A collection of reactions from post-post-compound driver by interviews and versions of manufacturers and teams:
Denny Hamlin – Winner: “It’s fantastic. Chris Gayle, this whole team has just done an excellent job. We were so fast throughout the year, I did not finish it for one reason or another. It feels good to come here to Michigan where we have been so close over the years. It’s such a gratifying day to restart 11th Or something like that and cross the ground. I knew I was going to have to go 100% to get around everyone. I simply worked them one by one.
Chris Buescher – Second: “It was such a quick Mustang. I really appreciate that everyone in this team was working so hard to put us in this situation and to have a chance to win. I am disappointed not to have done so. It’s on me. I had some different decisions that I would like to go back and make and finally had an advance over 11 years. We were faster by day and I did not do any good. A day when we made ours.
Joe Gibbs Racing star took William Byron’s lead on the 197 on 200 Tour.
Ty Gibbs – Third: “We had a very fast Toyota Camry. I want us to have been able to go out and win, but it was not the option with the fuel spot in which we were. It is simply regrettable because I think we had the ability to go, and we showed how fast to do it. It is frustrating, but it is sometimes a game.”
Bubba Wallace – Fourth: “” Yes, when Charles (Denike, team leader) comes to the radio and says that it is all the time, that’s all you want to hear. I was doing a little techniques on this race to collect fuel. When it was time to leave, it was time to leave. When you really won anything, you have to be smart about the situation, and I feel like we are getting there. Overall, a good day.
Kyle Larson – Fifth: “I thought early that I was surprised to run 75 to 80%, I could just maintain the gap. Then these other guys started to come, and my balance has already been followed anyway. Really good, everyone would have done last week. The first five all day.
Joe Gibbs Racing has won his first victory in Michigan since August 2015.
Ross Chastain – Sixth: “We saved fuel all the second half of the race, so we were going there in the end and I was able to start hard again. I couldn’t really have a lot more time. For these guys.
Zane Smith – Seventh: “There is a lot of positive speed and how my car has led today, especially when we have improved it. We had positive restarts and just a lot of positive. Frm.
Brad Keselowski – 10th: “We had a very good car. I felt like we had two or three top two cars and we couldn’t see it. I am really disappointed. We have sort of crushed on Pit Road with the excite Fast penalty did not really add, but we had the speed to do much more than what we did today and I am disappointed not to get this.
Daniel Suarez – 14th: “It was an OK day for team n ° 99 of Chevrolet. We had speed in the long term, but in the short term, we destroyed ourselves. We were not super fast on the straight lines … We fought a lot on the straight lines, more than I expected. Overall, we saved a good day, but we need more.”
AJ ALLMENDINGER – 17th: “Just a difficult day for our group No. 16. I had to be a little better, I definitely made mistakes for our race team and tried to bring them back to the final restart. I felt like we got closer to the place where we should probably have run, just more disappointed at the end. Day, I think that the 14th in the 17th was all we had.
William Byron – 28th: “He was just trying to manage the two. Try to keep his head and save fuel in rights and outings. In the end, I assume that we may not have a good mileage as the guys further back, and that’s how precautions are going.
Michael McDowell – 30th: “It was a difficult day at all levels for the N ° 71 team from Chevrolet. We obtained a track position halfway. We have made some improvements, but we did not have it for you. And then just there at the end with five laps to do, we lacked fuel. We went from a top 15 to an end of first place.
Austin Cindric – 31: “It seemed that one of these days that he was not supposed to be. We were just a little tight for the first race and that this kind of us took by surprise, but we improved the car and took the strategy to stay outside and try to win the scene on old tires. I felt more, but we found ourselves there on the last lap. were able to return to the top 10. As I said, there was a lot of good, but a lot of bad too.
Todd Gilliland – 33rd: “There was no warning. Obviously, everyone pushes it. We saw reruns on the left in practice, but it was a very unhappy place for mine to go out, it is only wild that you even have a bad blow. To be honest, I don’t know what we were, but we can both imagine that I was sure that we were pushing it. far.
John Hunter Nemechek – 34th: “” Unfortunately, it was a difficult day. I don’t really know what happened, our car has just broken on me without warning. I hate this for all men and women who work very hard to give us fast racing cars. We will regroup and try to remove this monkey from our back. »»
Alex Bowman – 36th: “It hurts a lot. It was probably at the top of the painting on the sure strokes I made, and unfortunately, I had a lot of sure. So I hate that for team 48. I couldn’t really do anything, except that, “ Oh (explanive), this is about to hurt. I had a long stop at the stand to try to make an adjustment to improve it.
“We had a lot of speed and a lot of good racing cars. Obviously, today, we started from where we were to be. But just the support we have of Rick (Hendrick), Jeff (Gordon) and everyone at Hendrick Motorsports, they will give us the tools a lot to make us go back. ”.
