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            THE MODERATOR:  Thanks for joining us.  We’re if fact be told joined by Alex Bowman, driver of the No. 88 Chevygoods.com Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports and the winner of this day’s Geico 70 at the digital Talladega Superspeedway.  Alex, congratulations on that get this day, an exhilarating last lap.  List us a minute bit bit from your vantage point what that used to be love and the procedure you pulled it off.

ALEX BOWMAN:  Yeah, I guess sexy appropriate space, appropriate time, extra or less the extraordinary speedway racing deal.  I felt love the bottom wasn’t the gap to be, so extra or less let Ty include the bottom on that restart and got up, and sexy tried to preserve the proceed timed successfully and knew that extra continually than no longer the close used to be leading there at the originate‑fabricate line.  So in spite of all the issues sexy got to thank Preece for pushing me on yarn of that’s what made the distinction at that point.  While you’re that lead automobile, it’s in spite of all the issues the fellow in the reduction of you making the distinction.  Contented it worked out.

  1. Alex, how strange is it to stay a digital Talladega proceed the attach you pick you don’t need to terror about teammates or manufacturer orders?

ALEX BOWMAN:  Yeah, I mean, that share of it’s positively assorted.  I bag love if we support doing this long ample, we’ll include teammates and create orders in it, on the opposite hand it used to be positively assorted to sexy point of interest for your deal and stay your deal all day.  It used to be extra or less a strange proceed for us sexy with how we didn’t get gas below that first warning after which had to pit earlier below inexperienced and used to be extra or less going to connect us in a extraordinarily dreadful place, and the cautions extra or less saved us.

In most cases you pit as a team and that’s all ironed out, and we didn’t include any of that this day, so it used to be positively assorted for obvious.

  1. Exact curious if at some stage in this atomize you’ve had any talks with Hendrick but about subsequent 12 months, or is all that stuff put on preserve as successfully because the racing?

ALEX BOWMAN:  Yeah, no longer in spite of all the issues.  I guess all the issues is extra or less put on preserve appropriate now.  You realize, clearly I need to be at HMS for a very long time, however I guess we’ll sexy need to wait and gaze.  Optimistically they’re working on it for obvious.

  1. I was going to inquire of you, they include been talking about one of many ideal variations in iRacing as in opposition to being at Talladega and if fact be told racing is if fact be told being ready to feel the wind and feel the air round you additional or less in the automobile.  Modified into that a huge distinction to you this day, or what used to be the ideal distinction between if fact be told racing on the valid Talladega and what you experienced this day?

ALEX BOWMAN:  Yeah, I don’t know that that’s in spite of all the issues how I’d put it, however I’d advise the ideal distinction for me is sexy no longer having the facet draft.  The procedure that the aerodynamics of the automobiles are in valid lifestyles, you expend the facet draft a ton.  It’s in spite of all the issues essential, and also you perchance can in spite of all the issues stall guys’ runs out and bag runs that procedure, whereas in iRacing extra or less with the mannequin that they’ve, that facet draft doesn’t work the identical procedure.  It’s in spite of all the issues, in spite of all the issues assorted than it is at the valid racetrack.

Exact the procedure you draft and the intention in which the runs compose used to be in spite of all the issues the ideal distinction.  As antagonistic to that, it’s moderately place‑on.  The bottom can get pinched down by the close unless they get a couple automobiles out front extra or less about love valid Talladega, extra or less a typical deal there, and yeah, it used to be moderately place‑on.  Didn’t injure once I crashed and got a temporary repair and reset the automobile and saved digging, so that used to be factual.

  1. At last, when we stay return to racing which doesn’t glance like it’s going to be that long, there’s going to be no followers in the stands, clearly.  Is that going to be strange?  And in actuality are you able to verify that Finn did no longer get the proceed and that it used to be if fact be told you?

ALEX BOWMAN:  Yeah, it’s going to be assorted without followers for obvious, clearly.  The followers are why we get to stay what we get to stay.  It’s unhappy that we’re no longer going with a conception to include followers there, however at the least we’ll be ready to connect on a showcase for all and sundry at dwelling watching.  Optimistically we get to switch stay that quickly.  That can perchance per chance be salubrious.

I don’t know; I mediate I’m going to switch away it up to your creativeness if it used to be me or the canine using, on the opposite hand it used to be one of us, so there’s only so many folks it will include been.

  1. Given the in depth period of time and preparation that you just attach into these races, are you bowled over that it’s lastly paid off with a victory?

