Joining from the Kyle Petty Charity Ride, the NASCAR veteran weighs in on the explosive race -- and wild finish -- at Kansas Speedway.
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00:00Alright, as you can see, I'm in costume today. My costume is for the Cow Petty Charity Ride
00:04Across America. I'm sitting in the lobby of a hotel in Omaha, Nebraska. Now let's go back
00:10to the race yesterday in Kansas. Do you guys remember when intermediate racetracks were a bore?
00:16No, I don't remember it either. Not since NASCAR came out with the next gen. This car puts on
00:22amazing races on the intermediate tracks and yesterday may be the greatest race we've seen yet
00:28on an intermediate track. How about that first segment? Ross Chastain, Kyle Larson. I know Larson
00:34is a dirtback. I know Larson understands the slide move and he makes it happen. But Ross Chastain
00:40made it happen yesterday. Those last two or three laps as they ran door-to-door, side-to-side,
00:47cutting each other off, looked like something from a Saturday night short track in a 20-lap heat race.
00:52I'm telling you guys, that was fantastic racing. But that was only a glimpse of things to come.
00:58Strategy played into this race and I find it amazing that we go to Talladega and everybody,
01:03meaning race fans, complain about strategy. All those guys are saving fuel. They're not doing
01:09anything. They're setting themselves up to race towards the end. We saw strategy come into play
01:14yesterday. We get down to the end of the race. We've got two tires. We've got four tires. We've
01:18got Truex coming towards the end before that last caution. Is he going to win? We'll never know now.
01:23But we come down to that last restart. Denny Hamlin has control of the race. Chris Buescher
01:29shows why he is a cup driver and a potential, and could be very soon, cup champion. He gets
01:35that start. He's out there. Kyle Larson takes him three wide. We know what Kyle Larson can do.
01:39He's going to go low. He's going to go high. He's going to make it happen. Last lap, he goes to the
01:44outside. Now, I want you to go back and look at that. There couldn't have been more than two
01:48inches between him and the wall and two inches between him and Chris Buescher, but he stuffs it
01:53in there. That's why he has a championship trophy. He's committed. He was committed all the way to
01:58the line, and he won by that much. I'm telling you, so much strategy, so much racing. You had
02:04it all yesterday. I still haven't caught my breath, and I got to go get on a motorcycle.