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Jimmie Johnson Discusses Making The Daytona 500! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  I just have such a better appreciation for what many have
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  gone through to race in And you know, I was so fortunate for so
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  many years to not have to worry about getting it on speed for
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  variety of different reasons. And last year, you know, went
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  went well, we got in on speed. But to go through that just now
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  and literally have it come down to the last 100 yards of the
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  duel, that wasn't in my playbook and I'm glad I prepared as I
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  did. I'm glad the team was ready and
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  we had a very fast car. Unfortunately with the crash
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  that took place that I was caught up in and pitting just
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  had us in a awkward position at the back of the field in the
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  last car in either lane and it's just tough to make something
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  happen. And you know coming through
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  three and four there was an almost wreck again and JJ chose
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  one lane, I chose the middle lane and the middle lane
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  prevailed. By the time we have the start,
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  finish was just as simple as that.
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  I have a couple questions here. I'm going to start up front with
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  Kelly, Kelly Crandall racer com. Jimmy, you said it right there.
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  You've never been through this experience after last night and
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  the disappointment of not qualifying on speed.
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  What was today like and and the lead up just to get into the
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  race or to to the lead up going into the race?
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  Lead up, I mean I I started the morning feeling good about
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  things and and we're working on our strategy.
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  We understand what Toyota vehicles are going to do.
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  We know how many cars are in our dual and all these elements come
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  together and you know, very optimistic, kind of light and
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  day. And then as I put my suit on my
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  bus before I walked out, the weight of the situation hit me
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  and the butterfly started to kick up and and once we settled
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  in at the start of the race, I felt really good with my car.
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  I mean we had a really fast car and was able to drive from the
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  back to the front and something just ran through my mind.
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  I'm like it's not over. We have a pit stop.
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  You know, we have the end of the race.
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  Who knows what's going to happen.
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  You know, just keep my guard up. And then sure enough I had two
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  or three different moments that were were quite challenging that
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  maybe put a year or two on me. That was that was that was.
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  I mean, I'm literally going down the back straightaway knowing
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  it's the white flag. I can see the 44 car in front of
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  me. He's like four or five ahead.
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  The 19's pulled out to help me, but he's so far back, he's not
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  going to get to me in time and I'm like, I'm not going to make
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  it. I'm not going to make the
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  Daytona 500. I have to call all of our
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  partners. I'm gonna have to stand in the
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  suite and shake hands during the 500 not drive.
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  A car like this is running through my mind as I'm catching
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  them. I'm like I've got to figure out
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  a way and then an almost wreck happens and it's leave it on the
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  floor and hope for the best and just went the other direction
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  than J car and it worked out. You had Martin, as you just
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  said, but you came on the radio multiple times, pretty frantic
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  about needing help. Were you surprised that the 43
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  never got back there? Because Earl was saying that
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  they were giving him a message, but you didn't have a whole lot
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  of help back there. Yeah, I I needed a pusher.
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  You know, anybody does in that back lane and you know, it's
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  when it comes to the end of the race.
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  It's tough to get people to pull you know pull out or or try to
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  find a way to you And I I I could have used a little help
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  there didn't get it, which is fine.
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  You know we we figured out how to do it on our own.
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  But you know all the best plans that you you set into place
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  before the race starts. They always seem to go out the
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  window when the race is taking place.
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  All right. We're going.
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  To Lane and then Dustin. Please Spencer, catch
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  friends.com. I saw you.
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  I mean, it wasn't an hour before the race.
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  You're up doing hospitality. How do you kind of switch that
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  on and switch that off and and get into the position that you
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  needed to be in to get into the race today?
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  Honestly, I've liked being busy and the more I sit, the more I
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  have a chance to think. And you know, being as busy as I
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  was today allowed me to not, you know, let the weight of the
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  moment hit me until I was putting my suit on.
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  So I do like to stay busy. I wasn't that way throughout my
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  entire career. But lately, you know, in the
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  later years, staying busy has always been good.
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  Dustin Long, NBC Sports Couple things.
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  What did you I know you went over to to Yayley's car right
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  afterwards. I'm assuming you just gave him a
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  pad or what did you say to him? We still had helmets on, so I I
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  shook his hand and you know that was that was a duel and we had
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  elbows out. I'm not sure if it was picked
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  up, but we had some pretty good contact down the front straight
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  away and just elbows out. I mean, it was like being on a
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  short track, but we're here at Daytona and you know he, he
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  raced as hard as he could and I respect the effort he put out
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  and everything that they did to try to make the race and you
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  know, we just cycled ahead there at the end.
