""Damn, I got a lot to say," Byron said. "Things have a way of working out. God really tests your resilience a lot of times. We've been tested. Just unbelievable. We just worked so hard, and you put everything into Sundays. Sometimes you don't get anything in return. That's been the last couple of weeks and honestly throughout the year. But sometimes life is that way. You just got to keep being resilient. We were. Just feels damn good.""
""I thought William drove the race of his life," said Hendrick vice chairman Jeff Gordon, a four-time Cup champion and nine-time winner at Martinsville himself."
William Byron bumped Ryan Blaney with 43 laps remaining, seizing the bottom lane in Turn 1 and moving Blaney up the track to take the lead. Starting from the pole, Byron led a race-high 304 of 500 laps and fended off Blaney on a restart with 11 laps remaining to win at Martinsville Speedway. The victory was Byron's third of the season, his 16th career Cup win, his first in a playoff elimination race and his third at Martinsville. Byron ended an 11-race winless stretch and preserved his spot in the Championship 4 after earlier poor finishes left him needing a win.
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