Cole Custer talks about the three-wide battle that left the No. 00 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford finishing third at New Hampshire.
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00:00This is a hard one to take.
00:01You told me we had the best car today.
00:03Was the contact from the 18 just enough to open the window?
00:07I would have done the same thing.
00:09You're racing for the win.
00:10It is what it is.
00:11It's just, man, it just stings.
00:13I felt like we had the best car all day.
00:16That's not easy to do at these flat, short tracks.
00:19Our guys brought such a fast car.
00:22But man, I mean, you get put in those late race restarts six times or whatever, eventually
00:27it's probably not going to go your way.
00:28I'm going to relive that definitely of what I could have done different.
00:31Maybe I could have protected a little bit more.
00:34You watch the replay.
00:35It went perfectly wrong for us.
00:37You know?
00:38So just got to keep digging.
00:40Our guys brought a hot rod this weekend.
00:42I'm really excited about what we can do.
00:44That was a really fast car.
00:46So got to thank Ford Performance and Haas Automation.
00:49Just got to keep digging.
00:50We got the points lead.
00:51Just got to keep knocking on the door.
00:53Did you approach that restart any differently than you had the previous few?
00:57Not really.
00:58I tried to definitely protect the bottom in one and two.
01:00It seemed like the 20 and everybody would get a good run on me there.
01:04But I just tried to make sure I drove into the corner deep to where he couldn't get me
01:07on the entry.
01:08And from there, I mean, it was just you're at the mercy of them a little bit, you know?
01:12So just it just sucks.
01:14It just sucks, you know?
01:15I mean, to have it ripped away with two laps to go is just brutal.
01:19But, you know, we're going to keep grinding.
01:22We're going to get one.
01:23Cole Custer winds up third, Kim.