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Daniel Suarez Wins 3-Way Photo Finish! · Kenny Wallace Media

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Yeah, it was. It was definitely a special
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moment, you know, going back actually to a research.
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I have to thank actually Kyle Busch because he he did a very
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very good job giving me some good pushes to take the lead the
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first time when I was third and we do the lead together and and
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then after that when I picked the bottom in front of him it
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worked out good. But but the the 12 car, the
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Penske car, they were pretty strong.
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They were pretty strong especially when they were close
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to being together and and the the outside line on the back of
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the roadway came extremely strong way sooner than what I
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was anticipating and and the the 12 was able to push me.
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But when he moved me a little bit he was able to get to my
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outside and that's exactly what I didn't want it.
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I didn't want to give him my outside but at that point I was
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racing in 2nd and I was trying to figure out how to get to him.
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I almost got to him and getting into a three but I got very very
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loose and and I couldn't actually get there and when we
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cross the white flag I knew we were going to have a good shot
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because the two car was behind me and he was giving me very
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very good pushes and and I I dragged the brake a little bit
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on corner 2. And and I I I can see him coming
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with a push and say OK here comes and my my move was going
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to come after that but then he slowed down and and I was like
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damn it like already he didn't want to help me because his
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teammate wasn't wasn't the lead. But at that point the 23 pushed
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the the eight and the eight was able to make the move and I was
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able to side drive the 8 and that's when the three wide you
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know got started. So it was a little crazy you
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know who knows what what will have happened if the two was
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actually giving me the push maybe who knows maybe they were
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going to pass me back and get X04.
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I'm just I'm just glad we're here with with my entire team.
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Tri house Chevrolet Freeway insurance Cesar over there CEO
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freeway insurance with his entire family he's been in
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Victory Lane Roy twice in one month so so he he's getting
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spoiled and and yeah just very happy.
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You know very happy. Everyone in Tri house worked
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extremely hard in the offseason and to be able to to start the
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2024 season. This is strong because last last
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weekend the Icona 500 we finished 32nd or something like
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that but we were running up front and we wrecked running up
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front and and I feel like we have a strong team and and we're
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showing that so far in the couple weeks that we've been
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racing. So we have to continue to build
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on that Jordan Bianchi, the Athletic fairly.
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Or not the perception? Going into the year was you were
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on the hot seat and need to perform.
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Did you feel like you were on the hot seat coming into this
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year and that you were at risk of losing your ride and and then
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two what does this do for your future at track house.
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Yeah I know. I never I never felt like I was
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in a hot seat. You know a lot of people was
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talking about it. You know Shane, Shane coming on
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board and then Shane coming on board and and but I never felt
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bad. I knew that.
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I knew the last year wasn't the year that I really wanted I work
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you know people people that actually know me they know how
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hard I work and last year we just we work hard but we're not
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efficient you know we're missing something we were not firing in
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all a cylinders and and we want to work in the offseason we want
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to work and we changed a little bit our system the way we do
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things in in a few different areas and and I've been telling
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Ty. I've been telling Justin say man
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I can I can feel the team strong.
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I can feel the communication the preparation, everything that we
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have squid. Matt Sudarski has done a hell of
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a job helping me to build a strong team and and I can feel
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it. You know I can I can feel it and
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I'm. I'm happy that we're able to to
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do it early in the season because you know some people
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actually told me earlier hey now you can relax.
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You know you're in the playoffs. Hell no.
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My goal is no win to is not to win one race.
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I want to head into the playoffs with at least a handful of you
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know with a few wins to be able to contend for a championship.
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This is not relaxing here we this is only the beginning.
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We have to continue to work continue to build.
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We know that there is a few things that we could have done a
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little bit better today. We learn from that and and and
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we continue to build. I'm happy that we are securing
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the playoffs but to be able to win the championship you won't
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do it winning one or two races you have to win at least a
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handful of races to great points and and that's the goal for a
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99. The goal for me and with a 99 is
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for you guys not to be surprised when the ninety 90s in Victory
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Lane. Let's go to Bob, Steven and then
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Jonathan, Bob Parker's Fox Sports F2.
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The First off, can you go through a?
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Race like that every week. Or is that too intense?
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I love it, Bob. I love it.
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You know? I love competition.
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I love racing. I woke up every morning with so,
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so grateful and so fortunate to be in this position.
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You know that I get to do what I love to do.
