NASCAR MEDIA CONFERENCE

October 17, 2021

Kyle Larson

Front Stretch TV quotes

An Interview with:

Q. Welcome to the Championship 4; first time ever for you, Kyle.

KYLE LARSON: Yeah, this is unreal. I knew we'd have a good shot to win today, and our car was amazing. That's probably the best 550 package intermediate car we've had all year. Thanks to everybody on this 5 team, Hendrickcars.com, Rick Hendrick. This is so cool. We had a lot of people from Hendrick cars here, and we get to go race for a championship in a few weeks. This is crazy.

Q. How about those seven restarts you had in stage 3, and you never once faltered. How did you keep it together for all of them?

KYLE LARSON: Yeah, I just got good pushes from behind me really. I tried to stay patient on the throttle to keep them to my back bumper and thankfully I was able to just barely clear them every time into 1 and not have to fight off of 2. Thanks to William, Tyler, Brad Keselowski, anybody who was ever behind me, especially Brad there that last restart. Just awesome to win, and hopefully we can get some more wins throughout the rest of the year.

Q. How big will it be to have two weeks now to get ready for Phoenix and focus on that race and go run for a title?

KYLE LARSON: Yeah, it'll be cool. I don't think we're going to lose focus on Kansas or Martinsville, but I definitely think we can shift a little bit more to our Phoenix car and really look forward to that. I love the West Coast. I love Phoenix. We've always been fast there, at least I was really fast earlier this year in the 5 and made a lot of mistakes, but I think we should have a good shot. Our team has been so strong all year long, and might as well close it out now.