What drivers said after San Diego Cup win by Corey Heim

Corey Heim — winner: "I'm speechless. We started 13th. We fell straight back to like 20th, then put on our scuffs from qualifying and struggled just as bad. I don't know if we made any adjustments, but Woody kept telling me that these were our worst two sets of tires. We're gonna be just fine, and he was right. I couldn't believe that we strapped another set of tires on. We were just fine, hit the wall a couple times, maybe it knocked some good into the car. I have no idea. After Stage 2, I just kind of took a deep breath and was like I had really high expectations coming into this race. It's an even playing field for me. I don't see that every day for a young driver like myself, and I just kind of took a deep breath and reset and went after it. Caught a couple breaks with some of the good guys wrecking out, but they don't ask how, just how many. For a while there, I thought (Reddick) was kind of playing with me, but he's able to set the pace being the lead car, but I was kind of able to stick with it. I'm not really burning my stuff up. So five to go came, and it's just kind of time to put some pressure on him, see if I could get him to make a mistake. And sure enough, he did. I guess he ended up
breaking or something. I don't know what happened to him. But a lot of respect for him, though. He doored me down there in 5 and gave it back to me. That's something I'll say every day. Great teammates. Just crazy. It feels like a dream. I hope I don't wake up from this dream, but I don't know. This is insane. I didn't expect to come into my part-time season and win, but here we are. I mean, it's crazy. It hasn't even sunk in yet. I'm sure I'll get emotional in a little bit, but it really hasn't even sunk in yet."

Connor Zilisch — 37th: “It’s just unfortunate to end the day like that for both Chevrolets with Shane (Van Gisbergen) and I. We had a really fast car today. We got out front and it felt really good, but that’s how it goes sometimes. I had a lot of fun leading my first career Cup Series laps. Just super proud of this entire No. 88 team, but hate to see the day end this short. When you have a chance to go win a race and you’re in a prime spot to do so, but get put in a position like that, it’s extremely tough. It’s been a big weekend for all of us at Trackhouse Racing, and I just hate that both cars get taken out like that. We’ll put our heads down, put this weekend behind us and move onto the next (at Sonoma Raceway). I felt like we were just pacing ourselves and trying to get to the end of the race. These races always get crazy towards the end. I felt like we were really good, so it’s just unfortunate to have our day end like that.”

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Shane van Gisbergen — 38th: "I got a pretty good start, backed out of it to let them go. Obviously, didn't want to be three wide. And then, yeah, not good from there."

Brent Crews — 39th: "I was kind of going through the gears and it just broke, I’m not really sure. I’m going to have to have Adam (Stevens, crew chief) to look over it and myself to figure out if it was something I did or if it was just a freak accident. Once I look at it I’ll have more answers. It’s really unfortunate for this whole team. We came here to get points and coming out with not much. Unfortunate for the whole group, it was a great opportunity to come and learn and try and help these guys out. I had three laps I think in the Cup car and five in the O’Reilly car, so it was just trying to learn to the best of my ability. They are a lot different, the grip level is a lot less in the Cup car, but it’s got a lot of brakes but right after that it falls off and you don’t see that as much in the O’Reilly car.”

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