Information By: AMY WALSH STOCK / LEGACY MOTOR CLUB – DAYTONA BEACH, FL
JOHN HUNTER NEMECHEK
No. 42 DOLLAR TREE TOYOTA CAMRY XSE
START: 10TH
FINISH: 7TH
POINTS: 6TH
How was your race? “Solid Daytona 500, solid start to our year. P7. Ran up front for a little bit, rode around for a while and stayed out of the carnage. Overall, really proud of everyone at LEGACY MOTOR CLUB with this Dollar Tree Toyota Camry XSE.”
How did your Toyota Camry XSE feel during the race? “It felt good in the draft. I felt like I could push, I could ride, I could be pushed. Overall, a solid day. I feel good about where we are at. Decent start to the year.”
ERIK JONES
No. 43 ADVENTHEALTH TOYOTA CAMRY XSE
START: 11TH
FINISH: 8TH
POINTS: 9TH
How was your race? “A top-10 it looks like, so a good day for the AdventHealth Camry. It went the way we needed it to. We had some issues on pit road. We had a fast car; it just didn’t work out. We were out front there and then got caught up in a wreck there, and then came back and finished top-10. Good solid start.”
How do you feel about the top-10? “It’s good. It’s a good start to the season. I’ve not had good luck at the start of the season at Daytona, so we will take a top-10. I wish it was more. I think we had a car capable of more – I just struggled to make much happen throughout the day, getting in line and getting to the front. The AdventHealth Camry was good. Just didn’t play out at all throughout the night like we needed. We finally had something rolling there in the middle and it got choked up and we got caught up in that wreck, but we will take it. We will go to Atlanta and try again.”
JIMMIE JOHNSON
No. 84 CARVANA TOYOTA CAMRY XSE
START: 23RD
FINISH: 28TH
POINTS: 28TH
“It was so good to get two top-10’s for the No. 42 and Dollar Tree and the No. 43 and AdventHealth. I hoped to race a little longer in the Carvana Toyota Camry XSE before we got in a wreck, but it’s just a matter of time before you get caught up in something here. So, it was pretty disappointing. We had some optimism in the beginning, hopeful we could straighten out the suspension and then at least run in the draft. Then, as time went on, we realized the severity of the damage and we just had too much damage to even really hang in the draft unless I had a unique situation. So then, at that point it was just wondering if there were going to be more cautions and if we would gain some positions through the cautions.”