Ford Performance Notes and Quotes
NASCAR Cup Series
Indianapolis Advance | Friday, July 29, 2022

Chase Briscoe, driver of the No. 14 HighPoint.com Ford Mustang, is returning to his native Indiana for this weekend’s NASCAR Cup Series race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. He spoke with reporters earlier this afternoon about Sunday’s race.

CHASE BRISCOE, No. 14 HighPoint.com Ford Mustang — WHAT’S IT LIKE COMING BACK HERE TO INDIANA? MAYBE GET SOME REVENGE FROM LAST YEAR? “Yeah, hopefully. It’s nice to be home. Every other weekend I feel like I’ve got to get my GPS out just to figure out where I’m going, but this place I obviously know where I’m going. It’s nice to be home. I’ve got a lot of family here and a lot of friends here this weekend, so it was definitely close last year. Hopefully, we can seal the deal this year. I’m just excited to be home. I’m gonna stay up here throughout the week after and just drive up to Michigan. I’m looking forward to being up here finally. I’ve had this one circled on the calendar for a long time and I’m just glad it’s finally here.”

DO YOU FIND YOURSELF RACING ANY DIFFERENT WITH A WIN ALREADY THIS YEAR? “I feel like I run the same. I feel like our strategy has kind of changed a little bit. Like last year here, for example, we had to win the race to try to get into the playoffs, so we just did whatever was best strategy-wise for that, where now with our points situation we’re still trying to win but our strategy may not put us in the best situation to win the race at the end. I think that’s really the only thing that changes this time around versus last year and having that win now versus not having one. Hopefully, we have a good weekend, but I don’t feel like I drive any different just because I have a win. I feel like it’s kind of been the same the whole time.”

THE TRACK SAID CUP WILL STAY ON THE ROAD COURSE FOR THE NEAR FUTURE. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT? “I’ve always said the same thing every time. I just want to race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, whether it’s the oval, the road course, the dirt track over there. I mean, even the quarter-midget kids in the parking lot, you drive through the same tunnel either way, so I just want to race at Indianapolis. From of course a prestige standpoint and a history standpoint, yeah, I would love to win on the oval, but just because I won on the road course a couple years ago I still won at Indianapolis Motor Speedway so, for me, I don’t think it really changes a whole lot, but I do think the road course puts on a really good race, but I think with this new car maybe five years from now let’s run the oval one time just to see what the fan turnout is and how the race is. For me, I just want to race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, like I said, whether it’s the oval, the road course, the dirt track – whatever. If they’re racing, I want to run it. For me, I don’t have a preference one way or the other. I just want to race here, but from a history standpoint I think, yeah, everybody will say the oval means a little bit more to win at, but you still won at Indianapolis one way or the other.”

HAVE YOU RE-WATCHED LAST YEAR’S RACE? “I don’t have to watch it. I know what happened. Yeah, for me, I think there’s a lot of takeaways from last year. I felt like that was the one race that kind of changed my confidence level, just knowing that I was capable of performing at this level – leading laps and battling for a win. But, yeah, I haven’t watched the race back. I’ve seen the highlight a couple times, but I haven’t watched the race back going into this weekend or anything like that. I’ve tried to forget about it, truthfully, so I haven’t watched it back, but I definitely can remember a lot of that race, for sure.”

SO YOU DON’T LOOK AT THIS AS REDEMPTION? “Not for that reason. I feel like I come here differently every year. I was talking to Tony about it one time. It seems like whenever Indiana, if you’re from Indiana – at least for me, speaking and I feel like Tony was the same way – you just rise to this different occasion for whatever reason. I wish I could harness that every other weekend of the year, but you just have so much pressure – not pressure like from anybody – it’s just like pressure on yourself. You as an Indiana guy want to perform here and it seems like the fans really get behind having an Indiana guy at Indianapolis. For me, I feel like I definitely put a little more emphasis on this race from just an internal pressure side, but I’m not coming here with revenge. I will say that this whole week I’ve been determined. I want to win every practice, every qualifying. Between Xfinity and Cup just coming to Indy you want to do that as an Indiana guy. I don’t know. There’s no revenge from last year. I just put a lot of pressure on myself every time I come here to perform.”

KURT IS MISSING HIS SECOND STRAIGHT RACE. AS A DRIVER, HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT TO KNOW ANY DATA OR ANYTHING THAT COMES OUT OF CRASHES LIKE THAT? “First off, I just hope Kurt gets back to the racetrack. Obviously, we miss him. He’s an awesome competitor. For me, I don’t know. Do I really want to know? I think there’s times I would like to know, but at the same time it’s probably better off not knowing, either. I think you do need to think about that a little bit, especially since I hopefully have a lot of years left. The safer the car is the better and I think NASCAR has done a great job of trying to get it better. I don’t think they’d put out a product that was worse. I think this car is gonna take time to figure out when it hits in certain situations and there’s gonna be times where we’re gonna constantly evolve. I mean, we’ve changed quite a bit on this car already and as we get more data points we can take away from those and hopefully make it better every time, but, truthfully, until we crash it hard a couple times it’s gonna take a set of data points to find out what we need to do different. It’s unfortunate that we have to do that, but that’s the truth of it, I feel like. For me, I don’t really care to see them. If I crash big, OK, yeah I’d like to know how many g-forces it was or whatever, but, to be honest with you, the numbers I don’t really know what I’m looking at anyway, so it’s not like it’s gonna make a huge difference for me.”

