{"id":1909505,"date":"2023-04-04T04:57:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T08:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nascar-texas-truck-race-results-carson-hocevar-has-first-series-win\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T04:59:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T08:59:14","slug":"nascar-texas-truck-race-results-carson-hocevar-has-first-series-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nascar-texas-truck-race-results-carson-hocevar-has-first-series-win\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Texas Truck Race Results: Carson Hocevar Has First Series Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnascar-texas-truck-race-results-carson-hocevar-has-first-series-win%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1909505&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"nbcsports-content-wrapper\">\n<header id=\"article-nav\"> \t <\/header>\n<p>      <main id=\"primary\" role=\"main\" data-pagination=\"false\"> \t\t \t\t \t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t <\/p>\n<article id=\"post-210175\" data-ad-tags=\"{\"cat\":[\"NASCAR\"],\"chrome\":\"\",\"cag[tags]\":[\"carson hocevar\",\"chase purdy\",\"christian eckes\",\"craftsman truck series\",\"jake garcia\",\"nascar\",\"nick sancehz\",\"stewart friesen\",\"texas motor speedway\",\"ty majeski\",\"zane smith\"],\"cag[categories]\":[\"nascar 2\",\"uncategorized\"],\"cag[athletes]\":[\"carson hocevar\",\"chase purdy\",\"christian eckes\",\"jake garcia\",\"nick sanchez\",\"stewart friesen\",\"ty majeski\",\"zane smith\"],\"cag[teams]\":[]}\" data-omniture=\"{\"pagename\":\"\/2023\/04\/01\/texas-truck-race-results-carson-hocevar-scores-first-series-win\/\",\"context_data\": NBC Sports\",\"nbcs.league\":\"NASCAR\",\"nbcs.sport\":\"Motor Sports\",\"nbcs.contenttitle\":\"Texas Truck race results: Carson Hocevar scores first series win\",\"nbcs.author\":\"Dustin Long\",\"nbcs.contenttype\":\"Post\",\"nbcs.contentid\":210175,\"nbcs.publishdate\":\"04\/01\/2023}\" data-com-score-tracked=\"true\">\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/51273\/carson-hocevar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carson Hocevar<\/a> was in front after the leaders crashed in overtime and scored his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series victory Saturday at Texas Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/nascar.nbcsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/04\/Texas-Truck-race-results.pdf\">Texas Truck race results<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/nascar.nbcsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/04\/Texas-Truck-points.pdf\">Texas Truck points<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/61360\/nick-sanchez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nick Sanchez<\/a>, who led 168 of the 172-lap race, dueled reigning series champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48692\/zane-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zane Smith<\/a> on the last lap when Sanchez\u2019s truck hit Smith\u2019s. As Sanchez tried to regain control of his vehicle, he was hit from behind by Hocevar. That contact sent Sanchez into Smith. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48679\/christian-eckes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian Eckes<\/a> also was collected.<\/p>\n<p>Hocevar\u2019s first win came in his 59th series start.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48709\/chase-purdy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chase Purdy<\/a> placed second. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48690\/stewart-friesen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stewart Friesen<\/a> finished third. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48674\/ty-majeski\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ty Majeski<\/a> was fourth. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/67231\/jake-garcia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jake Garcia<\/a> completed the top five.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<article id=\"post-210272\" data-ad-tags=\"{\"cat\":[\"NASCAR\"],\"chrome\":\"\",\"cag[tags]\":[\"23xi racing\",\"chris gabehart\",\"jeff gordon\",\"joe gibbs racing\",\"jordan taylor\",\"nascar\"],\"cag[categories]\":[\"nascar 2\",\"top posts\",\"uncategorized\"],\"cag[athletes]\":[\"chase elliott\",\"denny hamlin 2\",\"josh berry\",\"martin truex jr\"],\"cag[teams]\":[\"chase elliott\",\"denny hamlin\",\"josh berry\",\"martin truex jr\"]}\" data-omniture=\"{\"pagename\":\"\/2023\/04\/03\/joe-gibbs-racing-makes-a-change-on-pit-road-jeff-gordon-chase-elliott\/\",\"context_data\":17:59\"}\" data-com-score-tracked=\"false\">\n<div>\n<p>RICHMOND, Va. \u2014 A year after debuting a new pit stop procedure that sent over-the-wall crew members running around the front of the car to shave time, Joe Gibbs Racing has stopped doing it in races.