Shane van Gisbergen is NASCAR’s leading active winner on road and street courses with Sonoma victory

Shane van Gisbergen, winner: "Yeah, what a day. We were really bad yesterday, and these guys did an amazing job turning this car into a winner. (Chase Briscoe) was coming. He was really, really good, and I ran out at the end. Pretty special to make up for last week, too. I was back to normal by the weekend, but yeah, I was certainly pissed at the start of the week. This really makes up for it sharing it with these guys. They went through it at the start of the week. Pretty special to win. Yeah, we had these (crap) boxes come out in front, and they were wobbling all over the track and putting dust, and I just kept struggling. Chase was just really, really good. Yeah, a couple more laps we would have had some problems. It certainly helps, but I need to really step it up on the ovals. We all do. Yeah, certainly helps us, but this is an oval championship, and I need to keep getting better at them.

Chase Briscoe, second: "It was odd. Not very many people get that close to him at the end of one of these road course races. Yeah, just frustrated with myself. I felt like I definitely had the better car. I didn't do as good of a job as he did driving. I just made a mistake with, like, three or four to go getting into one. I was having to push so hard, and that was where I would make up my ground. It was just such a razor's edge, and I about crashed. Gave up a call to second, and then I was able to obviously run him back down at the end. If I don't make that mistake, I'm probably ahead of him I feel like at the end. So, yeah, just bummed that at the end of the day it was my fault we didn't win, but amazing car. James and the group just did an amazing job. I had a super-fast Toyota. Frustrated I didn't win with the best car. Against that guy, you got to be absolutely perfect."

Ty Gibbs, third: "Obviously, we come here to win, and unfortunately, we didn't, but we had a really fast Toyota Camry. I don't know. We just needed to be on a different strategy there. So I definitely felt like we were capable and had the speed to go win and wish we would have, but, yeah, we'll keep working hard and keep going."

Kyle Larson, fourth: "My car was great all weekend, and we had a really, really good race. So, yeah, honestly, when we came out of that final pit stop after doing kind of the overcut and running longer than those guys, we came out right behind them. or like a similar gap to what I was. I was like, ‘Man, we're going to have fresher tires. I might have something here. I'm going to try to just manage while also gaining time.’ And we did for a little while, just not as large as I thought. And then, yeah, I was kind of falling off there at the end. So, it was a good day, though. Happy with the race car, happy with the pit crew, the strategy and all those things. And another top five for us. So a good little stretch of races here. It's definitely the best we've been all year. And I don't even know the last time we probably had four top fives in a row, as well as we even run. I'm so inconsistent throughout my Cup career. But, yeah, I'm proud of our team. We've been working so hard. all year not just the 5 team but all of Hendrick Motorsports. I heard Alex (Bowman) got in the top 10 today so yeah that's that's really cool and shows that we're making gains. The Toyotas are still the best. Even with SVG winning today, they were on his butt, so that shows how good they were. But yeah, we're way closer than we were to start the year, and I feel like we're just gaining little bits at a time. So just keep stacking that, and hopefully we'll peak when it comes to the final 10, and we'll have a good shot in the Chase."

Christopher Bell, fifth: "Yeah, I’m just super proud of this team. We’ve had a lot of adversity this year, and we keep battling back. They brought an amazing Camry. We had an amazing race car last week in San Diego too. Got a good finish out of it, got a lot of points, which is great. That is what we needed today.”

Connor Zilisch, seventh: “I felt like I could have been a little better there on that last run. We just got really loose. We’ll have to look at it and see, but it was a good day for this No. 88 Chevrolet team. At the end, we just needed more rear grip. Overall, our Chevy was good all day, but with that last set of tires, we struggled. It felt good to have a clean run. We needed a day like this to go into next week with something to build on.”

Michael McDowell, ninth: “We just didn’t quite have the speed that we needed in our No. 71 Chevrolet, especially on the long runs. We fired off pretty well, but then around 15 laps into the run, I would start losing the rears pretty quickly and fading back. We did a decent job maximizing our points with getting points in that first stage, but we just didn’t quite have enough today to really challenge for the win. It’s disappointing, but we’ll take a top-10 finish for two straight weeks. It’s not the points we needed, but overall, we executed a good day.”

