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Trackhouse Owner Justin Marks Talks Ross Chastain's Coke 600 Win | NASCAR Press Conference · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Jordan Bianca, the Athletic, It seems like Ross this year is
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  really doing a lot of heavy lifting with the team.
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  They're not qualifying well necessarily, but he's really
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  pushing it and pushing them to a higher level than almost like
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  almost even better than we've seen him before.
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  What have you seen from Ross this year?
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  Well, I mean exactly that. We, you know, we, we, we don't
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  have a speed right now that we've had the last couple of
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  years. And, and you know, the sport
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  kind of ebbs and flows and teams have periods of a lot of winning
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  and then get passed by and, and have to kind of regroup or
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  reengineer the, you know, the the team to get back.
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  That's kind of like where we're at right now.
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  And you know, Ross, Ross is, is, you know, he's such an elite
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  talent and he's, and you know, he's really, you know, one of
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  the founding members of this organization.
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  And you know, what I've said sort of throughout the year is
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  like, you know, we, the problem that we have to diagnose is the
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  fact that we, we just, we don't unload with a lot of speed.
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  Like we have to do a lot of work on the weekends to put races
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  together. And the execution that Ross and
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  a lot of the the the teams inside of track house have is
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  really, really good on Sundays. It's just really hard to do it
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  in this era of the sport. If you're starting 25th, 28th,
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  30th, you know, whatever, you know, to get up there is really,
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  really difficult to do. And, and you know, I think, I
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  think as we go through the process, Ross is very invested
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  in the rebuilding process and really helping us kind of
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  diagnose, you know, where there's gaps in the
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  organization, where we need to, you know, be, be focused on
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  things to, to get us back to, you know, back to where, where
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  we need to be. And you know, we've, we've been
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  working really hard on it and we unloaded with really good speed
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  this weekend. Obviously, you know, had a
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  problem in practice, went to the backup car, you know, started
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  last, but the confidence was really, really high when we
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  wrecked this car on on Saturday. And I was sitting there at the
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  car in the garage and they were pulling parts off it.
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  And Ross left the, the infield care center and he walked up to
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  the car. He had a huge smile on his face
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  and he was like, I know, I know this sucks.
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  He's like, but, but that's what I'm talking about, bringing cars
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  to the racetrack like that. That's what I'm talking about.
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  And he was just super pumped. And, you know, that's just him
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  being super invested in the process.
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  And I just, I think Ross's in the conversation of the, you
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  know, the best drivers in the NASCAR Cup Series right now.
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  And you know, he shows that when he goes out there and puts the
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  team on his shoulders right now as we try to rebuild.
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  Part of his evolution, it seems like, you know, if you go back
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  to 2022-2023, there's a lot of races he had a lot of speed, you
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  know, a lot of laps LED, you know, all that stuff.
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  Wasn't getting the finishes to correspond with it, right?
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  And now though, it's kind of the opposite.
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  So what is his evolution as a driver where he now kind of
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  looks at the bigger picture and is kind of sees like, maybe I
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  don't need to be so I don't lack a better term.
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  Impatient, if you will. Yeah, it's experience.
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  I mean, it's experience and understanding, you know, what it
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  takes to be successful as a as a NASCAR Cup Series driver.
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  And I think if you look back through, you know, time and you
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  look at some of these really, really talented people that have
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  shown up in the Cup series and just had all this talent and all
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  this speed, but not a lot of experience.
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  Sometimes it was problematic at the beginning.
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  I think of like Brad Keselowski. And I think like some of these
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  guys that that showed up and ruffled some feathers.
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  And then they figured out how to sort of settle into a place
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  where they can harness their talent and their speed into a
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  way that's really productive in the races.
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  And I think that's the evolution that that Ross has gone through
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  is that he knows how to take that speed and deploy it when it
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  makes the most sense and how to really put full races together.
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  And I think it's just comes with time and experience is a very,
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  very intelligent person. He's very cerebral.
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  He, you know, he really digests the races when they're over and
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  looks back through them. And I think, you know, he just
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  had to go through the experience of understanding where the give
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  and take is and how to really be a complete driver.
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  And he's done that. Jacob Schumann Race Face Digital
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  Justin, you're right, two for you.
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  First, Phil was in here and talked a lot about the just the
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  environment of the rebuild Saturday night.
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  It actually got me thinking back to something you said.
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  I think it was after Suarez's win at Atlanta last year about
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  the culture that you've tried to really build and invest in at
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  Track House. To have guys that are willing to
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  give up their days off, come in, spend that time, lose sleep, and
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  then pay it off with Ross getting a win like this, is that
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  what you're talking about when you're looking for this kind of
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  of relentless effort from from your guys and your crew that
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  goes into making this successful?
