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Chase Elliott Says Atlanta Win Was "Surreal" | NASCAR Press Conference · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Truthfully, a pretty surreal moment.
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  I mean, I there's really only been one other time in my career
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  that I felt like, I don't even know.
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  I'm not even sure that anything has ever matched that.
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  Like, that was just, yeah, it was crazy.
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  I've never, I've never like, you know, been on stage and been a
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  singer or anything like that. But I would have to imagine, you
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  know, I would have to feel something like that.
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  You know, it was just such an incredible experience.
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  And to your point, you know, I, I think that it just kind of
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  goes to show how great our fans have been to me and, and to us.
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  And it just kind of really makes you appreciate them even more
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  for really sticking with us and, and not giving up hope and
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  ultimately being able to give both me and my team and
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  experience like that, you know, because of their determination
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  and and, you know, unwillingness to quit on us is really cool.
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  So just, yeah, grateful to have experienced that.
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  Something I remember for the rest of my life.
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  You know, winning at home was incredible the first time.
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  And they feel different. But, you know, this one Saturday
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  night under the lights, been a while since we won, just, you
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  know, getting ourselves a win and, and advancing up on the
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  playoff thing and just all the things that have come with this,
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  you know, that was that that that one was up there for sure.
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  And yeah, just grateful to have experienced it.
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  Do you think that was the the? Loudest you've ever heard the
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  crowd after a new year wins. It was for me, for sure.
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  I mean, I, I can't think of one that was any louder than that.
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  That one was, yeah, it was different.
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  I mean, it was different, but there was a couple times, you
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  know, there was one time throughout the night that the,
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  you know, I guess they like taking out their cell phones or
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  something and had the lights on. We were coming to a restart and
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  I was like, man, that was it was just visibly from my seat, you
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  know, it caught my attention. And typically it's kind of hard
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  to get a good angle at that, but that just caught my attention
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  and I was like, man, this place looks good tonight, you know.
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  And yeah, to see him, to see him that excited after the race for
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  for me was just, yeah, it was crazy.
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  You know, it was, it was crazy. It was surreal.
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  I don't, I don't really know how else to describe it.
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  And it's just one of those moments you wish you could
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  bottle up, you know, and get it out every now and again and and,
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  you know, live it, you know, relive it.
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  But yeah, I try to box it up the best I can and make sure I never
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  forget it. Bob Parker's Fox Sports, you
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  said after the race it was a wild race.
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  Is there any more satisfaction from just a driver standpoint to
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  win a wild race? Just to win a race, you know, is
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  nice in general. I'm, I'm not going to get picky
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  with whether it's wild or boring.
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  So, yeah, I mean, it was nice to come in, you know, come out on
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  the good end of that. It could have been one of five
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  of us, five or six of us, you know, there at the end.
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  And I think, you know, for me, fortunately, the runs just
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  really timed up at the perfect time and, and we were able to do
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  something with them. But I'm, I'm proud of, of race
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  wins, whether they're wild or boring or lucky or, you know,
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  whatever, anywhere in between. And how would you rate your
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  burnout? And did you have a plan for it?
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  Because it seemed to be pretty sweet.
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  Was it? Oh, that's cool.
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  I'm glad to hear that. I didn't, did not have a plan.
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  There was no plan. It was.
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  Yeah, very much just in the moment and try to do what I
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  could to make it cool and hope that everybody and, you know,
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  enjoy it. That was about all that was all.
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  I didn't. I definitely did not have time
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  to think through what kind of a burnout I was going to do if we
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  won that race. I mean, it was just, you know,
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  chaos. So, but yeah, hope, it was hope.
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  It was good for everybody. Doug Turnbull, PRN.
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  And 11 alive. Wanted to ask not about anything
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  on the track. But a?
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  Lot of times you. Fly yourself to the track or.
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  Particularly I think you do at home anyway, is this a night
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  that you fly home or do you stay in the motorhome like?
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  If you're responsible. For your own transportation when
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  you win a race, how does that change?
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  I'm just going to drive home tonight.
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  Like tonight. Yeah, Whenever we get done, man.
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  That's wild. I mean, it's not that far.
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  That's fair. That's fair.
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  It's sleeping my bed. Congratulations.
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  Thanks, Jacob Sielman, Ray's face Digital Chase.
