The Advent Health 300 at Kansas Speedway is the 9th of 26 regular-season races. Kansas is one of the drivers favorites, and quite a few need a boost at the track. We get their takes on a variety of issues.
Eric Jones on his 2026 season
ERIK JONES, No. 43 AdventHealth Toyota Camry XSE, LEGACY MOTOR CLUB
How are you feeling about your season?
“I think we’re kind of in the middle where we want to be and where we are, but we’ve had some performance that – we haven’t gotten the finishes necessarily the last couple of weeks. We’ve been caught in some wrecks, so we’ve been getting some okay points, and keeping at least in the fight of getting in the Chase. We will keep battling and keep getting our cars better. Excited to see where we stack up again on a mile and a half. I didn’t think Vegas was great for us, but we made some good changes, I think, and some big changes to see where they’re going to put us this week, and we’ll see what we have here this afternoon.”
Kyle Larson on his Success at Kansas
This weekend you can tie Denny Hamlin for the most wins here, and you’re also 25 laps led away from passing Kevin Harvick for the most laps here. Whether it’s Kansas or any track, how important is it to be one of the best or the best statistically at a track?
“I don’t know. I mean, that’s not something I really pay attention to at the moment. You know, maybe when your career’s over, that’s the stuff that you’ll notice and think is cool. But right now, you just show up to the track and try to, like I said, do the best job you can. It would be cool to join Denny (Hamlin) as a four-time winner here. And yeah, obviously if you can pass Kevin Harvick on laps led anywhere, that’s pretty impressive. But neither of those were things that I thought about until you just brought it up.”
Tyler Reddick on Winning the Pole
TYLER REDDICK, No. 45 SupplyHouse Toyota Camry XSE, 23XI Racing
What did you find in practice, and ultimately led you getting you the first starting spot tomorrow?
“Yeah, I think for us, we came here a year ago, and really struggled all weekend long, and that was a tough pill to swallow, for sure. We had felt like this has been kind of our playground for a number of years, and we came here this past spring, we just, I mean, start to finish on the whole weekend, just miss the mark pretty bad. So, when we came back here last fall, it was a huge emphasis for us, obviously, it’s in the playoffs and everything as well, at the time. We wanted to come back here with something better, and we didn’t need a lot of laps with the car that we had, but I felt like it was much more the direction where we needed to be. So, I was very happy with that, and we kind of used that as our starting point coming back here, and, yeah, for me, just today was just a car that had great handling, certainly the speed was there as well in the sheet, but very, very comfortable what I had. I feel like we did a good job of building off of last fall, and when you’re able to do that, you can be comfortable, consistent, and run good laps, and then when it comes to qualifying, you have the confidence to put a lap like that down.”
Hamlin on Kansas
DENNY HAMLIN, No. 11 National Debt Relief Toyota Camry XSE, Joe Gibbs Racing
What are some of the things you are looking for in practice and qualifying here in Kansas?
“Because we’ve had some success here, I’ll know right away, whether it’s got all the good feels to it that it’s supposed to. Not a whole lot of changes from last year. We’re doing a little bit of fine tuning to see if we can slightly improve what we had here in the fall, but that was obviously very strong, and so the room for improvement is very small, but you still got to keep going for those margins, and, there’s just little things I feel when I go in the corner that need to be a certain way, and if I’ve got that, then it’s good.”
Eric Jones on Advent Health on the Hood of his Car
This is obviously a big, big weekend for your sponsor, AdventHealth. What are you doing around being the entitlement partner for the Cup race?
“Yeah, it’s great. I’ve been with them for coming to, I think, three or four years now, and they just spent a great partner to me. We expanded our partnership a little bit more this year. They had a few more races. Kansas is obviously a big market for them with the race entitlement, as well as a bunch of hospitals in the area here and support around the area. I’ve done a lot of work with them, with my foundation, and things they support, and what they’ve done for me. So, enjoy that relationship and hope we can get a good run for him. Be nice to get him up front and get them challenging for a win.