<\/p>\n<p>Whether that different style of pit stop will return remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never say never, so I wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s dead,\u201d Chris Gabehart, crew chief for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48231\/denny-hamlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denny Hamlin<\/a>, told NBC Sports about the future of the JGR pit stop procedure, \u201cbut certainly there\u2019s been enough calls for concern to make us jump back on this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nascar.nbcsports.com\/2022\/04\/04\/joe-gibbs-racing-debuts-new-pit-stop-style-to-rave-reviews\/\">JGR unveiled the new pit stop in the April 2022 race at Richmond Raceway<\/a>. 23XI Racing crews also performed that type of stop<span>\u00a0 <\/span>last year. Both Toyota teams had stopped doing it by the Atlanta race in mid-March.<\/p>\n<p>The JGR-style pit stops started with all five pit crew members jumping off the pit wall in front of the car and running to their positions on the right side of the car.<\/p>\n<p>Timing was critical.<\/p>\n<p>The right front tire changer needed to finish first so he could lead the group around the front of the car and head to the left rear tire to change it. The right rear tire changer moved to the left front tire.<\/p>\n<p>In the traditional style used by all other Cup teams, one person changed both front tires and one changed both rear tires. The rear tire changer ran around the back of the car instead of coming from the front as with the JGR style.<\/p>\n<p>The new style created eye-popping pit stop times when it worked well.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Gibbs Racing pit crews recorded nine-second pit stops seven times in that first race last year with the new pit stop style, the team reported. The rest of the field, using the traditional method, had five such stops.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_210278\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-210278\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-210278\"><em>Denny Hamlin\u2019s pit stop at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in March 2023. Notice how all the crew members run around the front of the car and the right rear tire changer goes to the left front. JGR is not doing this style of pit stop for the time being.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Teams typically measure the length of a pit stop from when the car is jacked on the right side to when the jack is released on the left side on a four-tire stop. Other metrics measure the length of a pit stop based on when a car first enters its stall to when it first leaves its stall. That\u2019s a longer period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, the JGR style \u2014 when run without any snafus \u2014 often proved faster. That was significant because track position is so important in Cup races.<\/p>\n<p>When there were issues with the pit stop, the extra time in the pit stall cost drivers positions on the track.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe theory is it\u2019s a little bit faster when it\u2019s right, but it\u2019s two to three times as slow when it\u2019s not,\u201d Gabehart said of the JGR pit stop procedure. \u201cSo, you\u2019re just trying to minimize potential error. We\u2019re working through that as a company.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_210287\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-210287\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-210287\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48223\/martin-truex-jr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martin Truex Jr.<\/a>\u2018s crew using the traditional pit stop style Sunday at Richmond. Notice how the rear tire changer comes from the back of the car to the right side and goes around the rear of the car to get to the left side.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The focus is on returning to the traditional pit stop style for the JGR and 23XI Racing teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not going to be perfect right away when you\u2019re retraining muscle memory after the last 40 races of doing it one way more or less,\u201d Gabehart said. \u201cWe\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s part of the sport. Everybody\u2019s evolving and trying to get faster every day in every way, whether that is with the race car, as a driver, with strategy, on pit road, with pit crews. That\u2019s the nature of the beast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t fault anyone at JGR for being aggressive and trying to get everything they can get. Right now, we\u2019ve got to evaluate that and that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s race at Richmond marked <strong>the fifth consecutive race <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48457\/chase-elliott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chase Elliott<\/a> has missed<\/strong> since breaking his left tibia in a snowboarding accident March 3.