Jeff Gordon explains how Chase Elliott ran out of gas at Watkins Glen and assesses the Hendrick's team's overall performance.
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00:00 Jeff, Jerry Jordan, kickinthedivers.net.
00:02 I guess it's a bittersweet day, a great win for you guys,
00:05 and then the disappointment with Chase.
00:06 Can you just weigh in on that dichotomy there?
00:09 Yeah, that's sort of the agony sometimes of a four-car team
00:14 when one of them does so well.
00:17 I mean, it has just an absolute flawless day.
00:20 And I think with what William and the 24 and Rudy
00:23 and that team did, it shows you that you just
00:26 can't make any mistakes, right?
00:27 You have to, these days more than ever, be flawless.
00:31 And it means that the whole weekend's
00:33 got to come together from qualifying to restarts,
00:36 pit road strategy, as well as pit stops and restarts.
00:41 And those guys did it flawlessly.
00:44 And fortunately, we had some mistakes.
00:47 I mean, the 48 was just off.
00:48 I haven't really downloaded with them.
00:50 They were off.
00:51 I'm not sure how they lost some of the track position.
00:53 But clearly, a miscalculation with the nine car,
00:56 and that was huge.
00:59 He was stretching.
01:00 He came in a little bit short the first stop.
01:03 And so they were trying to stretch it
01:04 to get closer on the strategy of the others.
01:06 And you always want to pad yourself here,
01:08 just in case there's a lot of restarts at the end.
01:11 And the fuel just wasn't there.
01:14 So it was really unfortunate.
01:16 And I haven't talked to Kyle.
01:18 I just know there, I think, is the last section.
01:20 He was speeding off pit road.
01:22 And again, that's just a tiny little mistake.
01:24 But it ended up being huge, because I
01:26 think they had a car that could compete with William
01:29 and run one-two between those two guys,
01:33 or battle it out between them.