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  That level of desperation, can you compare it to any other time
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  you felt something close to that, or something that brings
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  back what you felt tonight? Or is this something you've
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  never felt before in your career?
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  You're so helpless in a restriction plate environment.
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  Car isn't necessarily handling and you're run comes from what
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  other people do you know you it's not like a normal track
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  where where you have anxiety driven by other factors.
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  So here it was just the weight of maybe missing it you know and
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  then what that would feel like what that would be like to miss
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  the the Daytona 500. So that that was the weight I
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  felt on my shoulders and the where the frantic nature came
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  from and when there was an opening to take never lifted.
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  And I I at one point I had the car in front of me pretty good
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  and I was like I think I'm clear the 44, I'm in a good position
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  now if I spin cars in front of me I'm I'm going to ruin my
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  opportunity. So I actually had to back out
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  coming to the finish line just to not spin the car out in front
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  of me. All right, we're going to go.
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  To Bob, Bob Hockers, Fox Sports What happened within the wreck
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  with with Austin and did you think that your day was over
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  then? Yeah, there was a moment there
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  where I wasn't sure who was behind us and I thought I was
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  going to get cleaned out, but I didn't see what started it.
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  I know we slowed up and you know, there's that accordion
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  effect. And as that happened, Austin and
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  I touched and we both kind of wiggled a bit and we almost had
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  it saved. And then there was another car I
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  had Austin, who I'm not sure who it was, but then they both came
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  across my nose. I went across the apron pretty
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  hard so I'm hopeful the car is still straight and and it's not
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  too tore up underneath but that was probably the the you know
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  toughest impact the car made was transitioning down onto the flat
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  but it's drove drove good steering wheel straight so I
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  think the you know suspension all is fine on the car just a
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  huge scare. Sorry.
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  You're going to go? To ride McGee.
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  You mentioned the difference between the feeling for this or
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  the feeling for racing for a win.
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  How different is it then, when you're invested in this?
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  Or when you're a team owner like you mentioned, thinking about
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  what you thought about going on the backstretch?
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  How different is the mindfulness when it's your deal?
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  Yeah, it's it's heavier you know I feel the the way to the
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  partnerships, you know from corporate partners to my partner
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  Maury Gallagher, everybody at Legacy Motor Club.
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  You know, I've always had a sense of team and have have felt
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  that I'm out there representing the team, but this just had a
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  much different feeling of of representing a lot more people
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  in a lot deeper level. Jacob Suhlman.
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  Race face digital, Jimmy, you kind of alluded to it right off
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  the top, but given what you had to go through to make this race,
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  of the 21 five hundreds now that you'll have been in, does this
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  one mean the most or does it mean at least something
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  different than maybe some of the other five hundreds that you've
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  been in? Yeah, to be determined obviously
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  depends on how the 500 goes, but I've never been through anything
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  like this in my first year down here we fortunately won the pole
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  and so I had exposure to racing my way and then but it was
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  pretty stress free after after qualifying.
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  But to fight like we did in those closing laps, just for, I
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  mean, I've only done that for a race win here that it's it's
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  never had that level of anxiety and fight for, for a duel or or
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  anything else except for, you know, proper win.
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  Hey Jimmy. Jenna Fryer.
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  Congratulations. You you talked about that sort
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  of panic you were feeling. I I don't know what it's it's
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  it's hypothetical because you made the race.
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  But had you not made the race and and got beat by this team
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  that barely even got to the racetrack, like, would that have
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  been like the most embarrassing moment of your career?
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  I don't I've I've embarrassed myself quite a few times I don't
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  know golf cart surfing as there's a few I don't know
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  that's a great question. I I don't I don't disappointment
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  would have been really really high embarrassment you know I
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  think we raced really well you know we we did a lot of things
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  right. I was caught up in a crash you
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  know circumstances and dictate plate racing and and I think I
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  could have hung my hat on that you know we really were fast
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  enough and raced really well tonight.
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  I just would have been really disappointed and I think I'm
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  identifying with the fact that you know it's there's a lot more
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  riding on my performance in the car these days than than when I
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  was a full time driver. And not not only you know my own
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  personal goals but then of of being a driver but what's going
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  on is being a team owner and and trying to help grow a race team.
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  So now there's there's a lot more weight on and I I didn't
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  you would have asked me that question this morning I I
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  wouldn't have this point of view or be able to reflect on it.
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  I had to go through this experience tonight to to
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  understand it here on. My right and then Steven here in
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  the middle of the. Next.