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I get to compete with the best of the best every single
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weekend. And and not just that but I get
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to do it with an amazing team, Astro House, with great people
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that support me and that believe in me, you know freeway
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insurance. They've been with me already for
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for several years. Coca-Cola, Tutsis, so many
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people, so many people. They've been with me for, for,
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for for a while quicker stay doing a lot of things,
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supporting me racing in the NASCAR Mexico series.
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I'm very fortunate. I'm very fortunate to have great
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people around me and and honestly I I I love competing.
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I love this pressure. I love going out there knowing
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that that we have to perform. I use that as fuel so.
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What does a win? What will this win do you feel
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do for your future? Considering, you know it's.
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Quote. Just your second Cup win and
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your first on an Oval and. 1st and 58 starts.
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Yeah I mean to me to me it's everything about building a good
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group around me. I I truly believe that the last
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few years with Tri House we have had great group of people
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working together. You know where they were able to
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win a year and a half ago and and and it was amazing.
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But like I said you know the goal for me personal it has
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never been to win a race a year to win two races a year.
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The the the the goal is bigger than that and and I knew that to
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be able to get that we needed to to do something and and and I
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feel that that that right now we're slowly you know making
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steps in the direction of what I want to be.
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What I want to go with this with this racing that you know I want
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to accomplish. To be able to win several races
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a year. To be able to be strong in the
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playoffs. Not just to make the playoffs,
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but to be strong in the playoffs and to be able to to have a real
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shot for the championship. Every single driver today will
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tell you that they want to go and win the championship, but
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but you really have to work and and and and organize your
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people, your team to be, to be real, a real contender.
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Steven Toronto. CBS Sports Daniel.
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Watching that finish, it made me think of a question that was
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once posed by a wise man and. Philosopher, I think.
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His name was Mike Joy, and I'll pose that question to you now.
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Have you ever, have you ever been a part of of a finish like
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that? No, definitely not.
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Definitely not. At that point.
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I was, you know, just trying to time the side draft on the
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eight. I didn't know where the 12 was.
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I couldn't see the 12. And I knew I thought that I had
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the eight. I knew it was close, but I have
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no idea about the 12. No idea.
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So you know, at that point I was just hoping I saw the tower and
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I thought I was first and they told me we got it, but then they
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we're on the review and said damn it.
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So, so yeah it's it's it's quite a, you know every time that you
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get to win races is special, but to be able to win it in this
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fashion this close with two other great drivers is is quite
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a special. I know that your first Xfinity
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one was pretty. Dramatic to last lap.
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Passion in Michigan. But you know what sticks out
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before this? What sticks out is the, you
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know, craziest finish that you were ever a part.
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Of in a race. That you won.
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I would say, I would say either Michigan or my championship race
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in Homestead. When I won the championship I
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had, I had a fast, a very fast car.
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We won the pole with the most laps, but we I had to win it.
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In the research, you know I had to restart.
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I think I restarted 5th and and I had to pass a couple cars to
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be able to to win the race and the championship with two or
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three laps to go. So.
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So to me that's obviously up there as well.
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You know I'm just a crazy finish but not, not not the actual last
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lap, but what I have to do to be able to put myself in that
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position at the very end. Gotcha.
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Thank you, Daniel. All right.
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Let's go to Jonathan. Jonathan Field, the racing
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experts, you know, Daniel, your careers had a lot of twists and
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turns and you talked about the people behind you.
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I mean, what does it mean to have, you know, just those
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people behind you who are committed to you?
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It's very special, man. It's, it's very special.
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Especially because you know, for, for, for a young kid coming
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from Mexico, without speaking English, without friends,
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without understanding the culture, a lot of people don't
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really understand, you know, you really have to come from a
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different place to understand what I had to go through to be
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able to get here. And I have to, I have to
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actually learn English by myself.
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I have to do a lot of things different, you know, and to be
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able to make it slowly, you know to build relationships to to
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have people help me. It was it was a journey, you
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know, it wasn't easy and today you know, I'm sitting here and
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and and and not really. I'm very, very lucky to be in
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this position be being the only guy in the cup series that can
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actually do an interview in Spanish is is quite a special to
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me. But the you need to get here.
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It has been difficult and it's been a long one.
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That's why I always tell people you know coming from Mexico or
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Latin America that they asked me for an advice and say hey man,
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you have to grind like it's it won't be easy.
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Not just because you are going to fight against great drivers
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just, but also because you have to fight the language.
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You have to fight the culture. You have to find the
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connections. You know, my mom, my dad, my the
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people that advise me every single day, they're not here.
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And I was very lucky that Gustavo Reino's back there.
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My American grandpa, he was here with me since I moved here and
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he, he took me under his wing. But if it wasn't for him
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probably I wouldn't be here today.
