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The NASCAR playoffs begin at \u201cThe Track Too Tough To Tame.\u201d<\/p>\n
5 \u2014 Kyle Larson<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard to pinpoint one strength because I feel like we have a lot of strengths. Speed is always one, for sure. We\u2019ve just been through a lot throughout the summer. I think we\u2019ve seen a lot of different things and we\u2019re prepared for almost anything. I think we\u2019re looking forward to the challenge of these next 10 and hopefully we can execute on a high level.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Weakness) I think still the shorter, flatter tracks, so seeing Gateway and New Hampshire in the playoffs is not something that I was thrilled about. But I do think we\u2019ve made our package better on that style of track. You know, I look at Iowa \u2013 we were fast and William (Byron) won, Chase (Elliott) was fast, Alex (Bowman) was fast. When we went to Richmond, we were all really good again. Alex finished second, and I think I was in sixth. Chase was probably one of the best cars that night. William was good, as well. I do think we\u2019ve gotten our cars better on those places, but we still need to probably be better. We\u2019ll see when we get to Gateway and New Hampshire.\u201d<\/p>\n
9 \u2014 Chase Elliott<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cI think the experience \u2026 is a major strength, as you just get faced with different situations throughout the final 10 (races). You know, the challenges for us have been mainly on Saturdays, more than they\u2019ve been on Sundays. I\u2019ve been pretty open about that, but yeah, we\u2019ve got to have better Saturdays to set ourselves up better for success.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Denny Hamlin will be joined on the front row by teammate Chase Briscoe, who won last year\u2019s Southern 500.<\/p>\n 11 \u2014 Denny Hamlin<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cOur strengths are just conventional ovals. Anything that turns left is going to be our strength. We\u2019re in the unique position, there\u2019s truthfully about four or five of us that are the fastest cars every single week and there\u2019s others, right? It\u2019s just, do you have enough of a head start through your playoff points and whatnot to keep moving on? Do you have enough to sustain a bad day that everyone has during the course of a season?<\/p>\n \u201cThe challenge will be obviously Talladega. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve avoided a superspeedway wreck in about 10 years now \u2013 or it feels that way. And then, what happens at the Roval, right? There\u2019re so many different strategies and stuff that can happen. What points position are you in before you get to there? A lot of that will be dictated in the first couple races of that round.\u201d<\/p>\n 12 \u2014 Ryan Blaney <\/b><\/p>\n \u201cOne thing I\u2019ve been really happy about this year as opposed to last year or the year before that when it took us a little while to get going, early in the year and through the early summer, our pace was just really not where it needed to be, and that was with some car changes and stuff like that. It just took us a while to get our arms around it, but this year I\u2019ve been really happy with our pace all year. I feel like we\u2019ve had super fast cars, been executing really well and we\u2019ve been continuing to get better on our execution and stuff like that. Just mentally tough guys. We\u2019ve had a bunch of DNFs, but don\u2019t really let it get to you, just continue to go do your job very well the weeks after. It\u2019s a cool group to be like that, so this group is very mentally tough.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Ryan Blaney, Chase Elliott and Bubba Wallace are among a group of playoff drivers who began racing full-time in Cup between 2016-2022 making an impact in the sport.<\/p>\n 19 \u2014 Chase Briscoe <\/b><\/p>\n \u201cFor us, our strength is our speed. There\u2019s really not a single style of race track where we haven\u2019t been one of the faster cars in general. I think for us, you know our pit crew has been really good, we just we have a couple of blow up pit stops and just mistakes. Think it all just gets bundled into execution, whether it\u2019s pit crew or myself on the race track. Just executing races from lap one to the final lap. That\u2019s really what I feel like separates teams in the playoffs is just making sure you execute and don\u2019t make these mistakes that take you out of the day.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we can do that for 10 weeks, from a speed standpoint. we should have plenty of speed you know run up front and get points. It\u2019s going to be a matter of not shooting ourselves in the foot and if we can do that, I feel like we have a really good shot.\u201d<\/p>\n 20 \u2014 Christopher Bell<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cWell, I would say our biggest strength is road course racing, but there is a guy named Shane van Gisbergen that keeps taking that away. Road courses have been really good, so I\u2019m optimistic about the Roval, and then obviously, short tracks, flat tracks \u2013 Phoenix, Loudon, Gateway \u2013 those style race tracks have obviously been really good to us for a number of years now. Between the Roval and those \u2013 Gateway, Loudon, Phoenix \u2013 I think that is our bread and butter.<\/p>\n \u201cIntermediates \u2013 we\u2019ve been close and have been able to run well, but it just seems like we have been a little off on winning pace, but \u2026 it could change in any week, and we could go out and win any of those races. Weakness for sure is Talladega \u2013 even if Talladega is a strength, you are not guaranteed a good finish there. I think we are on par with the rest of them with most of our good tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n 21 \u2014 Josh Berry<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cI feel like our strengths going into this deal are basically every oval track. I look at throughout this season at different races where maybe we didn\u2019t get the finishes that we deserved or the little things here or there that held that back, so I think generally more often that not we had speed at a lot of these places and that\u2019s going to be important when we get into these playoffs and just executing smooth races, making it to the end and seeing what happens. I think weakness probably for us would be the Roval, but we\u2019ve got to get there before we worry about that.\u201d<\/p>\n 22 \u2014 Joey Logano<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cOur biggest strength is gonna be those \u2026 those 1-mile, flat tracks. That\u2019s our wheelhouse. Our biggest weakness is probably mile-and-a-halves. With that said, I still think we can win at them, I just think that\u2019s kind of our toughest point or biggest hurdle to try to jump.\u201d<\/p>\n 23 \u2014 Bubba Wallace<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cBiggest strength \u2013 I think mentality is my biggest strength. You guys probably wouldn\u2019t give me that trait a couple of years ago. I feel good where I\u2019m at. I feel confident where I\u2019m at. My weakness \u2013 I think is the heat of the moment scenarios. I guess it goes with mentality too \u2013 how do you react to that. We will go with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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