MONSTER ENERGY NASCAR CUP SERIES
BRISTOL MOTOR SPEEDWAY
FOOD CITY 500
TEAM CHEVY PRESS CONF. TRANSCRIPT
APRIL 5, 2019
ALEX BOWMAN, NO. 88 NATIONWIDE CAMARO ZL1, met with members of the media at Bristol Motor Speedway. Selected questions and answers.
TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AT TEXAS? “Well, in our backup car we weren’t terrible in the race. We just ran over the commitment box, and that car didn’t have any of the new things that the other three cars had. We still had speed. We weren’t as good as them, but we weren’t…we were definitely better than we were at a place like Fontana or a place with higher tire wear. I think that track (Texas) suits our race cars a little more. It maybe exaggerated the gains we had a little bit. But it was definitely a very positive weekend for us.”
ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO RICHMOND? “Richmond has always been really hit or miss for me. I love Bristol. I’m really excited to be here. That is a place that’s been really good to me. Richmond has really hit and miss. We had terrible races there. The first race last year we were awful. Then the fall race we were really pretty good until the last run. I think we were almost top-five in the stages. We were sixth in the second stage so we had great speed in our car and just fell off too much at the end. So we will wait and see. I love short track racing so hopefully we put on a good show.”
HOW DO YOU THINK HENDRICK MOTORSPORTS STACKS UP TO PENSKE AND GIBBS? “We are still a ways off from them. I feel like they still are better week in and week out. So while qualifying last week was good for our organization, we still didn’t go dominate and win the race. Chase led for a while and that was good. Jimmie was up front and William was up front. So all that was good but we still have a ways to go.”
IS IT ONE BIG THING OR A BUNCH OF LITTLE THINGS? “I feel like if I could accurately answer that, I could solve our problems. I don’t know; that is a tough one. HMS has been down for awhile. We won the championship in 2016, but it wasn’t in the fashion that we would have liked to. So I think, we got off base before William (Byron) or I came along.”
WHAT CAN WE EXPECT AT TALLADEGA? “I’m pretty curious. They put the tail extension panel on which made my car get really loose there during the test there. Even by myself I was a little bit out of control . They also are going to raise the ride-heights a bit so that will put more downforce in the car and we a little different. We were really fast in the test Daytona. Curious to see where the speeds are and how the cars race. It is so hard to say from a test with only three cars what’s going to happen. I don’t think we have a good idea about how it is going to race until we get there.”
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