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  I know the moment that the start finish line was was special with
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  Raylan. I wanted to ask you a little bit
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  more about the design and drive program, almost 10 years now
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  since you started it. What was the inspiration behind
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  getting that program started with you and Napa?
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  And then how special is it to finally bring one of those
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  schemes to Victory Lane tonight? Yeah, the whole thing has been
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  incredible. We had an event this week, you
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  know, it was the 9th year of design to drive and yeah, just
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  we felt like it was. There's been a lot of
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  influential people that have made that foundational effort.
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  What it has become today, I think it far outgrew our
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  expectations of what we thought it would ever be.
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  That's large in part to Napa for them, you know, and they
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  literally pay for a race and say here, you just take this and do
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  whatever you want with it. How often do you see that?
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  Never, right? So I think that's pretty
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  special. And, you know, we just thought
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  it was time to get everyone together and just say thanks,
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  you know, the other night and and we did.
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  And that included partners that included relationships that have
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  been built through through the program.
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  My mom deserves a lot of credit for my foundation in general
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  and, and kind of getting that going and some of her
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  relationships with with Choa and, you know, really just kind
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  of to get the ball rolling and, and you know, since then it has
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  become a very, you know, very much a team effort and to grow
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  in this to be what it is. It started off as a, a shoe
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  program that we auctioned off, you know, all four Hendrick
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  drivers wore them and then, and then Napa got involved and, and
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  when they got involved, that really allowed us to take the
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  whole designing process to another level and really get a
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  lot more engagement in it and, and, and through it.
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  So just incredible. Raylen and, and her, her family
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  were just amazing people, you know, and, and, you know, I'm
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  always inspired by, by those stories and, and the things that
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  you hear her say, you know, and, and the things that motivate
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  her, I think are things that should be contagious to all of
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  us and, and lessons that can be taken in, in anyone's life.
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  So grateful to have her here. I told her this is not normal,
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  you know, so and and so make sure you enjoy this, you know,
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  and you know, as much as as much as she could because you know,
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  those types of moments and just all the stars aligning you just
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  that that stuff doesn't happen every day, you know, and I
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  recognize that. And, you know, I try to cherish
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  that stuff because, you know, it's just hard to come by.
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  What kind of impact do moments like that have on you as a
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  person getting to work with kids like those at Children's of
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  Atlanta? I mean, are those the kind of
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  moments that just let you step back and and give you that
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  perspective of how many other things are bigger than the
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  sport? Yeah.
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  And I think there's a lot of things bigger than the the
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  sport. And that's certainly a great
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  reminder, you know, being being one of them.
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  But like I said, I mean, just, you know, those, so many of
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  those kids have, have had just extremely tough roads and, you
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  know, and it's no fault of their own, right?
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  And, and, you know, it's important to to recognize too,
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  it's not just the individual, it's the entire family, right?
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  And, you know, Raylan brought her brother out and, and she
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  was, she was just excited to have him out here because she
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  said that, you know, he, he misses, so he's missed so many
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  things because of me that I want him to go and have fun, right.
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  So, you know, I, I think that those types of moments are, you
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  know, just important to recognize the, the type of
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  attitude that it takes to endure those journeys as a family unit
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  and to not break apart just a lot of good lessons and all that
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  stuff. And, you know, grateful to have
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  witnessed it and, and to, you know, to have lived, you know,
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  tonight with them and, and hopefully give them a day that
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  that they'll never forget. Chase, congratulations on the
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  win. I know there was debate towards
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  the end of the first stage whether the pit or not or stay
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  out. When you look him and saw the
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  chaos and melee in the back view mirror that kind of reassure you
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  all made the right decision. I mean, hindsight's always 2020,
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  right? Like, of course, yeah, you very
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  well could have been caught up in that crash, but the crash
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  doesn't happen and maybe the calls that, you know, ended up
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  hitting those guys work out so. And your mom had a special 4
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  legged friend in Victory Lane for you.
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  How cool was to have your dog here in Victory Lane?
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  Yeah, it's awesome. That's his first win.
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  So he, you know, he, he got to experience a a dub here here in
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  Atlanta, so that was pretty cool.
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  He's he's he's he's a great dog. I don't take him a ton.
