NASCAR CUP SERIES: COOK OUT CLASH AT BOWMAN GRAY

February 4, 2026

Ryan Preece

Frontstretch Quotes

An Interview with:

Q. Ryan, wild night it was here for the Clash. Ryan Preece, you have worked your entire life to be in Victory Lane in a Cup Series race, and you get it done tonight in all kinds of conditions. How did you make that happen?

RYAN PREECE: I don't even know what to say. To be honest with you, it's been a (expletive) long road. It's the Clash. But man, it's just been years and years of grinding.

I'm just super thankful for Brad Keselowski, Kroger, Coca-Cola, all our partners, Bam, break open the pappy. Jack Roush, the Fenway Group.

Two years ago I didn't think I was going to have a job. I thought I was going back to Connecticut (tearing up). I'm just super, super emotional.

Q. We can appreciate that and the hard work. Let's talk about the race tonight. Some of that short track experience playing off?

RYAN PREECE: Just a good group. Yeah, we had a really good car. I felt like we were fighting adversity all day, trying to come from the back. We got a lot of good spots. When we were putting rain tires on, man, this is as much of a mental game as it is everything anything. I felt pretty beat up.

We had a couple restarts go our way. Before you know it, you're in the front two rows, then the claws just come out.

Man, I can't thank Kroger, Coca-Cola, all our partners, every single one, Celsius, Tad Geshickter and Jodi Geshickter, Bam Marketing. I'm speechless, man. That last two laps, I'm speechless.