Jeff Gordon responds emphatically when asked if Las Vegas winner Kyle Larson is a better race car driver than he was.
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00:00 How good is Kyle Larson, and is he a better driver than you are?
00:04 Yes.
00:04 I'm glad I didn't have to race--
00:08 I got my butt kicked by one guy at Hendrick Motorsports
00:11 as my teammate.
00:12 I didn't need to have two of them.
00:13 So you take a guy like Kyle and his capabilities
00:18 and his talent, and he's impressed me
00:20 with his work ethic, too.
00:22 I wasn't sure how he approached the Cup Series,
00:28 and especially with Cliff and all the data and all
00:31 the homework that Cliff gives them in the meetings
00:34 that they have.
00:35 Cliff's an intense guy, and he brings a lot to the table.
00:37 So that's a lot of information that you have to absorb.
00:41 But he stepped up to the plate and has
00:43 done everything that the organization could possibly
00:46 ask out of him, and then some.
00:47 And it's been a great relationship.
00:50 And this year, it's just all about getting
00:56 the car and the team and everything to align.
00:58 They've kind of been up and down this year,
01:00 made some mistakes earlier in the year.
01:02 But it seems like in the playoffs,
01:03 I feel like they've just been bringing fast race cars
01:07 and stepping up to the plate.
01:09 I mean, Texas was tough, right, because he
01:11 was in such a good place.
01:12 And that battle, he and Bubba, and the result of that.
01:17 And then what happened in the Roval, you're like, oh, gosh,
01:20 is this going to be a repeat of the year before?
01:22 But I knew when they got through the Roval,
01:25 this round was going to be extremely good for them.
01:27 They just-- they run good, really,
01:29 at all three of these tracks, but especially
01:31 this one in Homestead.