Kyle Busch: ‘Gotta be on top of our game’ to finish out regular season
Kyle Busch talks about what it will take to put his Richard Childress Racing team into the playoffs to close out the regular season.
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00:00Kyle Busch with the fourth place finish today in the eight.
00:02You guys showed sparks of life.
00:03You led some laps, had some fun out there, it looks like, but you made a charge there
00:06at the end.
00:07What more did you need in those closing two laps?
00:11I mean, we had two tires, so maybe two more.
00:15Maybe three more.
00:16I don't know.
00:17But net good day for us.
00:18I mean, the Lucas Oil Chevrolet was just a little bit off.
00:20We missed a little bit being too tight at both ends of the track, and that might have
00:23been a little bit of our overall net pace.
00:25But, you know, Randall and the guys made some really good calls on pitch strategy, got us
00:28the spots that we needed, kept us up front in the game, battled top ten all day, so we
00:33brought home a good finish.
00:34I know it won't translate to the next two weeks here, what we saw in Michigan, but you're
00:38heading to a racetrack, Daytona, and then we go to Darlington, where you finished in
00:41the top five with this team, your first race there.
00:44How do you manage the next two races and take the momentum with this jolt of life here?
00:49Yeah, I mean, that's just it.
00:51Just trying to get through these next two and keeping ourselves in position to win.
00:56Daytona's a crapshoot.
00:57You could be leading on the final lap and be in a heap before you get to the finish
01:01line, you know.
01:02But Darlington, same way.
01:03You got to be in position there.
01:04It's really narrow, really tough, really tight.
01:06Handling really comes into play a lot there, so we just got to be on top of our game.
01:10I mean, if we're going to put ourselves in the playoffs right now, now's the time, but
01:12otherwise, you know, we'll just have to try to ride it out and get some more good finishes
01:17and build on it and keep this program going in the right direction.
01:20Thanks, Kyle.
01:21Yeah.