Ryan 'Skip' Flores, front tire changer on the winning No. 12 Team Penske Ford walks through the day on pit road from Iowa Speedway.
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00:00Here with Ryan Flores in victory lane in Iowa.
00:04Congratulations to the 12 crew.
00:05You guys showed up on pit road.
00:07Describe your day here in Iowa.
00:08We had a blue-collar day.
00:09We had one stop where we didn't lose a ton of track position, but it wasn't as fast as
00:14we wanted to be.
00:15But we kept him in position all night, and Hassler stuck to his plan of taking two tires
00:19there.
00:20He was able to hang on.
00:21It was a little nerve-wracking.
00:22I think we were all a little nervous, but Jonathan had a plan, and he stuck to it, and
00:26here we are in victory lane.
00:27Hard to believe that the reigning championship crew was winless to this point in the season.
00:32Was there ever any doubt with you guys, because you may have had some doubters around the
00:36NASCAR garage.
00:37Yeah, I mean, there was never any doubt, but it's so hard to win at this level, you know,
00:40and to lose like we did in Atlanta, where we were so close, and then a couple weeks
00:43ago at Gateway, like, we know, and Jonathan said today in the meeting, you know, how strong
00:47we've been.
00:48Sonoma, we had our strongest run in a couple years, and our goal as a team was to be strong
00:53not just in the playoffs but through the summer as well, and we have been that.
00:56We just haven't had the results to show for it, and today, we finally got that monkey
00:59off our back, and hopefully, we can keep it rolling.
01:01We saw you guys eating corn in victory lane, but you know what this means.
01:04This is the route to back-to-back championships for you guys.
01:06No pressure.
01:07Yeah, yeah.
01:08We locked into the playoffs now.
01:09We can be a little more aggressive, work on some top-end speed as a pit crew, and go for
01:12that second ring in a row.
01:13Congratulations.
01:14Thanks so much.