Kyle Petty dives into the Round of 12 opener at Kansas Speedway that saw an up-and-down day for much of the playoff field.
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00:00Kansas, referred to by Chase Elliott as the traditional race in this round.
00:05It was anything but traditional.
00:07Chaos everywhere.
00:08And the chaos was created by mistakes.
00:13People mistakes.
00:14The playoff drivers made mistakes all day long.
00:16They put themselves in bad situations.
00:189 out of the 12 playoff drivers had some type of issue, which was phenomenal to me.
00:25We saw crazy stuff though, other than the playoff drivers.
00:29Christopher Bale, I think he's set on like 10 or 12 holes in his career and has never
00:34transferred that to a race win.
00:36If you're that fast, you've got to get W's out of it.
00:39You've got to make something happen.
00:41We saw him again yesterday.
00:43He's in the mode of a Kyle Larson.
00:46He's in the mode of a Casey Kane.
00:47We've heard it all along.
00:49And that's exactly right, because it took those guys time to learn how to close.
00:54And Christopher Bale cannot close.
00:57He can be fast, but he can't close.
01:00That's his weak spot.
01:01Another guy I want to talk about, Kyle Busch.
01:03Kyle Busch going to keep that streak alive.
01:06And he spins.
01:07He gets a little bit of room.
01:09Granted, Chase Briscoe did not give him a lot of room.
01:11If we're going to call that a lane, it was a lane with two millimeters on the outside.
01:15He had no room to get there.
01:17He should have given him more room.
01:18I'm going to say that right off the bat.
01:20Chase Briscoe in that situation should have given Kyle Busch a little bit of respect and
01:25gave him a little bit more room.
01:26But what we saw was, Kyle Busch has yet to come to terms with this car.
01:31He doesn't understand how the aero affects it.
01:34He doesn't understand not to put it in a bad place.
01:37We have seen him spin on his own more than any other of the top level drivers.
01:43Go back and look at the tape.
01:44That's a fact.
01:45I'm just throwing it out there, people.
01:47Now, I say all this stuff, but in the end, it was all great for Ross Chastain.
01:53We got to see the watermelon drop.