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Joey Logano Wins Atlanta! · Kenny Wallace Media

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The first NASCAR playoff race is in the books and it's the 22
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team of Joey Logano winning at Atlanta and moving on into the
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round of 12. Logano is a big race driver and
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he says playoff time is his time.
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You know, more times than not, excluding last year really,
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we've been able to level up when we need to level up and to be
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able to to fire off, you know, your first race to playoffs and
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with a statement win. It's key, right?
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I mean, we all talked about how wild card this round could be
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and we knew that dependency cars would be strong on on the
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superspeedway style type race tracks.
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We've been all year long and unfortunately we've been getting
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caught up in every possible wreck on this type of track.
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So it's nice to finally capitalize on the laps LED and
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being towards the front and having a a teammate lined up
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behind me there and and he scored a ton of points today
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too, being up there. So a good day for for team
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Penske all the way through. Yes, Cedric did too.
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So a really special day for Penske to to be able to score
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some good points and set themselves up all pretty good
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for around the 12th. How different is that situation
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for you as the leader if it's not a teammate behind you?
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Is it? Is it completely different
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thought process? I probably still choose the
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bottom lane. There's definitely things could
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have looked differently. I I think we still would have
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been in pretty good shape. I have to go back and really
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rewatch it to, to know for sure. But the, the push he gave me
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down the front stretch, taking the white was, was a key move to
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be able to do that. And yes, I think that was a big
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help. That's why the biggest help of
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the whole thing. But you know, Blaney has been a
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fantastic teammate. We've worked together for for
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years now and it's nice when we, you know, for so many years
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we've talked about a lot of scenarios.
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We've been through a lot of different scenarios at the end
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of these races. And you know, some of them have
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done really well like today. And sometimes we've messed up
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and I'm both of us, right. So the good thing is that we
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were able to talk about it all the time, you know, and, and,
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and be able to get better. And then that's just really what
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what you want a teammate out there.
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So, you know, it goes back and forth and and sometimes you're
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the one to Victory Lane and sometimes you're not.
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Luckily today we were in the right spot.
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And then even with him behind you, when you have teammates
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lined up to your outside and know that they're going to stick
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together no matter what, is there anything that you can do
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to counter that aside from just trying to make sure that you're
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staying connected to Ryan as much as possible?
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Like how do you how do you approach that mentally?
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Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of prep
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and, and a lot that goes into making sure that you get the
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push at the right time. And, and you know, the, the part
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that concerned me a little bit as they attached a little better
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than us on the outside lane and we were able to stay attached
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good down the backstretch, which was able to push me clear just
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barely really only because the one, I think the one got loose
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there. So if it wasn't for that, it, we
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would have been side by side. I don't know if it would have
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looked the same. So they did a good job executing
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that and I and I knew that you know that the one difference
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there is you had their car that was in the playoffs in the
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front. So you knew Ross was just not
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going to make the move. So there's definitely all a
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little bit more. I don't know what you want to
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call it commitment there, I guess because you have one card
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at that really matters if they win them for both of me and
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Ryan, the win was huge for both of us.
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So if that changes the game a little bit, but yeah, I mean,
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they did a good job up there too.
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Let's. Go next to Jordan Bianchi.
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Jordan Bianchi, The Athletic on the radio, it said let's do the
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plan we talked about on the bus. So what is that plan you guys
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talked about on the bus? I can't tell you all and I Yeah,
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See, I'm not going to tell you nothing against you.
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I just wouldn't tell anybody. I guess that we go over a lot of
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stuff together. We prep a lot together,
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separately and together sometimes.
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And they say this Speedway race in these days is it's just so
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interesting and and every tracks a little bit different.
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Daytona to Talladega to Atlanta, all are kind of a breed of their
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own. And when you have fast cars like
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we do right now on the speedways, it's important for us
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to capitalize as a team. These are our bread and butter
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right now. So we've proven that really over
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the last year plus that that this is our type of race track.
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So you know what, to be able to make sure that a Penske car wins
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is very important for our organization right now.
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Coming in that restart, you know you got Blaney behind you.
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You guys are so good at this kind of racing.
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Do you feel like this is your race to win or lose and like the
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all the advantages now on your side?
