That’s a part of racing and going for the win. That was unfortunate because that allowed (Kevin Harvick) to get to my bumper and we know Kevin is going to do that if he gets any chance. I got a good restart there and when Chase and I touched kind of through (Turn) two, I went to set up for three and it turned me sideways and I slid a little more. With those restarts, I knew I was kind of used up already. Once I got around ( Tyler Reddick), I was burning my stuff up trying to catch ( Chase Elliott). We lost that little bit of track position, and it was a track position game. We just need to work a little bit on pit road. We were fast there in the spring so hopefully we can do the same thing.”ĪJ Allmendinger - Finished fourth: “When you are that close to winning, it’s for sure disappointing. Vegas is next week and we always look forward to it. But we got that late caution, made a pit stop and took advantage of new tires – came up with a third-place finish. We were really losing rear tire grip and losing time. There at the end, before everything happened, we were just trying to keep it on the track and stay straight. Kyle Busch - Finished third: “It was definitely a good day for our Camry. We were half a lap from coming to the white and caution, so they did a good job.” They got us in position and that caution coming out killed us there. I knew we were in a bit of a pickle there with Christopher on new tires and I just didn’t want to blow the first corner, I wanted to give us a chance he was just able to roll more speed than we were and from there it was just kind of like damage control and make sure you bring the thing home and that’s what we did.

It didn’t all work out but still a good day. We were half a lap there from being in the right spot. Our guys did a great job of putting us in position and having a chance. He was able to get through traffic and was able to roll through a little bit more speed in Turn 1, 2, 3 and 4 and just got in front of me, but we were able to hold Kyle off so it’s still a good day.

Kevin Harvick - Finished second: “I knew we were going to have to have a perfect corner there with Christopher having such fresher tires.

I knew that this second round of the Playoffs was the troublemaker, with Talladega and then the road course being in here, when we weren’t strong on the road courses. I feel really good about (the next round). We rolled the dice, gambled, and it paid off for us. No secret that road courses have not been our strength this year. I keep watching all these races where the fastest car doesn’t always win. “Man, you just got to be there at the end of these things.

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