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  That's exactly what I'm looking for.
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  I mean, to this weekend, I think was a master class in never
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  giving up and grinding. And you know, it wasn't just the
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  one team that built that car last night.
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  I mean, it was people from all corners, the organization that
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  said, I'll drop what I'm doing and drive to the shop and help.
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  And because we, we're, we're, because we've all been working
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  so hard the last month, month and a half to sort of turn this
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  team around. And, you know, at a time like
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  this, when we unloaded and we were so fast and it was like,
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  man, like we're, we're starting to get there.
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  Like we can feel the thing kind of turning around and, and
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  that's exactly what I'm talking about.
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  I stood in front of everybody at this organization, you know, the
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  the first day that I took ownership of it back at the end
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  of 2021. And I said, you know, we, we
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  have everything that we need to be successful here.
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  We just got to work together. We got to believe in each other.
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  And we have to fundamentally believe that we can do it, that
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  we can go win big races and contend for championships.
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  And if we support each other and go the extra mile and do
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  whatever it takes, then we can get there.
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  And I think this weekend was was a a beautiful expression of
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  that. And I'm, I am.
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  So I don't want to sound, you know, romantic or whatever, but
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  but it's, I mean, I am just so unbelievably proud of everybody
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  because what they did this weekend was very, very, very
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  difficult. And it was truly, it was truly a
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  team win, you know, putting putting a race car together, you
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  know, building a race car last night, bringing it to the
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  racetrack, starting last, making good changes, good pit stops,
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  good strategy. And then and then to what Jordan
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  and I were talking about after that last pit stop, just putting
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  it on the shoulders of our amazing race car driver, Ross
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  Chastain to go punch it into victory lanes.
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  Incredible. Obviously so much focus tonight
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  on what Ross did and rightfully so, but you had the 4th car out
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  with your young talent in Connor Zilich and I'm curious,
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  obviously start 2 for him. So there's a lot, a lot to be
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  looked forward to. What's your assessment of his
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  early the evolution, not just you know in the couple starts in
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  the Cup car, but really on the Xfinity side and what do you
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  hope or or see his progression or pathway being over the next
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  couple of years as you work to develop?
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  Him, yeah. I think one of the things that
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  makes Connor special is his rate of adaptability, and I've seen
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  it a couple times in my life. There's, you know, there's a lot
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  of talented race car, there's a lot of young race car drivers
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  that are fast, a lot of guys that are talented.
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  So it's like, how do you kind of, you know, look through all
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  of those people and find the couple that are like the real
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  standouts? And to me, it's really rate of
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  adaptability. I mean, you know, Connor's been
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  incredibly successful the first time he sat in cars and the
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  first time he's been to races going out there and just
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  figuring it out really quickly. So, you know, I, I think that
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  he's, he's, you know, he's having a, you know, some, some
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  ways a difficult season Xfinity, but an incredible amount of
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  speed. He's had some bad luck,
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  whatever, but he's, you know, he's, he's won a race, he'll go
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  to the play offs and, and luck will come his way and, and, and
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  he'll make a run for it. And then in the cup car, you
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  know, we, you know, we've this is a development driver of ours.
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  First time we've ever like really had a development driver.
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  And I think development means supporting him on, you know,
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  Fridays and Saturdays when he's when he's over at JRM and, and
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  allowing him to have access to the tools and the company and
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  everything and then getting him experience in the cup car.
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  You have to these days just just put him in the car and throw him
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  out there on the racetrack in the Cup series because there's
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  no practice and there's no testing and there's and so, you
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  know, when we're like, hey, you know, you're 18 years old, you
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  know, we think you're, you're on your way to the Cup series
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  pretty quickly. We got to just put you in the
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  car and, and you know, obviously, you know, putting him
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  in the car, a CODA, you know, a racetrack that he's been to done
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  a lot of Rd. racing. You kind of eliminate as many
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  new things as possible so he can learn kind of the flow of a Cup
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  race. And then after that, you know,
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  we'd circled this one on the calendar because he just gets a
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  lot of laughs. He just gets to go out there and
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  race for four hours and justice, get a ton of experience and
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  learn, you know, restarts coming on and off pit Rd., all that
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  kind of stuff. And so it's just part of getting
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  him exposure, you know, to to the cup car.
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  We'll see what his future holds. But you know, right now it's
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  like we we have a mechanism in the company to put that extra
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  car out like we've done with project 91 and, you know, we
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  just we just want him to get that experience.
