What NASCAR drivers said after Phoenix Cup race won by Christopher Bell
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Shane van Gisbergen — 31st: 'They were racing four-wide. I hoped over a wheel and there wasn't much I could do. I tried to pull it up and got a bit loose. We were getting better and better as the race went on. I felt like the No. 88 Chevy was getting better, too. It's a shame we're still not out there learning. I really like the soft tire. They just give you so much more feel. It feels like they should probably be the primary tire, and they should make a softer one. The cars move around and you have so much pull going on, but yeah, it is what it is. On the yellow, we kind of struggled a little bit.'
Justin Haley — 34th: 'I knew (Ty Gibbs) was coming across my nose and I just tried to lift. It honestly just looked like a racing deal. I'm not sure that anyone did anything wrong. We were just racing four-wide and we all just ran out of room there on exit. I hate that it tore up two Spire Motorsports Chevys, but there's a lot we can take from today and we'll move onto Las Vegas (Motor Speedway). I wish I would have been on the option tires the whole time, and everyone else would have been on the primaries. They just make you feel like Superman. I like the tire. I honestly feel like we should go to it everywhere. They make the cars drive a lot better. I don't know if that's what you want, but it will be interesting to see how it plays out.'
Chase Briscoe — 35th: 'That was about the biggest you can crash at Phoenix. It was a big one. Yeah, just on that restart, we were all kind of three, four wide. And I just climbed over (Justin Haley's right front). Yeah, unfotrtunately, we were able to go to the tail and drove back up to 13th and felt really good about our Toyota. I got myself in a bad spot, and I was probably trying to fade a little more left just knowing that (Carson Hocevar) was on my right rear and climbed over (Haley's) right front. Unfortunate but try to learn from it and not do that again and go on to Vegas.'
Carson Hocevar — 36th: 'It's frustrating. The car was fast. I felt like our Chevrolet was pretty good, we just got behind on a pit stop and just playing the tire game. Shouldn't have been back there was what the result of it was, unfortunately. We had track position, the way that cycle worked out, we were just back there in the mess. Unfortunate, but our Spire cars are fast, and I'm sure they'll be fast again.'
Riley Herbst — 37th: 'It all happened in front of me. Just kind of biding my time, learning, continue to work and build. They were wrecking off Turn 2, and I tried to avoid it to go low and just caught in it at the last second. Frustrated for sure but get to go home next weekend and hopefully have a good run.'
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