NASCAR Xfinity Series POSTRACE INTERVIEWS: Sport Clips Haircuts 200 | 8/31/24 | Motorsports on NBC

[Music] and Christopher Bell collects The Checkered Flag gives it to a fan out there wow what a finish here in Darlington let's talk about that overtime finish the contact from Cole Custer how did you keep your car in line after it uh I don't know I really need to see a replay of it that was wild for sure and darlington's just such a tough Racetrack and off of two whether you're on the bottom or the top it like flushes you through the wall and then you kind of get a little bit of a wiggle coming down so uh once again I feel terrible for Sheldon you know to essentially win the race pass me on the long run there and then uh lose the lead on Pit Road is is a big bummer but uh really really happy to win this in the Sport Clips Camry Tyler Allen what can I say man he's uh he's been killing it this year and I'm just lucky he I to get to drive for him you had a great car but how much more rewarding is this win knowing what you guys had to overcome today yeah I mean uh I don't know it seemed like our car was really good on the short run obviously the 18 Sheldon was really good on the long run so unfortunately for him the race played out differently unfortunately for us uh we got her another shot at it and your Pi crew helped out too that's right yeah those guys uh those guys won us a race and um without them I'm not going to win the race so thank you to the pick crew as well Christopher Bell a winner at Darlington Dave that makes him two for two in xinity series wins here this year Sheldon cre standing by shaking your head you can't believe it can you no I I lost one the same way a few years ago here just this has always been a really good place for me and I've always loved racing here just uh man I don't know what to do to be any better than that I feel like I put in one of my best performances today um and yeah I just I love my pit crew and they do a great job for it so I can't I can't blame that on them that we just got beat on Pit Road today so bummer and they had two of the earlier they had two of the fastest pit stops on the day you knew that and you knew you wanted to win at this place that's so historic and where you're so good yeah I uh I don't even know what the caution was for but it just man it's a bummer I'm so proud of everyone at job's racing on this 18 team friends of jacqulyn Toyota I took a chance on myself and and we brought all the money we could I'm literally not even making a dollar this year so it just hurts when they get away like that and especially here at at one of my favorite places next week Rick next week and Cole kuster will have to settle for second place walk me through that overtime restart what did you need differently or need to do differently oh that's tough I mean I maybe could have gotten a tick better start and I think I almost cleared him into one but it's just hard racing I mean that was it was a lot of fun racing with Christopher there um just trying to stay in the throttle you know I don't know if some if he came down or I came up off turn two but you're just trying to do anything you can to try and uh you know clear the other guy off turn two so um it was tough racing hard racing but it was fun this this place is a blast I mean it was so slick today I mean the first run it felt like you're just on ice on an ice ring so uh it was really cool this hos animation forward Mustang was fastest xinity internet today and it was we came back from a lot we qualified 21st and just a testament to what this team can do we can really come back from a lot after backtack weekend of finishes that weren't to your liking how important even though you didn't win today's race was the performance you guys had today huge I mean you kind of start off feeling like yourself a little bit you know so to have a really solid run and you know a a race where you really came back from a lot of adversary adversity means a lot so um that definitely gives us some confidence going in the next few Chase Elliot ends up fourth and Chase it seemed like you needed those couple of pit stops to get the car right and then move forward yeah we were um we were okay I honestly think our car was fine I just I've been struggling at this place really bad so you know I honestly use a lot of the event just to try to work on myself and and better myself for tomorrow and really appreciate the opportunity from Greg and uh everybody at Hendrick Motorsports hendrickcars.com uh Rick you everybody for letting me do that um you know that's a that's a nice luxury to have not everybody has that so uh thankful for that opportunity and I felt like I picked up a couple things that will hopefully help us tomorrow um we'll see we're going to need it we got a long ways to get so um really you know proud of the effort though pit stops were great and that was what you know earned us a good finish here at the end was was the boys on Pit Road so I really appreciate their effort we talk about how little translates anymore so is Darlington the most reps friendly place if you can run on Saturday I kind of think so um you know personally and you can tell that by how many guys are in the field today too so you know darlington's Darlington and and my struggles here have been Universal from from car to car so we'll uh we'll see you tomorrow and Smith will come home in the fifth position also earned stage points in both stages so now you've hop scotch back into the playoff picture was this the kind of performance you were looking for today it was yeah I apologize for sitting down um the cool shirt broke so it was a a tough day but yeah it was a great day to get stage points and and have a good finish there at the end we needed that and just thank you to Pilot Flying J TMC uh All State peer belt group Chevrolet my whole eight team and we'll just keep digging these last three races you mentioned the cool suit failing that was relatively early in the race how hard was it to f focus in the race car being how hot it was today um yeah it wasn't too bad once we kind of got going it's just then you start to think about it there towards the end but yeah it was tough but um just had to keep digging and I'm glad I was able to finish it off for my team six for Jesse love today and uh we're just laughing you could go another 147 did you wear out the other guys yeah you and me both I as tired as I look after the race I think that's uh what probably helps me the most at the end of them is uh just being able to sip on the wheel but uh C4 energy is what gets me through these hot ones every week weekend and it's been a while since uh I've executed like exp internet haven't been obviously um getting the finishes or the results that we wanted but um we've been this fast the entire summer it's just I think my yellow stripes in the back of them were showing a little bit and I just had to um I guess reel it in a little bit and not try so hard and uh Trav a sharp text me before the race stop caring so much so I kind of took a step back today Danny Lawrence gave me a pep talk uh my pit crew kept me in the hunt all day they did a phenomenal job and I'm just proud to drive this bu engineer number two car and looking forward to uh good night land next week and my Sam S colors that's a racetrack that probably owes this one so looking forward to getting to it um got my mom my sister my dad's watching from home but happy to have my family here with me but Jesse haven't you been told by others this is a place that rewards that sort of pulling back I don't know I you look at LaRon and you think you have to damn you know balls the wall but uh I just kind of underd drove it a little bit today and and let the people come back to me Shane Van gisbergen comes home seventh at Darlington at an intermediate oval does this almost feel like a bit of a win for you and this team oh of course not you want to be further out but it was a great day you know qualifying kind of struggled in both cars but when the race started weather weather tech kamaro was really good and I just got comfortable picked my way forward and had a blast doing it knowing that there are ovals in the playoffs we know you can get it done on road courses does the progress you're showing going on these ovals set you up for success in your title run yeah it's certainly looking more promising now it's been a slow and gradual run and just um I still feel like I'm driving Within Myself a bit and really conservative especially at the start of the race and then then I get going so once I get more aggressive and but yeah certainly coming here for the second time I I felt way more comfortable straight away so had a lot of fun a great solid day for SVG hi I'm Parker cerman for more access like this from Pit Road be sure to click and sub subscribe to the Motorsports at NBC YouTube channel