Riley Herbst reacts to missing the 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoffs and discusses his goal for the remainder of the 2023 season.
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00:00 >> Yeah, he won't make the playoffs.
00:04 How do you walk away from Kansas?
00:05 What's the feeling?
00:06 >> I honestly feel like we had one of the fastest cars out here today.
00:11 I feel like we just were one of the fastest 12 cars all year.
00:17 We just weren't good enough today.
00:19 I feel like we were good enough.
00:20 That's what's frustrating.
00:21 I don't think we executed on that restart.
00:24 I don't know what happened.
00:25 They all got stacked up.
00:26 I don't know if somebody missed the gear.
00:28 At that point our day was in a big hole.
00:32 Thank you to monster energy, Stuart Haas racing.
00:35 Everybody who supports us, I feel like we can go now and try to win races.
00:39 I told Dave Burns this morning that was my ultimate goal this year.
00:43 It obviously was a championship.
00:44 That's everybody's goal when you get to daytona in February.
00:47 I didn't care about rounds or playoffs or how far we went.
00:51 I wanted to win races.
00:53 I wanted to get better as a race car driver.
00:55 I still feel like we have eight, seven races left to go do that.
00:59 I don't think we're going to quit working by any means.
01:02 I think we're going to hopefully end up in victory lane by the year's over.
01:05 We can see what Brad Erbst and this team can do in the seven races.