WHAT IS THE COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR YOU LIKE IN MITCHELL, INDIANA? “The truth is I don’t get home often, other than Christmas. I will say it’s cool to see, like ever since I started to run ARCA, it was mind-blowing how many people were into it just because I was from there. I think that’s one reason why I put a lot of pressure on myself whenever I come here. There’s a lot of people that honestly probably aren’t even race fans, but they want to come and support me because it’s an hour away and I want to make them enjoy it. I do think that it’s pretty special coming from a small town. You just have that support. If I was from Indianapolis, for example, there are just so many people that a lot of people wouldn’t even care probably, but being from Mitchell and I think it’s a population of 3000 maybe, it’s a lot cooler for the small town side. We had Gus Grissom, who was an astronaut. Terry Cole, who was a football player. Hopefully, I can maybe be one of those names up there with them because in Mitchell that was a huge name. So, yeah, I definitely think it’s humbling for sure, just the support not only from Mitchell truthfully, but just the whole county of Lawrence County has really gotten behind me and I’m definitely appreciative of it.”

DID YOU GO TO BLOOMINGTON SPEEDWAY MUCH? “I lived at Bloomington. I flagged right there on the frontstretch, front row. It seemed like that was my dad’s best track. I felt like I was always taking a picture on the front straightaway. I mean, I pretty much lived at Bloomington Speedway every Friday night. I remember, it came up on my Facebook Memories just this week, the Indiana Sprint Week is going on this week and they’re at Bloomington tonight and I put, it was like 12 years ago, the Indiana Sprint Week show at Bloomington tonight is my version of the Indy 500 or the Daytona 500. That’s how much Bloomington meant to me, so, yeah, I was trying to go down there tonight to make it, but, yeah, I went to Bloomington Speedway all the time. That was really where I grew up.”

WHEN WAS THE FIRST TIME YOU CAME HERE AS A KID? “The first time I came here was, actually it was across the street from the tunnel – that Speedway Shop right there. Jim Bob Luger owned it and that’s where I got my first race uniform when I was seven years old. I remember going over there, getting my uniform and then we came in here and drove around and saw it. And then my first race I came to I think I was probably about 10, but, yeah, I got my first-ever race uniform literally right there across the street. We just sold it a couple months ago, so it’s kind of reminiscent. When I was pulling in here I was telling my mom and my wife. My mom remembered going. She’s like, ‘I remember how excited you were and how special that day was,’ so we definitely got a lot of connections to this place. I’ve probably been here for twenty-something races as a spectator.”

WAS YOUR FIRST RACE AN INDY 500 OR BRICKYARD 400? “My first race was an Indy 500 and then I came to the Brickyard the next probably six years in a row. I know I came from the 94th to the 99th running of the 500 and then I missed the 100th and I’m still mad I did it. I’ve never seen this place 100 percent sold out and I know that 100th was and then now I can’t get up here, obviously, for the month of May, so hopefully maybe one day I can get up here.”

DO YOU GET BUTTERFLIES EVERY TIME YOU PULL IN HERE? “Yeah, for sure. I mean, even like all week I’ve just been excited to get back to Indy. Even when I got off the plane I felt like I was back home. Literally, as soon as my foot hit the ground I was like, ‘All right, it’s go time. We’re here.’ I’ve been waiting for this week all year long, so I think for sure there are butterflies every time you come here, but I tell everybody all the time if you grew up racing or in motorsports, you dream of getting to come to Indianapolis Motor Speedway and to have the privilege for that to be your hometown track and come here as a kid watching races, to me, it just makes it even more special. I think every driver in the field this weekend will tell you it’s special to be able to be here, but when you grow up literally an hour away and came here all the time as a kid it just makes it even more special. I got to see my heroes run around this place and dreamed of being on the other side of the catch fence and now I’m the guy on the racetrack that people are here watching, so it’s definitely special.”

IF IT COMES TO A LATE-RACE RESTART DOES THAT INSIDE-OUTSIDE LANE REALLY TAKE OVER YOUR THOUGHT PROCESS? “If I’m the leader, I’m for sure taking the inside just because if you’re the guy on the outside I feel like you’re at a huge disadvantage. Even last year when that happened I was rolling around under caution and I told myself ‘you’re probably gonna get run off and as soon as you do just go wide-open through the grass and get it back.’ That’s why I think when it happened I had already had that plan because I knew it was probably coming anyways. I think, for me, if I was in the lead at the end I’m for sure gonna take the inside just because I think you can control it better, but, yeah, it’s definitely a tight corner down there – how it comes up and especially at the end of the race everybody is driving in there farther than they have all day trying to get something, so I think hopefully we’re in that situation on the front row again at the end of the race. But if I have the choice, I’m definitely gonna take the inside.”

HOW WOULD YOU GRADE THE NEXT GEN CAR ON ROAD COURSES THIS YEAR? “It’s hard because I have a different perspective. I’m just driving the 14 car. I’m not watching the whole race. Like, for us, I thought the first race was awesome because we had really good speed and the last two we’ve kind of struggled, but I do think this car definitely does a lot of things different. It does a lot of things better. This week I think I’ll get probably the truest perspective I’ve had just running both cars. The Xfinity car is pretty similar to what we had in Cup before and just seeing truthfully how much worse it does everything than the Next Gen car, I think, will be a little bit eye-opening. On Thursday, I went to the simulator for the Xfinity car and I couldn’t believe how bad it was, like out of control and didn’t want to stop. You get kind of spoiled in the Next Gen car because it does do a lot of things really, really well. I think this place will be unique because it is totally different. The tires wear out a little different than other places we go, so hopefully we’ll be slipping and sliding a little bit more in the Next Gen car, but it definitely is gonna be different. I think you’re gonna have to learn a whole new racetrack, even though we’ve been here, just because every time we go to Next Gen it’s so opposite that it’s hard to really take anything away from it.”

