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All right, everybody.

Welcome back to another edition of The Teardown.

My name is Jeff Gluck.

I'm along with Jordan Bianchi.

We are motorsports,

The Athletic.

I love Martin's though.

It's so unique.

It's so charming and quaint.

This place, man.

Sorry, we're just're just some issues here.

But anyway, yeah, we're back for another one.

You know, it's really weird for me, Jordan, because this is our same room that we do the, well, what was the penultimate race of the season, playoff the cutoff race every year of the fall race.

We usually don't do

this race together

in the spring.

So it's kind of weird to be in this room. I always associate it with the fall and about to go to the championship next week. And of course we will be back. If this still is the second to last race of the season, it's not Phoenix. So this could crown the champion.

I heard them, they were actually kind of drumming that up on the PA today.

Oh, really?

Yeah, they were, when I was walking back in from the press box down to the infield, they were saying, I remember fans, this could, you could see the champion crowned here if somebody clinches early during the chase. Now, of course, nobody's ever clinched in the Tenerase chase early. but Tyler Redick is having the kind of season that can show you how it's possible, right, with the win.

And we saw a winner today that I think we both expect is going to be in that mix for the championship come to chase. And I think today is why we think he is, Chase Elliott, consistency, always running on the top 10, gets good finishes finishes and they find a way to get wins like

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