really poor restart there and got ate up, stuck in the middle and fell back somewhere between 13th-15th. Thankfully, my No. 5 Chevy was good that last run to be able to drive back to fourth. I just wish I would have executed it better and we probably would have had a better shot at finishing second or maybe even be able to race Denny (Hamlin, race winner). It looked like he was really fast and drove away from the field, which is tough to do with this package. But overall, just happy with the result. It was a clean day, for the most part. It was a good points day. There were guys around us in points that had a bad day, so we’ll take it.”
Daniel Suarez — sixth: “We definitely had a Chevrolet that could contend all day long. This No. 7 team did a great job, and I’m just super proud of this group. I felt like we had a top-five car on the short run and a top-10 car on the long run. Our strength was definitely the short-middle part of the run. After three laps, I would fire off really quickly. I feel like on the short run, I was a little bit better than (Denny Hamlin). Once we lost control of the race, I knew it was going to be a little tough. Overall, just really proud of this team and everyone at Spire Motorsports.”
Joey Logano — seventh: “We’ve got the ball rolling again. That’s about what we had for speed in the car was right around there. For where we’re at, that’s best in class. We’ve just got to try to find a little more speed. These are the type of tracks that everything is gonna show up. We executed a really good race. Paul called a great race. The pit crew did great. I executed one restart good of them all. All the rest of them I was hanging on to, but, overall, we’re at the point where we’re proud of top 10s, which is not a good place to be, but we’re proud of a top 10. The grind is gonna be all the way to the end here. We’ve got to keep having days like this and sort of stacking points. We were 30 back a couple weeks ago. I don’t know where we are now, but we’ve got to keep doing this. We can’t afford to have bad races. We’ve got to keep grinding out points here and there where we can. I’ve been in both spots multiple times. It’s really hard to stay up top when you are on top. We got ourselves caught behind the eight ball right now, so we just keep grinding. There’s no sense of panic or throw caution to the wind type moments. You just have to keep your head down and keep grinding and get whatever you can get. That’s kind of what we did today. We got what we could. We have no mulligans left. There are no bad races available, so you’ve just got to get as many points as possible every race. Confidence is a real thing. That’s what momentum is – just confidence within the team. There as a stretch of races there where you were just wondering what was going to go wrong next because it was just one thing after another. Now, it seems like, we’re back to our old ways where at least we can maximize finishes and that’s back to what the 22 is good at. That confidence is regaining for sure.”
Ryan Blaney — eighth: “It was a scrappy day and honestly not very good, but we kept working on it and got it a little bit better all day. We stayed out of some of the messes and we were able to salvage an eighth out of it. So, not a bad day overall. We’re still looking for the speed that we need to contend, but hopefully we can learn a lot and move on. Al ot of fight. We just stuck with it all day. Honestly, we weren’t very good. We kind of struggled after practice and didn’t qualify great. We were just kind of stuck in the 15th to 25th range depending on where you dropped us. We got working on it a little bit more and more and got it a little bit better for the day. We stayed out of some of the messes – a couple wrecks – and was able to scrap together an eighth. I’m proud of everybody for sticking with it all day, for sure. We definitely continue to work and try to get better. That’s all we can really do. We have a ways to make up to get to (Denny Hamlin). They’re on it right now, but second, third, fourth, they were within striking distance from us, so we’ll just try to keep working with it. I wish we could have got Ford in Victory Lane, but we’ll try again next week.”
P9, rollercoaster day. We ended up on pit road twice as much as we wanted to. Nose damage hurt our day, but certainly we were able to run in the top 10. Without some of the damage I thought we could be top 5. Proud of everyone for keeping after it all day. Onto Pocono. pic.twitter.com/FVzYP1ykiA
— Chris Buescher (@Chris_Buescher) June 8, 2026
Chris Buescher — ninth: “That was a rollercoaster of a day. We ended up on pit road about twice as much as we wanted to and lost track position consistently. It’s a shame. This Ford Mustang was really good and really fast. I felt like we were close to in the hunt. We didn’t quite have what it took to win today, but certainly we were able to run in the top 10 and thought we should have had a chance to at least have a top five without some of the damage on the day. The first pit stop we had to do a little bit of nose repair. Then we had it happen two more times with just checking up for wrecks and we were constantly having to put tape on to try and protect this thing. It was certainly a tough day and not anything like we needed it to go, but I’m proud of everybody to keep after it and bring a top 10 out of the day. That’s solid.”
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— Chase Briscoe (@chasebriscoe) June 8, 2026
P10
Chase Briscoe — 10th: “Really, that last run was the only run we were competitive. Like the whole other race, we were 30th on back. It was definitely a struggle today. So, yeah, just a bizarre day, really bizarre weekend. Like, practice, our car just was kind of all over the place. And then started the race and was kind of on the complete opposite end of what we had in practice. Just, yeah, we literally threw everything at this thing. So, yeah, glad that we were at least able to salvage something out of it. I was joking with the guys. I don’t think any of us thought we’d run 20th or better, let alone 10th. So just, you know, had a good restart there at the end, was able to kind of maintain our track position. So, yeah, on to Pocono.”
Austin Cindric — 11th: “Glad we were able to hold on. It felt like we had more, honestly, than a P11 today, just kind of the way strategy all shook out and everything. But Brian Wilson and the guys did a great job with the Ford and making adjustments throughout the race. We really missed out a lot of practice time to kind of adjust on our package for this weekend. Just proud of the effort. It’s what we’re going to need to continue to do. It’s nice not to be wrecked like we have been the last couple weeks. So that’s a positive. So plenty of positives. But, yeah, definitely one more than 11th.”
