Christian Eckes recaps his night and talks about the gains the No. 19 Chevrolet team made to get a top five at Bristol and lock into the next Round.
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00:00Another guy locked into the round of eight, Christian Ekus, but he battled all night with
00:04his truck.
00:05Said he never got the platform to what he was searching for this evening.
00:09How difficult is that to just battle through stage after stage?
00:13Yeah, it was difficult for sure.
00:16Yeah, I mean, it's a great turnaround for us because I felt like we were maybe a tenth
00:20to twelfth place race car in practice.
00:23So kudos to Charles and Ike and the guys for getting it tuned up to run top five.
00:28We weren't race winning capable, but still a decent run.
00:30So just proud of everybody.
00:33Huge thanks to Adaptive One Caliper, Napa, Gates, Instacote, Chevrolet, everybody involved.
00:38It's cool to be locked into the next round, but I got to go take care of business at Kansas
00:42first.
00:43When you talk about taking care of business, I do want to go back to stage one.
00:46You were taking care of business during that part of the race.
00:49We're going to play the little highlight here of you just moving and dancing through traffic.
00:53Walk us through stage one and at that point, what were your hopes and going forward?
00:57Yeah, at this point, I was like, damn, maybe we can win the race.
01:00It just went away from me a little bit.
01:02But at the end of both stages, I thought we were going to win the stage and just lost
01:05a little bit there at the end.
01:07So like I said, huge turnaround for us, proud of the team and move on to Kansas.
01:11Christian Eckes, a competitor through and through Mamba.