CHASE FOR THE NASCAR SPRINT CUP
ROUND 7 OF 10
GOODY’S FAST RELIEF 500
MARTINSVILLE SPEEDWAY
TEAM CHEVY POST RACE PRESS CONF. TRANSCRIPT
OCTOBER 30, 2016

JIMMIE JOHNSON PUTS CHEVROLET IN VICTORY LANE AT MARTINSVILLE
Punches Ticket to Championship Four at Season Finale at Homestead Miami Speedway

· Win is Ninth for Six-Time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion at Virginia Track
· Chevrolet Sweeps Weekend at Martinsville with Johnny Sauter Victory in NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
· Chevrolet SS drivers Kevin Harvick and Kurt Busch have two more opportunities to join Johnson in the Championship Four – Texas Motor Speedway and Phoenix International Raceway

MARTINSVILLE, Va. (October 30, 2016) – Jimmie Johnson piloted his No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet SS to Victory Lane at Martinsville Speedway, the seventh round of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Chase for the Championship. By virtue of the win the six-time series title holder is now part of the Championship Four at Homestead Miami Speedway where he will battle for his seventh NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship. Johnson, who has spent his entire motorsports career in the cockpit of a Chevrolet racecar, is the first driver locked in to the season-ending four-car play off for the coveted crown. Continue reading Chevy Racing–NASCAR–Martinsville–Post Race →

CHASE FOR THE NASCAR SPRINT CUP
ROUND 7 OF 10
GOODY’S FAST RELIEF 500
MARTINSVILLE SPEEDWAY
TEAM CHEVY POST RACE NOTES AND QUOTES
OCTOBER 30, 2016

JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S CHEVROLET SS – RACE WINNER
WHERE DID YOU COME FROM AT THE END?
“We really had great long run speed. We lost track position through a couple of different means there at the first half of the race. Honestly, that caution with the No. 19 car put us in the catbird seat. I wasn’t sure I could get by the No. 18 or the No. 11, but we got going and I got by both of those guys. I thought ‘man I hope this stays green’ because that really suits what our racecar was doing all day long.” Continue reading Chevy Racing–NASCAR–Martinsville–Post Race →

CHASE FOR THE NASCAR SPRINT CUP
ROUND 7 OF 10
GOODY’S FAST RELIEF 500
MARTINSVILLE SPEEDWAY
QUICK WINNING DRIVER QUOTE
OCTOBER 30, 2016

JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S CHEVROLET SS, won the Goody’s Fast Relief 500 on Sunday at Martinsville Speedway to automatically clinch a berth in the final round of the NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup. It was Johnson’s ninth career win at Martinsville. Continue reading Chevy Racing–NASCAR–Martinsville–Winning Quotes →

CHASE FOR THE NASCAR SPRINT CUP
ROUND 7 OF 10
GOODY’S FAST RELIEF 500
MARTINSVILLE SPEEDWAY
TEAM CHEVY DRIVER PRESS CONF. TRANSCRIPT
OCTOBER 30, 2016

DALE EARNHARDT, JR., DRIVER OF THE NO. 88 CHEVROLET SS, met with member of the media as a spokesperson for Goody’s and discussed an upcoming promotion, but also discussed racing next year and many other topics. Partial Transcript: Continue reading Chevy Racing–NASCAR–Martinsville →

CHEVROLET RACING IN NATIONAL HOT ROD ASSOCIATION
NHRA TOYOTA NATIONALS
THE STRIP AT LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
QUALIFYING RESULTS AND DRIVER QUOTES
SATURDAY, OCT. 29, 2016

Chevrolet Races to No. 1 Pro Stock Qualifier Spot, Funny Car Track Record
· Greg Anderson records 87th career No. 1 Pro Stock qualifier honor
· Chevrolet earns the top eight spots in Pro Stock qualifications
· John Force resets Funny Car track speed record, earns No. 3 qualifier spot
· John Force Racing teammate Robert Hight is No. 5 Funny Car qualifier Continue reading Chevy Racing–NHRA–Las Vegas Qualifying →

2016 CHAMPIONSHIP REWIND: Tommy Milner, No. 4 Corvette C7.R
On a second Driver’s title, ups and downs in the season and continuous learning

During the last 10 months in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Tommy Milner helped deliver some of Corvette Racing’s greatest moments and triumphs. He and Oliver Gavin won four times including Sebring and Road America – both places where Milner drove stellar final stints to help the No. 4 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C7.R sweep all six GT Le Mans titles for 2016. Continue reading 2016 CHAMPIONSHIP REWIND: Tommy Milner, No. 4 Corvette C7.R →

CHASE FOR THE NASCAR SPRINT CUP
ROUND 7 OF 10
GOODY’S FAST RELIEF 500
MARTINSVILLE SPEEDWAY
TEAM CHEVY QUALIFYING NOTES AND QUOTES
OCTOBER 28, 2016

JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S CHEVROLET SS – Qualified 3rd
ON QUALIFYING:
“Yeah it’s such a tricky little place. I just seemed to get better as the day went on kind of finding my rhythm. I didn’t do much to the car it was really about me finding a half a tenth. It was really the smallest of margins that made the difference. That is the speed we ran in practice, which had us 11th or 13th or something and now it has us good enough for third. Just a very difficult feel and everybody is so stinking tight. So, glad that it worked out that is a great starting spot, great pit road pick. Definitely doing things and headed in the right direction.” Continue reading Chevy Racing–NASCAR–Martinsville–Jimmie Johnson →

CHEVROLET RACING IN NATIONAL HOT ROD ASSOCIATION
NHRA TOYOTA NATIONALS
THE STRIP AT LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY (LAS VEGAS, NEVADA)
POST QUALIFYING DRIVER QUOTES
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2016

PRO STOCK DRIVER DREW SKILLMAN, SKILLMAN RACING CHEVROLET CAMARO SS IS TOP QUALIFIER FOR PRO STOCK CLASS IN DAY ONE
(6.681 seconds, 204.94 mph)

DOES THE SUCCESS YOU ARE HAVING THE BACK END OF THE SEASON GIVE YOU A GOOD BASELINE GOING INTO THE NEXT YEAR?

“Absolutely. We had a rough start and the KB Racing guys just blew everyone away. But we are getting a good run now and starting to get a good handle on the car. We struggled at the beginning of the Countdown but things are headed in a little better direction now.”

WAS THAT THE NUMBER YOU THOUGHT YOU GUYS COULD RUN TODAY OR IS THERE MORE OUT THERE?

“You know, that was close to where I thought we might be. I thought maybe a .67 might be out there but we ran a .681 and we are happy.”

YOU MENTIONED THAT THERE WAS A BIT OF A SNAFU ON THE STARTING LINE, DID THAT EFFECT THE RUN AT ALL?

“Not really. Just didn’t make me feel super great. I had been trying to do something at staging (inaudible) and it was my fault and not his.”

YOU SAID FROM DALLAS YOU HAD FOUND SOME THINGS THAT HAD PLAGUED YOU, HAS THAT BEEN CONFIRMED BY THE PERFORMANCES THAT WAS WHAT IT WAS?

“Yeah, what we thought we were doing with fuel injection was working and it wasn’t. So that is where we focused things. We had the cars but we got stuck trying to chase the problem. We had pretty runs, but they just didn’t have the E.T. that they should and we knew from that.”