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  You know, obviously it's kind of hard to travel with a big
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  Doberman, but he's he's been a good pup and yeah, really cool
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  to have him in Victory Lane and, you know, have some pictures
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  with him there. John Bianca, The Athletic, you
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  kind of touched on a little bit, but amid this winless streak,
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  right, you kind of find yourself appreciating the wins more often
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  because you realize, you know, they don't.
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  Always come in bunches. Like they sometimes do.
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  Yeah. I mean, I think there's, there's
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  definitely been lessons, you know, throughout that that
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  certainly have have made me enjoy them.
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  But you know, truthfully, I, I, I was already to a point, you
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  know, even before, you know, Texas or, you know, the road to
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  that or even the road to tonight that I think I knew that, you
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  know, to a pretty large degree. And, and truthfully, I think the
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  road to 1 was long enough that, and there had been enough close
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  calls and, and enough just gut wrenching losses and all those
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  second places that led to Watkins Glen that fortunately I,
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  I think that I got a pretty good taste of that or unfortunately,
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  however you want to look at it, but I got a pretty good taste of
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  it early on. So you know that I don't think
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  that has necessarily bothered me.
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  I just, I just want to be competitive, you know, and it's,
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  it's like I've told you guys before, I, I think that if
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  you're for me, you know, satisfaction and, and showing up
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  on a weekend is, you know, were we relevant or were we in
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  contention? Do we, do we actually have a
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  shot? You know what, we up there with
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  pace and doing the right things, Because I just, I, I believe
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  that in this sport, if you're doing all those right things, A,
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  that's something to be proud of and B, if you're doing them
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  regularly, you're going to get your turn.
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  And you know, I, I thought tonight was a great example of
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  that. Truthfully, the past three or
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  four weeks have been a good example of that.
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  We've had some good runs. We've put together some great
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  races, had some good finishes and just had ourselves in the
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  hunt tonight and, and the cards fell our way.
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  And you know that that's the goal every week is just to keep
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  yourself in the hunt, be be right there in the mix and
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  certainly things work out. I will, I will always cherish
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  and enjoy them as much as possible because you know, they
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  are, they are hard to win and you know, nobody has anything
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  promised to them. So, you know, I, I recognize
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  that and I'll never, I'll never take that for granted.
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  And then those moments and especially to do that here at
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  home when you. Have this stretch where it can
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  be frustrating, right? And how do you not start
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  pointing fingers? Whether it yourself or the.
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  Team and start questioning different.
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  Things going on and. We need to change this or why
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  aren't we doing this? How do?
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  You maintain the the. Focus forward.
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  That you seem to have well, I think that's you know, large in
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  part to Alan our our relationship together and I just
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  I, you know, a large. Part of our group.
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  Has been the same since I got here.
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  And you know, obviously Alan and I've been working together for
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  10 years now and and there have been some personal changes here
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  and there. So, you know, totally understand
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  that. But when you climb and you know,
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  when you when you're fortunate enough to climb the mountain, to
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  be able to stand at the top of the mountain with someone,
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  that's an incredible achievement, right?
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  And that's something that he and I will always cherish and and
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  remember. And we did that together, right?
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  And, you know, since then, we have, you know, failed to climb
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  that mountain, you know, again, like we want and we've fallen
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  off of it a few times. And for me, it's really, really
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  important to climb that mountain with the same people that we did
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  the first time and know that we never quit on each other, You
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  know, that that's just an, you know, really important piece of,
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  of the puzzle for me. I'm not, I'm not sure it would
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  really even feel the same if we all jump ship.
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  And you know, I alluded to it on TV earlier, but I'm just really
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  proud of all of our guys for not doing just that and just showing
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  up every week and having great attitudes and just doing
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  everything in their power to. But the car and the, you know,
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  the product on the racetrack that they do in the car, the
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  effort they put in going over the wall, the way Alan brings
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  intensity to the racetrack and calling races to meetings to
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  making sure he's getting everything out of me.
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  Like it's just all right there. And I just, we have such a good
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  group and a good, talented group of people that are really driven
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  and motivated and good people away from the racetrack too,
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  that it's just, you know, you you can't quit on that.
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  Chase, first of all, congratulations. 2 questions.
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  At stage 2, you were just inches behind Reddick.
