Jessie Punch goes 1-on-1 with Cliff Daniels following the No. 5 car's win by 0.001 seconds at Kansas Speedway.
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00:00Here victory lane winning crew chief today
00:02That's got to be a good thing to hear especially since you only have one now two on the season question number one
00:07How was that beef rib that you guys were eating here in victory lane the beef with rib was great
00:11If I you got me tied up on my words if I have any stuff in my teeth
00:15It's from the beef ribs. So that's a great tradition. By the way, we approve
00:19Nothing like a celebratory beef rib, right and especially when it's the closest finish in NASCAR Cup Series history
00:24Tell me what was going through your mind watching all that to be honest with you timing and scoring had me
00:29so screwed up the way
00:30The way it tripped when the cars crossed the line showed the 17 ahead of us by a gap of zero point zero zero zero
00:37I took a picture of my screen
00:39So, you know Kyle's asking did we get it? Did we get it? And I just looked at on my screen like no
00:44You know second. Okay, good fight and I guess NASCAR now so on the radio
00:48So Tyler our spotter came screaming on the radio. We got it. We got it
00:52So it was exciting and honestly all around just a really tough team day
00:57you know, we had some things that went our way some things that didn't go our way and
01:01Kyle had a great restart at the end ton of credit to him and a good pit stop on pit road
01:05It was fun to see it all come together
01:08and
01:09Knowing that that was the closest finish knowing how much adversity you had to fight through
01:13What was going through your mind as far as getting that second win and knowing that you know
01:16This is leading you into this summer months
01:18Yeah
01:19I mean our expect expectation every week is
01:21Try to put ourselves in position and
01:23And do a lot of the things that it takes during the race to make the adjustments on the car keep the car
01:28You know up front and even when we had the bad pit stop
01:31I'm really proud of the guys that you know
01:33They kind of got it out of their minds and right after that we had a few more good pit stops to finish out the day
01:39You know, I think so much of the way the next-gen racing is nowadays. You just have to keep yourself in the game and
01:45You know never at any point that I expect. Hey, we're just gonna go walk away and win this thing
01:50You know
01:50I knew that if we could do the things to keep ourselves in contention stay in the game
01:55That yeah, if it came down to something at the end
01:58You know, we knew we have a great pit crew knew Kyle's one of the best restarters in the business and you know
02:03Never bet against yourself. Well, congrats on the win. Enjoy it. Yeah. Thanks