Ryan Blaney — winner: “It 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.”
Bubba Wallace — second: “Yeah, that’s 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’m chasing, which is hard to go as a race car driver, searching for the right front, it’s 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’s 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’s super cool.”
Josh Berry — third: “I 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’ll 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’t know if he knows this or not, but I was driving my ass off every lap. It didn’t get much more out of me. Made me overdrive it a couple times. Yeah, I don’t 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’m in right now. All these guys I’m racing with right now have a lot of respect for me. I think they understand the situation that I’m in. Yeah, I mean, just time to go. If you do it long enough, it comes back around. I think in this scenario, they’ll understand.”
Christopher Bell — fourth: “Yeah, I mean, it was another strong performance by our 20 team. Ultimately we didn’t 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’re 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’t feel my car jump up in the air, so I knew I didn’t run him over. I hope he didn’t get his fingers stuck in the wheel or anything. It’s alarming and very eye-opening that these guys jumping across pit wall, they’re risking it. I’m super grateful for all of the pit crew members, specifically my team. They do a really good job. I’m glad Blake is OK.”
Ross Chastain — 36th: “There 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’t continue. It’s just an unfortunate end to our run towards the Chase. The speed has gotten better, so we’ll hopefully keep moving forward on that. That’s the important part. With the things in our control, we were able to make them better through the summer. I’ve learned that’s really tough to do in the NASCAR Cup Series. We did get better, but we’ve got a ways to go.”
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