Kyle Larson’s crew chief reflects on 2023 NASCAR season Without...

The 2023 NASCAR Cup Series season marked an incredible time for Kyle Larson and
the #5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet team but couldn’t outrun Ryan Blaney in
the season-finale race at Phoenix Raceway.

During an appearance on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio’s “The Morning Drive”, Cliff
Daniels, the crew chief of Larson’s #5 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 spoke about the
team’s failure to meet expectations and reflected on their Championship 4 run.

Daniels admitted that they failed to get the predetermined goals but it was
not due to lack of effort. He was disappointed to get beaten byRyan Blaney’s
#12 Ford, which did a better
job to win their firstNASCAR title.

We did not meet our expectations for what our goals were. It certainly wasn’t
for a lack of effort from the team and everybody at Hendrick Motorsports. A lot
of prep went into the weekend. A lot of prep went into the race car and we just
got beat. As disappointing as that is, we got beat by a car that turned a
little bit better than ours and did a few things just a little bit better than
ours,” Kyle Larson’s crew chief said as reported by HendrickMotorsports

“I think our team executed the day really well with adjustments that we made
to our car throughout the race, our pit crew on pit road did just a phenomenal
job of really keeping us in the hunt – getting us off of pit road with the lead
of the Championship 4 cars (on lap 278). Our car just wasn’t good enough to
give Kyle (Larson) what he needed to keep the spot that we had.”