Jessie Punch catches up with Kyle Larson's spotter, Tyler Monn and gets his reaction to the Kansas win and what it was like breaking the news to Larson over the radio.
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00:00 Here with the five team spotter Tyler Munn, it seems to be the bearer of good news today.
00:04 You were the one that told the team that they got that win.
00:06 Take me back to that moment.
00:07 Yeah, it was super close.
00:09 You know, looking at the pylon, you know, Cliff came over the radio and was like, man,
00:13 the 17 got us, you know, good effort.
00:15 And NASCAR came over my radio and was like, five beat the 17.
00:19 And I was like, no, we won, we won, you know, screaming over the radio.
00:23 So I really thought, I mean, it was close.
00:25 And I looked at the pylon and on the timing and scoring on our time of scoring, you know,
00:29 it said zero, zero, zero.
00:30 And then it obviously went to the one there at the end.
00:32 But yeah, it's closest race I've ever been a part of and seen.
00:36 And I know it's the closest race in history, but it was pretty cool.
00:39 It was a good thrilling, you know, I was kind of all right, that's all right.
00:43 Finished second, you know, kind of heartbroken.
00:45 But once they told us we won, it was all emotions out.
00:48 Yeah.
00:49 Any conversation at all with the 17 team spotter up there on the spotter stand?
00:52 I went down to Mike Herm, you know, we are really good friends.
00:56 We've known each other for a while.
00:57 And I went down there and I said, man, I don't, that was close as ever.
00:59 And he, you know, he was still like, he looked at his time in scoring two and seeing those,
01:04 you know, triple zero crossed.
01:05 And obviously it looks super close to the line, you know, and he was upset and I just
01:09 went down there and, you know, kind of just said, you know, good job.
01:12 Right.
01:13 And he feels the same way about me.
01:14 Obviously, if you're in that situation, you're going to be, you know, everybody was bummed
01:17 out when they said, you know, when Cliff said, you know, we finished second and same way
01:20 with Dan, but Mike Herm does a good job.
01:22 17 did a good job.
01:23 You know, they all night, they battled their way up there.
01:26 They had a penalty starting back and then got their way back up there.
01:28 So good effort.
01:29 Obviously we're on the great side of it.
01:32 But them guys still did a great job.
01:34 Congrats on the win.