Chase Briscoe — winner: “How about that race? Was that a good race? It felt awesome. What an unbelievable weekend. Just what an unbelievable race car. (Crew chief) James (Small) did a great job. Team did a great job. Honestly did not see this coming. Felt like I was struggling in practice and qualifying. What a cool weekend to win a NASCAR race. I kind of got lucky how the lapped cars worked out. I was struggling pretty bad. Christopher was certainly coming. Out of all the people to race against, I knew Christopher was going to be clean with me. Just a really fun race. I felt like that was about as good of a race as you can get. Run the cat-and-mouse game, slipping and sliding around. So excited to be back at Chicagoland.”
Austin Dillon — 24th: “We were going in the right direction with the No. 3 Chevrolet here today at Chicagoland Speedway, but as the race progressed, especially in stage 3, I was battling wear on the right rear. It was a frustrating day, but everyone across RCR and ECR gave it their all. We’ll take what we learned and reset as we turn our attention back to speedway racing next weekend in Atlanta.”
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William Byron — fourth: “We definitely reached that objective (of a good points day). I’m happy with the finish because we maximized what we could do. A win would have been awesome. We’ve been craving that for a long time and working really hard to get there. We could kind of taste it there with a couple runs to go. We got jumped by (Chase Briscoe) there on that last green flag pit cycle, but I just didn’t quite have the pace that last run to keep up with him, and then those other guys had fresher tires at the end. Just thank you to Chevrolet and everyone at Hendrick Motorsports for working super-hard. We’ve been grinding a lot. For us on the No. 24 team, that last two ovals we’ve been to, we’ve had a shot to compete and win, so we just have to keep that going.”
Alex Bowman — fifth: “It definitely feels nice to have a good, normal, solid day for this No. 48 Chevrolet team. We didn’t start the day how we wanted to. We were super-tight taking off on those first couple of restarts. But at the end of Stage Two until the end of the race, I felt pretty good about the Chevrolet. Hats off to the entire No. 48 team. We just needed a good, normal day. It feels like a win with how the season has gone, but we just have to keep digging every week.”
Austin Hill — 37th: “Not the day we should have had. Hate it for everyone who works at RCR, ECR, and CT Spring because they built a good car. We were making gains with the balance. Fired off a little tight but the adjustments on the first stop helped. A few laps after that stop, right past halfway of Stage 1, we got hit from behind under green which ended our day early. We will turn our attention to next week but proud to be a part of this team.”
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