He hasn't admitted it yet to my knowledge but he is clearly a Ricky Stenhouse Jr. fan judging by how much he is defending him. Hate to break it to you but the equipment does matter in all 3 series, usually it's pretty obvious at least in the trucks and nationwide. Ricky had the best cars from Roush then and if you don't believe me go back t that year and compare the 6 cars results with the 16 (Bayne). Does anyone really think the Dillon kids are as good as they are made out to be? I sure as hell don't, that's all got to do with the equipment they are given....and yes I was probably one of the few people hoping Chase Elliott would use the bumper yesterday. Even more proof of a good driver but not the best equipment...Kyle Busch, no wins in nationwide last year at all. That is why I love road courses and short tracks, you don't have to have amazing cars and trucks to be able to win. Larson, Skeen, Elliott, Papis, Ambros, etc I'm really looking forward to seeing Larson in the cup series though, remember everyone thought Logano was going to be the next greatest thing after Tony left JGR to form his own team and he did nothing but struggle and win a rained out race and he's struggled pretty much entirely since then until he left for Penske.