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

My name is Jeff.

Welcome along with my coworker, Jordan Bianchi.

We are motorsports writers for The Athletic.

And this was the first race we missed all year, Jordan.

I met my home in Denver, Colorado.

You are successfully somehow, you still got into this wedding that we talked about at the end of last week's episode you are in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

So I'm sure you did.

I'm sure you were a great best man and a wonderful friend to those people.

Is that right?

I actually was.

I actually saved the day on a couple of occasions.

I actually was, I don't want to say I'm a hero, but if you want to call me a hero, you're welcome to. I'm, I'm sure that's the case. Well, speaking of it was. Okay. Whoever filled Austin Cynchric's car up with a full tank, full tank of fuel is today's hero because, or you could just say the goat, the, the goat, not a goat greatest of all time,

but the goat in a negative way is whoever did not fill Ryan,

his car up all the way because what a turn of events here.

Not expecting this track to produce a new winner that we hadn't seen yet this season, not, you know,

we're, you know, it's the typical people,

typical people, right? And, you know, next thing you know, we have Austin Cindrick suddenly in the

playoffs, breaking an 85 race, winless streak, his second career win after he had won the Daytona 500.

What? What just happened here, Jordan? How is what is going on? I don't know. It's so weird to reconcile the fact that Austin Sindrick is the only Penske driver with a points paying win this season. Not Joey Legano, not Ryan Blaney, who each of whom won the last two cup championships.

And Lugano is very much on the playoff bubble.

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