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I did, you know, I really felt like when we were in the lead
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coming to take the white and the caution came out when we were up
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top there and I had him side by side behind me.
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At that point I said, man, I really think I got it, Got it
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one at that point I thought everything was going to go
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pretty good the next lap. I just had to keep them too wide
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for another lap. So I felt pretty good about
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that. And when the caution came out, I
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was kind of like it restarts, just things change.
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Fuel wasn't really much in there, so is is fairly empty.
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So it all ended up working out. But yeah, you start getting
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restart after, you know, another green white checker and all of a
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sudden you're out of gas and you have a day that looks like you
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can win or score a ton of points to running out of gas.
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Could be, you know, that that quick.
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So taking the white was key for us just to, you know, this is a
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base hit type of race, right? Like, yeah, there's a point
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there is like, you know, you take a fifth out of today and
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you feel pretty good about it. I feel much better about taking
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a win. But that's just kind of what
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this this race tracks about. Mark Carroll, Pierre and Joey,
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can you talk about the range of emotions?
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You're not. You're knocked out a year ago in
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round one, and this year you come back and you guarantee in
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the first race of round one, you're going to round two.
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What? What is that like emotionally?
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Yeah. I mean, I I move on pretty
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quick. You know, to be honest with you.
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When we got knocked out of the playoffs last year, it hurt a
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lot. And it stings the rest of the
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playoffs. Every time you show up to the
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racetrack and you're not in it, it hurts.
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It's really frustrating. And you know, you just get mad.
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You just live mad for a little bit.
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But that's just what the playoffs are, right?
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I mean, this, that's what drives you and motivates you to to be
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better. And because you don't want the
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pain and you also want the thrill of the victory at the
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end. But this is a good start for
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sure there. We go Jacob Steelman race face
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digital Joey 2 for you first, Kyle Petty on the NBC post race
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show called you a big game big moment driver and Paul when he
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was in here a few minutes ago said a lot of that comes back to
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your mental game. What what is it?
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If you can pinpoint something specifically in you and your
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driving style just lets you continue to step up in these
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big, big moment, big pressure situations.
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I don't know, I don't, I don't know exactly what it is.
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I think some people are kind of born a certain way and like a
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very competitive people and there's times that that bites me
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as much as it helps me. But yeah, I feel like there's
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just for whatever reason, always another gear in there and I try
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to reach it every race, but it just seems like the playoffs the
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seem to to work for for us as a team.
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I mean, I wouldn't say it's just me, right?
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I mean, our whole team really is a good job at thriving in these
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scenarios. And you know, I talked a little
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bit earlier today about, you know, their their work ethic,
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their experience level of this race team.
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When we go into the playoffs, it it doesn't really affect us
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much, right? And sometimes pressure can
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either make you crack and fall apart or it's going to make you
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better, right? And for us, it seems like with
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the experience that we have and the been there, done that, we
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just kind of know how to to handle it.
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So there's a long ways to go in this playoffs.
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It's it's, you know, I don't want to get stuck on saying,
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man, we won the first one and what's going to be a cake from
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cake from here? It's not going to be easy from
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here. This is just the ability to to
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breathe for two weeks. So we, you know, try to get some
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playoff points. And I know you mentioned it on
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the TV broadcast. So I wanted to ask you, I know
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you had the kids crew here today and how big that was.
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What have you done around this weekend as far as with your
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foundation and and what was that experience like finally being
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able to have them celebrate with you in Victory Lane?
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Yeah, it's a very special week for a lot of reasons.
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I got to go to the Shaw Air Force Base and what was it
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Friday afternoon and drove down there with my, my wife and
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friends of ours there that I got to meet or are getting deployed
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and they have a ball. So I got to go down there and
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talk to him and have a lot of relationships there.
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And, and so it was really cool to, to do that.
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That was kind of the, the 1st special thing that happened.
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And I got here, I think it was midnight by the time I landed
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here on, on Friday night. And, and they told me to go win.
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So I'm glad I at least held up that into the bargain.
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And then the jail kids career, the kids that have really been
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through a lot in their lives, they're huge race fans,
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particularly 22 fans. And, and these kids have been
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through more than than you can ever imagine.
