Even without being in the Cup Series Playoffs, Ross Chastain and the No. 1 team are proving to be a force to be reckoned with; hear from Chastain about his victory here.
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00:00Didn't make the playoffs, but they showed up in the playoffs.
00:05Last year they won the championship race at Phoenix.
00:08Not part of the playoffs, but they kick off the round of 12 for the playoff drivers as
00:12a nonplayoff participant, but get it to victory lane.
00:16What is it about this race team and the propensity to be able to win these big playoff races,
00:21Ross?
00:22What do you mean?
00:24What's the big deal?
00:25We won.
00:26No, it's a huge deal, Marty.
00:29I am going to take down my consumption just a little bit, but for us on this one team,
00:35it's what cup racing is all about.
00:36It's what Justin Marx bought into track house with Pitbull, bought into NASCAR with track
00:42house to do stuff like this, to disrupt, and look, there's been times this year where we
00:48couldn't have disrupted the minnow pond outside of Darlington, let alone a cup race.
00:53It's hard.
00:54It's really tough.
00:55You know, to come and do this, there's times where I didn't think after practice and qualifying
01:00we had what it took.
01:01I thought we'd been way stronger here in the past, and it didn't feel great all day, but
01:05our Kubota Chevy, gosh, it was better as the rubber went down, and the adjustments were
01:11great.
01:12I do have to say, I've got quite the bill piling up at Kubota, so this is definitely
01:15going to help.
01:16Going to pay that off.
01:17Got some new M6s headed down to the farm, and I've also been on Jim Campbell and everybody
01:23at GM for one of the new Silverado EVs, so I think I get front of the line now on that,
01:28but to win this today is that process I talked about at Nashville last year.
01:33We haven't left.
01:34We haven't went away.
01:35Nobody's slowed us down other than ourselves, and today we were the fastest car.
01:40He talked about being a playoff disruptor.
01:43He was certainly that today, Lee.
01:45Ross Chastain wins here at the Kansas Speedway.