NASCAR CUP SERIES: ENJOY ILLINOIS 300

September 7, 2025

Kyle Larson

Pit Lane Interview

Q. We saw the conversation on the screen between you and Ryan Blaney. What is your side of the story?

KYLE LARSON: I just told him I messed up. I wasn't meaning obviously to go in there and hit him. The lap before I had got in there and got inside of him, slid up, got to his door, got him tight, got to where I could race him down the frontstretch.

I was just trying to do that again. I was a little further back into three than I was the lap before. Just misjudged the point of where I wasn't going to get next to him and tuck in. I just clipped him.

Yeah, all on me. But wasn't intentional at all. I hope he understands that. Obviously I hurt his day where he could have gained more points.

But yeah, all in all, I mean, outside of that, it was a great race for us. We had a great, great car. Just a restart when the 23 wasn't able to get going, I think it messed our strategy up and whatnot after that. That was unfortunate.

Yeah, proud of my team. Just a phenomenal race car. A place we struggle at. A style of track we struggle at.

Looking forward to going to New Hampshire with this package, trying to build off of it. Just keep trying to do a good job in the Playoffs and hopefully get to Phoenix and have a chance to race for a championship.

Q. You've won two of the last four Bristol. What kind of day are you looking for?

KYLE LARSON: Yeah, I mean, it would be great to have a day like the last two times there where we lead a bunch of laps and win the race. You can never expect that.

Everybody is always getting better. We have to try to go up there and execute like we did at Saturday, here this weekend, last weekend, qualify up front. You just hope the race will play out better in our favor. We can just build on it.