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And a lot of it, that whole program started from a little
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guy named Jake Leatherman and he passed away.
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Unfortunately, we met his family and went to his funeral and, and
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all that there's amazing. I, I wish you guys, maybe
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someone, some of you guys here actually were there at that
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funeral that day, but there's a ton of race team guys that
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showed up in the race suits and because he's a little kid, but
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he's a huge race fan. We all showed up there and I
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thought what a what a shame. And I left there kind of mad
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because we didn't meet him when he was with us.
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And that's where the jail kids crew started years ago.
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And we've been giving these amazing experiences to these
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kids. And unfortunately I never made
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it happen on on the racetrack when they're here.
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So to see them celebrating together in Victory Lane, that
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was really neat. So they told me I'd better win.
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It's quite the threat, so I'm glad that that worked out.
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Yeah, this Steve Hummer from the Atlanta General Constitution,
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two-part question. First of all, when you when you
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come onto this property every time, given your long history,
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is there one fond memory that that always strikes you first?
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There's a lot, there's a lot of memories here, more memories at
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this racetrack than anywhere I've ever been.
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But now, as you remember, probably the first time pulling
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in here is in 99 and we're moving from Connecticut and
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trying to figure out where we wanted to live.
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And we drove by the land of motor speed when we always pull
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in. And I remember we drove in and,
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and all of us were we're in a motorhome just traveling across
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the country figuring this whole thing out.
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And we, we drove through the tunnel like, Oh my God, this
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place is incredible. We've never been to a track like
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this before. At the time I was racing quarter
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midgets and we met Ken Reagan, David Reagan's dad here at
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Legends of Georgia. And I said, why don't you race a
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Bandolero tonight? That was just like, OK, sure,
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we'll race tonight. And that's just the way we did
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it. And we ran the race and we ended
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up buying the car, said we'll be back.
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And we moved down here. I don't know.
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Six months later, the car was still sitting in the shed and I
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started racing here. And those memories with with my
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parents and my sister and there's a lot of there's more
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stories than than I can mention here, but it it the dream of
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driving on that quarter mile and always thinking I just want to
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go straight one day and get on the big track.
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That's what I always wanted to do.
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And pulling into Victory Lane here is obviously one of the
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most special things to really put all that together.
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Some definitely a lot of fun stories.
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We've been thrown out of here a few times, but they can't throw
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me out today. And and where did I don't know
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rankings? Not really right question, but
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this is, I guess, another special chapter in the memories
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you have at this place. I don't know how how you're
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going to file this away. Yeah, I mean, it's it's, I say
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the first time I've won here was was probably the most special
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one last year. And then my dad being here and
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we celebrate on Victory Lane, you know, we're in a French
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straightaway together. That was a really cool moment.
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This is there's a lot of moments on the start finish line here
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before my my favorites. I'll tell you a fun story
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because you're asking for stories.
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We came here. This was years ago.
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Roush gave me a Cup card to go make a lapse.
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And this is before I signed with Gibbs.
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This was back in 2004. I was 14.
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And we would just go make laps at local short tracks just just
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for fun. And we go testing with Mark
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Martin. And it was like the coolest
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thing in the world. And a friend of ours was testing
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a a Porsche for the Rolex 24 and was running the road course here
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to test. And we said, hey, could you mind
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if we make some laps while you're not on the Gord course?
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Absolutely no problem. So we called Ed Clark at the
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time was running the track was like, hey, you know, we make
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some laps and like, yeah, sure. They thought we were racing
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legends cars at the time. I was racing legends cars.
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I thought I was going to run laps on the quarter mile.
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They're like, sure. OK.
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Well, then we unloaded a Cup car and they didn't like that.
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That wasn't too cool in their in their book.
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And they gave me this lap time that I couldn't exceed.
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And it was a very slow lap time. So I'd run a fast corner and
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that's it. And I was remembered right
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before lunch. And my dad goes, screw it, Joe,
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just go. They're going to throw us out.
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I don't care. Just go.
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They're going to Black Flag it. Just go until it runs out of
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gas. So this is how I grew up.
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Explains a lot for you guys, just so you know.