ALEX BOWMAN:  I ran the notice proceed this week, reach on.  Yeah, I don’t know.  I mediate Talladega used to be the one who I mediate you perchance can get away with running minimally, so that used to be factual.  You realize, I mediate it clearly ‑‑ last week at Richmond, we didn’t proceed totally, and that came all of the intention in which down to an absence of notice, however I mediate this week I ran a minute bit bit, and it ended up being ample, so that used to be factual.

But yeah, it’s been a learning curve for obvious, and I’ve saved myself busy in assorted ways, so potentially haven’t put the identical period of time into it as one of the essential assorted guys include.  Doubtlessly steal it a minute bit extra lighthearted than one of the essential others stay, as successfully, however that’s sexy extra or less my intention to it.

  1. I was sexy curious, at the close include been you in spite of all the issues severely thinking that you just didn’t include ample gas to to find it?  You gave the impression to to find it moderately obvious whereas you include been tweeting and using.  I sexy wondered if it used to be as shut as you idea it used to be going to be.

ALEX BOWMAN:  Yeah, we include been ‑‑ I mediate we include been a lap to the factual sooner than that last warning, after which the proceed will get extended a minute bit bit with that inexperienced‑white‑checkered, so it used to be shut.  It used to be going to be in spite of all the issues tight, and chuffed we include been ready to to find it on yarn of that used to be moderately nerve‑racking.  We include been in a scenario the attach you perchance can’t in spite of all the issues have confidence the gas gauge on that deal, so love we include been ‑‑ I started saving running round love three‑quarter throttle, sexy making an attempt to to find it to the close, however chuffed the cautions fell the attach they did on yarn of we include been going to proceed out for obvious.

  1. Alex, you tweeted put up‑proceed, “legit at a loss for phrases how this took place,” and earlier you acknowledged, “I’m tremulous to death appropriate now” by a GIF.  Modified into it so assorted from what you would possibly perchance per chance stay at Talladega?  What include been you so tremulous, and why include been you legitimately at a loss for phrases?

ALEX BOWMAN:  Yeah, I’m sexy bowled over that we won an iRace.  I mean, it’s love ‑‑ it’s moderately wild to me with how factual a host of those guys are and the intention in which unheard of trip that they’ve.  But when it used to be going to occur somewhere, love Talladega is a space the attach you perchance can extra or less be in the edifying space at the edifying time and to find it occur.

You realize, that used to be moderately gracious with a conception to stay that, however positively a style of fellows that steal it procedure extra severely than I stay, and that extra or less ends up helping them proceed greater for potentially the most share, however chuffed we include been ready to to find it occur.

  1. It’s far imaginable, even supposing it hasn’t been announced, that the proceed outlets would possibly perchance per chance originate opening subsequent week.  How does a driver integrate into that incandescent races are likely coming up however all the issues is indifferent fluid?  What are you sensing, and when issues launch up at the outlets, stay you proceed in and originate throwing yourself into it or what?

ALEX BOWMAN:  Yeah, I don’t know.  You realize, there’s been a host of affirm and hypothesis, and also you gaze all the issues on Twitter.  There’s been love four or five assorted right here’s what’s going to occur on Twitter I bag love, so it’s laborious to advise what in spite of all the issues is or isn’t going to occur.  For me on my close, I’m sexy making an attempt to prevent as ready as I will or be as ready as I will on yarn of we all know when we stay return racing that it’s potentially going to be a more difficult agenda than we’ve considered previously.  Exact making an attempt to prevent as match as I will or potentially extra match than I was previously and be ready on yarn of when we stay return racing, it’s going to be moderately demanding on us for obvious.

  1. Technically this makes you a multi‑time winner this season.  Your crew chief used to be joking about that.  But would possibly perchance per chance you sexy affirm referring to the factual vibes that it provides you going forward?

ALEX BOWMAN:  Yeah, I mean, it’s salubrious.  To me, I’m indifferent extra or less at a loss for phrases how it took place, to be appropriate with you.  But yeah, it’s in spite of all the issues neat.  Exact chuffed with a conception to get a get.  You realize, it’s factual for all and sundry with Chevy Items on the automobile and it’s factual to include some momentum.  You realize, clearly the season used to be going in spite of all the issues successfully for us in valid lifestyles, after which as we got into this digital deal, had some usaand downs, however to get a get is in spite of all the issues icy.

  1. You include been asked about when we reach reduction the probability that we won’t include followers, however I was interested in what you suspect the rust advise is prone to be love when you occur to stay get reduction into the valid proceed automobile, and what stay you suspect of the alternative of restricted or no notice as successfully as per chance non‑competitive pit stops?

