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All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of its hair down.

My name is Jeff G gluck along with jordan

bianke we are motorsport charters the athletic and we're here at phoenix raceway to have a

conversation about what we have just witnessed here on this whole weekend the nascar championship

weekend at phoenix raceway and uh yeah this is going to be an interesting episode, isn't it? Do you just want to get to the meat of it or? What's the meat of it? Where do we even start here? I mean, look, look at the comments already going freaking berserk. Let's just get to it. Let's just roll right into it. Let's get the, let's get the elephant in the room on the

Well, what's the biggest takeaway here? The biggest takeaway, I mean, today is Denny Hamill and what

maybe his last best shot at winning a championship in a race that he dominated in and Kyle Larson

is now a deserving 2025 Cup Series champion.

The overriding big pitcher story of the weekend and really maybe even the season to some degree is the playoff format,

which everyone's been talking about all year long.

We talked about it.

The season of the opening Daytona 500 back in February and it's been the topic

du jour all year and it really kind of bubbled up this weekend a first in the truck

series race obviously yesterday in the Xenity series race and though I will say into a lesser degree

today you're a playoff proponent are you happy with the emotions that you felt the last couple

days here at the race track? It's tough. Like today, we had a deserving champion in Kyle

Larson. I mean, we talk a lot about statistics and numbers and old points form.

Like, Denny was second to Kyle in many, many statistical categories, major statistical categories.

Obviously, Denny had more wins, but even points.

Kyle pointed Denny Hamlin.

I have no problem with, I have no issue with how the championship was decided today.

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