Austin Hill shares his emotions after clinching a spot in the Championship 4 with Homestead-Miami victory.
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00:00For the first time in his Xfinity Series career, he will go to Phoenix as part of the championship
00:06four and fight for a title. We heard the emotion on the radio, Austin. We're seeing it here now.
00:12I don't think I've seen this kind of emotion from you. How much does this mean to you?
00:17I worked so hard at this. A lot of people doubt me, but I wake up every day to prove everyone wrong
00:25that I deserve to be here. You know, I deserve to race for a championship. This 21 team deserves
00:33it just as much as I do. They work their asses off each and every day just like I do, and
00:41I got to give it up to those guys. They just gave me a hell of a car. I didn't have to go
00:44around the wall. I could run really wherever I wanted to. Only had one bad run. That was that
00:50restart there towards the end where the green flag stop just got so loose, but
00:55oh my god, I am like out of breath. I can honestly say I've never cried coming to the
01:00start finish line, and I couldn't even get my emotions together going into turn one after the
01:06checkered. Just all the hard work and dedication that goes into this. I don't think everyone's
01:11going to understand what this means to me, for my family, for Bennett. This 21 car was as fast
01:18as Xfinity Internet today, and I just had to be on it. I made some mistakes today, but
01:24we rebounded. Pit crew was badass like they always are, and I knew once we got off pit road
01:30and we were in touch with the double zero, I just had to go to work and not burn my right front or
01:34right rear up and just save it for the long run, and as soon as I saw him start backing up to me,
01:39I knew it was game on, so oh my god, this is amazing to be able to go to the final four.
01:45I've worked so hard at this, and my dreams came true.
01:49Your dreams came true. You mentioned the naysayers and the haters at the beginning,
01:53and that they might say you don't deserve to be here. Tell them why you can win a
01:56championship in this series. I mean, I think it just goes back to what we just did.
02:02If we come all prepared and we have a fast Bennett Chevrolet and I do my part,
02:07keeping my head in the game all day long, we can go win a championship just as good as the
02:13rest of the field, so I'm so excited to go to Martinsville stress-free. I can go have some fun
02:18there. Martinsville hasn't been good to me, so we're going to celebrate this one. It's also my
02:23wife Ashlyn's birthday. Well, what's your happy birthday? Tomorrow's a happy birthday to her.
02:28There's my little boy. Oh, Bennett. Hey, buddy. You're wearing so cute, and you're wearing the
02:34lucky shoes. Yeah, yeah. I guess these shoes are lucky. I mean, first playoff appearance with these
02:40shoes. Didn't have a great showing last week, but we showed it to them this week. Congratulations.
02:45Thank you so much. We'll let Ashlyn and Barrett come back in to celebrate with Austin Hill,
02:49who is going to Phoenix to compete for a title. The family.