Kyle Petty breaks down Denny Hamlin's clutch performance to advance to the Round of 12 after Bristol and Kyle Larson's dominance.
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00:00In the words of the great Dale Jr., it's Bristol, baby!
00:04What an incredible race.
00:05Denny freakin' Hamlin.
00:07That's what it was all about.
00:09I said it in pre-race.
00:10He called his shot in 2012 at New Hampshire,
00:13he called his shot earlier this year at Dover.
00:15He didn't call this shot, but he had to make this shot.
00:18They had to make something happen
00:20after the first two poor performances in this round.
00:23He went out, got his stage points in Stage 1,
00:25got his stage points in Stage 2,
00:27and did what he needed to do.
00:29That's what a champion team does,
00:31and that's what a champion does.
00:33Denny's in that championship mode.
00:35He's in that championship chase.
00:37He's in that championship mindset,
00:39probably more than I've seen him ever.
00:41And we talk about it every year,
00:43but he's in attack mode now.
00:45There's only a few races left,
00:47but I think this is a guy that's dangerous
00:49because he has called his second win,
00:51he sees the future,
00:53and he sees Phoenix.
00:55And he can get there.
00:56And Lulu lives to fight another day.
00:59The other story that came out of Bristol for me,
01:01New Money made it happen at Bristol.
01:04I've seen some dominating performances,
01:06but this was a dominating performance.
01:08We don't see him as much as we used to,
01:10but he took control of this race from the very beginning.
01:12So many times, we'll watch a race,
01:14and we'll go back through it, and we'll say,
01:16well, you know, if the cautions had fallen here,
01:18or if this had happened,
01:20this guy had a shot at winning the race,
01:22or this guy had a shot at winning the race.
01:24Once they threw the green flag,
01:26everybody else could have gone to the garage area.
01:28No one had a shot at winning this race,
01:31but Kyle Larson, it was flawless.
01:33What he did on the racetrack,
01:35the pit crew on pit road,
01:36they never lost a lead.
01:38They never lost a lead in the race once they took it.
01:40I want you to think about that.
01:42Yeah, they didn't lead all the laps
01:43because of pit cycles and the stage breaks and everything,
01:45but they never lost a lead.
01:47That is fascinating to me in this day and age.
01:49Kyle Larson absolutely dominates this race,
01:52and he wins the Bass Pro Shops night race
01:54for the second time at Bristol Motor Speedway.
01:57The five car in Kyle Larson continues to impress,
02:00continues to dominate in ways that we've never seen before.
02:04Look for him at Phoenix.