<\/p>\n<p>Hendrick Motorsports stated March 7 that Elliott\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nascar.nbcsports.com\/2023\/03\/04\/chase-elliott-expected-to-miss-several-weeks-with-leg-injury\/\">recovery was expected to last approximately six weeks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s still the target,\u201d Jeff Gordon, vice chairman of Hendrick Motorsports said Sunday in response to a question from NBC Sports. \u201cIt\u2019s a week-to-week thing based on his doctors and what they\u2019re seeing and how the recovery is going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nascar.nbcsports.com\/2023\/04\/02\/long-richmond-victory-caps-big-week-for-hendrick-motorsports\/\">Josh Berry finished second Sunday at Richmond<\/a>, driving in place of Elliott. Berry has driven in place of Elliott in all the races the former champion has missed except the road course event at Circuit of the Americas. Jordan Taylor drove for Elliott in that event.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<article id=\"post-210251\" data-ad-tags=\"{\"cat\":[\"NASCAR\"],\"chrome\":\"\",\"cag[tags]\":[\"nascar\",\"richmond raceway\"],\"cag[categories]\":[\"nascar 2\",\"top posts\",\"uncategorized\"],\"cag[athletes]\":[\"aj allmendinger\",\"alex bowman\",\"austin cindric\",\"josh berry\",\"kyle larson\",\"michael mcdowell\",\"ryan blaney\"],\"cag[teams]\":[\"a j allmendinger\",\"alex bowman\",\"austin cindric\",\"josh berry\",\"kyle larson\",\"michael mcdowell\",\"ryan blaney\"]}\" data-omniture=\"{\"pagename\":\"\/2023\/04\/03\/winners-and-losers-at-richmond-raceway\/\",\"context_data\":07:00\"}\" data-com-score-tracked=\"false\">\n<div>\n<p>A look at winners and losers from Sunday\u2019s NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway:<\/p>\n<h3>WINNERS<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48450\/kyle-larson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyle Larson<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Frustrated several times this season (and again during Sunday\u2019s race by a pit-road incident), Larson responded with <a href=\"https:\/\/nascar.nbcsports.com\/2023\/04\/02\/kyle-larson-wins-nascar-cup-series-race-at-richmond-raceway\/\">his first win of the year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48400\/josh-berry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Berry<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Berry spun out early in the race and appeared to be in for a long day, but the circumstances of the closing laps put him in excellent position, and <a href=\"https:\/\/nascar.nbcsports.com\/2023\/04\/02\/long-richmond-victory-caps-big-week-for-hendrick-motorsports\/\">he followed Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson<\/a> to the checkered flag.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48359\/michael-mcdowell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael McDowell<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Gambling on tires near the finish rewarded McDowell with a sixth-place run, his first top 10 of the year. His previous best run was 12th.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48443\/alex-bowman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex Bowman<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Bowman finished eighth, scoring his sixth top-10 finish in the season\u2019s seven races.<\/p>\n<h3>LOSERS<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48665\/austin-cindric\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Austin Cindric<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 Cindric was never a factor Sunday and rolled home 28th, a lap down.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48510\/aj-allmendinger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AJ Allmendinger<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 Allmendinger has had a rough start to the season. He finished a lap behind Sunday in 27th.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48406\/ryan-blaney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan Blaney<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 A pair of pit-road miscues damaged Blaney\u2019s chances Sunday. He finished 26th.