But he's having one of his best years, right?

He's definitely not falling off like, you know,

you might expect with drivers later in their careers.

And I think that's a good mix of kind of experience

on both sides and not getting ourselves in trouble

and doing what we know we need to do.

Hey, everybody.

We all right.

California's Kevin Hartford-Huffington.

Hey, everybody. California's Kevin Harvick does it.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome into Victory Lap.

I'm Caitlin Vinci, filling in for Kevin Harvick today.

And so thrilled to have Chris Gail, crew chief for Denny Hamlin, joining us today.

I know you're busy and we appreciate your time.

And of course, I got to start with the Las Vegas race,

because there was so much transpiring towards the end of that race, bizarre on track accidents,

tire strategy. What was the 11 day like from your vantage point on top of the box?

Yeah, it was going to be a solid day, right? Like all of the top playoff cars were basically competing inside the top five for most of the day.

You know, we were a little bit loose most of the day, and it really took us to about the middle of the second stage to get the car closer to where Denny could run, you know, long run pace and actually have the last 20 laps of the

run where the pace was good enough. And then, you know, we kind of got in a scenario where we're like the fourth best car, third best car, and you get into that final stage, and you alluded to the strategy and what's going to happen, right? At that point, you've got a little longer runs you're having to make. So it was going to be like a 47, 48 lap run if you had split the stage evenly.

They're going to make. So it was going to be like a 47, 48 lap run if you had split the stage evenly.

...