WHAT IS YOUR EVALUATION OF HOW THE NEXT GEN CAR PERFORMS? “I think, for me, I would say the car has honestly done way better than I expect. I think when we all did that open test at Charlotte in October it was pretty scary. Like, we couldn’t get within 40 car lengths of each other and NASCAR did an incredible job of going to work and honestly listening to the drivers of kind of giving them ideas to go try. I think the mile-and-a-half racing has probably been the best it has ever been. We can get really close to each other. We can just move around a whole lot more. The short track side has been the side that I feel like has struggled a little bit and I think that’s surprising to all of us and we’re trying to do what we can to make it better. I think this car has out-performed my expectations. I still think there are things it could do better, but I was terrified hearing stories leading into that first test of just how hard they are to drive and how different it’s gonna be. Honestly, it’s still a race car. It’s still got gas, brake, steering wheel. It still does a lot of the same things the old car did, it just does them a little bit different and you have to figure it out. For me, I’d give it a B-plus. I think it could be better obviously on some race tracks, but it does a lot of things a lot better than I thought it was going to and I think the racing has been a lot better than I thought it was gonna be.”

ANY SPECIFIC CHANGE YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE? “I don’t think you can change the aero side. It’s just weird because the mile-and-a-halves, where the air is normally the biggest is where we have the least issues, but then you go to a short track and even a road course, the aero plays in and it seems like the slower speeds we go, the worse the aero is and you’re never gonna get rid of aero. It’s always gonna be there, so I think as we change things with this car and figure out what works for it, I think it’ll be better. But I would say that would be the biggest thing is just figuring out how to make the short tracks better because that is an area where we always have great TV numbers. The races are always awesome and I don’t want to lose that.”

THERE ARE FIVE RACES TO GO AND WITH KURT MISSING HIS SECOND RACE YOU PROBABLY HAVE MORE WIGGLE ROOM AT THE BOTTOM. DO YOU FEEL BETTER ABOUT YOUR PLAYOFF POSITION AT THIS POINT? “Unfortunately, because of Kurt, it definitely makes it a little bit better for us. I don’t want to be in that situation because Kurt has run better than us. He deserves it if it comes down to it to be in, but I think, for us, it’s getting a little easier if we can get through these next couple weeks. There’s just a lot of unknowns and there’s really only four guys that winning would hurt us. Everybody else is so far below us in points, we’d probably be OK, but two of them are my teammates and then Blaney and Truex, if those four guys win, that’s where we get in trouble, so I don’t know. I just need to get through the next three weeks without a new winner and then I’ll feel a lot better about it, and then if we can just maximize these next couple weeks, and I think there are two guys within 15 points of us, so then Kurt missing makes it a little bit easier as well. The stress level is still there, for sure, but it’s not as bad now. If one of those guys wins this weekend, it’ll be a lot worse, but so far I feel good about it and, truthfully, if we win this weekend it doesn’t matter so that’s what we’re gonna try to do.”

ARE YOU RUNNING THE MIDGET RACE? “Absolutely, I wouldn’t miss it for the world.”

WHAT’S THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS LOOK LIKE? “It’s definitely gonna be a busy week. We’re running the Xfinity race tomorrow, practice today. I’m gonna go to IRP tonight, just to support that place and then run the Cup race Sunday. I’ll go to Cummins on Monday and then on Tuesday go to Ohio for a Huffy appearance, and then Wednesday and Thursday race at the dirt track and Friday morning drive up to Michigan, so try to see some family in between all that. And then on Saturday night I’m gonna go over to my cousin’s house. The whole family is coming over, doing dinner, so it’ll be a busy couple days, but it’s all worth being back home and just being back in a place that’s familiar, being with people that are really close to me and I’m definitely looking forward to the dirt race over there. That’s one of my favorite races of the year and the racing is unbelievable and then just in honor of Bryan Clauson, who, in my opinion, was one of the greatest of all-time. To have that race in honor of him at the place that he loved more than anywhere else is just special.”

IS THERE ANYTHING WITH THIS CAR THAT CAN BE DONE WITH THE CONSTRUCTION TO LIMIT THE IMPACT ON A DRIVER TO WHERE YOU’RE NOT FEELING IT AS MUCH? “That’s hard for me to say because I’m not an engineer. I’m not any of that, but I do think that this car in that rare one to three percent wreck that’s just massive, that honestly in the old car probably would have been fatal, I think this car is way, way, way better. But I do think your common hits, the ones that we have a lot of the time, might be a touch worse. I can’t honestly speak to it because I haven’t really wrecked this year, so I haven’t really had any issues. I wrecked at Talladega and felt like it was gonna be huge and I was fine, so I think it’s just all about how you hit. I think this car definitely it takes a bigger impact to have stuff give and it’s just those impacts that normally wouldn’t even be an issue, like nothing gives, so it makes it a lot harder. So, I think anything we can do to maybe fix that, but I’m not the guy. I have no idea how to even start to fix that and, like I said, I’ve been very fortunate not to crash really this year, so I haven’t really had a real test to see how it hurts, but I definitely think anything we can do safety-wise is gonna be better, but I do think this car in those big impacts that would have been really bad are definitely gonna be better in this car, for sure.”

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AUSTIN DILLON QUOTES:

Does your mindset change going into this race given the points situation you are in?

“You just have to be aggressive. With the number of winners this season, we’re going to have to win to make it into the NASCAR Playoffs. This Richard Childress Racing team is strong, and I know we can get the job done. Things have to line up and we have to have a perfect day in order to get to Victory Lane. That means I have to do my job, the pit crew has to do their job and the strategy has to play out. In the SIM, I’ve been pretty good at the Indianapolis Road Course, and we were strong at this race last year, but it was just so crazy at the end. I’d like to surprise some people at a road course.”

Of all of the road courses you’ve run, which one is most comparable to Indy?

