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Thank you. All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of The Teardown.

I'm Jeff Gluck, along with my co-worker Jordan Bianchi, and we're here to talk about the Kansas race, which we just watched on a Thursday night. I believe this was the first scheduled

NASCAR Thursday race since 1985. If you can believe that, since one of those Daytona, July

4th races, but obviously the first night won. So a little bit of an interesting, interesting evening,

certainly a rec fest. Jordan, how are you doing? I'm doing good, thanks. It was a, it was a Kansas race.

It was a typical Kansas race in a lot of respects and an outcome that we've seen a lot this year,

with Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick mixing it up, and Brad Kessesslowski was up there and Denny Hamlin wins for the fifth time in 2020.

Yeah, it's, you know, if you had said at the start of the evening, oh, you know, it will

be a duel at the end between Harvick and Hamlin and Hamlin will win.

It would have been like, oh, okay, well, that doesn't sound too surprising. But everything else that went into the race seemed like it was unpredictable and surprising.

I mean, some crazy wrecks, really hard hits.

You had some big playoff bubble situations pop up.

But, you know, as you mentioned, ultimately, the guys at the end are the people we've been talking about recently.

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