NASCAR's Alex Weaver goes 1-on-1 with Kyle Busch and Austin Dillon ahead of the 2024 Daytona 500 to discuss season expectations and a possible 'Great American Race' victory.
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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - Kyle Busch, ninth on the all-time win list,
00:08 and he now holds the record
00:11 for consecutive cup seasons with a victory.
00:14 - All right, Kyle, let's dive into 2023.
00:18 How would you describe last season?
00:20 - I mean, it was good.
00:21 There was certainly some high moments.
00:23 There was certainly some low moments,
00:24 which I think you kind of have that in every year.
00:26 Ours was a bit more peaky and valley
00:29 than playing through the Midwest.
00:32 Being able to score that first win
00:33 of the season at Fontana,
00:35 that just took so much pressure of the year off
00:37 and everything else that was able to just kind of let you
00:39 go through the rest of the year like,
00:40 okay, I got that win.
00:42 I can do it at another team.
00:43 - Kyle Busch, out front, 20 to go.
00:46 - He touched it, he is into it.
00:48 - Don't worry about it, no game.
00:50 My half straightaway here.
00:51 Just give me a good four more set of corners.
00:53 This'll be the first of many.
00:54 - And Kyle Busch could pretty much coast at home from here.
00:58 - Hell yeah, welcome to RPR, baby.
01:00 - Oh, baby!
01:01 - Woo!
01:03 Hell yeah!
01:04 - The second half kind of cooled off.
01:07 So I'd love to find that heat and that spark
01:10 and everything from the beginning of the year
01:11 and put that back in place for going into the 2024.
01:15 ♪ Never give up just go harder ♪
01:17 ♪ Got out the mud, yeah ♪
01:18 ♪ Dirty water ♪
01:19 ♪ Lust where tears gotta sacrifice it all ♪
01:21 ♪ Gotta do it ♪
01:21 ♪ Want your name on the wall ♪
01:24 - Is anything you want to get off your chest
01:25 about Kyle Busch, working with him for a year?
01:27 - No, I mean, Kyle's been great to work with.
01:30 He went hunting, I think, this year with my grandfather
01:32 for the first time, which is cool.
01:34 - Working together, though,
01:36 how is the effort gonna look like,
01:37 not just with your teammate, Kyle,
01:38 but with all the Chevys this year?
01:41 You head into Daytona.
01:42 That's obviously a manufacturer race.
01:44 So what's it looking like
01:45 with the teamwork and the teammates?
01:47 - Yeah, you know, I think the Daytona 500 last year,
01:50 we worked really well together
01:51 and that was our first shot at it.
01:55 - Four laps to go in the Daytona 500.
01:58 - Here they come into turn number one.
01:59 Everybody holding the cards close to the vest.
02:02 Nobody ready to make their final play just yet.
02:06 That eight or nine card draft,
02:08 trying to pick up a couple of more.
02:10 - Here comes the move.
02:11 Kyle Busch will jump to the outside of the racetrack.
02:14 Kyle Busch to the lead.
02:15 - Kyle Busch to the race lead
02:17 with drafting help from Austin Dillon.
02:20 - This year, we'll do the same.
02:22 We try and get RCR to victory lane.
02:23 Obviously Kyle has one on his list
02:26 and that's the Daytona 500.
02:27 - Oh, Kyle Busch in the wall.
02:29 - I'll break.
02:32 - One too many times.
02:33 Very aggressive.
02:35 Things got a little too rowdy there.
02:37 - We'll be working hard to try and get the three and eight
02:39 where they need to be
02:41 and that's in a good position to win it at the end.
02:42 - What did you learn about yourself
02:44 and your team last season?
02:46 - I think some of the biggest things was
02:48 I've been successful because I overdrive a lot of times.
02:51 You know, like I'll push the car to its limit.
02:53 Sometimes beyond the limit and I can hold onto it.
02:56 Well, this new car is a lot different in that
02:58 and you push it to its limit and you try to go beyond that.
03:00 You're spun around backwards
03:02 and I feel like I've gotten to that 100.1 mark
03:05 too many times this year where a lot of guys
03:06 are being better at riding in the 99% bracket
03:10 and doing a better job.
03:11 - Are you capable of riding in the 99?
03:13 - Ha ha.
03:14 Yes and no.
03:16 I mean, if you want to run 15th all day, sure.
03:17 But that's not my style.
03:19 That's not how I want to be.
03:21 (bells chiming)