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Ryan Blaney Wins Iowa's First Ever NASCAR Cup Race! · Kenny Wallace Media

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Considering recent events, you got to lead comfortably with a
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handful of laps to go back your mind.
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Are you thinking like what? What's going to happen here?
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OK, Deja vu for sure. Yeah, I mean, that did that did
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kind of go through my head, right.
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Just just trying to, you know, it's normally in my mind's like
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just get to the white and now I'm less like, I don't care
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about getting to the white, let's just get to the checkered.
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And yeah, I just, I don't know, it's kind of normal thoughts.
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But then the pain of two weeks ago, it just always pops up in
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your head. But I tried to forget about it
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and just focus on, you know, the gap we had and try to keep it
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and and all that. But yeah, I had some thoughts of
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that. Luckily tonight it went
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smoothly. And then your crew chief comes
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on with like 5 laps to go or thereabouts and says you're good
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on fuel. Did you chuckle laugh.
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Painful memory there. Or no, I didn't.
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Think about it. No, I didn't even think about
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it. I don't say.
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I don't even remember him saying that, really.
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I figured we were. But yeah, I didn't.
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I didn't even. I don't even remember him saying
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that really. And obviously, now you're locked
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in the playoffs. But I mean, points are breathing
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tight now. You're kind of off that playoff
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bubble. But as things have unfolded the
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last few weeks, have you been paying more attention to the
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bubble and what your position was?
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Yeah, I mean, I don't, I don't look at it like every day.
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Like I'll look at it Sunday night when it comes out.
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When when, when y'all put it out and and OK, there it is like,
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and I don't really pay attention to it the rest of the week, but
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I did you know it, it was concerning when we had that
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stretch of bad races like Darlington wrecking wrecking
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early at Charlotte, not finishing well at at gateway.
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I was like, man, we're kind of getting a little close to the
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cut line, but we had a good day at Sonoma and kind of buffed it
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and then tonight we had a really solid night.
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So I I did look at it a second. I was like, man, it got to just
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be like, we don't have a lot of wiggle room left, you know, and,
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but I don't really pay attention to that stuff too much.
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I look at it once and and then figure out, OK, can I get to
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these guys in front of me this weekend?
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Maybe if I'm a few points away and you think about that kind of
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during the stages and stuff. But other than that, I don't
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really look at it. So it's nice not to have to look
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at it in that regard anymore. You just try to see where you're
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at in points for for playoff points, stuff like that go.
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To Bob and then Jerry. Bob Pock versus Fox.
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Sports. I have two.
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The first maybe a variation of question I've probably asked you
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before, but do you? Did you handle the last two
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weeks since the pain of losing Gateway differently than you
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would have a year ago when you weren't a past Cup champion?
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Yeah, probably a little bit, yeah.
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I feel like I handled it better. Just like shit happens, you
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know? Like, you know, just trying to
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take it a little bit easier as far as that stuff goes.
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It's like, I think a lot of last year taught me kind of our
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season and then the playoff room we had and into the
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championship, like ups and downs, just trying to get better
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in the ups and downs like through the week and post race
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and stuff like that. And not just beating yourself up
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over things and you know, and just sticking with, you know,
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things and looking forward to going in the next week.
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And last year taught me a lot of that, I feel like.
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And so I've tried to apply it this year as far as like, you
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know, you have a bad run. Even when we wrecked at
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Darlington and Charlotte. And like I wasn't, I was bummed,
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but I'm not like festering over for days on end.
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I just, I kind of just move on from it and figure out how do we
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need to get better. And, you know, honestly, those
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two weeks were Darlington, Charlotte, where we wrecked out.
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We, you know, really were like, hey, what do we need to do to
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get better? And then ever since then, like
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we started running good Gateway Sonoma here.
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We've been running really well the last three weeks.
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So proud of that, that that my guys didn't get down.
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You know, I'm bummed out that we weren't finishing races very
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well. They just figured out how to get
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speed and, and we found it and it was nice to execute one
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tonight. So yeah, it don't bother me too
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much and. Considering how the track race
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today, should they finish the paving job or should they leave
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it the way it is? I I thought it actually raced
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pretty good. Like I don't know how it looked
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on TV to everybody. No good.
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Yeah, good. OK.
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I thought it was pretty racy. You know, we were way up there
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in that 2nd lane, which are essentially kind of made it 3
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lanes because you had the bottom, then you could straddle
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the seam and then you had guys in the the full top.
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So, yeah, it honestly, it exceeded my expectations as far
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as raceability. Good cars could pass people and
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you had different lanes. And so, yeah, I mean, the crowd
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tonight was awesome. I mean, packed house.
