Unbelievable:Kyle Larson Announced his resignation and leaving NASCAR
Unbelievable:Kyle Larson Announced his resignation and leaving NASCAR
CONCORD, N.C. – Go figure, a man whose successes and failures are measured in tenths of a second says he rarely takes a minute to think about history.
Such is the life of a race car driver.
But while answering several questions about the significance of what he’d just accomplished, Kyle Larson was forced to at the very least, express his mentality when it comes to his ascension up the ladder of the Hendrick Motorsports and NASCAR record books.
Larson turned in one of the most dominant performances in recent memory on Saturday night, leading 462 of 500 laps at Bristol Motor Speedway in setting a new organizational record for laps led in a single event.
Along the way he swept all three stages and went to victory lane for the second time in the last four fall events at Bristol.
It was such a short-track stomping, that Hendrick Motorsports vice chairman and NASCAR Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon asked Larson afterword if he planned on breaking all of his records.
But in the media room, Larson shrugged it off, stating breaking records has never been the plan at all.
“When I came to Hendrick (Motorsports), I didn’t have any goals of beating any records of any of the others, Jimmie (Johnson) or Jeff (Gordon),” Larson explained. “Those are the two guys that probably have most all of the records I would assume. It’s not something that I’m reaching for. But when it happens, it’s really cool.
“I think whenever I’m done