NASCAR MEDIA CONFERENCE

October 17, 2021

William Byron

Pit Road TV quotes

An Interview with:

Q. William Byron comes up just short today, a second-place finish for you, but you gave your teammate Kyle Larson a run for his money time and again. Where did he have that edge on you in all those restarts?

WILLIAM BYRON: Just controlling the lanes. It's all about the push, and I think here in Texas the shortest lane kind of wins out because of the way the track kind of separates in Turn 1. The AXALTA Chevy was fast all day, we just never quite got control. I think he was definitely better than us that first stage and then I was right there with him the rest of the time, and it was just clean air basically. But congrats to those guys. Kyle really deserves it. They've been awesome all year, flawless on pit road and pit calls and everything. Our team is right there, and I think we're building something really good for years to come.

Q. You guys got eliminated from the playoffs last week, but what kind of a statement can you make if you continue to have runs like that?

WILLIAM BYRON: Yeah, we're here to say. Rudy is going to be in it for a long time I feel like. We've got a good young team, myself included, so I feel like we can do a lot of good things. Saw that last week, just didn't finish it off with the contact there. But yeah, this week had a pretty good run and had a shot at a win.