NASCAR.com's Alex Weaver catches up with Todd Gilliland after the No. 38 team finished the day at the Brickyard with a top-ten finish.
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00:00I don't know if you can draw up a more crazy brickyard 400 with all the stuff that was
00:03happening.
00:04Describe your day here today.
00:05Yeah, it was definitely really crazy.
00:08Just I feel like, you know, I've never ran on the oval, but this is almost kind of like
00:12to me, at least felt like the vintage, like just the clip I was think of right when Jimmy
00:16Johnson's like going three wide, blowing up and you know, it's getting a little bit darker
00:19and it seems like it's dragging on forever.
00:21So yeah, this place can be chaotic for sure.
00:24And yeah, as far as you know, we messed up our strategy throughout the middle of the
00:28race, but I kind of ended up helping us put us in a position where you're able to come
00:31down and top off to get it, get us to the very end right there.
00:35So yeah, it was, it was close.
00:37My guys did a good job calculating it all at the end and yeah, it's, it's good momentum
00:40for us and it's nice to carry this into the off break.
00:43You mentioned that off break.
00:44We'll head to Richmond for races left before the NASCAR cup series playoff start.
00:48Where's this team at and the mindset of going in and fighting for a championship?
00:52Yeah, it it definitely seems, you know, like we're getting more into that, you know, playoff
00:58bubble, you know, type conversation.
01:01We still have a long ways to go to be able to compete throughout the playoffs, but we're
01:04definitely working in the right direction.
01:06That's, it's super exciting for me.
01:08I feel like I'm putting better races together and we're having a lot faster race cars.
01:11So yeah, we'll keep working on it.
01:13Like I said, you know, front row motorsports is, is still just taking those steady steps
01:17that I feel like we're kind of known for.
01:18Like you said, though, it's, it's going to be important if we want to make the playoffs,
01:21we got to win one of the next four races.
01:23I think we can go to Richmond, have a really strong run.
01:25Enjoy some off weeks.
01:26Yes.