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  No expectations for results or anything like that.
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  You know, he got when the 84 went around today and he had
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  some contact with him and tore the underbody off.
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  He just was tight the rest of the night.
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  So then it just became like, OK, let's just make the laps and
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  kind of learn the flow of the race, you know, figure out how
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  it's going to tax my body racing for 600 miles, just all that
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  kind of stuff. So it's just we have an
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  opportunity to give him a learning experience and, and
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  we'll continue to do that. But the Cup Series is, it's a
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  different sport than the Xfinity Series.
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  I mean, it is just so, so difficult.
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  And the only way to learn and get ready for something like
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  that is just go out there and do it.
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  We've seen it in the past that guys have moved up too quickly
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  and, and it's, it's been difficult for him.
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  So, you know, we're, we're, you know, being very measured in our
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  approach and we're talking about what his future.
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  We don't know what his future looks like right now, but we're
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  just, we're happy that he's in that JRM car.
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  We're happy that we're him laps in the cuff car and you know, we
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  we have a lot of faith in his ability.
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  We think he's a really, really special talent.
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  But we have to be intentional and mindful about how we we
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  bring him up because we want to certainly give him the best
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  opportunity to succeed. Zachsterniolonascar.com Justin
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  Certainly Shane's Chicago win was a signature moment, but the
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  first crown jewel victory for this organization comes just
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  down the road from the team shop.
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  What is the significance of this moment for you personally, but
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  also for the whole of track house racing?
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  I think for me personally and the whole of track house racing
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  are the same thing. I mean, I'm a team person and
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  I'm, I'm like, I don't, it doesn't matter what I feel about
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  it. I mean, it's meant to me.
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  It's it's about the team. It's about getting a bunch of
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  people together that believe that we can we can go do things
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  like pass Hendrick Motorsports with 10 laps to go in the Coke
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  600 and win it. Like we just believe that we can
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  give our drivers the opportunity to do those things.
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  And so I, you know, I my mind raced and I forgot your
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  question, but yeah, yeah, thank you.
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  So, you know, this is obviously you have these marquee events,
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  right? So like the Daytona 500.
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  I've got my own opinions about the Daytona 500 as a race, but I
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  think when you when when you have these tent pole events that
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  have a lot of history and they're meaningful, it carries
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  special significance because obviously this is, you know, the
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  only home game that this sport has.
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  And we have a lot of people that come that don't typically get to
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  go to the races that come out for this race.
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  And we have wives and girlfriends and kids and
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  everybody comes out to this race.
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  And people that work so hard, you know, 365 days a year that
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  don't actually get to go to the racetrack and watch the race
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  cars. They're here tonight and a ton
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  of sponsors and a ton of fans. And then, you know, when you
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  look at a race like the Coke 600, you can't look at a race
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  like this and not, not envision, you know, Dale Earnhardt driving
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  through the grass here and, and you know, Jeff Gordon's first
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  win and like these big moments and all this big history when
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  they first built the racetrack and all that stuff.
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  So it, you know, it's a moment that holds special significance
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  for everybody in the company. And it's a moment that, you
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  know, we that it's an honor. It's just an honor to win here
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  because it's such a it's such an important event to the history
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  of the sport. Dustin Long, NBC Sports Justin,
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  Compared to some of the established car owners who've
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  had success and been in the sport for a long time.
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  You're just still a youngster and still learning and going
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  through that process with being in a few years.
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  And I'm just curious, what are the lessons that you're learning
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  that you feel like we're going to help you close the gap with
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  Hendrick Gibbs and Penske at this point, because they seem to
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  be seems to be those three teams and then a gap to others.
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  Everybody's kind of fighting for that.
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  What, how do you close that gap and, and how are the things that
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  you have done right or maybe didn't do right the last couple
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  years to get back up, to get into a space like that?
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  Yeah, that's a great question. Well, I mean, I would answer
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  that by I am. I'm still, I'm still learning
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  that that fundamentally drives my days.
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  Every day is trying to figure out, you know, what it is that
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  makes those organizations as successful as they are.
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  Now, if we want to be intellectually lazy, we can just
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  say, well, they just have more money and they have more people.
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  And, and I think that I think that, you know, that's certainly
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  important. They have a lot of resources and
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  that that's very important. So like, if you look back in
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  2022, we had what, 20 winners, 19, whatever it was 20 winners
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  and 2022. And then those teams that have
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  all those resources, they just they're learning and their
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  development curve is quick because they've got the
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  resources to put behind it. And so, you know, you come to a
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  year like this where, you know, OK, Edward brothers win, track
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  house wins. Other than that, you know, see
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  bells three in a row and and Gibbs has, you know, Denny has
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  two and all. So how do we close the gap?
