NASCAR CUP SERIES: SOUTH POINT 400

October 12, 2025

Kyle Larson

Pit Lane Interview

Q. Kyle, what ultimately did you feel like you needed more of to hold him off ultimately?

KYLE LARSON: I thought I had a big enough gap down the backstretch to go to the top, get momentum. His car, the Toyotas in general, were really, really, really fast on a short run, had a lot of speed. He must have nailed the bottom behind me, got inside. It was over from there.

Yeah, he did an awesome job. He got up on the wheel there. I felt like I was up on the wheel. He did a really good job. I tried to take his line away in three and four. He got to my outside. Rarely do you see Denny do that. He did a great job. Hats off to them.

Hats off to my team, too. We had an awesome day, as well. I think we were second maybe in the first stage, won the next stage, and second in the race.

Good points day obviously. Would have liked the issue with the 10 and the 24 to not happen because we had just kind of taken control of the race there and were going to cruise to victory. That's racing. It gets crazy.

Happy, though, to still get a good finish. It was getting hectic there.

Q. You go to Talladega plus 35. What is your mentality for the next couple weeks?

KYLE LARSON: Yeah, I don't know. Obviously it could completely flip next week. I do feel like our superspeedway stuff has gotten a lot better. We've done really well on them this year. You can never expect a good finish or a finish at all when you go there.

Yeah, we'll just try and go and execute like we have been this year at those places. Hopefully we can have another good points day and maybe Martinsville will be a little bit easier. I know right now it shows plus 35, somebody below the cut line wins, it's a lot less. Playoff is crazy.