Denny Hamilin — winner: “(Crew chief) Chris Gayle, all the engineers, the pit crew, everyone just decided we were going to come here with a different approach than the last couple of years, and it was just amazing. Our car was great. It did everything I needed to do. Just so happy to win with Chris and get 55. It’s awesome. He’s been such a soldier to come in here to this 11 team and learn our style and over the last few weeks putting his final touches on it. It’s been a great mesh and relationship. Man, really happy to get a win with him and obviously back here in Martinsville where I spent so many years racing Late Models. Gosh, I love winning here.

Christopher Bell — second: We were back and forth on balance. I asked to be freer. And that last run, I was too loose and lost my drive-off. It was a great weekend for Joe Gibbs Racing, obviously. Showed a lot of pace. All four cars were really good. Really happy to get back up front. The last two weeks have been rough for this 20 team, and really happy for Denny. He’s the Martinsville master, so second to him is not that bad. I felt really bad at the end of the run. Qualifying really good was a big part of our success this weekend. Hopefully we can come back better in the fall and have a nice solid day. Everyone executed. Thanks to pit crew. We did the details right and came home second.”

Bubba Wallace — third: “A good day, nonetheless. Trying to scratch my head on what I could have done different. My restarts were terrible, and it’s one of my best traits. Need to go back and study that. What a great day. Continuing to rebound from the start of ur season. Super proud of our team, the car was fast all weekend. I let second get away, but I don’t think I had anything for Denny. It would have been nice to try. But a top three for Toyota, so a great day.”

Chase Elliott — fourth: “Everybody on the team did a good job leading into weekend and getting this thing where it needed to be today. All that was really good. Needed control of the race and needed to get to Denny there. I knew the second half, everyone would be better and closer, and that little bit of being able to control this thing from that point forward means a lot. Unfortunately, I didn’t do a great job getting to him. Was trying and just came up a few car lengths short. Puts you in a tough spot playing catchup. Solid day, but we need more than solid. We’ll keep trucking.”

Kyle Larson — fifth: “I think just track position. We maybe could have called the second stage a little bit different.. maybe potentially the first stage, too. But yeah, I don’t know. I think maybe if I could have gotten to the lead, I would have stayed in the top two or three. I feel like everyone’s cars are really equal. The No. 11 (Denny Hamlin), I’m sure his car is equal, as well, but he’s just a really good short-track racer. He can keep the tires on it and get through track position really well. It’s so hard to pass here. I don’t know if I would have looked as good as Denny (Hamlin), but I feel like I was equal to my teammate, the No. 9 (Chase Elliott). He looked strong, and I feel like we would have been too.”

Ross Chastain — sixth: “It was a good day. Phil made good adjustments throughout the race and got the handling much better on the car as we went. We’ll take a sixth-place finish and go on to one of my favorite tracks next week at Darlington.”

Ryan Preece — seventh: “I didn’t expect that one. Honestly, it all started with me messing up in qualifying and putting us back there. Ultimately, we got some great stage points and some great calls and great adjustments on the box and we got this Mustang where it needed to be. We’ve got some work to do to be able to drive through like some other cars do, but I think we’ve got some good ideas and obviously a little luck went our way today. I’m proud of everybody on this Mustang and everybody at RFK. We’ve just got to keep working and keep grinding. Honestly, they made the right adjustment when it mattered. There are some guys that hit it early and then they fell off. For us, we were at our best there at the end, so I’m just proud of everybody. I’m happy. We’re getting on a roll. At first, this is a place I wanted to take advantage of for points because I felt like Martinsville is in my wheelhouse, so I’m happy we did. I hate talking about points, but every bit matters.”

Joey Logano — eighth: “It seems like it’s been a typical 2025. A pretty solid car and then something happens. Overall, I feel the guys gave me a really fast Mustang, one that was possible to win with if we got the track position. We went for that stage win early in the race in Stage 1. I think that was the right call. We got ourselves back in the ballpark there and the long haul was pretty good. It was just kind of like a pick them off one at a time kind of thing and then Ross (Chastain) just sticking it in a tight spot. He did it to me on the restart before. I can’t even blame (Chase) Briscoe for shipping him. I think he got himself in a bind trying to ship him. He just races like a jackass every week and I keep paying the price. I’m sick of paying the price. (Anything to say to Chastain?) Not at the moment. Nothing good.”