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That doesn't make you want to come back here.
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I don't know what will. And so, yeah, I don't know if
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they really need to pave the whole thing.
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I thought it did a good job tonight, but that's above my pay
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grade. Go.
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To Jerry and then Kelly and then Phillip.
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Jerry Jordan kicking thetires.net Normally it seems
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like it's your teammate when we first go to a new track or some
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new pave or whatever that's getting sitting up there.
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But you've tonight mark your your name in the history books
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as the first winner of the Cup race here.
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How's that make you feel? And you know when you're coming
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away from here. Yeah.
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I mean, it's, you know, Joey's won a lot of those inaugural
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races and I honestly, yeah, they do a great job and everything.
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But I think us as a organization like Penske, we do a really good
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job of preparing and planning and going through some work,
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really, really utilizing, you know, tire tests, wheel force
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tests, you know, figuring out a good game plan before we get
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here. I'm not taking anything away
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from the 22 team, but I think as a whole company, we do a good
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job at these places we go to for the first time.
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So that's something to be proud of In our, our group, all the
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team Penske, they, they work really hard to try to be ahead
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of the game. I think our SIM work and, and
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all that stuff is really good and engineers and crew chiefs
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are great. So I think it's a huge testament
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as an organization as well. And and for you, you've
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mentioned when Jordan asked you a while ago about the wind being
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locked in. How big of a relief is it to get
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the wind and to be in the playoffs?
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It's always nice, you know, I mean, it's just it's nice not to
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have that in the back of your head, you know, if you get tore
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up and a handful of races, like you're not biting your nails
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off. So it's just nice to do it.
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And, and honestly, I just think it, you know, we've been close
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to two or three this year, you know, barely, barely losing
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Atlanta, you know, having gateway kind of sealed up and
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and that happening and, you know, not kind of seeing where
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we could finish. I thought like where we got
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wrecked at Texas and Darlington. I thought we were really good.
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I would like to see what we could have finished.
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So it just felt like we could never really get the runs we
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deserved or just, you know, crappy things would happen to us
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and we just couldn't really finish it out.
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So it was nice to just finally have one, you know, the night go
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pretty smoothly. Us get better through the night.
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They did a great job of getting better.
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Honestly, Friday I didn't feel very good.
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I thought I wasn't very confident in the speed in our
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car and and we really went to work.
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My guys did and got a lot better qualifying to the race and got
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better through the night. I didn't think we were great at
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some points of the night, but the last two runs were
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phenomenal. So yeah, it's just relief.
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Nice to get back in Victory Lane, nice to get forward back
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in Victory Lane. It's cool to win with Advance
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Auto Parts, their first win with them as a primary.
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They're great people. So on a short track, the short
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track pros. So it was nice.
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Go to Kelly and then Phillip and then Dustin.
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Kelly crandallratio.com Ryan over the radio after the
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checkered flag, I think it was Jonathan who had said you guys
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have talked about being a team of the summer and here you are
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clicking one off now in June. So is that, is that the motto
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now, going back to what you had said earlier about just what you
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learned last year about trying to go through the ups and downs
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and pushing through this stretch of the season to get to the
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postseason? Yeah, I mean, we didn't have a
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great summer last year. You know, I mean, after after
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Gateway last year, we had like two months of just not running
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good at all, like no pace, not finishing races.
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I had to hear stuff from you all all summer that we sucked and we
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did. I mean, we, we just weren't very
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good and and we were trying some stuff, but we just wanted we
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fixed that. I mean, we talked about that in
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the offseason. Like, you know, hey, let's,
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let's focus on these summer months.
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Let's not go through that little dip like we did last year.
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Just just trying to, I don't know, utilize the summer months
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a little bit better than what we did.
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So yeah, that was that was cool that we were able to achieve
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that because we worked really hard on it trying to be better
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at this point of the year at A at a better time than than last
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year. So yeah, hopefully that's
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hopefully that continues so. That was an actual conversation
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during the offseason. Has that come up at all over the
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maybe the last couple weeks? Or anything.
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Yeah, it came up, I mean, when we had a few bad races in a row,
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you know, got wrecked out, stuff like that is you know, But yeah,
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it was mainly just kind of talks with our group, our whole team,
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you know, looking forward to being a summer team.
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Let's because when right, you every offseason try to fix
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things, right. What did we not do well in the
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prior year? And that was one of them like
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that we had a bad summer and let's let's try to fix that.
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How do we how do we do that? How do we learn quicker to to be
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more competitive through the summer months?
