Kyle Petty sounds off on Chris Buescher's race-winning performance at Watkins Glen International and the playoff drama that plagued several drivers in the Round of 16.
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00:00Watkins Glen, once again, never disappoint.
00:03We saw Martin Truex qualify well, run up front, gain some points, but in the end, it was for naught.
00:09He gets caught up in somebody else's stuff.
00:11It's always somebody else's stuff that Martin Truex gets caught up in.
00:16We saw Ryan Blaney, first lap, he's out of the race.
00:18That's gonna be a little bit of a controversy until NASCAR cleans that rule up a little bit.
00:22But the great Denny Hamlin, we saw him once again get in an accident and fall.
00:28What we have here, two guys, two guys below the cut line, Martin Truex and Denny Hamlin,
00:33that we thought would be in the top five or six.
00:36The second part of the story is SVG and Chris Buescher,
00:40a guy who grew up in the flatland of Texas and learned to run road courses.
00:45Where that came from, God only knows.
00:46But here's the way it goes.
00:47We get to that last restart, the green-white checker.
00:50Now, SVG has been schooled by Buescher on the previous restart, so he learned.
00:55Stuck in with him, he got into him just a touch, just enough to nudge him out.
00:59He takes the lead.
01:00All of a sudden, it's SVG.
01:02He's gonna win this race.
01:03We saw him win Chicago, we've seen him win at Sears Point,
01:06we've seen him win everywhere in the Xfinity Series.
01:09It's SVG race.
01:11Don't count out Chris Buescher.
01:13He never gave up.
01:14Never, ever gave up.
01:16It looked like SVG was getting away from him, but on that last lap,
01:19the great SVG shows a weakness.
01:22He makes a mistake.
01:23And who's there?
01:24Chris Buescher.
01:25He pounces, lays the bumper to him just a little bit to get him out of the groove a little bit,
01:30and takes the lead.
01:31And we saw in those last two corners, SVG threw everything at it he could.
01:35He's sideways, he's everything but backwards.
01:38But Chris Buescher powers away.
01:40SVG can be beat on a road course, people.
01:43He got beat.
01:45Everybody should know that now.
01:47So that brings him back down a notch.
01:49At the same time, Chris Buescher never gives up.
01:52That's a cup driver right there.
01:53Never give up.
01:54It's not over until they throw the checkered flag.