What drivers said after Kyle Larson's NASCAR Cup win at Homestead-Miami Speedway

Kyle Larson — Winner: "It was far from perfect. I gave up two spots by getting in the wall too many times. I knew I wasn't going to get the best restart. I knew I wasn't good on the short runs. JJust had to keep plugging away at what I know and what's good for me. Proud of myself. Proud of the team. Just a lot of gritty hard work today between damage on pit road, qualifying bad, bad restarts. All that stuff. Just super pumped. One of the coolest wins of my Cup career because of all the heartbreak I've had here. The heartbreak yesterday. Just keep my head down and keep digging feels really good."

Alex Bowman — Second: "I guess I choked that one away for sure. Just kind of burned my stuff up. Saw (Larson) coming, so I moved around a little bit. Not when he passed me, but the time before that I hit (the wall) with the right front and just bent something enough that I lost a lot of right front feel, and then I pulled it off the wall too far and ended up hitting the fence pretty bad. So man, I hate that for this group. they deserve better than that. Just a couple of mistakes there. I felt like we were OK all day. That last run was probably the best we were but hats off to (this team). I hate it for (Rick) Hendrick. Congrats to Kyle and we'll try to get another win this week."

Kyle Larson beats Hendrick teammate Alex Bowman at Homestead-Miami Speedway

The 2021 Cup Series champion led the final seven laps on the 1.5-mile oval.

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Bubba Wallace — Third: "It was really good. We showed up here in Miami and had speed. That's the first box you want to check. We fired off just OK, and so I was just praying for track position. My pit crew has been on fire. Tremendous amount of work has gone into the last five years of this team to get where we're at. We're not where we want to be, but we're damn sure competitive each and every stop. They got us up there and gave me a shot. Our Toytoa was just a game-changer. Got out front. I didn't think I burned my stuff up to start that last run, but I need to go back and study and obviously not hit the fence and allow (Bowman) to get there. All in all, hats off to my 23 group here. It's been a grind all year long. We've been getting kicked in the teeth the last stage of every race. Finally close one out. This feels good. I can't hang my head over this. It's a good day."

Chase Briscoe — Fourth: "Starting fourth, finishing fourth is not the whole story. We were up and down all day long on pit stops, brake issues, tire vibrations. Honestly, this is what we needed as a race team. To come out with a top five, we can finally kind of build on this. I felt like we've had good speed all year. We just haven't been able to kind of show that. It's fun to be up in the front all day long and show what I'm capable of. Really looking forward to the next couple of weeks. There are a lot of really good racetracks for us as a team and even myself."

Ryan Blaney — 36th: “I didn’t have any warning. It just laid over when I got back to wide-open down the front, and that was all she wrote. It just stinks. We had a really fast Dent Wizard Ford Mustang. We led a lot of laps. We lost a little bit of track position there with some stuff on pit road, but got back to third and it was a great race between me and Bubba and Larson. I’m sure Denny was gonna get back into it. It was gonna be a heck of a battle the last 60 laps or so, but it just didn’t really work out for us. We’ll continue to keep fighting. I appreciate the 12 guys for just giving me a hot rod. It was an incredibly, incredibly fast race car today. We’ll keep our heads up. It’s just one of those things where it’s not really going our way right now, but the good news is we’re bringing fast cars and that’s all you can ask for. We’ll keep on moving.”

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