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So it's nice when you just kind of set goals like that as a team
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and then achieve them. That part's good go.
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To Phillip, Dustin and then Jeff.
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Ryan Phillip Jones from the Des Moines Register again, you know,
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I'm kind of focusing on on local stuff here.
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And you said yesterday that you had 80 friends and family here
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because, you know, your mom being from Sheridan.
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Can you talk a little about what it meant to win here now for the
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third time? And also, I forgot the
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second-half of my question, to be honest.
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Yeah, I can. I can talk about that.
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Yeah. I mean, it means a lot.
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I mean, yeah, I have tons of family here.
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See, my mom's just from right down the road.
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So we spent a lot of time up here in Sheraton and Ankeny and,
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you know, really cool to to have them all out and support me.
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And they were here in 2012 when I won my first truck race.
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They were here in 2015 when I won Xfinity race, and they were
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here tonight. So it's just cool to have a
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family like that. I'm, I'm pretty fortunate, you
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know, to have a family and friends from here that that are
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so supportive, you know, and that that part's cool.
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I'm happy we got them all across the racetrack to get to Victory
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Lane. I didn't know how we're going to
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do that, but they all made shirts and, and I guess they
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believed them. So track officials will believe
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them. So it was, it was cool, very
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special. And and I have my family here.
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I wish Gianna was here. But yeah, having all them
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support me is is awesome. That's, that's, that's what I
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was thinking. It was, you know, if you could
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talk just real briefly about time that you spend in central
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Iowa when you were young. Yeah.
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I mean, we've come up here Christmas every year, which a
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little bit different this time of year.
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It's, I'm not going to lie to you, it's brutal up here that
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time of year, but I liked it. I mean, I, we used to drive here
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from North Carolina, which was a long car ride.
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But yeah, just like I said, my mom grew up here.
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My my grandparents lived here for a long time.
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So I just, I just enjoyed the area and it's just as a kid,
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right? It's just a fun, fun area.
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It's different. It's grandma's house, so you can
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see her cousins. My mom has a big family on her
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side. So and you know, as you get
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older, right, kind of grow apart a little bit as far as like
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cousins go and you move different States and you don't
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see them as much. You don't go to family events
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like you used to as a kid every year.
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So it's all nice to see them come together and and we can
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celebrate something. Dustin Long, NBC Sports.
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This being a first event, obviously you guys race a lot of
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same places week over week over week.
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Was there any different feeling? I I know the process is is still
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the same from week to week but I didn't know if there was a
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different feeling being on Pit Rd. or beforehand or getting
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here of just the the entire experience of this being
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something new this weekend. I, I think the biggest thing
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that jumps out to me like obviously the on track stuff is
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what it is. I, I try to come into these
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things with an open mind because I don't know how much you can
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trust SIM, right? Just scanning.
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I went here at a test, I raced here nine years ago, but it's
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completely different, so I couldn't rely on that.
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So I just came here with an open mind.
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You know, how how are we set up compared to other tracks that
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are similar to this? It's kind of all I could do.
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Like I didn't even run SIM before I got here just 'cause I
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didn't want it to mess with me and I just wanted to see it
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first hand and and then go through it as a driver.
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So, you know, that part's always a fun challenge on Friday,
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Saturday through the race, a lot of unknowns and I think teams
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like that, drivers enjoy that challenge.
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But I just think the atmosphere around here this weekend was
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awesome. Like, when was the last time
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Xfinity and Trucks ran here? It was 319, Yeah.
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So I mean, to have a NASCAR race back in general, let alone a Cup
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race, like, people are psyched about that out here in the
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Midwest who might not get to go to other races through the year,
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you know? So when we left in 19, maybe
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they didn't go to a race. You know, they can't couldn't
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travel to go to a race. So it's nice to bring that back.
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So I mean, the crowd, the stands being packed, you know, tells
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the story. And from my side, that's, that's
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a cool atmosphere, you know, and makes it seem like we're doing
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something right, you know, coming to these tracks and
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putting on good shows for fans and they're dedicated.
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So that vibe I really like. I mean, whenever you go to a new
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place, it's a it's a new feeling, right?
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You're not here, you're not really used to it all the time
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as opposed to tracks you go to every year, maybe twice a year.
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It's always nice when when we can experience this.
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Can you give me a sense you last stop was 2 tires and most other
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than Joey and Ricky the other, everybody else is on 4 tires.
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The challenge, especially after the way this weekend started,
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how difficult was it on two tires toward the end?
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Or was it that big of a deal because obviously you still wear
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it or when? Yeah, when Jonathan said two, I
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was like, well, that's probably a good idea.