Todd Gilliland — 10th: “I felt like my team did a really good job. We didn’t make any mistakes all day and capitalized on others mistakes and just kind of chipped away at it and made our way forward. We struggled with our balance a little bit and just overall grip, and then that last run my guys did a really good job getting our car a lot better and I was able to pick off one or two guys on all those restarts and then kind of settle in there in ninth. It was tougher to pass once you started getting to go, but I was happy with it. We managed our stuff well and managed our whole race well. It’s nice to get on the right track after the last couple of weeks we’ve had. I wrecked our car at Vegas and finished 30th and then last week we ran 30th pretty much all day, so I’m just super proud of my guys. We knew this was gonna be a good one and I feel super confident when we come to Martinsville in myself, so we did a good job of executing all week. My pit crew did a really good job because they kept us in the game all day. It was a full team effort.”

Ryan Blaney — 11th: “Really proud of the effort from our 12 group after the way our weekend started. The strategy played into our favor early to gain back some track position and the changes we made throughout the day allowed us to maintain in the top-10. Just needed a little more for the final run there but a solid day to get us back in the right direction.”

Michael McDowell — 12th: “It was a solid day at Martinsville Speedway for the No. 71 Chevrolet team. Not a great day, but a solid day. We fought really hard and made good adjustments. We just needed a little bit more firing off there at the end. Our long run speed was decent. But all-in-all, happy we had good execution this weekend. We had good pit stops. My guys were great today on pit road. We kind of ran in that top-12 to 15 all day. We qualified 15th and finished 12th. It was just kind of a working day. Not the best day but not the worst. We’ll keep building here at Spire Motorsports.”

Ty Dillon — 15th: “I’m really happy with our performance today. Our Mark III Camaro was solid in practice and we built off that. We had a decent qualifying run, just the result didn’t really show the potential we had in the car. I think as a team we were just really patient and focused on executing and not taking ourselves out of the race. We knew we had a decent enough car to get back up there and Andrew (Dickeson, crew chief) made a good call giving us an advantage there at the end on tires to battle back to the top 15. I’m just proud of our effort to bounce back. We worked really hard last week and the result didn’t show. This week to have a really good effort and to get the result this week was really good, so happy all
 around.”

Kyle Busch — 17th: “Certainly wasn’t the result we were looking for with our Lucas Oil Chevrolet. We fought with being tight in the center and wrecking loose on exit. The guys stayed after it all day and it actually drove pretty well towards the end. We just couldn’t gain any track position to be able to do something with it.”

Austin Dillon — 18th: “Our No. 3 Chevrolet started solidly today. We got our car a little better at each stage end and raced our way into the top-15. We had a good pace, and our pit crew picked up positions on every stop. When we came in for the last stop of the race and put on four tires, the handle of our car completely changed and got tight. We’re not sure what caused it, but we will go back to the shop and return better for the next short track race. I’m proud of the effort from my Richard Childress Racing team. We had a top-10 car, I feel like, just missed it at the end.”

AJ Allmendinger — 23rd: “I thought we did fairly well today trying to make the most of our day; we fought the balance of the race car in general. We made a good decision there to get stage points in the first stage so that helped our day, for sure. Unfortunately, we lost it completely on the last run, got way too loose and that cost us a few spots. We knew it was an uphill battle all day and besides the last run, we really made the most of the day. It’s a little disappointing to not run a little bit better, but we generally understand why, and we’ll move on to Darlington.”

John Hunter Nemechek — 25th: “Not a very good day for us. First gear blew up trying to leave the box when I was running 18th. We got our lap back and salvaged a 26th place finish. We will move on to Darlington.”

Austin Cindric — 37th: “: “Definitely a disappointing way to end the day. I felt like we had great pace early on, so it’s unfortunate for it to end the way it did for our Mustang Dark Horse. We’ll reset and get ready for Darlington next week.”

Erik Jones — 38th (quote provided by team prior to car being disqualified): “We worked hard but overall, I just got so tight when the track rubbered up, I just couldn’t do anything with it there at the end. Looking forward to Darlington.”