I didn't know what to think. Everything just kind of went our way. Some people like to go out and party.

And I decided to drive to a racetrack and tinker on race cars.

Well, Ryan Priest, congratulations, man.

That was a wild night, but in the end, you came out on top.

Just tell me what that night was like and everything that you went through.

Did you expect to be in that position when you got to the end of the night?

Because it was, there were a lot of comers and goers as you win tell us tell us about your evening as you led up to that win um yeah

there was a lot that went on that entire week you know between not having heat races

basically changing the way we all go out for qualifying to thinking that,

man,

I don't even know if I'm in a banking race.

You know,

because there's a lot that goes into how these cars get faster and faster,

especially on a quarter mile when the more cars go out there.

So for us,

we were just trying to make the race.

And when we did that,

I felt like we had a pretty decent car. And, you know, we started 18th. And, you know, last year,

we kind of hit on something. And I felt like throughout that race, it showed up again. So we were

able to drive up to 9th. But yeah, when it rained, the chaos and everything, I didn't know what to think, to be honest with you. I was not like what I saw Kyle Larson, he said, hey, let's just do this. I was thinking to myself, like, I don't want to destroy this car in 34 degree, you know, rain

because it could be too cold. And, yeah, everything just kind of went our way. It seemed like,

you know, after the first 5, 10 laps and, you know, some holes open up and a few things happened that I needed to to gain some track

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