“Wow, it’s so flat. We’ve got elevation change at every track that we’ve gone to. I’d say Daytona has a little less elevation change. So for me, I really don’t know because the asphalt at Indy is so different the way the grooves are cut in it and it’s using a lot of lateral grip there. Sonoma, I think braking force-wise, is probably pretty similar; the amount of brake force and stuff like that because it seems like the track falls off a little bit. So, I’m thinking maybe Sonoma and Daytona, in between there.”

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TYLER REDDICK QUOTE:

You won the most recent NASCAR Cup Series race on a road course. What are the differences between Road America and the Indianapolis Road Course?

“Since Road America a lot of people have said to me ‘Hey, you must be excited to get to Indy because you were so good at Road America.’ I’m like hold on, pump the brakes, because Indy and Road America couldn’t be any more different from one another. Yes, they are road courses and yes, they have two really big braking zones but what happens after those braking zones is much different at Indy. You’ve got tight corners and back-to-back left to right sequences at low speeds, so how you make lap time at Indy is quite a bit different. And what’s also difficult to figure out at Indy is depending on what your car is doing; you may have to have a different attack of getting from Turn 7 to Turn 10 and then from Turn 14 to the front straightaway. Each driver may have to attack it differently to get through those slow sections to maximize their lap times. It’s very flat through those tight corners. We’re going to be going somewhat slow, so for a driver it’s hard to feel what’s right and what’s wrong. We’re doing everything we can to bring a really fast 3CHI Chevrolet to the track this weekend. I think we’re going to be just fine when we get there.”

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SHELDON CREED QUOTE:

You’re making your debut this weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course. What is going to be the biggest challenge?

“I’m actually looking forward to getting to Indy this weekend. I’ve never been there before, but I really enjoy road courses and our team has run really well on the road courses this season. The results don’t show it because we ended up getting involved in some incidents at the end but we ran really well in Portland and Road America. We finished in the top 10 in COTA, too. Saturday’s race is definitely going to be a tough one and we have a lot to learn and adjust to but our team is ready for it. We’ve been taking a lot of notes and working on strategy. Our top-five finish at Pocono last weekend was exactly what my team needed as we’re heading into this final stretch before the Playoffs. We’ve needed positive results and we’re getting better each week.”

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AUSTIN HILL QUOTE:

Are you excited for this weekend’s race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course, and how are you preparing?

“I can’t wait to get to Indy this weekend for the race on Saturday. Our team has been so strong on road courses all season long and we’ve come so close to getting the win. Every single road course race, we’ve been in position to take home a win and it just hasn’t worked out in our favor. We’ve been so good on the tracks, and I had the opportunity to run some laps in an Xfinity Series car at Indy last season until it was cut short. Any time you can get in a new car on a new track is a good thing. We’ve been working hard on our notes from past races and I’m looking forward to practice and qualifying on Friday to see where our car is at. It’s going to be a good race and I’m looking forward to taking home another trophy.”

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NASCAR CUP SERIES RACE #22 – INDIANAPOLIS ROAD COURSE

The NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) and NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) will share the stage with the NTT INDYCAR SERIES this weekend, where the two sanctioning bodies will head to the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) for a rare tripleheader race weekend. Chevrolet teams across all three series will take on the left- and right-hand turns of the 2.436-mile, 14-turn IMS road course.

While IMS has been a staple stop on the NASCAR schedule since 1994, the trip to the Speedway, Indiana, venue will be just the second appearance by NASCAR’s premier series on the road course circuit. In the series’ debut on the circuit in 2021, road course ringer AJ Allmendinger was able to kiss the iconic bricks after he powered the No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet to the victory for his second career NCS win. The monumental triumph gave Kaulig Racing its first victory in just its sixth start in NASCAR’s premier series.. a team who now fields two full-time Camaro ZL1’s in the series.

The bowtie brand is heading into the highly anticipated IMS tripleheader riding the momentum of last weekend’s sweep of wins in the three series. Chevrolet’s Chase Elliott and Noah Gragson nabbed the NCS and NXS victories at Pocono Raceway, while Josef Newgarden and Pato O’Ward took the wins in the INDYCAR doubleheader at Iowa Speedway.

LOOKING FOR DOUBLE DIGITS ON ROAD COURSES

When the NASCAR Cup Series hits a road course circuit, one thing you see in common is a bowtie on the top of the leaderboard. Chevrolet is heading into the Indianapolis race weekend on a streak of nine-consecutive NCS road course victories. Dating back to Chase Elliott’s victory at Circuit of The Americas in March 2021, six drivers from four different Chevrolet teams have notched a road course win through that string of triumphs.

The most recent winner on that list is Tyler Reddick, who scored his first career win in NASCAR’s premier series at Road America earlier this month. The 26-year-old Richard Childress Racing driver became the fifth first time NCS winner of 2022. On that elite first time winners list also includes fellow Chevrolet drivers Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez, both of which captured their first on a road course circuit (Chastain – Road America; Suarez – Sonoma Raceway).

MAKE THAT 12 FOR THE BOWTIE

Chase Elliott’s victory at Pocono Raceway marked a manufacturer-leading 12th for Chevrolet in 21 NASCAR Cup Series points-paying races. The Hendrick Motorsports driver now has a series-leading four wins to his name, while also extending his streak of top-two finishes to five. Elliott led Chevrolet to four top-five finishes – including a sweep of the top three positions – and six of the top-10. The final running order saw four different Chevrolet teams represented in the top-10.. making it the eighth time that Chevrolet has accomplished that feat in 2022.

Heading into the final five race run in the series’ regular season, the 2020 NCS Champion now has a triple-digit lead in the driver standings, sitting at 105 points ahead of second-place Ross Chastain. Also extending the lead in the NCS manufacturer points standings, Chevrolet will head into the Indianapolis race weekend 74 points over its manufacturer competitors.