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So I did that. We got thrown out and.
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But it was a really cool memory. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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A lot of times I was 14. We were ripping too.
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It was it was fun, really cool. We're.
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Going to come up. Yeah, eight O 5.
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What made you guys want to live in condo?
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We had a race shop down the road from here and was our late model
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was there. Jim Gresham owned our our late
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model. I drove for him and his grandkid
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raced and he he raced too. And so we stored all our stuff
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there. And so we lived here a lot
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because my our house was actually in Alpharetta.
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But that's, you know, an hour plus from here.
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So we stayed here a lot. There was, yeah.
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But me and my dad were here 90% of the time.
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So it was yeah. I just ended up being being
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here. There's plenty of times after a
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race, I remember, you know, the memories just like flooding come
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flooding back to you. But to see the the the post race
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interviews like this would be watching it from the the
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whatever close network cameras up in the condos afterwards at
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school. Sitting here thinking about
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that, maybe something up there's watching right now, kind of
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cool. All right.
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We're going to come up to Bob in the middle front here and then
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we're going to go back to Doug and then to Jerry.
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Bob Parker's Fox. Sports.
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And do you? Consider this a superspeedway.
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And do your. Feelings about superspeedway
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racing that have been pretty frustrating.
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Any does this? Alleviate any of them?
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Yeah. I mean, I consider it a
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superspeedway. It it, it's a pretty unique one
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because it it can kind of sometimes you can think it's
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more like the old 550 days where you lift a lot more than normal.
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But I mean, there's super speed. I mean, I mean, super Speedway
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racing is a lot of fun until it's not like it's, it's
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actually really entertaining. And even from inside the car is
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just the chess match that it is there.
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And trying to outsmart your competitors is really fun until
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you just wreck and then you're like, man, this sucks.
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You know, like there's no better way of saying it, right?
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It's just great until it's not, which it seemed like today there
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wasn't really any big pile UPS, which is nice.
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There's a little bit more separation in the field here,
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but it's it's intense out there for sure.
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There's not a moment through those 400 miles where you just
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go all right, and take a break. I mean, it's just crazy the
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whole time. Go.
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Ahead, Doug. OK.
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Thank you very much, Joey, Doug Turnbull for PRN and 5:00 to Go
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podcast and congratulations on the win.
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That one thing I was up in Turn 2 watching and we were expecting
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the whole time. To the naked eye, it didn't look
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like handling was as big of a deal as it probably felt in the
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car. We were so surprised on the
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whole broadcast that people were able to stick it and maintain
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position 3 wide middle. So was the handling much more
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than what it looked like to the naked eye?
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Or maybe were you surprised how much grip the field was able to
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have? Or was it because of fuel saving
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that you were able to stay so tight in the back?
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If there's time, the leaders were saving fuel, which keeps
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the pack a lot tighter and you kind of have the pace 1/2 a
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second or so slower lap that just allows everyone to stay
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tight. You know, the teams keep making
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their cars better, right? That's that's part of it.
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Remember the first time we came here, it was very separated
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because everyone was out of control.
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But the teams are getting smarter.
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Cars are all driving better. There's a lot of moving around
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out there, you know, for to say handling great.
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It's not quite the case. It's quite a bit of lifting
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moments and cars sliding up the racetrack.
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And you know, I even made a mistake at the end of the second
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stage and got into 38 and didn't mean to.
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I just the nose takes off and poof, you know, I just go so
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just wild. It's it's incredible.
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We don't wreck more than we do. I I can tell you that much.
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It's, it's absolutely amazing how good everybody is because if
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you see it from my view, what you guys get to get in car
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camera, but it's different when you're actually in the car and
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you see it happening because it's, it's real for, for me,
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it's, it's surprising a lot that we make it to the end.
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Jerry Jordan kicking thetires.net on those closing
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laps there. Were you anticipating a crash
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before the white and when it came out, what were your
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thoughts? And I have a follow up.
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You never really anticipate a wreck.
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You know, we we got pretty far down into the the very end of
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that race. So you think, OK, and we were
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we're looking pretty, you know, coming to the white flag or
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looking like we're, you know, may finish this thing.
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So your race as if you're going to go to the end.
