Nick Hensley, fueler for the No. 22 Team Penske Ford, details Joey Logano's race-winning day at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and discusses why his team is a championship contender in the 2024 Cup Series Playoffs.
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00:00We're here in victory lane with Nick the gas man for the winning crew the number 22 of Joey Logano
00:04when these races start coming down to fuel strategy. What's your mindset like knowing
00:09that you have to be clutch and top off every single time you fill up that Sunoco gas can?
00:13The team we have on this 22 from Brandon Pope, Shaggy our engineer, Joe Bisson back at the shop,
00:20myself, we've been together long enough to know like when the ball's in our court we want it
00:26right last second shot we want the ball and then you know it's up to Paul you know ultimate
00:31decisions up to him on whether to split the stage or you know let's try to stretch it and it's a
00:37team effort when it comes down to these fuel mileage races and this team if we smell it you're
00:44in trouble right there's some dog in this team and don't ever give us a shot. You mentioned smelling
00:49it you guys are officially locked into the championship four is this a championship
00:54winning crew? Absolutely I mean we've proven it the people we have at Team Penske from the shop
01:02to the road crew to the management I mean we're we've proved it so when anybody says is this a
01:08championship caliber team it's like yeah you know we've done it before and I think it's the
01:14non-complacency right like a win isn't what we're after we're after championships and it took me 10
01:20years from 2012 with Brad to get my second one and I want a third one. All right Nick so the last
01:26you know five to seven laps what's the crew thinking how nerve-wracking are those final
01:30laps? I don't know about the rest of the crew but my knees are knocking you know and it's it's every
01:35one of them every time from Nashville to Atlanta to here right you just gotta you know bow your
01:40head say a little prayer to the fuel gods and hope that everybody's good to you. Congratulations. Thank you.