Dale Earnhardt, Jr talks about his day at Kansas:

“That was a year’s worth of action in one day. I’m exhausted. It was hard work out there, but I had to match the effort of my whole team. I’m not happy to finish 10th - but I’m really, really happy with the great car we had and happy to run up front most of the day. We just got beat on fuel mileage. It happens.

After we got that huge hole in the nose, I never could get it to turn like it did early in the day. We were so tight, I guess I was trying to add a rubber to the front end by runnin’ over one on the track.” “It was a good day… a good car. And great pit stops all day. Those guys are really on their game. I am so proud of the effort of my guys. We were better than a 10th-place car and they deserve to finish in the top-three, but the scoreboard doesn’t always show how good your team is. They got me out of the pits in the lead, so the bonus points were absolutely earned by my crew.

We did gain a lot of points on some of the guys in the Chase, but we finished behind Burton so we’re a few points further out of first place. What can you do? We couldn’t make it on fuel, and the car was just too tight to pass the 99 (C. Edwards) and the 20 (Stewart) without stopping for fresh tires. That was the strategy for us at the end: take tires and then try to make up time while they were on older tires. It would have worked if they would have stopped fuel as well.”

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