ALEX BOWMAN:  Yeah, I mean, I mediate going to a space love Darlington goes to be in spite of all the issues demanding.  Doubtlessly be a minute bit Rusty coming into into Flip 1 if that used to be the major one.  That can perchance per chance be a demanding space.

Essential to advise when we if fact be told stay return or what the scenario in spite of all the issues does close up being, however I’ll attempt to stay my simplest to be ready for regardless of the scenario is.  But yeah, sexy making an attempt to be as ready as lets also be is a huge share of it.  What used to be the 2nd share of your put a query to?

  1. Talk referring to the alternative of racing without unheard of or any notice and the possibility that you just’ve non‑competitive pit stops if it involves that.

ALEX BOWMAN:  Yeah, yeah, it’s assorted for obvious.  I mean, we’ve raced without notice a couple times sexy on yarn of of rain and issues love that, so that’s clearly assorted.  But then going to ‑‑ if we include been to no longer include competitive pit stops, that would possibly perchance per chance be moderately unfamiliar, as successfully.  So it’s sexy adapting to all that and making an attempt to prevent on high of it and be ready the most effective lets also be for all of that is in spite of all the issues all I will stay.

You realize, there’s a host of hypothesis on what’s going to occur or how it’s going to be, however till we get that proper be conscious from NASCAR, I’m sexy making an attempt to be ready for whatever scenario comes at us.

  1. How include you considered the mindsets or the attitudes of the drivers commerce when it comes to those races all the intention in which by the last five weeks, and what used to be Finn and Roscoe’s reaction to the get, no subject who took place to be using at the time on yarn of it sounds love they mediate they must indifferent be being interviewed appropriate now.

ALEX BOWMAN:  Yeah, it’s though-provoking for obvious.  They sexy need to hop on and pressure usually.  As soon as shortly whereas I’m using they pick to poke up and nudge me and yank on the wheel and issues proceed detrimental.  But that’s k.

You realize, I mediate the attitudes of the drivers, it’s in spite of all the issues though-provoking.  You potentially can include some guys that steal it vivid severely.  Obviously some guys put a host of time into it and include a background in it, guys love William, he takes it in spite of all the issues severely and he’s love unbelievably factual at it.  It’s so worrying to hop on ‑‑ love we include been practicing for Richmond and I was making an attempt so laborious and I was love three‑tenths off of him and couldn’t get any nearer.

You realize, it’s though-provoking, and it’s assorted for obvious that those guys with that background are so factual at it.

But they’re additionally guys that extra or less steal it love I stay and are a minute bit extra lighthearted about it and sexy attempt to to find it extra relaxing, extra relaxing than work.  So sexy attempt to include relaxing with it, and I by hook or by crook ended up with a get that procedure.

  1. How antsy are you to return to valid racing?  We’re five races in to the Pro Sequence right here.  Does this satisfy the want for proceed at all, or are you sexy getting extra antsy?

ALEX BOWMAN:  Yeah, it doesn’t satisfy it for me.  I will’t wait to get reduction in a valid proceed automobile.  I mediate that’s something that is positively significant for me.  The iRacing thing is salubrious, and I mediate we’ve completed a extraordinarily factual job titillating the followers, however as far because it being if fact be told using a proceed automobile, it’s no longer, and we all need to get reduction in the valid thing.

You realize, confidently we get to stay that quickly.

  1. You talked a minute bit bit about when you occur to return to racing without followers; that’s clearly one of many issues we’ll need to take care of.  How assorted is that going to be for you?  Achieve you scheme energy from the followers when you occur to’re on pit avenue, you’re getting ready to proceed, you gaze a host of oldsters in the grandstands?  Achieve you scheme energy from that, and the intention in which stay you replace that?

ALEX BOWMAN:  I don’t know, that’s a factual put a query to.  I bag like it’s going to be in spite of all the issues strange visually no longer having any followers there, however with the exception of that, I mean, I’m moderately stricken, I support to myself, extra or less sexy need to stay my bag thing.  When it comes time to switch into work and pressure the proceed automobile, I mediate it’ll be change as standard for me.  The scenario is prone to be assorted with notice or schedules or whatever that can be, however assorted than that, in spite of all the issues sexy be change as standard, sexy on yarn of I sexy extra or less stay my bag thing.