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<article id=\"post-210224\" data-ad-tags=\"{\"cat\":[\"NASCAR\"],\"chrome\":\"\",\"cag[tags]\":[\"hendrick motorsports\",\"jeff gordon\",\"nascar\"],\"cag[categories]\":[\"nascar 2\",\"top posts\",\"uncategorized\"],\"cag[athletes]\":[\"chase elliott\",\"josh berry\",\"kyle larson\",\"william byron\"],\"cag[teams]\":[\"alex bowman\",\"chase elliott\",\"josh berry\",\"kyle larson\",\"william byron\"]}\" data-omniture=\"{\"pagename\":\"\/2023\/04\/02\/long-richmond-victory-caps-big-week-for-hendrick-motorsports\/\",\"context_data\": NBC Sports\",\"nbcs.league\":\"NASCAR\",\"nbcs.sport\":\"Motor Sports\",\"nbcs.contenttitle\":\"Long: Richmond victory caps big week for Hendrick Motorsports\",\"nbcs.author\":\"Dustin Long\",\"nbcs.contenttype\":\"Post\",\"nbcs.contentid\":210224,\"nbcs.publishdate\":\"04\/02\/2023}\" data-com-score-tracked=\"false\">\n<div>\n<p>RICHMOND, Va. \u2014 As Jeff Gordon watched <a href=\"https:\/\/nascar.nbcsports.com\/2023\/04\/02\/kyle-larson-wins-nascar-cup-series-race-at-richmond-raceway\/\">Kyle Larson\u2019s Victory Lane celebration Sunday night<\/a> at Richmond Raceway, he smiled at how this week had gone so well for Hendrick Motorsports.<\/p>\n<p>Four days after <a href=\"https:\/\/nascar.nbcsports.com\/2023\/03\/29\/appeals-panel-rescinds-100-point-penalthy-to-hendrick-drivers-alex-bowman-william-byron-kyle-larson-rick-hendrick\/\">an appeal panel rescinded the 100-point and 10-playoff point penalties<\/a> to the Hendrick drivers and teams, the organization reveled in its second 1-2 finish of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe timing of everything coming together this week was huge,\u201d said Gordon, vice chairman of Hendrick Motorsports. \u201cThen these guys stepped up, too, when they got to the racetrack. Even<span>\u00a0 <\/span>though we didn\u2019t have practice or qualifying, they showed what they\u2019re capable of today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertainly off to a great start this season with William (Byron\u2019s two) wins, now this win, Alex (Bowman) has been really, really strong week in and week out, and the No. 9 (team) has been strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Larson gave Hendrick Motorsports its third win of the season (in seven races) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48400\/josh-berry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Berry<\/a>, filling in for an injured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48457\/chase-elliott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chase Elliott<\/a>, placed a career-best second. Had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48576\/william-byron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Byron<\/a> not been spun late in the event, Hendrick Motorsports might have had its second 1-2-3 finish of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has historically been a really bad track for Hendrick,\u201d Larson said. \u201cSo to have all of us run up front majority of the day, come away with a one-two finish, lead as many laps as we did between William and I, it was the best day I think Hendrick has had at Richmond in decades probably.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sunday marked the first time since May 2007 that Hendrick cars finished 1-2 at Richmond.<\/p>\n<p>It seems the parity that was prevalent last season \u2014 with a record-tying 19 different winners \u2014 could be gone. Hendrick Motorsports has shown to be the strongest team this season, which reached the quarter mark of the regular season Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Hendrick drivers rank first (Bowman), fourth (Byron) and sixth (Larson) in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve dominated at Phoenix and Richmond, which share some similarities even though they are different sized tracks. Hendrick drivers have combined to lead 68.8% of the laps run at those two tracks this year.<\/p>\n<p>The series heads next to Bristol for the dirt race. While Hendrick Motorsports has not won either of the previous two dirt races there, the schedule does set up well for the next few weeks. After Bristol is Martinsville, where Byron won last spring. Then comes Talladega, where Chase Elliott won in the playoffs last year. Depending on how Elliott\u2019s recovery goes, he could be close to returning by then.<\/p>\n<p>Until he\u2019s ready, Berry will drive the No. 9 car. Berry benefitted from pit strategy Sunday that helped him gain track position in the final stage. Still, he had to take advantage of the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been learning a lot,\u201d Berry said. \u201cThere\u2019s so much more to learn. Days like today do a lot for confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Berry talked to the media on pit road, Gordon came by to congratulate him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood job, man,\u201d Gordon said, high-fiving and hugging Berry. \u201cThat was awesome. That must have felt good, huh?