From the battle between Kyle Larson and Shane van Gisbergen to Alex Bowman's victory, Kyle Petty dissects the Cup Series race at Chicago.
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00:00Chicago, again in the rain, but a great event.
00:04At least we got the constructs in this year.
00:06We saw Larson and SVG put on a driving school.
00:11This is how you pass people
00:13without knocking them out of the way.
00:14Tip of the hat.
00:16SVG wins any time it seems like we go to Chicago,
00:20except come Sunday.
00:21The tell of the tape on Sunday was,
00:23he got caught up in someone else's mess.
00:25He led a lot of the race, he run up front.
00:28People take notice.
00:29These guys that grew up on street courses
00:32understand street courses and they learn from SVG.
00:35And that's why I thought we saw Larson and Redick and Bell
00:38and those guys be so much better this year.
00:41The other thing I thought we saw yesterday,
00:43the timed event.
00:44NASCAR did a great job of running a timed event.
00:48They were very clear with the crews,
00:50very clear with the fans, very clear with TV.
00:52This is when it's gonna end.
00:53And when it run out of time, guess what?
00:56White flag, checkered flag, end of race.
00:59What that shows is in the future,
01:01NASCAR can run timed events.
01:03Think about it.
01:0430 minute pre-race, 30 minute post-race,
01:06two hour race in the middle, three hour TV package,
01:09anywhere we wanna put it.
01:11Great nod to the future for NASCAR.
01:13Now, back to the rain.
01:14We go to the rain a little bit
01:15and it totally changed the race.
01:17Yes, there were main cautions.
01:18Yes, we had all this stuff.
01:20But at the end, it was so interesting
01:22that we had a difference in tire strategy.
01:24We had Bowman, who said,
01:26let me stay out, I think I got a chance on these tires.
01:29We had Bale, we had Redick,
01:30we had those guys go to the slicks.
01:32And if we hadn't had the cautions,
01:33their strategy may have played out.
01:35But in the end, it was Bowman's strategy that played out
01:39and he takes home a victory after 80 some races.
01:42Huge, huge, huge win for that team
01:45that puts them in the playoffs.