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All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of the teardown.

My name is Jeff.

Welcome to my co-worker, Jordan Bianchi.

We are motorsports writers at The Athletic, and we are here today to talk about the Kansas playoff race.

I'm here at Kansas Speedway.

Just got back from Pitt Road a little bit ago.

So this is fresh.

This is about as early as we can possibly start this live stream and this podcast.

Jordan, how are you doing today?

I'm doing well.

I'm excited.

I look forward to Kansas.

We talked about this on last week's show.

Kansas is one of those races tracks now that you're like, this is, this is what NASCAR

should be.

And I was worried going into this race.

My expectation's too high.

Am I expecting too much?

I think they can be able to deliver.

And while I don't think this was like a smashing, you know, A plus race or whatever, still

a really, really good race and really a nice palette cleanser, if you will, after Bristol

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