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So I got lucky in many different scenarios and and and it's it's
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a yearning you know and and to build your team and to
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understand why you have to do. When I won the championship,
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honestly I thought man this thing is easy.
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I got this. I'm going to go to a Cup series,
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I'm going to kill it. Well yes.
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But in the Cup Series, you are racing with the best drivers,
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with the best pickers, with the best mechanic, with the best
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cruise ships engineers. So it's not just all talent
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driver, no. In the Cup Series, every single
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driver is talented, every single driver is gifted.
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So you have to build a good team around you.
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And and I've been very fortunate that Tri House believing me
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since they won and they have supported me to build a team
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around me. All right, we're going to go to
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John Newby and then Matt Weaver. John Newby, NBC Sports.
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So is monitoring Ross's radio and a couple other teams, and I
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was surprised to hear. The comment that this race more
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like the. Old 550 package instead of a
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super Speedway. What was your perspective on
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that? Could be.
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I mean yeah a little bit I can, I can really remember everything
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about the 550 package. But yeah I feel I have I have a
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little bit of feel like this. I think that that the the new
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rules that we have in the in the in the Geo of the car for
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superspeedways I'm here in Atlanta actually helped the the
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race. I feel like we can get pushed a
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little better and we can be a little more aggressive.
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But yeah, he he felt a little bit like that.
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But without being say that the intensity of the pack when when
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we were you know in the top ten, top 15 running, I mean the car
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moves a lot, the car moves a lot.
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You don't have to be getting pushed to get a lot of lot of
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movement on the car. Like handling is extremely
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important. I would say that even more
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important than on a super Speedway like Daytona and
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Talaga. So as far as I remember with the
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550 package we had a little bit more more grip than this.
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So this, this, this race is definitely very unique.
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I think that everyone at NASCAR and they have done a great job
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you know putting a a race like this one because it's it's
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different he's not super Speedway, no man and a half.
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He's not a 550 package. He's a he's a real hybrid and
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and that really puts a a great show on track.
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I'm Matt Weaver. Sports not.
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I've got 2 for you, Daniel. I was struck by the number of
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people that just came to congratulate you in Victory Lane
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or even after the race. Talking to us in the media,
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everyone, even the guys that you beat, we're all very
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complimentary and super stoked for you.
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What does it mean to you that pretty much everyone in the
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garage kind of roots for you? It means a lot, you know It
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means a lot because most most of those guys, they know, you know
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how difficult it is to get here. You know how difficult it is to
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get to a Cup series. We're fighting with the best of
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the best and I really they also know and recognize that I have
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had a little different journey than most drivers and and you
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know I have a great relationship with Baba Wala with Ryan Blaney
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and and everyone, everyone that was racing against and then they
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came to Victor Lane. So all we have is is a mutual
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respect you know we we know how how good we are and we we love
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racing each other we love racing hard and and we also respect
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each other outside the racetrack.
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So, so yeah it's it's it's quite special it's it, it goes both
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ways the the the respect is mutual.
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And then your your spotter, Frankie Kimmel.
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How valuable and important is he not only to a race like this,
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but just in general working with him the last couple of years?
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Oh, it's very important. Frankie is one of the best
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supporters out there. There is a lot of good, talented
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supporters up in the roof and I can tell you that he's in the
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top five. He's a very, very good, talented
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young sporter. I remember like he was just
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ready a couple years ago. We gave him a shot.
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We went to Dover. It was his first race ever, I
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think, in the National Series and we finished in the top ten.
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And right away I knew that he was talented.
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Yeah, we needed a few tweaks here and there, but he was
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talented, he's natural and he's a race car driver.
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You know he loves this, he understands what we need to do.
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So him and I, we we we we we connect very well and and and I
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feel like especially in the last year or so I feel like our
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communication and our trust has got to to to the next level.
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There was one reset that he said man go to the top.
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We messed up you know we lost 10 positions.
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He said man sorry about that. It's part of it.
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You know we we make decisions sometimes are good sometimes are
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bad but at the end of the day we're not going to point fingers
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we're on this together. We win together and we lose
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together. So in that particular moment, he
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told me to go up. He thought it was the best
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thing. It wasn't, but that's part of
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it. And the same way that he helped
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me got to Victor Lane tonight. So he's part of it.
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Let's go to chrisknightchrisknightfriends.com.
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Daniel, Congrats on the win at some point during the race
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today, Todd Gillan said on his. Radio it's like.
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Going to a haunted house, you know, it's fun, but I'm scared
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for my life at the same time. It is, it is.
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Is that an accurate? Way to describe the.
