Kyle Larson victorious in NASCAR Cup Series' return to Indianapolis oval | Motorsports on NBC

during the month of May these Indianapolis fans fell in love with Kyle Larson today here in July he delivers them a win in the Brickyard 400 the third Crown Jewel for Kyle Larson the 11th for Mr hendrik and hendrik Motorsports crowd Channing Larson I told you they fell in love with him in the month of May Kyle You've Won some big races in your career but this is Indianapolis is this ranked number one now it's uh it's for sure up there um like you mentioned this is just such a prestigious place and such hollowed ground and uh pretty neat to just get you're an opportunity to race here on the oval again and um what a job by our team I mean never gave up at all and you know we had the you know the pit stop issues there early on and just fought and dug and and uh had things work out so just uh can't thank them enough hinder cars.com Valene Chevrolet Jor ranar Prime uh all the fans too I love I love you Indiana fans and I know you guys love me too so how about we come back next May and try and kiss these breaks on the indie car is that a guarantee you're doing the double again I'd love to I'd love to we're work on it so uh I hope we can announce something soon and uh see you guys all next May does this make up for the month of May that you had this year Kyle when you left very disappointed it does I mean I guess I guess a little bit you know I I wish we could have got to do both and run the 600 cuz we had a phenomenal papaya orange car for that race too but um you know I think everything just comes full circle and everything's meant to be and and today was definitely felt meant to be for us you know with the way the strategy was working out Brad running out of fuel me and hton in the front row and all that just uh a lot had to fall into place and thankfully it did so I just can't believe it it's just uh surreal the win here and uh can't wait to kiss these bricks of my team Rick Hendrick who's here finally um my family my friends everybody my parents are here so we'll uh we'll be celebrating these next couple weeks there's only one Crown Jewel left for Kyle Larson to check off the list that's a Daytona 500 because now he's a winner at Indianapolis well and Rick you know for all team Pensky drivers the goal is to win for Mr Pensky any weekend but to try to win here at the Brickyard is the ultimate goal losing one that way how hard is it to process Ryan yeah it's no fun uh we had a really good shot to win today appreciate manard and Atlas and Ford for and the 12 group putting us in a position gosh our car was fast and thought we had really good strategy kind of was the front guy of um you know having to save a little bit of gas and uh you know I thought we put ourselves in a great spot spot I knew the six was probably going to run out if it went green and um became with the restart and I couldn't believe they stayed out uh I knew there was no way they were going to make it and uh so I obviously chose the top because he might run out in the restart Zone and he runs out coming to coming to the green so he gets to go to Pit Road and then five gets promoted and uh luck of the day right there I guess I don't know I don't even know what to be mad about mad at losing this race cuz I thought we were in the perfect position the once I lost control of the race and obviously I would have been on the bottom but I thought the six would run out like the restart zone or down the back I don't know but uh thanks to losing that way but appreciate the effort I I hate we don't get to celebrate with Mr Pensky and every B at Pensky here um that stings a lot but uh just try to keep going that's all you can do do you see any way of changing that restart situation as late as it happened after the choose is there any other way to do it yeah call it off and redo re-choose because now you're you promote the third place guy you know before the second place guy if the leader has problems like that's that's not right and it's just I mean it's dumb luck you know right of where Brad ran out and stuff like that and at this racetrack where the bottoms preferred but like some I don't know I'm just I'm just upset I mean that's just like that's a heartbreaker I mean we did everything right today I mean was in Prime position to win and just didn't didn't work out for us and uh just got unlucky but uh go so just not not going to sleep very good tonight tell you that but uh like I said I appreciate team Pensky and and everybody for the fast car gosh we've been super fast and it definitely showed again today and just wasn't meant to be Ryan blay third today Kim and Tyler reck and his team had a very solid day LED 40 laps the most of any driver ultimately come up one spot short in the Brickyard 400 how do you process that what are the feelings right now I mean it it was uh it was a great recovery for us you know we had our issues uh beginning stage three and I thought that was really going to cement our our finish towards the back but um we we just went with a different strategy and just had a really good restart I was behind the five and the nine and I got by both of them and um unfortunately that move that Kyle was able to catch a lot of people off guard with today got me as well so that's the bummer in all of it we were ahead of him um but but we let him get by us so obviously a lot of cars and a lot of things had to happen for us to get second so I mean honestly it was a good day but but obviously the return to the Brickyard it's it's tough coming up short on spot but I I mean once we got off turn two there I knew I was pretty much pretty much it um he was going to have to make a mistake so glad we had a good recovery another solid points St obviously we didn't really close the gap on on the five um that much but a little bit on the nine so in a big picture it was a great day for a team three top three finishes in the last four races we take this break when we get back from it do you feel like this team is playoff ready or what are the things you guys still need to work on I mean I thought today was a great recovery I think that's that's the biggest thing that we've been doing really good right now is uh we haven't always had the smoothest days but um instead of letting them end our days we found ways to recover from them um what feels like the last couple of months so it's great effort by the guys and men and women at 2311 so we'll go into the into our little break um ready to just relax for a little bit and recharge get ready to go for the rest of the year so much consistency we've seen recently from Tyler reck and this team well at the end of the day fifth place for Bubba Wallace was up front for a while there how would you assess your Brickyard 400 oh there's the points didn't need to see that um it was okay try not to get run over here behind you um you know I really put our team behind um starting Friday and Saturday just not doing a good job in the car and um Team stuck with me gave me all the right tools to to work on and gave us good track position there in the middle finally got us a stage win been 10 years since I got one of those um but all in all just a excuse me a solid day definitely what we needed um can have a big sigh relief going into the Olympic break here excited to watch that a lot of exciting things going on during the break Reddit getting married we'll be there for that Suarez getting married so congrats to them um but yeah it's just nice to come out here with a smile enjoy the two off weeks get to go home and see my well pregnant wife um give her big hug baby boy big hug and just to have fun that's uh that's what I wanted to do last week and continue that for the next what we got 14 left all about having fun hi I'm Parker cerman for more access like this from Pit Road be sure to click and subscribe to the Motorsports on NBC YouTube channel