13 AND COUNTING FOR CAMARO SS

In a battle right to the checkered flag, Noah Gragson and the No. 9 JR Motorsports Chevrolet team edged out Ty Gibbs at the line by .281-seconds to record a manufacturer-leading 13th NASCAR Xfinity Series win for Chevrolet this season. The bowtie brand looked to be the ones to beat from the start of the day at the 2.5-mile Pennsylvania venue. JR Motorsports’ Justin Allgaier captured the 10th pole win this season for Chevrolet, going on to lead the first 23 laps to record his sixth stage win of 2022. Following a top-10 finish in stage one, Gragson took the lead after a round of pit stops that put him in the top position at the end of stage two.. giving Chevrolet a sweep of the stage wins on the day.

Gragson’s win was his third trip to victory lane this season.. marking a personal best for the young Chevrolet driver in his NXS career. The feat also gave JR Motorsports its seventh win in the last 11 races in the series.

Kaulig Racing’s AJ Allmendinger has been a familiar face at the top of the NXS driver points standings. Following an eighth top-five finish for the No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet team, Allmendinger maintained the lead in the standings with a 16 point advantage over second-place Justin Allgaier. A dominate day by Chevrolet drivers also built onto the bowtie brand’s lead in the NXS manufacturer standings, with Chevrolet now sitting at an 83 point lead over its manufacturer competitors heading into Saturday’s Pennzoil 150 at the Brickyard.

DOUBLE DUTY IN INDY

A handful of Chevrolet drivers will be getting double the seat time this weekend, taking on the 2.436-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course in both the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series:

· In Hendrick Motorsports’ three-race return to the NASCAR Xfinity Series, Alex Bowman will take his turn behind the wheel of the No. 17 HendrickCars.com Camaro SS. The 29-year-old Arizona native has made 53 career starts in the series, with his last dating back to Michigan in 2018. Of those starts, Bowman has recorded one win (Charlotte Motor Speedway; 2017), six top-fives and 15 top-10s in the series. Bowman looks to take the No. 17 HendrickCars.com Camaro SS one spot better than its competition debut, where his Hendrick Motorsports’ teammate, Kyle Larson, took the Chevrolet-powered machine to a runner up finish at Road America earlier this month.

· Austin Dillon will take over the No. 68 Brandonbilt Motorsports Camaro SS for the weekend, marking the Chevrolet driver’s second NASCAR Xfinity Series start of the season. In Dillon’s 151 career NXS starts, he has recorded nine wins, 65 top-fives and 106 top-10s. The 32-year-old North Carolina native also has a NXS championship title under his belt, claiming that feat with Richard Childress Racing in 2013.

· Ty Dillon will be making his third NASCAR Xfinity Series start of 2022 this weekend, returning to the seat of the No. 6 JD Motorsports Camaro SS. Dillon has one NXS win to his name, which came from behind the wheel of the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet on the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval in 2014. The 30-year-old North Carolina native will be making his 160th career NXS start this weekend. In his tenure in the series, Dillon has also scored 34 top-fives and 92 top-10s.

· For the second time this season, Ross Chastain will pilot the No. 92 DGM Racing Camaro SS in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Chastain’s return to the series came with the team back at Circuit of The Americas in March 2022. The 29-year-old Florida native scored a 17th-place finish for the team, going on to win his first career NASCAR Cup Series race the following day. In 193 career NXS starts, Chastain has notched two wins, 21 top-fives and 47 top-10s.

· Back behind the wheel of the No. 16 Kaulig Racing Camaro ZL1, AJ Allmendinger will look to defend his NASCAR Cup Series win title at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course this weekend. Allmendinger has two career NCS wins to his resume, both of which were captured on road course circuits (Watkins Glen – 2014; IMS Road Course – 2021). In 10 NCS starts this season, Allmendinger has recorded two top-10 finishes, with his most recent at Road America when he drove the No. 16 Kaulig Racing Camaro ZL1 to a ninth-place finish. Also driving the No. 16 Kaulig Racing Camaro SS in the NXS, Allmendinger will look for his third road course win of the season in the series.

THE NCWTS PLAYOFFS ARE ON

The 10-driver playoff field is set and the run to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) championship title is on. Of that elite field includes two Chevrolet drivers: Niece Motorsports’ Carson Hocevar and GMS Racing’s Grant Enfinger.

· Hocevar, who led Chevrolet to the finish at Pocono Raceway in fifth, secured his playoff berth by points in the series’ race at Mid-Ohio earlier this month. This will mark the 19-year-old Michigan native’s second appearance in the NCWTS playoffs. Through 16 NCWTS races this season, Hocevar has piloted his No. 42 Niece Motorsports Silverado RST to six top-fives and nine top-10s.

· Grant Enfinger and the No. 23 GMS Racing Silverado RST team left the ‘Tricky Triangle’ with one of the two open spots in the 2022 NCWTS playoff field. The 37-year-old Alabama native returned to GMS Racing at the beginning of the season and has record three top-fives and seven top-10s with the team in 16 races. The 2022 season will mark Enfinger’s fourth appearances in the NCWTS playoffs.

The NCWTS Playoffs Round of 10 kicks off this weekend, where the series will make its return to the Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park (IRP) for the first time in 11 years. Sitting approximately 10 miles outside of downtown Indianapolis, the 0.686-mile short track will host the series under the lights in Friday’s TSport 200. In the series’ 17 races held at IRP, Chevrolet has recorded a manufacturer-leading nine of those victories. Of those wins includes a sweep of the series’ first four races held at the track, starting with Mike Skinner’s win in the debut event in 1995 when he drove the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet to the victory.

BOWTIE BULLETS

· Chevrolet’s AJ Allmendinger is the defending winner at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course after driving the No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet to the win in the NASCAR Cup Series debut at the circuit in 2021. The victory was the first for Kaulig Racing in just six starts in NASCAR’s premier series.