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah,\u201d Berry said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou fought hard for that one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And so did Hendrick, not only for Sunday\u2019s result but Wednesday\u2019s appeal.<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR penalized the Hendrick drivers and teams 100 points each and 10 playoff points for modifications to the hood louvers on each of the team\u2019s four cars. NASCAR also suspended each team\u2019s crew chief four races and fined them $100,000 for the infraction discovered before practice at Phoenix last month.<\/p>\n<p>Hendrick appealed. The appeal panel agreed that Hendrick Motorsports violated the rule, but gave the points back while keeping the fines and suspensions in place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still think we laid out enough evidence that we should have had our crew chiefs back and the money as well, but we\u2019ll take it,\u201d Gordon said.<\/p>\n<p>Wins always help.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<article id=\"post-210190\" data-ad-tags=\"{\"cat\":[\"NASCAR\"],\"chrome\":\"\",\"cag[tags]\":[\"nascar\",\"richmond raceway\"],\"cag[categories]\":[\"nascar 2\",\"top posts\",\"uncategorized\"],\"cag[athletes]\":[\"aric almirola\",\"austin dillon\",\"chase briscoe\",\"christopher bell 2\",\"joey logano 2\",\"josh berry\",\"kevin harvick 2\",\"kyle busch\",\"kyle larson\",\"michael mcdowell\",\"ross chastain\",\"ryan preece\",\"ty gibbs\",\"william byron\"],\"cag[teams]\":[\"austin dillon\",\"chase briscoe\",\"christopher bell\",\"joey logano\",\"josh berry\",\"kevin harvick\",\"kyle busch\",\"kyle larson\",\"michael mcdowell\",\"ty gibbs\"]}\" data-omniture=\"{\"pagename\":\"\/2023\/04\/02\/what-drivers-said-at-richmond-raceway-2\/\",\"context_data\":20:47\"}\" data-com-score-tracked=\"false\">\n<div>\n<p>RICHMOND, Va. \u2014 What drivers had to say after Sunday\u2019s NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway:<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48450\/kyle-larson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyle Larson<\/a> \u2014 Winner: <\/b>\u201cIt\u2019s really cool. We\u2019ve been close to winning a couple. William (Byron) has been extremely good this year. It was going to be between probably him, the 19, us, and the 20 was really good. So just things worked out. My pit crew had a great stop. So shout-out to Brandon Johnson. He is our jackman. He just turned 30 today. Our spotter, Tyler Monn, he turned 30 today. Great day for them guys. What an awesome Hendrickcars.com Chevy. Can\u2019t say enough about it. I got into the 99 (Suarez) on pit road there sometime in the second stage, and we were awful after that. I was hoping the damage was the reason why, but they had to calm me down a little bit and get refocused and was able to get it done. Thanks to everyone on this team, (crew chief) Cliff Daniels, for everything he does to prepare the team to be as strong as we are without him on the box. So good to get a win, and hopefully many more. \u2026\u00a0So when I was going backwards in the second stage and mad, I just needed a caution to take a break and then tell myself just to not overreact and just we still have 170-something laps left or whatever it was. It\u2019s plenty of time to get back to the front. So our car was good enough to do that, too. Just a great day all around for Hendrick Motorsports. Great week, especially. So, yeah, a lot of significance to this week, and I\u2019ll probably remember it now for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/nascar.nbcsports.com\/2023\/04\/02\/richmond-cup-series-results-kyle-larson-wins\/\">MORE: Richmond Cup results, driver points<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48400\/josh-berry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Berry<\/a> \u2014 Finished 2nd: <\/b>\u201cMan, this is really cool. I have to give all the credit to this NAPA team. Tom (Grey, interim crew chief), Alan (Gustafson, full-time crew chief) remotely, of course, and everybody at Hendrick Motorsports. When we got some clean track, we weren\u2019t running bad lap times. I\u2019m so glad they tried something different to get us there at the end. Felt like we were decent the whole time. Just getting in cleaner air. We were free to run with Kyle. Man, what a huge day. You know, to come here and start in the back, no practice, qualifying, get spun out, work through the field like that, just second place, it\u2019s pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48395\/ross-chastain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ross