Listen in as Chris Buescher talks locking himself into the playoffs and winning at Richmond Raceway.
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00:00 >> Helmet coming off.
00:03 What was your thought when that caution came out, Chris?
00:06 What were you thinking?
00:07 You had it in hand.
00:08 >> Yeah, it was smooth sailing.
00:11 Trying to take care of this muscle Mustang.
00:14 These guys over at rfk, 17 team gave me a great hot rod.
00:17 They were so good.
00:20 Trying to take care of it there.
00:23 About the time, they said, that's working perfect.
00:26 Keep it up.
00:27 >> Caution.
00:28 >> Yeah, that's about right.
00:29 I knew even on our green flag stuff, we were so strong during the race.
00:34 I had a good feeling about it there.
00:36 Pretty awesome to pull it off.
00:37 Proud of everybody.
00:38 That was a long way from the back this morning.
00:41 So heck of a race for us.
00:43 >> It was seven days ago that I was talking to your crew chief, Scott graves.
00:47 He said we're a 6th to 15th place car right now.
00:50 As an organization, we need to take a step forward.
00:52 Are you surprised it came so quickly and in such dominant fashion?
00:58 >> We've had this one in circles since last fall.
01:00 I was really hopeful this could be the one that would turn the page for us.
01:04 Sure enough, right off the truck, I thought it was.
01:08 I hate that qualifying went the way it did.
01:10 I was sitting there beating myself up trying to figure out what we're going to do from
01:13 there.
01:14 Made the victory lane here in Richmond.
01:17 I told you to flood this place three years ago.
01:21 My opinions are changing quite a bit here.
01:25 What a day.
01:26 That's awesome.
01:27 >> I know it was fun racing the boss.
01:28 Is there a way to describe to the fans here and the fans at home how much work has gone
01:32 into this for rfk to get back to victory lane?
01:35 >> Probably not.
01:36 I mean, there's so much that's happened in the 15 years I've been there.
01:42 But the last two years, last 18 months, just to see the turnaround, new car kind of being
01:47 a good reset for us to be able to be competing for wins.
01:49 A lot of different styles of racetracks and a couple of checkered flags now.
01:54 Some great pit stops.
01:57 It's every department working hard to make this happen and get us this checkered flag.
02:01 We've been talking about this a lot.
02:02 You don't get to ask me about points anymore.
02:06 >> No more talk about points because they are guaranteed, Rick, to be in the playoffs.
02:10 Chris Buescher, the 17 team, they'll be a playoff player this year with a win here at