KURT BUSCH, NO. 1 MONSTER ENERGY CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 2nd - ON THE RESTART, YOU STARTED RIGHT NEXT TO YOUR BROTHER (KYLE, RACE WINNER). TAKE US THROUGH THE RACE AND ESPECIALLY THE LAST RESTART
“It was tough battling our No. 1 Chevy. The Monster Energy team is doing a good job. But that one was tough."
ARIC ALMIROLA, No. 10 SHAZAM/Smithfield Ford Mustang – “The 24 just got loose under me. He struggled to get going on the initial start. He spun his tires and then was just loose and out of control that whole first lap. When we went down in turn one he lost it under me and wiped us out. I’m pretty frustrated. You work all weekend, all week getting ready for the event and to make it one lap is kind of uncalled for, so I’m disappointed, frustrated, but life goes on. We’ll go to Richmond.”
After taking a frustrated second-place finish in Race One at Barber Motorsports Park, Bryan Ortiz relished his run to the top of the Battery Tender® Global Mazda MX-5 Cup presented by BFGoodrich Tires® podium in race two—his first victory of the 2019 season.
CHRISTOPHER BELL, No. 20 Rheem Toyota Supra, Joe Gibbs RacingFinishing Position: 1stCould you have scripted the win any better?“I don’t know man. That’s pretty cool. To get my first win here with the Dash 4 Cash bonus. Thank you to Xfinity for doing that and more importantly thank you to Rheem, Ruud, everyone at Toyota, TRD (Toyota Racing Development), everyone at Joe Gibbs Racing."
CHASE BRISCOE, No. 98 Nutri Chomps Ford Mustang – HOW WOULD YOU SUM UP YOUR DAY? “That’s really what we should be doing all year long. It’s just taken us a little bit of time for me to learn the race cars and for them to kind of find what I like. Overall, this is by far our best weekend from start to finish. We showed that I feel like we can be a top four contender, so there at the end I felt like I honestly was the best car it’s just so hard to pass when they get like that around the top. I found a little bit of speed down on the bottom of one and two, but we didn’t get the $100,000 this week, but we’ve got a shot again next week. We’ll go there with our Nutri Chomps Ford and see what we can do.”
JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 ALLY CAMARO ZL1, met with members of the media at Bristol Motor Speedway following Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series final practice for the Food City 500. Johnson was second fastest in the session.
Joey Logano, driver of the No. 22 Autotrader Ford Mustang, posted the fastest single-lap speed in today’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Happy Hour practice at Bristol Motor Speedway. Logano, who qualified seventh for tomorrow’s scheduled Food City 500, spoke about practice and how the track is changing.
For the fifth time in his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) career, and first at Bristol Motor Speedway, Chase Elliott will lead the field to the green flag for Sunday’s Food City 500 behind the wheel of the No. 9 NAPA Auto Parts Camaro ZL1.
“We were close. We just missed it a little bit. The Craftsman Camry had good speed. We just didn’t quite have the balance we needed. That was good from practice. We didn’t really practice in the PJ1 so the transition into qualifying, we had to make some big changes and we did a good job of it. We just didn’t have quite enough. It’s good to start up front and get a good pit stall here which is really important. Hopefully it will play out good on the initial start and we’ll stay up there all day.”
The 24-year-old Riggs from Bahama, North Carolina, led a race-high 21 of 53 over-scheduled laps and capitalized in overtime to win the Truck Series' inaugural event at San Diego's Naval Coronado Base.
The 22-year-old Honeycutt from Willow Park, Texas, clocked in a pole-winning lap at 90.813 mph in 134.782 seconds to claim the inaugural Truck Series pole position in San Diego, California.