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We don't have a ton of laps on our lefts.
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Less weren't wearing a ton. I knew there was a long run to
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the end and you don't know who else is going to take two.
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I mean, you have no idea. Some guys maybe running 15th on
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back want to take two, get track position.
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But I think only a few of us did and I just didn't know how they
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were going to fire off handle. We weren't on two all night
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before that point. And then later in the run I
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tried my best to save early because I knew when I got to lap
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traffic. That's where I struggled in
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stage two when I got to lap traffic when I was leading I the
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nine and the five frame me down because I I use my stuff up
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early and I couldn't pass any lap cars.
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So I tried to learn from that a little bit, try to keep a gap to
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the 24 like pretty consistent and I'd push my stuff to to have
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something for the lappers. And I was honestly, I was
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starting to struggle a little bit like tend to go.
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I was like, oh man, I'm I had I had to push harder to keep my
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pace and I was it was really working hard in there to kind of
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keep my pace to keep the gap from to Byron.
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But you know, I mean I was it was a good call getting us in
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clean air. I mean, 4 tires, 2 tires, I feel
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like we would have had a pretty good shot to do it either way
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because I felt like I was better than Byron.
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Chase was really good late in the run.
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You know, he was that way in stage two.
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But I felt pretty good compared to Byron and I raced him earlier
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in the race and then I thought we were a little quicker than
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him. But yeah, just good call getting
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us some clean air and then trying to manage and and hold
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on, you know, the last last 10 laps or so.
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I'm. Going to go over to Michael and
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then Caleb. Michael Massey front stretch
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earlier, early in your career, a lot of your wins were like, you
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know, take the lead in the last 10 laps or maybe just not not
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lead a ton of laps to get the win.
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But now it's like 3 of your last four wins you've LED over 140
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laps. You're just dominant wins.
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Is that more fulfilling First off and 2nd is are you and your
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team? Do you feel like you're like
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hitting another level of like greatness now?
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As far as being more fulfilling or not, I'm not really sure.
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I don't think so. I mean, a win's a win, you know,
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you, you get excited for it no matter what, no matter how many
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laps you lead. The only odd one was like the
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Rovel. I didn't know how to feel about
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the Rovel in 2018. It's just a weird, that's a
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weird one, right? But no, I feel like our team is
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like firing on all cylinders. I mean, it's our group of I got
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a great group of folks on the 12 group, you know, I mean, the way
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we ended last year, I mean, those guys are rock stars.
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And, and we came into this year with, you know, a lot of
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confidence that hopefully we can, you know, make another run
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at it again. And, and I think it's just a
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matter of working hard and and putting in the effort because,
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you know, we weren't very good at the beginning of the year.
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All the fours were kind of struggling and, and, you know,
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they just tried to figure it out, you know, trial and error,
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trial and error. And sometimes you find stuff,
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you know, and it's you want things to happen quicker or
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sooner or faster. Like we need more speed now,
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this weekend, right now. But I've tried to be patient
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with it if it's a process and it takes time.
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And I think we kind of handled it that way and we were very
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mature about it. So I applaud our guys of, of
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just sticking to what they do and, and really focusing on
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their craft and not getting all spun out if we're not winning
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right away. So hopefully we can continue
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that. But now I got a great group
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around me. I couldn't ask for more.
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Jonathan's awesome. Everybody pit crew guys are
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fantastic. So it was nice to finally win
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with him. First one with Tim Fedwa, the
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new spotter. So I'm I'm jacked about that.
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That was cool. So Tim is a good guy and and
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it's nice to share and win with him.
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Cable vesselspeedwaydigest.com Kind of bouncing off Dustin's
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question earlier, you know, we had five blowouts in practice
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and 7:00 throughout the race. I'm I'm just curious how what
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was that in your mind knowing that tires could could be an
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issue and. All that yeah.
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I didn't know we had that many in the race.
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Honestly, I I had no idea. I mean, it was in the back of my
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mind a little bit, but I figured like second stage, we went like
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101 laps I think green. And after that I'm like, all
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right, we'll be fine. Like at least at least
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personally for me, like I could kind of save my right front.
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I wasn't just just destroying that thing.
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So our car was good enough to where I could kind of manage it.
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But yeah, I mean, even at the the run at the end of the race,
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like it was 80 something laps, 85 laps or so, that thing that
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went through my mind is like some of my blow tire.
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We're kind of getting late into the run, but I think night,
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night time kind of helped. It cooled everything off.
