For the second straight playoff race, Martin Truex Jr. posted a third-place result. His impressive come-from-the-back finish Saturday night at Richmond Raceway earned him enough points to advance to the next round of the playoffs with one race remaining in the opening round of post-season competition.
Austin Dillon and The Dow VORASURF Chevrolet Team Earn Top-10 Finish in Second Race of The Round of 16 with Sixth-Place Result at Richmond Raceway "That's exactly the performance we needed with the Dow VORASURF Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 tonight. We were able to execute a no-mistakes race, earning Stage points in Stage Two and finishing sixth.
With the race going green for a majority of Saturday night’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) race at Richmond Raceway, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. drove his Fastenal Ford to a 13th-place finish.
CHASE ELLIOTT, NO. 9 HOOTERS CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 4th - HOW DID YOU COME OUT OF HERE WITH A FOURTH PLACE FINISH? "Yeah, just appreciate Alan (Gustafson, crew chief) making some good calls overnight. I feel like we changed about everything before qualifying yesterday."
Kevin Harvick, No. 4 Jimmy John’s Ford Fusion - Finished 2nd “We were starting to track him (Kyle Busch) down there at the end. I needed about 25 more laps. I gotta thank everybody on our Jimmy John’s Ford. They did a great job on a weekend when we needed to do a great job with all the unknowns going into next week. It will be a fun weekend but it will be kind of trial and error as we go through the weekend. It was a good night for us here at Richmond and we did a good job on pit road, just came up a little bit short.”
Roush Fenway Racing announced today that veteran NASCAR driver Ryan Newman will take the reins of its iconic No. 6 Ford Mustang, competing full-time for Jack Roush in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series in 2019. During his celebrated career, Newman has accumulated 18 victories, 51 poles, 112 top-fives and 246 top-10 finishes competing at NASCAR’s highest level.
Ryan Reed, No. 16 Drive Down A1C Lilly Diabetes Ford Mustang - Finished 10th “Obviously our practice sessions weren’t very good and then for the first round of qualifying I thought we were better than the second round and it turns out one of the track bar bolts came loose. So we had to start in the back because we had to fix that before the race. We fought all night. The balance was up and down. There were points where we felt real good. We got a good break there on the second to last restart and got some good track position and held on to it right there. We definitely recovered and got the car better but we need to bring more speed. I think a top-10 makes us somewhat of a contender but if we are going to make any kind of a deep run we need to do better than that.”
DENNY HAMLIN, No. 11 FedEx Office Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Qualifying Position: 2nd - Did you feel you were close to being able to beat the pole time set by Kevin Harvick? “Not really, I thought we were a little bit farther off than that. Just takes our car so long to come in, but still happy with that qualifying effort considering how much of a long run car it is. Proud of this whole FedEx Camry team."
Strong Run Catapults Austin Dillon and the No. 3 Bass Pro Shops/Winchester AA White Flyer Chevrolet Team to Sixth-Place Result at Watkins Glen International
AUSTIN CINDRIC, No. 2 Snap on Ford Mustang Dark Horse – DID YOU MAXIMIZE TODAY’S PERFORMANCE? “I think so. In a lot of ways we maximized our day with points in most stages"
Hayden Reinbold, in his first ever career USAC Silver Crown start with the the Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports team piloting the No.119, won in his debut after passing Justin Grant with two laps to go
Roczen who emerged with his maiden premier class title at 32 years of age to become the oldest champion in Supercross history, in his 13th season at the highest level.
