Jeff Gordon Admits Hendrick Motorsports Left ‘Surprised’ Despite William Byron’s NASCAR Win in Martinsville

The 2022 season so far has been brilliant for Hendrick Motorsports. The team has managed to pick up yet another win in the NASCAR Cup Series. With the most recent being at the Martinsville, the environment in the team is jubilant.

Amidst all these, team chairman Jeff Gordon opened up on the Martinsville race. The chief talked about the surprising facts that happened back in Martinsville. NASCAR was in Virginia for the seventh round of the Cup Series.

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The race at Virginia wasn’t a typical race with cautions, hits, and lead changes. When asked if Jeff was surprised by this, he stated, “Well I was surprised, I’ll be honest you know. We were trying to speculate what was going to happen. I was talking to all the crew chiefs and kind of getting their thoughts. I don’t think anybody would’ve guessed that it would’ve gone.”

Jeff Gordon attended an interview session with Rudy Fugle post-race. When asked about how did they approached the win, Jeff conveyed, “Especially because it’s a new car and they’re shifting every lap and it’s easy to lock the left front tire up and there’s just a lot of things and I think you all knew that it’d be deeper in the breaking zone, lap times has been faster. You know there was a lot of fall off.”

With the win at Martinsville Speedway, Hendrick Motorsports picked up their fourth win of the season. Talking about their stunning win at the circuit, Gordon further asserted, “Typically in that situation you’d say oh wait then people are going to get more desperate to make those bonsai moves, and then the cautions are going to come or hey what do we not know about this car that could kind of bite us today.”

How did the season turn out for Hendrick Motorsports so far?

Apart from the recent win at Martinsville, Kyle Larson and Alex Bowman gave the team back-to-back victories in Fontana and Las Vegas. Not only the team fetched wins in the second and third round, but also in the fifth round when William Byron brought home the Hampton race.

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With the second win of the season, William Byron pulled himself up to the third position in the driver’s standings with 276 points. Another team driver, Chase Elliott, leads the championship with 288 points followed by Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney.