Kyle Larson Blames Himself After His Embarrassing Loss to ..

Superspeedways have never been Kyle Larson’s strong suit, but the Hendrick Motorsports star did put himself in good positions in the Daytona 500 on Monday on a lot of different occasions. The driver of the #5 almost won stage 1, but his teammate Chase Elliott just beat him to the start/finish line by a whisker. In the end, the Hendrick Motorsports star managed a decent P11 finish, but he was not happy with himself after the 2024 Cup Series opener came to an end.

Kyle Larson might not have won the race at the Daytona International Speedway but it was his teammate William Byron who earned perhaps the biggest race win of his career. The 26-year-old is the driver of the legendary #24 car, which used to be driven by none other than Jeff Gordon. Larson congratulated his teammate in an Instagram post in which he also shared his disappointment at not being able to finish higher in the race.

The driver of the #5 believes that his positioning was not the best when it came to the crucial moments as he took the wrong lanes, which ultimately cost him track position. Had it not been for the massive wreck on the last lap, the former Cup Series champion would have finished a lot lower than P11, but he did a good job of avoiding the wreck and the 500 without incident.

Speaking about the race, the former Cup Series champion said that worrying about other drivers and not about himself was one of the mistakes he made. It was supposed to be a team effort from the Chevy cars in The Great American Race, but ultimately, that’s not how things turned out and he was quite disappointed as a result.

“We would start losing cars and then lose momentum and then we ended up in the back, so it didn’t work out for us. Look at it, learn from it, just really got to be more selfish honestly and more worrying about yourself in those moments than trying to stick together with certain people. If you hesitate to do that it ends up biting you,