NASCAR XFINITY SERIES: UNITED RENTALS 300

February 15, 2025

Jesse Love

Frontstretch Quotes

An Interview with:

Q. Jesse Love, the celebration down here, there is so much debris down here from not only the crash, but just the tire debris that he left on the start-finish line.

Second career win in the Xfinity Series and first here at Daytona, and a hug with crew chief Danny Stockman. That restart move when you got down in front of the 41, did you realize how close that was and why did you feel like that was the right move to make at that time?

JESSE LOVE: I just listened to the guy up there. I am so out of breath. Oh, my gosh, I'm out of breath. Just want to thank the good Lord above for putting me in this position. So many people have helped me get to this point, Billy Venturini, Shane Rush, the people that taught me how to race here at Daytona, thank you guys.

Our ECR Hertz and Childress Racing everybody back at Welcome. Bummer what happened to 21. I'm not sure what happened but he was really dominant tonight, and we're working on changing our culture here at RCR.

We're winners. We know we are. We all want to win a championship for Richard Childress. Man, that thing was as fast as Xfinity mobile and I'm ready to go get to Atlanta now. It was awesome.

Q. You obviously saw how good your teammate was. When he went out did that give you confidence that you had the same quality of race car and the ability to do what he did at the front?

JESSE LOVE: I couldn't see him. He was so far forward. Man, once I got up front -- I think Danny wanted to take sixth there behind the Haas cars, but I had to see what this baby had out front. We didn't get to qualify, and it takes me a little bit to get out front sometimes. I'm trying to play chess sometimes and not checkers at Daytona.

Man, I'm at a loss for words. It's Daytona. I always cry here when they do the National Anthem. I'm star struck. I love Florida. Thank everybody for coming out tonight. This place is super special to me. You guys are as good as Talladega fans now!

Q. Danny said that he thought you were more nervous than he was under that yellow. Were you nervous?

JESSE LOVE: Josh Wise changed my life the other week helping me compartmentalize my mind, and it's easy to because the green-white-checkereds suck. I take a lot of what Josh Wise says to heart and I kind of tapped into the mindset of no fear, no emotion, and no, I guess, anxiety. Just straight will to succeed and will to win.

And thank you to everybody at Wise Optimization, Scott Speed and Josh, Stratton. Excited to go celebrate with my guys. My pit crew did a phenomenal job today, and this Chevy was really good. We finally got a win for the Whelen car. That makes it even more special.