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Cleetus McFarland Says Talladega Boulevard Loves "Boobs & Turning Left!" | NASCAR Press Conference · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Dale having no drag Race experience whatsoever, he's
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  never been down a drag strip or anything.
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  It was a cool opportunity for us to give him that first
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  experience and then it also be in the Dale truck, as we call
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  it, that we've had for so many years.
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  I mean, we're coming up on 7 or 8 years of owning it and
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  probably every single video on it has said like you got to get
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  Dale Junior to drive it. So, you know, my guys put a lot
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  of time in the building it and we were excited to show it off.
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  And then he also did like the most awesome burnout in it, made
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  great runs and he was impressed by, you know, it was just a big
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  win for my whole team, all my guys.
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  And I loved seeing him a little scared of something.
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  You know, he he let off the gas on his first hit because it was
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  so fast. And it was just hilarious.
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  I mean, he's so cool. We've all looked up to Dale
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  Junior. So to even just spend time
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  walking around the track with him was cool.
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  But then to see him drive our truck, it was amazing.
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  So I'd say the most memorable moment would be him chicken
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  footing on the throttle and then, you know, doing that
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  awesome burnout. You're probably the only person
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  that can get away with calling Dale Junior chicken foot not get
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  knocked. Upside the head, it's, it's one
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  of those things, you know, if you check and put the gas on
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  our, any of our videos, like you just, you're done, you're toast.
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  We all just aren't going to roast you.
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  And he, he knew he messed up when he came back, I said, man,
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  the truck did something weird. And he's like, well, I, I might
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  have let off the gas, you know, And then we pulled up the data
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  log and it was all over for him. You know, we had had to do what
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  we had to do. And this process from Daytona to
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  hear all all the big names that you've now been able to lean on
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  and work with and kind of absorb knowledge from as you've started
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  this ARCA journey. What?
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  What has it been like emotionally, mindset wise as
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  Garrett Mitchell, the race car driver, outside of just the
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  social media boon that this has been for you?
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  Yeah, well, you know, all the guys that I've met, you know,
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  Biffle and Junior and, you know, Alex Bowman, I've been friends
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  with for a long time. They all offer a lot of great
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  advice. But through this process, like
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  you said, you know, the Garrett side of things, I've just become
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  really good friends with them. So it just, it feels natural to
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  hang out with them now. And their advice comes across as
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  they, they actually want me to, to use it.
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  And I tried to be as mindful as I can of, of so many different
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  perspectives while I'm out there racing.
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  But obviously I only got 19 laps in Daytona or whatever it was.
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  So, you know, today, just like Ricky said, I've kind of, I've
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  kind of combined everyone's advice into just being patient
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  and surviving and down, you know, in the field because I'm
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  27 or something like that. And so I, I'm just combining as
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  much knowledge as I can to try and make the right decision.
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  But it's cool having all these friends that are, are willing to
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  take the time to give me their advice.
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  I mean, everyone's got 10/15/2020 five years of advice.
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  So it's, it's great. Feel really lucky.
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  Do you have a, Do you have a story from the Blvd. that
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  what's, what's the wildest story that you've got Maybe from the
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  Talladega? Can you tell you something about
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  the Talladega Blvd. You know, I, I preach, you know,
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  just living the freedomatic life of being an American, but I
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  don't know if I really knew the true meaning of freedom till I
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  step foot on Talladega Blvd. I mean, we're parked up and
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  there's just action happening. I, I can't get into the details
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  because honestly, it's, it would just, it's just not, it's not
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  cool, man. Whatever happens on Talladega
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  Blvd. has to stay there. You know, I would say that if I
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  posted some of the things that we saw, it would be my channel
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  would be deleted. You know, it was just, it's just
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  action. You know, it's like you just
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  don't know till you know, You go on Talladega Blvd., you're
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  seeing purebred Americans enjoying life to the absolute
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  maximum. They love two things.
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  That's boobs and turning left. You know what I mean?
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  That's Talladega Blvd. down there, and they're just living
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  that life. Morning, Jenna.
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  Morning Garrett slash Cletus hit me.
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  I noticed that you were Garrett when you first started and then
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  in the second, the second answer you were both a mixture of
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  Garrett and Cletus. So how do you decide when you're
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  which person? Or are you just schizophrenic
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  and like they just pop up? Schizophrenic for sure.
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  I don't know, you know. You worked in both personalities
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  in this. Last, I don't know, like, you
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  know, when I first started the Cletus thing, it was like a
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  redneck persona and then like just slowly Garrett and Cletus
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  have merged into one and like, you know, it, it really depends
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  on the environment, right? Like when I when I get in
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  trouble and per SE have to go to the alcohol or for a chat, you
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  know, that's Garrett. He's going in there.