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Racing out there today it was man, because you knew there was
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going to happen. Something.
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I mean everyone I I cannot explain to you guys.
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I hope that everyone at home and you guys were actually able to
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see how much booming our cars had.
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You know like the car we're not comfortable.
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I mean I don't think. I don't think there were many
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cars going what open beside the front row car like everyone was
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driving the cars. It was it was not easy not easy
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at all. This racetrack is fairly new and
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it already has some bumps so it wasn't easy but but it was great
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racing, you know it was great racing.
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I thought in the beginning of my race you know we we got wrecked
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in lap 2. Luckily the car didn't have a
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lot of damage. We fixed the car and the car
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wasn't great. You know we the front of the car
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wasn't great. The back of the car we have to
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we have to work on it and and that's where I give a lot of
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credit to to to squid my my cruise ship and my engineers
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Dusting and Troy that they they never give up.
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They they knew that the car wasn't 100% they had a little
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bit of repairs but they adjusting on it and they made
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they made the car one of the best out there when it counted
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the most. Let's go ahead and go to Jacob.
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Jacob's going race face digital. Daniel, congratulations and two
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for you. First, Justin was here earlier
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actually. I think you had just walked in
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when he was talking about kind of the culture that's been built
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at track house and he mentioned, you know, hard work and passion
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being two of the of the main things Your crew chief, Matt
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said, you know, talked so much about the work that you put in
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compared to some of the other drivers that he's worked with.
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What is it about the culture that Justin and Ty and everybody
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at Track House has built that has made this really the best
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home that I feel like you've had in the Cup Series?
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You're totally right This is the best home I have had in the Cup
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Series and and by a mile you know Josine Marks Stein Norris
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they believe in me since day one and and when they when they
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called me to join Trap House I was in the bottom.
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I wasn't the lowest of lowest of my career.
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I was strolling a lot I was losing confidence on myself and
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and they grabbed me and they pulled me back to what I knew at
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one point that I belong. And they knew that if they were
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able to give me a shot to to build a team around me they
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were. I was going to do something
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good. And and that's something that I
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I will be forever grateful to them.
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You know to to give me the opportunity to build a team
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around me because like I said, you know when you're fighting
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with the best of the best you have to have all the little
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things right. And and yeah, you know Matt he's
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a very, very passionate guy. Squid, my crew chief he likes to
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win. He likes to be competitive super
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smart guy. One of the smartest persons I
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know. And and and we work hard.
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You know at the end of the day you know we we come here on the
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weekends to execute. But the reason why we want today
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is not just because we execute right.
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It's for all the preparation that we do with we did during
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the week you know we did a lot of work.
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We do a lot of work. Matt Squid my crew chief.
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Frankie you know George wise optimization we do a lot of work
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to come here prepare and when you are prepared mentally you
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already feel like you are you are ahead and and that's that's
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something that is very important and and we've been working very
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hard to to to be prepared and and I honestly feel that when I
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was arriving here in Atlanta I feel like I was the most
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prepared driver out there and and if we can do that every week
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it's going to be a lot of fun we're going to win a lot of
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races. The smiles back on your face.
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I know, you know it was after Sonoma.
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You guys made the play the bit. The playoffs in 22 last year
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wasn't what you wanted. You know, That's been spoken of
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a good bit. You mentioned the confidence
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though, that they brought to you.
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Was there ever a point last year, even as you're fighting
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through a year, that wasn't what you wanted it to be?
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Was there a point that your confidence was shaking again or
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did you always feel like getting back here was was reasonable,
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was there? It was just kind of
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circumstances conspiring against you.
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You know we we raise every single weekend and and when when
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the results don't come yeah your confidence started lacking a
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little bit. You know the people that know me
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and they will tell you how confident I am like it's it's
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very difficult for me to actually lost to to lose trust
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on myself and and to actually lose everything that I know But
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it is a little bit you know it is a little when you don't win
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races for a year year and a half you're still losing a little bit
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of confidence like OK what do I have to do.
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I know I can drive. What do I have to do?
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What else do I need to do? And you know, you just have to
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keep grinding, man. You have to keep grinding.
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Believe in your team, believe in yourself, continue to work in
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that communication, continue to work on those little things.
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I came into this thing into this year and I and I, I had a
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conversation with Ty Norris. I had a conversation with Justin
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Marks with Cesar. Sorry.
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I know as well. And I told him we're going to
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win races this year. I can feel it.
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We're not even racing yet. I can already feel it.
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The the way that we're working, the way that we're preparing
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ourselves, It's OK. This is the this is the work
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that we have to do to be able to go out there and be efficient
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and fight for wins and championships.