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  I mean, I think this car represents an opportunity to do
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  that. That's why I'm here.
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  I mean, I would not have started track house and raced in the Cup
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  series if they didn't go to this race car because I think that
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  that that it provides an opportunity to close the gap.
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  You know, what have I learned along the way?
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  You know, this is a people game. I mean, I do really work hard on
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  trying to get, you know, talented people motivated to do
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  really good work. I mean, I feel like when I sit
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  up here, I say a lot of cliches, but it's it's like, but it's
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  true. I mean, it's really, it's really
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  true. You can have an organization
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  with a lot of money and a lot of people that can't figure out how
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  to all work together and put fast things on the racetrack.
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  That's certainly possible. You know, we, we don't, we're
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  not as as big of an organization as those 3, but I, we do
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  continue to grow and right now I think provides an opportunity
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  for us to re look at that delta between US and those big teams.
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  As we go through the struggles that we are right now.
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  We're looking at things like developing a more robust aero
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  department, looking at the way we structure our engineering,
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  you know, looking at those things to, to make sure that we
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  get back on the development curve with those 3.
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  So it just takes very thoughtful examination and, and it's a
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  process that probably will never stop because Hendrick
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  Motorsports, Joe Gibbs Racing and Penske Racing are just very,
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  very strong, talented organizations.
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  And I think the fact that we've won, you know, 9 races in 3 1/2
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  years, you know, it's, it's a lot of motivation for everybody
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  in our company to just keep trying to work towards that.
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  Justin, today we saw Kyle Larson do the double.
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  I think you've expressed interest from a car owner's
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  perspective. Obviously a frustrating day for
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  Kyle, admittedly. So he kind of expressed the
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  notion that that the double maybe because of the time limit,
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  the time between the races, it just might not be a feasible
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  thing from a Motorsports perspective.
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  When you look at the big picture, how important is it to
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  have somebody do that for Motorsports in general?
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  And is that something that needs to be looked at if there's a way
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  of widening the the window a little bit to help this or
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  because it seems like at this point it this notion, at least
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  from a Cup drivers perspective, may be dead?
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  Yeah, I mean, my heart, my heart breaks for Kyle.
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  Kyle's a friend of mine. We were business partners.
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  We want a race team together. I know how much he how much, how
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  important the Speedway is to him.
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  You know, I'm a believer that I don't think Motorsports should
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  be in competition with each other.
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  I don't think the industry is big enough for us to be trying
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  to make things difficult on each other.
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  I think there's strength and collaboration between the two.
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  So, you know, I think in, in, in a, in the way the world is right
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  now, you know, live events, especially live sporting events
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  are becoming more and more powerful and valuable.
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  And it's increasingly digital and detached world.
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  And I think that we have an amazing product and cars going
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  around a racetrack 200 miles an hour is incredibly visceral,
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  like authentic, raw, amazing experience.
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  And there's power in that. And I think that certainly like
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  the, you know, the ride, the the tide that raises all ships is a
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  real thing. So like if I was running
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  everything, I would, I would do everything in my power to make
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  sure things like that double can happen.
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  Because I think it's it's an amazing opportunity for NASCAR
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  fans that want to watch their favorite NASCAR driver, maybe
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  watch the Indy 500 for the first time, learn about Indycars,
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  learn new stories, all that and vice versa.
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  So I would, you know, I don't, I don't know if you, I don't know
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  if you'd like change the schedule of the day, but I think
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  that people need to be working in a direction to try to make it
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  happen versus trying to not make it happen.
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  Shane Connick, Charlotte Observer.
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  Congratulations, Justin. So Ross Chastain now becomes the
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  first drivers in 54 years to start in the back and win a
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  NASCAR Cup Series race. So when you look at the team and
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  you think about everything you guys have been sitting up here
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  talking about the past 24 hours, what does this mean for the
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  number one team? Well, you know, what's funny is
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  and we had this talking to Victory Lane, it was like Tony
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  Lunders, our competition director, came up to me and he
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  was like, man, it's just, it seems like all of our wins are
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  like there's some, there's no boring win like the track house
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  has had. It's all like some kind of
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  story. And it's funny how that happens.
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  Like, you know, it happened at at Chicago with, you know, with
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  Shane and everything. You know, it's it's really neat
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  that our wins typically have have like some kind of
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  historical context around them, right?
