Toyota NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) Post-Race Notes & Quotes
Talladega Superspeedway
Race 9 of 33 – 308.56 miles, 116 laps
Saturday, April 30, 2016
TOYOTA NXS DRIVER FINISHING POSITIONS at Talladega Superspeedway
1st, Elliott Sadler*
7th, DANIEL SUAREZ
8th, MATT TIFFT
14th, BENNY GORDON
16th, JJ YELEY
22nd, ERIK JONES
23rd, BRANDON McREYNOLDS
32nd, JOHN JACKSON
34th, DAKODA ARMSTRONG
40th, JEFF GREEN
*non-Toyota driver
TOYOTA DRIVER NXS POINT STANDINGS following Talladega Superspeedway (race 9 of 33)*
2nd, DANIEL SUAREZ 314 points
7th, ERIK JONES 263 points
16th, DAKODA ARMSTRONG 168 points
19th, JJ YELEY 137 points
*unofficial point standings
TOYOTA NOTES
· Camry driver Daniel Suarez (seventh) was the top-finishing Toyota driver in Saturday afternoon’s NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) race at Alabama’s Talladega Superspeedway.
· Suarez now has eight top-10s in nine races to start the 2016 season.
· Camry driver Matt Tifft (eighth) started from the pole in his first race for Joe Gibbs Racing in 2016.
· Tifft led the field twice for 21 laps, while Suarez paced the field once for two circuits around the 2.66-mile track.
TOYOTA QUOTES
DANIEL SUAREZ, No. 19 ARRIS Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 7th
How does it feel to get another top-10 result this season?
“It was okay. I feel like we had a really fast car by ourselves, but for some reason in the draft and pushing and trying to push people it wasn’t great. Pushing was okay and when I was getting pushed it was horrible and then we made it better, but it wasn’t great. I don’t know. I feel like we have to keep working and improving our superspeedway program.”
MATT TIFFT, No. 18 NOS Energy Drink Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 8th
How was your race?
“It wasn’t too bad for typical Talladega until the end there. We had a really fast car all day. Just kind of got shuffled out – got shuffled back a little bit further than we might have wanted to. Then the last couple laps, just craziness here, so just tried to stay on the bottom. Just tried to kind of shove our way through there and stay out of trouble, so proud of everybody at Joe Gibbs Racing and our whole NOS Energy Drink Camry.”
BENNY GORDON, No. 14 VSI Racing Toyota Camry, TriStar Motorsports
Finishing Position: 14th
JJ YELEY, No. 44 Zachry Toyota Camry, TriStar Motorsports
Finishing Position: 16th
ERIK JONES, No. 20 GameStop Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 22nd
How was your race?
“Not very good. I mean, we slid the tires coming into pit road and ran in the back the rest of the day, so just not a very good race for us and that’s Talladega. You can’t really do anything other than that and ride around and hope something opens up for you and nothing did, so too bad. But we’ll go on to Dover and be able to really get to race there and work on our car and make our stuff better and hopefully be better.”
BRANDON McREYNOLDS, No. 24 Redneck Riveria/JGL Young Guns, JGL Racing
Finishing Position: 23rd
How was your race?
“It was alright. Nobody would really work with us, but there at the beginning we shuffled it up and got up there with our Toyota and just didn’t work out at the end, but that’s just part of superspeedway racing – when you’re the new guy in town, nobody wants to work with you. That’s alright. I think everybody knew we were here and just got to get better.”
JOHN JACKSON, No. 13 FL Water Front/ICard Merrill/Chris Kyle Foundation Toyota Camry
Finishing Position: 32nd
DAKODA ARMSTRONG, No. 28 Winfield Be Greater Toyota Camry, JGL Racing
Finishing Position: 34th
JEFF GREEN, No. 10 Toyota Camry, TriStar Motorsports
Finishing Position: 40th
