Speaking on Saturday in Pocono, he said: “The consistency, it’s good, but this deal really rewards winning.
“It’s not where I want to be, no doubt. I think that for us, there’s been some high spots. And to be honest, there’s been weeks where we’ve run well or maybe had a good finish — or even there’s been a couple weeks where we haven’t necessarily had a good finish — and I can go home and be like, ‘Man, we were in the mix. We had good pace today.’
“And those are the weeks that (you want). You want to just feel like you’re in the ball game as it pertains to pace and doing the right things and getting up in there and giving yourself a shot. Those days, I can go home and have something to be proud of.
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“It’s the days and weekends where we’re just not even relevant that I think are really the most frustrating to me.
“And we’ve had more of those than I want to have and that we want to have as a team. So I think it’s been good. I
“It’s not satisfactory to myself or to our team, but there’s still a lot of racing left in the season.
“I think our team has done a really good job taking some of those days where we were not having a good day and digging in, and finding a way to just get something halfway decent out of it.
“Sometimes that can be a really hard thing to do, and I am really proud of them for that. Because it’s easy to throw in the towel on those days, just lose it and be done and go try again next week.
“But we as a whole, we don’t know any better and we just keep trying, keep pushing, and make the most out of whatever the day has brought us.”