NASCAR MEDIA CONFERENCE

February 14, 2026

Jordan Anderson

Pit Lane Interview

Q. Jordan Anderson and baby Banks making his TV debut. Jordan, matching your best finish of fourth. We were talking off air, and you said, Man, I thought that was going to be the one, I thought we were going to win. Walk me through those closing laps.

JORDAN ANDERSON: Yeah, what a great finish for our whole team. To get a top 5, Blaine was top 10, Banks' first race, first time at Daytona. Had him on the car with me.

Honestly, their race played to our strategy. We were hanging out in the back the first two stages and kept getting track position and kept working on the car. The car kept getting better, but I don't get to do this a lot.

So as we kept getting closer and closer, I'm like, All right, it's go time, it's go time. We kept getting closer. We came off of turn 2 on the back stretch there. I'm, like, Oh, this is it. It's like the "Days of Thunder" moment. I thought the seas parted, and we had the steam and it just kind of ran out as I got to the 21 there.

You know, a top 5. Like I said, I don't get to do this a lot. We keep working on growing this team every year. We have three cars full-time all season. This is just allowing me to connect back to why I love the sport, why I love NASCAR. A great way to kick off NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series there, their introduction to sport.

This is a testament. Our guys work so hard all year. A lot of long hours. Chevrolet put a lot of effort in this program.

Banks is happy. We're all happy. I had EasyCare on the car. We've got the alliance with RCR this year. So we have really high hopes for good runs this year. Just so awesome to come out here to Daytona, get a good run.

Everybody saw the two second-place finishes we have. I was, like, finally, this is it. We're going to check the box and win at Daytona, but just more motivation to keep coming back here.

We're going to win one of these things one day. I know Banks will not remember today, but we'll talk about the day he road with me at his first race and we got top 5.

I remember coming down here with my dad as a kid. Sat in the grandstands over there. We slept in the back of my dad's Tahoe beside the dog track. We made a weekend out of it. That's just what this sport is about.

It's cool to have the next generation of our team here. Hopefully he'll be running it one day when I get older, but just a lot to be happy about, a lot to be thankful about, and just hopefully this is the first of many, many more to come in 2026.