What Cup drivers said after Richmond win by Joey Logano

Joey Logano — winner : “My team did a great job. The pressure was on everybody to make the right calls, to execute the runs, to have a good pit stop there. We were door-to-door pretty much onto pit road. That tested everything we had. I thought we were gonna be in good shape because the run before that we were a lot faster than (Chase Briscoe) right at the end, but we weren’t able to be the same amount of good as we wanted to be. This is the first time I’ve had all of my kids here for a win, so this is a real special one for our family. I’m looking forward to enjoying it. It’s a great recovery so far. There’s a long way to go in the season, but we can see the front from here. We’ve still got a couple more to gain some more points to set ourselves up better. I just like doing burnouts. That’s really all there is to it. I thought it was a cool opportunity to do a burnout right here. I might get my hand slapped, but it was worth it.”

Chase Briscoe — second : "Yeah, I don't know what more I needed. I thought that last run I was a little bit better than him. To get there at the end, prior run to the pit stop, I just lost brakes, got really, really loose. Gave up a three-second advantage. That was ultimately the difference. One bad run. Like I said, that was the difference maker there in the end. It's weird to be running second here. This has been a real struggle to me, this place. I think that's my first ever top 10 here even. To get close, not get it done is so frustrating. I had a really fast Toyota and wasn't able to seal the deal there in the end. The brake deal was interesting. I had great brakes. I felt like a large majority of the race it was to my advantage. I could get into the corner so deep compared to everyone. As I kind of lost that, I lost my advantage. I came not mediocre, but I wasn't quite as strong as what I needed to be to maintain there. Yeah, definitely frustrating from that standpoint, but still huge improvement from what I've been here, for sure. Go on to the next one. Yeah, that's great (to clinch a Chase spot). Obviously that was the goal. You want to be able to race for a championship. A long way to go. We need to get fifth in points. We continued to do what we needed to do from that standpoint, had a great points night. It would have been great to have 15 more points at the end. Yeah, just frustrating to say the least to have one slip away like that at the end."

Austin Cindric — third : “Yeah, that’s kind of the name of the game here, especially since they introduced this right side here last year. I thought that was one of our strengths. We could fire off good enough, but I thought I was one of the best cars, especially after about 30 laps. We were a little too good too late in the runs, but, overall, like I said, it was a much needed run for our Ford Mustang. I feel like car performance-wise, for sure. You saw that from all four of our cars. Obviously, with Joey getting the win, the 21 was super strong all night and Ryan had pace, so I think it’s important for everyone in the company and we need to keep doing it. Yeah, absolutely, I mean I think from an execution standpoint but also just car speed all weekend. With the exception of qualifying really, I’m super proud of the race car and the package. Everybody at Team Penske, all four cars that came out of that building this week were super strong. I felt like I had a car that could have won tonight and we didn’t and that’s my only frustration, but as far as the big picture goes for the season, it was a very important night for us to capitalize on a good car.”

Denny Hamlin — fourth : “Really, really good Toyota that third stage, we just had 10 seconds of extra pit stop there. Our left side jack stop was broke, so couldn’t quite get the jack up under it, so that cost us 10 seconds, and that’s right about where we ended up behind the front. Really good car that last stage, and great to overcome that to come back for a top-five.”

Chase Elliott — fifth : “I thought we were kind of hovering around seventh and eighth, somewhere in there. And then, obviously most of the field committed to three-stopping the last stage up until that caution. We elected to stay out and I know a few guys chose to pit there, put on some scuffs, and maybe burn a set of stickers. It ended up working out pretty well for us. Obviously it’s not a win, but for how things have been going the last few months, it feels nice to just have a really solid night and hopefully we can get things rolling in the right direction. There’s been a lot of hard work put in across the board; everyone on this No. 9 Chevrolet team and Hendrick Motorsports. I appreciate that effort. Everyone shows up with it each week, even after a bad day, so hopefully we can get things rolling here.”

Christopher Bell — seventh : “I mean, we weren’t really competitive enough to race for the win, but the alternate strategy kind of gave me hope. I thought it was going to be a lot closer than it was, but whenever they got to me with 20 to go or whatever, I was like dang, I thought it was going to be a lot closer to the end of the race, but it didn’t work out that way for this Toyota team. On to New Hampshire.”

Josh Berry — eighth : “It was a decent night. I felt like we left a little bit out there. We just kind of that one restart I got tight and got jammed up behind the 48 and we were one of the last cars that stayed out there. That one didn’t work out, but, all in all, the car was pretty good. For getting trapped under yellow twice and waving around and all that, it was still a solid day with stage points. We’ll just go to New Hampshire and try to do better. I don’t know (if the car was damaged on a late restart). We should have pitted, but we didn’t, and (Alex Bowman) kind of got on my outside. I got tight and then I just got ate up by the cars that had tires and then the race went green. Like I said, I’m a little disappointed with that, bu...

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