MONSTER ENERGY NASCAR CUP SERIES
MARTINSVILLE SPEEDWAY
STP 500
TEAM CHEVY RACE NOTES & QUOTES
MARCH 24, 2019
TOP TEAM CHEVY UNOFFICIAL RACE RESULTS:
POS. DRIVER
2nd Chase Elliott, No. 9 NAPA AUTO PARTS Camaro ZL1
11th Austin Dillon, No. 3 Symbicort Camaro ZL1
12th Kurt Busch, No. 1 GEARWRENCH/Monster Energy Camaro ZL1
13th Ty Dillon, No. 13 GEICO Camaro ZL1
14th Alex Bowman, No. 88 Nationwide Camaro ZL1
TOP FIVE UNOFFICIAL RACE RESULTS:
POS. DRIVER
1ST Brad Keselowski (Ford)
2nd Chase Elliott (Chevrolet)
3rd Kyle Busch (Toyota)
4th Ryan Blaney (Ford)
5th Denny Hamlin (Toyota)
The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season continues next weekend at Texas Motor Speedway with the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 on Sunday, March 31st at 3 p.m. ET. Live coverage can be found on FOX, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio
TEAM CHEVY NOTES AND QUOTES:
CHASE ELLIOTT, NO. 9 NAPA AUTO PARTS CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 2nd:
THAT WAS CLOSE. WHAT DID YOU NEED TO GET BRAD KESELOWSKI (RACE WINNER) THERE AT THE END?
“I don’t know. It was really tough. Our NAPA Camaro was good. I felt like we were about as even with him as we could be. When I did get the lead, I felt like there was a little advantage to being out front and being able to work traffic your way and play off it and whatnot. But, yeah, I tried to move up there at the end and I don’t know if I could have got to him. Maybe if I moved up a little sooner, maybe. But, I tried to get to him there in (Turn) 3, but maybe next time.”
TY DILLON, NO. 13 GEICO CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 13th
YOU STARTED 22ND AND WERE ABLE TO OVERCOME THAT AND A FEW PROBLEMS TODAY TO GET A GOOD FINISH
“Our GEICO Camaro was extremely fast, but we had two speeding penalties. To finish 13th after starting 22nd and having those two penalties, that shows how much speed we had today. I am very proud of our day, and you can always say ‘what if’, like if we didn’t have the penalties – where would we have been? But I am really proud of our effort, and this is what we envisioned three years ago in doing. Just getting better every year and making sure we had taken the right steps to be where we needed to be in year three. We just want to keep going in that direction and I think if you look at Phoenix, Martinsville, and these short tracks, we have gotten better and better every year. I think as we continue to grow we are going to be more and more competitive at the short tracks. We just have to get it where we are running top-15 at the 1.5-mile tracks, and then we can be really competitive.”
ALEX BOWMAN, NO. 88 NATIONWIDE CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 14th
YOU GUYS MADE A GOOD RALLY LATE, BUT COULDN’T STAY IN THE TOP 10 AT THE END
“Yeah, when the clouds came out we got a whole lot worse. That is a bummer because we were running ninth or 10th right before that. Really good execution today. We weren’t fast, but we had good execution today and it’s one of those days where you can go home and feel pretty good knowing you did everything you could. Pit stops were really, really good and adjustments were good for the most part. So, we didn’t have the race car we needed, but the team executed today really well.”
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