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Hey everybody, it's Dale Jr., back again for another episode of the Dale Jr. download with Coho's Tyler Overstreet.

Hello. We got a pretty beefed up show today. We do. We're going to talk about top-tiered drivers. Yes. This is highly anticipated I believe that you might

be able to pull for next year. A couple other things. Let's get to it. We're going to talk about the Dover recap right away. We finished 11th. Tough race. So where do we start? Basically, been getting a lot of media mentions about our work in the simulator. And we did again this particular week, which makes me a little nervous because if we don't run, we're going to be able to do a lot of things.

People are going to go, don't, you know, quick mess with that simulator, or that didn't really help very much. But I felt pretty confident going into the weekend. We did go work on a lot of our setup stuff. I look at the simulator, basically, as, is it a perfect tool. No, is still sort of in development. And, but it's basically like you can go simulate practice. We don't get much better.

simulate practice. We don't get much practice on the racetrack a lot of time to do what we want to do.

We had a long, long list of things that we want to accomplish and we can't get to all that stuff.

You want to find out, I guess, which ones you feel confident that we'll work and

there's some things on that list that might not work. Do you want to waste valuable practice time

making that change in the garage and going on the track to try it to find out it doesn't work

and to have to take it all back out of the car? That's 15, 20 minutes of practice time gone.

So the reason why I like to see them or talk about the same here in the last couple of weeks is

we go in there and we can shorten that list up. We can go into Friday's practice with

a lot more confidence that the changes we're going to make are going to be able to affect the car,

how we want them to. That's what's great about the same. Anyways, we went into practice

all the things that we had tried in the same seemed to be working to improve the car.

We made the car better throughout Friday. We made the car better throughout practices Saturday as well.

Then when the race started, the car wasn't good at all. We made some changes

the night before the race in anticipation of the car or the track being a particular way and it was a miss.

It took us about probably 300 laps really to get it driving a little bit better,

but the car had an inherent issue all day long that we could never cure.

We would take off fine on sticker tires. One of the best cars I thought top five car for sure.

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