NASCAR MEDIA CONFERENCE

January 1, 1970

Kyle Larson

Q. Kyle, just seven points. Was it ever in doubt when you were racing with Bell thinking this might not work out?

KYLE LARSON: Well, a couple times I just wanted to stay green. Then the 77 was in, like, every caution tonight (smiling). Restarts, I felt good about my car on restarts, but you never know how the aggression is going to pick up, and everybody's give-a-shit factor goes out the window.

We had good enough track position all day. We were kind of out of the mess, I guess. Yeah, that was good. My HendrickCars.com Chevy was fast. Our pit crew was on it all night. What a performance by William. That's awesome. I think when the 12 gained control of the race, it was going to be really hard for anybody to beat him. William did a great job on the restarts, just kept positioning himself. Was good enough to get by him on that long run.

I was surprised on the restart there, the two tires were as good as they were. So happy for him. Happy for our team. Happy for Hendrick Motorsports. This win is as good as it could have been for us, for us to score more points than Christopher, then have William or Chase win, too.

Glad we can give Mr. H an opportunity next week. Hopefully one of us can win it. I'm proud of everybody at Hendrick Motorsports. I feel like we've been progressing so much throughout the Playoffs. To put two cars in the Championship 4 is awesome.

Thanks everybody there. Thanks, Chevrolet, Valvoline, everyone who is a part of this team. We'll see if we can go be a few spots better next week.