· A road course favorite, Chase Elliott has recorded seven road course victories in his NASCAR Cup Series career; the most of all active NCS drivers. Elliott ranks third on the NCS all-time road course wins list behind NASCAR Hall of Famers Jeff Gordon (nine wins) and Tony Stewart (eight wins). Elliott’s victories have been recorded at five different road courses, a record in series’ history.

· Chevrolet has won nine consecutive NASCAR Cup Series road course races, dating back to Chase Elliott’s win at Circuit of The Americas in May 2021. In that timespan, six drivers from four different Chevrolet teams have contributed to those wins.

· Of the five first time NASCAR Cup Series winners in 2022, three have come from the bowtie brigade. The most recent is Richard Childress Racing’s Tyler Reddick, who drove his No. 8 Camaro ZL1 to the win at Road America. Trackhouse Racing’s Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez also captured their first career win in NASCAR’s premier series this season, both of which were recorded on road course circuits (Chastain – COTA; Suarez – Sonoma).

· At Road America – the NASCAR Cup Series’ most recent road course race – Tyler Reddick led Chevrolet to six top-10 finishes, including a sweep of the top-five. Four different Chevrolet teams were represented in the top-10:

Richard Childress Racing: Tyler Reddick (Race Winner)

Hendrick Motorsports: Chase Elliott (2nd) and Kyle Larson (3rd)

Trackhouse Racing: Ross Chastain (4th) and Daniel Suarez (5th)

Kaulig Racing: AJ Allmendinger (9th)

· Chase Elliott’s win at Pocono Raceway was his series-leading fourth of 2022. It also marked his fifth consecutive top-two finish, with three of his four wins being recorded within that timespan (Nashville Superspeedway, Atlanta Motor Speedway, Pocono Raceway).

· Chevrolet heads into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course race weekend with a manufacturer-leading 12 NASCAR Cup Series wins in 21 points-paying races. The bowtie brand also continues to lead its manufacturer competitors in NCS top-fives (53), top-10s (97), laps led (2,698) and stage wins (20).

· Seven Team Chevy drivers have combined 20 NASCAR Cup Series stage wins:

Tyler Reddick 2 – Fontana x2

Alex Bowman 1 – Las Vegas

Ross Chastain 4 – Las Vegas, Darlington, Charlotte, Pocono

William Byron 3 – Phoenix, Atlanta, Talladega

Daniel Suarez 2 – COTA, Charlotte

Chase Elliott 3 – Martinsville x2, Charlotte, Atlanta x2

Kyle Larson 3 – Bristol, Sonoma, Pocono

· Chevrolet leads the driver points standing in both the NASCAR Cup Series and the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Chase Elliott remains in the top position in the NCS standings with a 105-point lead over second; and AJ Allmendinger continues to lead the NXS standings by 16 points. Chevrolet also remains atop both the NCS and NXS manufacturer points standings.

· With its 40 NASCAR Cup Series Manufacturer Championships, 33 NASCAR Cup Series Driver Championships, and 826 all-time NASCAR Cup Series wins, Chevrolet continues to hold the title of winningest brand in NASCAR.

FOR THE FANS

· Fans can visit the Team Chevy Racing Display in the Fan Midway at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

· Fans can check out an assortment of Chevrolet vehicles including: Silverado 2500 High Country, Tahoe Z71 Premier, Traverse High Country, Blazer RS, Colorado Bison ZR2, Trailblazer ACTIV, Camaro ZL1, Bolt EUV, Silverado ZR2, Bolt EV 2LT, Silverado EV, Corvette Z06.

· At the Chevrolet Display, fans can also view Kyle Larson’s No. 5 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 show car and an IndyCar show car.

TEAM CHEVY QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSIONS AT THE DISPLAY:

Friday, July 29

· Scott McLaughlin and Will Power: 2:30 p.m.

· Callum Ilott: 3:00 p.m.

· Dalton Kellett and Kyle Kirkwood: 3:15 p.m.

· Pato O’Ward and Felix Rosenqvist: 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 30

· Rinus VeeKay and Conor Daly: 10:00 a.m.

· Sheldon Creed and Austin Hill: 11:30 a.m.

· Justin Allgaier and Miguel Paludo: 12:00 p.m.

· Josh Berry and Sam Mayer: 1:00 p.m.

· Noah Gragson: 1:30 p.m.

· Chris Rice, President of Kaulig Racing: 1:45 p.m.

Sunday, July 31

· Daniel Suarez: 11:30 a.m.

· Tyler Reddick: 11:45 a.m.

· Alex Bowman: 11:55 a.m.

· AJ Allmendinger and Justin Haley: 12:10 p.m.

Chevrolet Display Hours of Operation:

Friday, July 29: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Saturday, July 30: 7:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Sunday, July 31: 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

TUNE IN

NBC will broadcast the NASCAR Cup Series Verizon 200 at the Brickyard at 2:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, July 31. Live coverage can also be found on the NBCSports Gold App and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.

NBC will broadcast the NASCAR Xfinity Series Pennzoil 150 at the Brickyard at 3:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, July 30. Live coverage can also be found on the NBCSports Gold App and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.

FS1 will broadcast the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series TSport 200 at 9 p.m. ET on Friday, July 29. Live coverage can also be found on MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.

QUOTABLE QUOTES

ROSS CHASTAIN, NO. 1 WORLDWIDE EXPRESS CAMARO ZL1

ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO INDY?

“I am looking forward to the Indy road course. Several years ago I wasn’t very good at road courses, but now I’ve learned so much about how to drive road courses that I look forward to them. I’ll be running the Xfinity car on Saturday which will be good to get some reps in before the big race on Sunday. My teammate Daniel Suárez is really good at road courses so if all goes well, it should be a good weekend for Trackhouse.”

HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR A RACE?

