“My world is pretty much opposite,” Ross Chastain reflects on how his 2022 run differs from that of the previous season
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Ross Chastain sports the No.1 Chevrolet Camaro for Trackhouse Racing as a full-time NASCAR Cup Series driver and he also competes part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series racing the No.92 Chevrolet Camaro for DGM Racing and in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driving the No.41 Chevrolet Silverado for Niece Motorsports, the team performed exceptionally well with three wins and eleven top 5s from both Ross Chastain and teammate Daniel Suarez and it shows how strong they are behind the wheel and also in the pits.
Ross Chastain appears to be on fire with the way his season is heading as he won the season’s first road-course race at Circuit of The Americas, the Echopark Automotive Grand Prix, and later went on to win the GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway and he has also posted eight top 5s this season with a P2 in the previous outing at Nashville Superspeedway in the Ally 400 after taking some time in the off-weekend and coming back with a bang.
“I just want to be competitive. I want to go fast and get more points,” Ross Chastain shows his hunger for wins and points while already having his best season yet
Ross Chastain surely is on cloud 9 with how his 2022 season has turned out to be after finishing 20th last season and he admitted that this season has turned out to be the exact opposite of what it was last year and he is very aware of what his car can do and he surely doesn’t want to mess it up trying to go and push his limits and the limits of his car as he doesn’t want to risk his position in the race losing what he has achieved so far.
“My world is pretty much opposite just from where I was at this point last year in life and my career to the performance, we’ve put together this entire season, where we finished second and it was the greatest thing to happen to us all year, now, we finish fifth and it’s exactly what we’re supposed to do, we had the fifth-place car and we needed to finish fifth with it. We don’t need to wreck trying to get third and we don’t need to run ninth with it, we need to run fifth,” said Ross Chastain.
He added by talking about how he is still looking for wins and points and he supports that by saying that he wants to do the best he can and stay far ahead of his competitors and continue doing that till he achieves his dream of winning the Cup Series Championship. He also added by saying that his run at Nashville was delightful as he explains it by barely making out from collapsing again while drafting behind Cole Custer and he was glad that he could hold onto his position for the rest of the race.
“I just want to be competitive. I want to go fast and get more points than everybody else and that’ll all sort itself out, but of course it’s a goal. It was incredible, we had grip and I got to Cole Custer’s back bumper and I wanted to try to tandem and help him and help me, selfishly, hooked out, found clean air, and kind of knifed my way through there and held off some guys there on the last lap to hold onto fifth,” added Ross Chastain.
He concluded by saying that he is filled with joy after knowing that the events on the track at Nashville turned out to be exactly how he wanted them to and he also added that he thought he was a lap down when he hit the pit roads and he wanted to come out on 6th but ended up in 13th place and he ended by saying that he and his team can have a good night’s sleep after knowing that the race went their way.
“For me, it checks just as many boxes and gets me just as excited that we executed tonight exactly where we should’ve. When we pitted, I thought we were about to win Nashville, and then whenever we left pit road on the access road, but you just play your best hand and Phil Surgen and our group will go to bed very well tonight knowing we made a good call to win the race. It just didn’t quite work out,” concluded Ross Chastain.
With Ross Chastain and Trackhouse Racing maintaining their current streak of good performances and winning the two road courses, will they emerge victorious in the next one at Road America?
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