No. 14 crew members Shayne Pipala and Jon Bernal react to Chase Briscoe qualifying for the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs by winning the Southern 500.
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00:00Here in victory lane at Darlington Raceway with part of the winning crew for the 14.
00:04We have John and Shane who are joining us here, who just told me before we started rolling
00:07that they've been together for over a decade at Stuart Haas Racing.
00:10Well, guess what?
00:11Stuart Haas Racing is in the playoffs.
00:12How does it feel, boys?
00:13I mean, we never thought, like, the season we've had to do a walkoff like this and at
00:19the beginning of this year in our meeting leading up to this, we're like, you know what?
00:22We have nothing to lose.
00:23Let's just let it hang out and let's do what we do.
00:26Let's just get in our comfort zone.
00:27And next thing you know, it's so surreal.
00:29We're in victory lane.
00:30Yeah.
00:31Go off what he said.
00:32It's super special.
00:33I mean, who thought we'd be standing in victory lane of the Southern 500 needing a walkoff
00:37win and we're in the playoffs.
00:38I know a lot of us brought our families today.
00:40I'm lucky I have my son and wife here.
00:41It's super special.
00:43It's a great place to win.
00:44It's just such a long race, right?
00:46Like, so, you know, we're sweating our guts out, right?
00:50And we're halfway through the race at this point and we have to maintain up here to get
00:55a win here.
00:56All the teams up and down pit road, pit crews, everybody's at a high level.
00:59So we knew we had to bring our best over and over and again.
01:02It's like rinse and repeat situation.
01:03So it's just incredible that we, uh, we accomplished that tonight.
01:07So you both are two of 323 employees at Stewart house racing, and there are a lot of them
01:13who still are very unknown on what they're doing in their future endeavors for their
01:17career.
01:18But this organization is going to go fight for a championship.
01:20How does that feel to rep the banner for Stewart house racing?
01:23It's great because it's showing nobody's given up.
01:26Even though we know what's coming, everyone's dug deep and they're still bringing the best
01:29race cars we possibly can in the racetrack.
01:30We're practicing hard.
01:31We're working out hard.
01:32We're trying to bring absolute a game week in and week out.
01:35And I think tonight showed that we're capable of a lot of things still.
01:38So don't count us out yet.
01:40Yeah, it's, it's an up and down situation.
01:42So obviously we got the news and you have two paths to choose at that point.
01:47You either be super negative or you be the positive guy in the environment and try to
01:52pick everybody up and say, Hey, still, we still have a season to finish here.
01:55And it's hard.
01:56I'll be honest with you.
01:57It's super hard.
01:58And, and, um, there's a lot of employees that count on us.
02:01You know, we get wind bonuses, right?
02:03We're in this sport and it's, it's based off performance.
02:06So we had everybody riding on our shoulders out there to get the job done.
02:09And that's exactly what we did.
02:11This might be the easiest one.
02:12You answer all night.
02:13What's the party look like tonight?
02:14Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute.
02:18We know where we're going and it rhymes with Briscoe's.
02:21I mean, something like that.
02:23So I guess we might have a few, a few drinks and watch the sun come up, but it's all worth
02:27it.
02:28We've definitely seen some other teams that they've posted lately and, uh, I think we've
02:31got, we can hang with them.
02:32We'll get them.
02:33I love it.
02:34Well, congratulations you guys.
02:35Welcome to the playoffs.
02:36All right.