JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 AXALTA COATINGS CHEVROLET SS – QUALIFIED 13TH

IT’S TRICKY JUST TO GET THE TIMING RIGHT

“Yeah, I’m probably most disappointed in the first run out because I thought it was a good lap and I obviously didn’t push it hard enough; didn’t drive it well enough to get us in that first time. And when we had to go back out and put extra laps on the tires and extra heat in the tires, it just affected us from that point forward. I’m disappointed in that. I’m disappointed that we didn’t go faster. I really thought in practice we had a car that would have easily qualified in the top 24 for that first round and made it into round 2 just to start working on how we could sit on the pole and be in the top five. I did not expect to be here in 13th or 14th. It was certainly tight; really tight. It was unbelievable the times and how tight they were and how much faster it was. Our car is really good, but I thought it was going to be better than that.”

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