“I eat a lot of watermelon (laughs). I don’t eat what I used to eat, and I don’t always eat what I want to eat, but it’s to prepare for Sunday.

I sit in the car for three plus hours and I want to be as sharp on lap 200 as I am on lap 2. For long, humid races I might take a snack in the car. I plan my life around 38 Sundays a year.”

AUSTIN DILLON, NO. 3 BETMGM CAMARO ZL1

DOES YOUR MINDSET CHANGE GOING INTO THIS RACE GIVEN THE POINTS SITUATION YOU ARE IN?

“You just have to be aggressive. With the number of winners this season, we’re going to have to win to make it into the NASCAR Playoffs. This Richard Childress Racing team is strong, and I know we can get the job done. Things have to line up and we have to have a perfect day in order to get to Victory Lane. That means I have to do my job, the pit crew has to do their job and the strategy has to play out. In the SIM, I’ve been pretty good at the Indianapolis Road Course, and we were strong at this race last year, but it was just so crazy at the end. I’d like to surprise some people at a road course.”

OF ALL OF THE ROAD COURSES YOU’VE RUN, WHICH IS THE MOST COMPARABLE TO INDY?

“Wow, it’s so flat. We’ve got elevation change at every track that we’ve gone to. I’d say Daytona has a little less elevation change. So for me, I really don’t know because the asphalt at Indy is so different the way the grooves are cut in it and it’s using a lot of lateral grip there. Sonoma, I think braking force-wise, is probably pretty similar; the amount of brake force and stuff like that because it seems like the track falls off a little bit. So, I’m thinking maybe Sonoma and Daytona, in between there.”

KYLE LARSON, NO. 5 HENDRICKCARS.COM CAMARO ZL1

LARSON ON RACING AT THE INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY ROAD COURSE:

“From what I remember of Indy (Motor Speedway Road Course) from last year, the restarts were really intense because turn one is a really wide and deep braking zone, so you can get four or five-wide before it narrows down in the corner. You have to find the confidence to brake deep so you don’t get bombed and that is difficult. It’s nice that it doesn’t have any elevation. It’s a fast-paced, ‘flowy’ type road course.”

CLIFF DANIELS, CREW CHIEF, NO. 5 HENDRICKCARS.COM CAMARO ZL1

DANIELS ON RACING FOR STAGE POINTS AT ROAD COURSES OR PITTING BEFORE STAGE ENDS:

“At Sonoma (Raceway), we started on the pole and built a lead. We stayed out (instead of short pitting) to win the stage and I thought we could have the ability to get through traffic – we had the entire race left to get back to the front. We had our (wheel) issue so we didn’t see how it would ultimately play out. We may not have gotten back to a winning position but we probably could have gotten back to a top-five position. Now, with that data point, we raced a few weeks later at Road America where we had to ‘flip’ the stages (short pit) to maintain track position to have a shot to win. We stayed in the top four and finished third – sort of with a shot to win. That is the general landscape for road course strategy moving forward.”

CHASE ELLIOTT, NO. 9 NAPA AUTO PARTS CAMARO ZL1

ELLIOTT ON RACING ON THE INDIANAPOLIS ROAD COURSE:

“I feel like that’s probably been one of my worst road courses, personally. Never really felt like I got a hold of the track last year. I ended up kind of by happenstance running the Xfinity Series race last year as a sub in. It was unfortunate circumstances there, but I was grateful to have run that race because I was really bad on the Cup side until I got some extra reps, so I think that was helpful. So going back, I need to do some homework this week on how to be better up there because I do not feel very good about that track and just never got in a good groove there last year at all and was never really on offense. I felt like I was on defense more than I was making moves and moving forward. That’s not a place you want to be, especially at those tracks or anywhere for that matter. It’s certainly something I want to improve at and I want to put some effort into this week to try to do that.”

ALAN GUSTAFSON, CREW CHIEF, NO. 9 NAPA AUTO PARTS CAMARO ZL1

GUSTAFSON ON WHAT MAKES THE INDIANAPOLIS ROAD COURSE UNIQUE:

“It’s super flat and there aren’t really any elevation changes at all. Probably the biggest thing that stands out, there’s a big brake zone, especially into turn one. To really set the corner up, you’d obviously have to be wider, but you can really shortcut somebody and there’s not a big exit that follows so that makes restarts and entry into that turn super hectic. All the road courses are unique, but I think Indy (Motor Speedway Road Course), with it being super flat with flat corners and the high-speed brake zone into one is what kind of sets it apart.”

WILLIAM BYRON, NO. 24 ACRONIS CAMARO ZL1

BYRON ON THE TEAM’S PREPARATION FOR ROAD COURSE RACES THIS SEASON:

“I feel like to start this season with the Next Gen car we really struggled at road courses, especially compared to the year before. We were able to test at Watkins Glen (International), though, and I think that really helped us start to turn the page on our road course program. We’ve been able to build that notebook with each road course so far this year. I think we have really made strides to make that package better and put all the pieces together like we need to. The first focus for the weekend is qualifying and making sure we set ourselves up with a good run to get good track position and just work from there. Our focus for not only this weekend, but races moving forward, is to really execute every aspect of a race weekend from start to finish in preparation for the playoffs.”

RUDY FUGLE, CREW CHIEF, NO. 24 ACRONIS CAMARO ZL1

FUGLE ON WHAT CHALLENGES THE INDIANAPOLIS ROAD COURSE BRINGS COMPARED TO OTHER ROAD COURSES:

“I think this weekend’s road course race at Indianapolis (Motor Speedway) will be a little bit more about survival than other road course races. There’s a lot more run off areas there and they have changed the curbing in some places around the track to try avoid what happened last year. With the Next Gen car, it’s going to be critical to minimize running over those to keep the underwing intact and not tear up the diffuser. The other big thing will be managing the transition areas of the track from the road course sections onto the oval – similar to how the (Charlotte Motor Speedway) ROVAL is set up. We haven’t run a course like that this year with this car or this tire. I think that if you can keep your car in one piece throughout the weekend, and can manage your usual pit strategy and track position on a road course, you’ll be in a good position. You have to be around at the end, though, to be able to capitalize on that.”