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So I wasn't. But I'm also not surprised that
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the caution come out. You know, I mean, it's just
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that's what happens at the end of these races more times than
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not. I was just glad there wasn't
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another one. I don't think we have many more
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of it in the tank. And follow up, you punched your
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ticket to the next round. You know, you're, you've moved
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on. That's that's what all this is
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about, your thoughts on on advancing and then you know, was
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setting yourself up for the rest of the playoffs.
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It's it's a, it's a good start. There's a long ways to go.
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Like I said, the the five playoff points are really nice
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and that's going to help us through the next couple rounds.
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But there's a lot of racing ahead of us and a lot, lot more
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to do. So it's a good start, but a long
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ways to go. Go next to Deb Williams.
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Deb Williams Auto Week Joy, congratulations.
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When you lined up for that final restart, was that Coleman that
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came on the radio and said his study had shown that you needed
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to take the inside? Lane.
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Yeah, Coleman and I go through a lot of stuff.
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Coleman does a fantastic job at understanding the draft.
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He's he's the best on the roof, there's no doubt about it.
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And and he's also the best for me because we have a great
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relationship, right? Coleman Coleman's the best man
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at my wedding, right? So like we we had, we know each
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other really, really well off the racetrack.
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As much as we do on the racetrack.
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So naturally, you know, we, we talk a lot during the week about
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what we're going to do in, in those scenarios.
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And I trust his studying sometimes even more than my
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studying when we when we get back in and talk about it
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together. But yeah, he's, he's a great
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racer. I was just, he gets it, He
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understands it and he tells me what I need to hear and not just
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from a racing perspective that you know, what lanes are moving
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and those type of things, but also what, what makes me tick
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and where, where he knows where my head is at.
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Sometimes he needs to straighten me up sometimes.
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So it's it's nice to have a friend up there that that's able
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to help guide you. So does he study video or the
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the track or what all does he study?
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I think these days most people use SMT to be able to study a
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lot. But I mean, just just videos as
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well. Pretty much any resource that we
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have is, is what we we try to go through.
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But yeah, Coleman, he just gets it.
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He gets a strategy, gets the racing side.
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He was a great driver really. I mean, he was right on the
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verge of making it himself as a driver.
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So, you know, I think, you know, anytime you can have that, that
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trust and that experience on the roof, that's a no brainer.
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It took me years to to want to do that because I didn't want to
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ruin a friendship because that meant more to me than than what
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we do on the racetrack because I, I don't think you can ask for
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a better friend. So it took a while to to come up
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with the guts of of risk and that, but sure glad we did.
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Thank you. OK.
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We're going to go next to John Newby.
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Johnny, we all driver. So obviously winning is fun, but
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I was talking to Christopher Bell on Pit Rd. after the race
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and he was talking about how you guys needed to celebrate this
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race and it's the most fun he's ever had in a superspeedway.
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Does that I guess surprise you that someone can be sad about
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losing but still had so much of A blast during this race?
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I think people like racing like, I mean we all do this because we
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like racing, like we like to drive fast.
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I enjoy it for the most part, but for me, honestly, I don't do
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this for fun. I do it to win like we do it to,
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to, to make money, right? Like that's, that's what we do
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it to put championships and get trophies.
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Like that's, that's why we do it.
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But I, I will say that the reason why we all started is
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because we like to go fast. We like to compete against each
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other and race. And you know that, that that
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part is, is always down in your heart.
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You know what I mean? It's no different when I get
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home during the week that the one thing I want to do is go
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ride in my quad, right? Or go, go race, go karts.
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Like we still enjoy that, you know, it's still fun that to
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have that on your heart. Nothing's changed since I was a
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kid that you still end up liking the stuff a lot.
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OK. We're going to go to the back
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right here and then we're going to have time for two more.
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We're going to go to Michael Massey and then we're going to
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finish with Jeff Glock. Yeah, Alfa Romero, Southern Race
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Week, Radio two-part question number one, do you do anything
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slow? And then #2 talking about the
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memories here of racing and Ken Reagan in your, your condo here.
