It was a good day at Martinsville for Ryan Preece who finished inside the top 10 for the first time in the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series campaign. Two cars in the top 10 is big news for a struggling team like Stewart-Haas Racing. After some lackluster finishes, this result was something that was desperately needed by the team and the 33-year-old driver finally delivered.

Ryan Preece rues Atlanta’s penalty despite a good Martinsville run 

It has not been the best of starts to the season for Ryan Preece and he acknowledged that after the race. The veteran race car driver rued his luck as he spoke about the previous races, especially the one at the Atlanta Motor Speedway where he was charged 35 points for having illegal air defectors on the roof of the #41. However, the veteran was happy with his recent performance regardless.

“I think moving forward, Bristol, with everything that’s happened there, we probably could have had a better day than what showed and then Richmond was just a learning day as far as what we don’t want to do. I think we learned those lessons at Richmond last week, tried a different approach this week, and then it paid off so even when you have a bad day, you can learn from that. Obviously, I’d love to have better finishes, I’d not have the penalty that we had but certainly, even though we had, I don’t want to say sh**ty luck cause at the end of the day you make your own luck but ultimately we are ahead where we are last year,” he said.

It was overall quite a good day for Stewart-Haas Racing as Ryan Preece and Chase Briscoe finished P9 and P10 respectively. As far as the latter is concerned, he had enough speed to run in the top 5 and will be looking to build on this momentum.

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Chase Briscoe has put together a run of consistent finishes inside the top 15 recently but believes that he and his crew can do a lot better. Ahead of the Texas race, there is a good feeling of confidence in the SHR camp and it might just be enough to turn their season around for the better.

“I think it builds good momentum. Any time you run in the top 10, it’s a solid day and for us, I would say we’ve had really good speed. Kind of consistently all year long at most tracks, with the exception of the last two weeks. We’ve been 8th to 13th place, every single week that’s kind of where we have been so that was the frustrating thing I would say from today. I think we were a top 3 car, top 4 car but we are in 10th. It’s definitely encouraging to get top 10, it’s a solid points day especially for us. We’re right on that bubble, so we need the point days. Definitely builds momentum,” Briscoe had said.

Will both Ryan Preece and Chase Briscoe be able to make it into the last 16 of the NASCAR Cup Series this year? Let us know your early playoff predictions for Stewart-Haas Racing.

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