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  Like Ross winning it at Phoenix, being the first one, I guess in
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  the modern era to win that wasn't in the championship for,
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  you know, Daniel finishing, you know, winning the closest three
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  wide finish ever, like those kinds of things.
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  And then a really, really cool stat like that.
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  I think it's just really a powerful testament to to
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  everybody that that works for the team and that chipped in
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  this weekend, chipped in last night, ordered the pizzas,
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  stayed up till 2:00 in the morning, got there, you know,
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  before the sun came up to button up the car and everything, you
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  know, to to be able to look at all them.
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  They're all tired right now. They've been working basically
• 17:59
  48 hours straight. They're on their way home right
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  now and they're going to lay their head on the pillow.
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  They got to be at shop at the shop tomorrow at 9:00, eight
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  o'clock, except some will be there at six.
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  And you know, to, to say something like you guys did
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  this. You went and got the backup car.
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  You built it overnight. You brought it to the racetrack
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  and became the first person. And I think you said 54 years,
• 18:19
  you know, to win from last place in the Cup Series.
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  It's an amazing thing to put your arm around him and say
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  like, you deserve it. You did that.
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  That's that's an honor that you that you have.
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  Deb Williams Auto Week Congratulations, Justin.
• 18:31
  To kind of build on what Dustin was asking.
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  When Richard Childress started building his team in the 1980s,
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  he said he wanted to bring people in who had never worked
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  for another race team because he wanted to train them in his way.
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  He didn't want someone else coming in with bad habits from
• 18:49
  another race team. How would you like to go?
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  Would you like to bring someone in that's never worked for
• 18:55
  another team to bring that, to build that camaraderie in the
• 18:58
  way you want it rather than having to deal with maybe bad
• 19:02
  habits from other race teams? Well, it's an interesting
• 19:04
  question because as we look at, you know, where it's difficult
• 19:07
  to find good people right now to work on these race teams,
• 19:09
  especially ones to travel. And, and so as we've looked to
• 19:12
  kind of expand our organization and hire, you know, we've, we
• 19:16
  have spent time exploring where we could find people that have
• 19:20
  the right framework of experience and talent to work on
• 19:23
  race cars that maybe haven't worked on race cars before.
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  Like for instance, if we could put a training protocol in place
• 19:29
  at side track, inside track house and be able to hire from
• 19:32
  like the aerospace industry or something like this, where the
• 19:34
  addressable market of talent is so big.
• 19:36
  And you've got so many talented people that are really good
• 19:39
  mechanically and good working on things.
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  And, you know, maybe they leave SpaceX and they're building
• 19:43
  rockets and now they're building shock absorbers for the one car
• 19:45
  or whatever. And like we can train them.
• 19:47
  We've had had that conversation and it's kind of sexy to like
• 19:51
  think about that and to kind of like, you know, do things a
• 19:54
  little bit different. But there's something that's
• 19:57
  very, very proprietary about racing.
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  And there's something about, especially in NASCAR, when
• 20:02
  you're racing every single week and there's a culture in the
• 20:06
  garage area and all of that, that that is it's very, very
• 20:09
  difficult to train for so. You know what I, So what I did
• 20:14
  is, you know, when, when we took over Ganassi and we kept, you
• 20:17
  know, 125 people that were working for Ganassi and you
• 20:20
  know, we just were very intentional and impactful about
• 20:24
  changing the attitude in the shop.
• 20:25
  We did like, you know, not that Chip was doing anything wrong,
• 20:28
  but just because my, you know, my, my way of doing things is
• 20:30
  just different that I really wanted to identify and execute a
• 20:34
  real clear delineation point between the end of Chip Ganassi
• 20:37
  racing and the beginning of, of track house racing.
• 20:39
  And then just daily like investing in the work experience
• 20:43
  and investing in relationships with everybody that works the
• 20:45
  business. So, you know, to answer your
• 20:47
  question, I think there's an opportunity to attract really,
• 20:50
  really great talent from, from other industries And you, but
• 20:55
  you just, you can't start from nothing these days.
• 20:58
  Just just because you know, the tech process and like
• 21:00
  understanding the rule book and you know, the dance of kind of
• 21:04
  like travelling every single week and, and the culture in the
• 21:08
  garage. It's just so difficult to teach
• 21:11
  somebody. So we kind of try to run that
• 21:14
  balance between getting people to understand what NASCAR
• 21:16
  racing's all about, but also are open, open minded to looking at
• 21:21
  things in a fresh way and maybe like forgetting what they've
• 21:23
  known before and are open to accepting maybe like a new
• 21:26
  attitude or a new culture or anything like that.