  1. Alex, with the notion that NASCAR would possibly perchance per chance return in the impending weeks, assorted sports actions include checked out making an attempt to reach, and one of many issues they’ve checked out is extra or less usually having their athletes, whether it’s love baseball potentially stop at motels and proceed from motels to video games usually to limit any contact that they would possibly perchance per chance include with anybody and forestall any form of infection.  Obviously that’s no longer going to be the case with racers, however I’m curious once racing resumes, stay you sexy about need to glance at as a driver further quarantining yourself on yarn of when you occur to get potentially infected, that would possibly perchance per chance mean potentially missing just a few races, potentially costing you a gamble at the championship and issues love that?  Achieve you need to originate thinking alongside those lines, and the intention in which would possibly perchance per chance you need to stay issues or dwell, in a sense, once racing resumes?

ALEX BOWMAN:  Yeah, for obvious.  I mediate that’s going to be in spite of all the issues significant.  I don’t mediate it’s going to be factual for anybody if somebody in the garage or a driver or anybody love that will get it, so I mediate sexy taking the social distancing thing in spite of all the issues severely and doing all we can to extra or less add layers into that and in spite of all the issues sexy be vivid cautious about it and mindful about it at all times and potentially steal it extra severely than lets need to originate with.

I mediate that’s in spite of all the issues going to be essential to it working out and to getting reduction on the racetrack is for us all to steal the social distancing stuff in spite of all the issues severely and stay whatever is essential to to find obvious that that we all stop healthy.

  1. Can you give me a sense of extra or less the steadiness?  With the game potentially returning quickly, can be the major sport to if fact be told return, that steadiness between making obvious that you just’re protected and the precautions that are essential when you occur to’re working in the garage or around the crew, however additionally the position of with potentially being among the many major sports actions reduction, to being the athlete/entertainer for a country that is slowly getting reduction and in a host of areas indifferent quarantined and sexy extra or less the roles, the troubles or questions successfully being‑vivid for you however additionally the position that you just perchance can be taking half in and also you and diverse drivers in being entertainers and athletes when there won’t potentially be as many dwell events when you occur to guys originate?

ALEX BOWMAN:  Yeah, I mediate there’s in spite of all the issues ‑‑ I bag love with social distancing stuff in space and all that, we can indifferent stay the roles that we’ve completed and indifferent be titillating.  Obviously there’s ‑‑ I’d sexy pick less cameras and interviews and stuff love that, so some of that stuff is prone to be nick down or need to be in a particular layout, however we’re all indifferent the identical folks that we are.  Clint Bowyer is indifferent going to be hilarious; Kyle is indifferent going to include folks livid at him.  Kyle Busch, that is.  I bag like it’s all ‑‑ the personalities are indifferent going to be there.  It’s going to be the identical in that sense.

I mediate when it comes to our sport, the object‑tune product is the ideal thing, and I in spite of all the issues mediate we can put on salubrious displays and stay that safely, and I mediate that’ll be in spite of all the issues factual for all and sundry.

  1. We all know the extra or less iRacing prodigy that your teammate William Byron has been over the direction of this Pro Invitational Sequence.  Maintain you leaned on him or is there anybody specific that you just’ve tried to lean on when it comes to picking up iRacing extra on yarn of you weren’t one of many fellows that ran it continually to originate?

ALEX BOWMAN:  Yeah, for obvious.  I positively lean on William rather a minute bit.  I text him rather a minute bit sexy asking him about guidelines and the intention in which unheard of to stay burnouts for qualifying to heat your tires up and stuff love that.  He’s been a huge support.  I mediate he’s in spite of all the issues ‑‑ he’s potentially been the ideal support out of anybody that I’ve worked with.  DiBenedetto and I focus on it rather a minute bit, however I don’t mediate both of us are salubrious at it, so I mediate we extra or less sexy focus on our struggles plenty.  William has been a huge support, and that’s been a salubrious thing to include for obvious.

  1. And as far as going forward when we stay get reduction to typical racing, clearly iRacing is no longer ideal, however the realism, there are a host of issues that are there.  Achieve you gaze yourself the expend of iRacing per chance extra as a utility after we get reduction to typical racing than you did previously?

ALEX BOWMAN:  Man, I don’t to find out about that.  I mediate it has its space, and there are issues it’s precious for, however I mediate now we include got tools love our Chevy simulator and issues love that that would possibly perchance per chance make some assorted salubrious issues, as successfully.  We frail it a minute bit bit sooner than, and I’ll proceed doing that, however potentially won’t commerce how unheard of I frail it.  It’ll potentially be referring to the identical going reduction.

THE MODERATOR:  Alex, thanks again for joining us.  We all know you need to hop off for a couple extra interviews, however thanks for spending some time with us this day.

ALEX BOWMAN:  Thanks.  Y’all include a factual one.

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