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  Hey Jimmy, congratulations. So you in your career have raced
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  in the same race as JJ Haley a whole lot of times, but I think
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  it's it's safe to say this was a pretty unique situation.
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  Were you at all surprised by the the fight he put up there to to
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  get that last spot with you? No, not at all.
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  I mean, JJ is a champion and has raced, you know, his whole life.
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  I remember watching him in Sprint cars and Champ Cars and a
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  lot of different things, climbing the ropes coming up.
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  We kind of entered the sport together and he was a Gibbs
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  driver and you know he's he's a champion.
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  He knows what he's doing, he's a, he's a real racer.
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  And when it came down to it with three laps to go, we're door to
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  door. I'm like, how does this always
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  happen in the duels? Like the two cars racing to get
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  in end up by each other and here's JJ and JJ banging doors
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  trying to trying to figure it out.
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  Thanks, Jimmy. Thanks.
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  All right. We'll done Steven here.
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  In the middle Steven, Toronto. CBS Sports.
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  Jimmy after qualifying last night, I.
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  Had to go back and check to see. If you would ever.
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  Fail to qualify for a race in your NASCAR career.
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  It had never happened. In the Cup Series, it happened
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  once. In the Bush series.
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  And it just. So happened that you didn't make
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  the field for the season opener at Daytona here?
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  In 2000. Yeah, I'm.
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  You know your answer suggests you remember.
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  That but. How low a feeling?
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  Was that to have to? Pack up and go home.
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  That was really low and I thought about it this morning
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  when I was waking up having coffee.
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  I hope that my reflection of it wasn't a premonition, but we
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  were a new the Herzog's helped me move from off road racing
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  into ASA stock cars and then to Bush.
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  And it was, you know, it was our first race together and there
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  was a lot of new and we're building a team for the future.
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  And there were a lot of similarities with the vision
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  then as you know, I'm experiencing to have now and and
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  I went home and I was like, man, I hope that doesn't repeat
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  itself. That doesn't happen again.
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  So, but so yes, I very much remember missing that race.
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  Thanks, Jimmy. Yeah.
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  All right. One final check back upstairs
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  with the press box. Jimmy Bruce Martin from
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  Speedsport. Toward the end of the race, JJ
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  was behind Ross Chastain. Were you hoping to get him boxed
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  in there and have that work to your advantage, or were you
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  afraid that would create a draft that would make it more
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  difficult for you? As a single car.
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  No, I was hopeful to get up in front of the 44 if it was
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  directly in front of him or Ross or and I was really hoping I
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  could get in front of the 43. So that's where my eyes were
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  focused. I just, I just couldn't get
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  there. It was close a couple of times,
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  just the way the lines cycled back and forth and I physically
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  was in a position, but there wasn't an opening to take.
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  So that's when my. For those scanning me, that's
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  when my my voice probably went up a few decibels, few octaves
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  trying to, trying to figure out how to get into those spots and
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  and be in more of a defensive position to to make the race.
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  Alright, we're going to go. To Danielle, Danielle Trotta
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  SiriusXM Hi, Jimmy Reddick wins you transfer in.
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  I know Toyota fans were concerned last night, perhaps
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  lack of single car speed. Does this make a statement that
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  the Toyotas have what it takes to get it done?
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  Are you impressed tonight for the Toyota camp for Sunday?
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  Yeah, I am and obviously I'm new to it, but I I remember being a
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  competitor against them for many years and you know not, you
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  know, they didn't show their strengths and their strength on
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  qualifying days. It was more in race performance
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  and drivability of the cars and I think that showed again
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  tonight. I think it's just one of the
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  trades or it's in the DNA of of the way they approach their
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  plate program. And you know now in today's
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  world you carry a body through all forms of tracks that we race
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  on. So you need to build a car that
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  it's going to work everywhere and it's our first time with it.
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  So I I think last night you know we didn't perform as we wanted
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  to. I know at the legacy MC side we
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  we need to do a better job and then I think as a collective
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  group we need a bit more time with this new car to understand
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  its sweet spot and get it a little better for single car
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  qualifying. I think race time it's it's
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  quite. Sporty most of our night was was
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  not great. You know coming to Pit Rd. about
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  wrecked again, I've gotten pretty good at that.
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  But we survived that. That was fortunate.
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  You know, we lost Martin there on that cycle, but we come back
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  off Pit Rd. We had good steam.
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  The cars were working good together.