Carson Hocevar, 11th: "We don't have any more road courses, which I'm not complaining about it at all, but it makes me really happy that we can just kind of really lock in, work on it, and get our cars better for me and get comfortable and put together two really good results. San Diego, maybe not the result, but just the effort was really good for my standards. Especially Sonoma, honestly, getting stage points and then finish 11th, I was pretty happy about it. And I was going forward on long runs, not backwards, which I was proud of. … I was watching my mirror the whole time, and I look up and I wasn't even seeing that I was hitting Denny. It was I was avoiding trying to knock my front end off when he was spinning. So I was happy to hear that I wasn't the difference maker of Ty beating Denny because I think I would. be looked at for sports fixing probably the way I was you know singing Ty's praises. But ultimately apologize to obviously them. I wasn't trying to spin them. But I'm just proud of our effort, though. Really happy with the car and I'm trying to close the gap between my teammates here, and Michael McDowell is a really good road course racer, and I've finished two spots behind him. I know he's disappointed, their team is, but I'm happy I'm close to them.”

AJ Allmendinger, 16th: “On the road courses this season, it seems like no matter what I do, I can’t make the tires last and it hits that cliff. Once it hits that cliff, I think we fall harder than most. The first run, it went away really bad. I thought we generally made our No. 16 Chevrolet better as the race went on, but that same issue was always there. It’s like I was always trying to manage tires early in the run and not use them up too much, just knowing that cliff was going to hit. I thought we got everything out of it that we could. Trent (Owens, crew chief) did a good job of keeping me out for stage points. We wanted to try to get points both stages. I thought he made a good call there to get points in the second stage because, honestly, even how the race played out, I don’t think we were better than a top-15 anyways, so we came home with a 16th-place finish and eight extra points.”

Denny Hamlin, 26th: ". I had a really fast car, a top-five car on speed. Didn't have great restarts. I gave up a couple in the first, about one after that, and then just got spun there. Once we got spun, somebody hit the nose and knocked the splitter off, so it just lost all the downforce. Struggled to run where we're at."

Austin Dillon, 27th: “We have a lot of work to do coming out of Sonoma Raceway. The entire No. 3 Chevrolet team gave it their all today, but after we lost track position due to a speeding penalty early in the race, we just couldn’t get ahead. The team was making the needed adjustments, and it was coming in towards the end of the race, especially through Turn 10, but we’d just lost too much ground. We’re going to go back to Welcome, North Carolina, and reset for next weekend.”

Austin Hill, 34th: “Unfortunate finish for our Chevrolet team. We played a fuel strategy that had us saving with 40 laps to go, so just managed what we could without losing a ton of time to the fresher tires before pitting with eight laps to go. After qualifying 12th, I felt like our car had top-15, top-20 speed. The balance definitely got better as the race went on, but I had trouble keeping the rears on it. I would four -wheel slide and lose the front and rear under braking. We had speed, though, which is a testament to everyone who works at RCR and ECR. Shame the finish doesn’t show it, but we’ll keep building and learning together.”

Ty Dillon, 35th: "That was so disappointing. We had such a good car today and were running 10th at one point. It looked like we had Denny (Hamlin) and were going advance to the next round in the tournament, but with power steering problems at this track you just can't be competitive. There are a lot of positives to take from this weekend. We know we can build fast cars and proved that today."

Tyler Reddick, 36th: "Billy wasn't sure exactly what it was. Yeah, we were just trying to diagnose it, and, yeah, it's just a very odd issue. Coming into the pit stall, I don't know, everything seemed fine when we left the pit stall, that first green-flag cycle. Just a lot of issues in the steering. Just really notchy power steering going in and out like it was getting bound up. So I didn't know what was going on. I didn't know if we had a wheel issue or what it was at first, but all the wheels were good, and it was just really, really hard to make any kind of lap time with it. So I think it's so hard to say in hindsight if we made the right decision or not to work on it. I definitely don't think I would have been within seconds of of the pace, so I think either way, we had a difficult road ahead. I do feel good that it was nice that we did decide to pit there, work on it, so we were able to get the Xfinity fastest lap out of the day at least. So that was the tough thing. We still continued to fight a little bit of a power steering issue in our Toyota Camry, but it was kind of bittersweet we were able to get the fastest lap and have that kind of speed, even though we were having slight steering issues to finish the race out. I'd say we got pretty fortunate today. (Hamlin) was running really, really good. So all things considered, for the issues that we had, we were very fortunate to really only lose nine points on the day or eight points on the day to Denny. finishing dead last so it is what it is. We'll take it. We'll move on, and we'll do everything we can at Chicagoland to get back to the lead."