KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 Pedigree Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Could you tell the problem was serious? “Oh yeah, it just kept getting worse and worse the more the day was going, especially after restarts it was really, really bad, so I was just trying to bide it out, see if we’d make it to the end. At first, I thought that it was an engine problem, but that wasn’t the case."
KEVIN HARVICK, No. 4 Jimmy John’s Ford Fusion -- RACE WINNER (VICTORY LANE INTERVIEW) HOW DID YOU GET IT DONE TO WIN BY SEVEN SECONDS? “The first thing I’ve got to do is just thank everybody on my team -- everybody at Stewart-Haas Racing, Roush Yates Engines, everybody from Ford for just continuing to put the effort that they put into these cars."
JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S FOR PROS CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 9th “All in all, it’s been a really good day for our Lowe’s for Pros Chevy. We had a couple of restarts being in the wrong lane. We pitted and we expected a lot more (cars) to come but they didn’t, so we had to start in the teens and start all over again. It’s a good driving car. I’m was really happy with it. It’s amazing how much faster I was when I was up in third and fourth; just had a half a second of speed on our side just due to the cleaner air."
Prior to the start of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race Sunday at Dover International Speedway, Aric Almirola, driver of the No. 10 Smithfield® Ford Fusion for Stewart-Haas Racing and his team owner, Tony Stewart, unveiled a custom, high-performance 2018 Ford Mustang and announced the kickoff of the Smithfield national sweepstakes that will allow one lucky Smithfield customer, race fan, or auto enthusiast to bring it home at the end of this year’s racing season.
Camry driver Christopher Bell (fourth) had the top-finishing Toyota in Saturday afternoon’s NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) race at Dover International Speedway in Delaware.
Austin Cindric was in position to score a top-five finish Saturday afternoon at Dover International Speedway but was foiled by a loose-handling his No. 22 Menards/Richmond Ford Mustang.
Matt Tifft and the No. 2 Nexteer Automotive Team Rally to Top-10 Finish At Dover International Speedway "We fought hard today for our eighth-place finish. Our No. 2 Nexteer Automotive Chevrolet Camaro was fast right from the start of the weekend, and we qualified the best we have all year when we started third."
AUSTIN CINDRIC, No. 22 Menards/Richmond Ford Mustang -- TALK ABOUT YOUR RACE TODAY. IT LOOKED LIKE YOU GUYS JUST STALLED INSIDE THE TOP 10: “Yeah. We were short on the short runs and that hurt us. We needed some long runs. This Mustang has been awesome every time that I’ve been in it. I like to thank the team for letting me run these last four races. I look forward in racing more with them in the summer and later in the year. We had a great long run car. We were probably a little too free and didn’t have enough grip on restarts to be able to do a lot with them. We could maintain but we had a top-five car and should have had a top-five day. We got caught up there late in the race and got some damage and had to nurse it home to ninth. A good points day for the guys and more experience for me to learn when I come back here in the playoffs.”
Johnny Sauter marked his 40th birthday earlier this month and celebrated in style at Dover International Speedway on Friday with a victory in the “JEGS 200” NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race.
The NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) heads to Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Brickyard 400 on Sunday, July 26, at 2:00 pm ET on TNT Sports, IMS Radio Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, and HBO Max.
It’s an All-Ford Racing final in the NASCAR In-Season Challenge as Todd Gilliland and Ryan Blaney will square off against each other for the $1 million prize.