AJ Allmendinger — 17th: “It wasn’t the finish we hoped for, but we didn’t fully crash, and we survived. I thought I had killed the car when we spun, but our lap times were not bad after the team assessed and repaired our No. 16 car. We’ll take note of what we learned, keep our heads up, and keep grinding. As I’ve said before, I’m just grateful to the team for the hard work they are putting in every week. We’ll take note of what we learned and move forward to Pocono.”
Austin Hill — 20th: “It was a learning day. The way the Cup car reacts to the air and how you use the pedals to carry momentum are so different than what I’m used to in the O’Reilly car. On the initial fire off, our Chevrolet lost the front end on entry. The car would get loose at times and then tight at times, but anytime I got to the right side of someone, I would get immediately loose on entry. We went for spin towards the end but kept it off the wall without damage. Proud of the guys for sticking together and grinding out a top-20 finish.”
Cody Ware — 23rd: “We had a super-fast No. 51 Super.com Chevy all day today. Unfortunately, we got some damage and we had to fix on the left-rear toe link towards the end of the race, so we went a lap down. But my team did an awesome job getting that fixed because, otherwise, we would have had an even worse day. Just really proud of the team for hanging in there and getting the car fixed. It’s a really positive string of races we’ve had, so we’ve got some momentum to build off of.”
Ty Dillon — 24th: “I’m disappointed in our result, but we had a really good weekend. We had a very fast car today. You saw how we went to the front in the first stage. We struggled in traffic in the middle of the race, but when we had clean air like we did there at the end, I really felt we were going to have a great finish. Unfortunately, it all ended in that wreck. I thought I had it cleared, but I just got clipped and we lost a few laps. I’m really proud of the way the Kaulig Racing team performed today and in the last few weeks. We’ve got a lot of optimism heading into the rest of the season.”
Ryan Preece — 28th: “I just got hooked. I don’t even know how it happened. It was gonna be an alright day for everybody that wrecked, so not a good finish.”
— Ryan Preece (@RyanPreece_) June 7, 2026
Shane van Gisbergen — 30th: “Unfortunate day for our team. Just struggled with the balance of the car all day. It’s a shame to have this kind of day after building such great momentum the last couple of weeks. But we’ll continue to learn from this and be ready for Pocono.
Chase Elliott — 32nd: “I’m fine. Totally my fault. I feel really bad for Bell. Just taking him out, I was trying to run on the bottom and make use of our fresh tires and at least get to second and hopefully stay side by side with him. I got in there and got free. And thought I was going to spin and was committing to spin out and as soon as I started to commit to spinning , it just hooked up and hooked a right and unfortuantely, sent Christopher into the wall super hard and me shortly there behind. Just racing really hard. I felt like that was kind of a turning point in the race. We needed to make something happen. Stepped over the line again and paid for it. I just told him I’m sorry. Obviously it was not on purpose. I knew that was a big hit for both of us and he took the brunt of it. I have a lot of respect for Bell and always race each other with respect on track. Nothing intentional and just stepped over the line.”
Zane Smith — 33rd: “I just blew a left-rear tire from what I could feel, but certainly not a good place to do that, getting into turn one here. That was unfortunate, but really all day again we had another really fast Ford Mustang. I’m proud of that, I just wish we had a result. It was all good. It came out of nowhere. A left-rear tire blew and I had two flats. I think the rear bumper was tore off on the driver’s side and toe links – all of the above probably. It was a strong run again this week and was proud of the effort. I feel like we’re doing a great job. My car was great right before it blew a tire. It’s just unfortunate. We’ve found a feel that I really like and I’m able to make aggressive moves and get close to the front.”
Brad Keselowski — 34th: “It was an eventful day. We fought really hard to claw our way up to 12th and then blew a left-rear tire and worked on fixing it. We started to get it back right and had a restart there and the 44, for whatever reason, restarted way further in front than his car had the capability to run and then parked it in front of all of us and we had to check up and got ran into from behind. I shouldn’t have lifted. I should have just buried J.J. Yeley ass deep in the wall and that’s on me for not doing that. I will next time.”
Tyler Reddick — 35th: “I’m all right. Just a bummer for our Camry. Felt like we had really good speed. Wanted to have a really good points day. We had really good speed yesterday and it showed again today, so a race I feel like we could have won got away from us, but all year long, we’ve done a really good job of staying out of messes like this. Unfortunate it finally happened. At least we got a couple of stage points. Not the day you want to have. Trying to open it up on (Denny Hamlin) after losing a little bit of ground. We’ll just have to grind it out. Pocono, we’ll have our work cut out starting early there.”
Austin Dillon — 36th: “Our Chevy was really fast. It’s super unfortunate. And I’ve seen one replay, but it looked like (Carson Hocevar) got into (John Hunter Nemechek) and turned him across. I hope at some point (Hocevar) figures it out, but I know I’m not going to show anything to him for a long time. I’m mad because we had a fast race car. We almost got through it. I saw the 11 coming down, I gassed up to get by (Denny Hamlin), and (Tyler Reddick) was there. It’s unfortunate.”
Connor Zilisch — 37th: “I was really loose, but it’s just unfortunate. Another short race for us. We’ll go try and get them at Pocono next week.”
