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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 writers for the athletic.

And today we are here to talk about the Phoenix race.

I'm here at Phoenix Raceway on a absolutely picture perfect, gorgeous spring day here, very nice and warm.

Could not ask for better weather all weekend. It was great and a pretty entertaining and eventful race to discuss.

So, Jordan, how are you doing?

I'm doing great. And for Phoenix, I thought this was a really, really good Phoenix

race, all things considered. Storylines, competitiveness. You had more lead changes than since 2013.

You had different leaders in the mix. You had a lot of different strategies. You had tire wear.

For Phoenix, which is often we consider not all the most exciting races or tracks.

This was, what I off my memory, one of the more interesting, compelling, fun races we've had there in some time.

I just kept going back to how this race was won, where you would have had Ryan Blaney, okay, he gets one loose

wheel, is able to come back from two loose wheels, right? Well, before, old Phoenix with the old

package that really sucked and tires that were hard and all that stuff, that arrow problems,

I mean, he would have been, wherever he would have come out after his first

loose wheel, not even the second one, it's probably where he would have stayed for most of that

race, right? Like there was just a period of time in Phoenix with this next-gen car where there was

just really not a lot of passing going on, not very interesting.

And it's why the championship race, everybody called for the championship race to be moved.

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