Official Release

Austin Dillon and the No. 3 Dow Salutes Veterans Camaro ZL1 Team Continue Upward Trend with 14th-Place Finish at Michigan International Speedway "What a wild race! It was crazy racing in the rain like that. I couldn't even see out of my windshield because of the rain drops. Overall, we had a solid run in our Dow Salutes Veterans Camaro ZL1."

While running 18th, Martin Truex Jr.’s hope of making a late-race charge fizzled when NASCAR called the race due to rain with 67 laps remaining in Sunday’s FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway.

Camry driver Kyle Busch claimed fourth-place finish as the top-Toyota entry in Sunday’s rain-delayed and shortened Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway.

CLINT BOWYER, No. 14 Haas 30 Years of the VF1 Ford Fusion - Finished 1st -- VICTORY LANE INTERVIEW “It took something crazy on a restart to be able to get Kevin. That was a gutsy call. When we went out there on two tires I looked in the mirror and I was so far ahead of everybody else i was like, ‘Oh man, we are in trouble!’ The rain came just in enough time. I was trying to hold him off. I was cutting him off and taking his line away pretty bad. If it wasn’t for a win you wouldn’t be doing that. He was so much faster than me in one and two. I got down in three and just had to take his line because that bear was coming.”

CHASE ELLIOTT, NO. 9 MOUNTAIN DEW/LITTLE CAESARS CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 9th - ON THE RACE AND HIS FINISH: “We had a flat tire there on one of those first cautions and it kind of got us behind a little bit, but we were hoovering right there kind of at the edge of the top 10 inside or outside depending upon the restarts and what not. I felt like we finished about where we deserved.”

COLE CUSTER, No. 00 Code 3 Associates Ford Mustang -- Finished 3rd - YOU AND YOUR TEAM SEEM TO BE ON FIRE RECENTLY: “Today we were just in the right place at the right time and had great strategy. I think my crew chief had a great strategy and got us track position at the end. Our Code 3 Ford Mustang was pretty solid. It was hard to pass. You don’t want to be on the bottom. We had some things go our way and ended up P3 there.”

KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 M&M's Red White & Blue Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Qualifying Position: 3rd - How was your qualifying effort? “Qualifying was alright. The first round was a bit of a scare, but the rest of it was okay. Just didn’t quite get – but we got everything out of it there the third round."

KURT BUSCH, No. 41 Monster Energy/Haas Automation Ford Fusion - Qualified 1st “This one is fun because I could trust the car and I knew I needed to go after it hard. Watching all the Fords in practice I knew we had a good shot at it. The guys tweaked on the tires the right amount. It is a new compound, left and right side, and we didn’t want to get caught up too much in chasing the tires. We went with status quo. I think it is because of the speed that I like here and Texas and the balance we had in our car in qualifying. Now we need to translate that to race speed. I enjoy qualifying here. It is a pleasure to have one of these Fords and have Yates power under the hood. To go 217 mph, to haul the mail going into the corner I love that feeling.”

RYAN NEWMAN, NO. 31 OKUMA CAMARO ZL1 – Qualified 11th - THIRD WEEK IN A ROW THE NO. 31 TEAM HAS MADE THE FINAL ROUND AND THE BEST CHEVROLET HERE AT MICHIGAN. HOW WAS YOUR QUALIFYING SESSION? “Well, I mean it was a good improvement from where we started in the first practice session with the Okuma Chevrolet. Yeah, to be the only Chevrolet in the top 12 says something both about our team and the work that we need to do. Just keep doing what we need to do and get it ready in race trim.”

ERIK JONES, No. 20 DEWALT Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - How would it feel to get a win here in your home state? “It would be special, you know? I mean, coming home to Michigan and spend some time at home and coming back to the, you know, track that’s so close to my house is nice. Any first win would be big and especially Michigan, so just excited to be back here and excited to be staying close to home for a weekend and having an opportunity to race here.”