Chandler Smith shares his perspective after a confrontation with Cole Custer on pit road after the Xfinity Series race at Martinsville.
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00:00Let's chat with Chandler.
00:01You got out of the car immediately.
00:03You were upset on the radio with how Cole Custer raced you on that one restart.
00:08What did you want to say to him when you went up to him and were you planning to throw a
00:11punch?
00:12I was planning to do a lot more than that, to be completely frank with you.
00:15I was extremely pissed off.
00:17I gave him five laps before that.
00:19Before that caution came out and beat his bumper off and never shipped him or anything
00:23like that.
00:24Finally, it's like, all right.
00:25The laps are winding down.
00:26I'm in a must win.
00:27The 20 is starting to drive away.
00:28He was really good all day.
00:29I can't waste any more time with him.
00:31So I finally had a good enough run and pushed him up the racetrack and went on our way.
00:35But I gave him a chance for five laps before that, right?
00:38Well, I think he was the first guy all day that chose the outside lane from third place.
00:44So that's very interesting.
00:45And then he didn't even give me a chance to make the corner when we got to turn one.
00:48And funny enough, the restart right after that, he's right behind me again.
00:51How ironic is that?
00:54Is what it is.
00:55Super, super proud of everybody at Joe Gibbs racing.
00:57We had a really, really fast number 81 quicktide products GR Supra.
01:02I'm very passionate about this.
01:04I love this group.
01:05This group deserves to be in Phoenix and deserves to go out and contend for a championship.
01:10Just how the playoff format is and whatnot.
01:13We were in a must win situation tonight.
01:14Those are the cars that were dealt.
01:16We're not going to go and race for a championship.
01:18That's okay.
01:19We're going to go to Phoenix and try to kick their ass there.
01:21So this is the first time with you and Cole Custer this year.
01:24He just said earlier that he feels like you took the win away from him at Kansas.
01:29You guys had words after that race.
01:31He said he feels like everything is even now.
01:33What do you think?
01:34I think he's full of shit.
01:35He doesn't think the 20 was going to blow his doors off after five laps in that race,
01:39honestly.
01:40Go back and look.
01:41The 20 was the best car that entire race.
01:42He was even better than me.
01:43Better than the 00.
01:44At the end of the day, I didn't even know what he was mad about at Kansas until I went
01:49back, talked to him.
01:50I was like, what were you mad about?
01:51And seeing what happened, I was like, okay.
01:53That's my bad.
01:54You can go back and listen to the spotter's footage.
01:56He said clear.
01:57Never knew you were outside.
01:58It's on me.
01:59And his thing was, well, you have a mirror and all that.
02:00I was like, that's great.
02:01I'm just letting you know what the situation was.
02:03So he can think we're even and all, but he's the one that's got more stakes than I do next
02:07weekend as well.
02:08So.
02:09All right.