[autotag]Ross Chastain[/autotag] didn’t have the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series regular-season he expected, but the trials and tribulations finally paid off on Sunday afternoon. Chastain beat William Byron for his first win of the 2024 season at Kansas. It was a huge victory for the Trackhouse Racing driver, who surprisingly failed to make the 2024 playoffs.
Following the event, Chastain got out of his No. 1 Chevrolet and discussed his massive victory in Kansas. It may not advance him into the Round of 8, but it’s a win that validates so much going on at Trackhouse Racing.
“It’s a huge deal, Marty,” Chastain. “I am going to take down my consumption just a little bit. For us on this 1 team, it’s what [NASCAR Cup Series] racing is all about. It’s what Justin Marks bought into Trackhouse with Pitbull, bought into NASCAR with Trackhouse to do stuff like this, to disrupt. Look, there’s been times this year where we couldn’t have disrupted the minnow pond outside of Darlington, let alone a Cup race. It’s hard. It’s really tough.”
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“To come and do this, there are times where I didn’t think after practicing qualifying we had what it took. I thought we have been way stronger here in the past. It didn’t feel great all day, but our Kubota Chevy, it was better as the rubber went down, and the adjustments were great…I remember that process I talked about at Nashville last year. We haven’t left. We haven’t went away. Nobody has slowed us down other than ourselves, and today we were the fastest car.”
Chastain won the 2023 NASCAR season finale at Phoenix Raceway but struggled to replicate that speed over the next 29 races. Trackhouse Racing has Daniel Suarez in the playoffs, but Chastain has been the most successful driver at the organization since he joined. The driver of the No. 1 car needed a win badly, and Kansas could represent the turning point.
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