{"id":21567,"date":"2023-02-26T20:12:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T01:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/?p=21567"},"modified":"2023-02-26T20:13:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T01:13:04","slug":"kyle-busch-on-first-win-with-rcr-its-phenomenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2023\/02\/kyle-busch-on-first-win-with-rcr-its-phenomenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Busch on first win with RCR: &#8216;It&#8217;s phenomenal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kyle Busch on first win with RCR: &#039;It&#039;s phenomenal&#039;\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yrVCW8WH75s?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KEVIN HARVICK, No. 4 GEARWRENCH Ford Mustang<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 \u201cOur GEARWRENCH Ford Mustang was really good on the long runs, I just really struggled on the restarts with the front end.&nbsp;In the end, we had a chance, but I couldn\u2019t put us in the right position on the restarts to guard our track position like we needed to.&nbsp;It was still a great day for our GEARWRENCH Ford Mustang.&nbsp;The guys did a great job on pit road all day and kept us up in the front.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A LOT WAS MADE ABOUT WEEPERS AND THE TRACK FOR THE FINAL RACE HERE, SO HOW WERE THE TRACK CONDITIONS OVERALL?<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cThe track conditions were fine.&nbsp;I didn\u2019t really see any weepers and it was just really dirty every run.&nbsp;The second half of the race it cleaned up, but it was hard on the windshields.&nbsp;In the end, they did a great job preparing the track and we were able to put on a good race.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 6 Castrol Edge Ford Mustang<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 \u201cWe didn\u2019t have a great start to the race\u2026 wasn\u2019t driving really good, and I wasn\u2019t really happy with it. Matt [McCall] and the crew just kept working on it. We had a couple of good adjustments there, got spun out and then recovered it. It was good to be able to recover. Just need a little more speed. Not quite where we need to be, but we weren\u2019t terribly far off.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CHRIS BUESCHER, No. 17 Pala Casino Ford Mustang<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 \u201cWe started off really bad. It took us a good amount of time and some big adjustments to get dialed in. I\u2019m proud of this Pela Casino Mustang. We really got a lot closer toward the end there. We\u2019re not where we want to be \u2013 still. But, we\u2019re much, much closer. It\u2019s nice to see that gain throughout the day. I think we would\u2019ve discovered some of that if we would have had practice, but obviously nobody did. We\u2019ll just keep working on it \u2013 getting a little bit closer, so we can be in the hunt towards the end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 AAA Southern California Ford Mustang<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 \u201cIt looks like we were in the hunt. We weren\u2019t the best car, and we needed to make an adjustment to get better. I was falling off hard and was hoping we\u2019d get back on track\u2026 just couldn\u2019t. It fell off at the end even more. Running top-five all day, finishing 10th, doesn\u2019t feel that great. Overall, the momentum is there, we fought hard and got some stage points. So, it was still a decent day.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LEADING THE RACE DURING THAT RESTART, SOME GUYS MAY HAVE FELT YOU STOPPED AND STARTED IN THE RESTART ZONE OR MAYBE HAD SOME ISSUES.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cGo&nbsp;back and look at the data. I didn\u2019t do anything. I just rolled it and went like everyone was anticipating it. It\u2019s part of the new restart zone \u2013 it\u2019s bigger. So, you can\u2019t anticipate as much as you used to without getting into trouble. I went late in the zone because the car to the inside of me was laying back, so I was waiting for him to get up next to me before I went. I didn\u2019t brake check anyone. It might look like it but you can go back and look at it and see it\u2019s not there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CHASE BRISCOE, No. 14 Rush Truck Centers Ford Mustang&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 \u201cWe definitely had high hopes going into here.&nbsp;This is one of my better racetracks and we just completely struggled all day long from a lot of different issues.&nbsp;That\u2019s not how we wanted to run, obviously.&nbsp;We\u2019ve got a lot of work to do going into next week, but I feel like we can learn from it and move on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>TODD GILLILAND, No. 38 Long John Silver\u2019s Ford Mustang<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 \u201cThis is something for us to build on.&nbsp;It was the best mile-and-a-half car we\u2019ve had.&nbsp;There\u2019s still work to do, but that was something to definitely work from.&nbsp;I\u2019m proud of the effort by all my guys.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ARIC ALMIROLA, No. 10 Smithfield Ford Mustang&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 \u201cI took off on the restart and went from second to third gear and all of a sudden everybody in front of us just stopped.&nbsp;I think the leader was just playing games, trying to prevent the runs coming from behind and they stopped in the middle of the restart zone was right about where they should have been accelerating.&nbsp;It was just a huge accordion effect.&nbsp;We were back in 16th, so everybody just started stacking up and you can\u2019t stop on a dime.&nbsp;It\u2019s disappointing to get wrecked out of the race like that on a silly Mickey Mouse restart, but I should have known better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[926,5,4,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-nascar-sprint-cup","category-latest-touring-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21568,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21567\/revisions\/21568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}