MONSTER ENERGY NASCAR CUP SERIES
FIRST DATA 500
MARTINSVILLE SPEEDWAY
TEAM CHEVY POST RACE NOTES AND QUOTES
OCTOBER 28, 2018
TOP TEAM CHEVY UNOFFICIAL RACE RESULTS:
POS. DRIVER (* = Playoff Contender)
7th *CHASE ELLIOTT, NO. 9 SUNENERGY1 CAMARO ZL1
8th RYAN NEWMAN, NO. 31 E-Z-GO CAMARO ZL1
12th JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S FOR PROS CAMARO ZL1
13th CHRIS BUESCHER, NO. 37 BUSH’S CHILI BEANS CAMARO ZL1
14th AJ ALLMENDINGER, NO. 47 KROGER CLICKLIST CAMARO ZL1
TOP FIVE UNOFFICIAL RACE RESULTS:
POS. DRIVER
1st Joey Logano (Ford)
2nd Denny Hamlin (Toyota)
3rd Martin Truex, Jr. (Toyota)
4th Kyle Busch (Toyota)
5th Brad Keselowski (Ford)
The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season continues next weekend at Texas Motor Speedway with the AAA Texas 500 on Sunday, November 4 at 3:00 p.m. ET on NBCSN, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
TEAM CHEVY NOTES & QUOTES:
CHASE ELLIOTT, NO. 9 SUNENERGY 1 CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 7th
I KNOW THIS WASN’T THE DAY YOU WERE LOOKING FOR, BUT YOU CAME OUT WITH A TOP 10 FINISH AFTER STARTING DEEP IN THE FIELD:
“Yeah, it was just really bad, really poor execution on our qualifying effort and better in the race, but not near where we needed to be. So, I’m sure we are in a hole and probably going to have to win one of these next two races.”
ON HIS RACE OVERALL:
“Yeah, not very good we needed some pace. The guys did a great job on pit road and things to get us kind of back in the ball game, but definitely not what we want.”
I KNOW IT’S NOT WHAT YOU WANT, BUT DO YOU FEEL IN A WAY THAT YOU SURVIVED THIS?
“No, I need to win. I mean playing the points game is nice, but I need another sticker.”
RYAN NEWMAN, NO. 31 E-Z-GO CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 8th
“We had a good car all day. Seems like we had some inconsistent tires that had us chasing the balance a little bit. Good run for the E-Z-Go Chevrolet. No sure about the speeding penalty. My lights were on so don’t know if we just missed our margin or what? Overall it was a good day. Speeding penalty took us out of the game, but good strategy got us back in the game.”
CHRIS BUESCHER, NO. 37 BUSH’S CHILI BEANS CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 13th
“It was a good Martinsville for our Busch’s Chili Beans Camaro ZL1. I’m proud of this group. That was a good effort start to finish. Martinsville has been hit and miss for me, I’ve had good runs and I’ve had bad ones, and this is a good one here. So, just proud of the effort. From the time we unloaded this was a good car. We had good feel to it, we qualified well, and we executed well. We got a little bit behind there in the middle of the race. We were able to come back from it and just a good job. It’s fun when you can run like that at these short tracks it’s a good time. It looks like a short track car, it’s a little beat up, but all in good fun.”
AJ ALLMENDINGER, NO. 47 KROGER CLICKIST CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 14th
“It was a solid day for our Kroger ClickList team. As the track changed, it really changed the handling of our Camaro ZL1, but overall, we had a fast car. We just couldn’t seem to get the track position we needed. I love racing at Martinsville Speedway and I’m proud of the hard work the guys put in all weekend to get us something we could really race with.”
TY DILLON, NO. 13 GEICO CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 15th
ON HIS RUN:
“We have been building on this thing and getting better and better each week and Martinsville is a place we knew that we could get more and more competitive and kind of jump ourselves. We really executed well we had a great race car the GEICO Camaro was great. I’m proud of the effort and I’m proud of the way we are building these Camaros to get better and better each week. So, hopefully we can roll this momentum into Texas and finish out the year strong.”
ALEX BOWMAN, NO.88 NATIONWIDE CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 17th
“It was a really frustrating day. The car wasn’t at all like it was in practice, and it got away from us. It’s a bummer to have Nationwide’s last race go like that, but we will learn from it and move on.”
KYLE LARSON, NO. 42 FIRST DATA/CLOVER CAMARO ZL1 – Experienced an engine failure on lap 397
WHAT HAPPENED?
“Just blew an engine out there, and ended our day early. But it wasn’t much of a day anyway. I hate it for First Data. They sponsor the event, and I have yet to do anything special for them here. Just keep working hard and try to figure this place out some day.”