Chastain<\/a> \u2014 Finished 3rd:<\/strong> \u201cWe definitely needed more to fight for the lead. For our Jockey Chevy, it was probably more about clean air. There were better cars throughout the race that got cycled back on strategy. For our group \u2013 the 5, the 9, the 20 was probably a little better \u2013 but out of the Chevys I thought that in clean air that any of us \u2013 the 5, 9 or us \u2013 could lead. Hats off to the 5 team, Kyle, and everyone at HMS. Chevrolet keeps locking down these wins with the Bowtie. We\u2019re proud to be part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48626\/christopher-bell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Bell<\/a> \u2014 Finished 4th:<\/strong> \u201cFor us, we needed it to stay green. It didn\u2019t work out today. It was pretty disappointing. I felt like we had enough speed in our Rheem Camry to be up there all day, but I had a couple of restarts that put us in the back. We would lose spots when the yellow flags would come out, so it was just an uphill battle all day. (On the wreck with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48576\/william-byron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Byron<\/a>): It was a pretty standard restart with the 1 (Ross Chastain) behind you. I tried to protect from him going to the inside, and he still made it three-wide there at the last minute and there wasn\u2019t enough room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48185\/kevin-harvick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin Harvick<\/a> \u2014 Finished 5th:<\/strong> \u201cWe didn\u2019t have a very smooth day and the car didn\u2019t really do anything that I wanted it to do to have a shot at winning, but we fought hard all day. We were definitely expecting to be a little bit better, but that\u2019s the way it goes. \u2026 I think we definitely handled a little bit worse than we did at the last race here, but there was a lot different on the car, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48359\/michael-mcdowell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael McDowell<\/a> \u2014 Finished 6th:<\/strong> \u201cI think the strategy was a good call. A lot of that was our car was really good on the long run, and I think we were gonna be 15th or 16th, so you might as well go for it and see if you can\u2019t come up with something good and it worked out. I thought it was a great call by Travis Peterson. The Love\u2019s Ford Mustang was pretty good all day. We needed a little bit more speed on the front end and not lose so much track position early on, but the long-run speed was great. Had a couple of those runs gone a little longer, I think we would have actually been a little bit better yet, so I\u2019m proud of everybody. Phoenix was a good race for us and this obviously being a good race, so I feel like our short track program is turning the corner, at least I hope so. I\u2019m optimistic about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48369\/joey-logano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joey Logano<\/a> \u2014 Finished 7th:<\/strong> \u201cWe had a really good car. Our Mustang was fast, maybe definitely could have won. It felt pretty good. That loose wheel set us back, but it was so early in the race we thought we could recover. We started to recover and did recover, and then we were trying to split it halfway and get the track position, but we had two untimely cautions that just didn\u2019t work out for us. Typical Richmond it does work out, but more cautions today than typical. I thought it was a fun race. I had fun. It\u2019s a tricky track. It\u2019s fun. It\u2019s one of my favorite tracks, probably my favorite track to run and manage your tires and when you run hard and all that it\u2019s really fun for the driver. It\u2019s probably the most fun track for the driver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/50856\/ty-gibbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ty Gibbs<\/a> \u2014 Finished 9th:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cIt has been a pretty solid start for us. The biggest thing is just minimizing mistakes. I think my team is the best and only going to get better. My pit crew did a great job today. I\u2019m happy. My Monster Energy Toyota Camry was fast today, and I\u2019m excited to be up there racing with those guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48661\/chase-briscoe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chase Briscoe<\/a> \u2014 Finished 12th:<\/strong> \u201cWe were just like a 12th-place car all day. The whole day we ran between 10th and 15th and just kind of depended on restarts and pit road. That kind of determined where we would fall out. The long-run speed wasn\u2019t probably as good as what we needed