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  In fact, you have placed maybe the overtaking mono a little bit
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  earlier. You think you have maybe a
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  chance to have overtaken Colin? Maybe.
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  I mean, I tried. I Yeah, I mean, I tried my best.
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  I I came up short. Yeah.
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  So I don't know what you want me to do, try again.
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  And then the second question is shortly after the restart of the
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  last caution when Haley spun out, you were for one or two
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  laps in the Sandwich Chelsea 2 RFK cars, Keselowski and you
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  were thinking at that time. That could.
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  Be a little bit risky for you. I mean, certainly the, the
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  numbers were not in my favor at that point.
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  And and I knew that and Alex did too, right.
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  You know, he, he and I were kind of, it was kind of me and him
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  against the, you know, the 17 and, and the six.
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  And, you know, both Brad and Chris are, are great Speedway
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  racers and, and they're really fast and they were doing a
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  really good job controlling the race.
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  And it was really difficult for me to get and have any sort of
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  control. I just felt like I was always,
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  they always had a big run on me anytime I got the lead.
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  And I didn't really know how to defend that.
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  And I was just hoping that Alex and I could somewhere somehow
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  get in the middle of that and, you know, give our, you know,
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  one of us shot. And fortunately all the cars
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  kind of felt right. You know, they're in the closing
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  laps to get a couple big runs, got 2 for one.
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  They're getting into one, got to 2nd.
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  Somehow Alex got to 3rd and, you know, at that point, I think
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  whether roles were the way they were or roles were reversed, if
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  he and I did anything but push one another in that situation,
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  we were handing the race to Brad, right?
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  So we just, you know, he he did me a huge solid and and lining
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  up and giving me a big shove. And it was enough for me to get,
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  you know, get by Brad and and get back around there to, you
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  know, finish it off. Dustin Long NBC Sports kind of
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  continue that if you didn't have Alex behind you on that last lap
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  and when we saw a big moves, how might that have changed or what
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  would that have allowed you or or maybe limited you and what
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  you could have done with not having Alex?
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  And I think I mean, yeah, obviously who knows?
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  And and that situation, right, Like I I think off of 4 coming
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  to the white, you know, I alluded to it a second ago, but
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  if if he takes me too wide right there, the race is over.
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  More than likely, you know, we're going to drag each other
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  back. There was a pretty big gap back
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  to forth, if I'm not mistaken. I haven't watched it back
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  closely, but the way I remember it, there was.
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  So then we're kind of letting Brad get away and they're at
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  that point. We would have been side by side
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  down the front and probably side by side through one and two.
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  And, you know, we're never going to have enough time.
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  So, you know, he and I both knew that the only shot we as a
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  company had at that juncture was to line up and push and hope
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  that something worked out good, you know, in our favor because
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  at that point, it was 211. You know, whether it was he or
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  I, I think that, you know, obviously we both want to win.
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  And, you know, I recognize that he gave me a great shove.
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  I recognize that he took his run on on Brad to to try to get
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  himself to 2nd, which ultimately helped me as well.
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  And yeah, those are all things that I, you know, remember and
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  and, you know, we'll do everything we can do to try and
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  bring fast cars over the course of the, you know, next number of
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  weeks and, and hope those guys can get a win.
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  I think they deserve it. They've been fast.
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  He's had a terrible run of luck I feel like over the last month,
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  so it'd be nice to be nice to see him, you know, grab a win
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  and and get in. Yes, Alfa Romero Southern Race
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  Week Radio Congratulations Chase on the win.
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  Let me ask you this. We saw a lot of emotion after
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  your win there and, and, and you went into the crowd and and
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  celebrated with them so that we don't see you do when you win.
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  Where does this win stack up in the wins you've had in your
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  career in the Cub series? Yeah, it's up there for sure.
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  I mean, just the whole thing. I mean, I, I talked about a
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  little bit, but just, you know, it's always such a whirlwind,
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  like from the time the race ends, the time I get in here,
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  like I haven't just had a minute, you know what I mean?
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  And sometimes it takes a minute. And, you know, to Doug's point,
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  I can get, I'm going to get to drive home and I get to have a
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  minute to myself and I'm looking forward to that and I'll
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  probably have a better answer for you, you know, later on.
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  But tonight was really special. I can tell you that.
