RYAN BLANEY, No. 12 Menards/Duracell Ford Fusion - (Finished 6th) “It was a really hard day. We didn’t start out very good and worked on it really hard. I thought we were about a fourth or fifth place car and we were running fifth there when the caution came out. That jumbled everyone up and we came in and put two on it and my car didn’t really drive that good on two tires. We ended up sixth. I thought we were better than a couple cars that finished in front of us. We worked on it pretty hard all day and to make gains like we did through the day is a positive.”
Kyle Larson used determination and hard racing to earn his third runner-up finish of the year in his DC Solar Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 in Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway. Even though Larson came up just shy of scoring his first win of the season once again, he was happy with the team’s result.
KYLE LARSON, NO. 42 DC SOLAR CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 2nd - THAT RESTART, WITH LESS THAN 10 TO GO. GREAT MOVES BY THE 78 OF TRUEX BUT A GREAT COUNTER BY YOU “Yeah, I actually liked that the 78 tried to pull down and block me a little bit because it messed his angle up to the corner. I knew he would have to slow down a little more on entry and I was hoping I could get close enough to him to get him loose."
KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 Comcast Salute to Service Juniper Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Finishing Position: 1st - How does it feel to accomplish winning at Pocono in the Xfinity Series? “It feels good for as good as our car was. I tried to screw it up again early this week. My guys are amazing. Joe Gibbs Racing and everybody back in the Xfinity Series. They do a great job in the body shop and chassis shop. This car was on rails this week and last week, too. We were able to overcome our speeding issue we had this weekend to get back to the front. Want to say thanks to Comcast NBC Universal for the Salute to Troops Service Program that they have."
Austin Cindric scored his best finish in the 13-career NASCAR XFINITY Series races with a fourth-place effort Saturday afternoon at Pocono Raceway. Cindric grabbed his fifth top-10 finish of the season and moved up to 10th-place in the driver standings, a gain of two positions. He was also the top finishing Sunoco Rookie of the Race.
Ryan Reed drove his No. 16 Drive Down A1C Lilly Diabetes Ford Mustang to a 13th-place finish Saturday afternoon at the “Tricky Triangle” at Pocono Raceway. Reed started 20th and raced his way into the top five late in the race but settled into 13th as the laps wound down.
Daniel Hemric Records Fourth Third-Place Finish of 2018 at Pocono Raceway with South Point Hotel & Casino Chevrolet "I am very proud of the effort today. Our South Point Hotel & Casino Chevrolet was not very good to start the race, but we made a lot of strides throughout the afternoon. The guys on pit road were strong and my crew chief Danny Stockman did a great job setting up the car for this aero package."
Chase Briscoe worked his way inside the top-10 Saturday afternoon at Pocono Raceway after starting 16th, but got caught in the path of another competitor’s accident, forcing him to settle for a 38th-place result in the Nutri Chomps Ford Mustang.
COLE CUSTER, No. 00 Haas Automation Ford Mustang -- Finished 5th “We had a really fast Haas Automation Mustang, we just didn’t have really good long run speed. That was our biggest problem. We just got too tight at the end of a run. It was interesting to run the package and try to learn it throughout the day. I just think we needed a little more there. We were close, we just needed a little more long run speed.”
ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards rookie Harrison Burton looked more like a veteran in his career-first superspeedway start, handily winning the General Tire #AnywhereIsPossible 200 Friday afternoon at Pocono Raceway.
Hendrick Motorsports has piled up more than twice as many wins as any other organization (11) in the crown jewel event and also leads in top fives (29), top 10s (46) and laps led (1,101).
Funny Car driver Daniel Wilkerson was .042 of a second away from securing his first NHRA win on Sunday in Sonoma and he will have another opportunity for redemption at this weekend’s 37th annual Muckleshoot Casino Resort NHRA Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways.
With plenty of excitement for this weekend’s 37th annual Muckleshoot Casino Resort NHRA Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways, race fans will have ample opportunity to meet racers leading into the event and be entertained off the track.