Austin Dillon knew he needed to make a giant transfer in the course of the closing lap of the Cook dinner Cout 400 to earn a much-needed win. Whereas talking to Kevin Harvick on Victory Lane, Dillon defined his thought course of on the final lap at Richmond earlier than wrecking Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin.
“Sadly, the warning comes out with two to go. I simply needed to put my thoughts relaxed and say ‘Hey look, we will do that,’” Dillon stated. “Pit crew, I bought to provide them an enormous shoutout. We haven’t put them in positions to have that chance fairly often they usually clutched it when it mattered. So we’re up entrance, we selected the underside and perhaps that wasn’t the precise name. However I used to be going off of earlier race wins off of that and I felt like if Joey takes inside, eight tires are going to be higher than 4. That was my different factor, I might shield a bit higher from the within.
“After we fired, he rolled and he had a giant roll on me. I needed to go early within the field, and I waited a bit too lengthy. He rolled me and beat me to the beginning/end line. That put me in a nasty scenario. As soon as I knew he had gotten the lead off of two, I simply wanted to make a nook that may give me a possibility to get to him. Off of Flip 2, I felt like he had a slip off of 4 that saved me inside an honest distance. I had an honest Flip 2 on the white flag lap, after which it was like no matter it took to get him up the observe unfastened no matter it was.
Austin Dillon dives into wreck with Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin
Dillon then will get into the transfer that led to him hitting Logano and Hamlin. “I went into Flip 3, I used to be up a gear, and after I rolled to [Logano], I feel I caught him proper within the fringe of the precise rear,” Dillion defined. “He went up the observe, I downshifted a fourth.
“At that time, I’m trying in the beginning/end line with much less momentum. Denny’s arising the observe, I didn’t see…Once I’m trying in the beginning/end line, I’m going on the closest angle. When he comes up, that was only a response attending to the road.”
Logano and Hamlin referred to as out Dillon for wrecking them on Sunday. With the victory, Dillon clinched a spot within the playoffs. Logano and Hamlin clinched playoff spots earlier this 12 months as every has received at the least one Cup Collection race.