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  And just the way the stars align and everything that went into
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  the deal and you know, having having the Mills family here
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  and, and a lot of people from Napa genuine parts and Cox
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  Automotive with Kelley Blue It's kind of home for the entire car
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  and that's kind of a a rare thing to share with with, you
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  know, with with your sponsors, but it's, you know, just a
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  special deal. So I have my mom here tonight.
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  That was really cool, you know, just just a lot of stuff and I
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  haven't even thought about all of it.
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  So as I reflect, I'll probably give you a better answer, but
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  it's pretty special. John, you'll be savage ventures.
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  So First off, inspections clear and you're good.
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  That's good. I've been on the other end of
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  that so. My actual question was,
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  according to, you know, the broadcast, you were one of only
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  four drivers who was not involved in some sort of
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  incident. So with the ability that you had
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  to, you know, make aggressive moves, slice and dice at the
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  field, how did you pull that off?
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  Because I know the car wasn't handling the best early in the
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  race. Yeah.
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  I mean, I honestly, I think just good fortune, luck, you know, at
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  certain points. I mean, there's there's certain
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  times when accidents happen. I mean, there's just very little
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  you can do, you know, truthfully.
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  So we were in good positions at at good points in time for us.
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  And there'll be some point down the road that we won't be, you
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  know, and that's just that's just racing.
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  But fortunately I worked out for us tonight and, you know, was
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  able to stay out of the mess. And, you know, Alan made some
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  good calls here early to keep his track position.
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  And that typically is better in your odds, right.
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  So you can do, you can do some stuff, but you're never totally
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  safe. But yeah, I don't really have a
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  good answer for you other than that just kind of worked out and
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  fortunately I had a fast car and all the cards fell our way there
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  at the end. David Wayne and the pony
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  finished Chase. Congrats on your 20th career
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  NASCAR Cup Series win. I want to talk about towards the
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  end of the race, working with Alex Bowman there at the end
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  before the Justin Haley caution. It seemed like Brad and Brad and
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  Chris Buscher were out there with you guys as well, fighting
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  to take the lead there once he faded off or once our Buscher
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  faded off at the end of the race.
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  I mean, how big was it having Alex there in your back pocket
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  to get around Brad and hold him off?
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  Yeah, and we talked about a little bit a minute ago, you
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  know, but he was a great teammate in that moment for
• 21:45
  sure. And like I said, you know, I
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  think we're coming off 4 to the white.
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  And if if he takes me to why we are all but just saying here,
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  Brad, you can win, which, you know, if the roles are reversed,
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  I guarantee you, you know, that wouldn't have been the case.
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  Other way around, right? So at that point in time, it's
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  our job to, you know, as a company to try and get Hendrick
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  Motorsports a win. You know, at that point in time
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  and you know, whether it was he or I or, you know, however that
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  transpired right and, and, and naturally and it did just that,
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  you know, he had to run and, you know, he gave me a huge shove
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  like we saw all night. I was able to do something with
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  it. And, you know, fortunately, it
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  was enough to hold on. Yeah, Next two races we got
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  obviously back-to-back Rd. courses and then obviously last
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  row course race where you're at 3rd place finish.
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  I mean, what kind of momentum are you rolling off of Mexico
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  City to go into the next two row course races especially we're
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  going to the Midwest and then we're going to go out, go out
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  West. Yeah, I'm excited.
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  I mean, I'm, I'm really just kind of really proud.
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  Last four weeks, you know, honestly, we had had a really
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  fast car at Michigan. You know, I thought we were
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  really respectable up there, good in Mexico, thought we were
• 23:03
  also really respectable up at Pocono.
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  You know, we we weren't we weren't as good as the 11 or 12.
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  I'll, you know, I certainly understand that, but I thought
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  we were right there in the hunt, you know, and maybe a a little
• 23:13
  adjustment away from getting right up there with them.
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  And certainly tonight we're right there in the mix.
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  I understand this is a little different ball game, but, you
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  know, there's that those are a lot of different styles of race
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  tracks that I feel like our team's done a really solid job
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  and we're really close to just having having all the pieces of
• 23:30
  the puzzle there. So there's really nowhere I'm
• 23:34
  not looking forward to going to and embracing whatever challenge
• 23:38
  you know comes next.