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But yeah, luckily we didn't the two blew a tire in practice, but
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I think we learned from that of OK, we know what they were
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doing. It's kind of steer away from
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that to where hopefully we don't have an issue.
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And luckily, luckily, our cars, none of our cars did that going
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to. Go to the far left and then
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we'll go to Dustin. Ryan Clayton Sampson with K and
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I Careless Radio out of Knoxville.
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You spent some time in Knoxville over the last couple days for a
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fundraiser and you know you have a connection with your dad being
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a Knoxville Nationals winner. Can you kind of talk about what
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the biggest positive was of being able to spend an extended
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period of time in Iowa over the last couple days?
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And also, do you hope that they have a Cup race here next year?
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Yes, I hope they have a Cup race here next year.
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I hope it comes back here for a long time.
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Oh, it's just nice to be up here.
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Like I said, I mean, I spent a decent time up here as a kid and
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yeah, I went to Knoxville last night.
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We had a little charity event and I stayed for the races.
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So it's always nice to see. It's been a handful of years
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since I've been in Knoxville. Yeah, it's just a nice area.
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I mean, it's fun. A lot of cool racing goes on,
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you know, in in this area. And so it it is a special place
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and very dedicated races up here.
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You have a nice combination of dirt racers, diehards at
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Knoxville and then 20 miles down the road you got this place, you
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know, and I think that's it's good, right, because you're
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going to get each group to each racetrack, right?
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Like I bet, I bet tons of fans who came out here today, a lot
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of crew guys I know went to Knoxville.
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I bet I would hope some Knoxville fans came here today.
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You know, it's just a crossover is nice.
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If you're a race fan, you're a race fan, you're just going to
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watch racing. So no, it's good.
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It's nice that we're up here and and I hope, like I say, we come
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back here for a while. I think this place deserves it.
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The area deserves it and I like the place too.
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So. Dustin, let me know.
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Jayski Ryan, I know you said you couldn't rely on past
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information. Last time here was nine years
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ago. But if you look at the finishing
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order for the top five had at least multiple wins here in the
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past. Is that just a coincidence or
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how much could you actually apply?
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Yeah, I don't, man. I don't know.
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I don't think anything applied from like previous years here.
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Yeah, I don't, I don't know. I mean, a lot of guys had
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experience here for sure. But yeah, there's really nothing
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you can. Could apply like the only part
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that I kind of remembered from that's similar from tonight to
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nine years ago, last time I was here was like the bumps into one
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before I get to the new pavement.
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Like those are a handful. I'm just trying to get down in
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there and manage it. But they just stopped a little
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sooner now than what they did. So I don't know.
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I mean, maybe a little bit of that experience helps, but the
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race track was very different than what it was nine years ago.
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Going to go up here in the front to Mitchell.
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We'll need the microphone because we need to get the
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recording. Thank you.
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Mitch Kaminski, ABC 17 Early on, it looks like you and Kyle
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Larson had the fastest cars in the field after he had his
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issue. Or if he doesn't have his issue,
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does that change any of the strategy you guys have the way
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you run that race or? Yeah, I'm not sure.
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I mean, yeah, he looked really good.
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He fired off early in that race and drove away.
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I was actually, I was kind of riding that time, that first
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stage and I was like, man, he's going really hard.
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Like he might blow right from tire and but he was just super
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fast and I thought we got closer to him.
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He did. He did come back to the field
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though when he pitted. So yeah, his car was strong.
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I mean, gosh, he was, he was going to be tough to beat,
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that's for sure. I do feel like though, the last
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two runs of the race, we got a lot better.
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I got we finally got freed up enough to where I could really
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roll the middle better where he would kind of beat us.
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So I'd be curious to see. I'm not sure if never know how
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those things are going to play out, but I do think we got
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better. But yeah, they were definitely
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strong. And I don't even know what
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happened there, all four cars coming together.
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But yeah, he's going to be a tough one to.
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Beat Ryan Blaney wins right This was the redemption race for Ryan
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Blaney. He he won that race at Saint
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Louis and did not get a checkered flag.
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I, I've, I felt, I felt bad for Ryan Blamey at Saint Louis.
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You know, OK, I'll meet you halfway.
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Christopher Bell was probably going to win Saint Louis, but
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then his motor lay down and here's Blaney coming to the
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checkered flag at Saint Louis. He runs out of gas and then and
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then, of course, Austin Cedric wins Saint Louis.
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So this was the redemption race. But this also tells you how fast
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Ryan Blaney is. He he's fast.
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Ryan Blaney deserved that win. All right, that's that.
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Ryan Blaney's fast. He deserved the win.