Another Runner-up Finish for Matt Kenseth in His Possibly Last NASCAR Cup Race at Brickyard

Last night, Matt Kenseth scored a second-place finish at the NASCAR Cup race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. This was his fourth runner-up finish at the Brickyard. With his 2021 plans with Chip Ganassi Racing unclear, he might not get another attempt to win the Indy race and kiss the bricks.

After the race, Kenseth talked to NBC Sports. In the interview, he talked about the final restart of the race. He said, “Aric was great. He was ready and pushed me. I didn’t do the best job taking off. I didn’t want to get a penalty for jumping the start. When I started going, he pushed me. He still pushed me up there pretty good. Couldn’t get going that fast.”

He added, “Didn’t look like Kevin was going, so I hesitated just that beat that kind of got Kevin out there.”

Kenseth got his best finish after his return to NASCAR Cup racing

Yesterday’s runner-up finish was his best result after the veteran driver was called in to fill for Kyle Larson. He expressed his happiness after the result. He said, “The car drove pretty good here the whole entire day, too. I’m hoping we can just carry that momentum into Kentucky, just keep moving forward with that. Hopefully get to the front like we did today, running up front where this team belongs.”

Additionally, he talked about the past races after the series’ return. he said, “We had a good day starting off at Darlington. I was super sloppy and rusty, we still finished 10th. Just kind of downhill from there. We went back and were a little faster. I hit the wall, got a bad finish. Nothing was going really well. Like I said, we had a couple of decent races last weekend with no mistakes, no problems, no issues, got decent finishes. Today we were able to be competitive, run up front.”

IMS result a confidence booster for Kenseth

After the race, Kenseth said that the finish at Indiana was a big confidence booster for him. He posted a video on his twitter. He said, “Whenever you run well, you build more confidence, not just for myself but for the team and everybody involved,”

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