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  The other night we were at a campground and Jack Stand fired
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  up the water slides and the employees were really mad.
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  And, you know, Garrett had to go handle that situation.
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  I had to go talk to the owner. But then when I pulled through
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  the gates of Daga, you know, I'm just Cletus.
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  It's like I really can't control it.
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  I just, I don't know. It's a good question.
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  Actually. I think I just lived my life as
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  both. Or maybe it's just one.
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  Now You're Cletus. Yeah.
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  I mean, it really doesn't matter what people call me.
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  I just am who I am now. And I just try to try to live my
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  life how I want and have as much fun as possible with with my
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  friends. Like, winning with your friends
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  is the best. And so we just travel around and
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  have a good time no matter who we are. 2nd tans ready kicking
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  thetires.net. Obviously with such a massive
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  following online, a lot of influence you know goes to your
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  channel. What drivers do you follow that
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  stand out to you online? And and possibly you know, you
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  asked Ricky for advice. What would your advice be to
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  drivers to perhaps branch out if they choose to do so?
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  Like you're saying to help drivers with social media stuff.
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  Well, I think, I think a lot of the drivers, you know, who are
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  in Cup, they have so much experience.
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  They've been around for a while and social media didn't really
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  blow up when they were getting into it.
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  So I do see some drivers who are really doing good jobs on social
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  media and some that, you know, you just don't see much from.
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  I don't, I don't know specifically who I'd who I'd
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  call out on that. I mean, I root for Alex Bowman
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  the most just because him and I have been friends for so long.
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  And you know, I'm just trying to think of how to articulate your
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  question. Like if they, I do feel like
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  there's a major lack of, of YouTube opportunity in the
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  garages, Like if I was a cup guy, I personally would be
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  filming all that stuff. Just, you know, we film all our
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  videos on an iPhone and maybe it does exist and we don't know
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  about it. But like the same thing I do at
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  my shop every day, working on the drag cars and stuff like
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  that could easily be done in a cup garage.
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  But I think there's a lot of secretism about the car setups
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  and stuff and that could easily be avoided.
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  But like, there's so much to show and I think the audience is
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  kind of begging for it. So if a couple of these drivers,
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  I don't know who's going to be first, starts showing what's
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  going on, you know, in their day-to-day life.
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  I think Carson Hosovar specifically is probably doing
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  the most right now with the live streams and stuff.
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  But like, if once someone picks up their iPhone and goes in
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  their garages and is like showing the day-to-day struggles
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  because to me, from the outside, like, it just seems like all the
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  cup teams are like, so dialed in, so locked in.
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  But we all know behind the scenes they're having, you know,
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  some show days, for lack of better words.
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  And we'd love to see it. You know, like my most of my
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  videos that have done the best are on my worst days at the
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  track when I like, you know, throw a rod out the side of a
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  motor. People love those videos for
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  some reason and it is hard some days posting it, but like man,
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  I'm telling you once once 1 driver really throws, you know,
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  some cool just homemade style YouTube videos up and it may
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  exist. It may exist.
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  I just think it's going to do really well for somebody.
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  Bob Hackers, Fox Sports Do you feel like you're taken seriously
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  yet from the other arc of drivers?
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  Well, I mean, I only have 19 laps so and you know, I think
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  the other drivers understand that I am here to I'm here not
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  just as a driver, I'm here as a, you know, to do our to make our
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  YouTube videos. They know that.
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  So they know that I might not take this as serious as them,
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  but I think all the drivers have a good understanding of that and
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  they know that I'm out there to race like in Daytona, You know,
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  I, I went out wrecking, right? And, but I feel like it wasn't
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  anything that I caused. And if I went out there and made
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  a fool of myself, you know, and wrecked a bunch of people, I
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  think they wouldn't take me seriously.
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  But I haven't done it anything yet that would cause them to not
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  take me seriously. I don't think so.
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  Oh, good question. Steven Toronto, CBS Sports
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  Cletus, you mentioned only making 19 laps in the ARCA race
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  at Daytona. Given that that thinned out the
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  field so much and you know you're in a good race car with
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  Red Jones Racing, you know, how much do you view that as a
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  missed opportunity considering that, you know, if you had
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  missed all that, you may have been one of those 10 cars in the
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  lead pack that were competing for the win the last 20 laps?
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  I mean, we went from 27th to 14th in whatever it was 19 laps.
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  So man, that car was like feeling so good.
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  It was sucking right up to everybody.
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  Oh man, I mean, no doubt we would have been top ten if we
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  kept going. Obviously the wreck, I was way
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  back off the leaders, you know, there was a car all over the
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  place and then I got wadded up. So it's hard to really say what
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  was going to happen. But man, I feel like if we just
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  stayed in it, we would have been if we made it past that last
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  wreck like it was, I think it was smooth sailing, but we'll
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  never know.