NASCAR CUP SERIES: SOUTH POINT 400

October 4, 2026

Kyle Larson

Pit Lane Interview

Q. A lap down. You come back to finish second. The battle with Briscoe in the closing laps, walk many me through those laps, specifically the last Lamb lap, and what more did you need?

KYLE LARSON: Yeah, I'll just start from the beginning. It was a fight I was surprised how far off we were that first run. I was just doing all I could to hang on and get to the pit stop. He said it was going to be a lengthy adjustment. I didn't know it was going to be that long. Yeah, we came out a lap down. I think thankfully that caution came out and we were able to do the wave. I think that really saved us from, you know, just being stuck a lap down a lot longer.

Then, yeah, I mean, my car got better, but track position was so difficult. Yeah, just kind of chipped away at it all race long.

Had a good green flag pit cycle. Could tell I was gaining on him pretty quickly. So yeah, just tried to stay patient, but my tires were getting kind of burned off by the time I got there. Yeah, just tried to do what I could to try to win. I moved up I feel like at the right time and did a decent job with it.

Just was trying to push hard through three and four to just build some momentum at him to, I don't know, try to get by down the straightaway. Yeah, just got really loose and overcorrected in the wall. Thankfully I was able to limp it home. Yeah, thankfully Reddick was able to come away third as well.

That got exciting. I wish we could have won in this paint scheme and honoring Kyle, and that would be very Kyle Busch fashion. Great fight by our team. Yeah, happy.

I mean, I'm plus 40, but I also look at it, like, dang, you know, if we could have just fired off, you know, more in the ballpark, we could have had another 10 points minimum. We'll just keep learning and keep after it.