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Have you ever had an inkling, an urge to maybe go up there and
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maybe a knock on the door and say, hey, would you mind if I
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kind of like, kind of check the place out, see what's changed
23:39
and what's. You know, I really want to do
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that and I've I've thought about it a lot to go up there and and
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just knock on the door. And I always thought it was kind
23:46
of weird to do like if someone just knocked on your door, like,
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hey, I used to live here. Can I see what it looks like
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now? Like that's I feel like that's
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kind of weird to do. So I never did it, but I talked
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about it a lot tonight. So maybe next time I'll just do
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it. I'll knock on the door and check
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it out. You did that.
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That's cool. I would be weirded out if
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someone did that at my house. You know, I'd be like, I don't
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know. Did you really?
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You know, it's a little weird. I don't know.
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You're not just casing my house, you know, I don't know.
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That's where my head goes. That helps.
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OK, that's good. Everyone knows Bob.
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They'll take a selfie with Bob and then they'll they'll let you
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in. I think that's how you do it.
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It's the goal all. Right.
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We're going to go next to Michael Massey Middle here.
24:44
Michael Massey, front stretch. I know you told us yesterday you
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don't really like the whole even your Joey thing, but you know,
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the more you win and the deeper you go in these playoffs, you're
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going to further that narrative, right?
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I'm OK with it. I mean, it just it's, I just
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don't believe in in luck ever or just weird things like that.
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I mean, I think it's just a coincidence.
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It's like that. I hope that I always say I hope
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it's right this year. We'll see.
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But you know, it doesn't just come automatic because that's
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what the numbers have been in a pattern it that's been shown
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over the last, you know, whatever it's been 10 years.
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It's just, I don't know. I hope it's right though.
25:24
And then, you know, Blaney got in that wreck earlier.
25:27
And were you worried at all that, like with him lined up
25:30
behind you, that, I mean, he gave you a really good push, but
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were you worried at all that, like maybe he wouldn't be able
25:35
to get to you because he had a little damage or was there no
25:37
concern at all? But.
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I didn't have any concerns because he drove through the
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whole field back through there, right?
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Like it's, yeah, we were sitting there 4th kind of saving fuel a
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little bit and he just kept squeaking through the middle and
25:52
next thing you know, he was right behind me.
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So I wasn't concerned about his speed or handling at that point.
25:57
That thing was she was ripping. It seemed like he can put it
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wherever he wanted to put it all.
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Right, we'll close with Jeff Glock.
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Are we all going up there together?
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Is that what's happening here? We heard.
26:14
Mix things after the race from guys saying, you know, that the
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track looks grayer than even in the spring or that like maybe it
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is aged more. What what do you think?
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Like is, is it is it already wearing out?
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Is it going to get to the point where maybe they have to take
26:29
the the plates off so to speak at at some point?
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We're a long ways from that and I don't know if we ever will
26:35
because the banking they added here is just ridiculous.
26:39
I mean, it's so much banking around this place now I, I don't
26:43
think we're close to being able to take the plates off.
26:46
We're going to the other package yet and I'm sure they're not
26:50
even thinking about it because racing's seems to be pretty
26:52
entertaining, right? So I would assume it's going to
26:55
stay this way, but it definitely will affect the decision making
26:59
process as the track wears. This is the the Speedway that
27:04
you have to weigh out mechanical grip, downforce versus drag, you
27:09
know, all those type of those things that you have to kind of
27:12
make those right decisions more. Whereas, you know, Daytona
27:15
Talladega is more just geared to making your car go fast in a
27:18
straight line. So this place is it's got a
27:23
little bit of both and it makes it a little challenging.
27:25
But and as it wears out, yeah, it's going to go more towards
27:29
the best handling cars will will win.
27:32
And even today, I mean as much as we left, the best handling
27:34
cars end up up there. So is it a leap or is it fair to
27:38
say that this is has characteristics of old Daytona?
27:42
Yes, just like it. It's a lot like old Daytona
27:45
without the the huge swells in the middle of the corner like it
27:48
used to have there and the tire fall off, right?
27:51
That's what Daytona used to have, but it's more like the old
27:54
Daytona than the new Daytona is right now.
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OK. Thank you.
27:57
Yep, Joey, congratulations and thanks for coming in.
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All right. Thanks guys.