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  We were a little 4, little tiny pack of four cars, but we had
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  some good momentum. So we were kind of cutting up
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  through the, you know, the the rest of the cars that pitted a
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  little bit later, they weren't quite up to speed yet.
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  So that worked out OK. You know, I feel like we're
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  probably going to end up 5th or so before that caution came out.
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  When that happened, you know, it was just just kind of trying to
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  determine you know if Logano was going to go behind tie or not.
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  So once that happened, I kind of decided to go closest to the
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  front and you know, host of our Chase and Kyle were in front of
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  me and I was just trying to push him as hard as I can.
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  Carson couldn't really get going till of the last lap or so.
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  I think he was kind of waiting, Gave him a good shot.
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  Him and Chase got together and they went to the bottom and it
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  kind of opened up the perfect opportunity for me.
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  So yeah, just got the cow's back bumper and got clear to the
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  bottom and took it. So it's kind of good timing.
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  No, you're fine talk. Over there, we'll go ahead and
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  take a couple questions here with Tyler.
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  And to kick us off, we'll go to Jenna.
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  If I pay for the nasty beast, two questions.
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  The first one is what was more exciting, the actual win or the
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  time with Beau after? Well, yeah, I mean it was, I
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  mean he's, I'm also little myself, but it's a very big
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  patch of grass there in the in the in the front stretch.
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  I looked out there and I thought I saw him, you know, I need to
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  go to the eye doctor probably. But yeah, he was there running
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  across the grass. So that was really, really cool,
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  you know, I didn't know if he was going to come all the way or
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  not. And yeah, it was a lot of fun to
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  put him in the car and for him to get a ride in it, you know, I
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  think he's gotten to sit in the car pre race few times, got to
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  sit in the shop. But it was kind of nice to.
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  It's probably the most careful I've ever driven one of these
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  Cup cars, to be honest with you, back-to-back to Victory Lane,
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  because he was kind of holding on, but it was a lot of fun.
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  The car was loud and he really, really enjoyed it.
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  So yeah, I think for me, winning, winning here means a
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  lot. It's been a while since I've
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  done that, but to have him make the trek, cross the the the
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  grass there and come join me was really special.
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  And and then yesterday, the Toyotas, we're down on speed and
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  then you come and win this race today, you feel any better about
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  where Toyota is headed into the Sunday?
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  Maybe a little bit, yeah, definitely.
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  Yeah. No, You know, we didn't really
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  know where we're going to fall with this car and qualifying
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  trim. Certainly that was a little bit
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  off from what we expected. But I think a lot of the drivers
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  remain confident going into racing conditions that the car
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  would work better in the draft. I personally didn't really
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  partake in that till late. You know, I saw Martin Drex and
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  Eric Jones working together good in the outside lane.
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  They're able to be pretty aggressive.
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  So I knew, OK, when we get later in this race, I'll be able to
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  be, you know, more aggressive with my pushes than in the past.
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  And it worked out. Jacob Zoen, Race Face Digital,
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  was that a just opportunity struck move?
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  Did you have that kind of somewhat planned with where you
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  were in the pack the last couple laps?
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  I mean, I learned a lot from it for sure.
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  You know, I I felt like I was far enough back on that restart,
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  like I was going to have to really push aggressively to try
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  and be the first or second car in whichever row I ended up
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  being in. And it just happened to be the
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  top. So being the 4th car in line, I
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  was concerned that if, you know, things didn't start happening
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  that I would have an opportunity to win the race.
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  And yeah, just timing kind of just struck, you know, I was
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  wearing out Carson's back bumper trying to get him going and we
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  got together good one time and and him and Chase were able to
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  clear to the bottom and I thought at first like, oh man,
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  this ain't good. But yeah, I was able to get to
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  Kyle, get him back going and then we came together pretty
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  pretty easily on the back straight away and was just
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  pushing them hard and was able to like said had had an
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  opportunity to go low or high once we got clear the pack a
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  little bit and I'd say more than anything too you know I once I
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  got as far out as I did I was kind of concerned about it but
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  they were three wide so they kind of stalled each other out
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  so got lucky there too. But yeah, looking at looking at
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  my teammate, they're leaning the top.
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  I'd say the the Toyota's handle good in the pack and we're able
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  to make steam once we get racing.
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  That's exactly what I was going to ask you.
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  Kind of touched on it with Jenna, but is this a case where
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  despite what we saw last night with the single car speed
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  lacking? I mean, it feels like last year
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  all over again, where we didn't really hear much from the
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  Toyotas until race day, but you guys are really good in the
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  draft. Yeah, the cars just the, you
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  know, they made hats off to everyone at Toyota and TRD.
