NASCAR.com's Alex Weaver catches up with Todd Gilliland after the No. 38 team finished the day at the Brickyard with a top-five finish.
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00:00Todd Gillen and the number 38 crew bring it home with the top five here in Indianapolis.
00:04I don't know if you can draw up a more crazy brickyard 400 with all the stuff that was
00:07happening. Describe your day here today. Yeah, it was definitely really crazy. Just I feel
00:13like you know, I've never ran on the oval, but this is almost kind of like to me at least
00:16felt like the vintage, like just the clip I was think of right when Jimmy Johnson's
00:20like going three wide, blowing up and you know, it's getting a little bit darker and
00:24it seems like it's dragging on forever. So yeah, this place could be chaotic for sure.
00:28And um, yeah, as far as, you know, we, we messed up our strategy throughout the middle
00:32of the race, but it kind of ended up helping us put us in a position. We were able to come
00:35down and top off, uh, to get it, get us to the very end right there. So yeah, it was,
00:40it was close. My guys did a good job calculating it all at the end. And um, yeah, it's, it's
00:44good momentum for us and it's nice to carry this into the off break. You mentioned that
00:48off break. We'll head to Richmond for races left before the NASCAR cup series playoff
00:51start. Where is this team at and the mindset of going in and fighting for a championship?
00:56Yeah, it, um, it definitely seems, you know, like we're getting more into that, you know,
01:02playoff bubble, um, you know, type conversation. We still have a long ways to go to be able
01:06to compete throughout the playoffs, but, um, we're definitely working in our direction.
01:10That's, it's super exciting for me. I feel like I'm putting better races together and
01:14we're having a lot faster race cars. So, um, yeah, we'll keep working on it. Like I said,
01:18uh, you know, front row motor sports is, uh, it's still just taking those steady steps
01:21that I feel like we're kind of known for. Like you said, though, it's, it's going to
01:24be important if we want to make the playoffs, we got to win one of the next four races.
01:27Uh, I think we can go to Richmond, have a really strong run. Enjoy some off weeks. Yes. Thank you.