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And if we can do it early, that would be amazing and what a
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better way to do the second rest of the season.
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Hey, over here, Ken Seguir, the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
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I'm curious on your journey here.
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You know, coming from Mexico, if you remember what was the the
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hardest part? No.
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No, thank you, brother. Thank you so much.
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All good. Anybody else?
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What was the hardest part? How close did you come to
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giving? Up and what?
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Kept you going. There were, there were so many
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different situations and like when I came here in 2011, I
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didn't have anything, You know, I couldn't speak English.
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I didn't have friends, I didn't have my family.
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I didn't have sponsors supporting me to say, OK, go out
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there and buy yourself a ride. I didn't have anything.
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And I will say that by far the most difficult years of my life
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and my career were 2011 and 12. Those dodges were very difficult
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because I was away from home. I I didn't have anything.
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I didn't even have money to actually rent an apartment in
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the beginning, like it was difficult times.
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But at the end of the day, you know all these difficult times
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is what makes you it, what makes me who I am today.
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You know a hard work person. I person that don't give up.
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A person is always grinding, a person that always good trying
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to get better. I'm a I'm a very I'm a very
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perfectionist person. You know like tonight, yeah, I'm
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very, very happy. We won't.
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We did everything that we need to do and tomorrow I guarantee
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I'm going to watch the race and I'm going to write down a few
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things I could have done better because I know that for next
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time that we come here if I do the same thing probably I won't
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won the race so I want to have to be better and everyone else
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is going to do the same thing. So that's the mentality that you
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have to have. You know you have to always
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continue to evolve and and I felt that my team is doing the
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same thing. We're on the same page.
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I'm hungry I want to win races I want to fight for championships
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and and I felt like my team and I try House and my sponsors we
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are all on the same page. All right we have one final
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question back there. Yeah, Daniel, Brad Harrison
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from. Frenchridge.com.
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You you guys came close to win here last July?
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With the weather and. Everything else, How much of A
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redemption is winning a close one here tonight?
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Yeah, it feels good. It feels good.
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Last time here we finished second and and I don't know if
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you guys know this but second socks, 2nd is not fun.
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It's not fun to know that actually sometimes third is
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better because at least you know that there were a couple guys
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ahead of you. But when you finish second and
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the guy finished first is celebrating is difficult.
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You know because you know that you were only one spot away.
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But but you know we we learn from that.
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We grow from that. And like I said, you know we
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have had fast race cars. I felt like last year we had an
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opportunity to win a few races, but I have mentioned this in the
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past, you know the the the strong teams, they they win 5-6
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races a year but they had they had opportunities to win 15
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races a year. You know if if I had three
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opportunities to win races, you know everything has to fail in
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part everything. The execution part has to go
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perfect to be able to, to to get it done, you know, so, so, so
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really you have to fast. If you want to win five races,
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you have to be in Plantation for 15 times at least, you know, to
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be able to. Everything fell in place so and
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that's that's what I told Matridorski squid the very first
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time we met and said man we have to I need more more
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opportunities out there. You know like if if if you have
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the fastest if you have the fastest car you know once a
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month we're going to win races. We're going to win races.
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But we have to do it as consistent as possible and and
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and and make our self make make make our team a habit to be
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strong and and to be upfront and and when we do that when we put
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the ground in the work you know I think I think we're going to
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be able to to hold our ourselves to a high to a high standard.
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We'll take one last question here with Lee Spencer.
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Lee Spencer. Catchfence.com Daniel.
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Ross was so happy for you in in Victory Lane and he was talking
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about how much you push him to be better, he says.
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You outwork him in the gym. You never.
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Gave up last year when times. Got tough and and that the two
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of you just end up you know it's like a friendly.
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Competition where you just. Push each other to be better.
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What does that mean? To have somebody that you can
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rely on and you know? Same age?
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Same. You know, work ethic and just
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push. You to be the best.
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You know if you if you guys actually think about it.
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Rose and I, we're very different.
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We're very different as as as people we're very different but
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we have a lot of similarities and and the biggest similarities
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that we have what I have found are a few.
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One is that nothing was given to him, you know, he had to work
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hard as well, just like I did. Different paths, different
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journeys, but we have to we both had to work hard from every
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single team that I have had in the past.
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Before Tri house, I was out working every single team I had.
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I knew I was working harder. I knew that I wanted things to
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happen. And and Ross, honestly he he
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worked hard. You know him and I, we we hold
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ourselves to a high standard not just training but in the studies
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that we do in the preparation that we do.