The 18 did pit a lap after us under caution. I was, Okay, they’re teammates, they got to be close to running out. Was hoping that the 18 (Kyle Busch) was going to run out. Cliff (Daniels, crew chief) and everybody did a really, really good job managing the race, coached me through saving fuel there at the end. Our Chevy was really loose for a majority of the race, then we got a lot of nose damage there on one of the restarts. Kyle Larson – Finished 2nd: “I don’t know. Overall once I got my quarter panel, my front fender to his quarter panel, that’s kind of when I knew I had him.” That might have been what went down there, so he was already out. He was coming to pit road, so… I don’t know if he just positioned himself low, so then I didn’t block his opportunity to get to pit road.
I was like, All right, this is it, I’m going to take it. When we went down from two to three coming to the white, we went from two to three, I had a run-on off of two, and was looking low and then he blocked low, and I went back high, and he really didn’t come back to block up high.
Hopefully I could get by him, get a chance to get by him.
He would really push off at turn one, so I felt like he was going to burn his front tires up with the remaining laps left. I could kind of let him throw it off in there. I could gain on him in turn two, kind of stay equal to him in three, then he would get a little bit on me getting into turn one just because I felt like I was trying to still save a little bit being behind him. Kyle Busch – Winner: “( Denny Hamlin and I) were really close. A collection of post-race driver quotes following Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway:
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