it to be, and our short-run speed was kind of just OK to kind of hang on, so for how our season has been going this was honestly a good day \u2013 just to kind of run 10th to 15th all day long and not have anything crazy happen. I\u2019m looking forward to next week going to the dirt track, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48429\/aric-almirola\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aric Almirola<\/a> \u2014 Finished 13th:<\/strong> \u201cWe struggled a little bit. I feel like this is one of my better places, and I just thought we were a little bit off of where we needed to be. We\u2019ve got some work to do before we come back, but proud to finally get out of a race with a decent day where we didn\u2019t have anything catastrophic happen. We didn\u2019t have everything go perfectly, but we were able to get out of here with a race car that\u2019s still in one piece and go forward from here. Hopefully, this is the start to turning our season around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48221\/kyle-busch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyle Busch<\/a> \u2014 Finished 14th:<\/strong> \u201cWe were a little bit off the mark today, but overall it was a decent day for our 3CHI Chevrolet team at Richmond Raceway. At the beginning of the race, we were just too loose and needed more grip. Randall Burnett and the guys on our team made a ton of adjustments to our car throughout the race but it was challenging to keep up with the track. Our pit crew did a great job all race so that was certainly a highlight for us today. I think we gained a few spots on each stop. We\u2019ll rebound next week at Bristol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48491\/ryan-preece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan Preece<\/a> \u2014 Finished 18th:<\/strong> \u201cWe got a top 20, but our team definitely deserved a top-10 finish. We were in it all day, and my guys made great adjustments on our stops. That final caution at the end of\u00a0the race threw everything off. We only had scuffs at the end, and we were just off the pace. We lost a few spots in those final laps and were able to finish off the day 18th. Moving in the right direction and looking forward to Bristol dirt next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>William Byron \u2014 Finished 24th:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cIt looked like the 1 was inside the 20 and the 20 just overcooked the corner and had the fronts locked up and nailed us in the left rear. So I was just kind of restarting fourth there and trying to stay tight to the 9 and get a good restart. I just got tagged in the left rear. So, yeah, just a dive bomb move on the inside on his part and it is what it is. I had a great race car. The Raptor Chevrolet was awesome all day and we will just keep bringing fast race cars like that and we will get a lot more wins. It was looking like it could be another win before the caution. That\u2019s the way it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsedge.com\/auto-racing\/nascar\/player\/48393\/austin-dillon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Austin Dillon<\/a> \u2014 Finished 25th:<\/strong> \u201cRichmond Raceway is statistically one of my best tracks, so I wish we could have capitalized with a solid finish. \u2026 We just never got a feel for the handling of our Chevy. We started deep in the field after practice and qualifying were canceled due to inclement weather on Saturday and that put us in a hole. We made plenty of adjustments to the balance of our car during pit stops, but never got it where it needed to be, and then had a slow stop under green. We\u2019ll do some homework before the fall race to make ourselves better. Bring on the Bristol Motor Speedway dirt race.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<article id=\"loader-container\">                           <\/main>   \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carson Hocevar was in front after the leaders crashed in overtime and scored his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series victory Saturday at Texas Motor Speedway.MORE: Texas Truck race resultsMORE: Texas Truck pointsRookie Nick Sanchez, who led 168 of the 172-lap race, dueled reigning series champion Zane Smith on the last lap when Sanchez\u2019s truck hit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1909506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5287,23492,10072,5069,6538,8612,3694,6658,7627],"class_list":["post-1909505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-carson","tag-hocevar","tag-nascar","tag-race","tag-results","tag-series","tag-texas","tag-truck","tag-win"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1909506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}