{"id":28649,"date":"2023-04-03T09:04:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T13:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=28649"},"modified":"2023-04-03T09:04:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T13:04:59","slug":"larson-refocuses-after-pit-road-contact-to-win-at-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2023\/04\/larson-refocuses-after-pit-road-contact-to-win-at-richmond\/","title":{"rendered":"Larson refocuses after pit-road contact to win at Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Larson refocuses after pit-road contact to win at Richmond\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qGlC-eH-T1s?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KEVIN HARVICK, No. 4 GEARWRENCH Ford Mustang<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 \u201cWe didn\u2019t have a very smooth day and the car didn\u2019t really do anything that I wanted it to do to have a shot at winning, but we fought hard all day.&nbsp;We were definitely expecting to be a little bit better, but that\u2019s the way it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT THIS NEW SHORT TRACK PACKAGE HERE?<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cI don\u2019t think there was really any difference, honestly, compared to a lot of the things that we had last year.&nbsp;I think we definitely handled a little bit worse than we did at the last race here, but there was a lot different on the car, too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MICHAEL MCDOWELL, No. 34 Love\u2019s Travel Stops Ford Mustang<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 \u201cI think the strategy was a good call.&nbsp;A lot of that was our car was really good on the long run and I think we were gonna be 15th or 16th, so you might as well go for it and see if you can\u2019t come up with something good and it worked out.&nbsp;I thought it was a great call by Travis Peterson.&nbsp;The Love\u2019s Ford Mustang was pretty good all day.&nbsp;We needed a little bit more speed on the front end and not lose so much track position early on, but the long run speed was great.&nbsp;Had a couple of those runs gone a little longer, I think we would have actually been a little bit better yet, so I\u2019m proud of everybody.&nbsp;Phoenix was a good race for us and this obviously being a good race, so I feel like our short track program is turning the corner, at least I hope so.&nbsp;I\u2019m optimistic about that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Shell\/Pennzoil Ford Mustang&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 \u201cWe had a really good car.&nbsp;Our Mustang was fast, maybe definitely could have won.&nbsp;It felt pretty good.&nbsp;That loose wheel set us back, but it was so early in the race we thought we could recover.&nbsp;We started to recover and did recover, and then we were trying to split it halfway and get the track position, but we had two untimely cautions that just didn\u2019t work out for us.&nbsp;Typical Richmond it does work out, but more cautions today than typical.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>THOUGHTS ON THE PACKAGE?&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cI thought it was a fun race.&nbsp;I had fun.&nbsp;It\u2019s a tricky track.&nbsp;It\u2019s fun.&nbsp;It\u2019s one of my favorite tracks, probably my favorite track to run and manage your tires and when you run hard and all that it\u2019s really fun for the driver.&nbsp;It\u2019s probably the most fun track for the driver.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ARIC ALMIROLA, No. 10 Smithfield Ford Mustang<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 \u201cWe struggled a little bit.&nbsp;I feel like this is one of my better places and I just thought we were a little bit off of where we needed to be.&nbsp;We\u2019ve got some work to do before we come back, but proud to finally get out of a race with a decent day where we didn\u2019t have anything catastrophic happen.&nbsp;We didn\u2019t have everything go perfectly, but we were able to get out of here with a race car that\u2019s still in one piece and go forward from here.&nbsp;Hopefully, this is the start to turning our season around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CHASE BRISCOE, No. 14 Mahindra Tractors Ford Mustang&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 \u201cWe were just like a 12th-place car all day.&nbsp;The whole day we ran between 10th and 15th and just kind of depended on restarts and pit road.&nbsp;That kind of determined where we would fall out.&nbsp;The long run speed wasn\u2019t probably as good as what we needed it to be, and our short run speed was kind of just OK to kind of hang on, so for how our season has been going this was honestly a good day \u2013 just to kind of run 10th to 15th all day long and not have anything crazy happen.&nbsp;I\u2019m looking forward to next week going to the dirt track for 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