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  All the work that they put in on this car is certainly paid off.
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  You know, we we wanted to increase our performance
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  everywhere. We also want to help ourselves
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  at the speedways and it's a really good start to see the
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  performance gain and capability increase like it has.
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  You know, it gives us the drivers, you know, just more
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  opportunities to be aggressive and not have to worry about, you
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  know, turning a fellow Toyota crossed up sideways as we try to
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  draft. All right.
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  We'll go to Dustin. Dustin Long, NBC Sports A couple
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  questions. You would talk a couple weeks
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  ago just about the hopes with this, the new body with the
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  bumper and and looted to what happened to you last year
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  because of the bumper, the situation.
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  How? How does this new body, this
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  bumper? What does this allow you to do?
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  Pushing and being pushed now? Yeah, you know, I didn't get
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  pushed a lot tonight to be honest with you.
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  But it it it looked like, you know, but from on the on the 43
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  with Eric, Eric Jones and Martin Trex that they were able to be
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  pretty aggressive with one another and that paid dividends.
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  They're able to get to the front pretty quick.
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  So it it looks like you you can receive bumps and not get as
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  crossed up. So yeah, I don't have personal
• 20:29
  experience with that, but we'll get together and talk about, you
• 20:31
  know, our first outing with this brand new Camry and we'll be
• 20:34
  prepared for the race Sunday. And you talked about the other
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  day just about you needing to to run laps at Speedway races and
• 20:42
  you hadn't done the early part of last year.
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  And then you felt like the last two Speedway races you had
• 20:47
  learned lessons and been over go to the front, go ahead and run
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  the race. How did in any way did those
• 20:53
  experiences from the last two Speedway races help you do what
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  you needed to do tonight? It certainly helps some, but but
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  to a degree to you're kind of erasing where you used to have
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  your limits. Like OK, this is aggressive as I
• 21:08
  can be pushing and this is aggressive, you know this is the
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  most aggressive that someone can be pushing me without getting
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  into trouble. So you kind of had to start from
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  a new, you know, a new benchmark, if you will, and
• 21:18
  build. But like I said, just watching
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  the cars ahead be aggressive, the other Toyotas do what they
• 21:23
  were doing and networking was a really good sign.
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  So yeah, you know, some of it certainly helped gaining some
• 21:30
  experience last year at the tail end, finally, you know, running
• 21:33
  laps and finishing some of those races.
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  But tonight just was kind of, you know, we were just kind of
• 21:39
  in the right spot at the right time, kind of like you saw to
• 21:40
  Ricky Stenhouse and you know some of these other drivers that
• 21:43
  have been able to make hay late. You know, it just, it kind of
• 21:46
  kind of came to us to a degree. Hey, Tyler.
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  So you've now won at right over here to your right.
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  Yeah, you've now won a Daytona in three different series and in
• 21:56
  three different manufacturers, which is pretty unique stat that
• 21:59
  just occurred to me. Can you speak to some of the
• 22:02
  differences in those three wins on both those two levels?
• 22:06
  Yeah, I mean on the on the truck side, you know it was, it was a
• 22:12
  bit like that race kind of unfolded a bit like how the next
• 22:15
  Gen. car races. I was so new to it.
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  You know TJ Majors was doing a lot to kind of shape my young
• 22:22
  mind at that time because I didn't, I didn't.
• 22:23
  I mean I knew what dirty air was from Aderlei model racing days.
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  But you know I was kind of just listening to him back then and
• 22:30
  just doing what he said and you know we got to that our first
• 22:35
  race together here with JRM. That was kind of the craziest
• 22:38
  day I've ever had in a race car with all the things that went
• 22:41
  wrong. I literally couldn't even
• 22:43
  accelerate out of the zone on my own power.
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  So to win that race was just a wild week in itself.
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  But yeah, for me, in in, in this race, you know, it's probably
• 22:54
  the smoothest race I've had at a Speedway that's turned into a
• 22:58
  victory. You know, I think a lot of my
• 23:00
  speed, super Speedway wins have been chaotic from start to
• 23:02
  finish. This one had the potential to be
• 23:04
  in that. I tried to make it really crazy
• 23:06
  in the beginning, but thankfully we kind of stuck to our plan and
• 23:09
  the cycle still turned out OK And just, you know, I had a kind
• 23:13
  of a mindset on that restart what I need to do and it just it
• 23:17
  kind of all came together for me.