ALEX BOWMAN, NO. 48 ALLY CAMARO ZL1

BOWMAN ON RACING IN THE NASCAR XFINITY AND CUP SERIES AT THE INDIANAPOLIS ROAD COURSE:

“We have been lucky to get the opportunity to make extra laps this weekend which just helps come time for the Cup race on Sunday. COTA (Circuit of The Americas) was a great example of how it can help us – running the Spire (Motorsports) truck and taking notes on the track helped in our efforts on Sunday so I am eager to get out there and get some practice in. Our team is doing everything we can to get better and this is another opportunity for us to maximize our weekend.”

GREG IVES, CREW CHIEF, NO. 48 ALLY CAMARO ZL1

IVES ON THE STRENGTH OF THE ROAD COURSE CARS AT HENDRICK MOTORSPORTS:

“Hendrick Motorsports has done a great job of making sure we have the best equipment every weekend and it has shown at road courses. Going back to COTA (Circuit of The Americas), we had a great car and had tons of speed, just got caught up in someone else’s mess. Road America was another place where we had a ton of speed and capitalized on points so I think this Sunday at Indy (Motor Speedway Road Course) will be more of the same. We will do everything we can to get the car ready, Alex (Bowman) is going to drive in the Xfinity race to get extra practice. I feel confident we will have a solid weekend and build some momentum as we head towards the playoffs.”

DANIEL SUAREZ, NO. 99 FREEWAY INSURANCE CAMARO ZL1

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR TEAM’S RECENT SUCCESS?

“I am proud of my team and everyone at Trackhouse Racing. We have been running very well of late. But we can be better. I thought we had a winning car at the start of Sunday’s race, but we were just a little bit off. Third place is a good finish, but we aren’t going to be happy until we are in first place.”

ARE YOU CONFIDENT ON THE ROAD COURSES?

“Yes, we are very confident. We know we have a good road course package. We have been in contention for the win at every road course this season.”

WOULD YOU RATHER RACE THE OVAL OR THE ROAD COURSE AT INDIANAPOLIS?

“I think Indianapolis is a big enough deal for everyone in racing that maybe we should race there twice. (smiling) Once on the oval and once on the road course!”

GRANT ENFINGER, NO. 23 CHAMPION POWER EQUIPMENT SILVERADO RST

“Finally, we’ve made it to the start of the playoffs. Our regular season really didn’t go to plan for us on the No. 23 team, but the playoffs give us a great opportunity to completely flip our season. I’m looking forward to getting the Round of 10 started by visiting two short tracks back to back. Personally, I feel like the trucks should have never left racing at IRP, so I’m excited to get back there. Tire wear is going to be huge, so that’s going to give us an opportunity to have some comers and goers. I love racing at tracks that have a lot of fall off, where we’re able to fight for grip, so hopefully that will play to our advantage on Friday night.”

JACK WOOD, NO. 24 CHEVROLET MILITARY APPRECIATION SILVERADO RST

“I’m looking forward to racing at IRP for the first time and focusing on the short tracks for the next few weeks. The past three races have definitely been a struggle with our No. 24 team that we did not see coming, but there’s not another group that I would rather have behind my back than the guys that I have on our team. It’s a bummer that we weren’t able to make the playoffs this year, but having the support of everyone at Chevrolet and GMS Racing has been great, and we still have a handful of races left to run this year to end the season on a high note. I want to congratulate Grant and the No. 23 team for making the playoffs; I know they are going to go out there and put up a great fight for the organization. Our number one goal for the rest of the season is to go out there and put together the best seven races that we possibly can, and that all starts with this weekend in Indy.”

Chevrolet NASCAR Cup Series Statistics

Manufacturers Championships:

Total (1949-2021): 40

First title for Chevrolet: 1958

Highest number of consecutive titles: 13 (2003-15)

Years Won: 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2021

Drivers Championships:

Total (1949-2021): 33

First Chevrolet champion: Buck Baker (1957)

Highest number of consecutive titles: 7 (2005-11)

Most Recent: Kyle Larson (2021)

Years Won: 1957, 1960, 1961, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2021

Event Victories:

Record for total race wins in single season: 26 (2007)

2022 STATISTICS:

Wins: 12

Poles: 4

Laps Led: 2,698

Top-five finishes: 53

Top-10 finishes: 97

Stage wins: 20

Tyler Reddick (Fontanax2)
Alex Bowman (Las Vegas)
Ross Chastain (Las Vegas), (Darlington), (Charlotte), (Pocono)
William Byron (Phoenix), (Atlanta), (Talladega)
Daniel Suarez (COTA), (Charlotte)
Chase Elliott (Martinsvillex2), (Charlotte), (Atlantax2)
Kyle Larson (Bristol Dirt), (Sonoma), (Pocono)

CHEVROLET IN NASCAR CUMULATIVE STATISTICS:

Total Chevrolet race wins: 826 (1949 to date)

Poles won to date: 727

Laps led to date: 244,034

Top-five finishes to date: 4,191

Top-10 finishes to date: 8,652

Total NASCAR Cup Wins by Corporation, 1949 to Date:

       General Motors: 1,160

       Chevrolet: 826

       Pontiac: 154

       Oldsmobile: 115

       Buick: 65



       Ford: 815                                                         

       Ford: 715

       Mercury: 96

       Lincoln: 4



       Fiat Chrysler Automobiles: 467

       Dodge: 217

       Plymouth: 191

       Chrysler: 59



       Toyota: 167

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