JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 AXALTA/PENN STATE CHEVROLET SS – QUALIFIED 4TH

ON THE QUALIFYING SESSION ENDING EARLY:

“That is unfortunate. You want to see everybody get a chance at it. But that is what I love so much about this format. It creates drama in so many different ways. You are playing the cloud, the track conditions, the time and you don’t know if somebody is going to have an issue and end the session. I’m real proud of our Axalta/Penn State team. We showed how fast the car was in practice as well as backed it up in qualifying. Didn’t have our best session in session two, I missed Turn 1 a little bit, but backed it up and put down a good lap in session three. We are going to start fourth, real happy with that and real happy that Alan (Gustafson, crew chief) chose to go out early there.”