For us, with how the Xfinity cars are with the solid rear axle we wheel hop a lot, so going into turn six, turn four, turn seven, all of them that had bumps going in there were definitely treacherous. We wanted to, and we could, you’d just have to get me from jail I guess.” We’ve got to do the Stone Cold thing and I think we’re gonna do that after this, but they said it’s a felony to jump in the fountain, so we’re probably not gonna do that, I guess. YOU HAVE YOUR FIRST WIN IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS AFTER GETTING YOUR FIRST POLE IN THE STATE. It was pretty awesome and the stands for an Xfinity race was packed yesterday, so it was definitely a really cool event.” They were just screaming and yelling and you could hear them. I’ve never experienced that, I don’t think, anywhere at any other racetrack. On the pace laps we rolled off pit road and you could hear them cheering from the stands between one and two. WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THE FANS WHO WANTED TO EXPERIENCE THIS WEEKEND? We’ll see what they’re all made of today if they have to do that.” I can’t imagine it with 40 guys out there in the wet. It’s wild enough just being by yourself out there in the dry. I’m sure all the Cup guys are praying the rain goes away because they do not probably want to deal with that. I was sitting in the car most of the time and I just heard there was a lot of standing water through seven through 11 or so. I think this team can compete with anybody out there and we’re really hitting our stride, and I’m really proud of JT and all the guys at the shop who have worked so hard to put us in this situation.”ĭID YOU GET TO SEE ANY AREAS OF THE TRACK. We don’t want to win it this way, but at the end of the day we had a really fast car and I think everybody knew that. Today, we definitely wish we could have run all the laps. You can push it out there and run fast laps, but you’re gonna be on the edge or wrecking, so it’s definitely a blast to drive and puts it in the driver’s hands a little bit. There’s definitely passing zones out there, but it’s such a risk versus reward as a driver. I think everybody was a little bit skeptical going in and all the drivers, but the course is such a blast to drive. The whole thing that NASCAR has put on here and the whole city has been pretty unreal. “It’s been an awesome weekend overall, just the whole event. WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT THE COURSE YESTERDAY AND TODAY’S CIRCUMSTANCES? Custer is in a three-way tie for seventh on the all-time Ford NXS win list with Joey Logano and Austin Cindric with 12 victories.ĬOLE CUSTER, No. It also continues a Ford hot streak that has seen the Blue Oval win three of the last four NXS races overall. The win is Custer’s second of the year and 12th of his NXS career. Custer started on the pole and led all of the laps that were completed before rain eventually forced NASCAR to call the race. Cole Custer was declared the winner of this weekend’s rain-shortened inaugural Loop 121 on the streets of Chicago.

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