![]() ![]() He’s felt good behind the wheel of his Chevrolet, but it hasn’t been fast enough. It’s been frustrating for Jones to feel one thing with the car while it’s doing another. Jones has three top-20 finishes in five races, and before his eighth-place result a week ago at Atlanta, he’d finished no better than 19th. It’s going to take time, but I think we’re trending the right way.” I’m doing what I can to get quicker, especially at a place like this where you’ve got to be on your game as a driver more than ever. Dave (Elenz, crew chief) and I are working hard, and all the guys are working hard to get faster. So we’ve got to get better, and I think we all know that. “Las Vegas and California, neither were great. But as far as our performance, I don’t think we’ve been happy with it. “One good week gets you pretty good in there. “We’ve been fortunate that everybody has had up and down weeks, so we’re not too far out in points from where we want to be, which is in that top 16,” Jones said. The intermediate tracks need work and COTA, the first road course race of the season, will be a good test of where the organization is making left and right turns. Jones echoed the boss’s assessment and said while his top-10 finish last weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway was great, that was a superspeedway-style race. We’re not where we want to be, but there’s endless work going on in the shop.” “Las Vegas, Atlanta, Phoenix - we’re at a point now where we have enough styles of tracks that we can better evaluate where we’re to start the year. It’s really easy to look at that and say that’s the reason why our performance wasn’t where it needed to be. California is after that (and) we had some weird stuff with the splitter and all that dirt and rock and all the debris that was at the track that the splitters delaminated on our cars. “You go to Daytona and we all feel like we had good cars and were competitive. “We’re trying not to overreact to the first couple of races and performances,” team co-owner Jimmie Johnson said. It’s perhaps the only thing that has gone according to plan in a season that is only a month old. Not only was it the first time both cars made the final round, but is the best starting position for each in the first six races. 43 Chevrolet, while rookie Noah Gragson rolls off from 10th in the No. ![]() Legacy Motor Club got a much-needed boost Saturday at Circuit of The Americas when both its drivers advanced into the final round of NASCAR Cup Series qualifying.Įrik Jones will start eighth in the No. ![]()
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