Michael McDowell talks after winning his sixth Busch Light Pole award this season and what his team has done to be quick in qualifying all year long.
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00:00And Lee will say it again. Sits on the pole again. You guys have done it to them again,
00:05Michael, and they're all scratching their heads. Yeah, it's just amazing. I mean, I'm
00:08just so proud of everybody on this. You know, 34 loves travel stop Ford Mustang team. I
00:14mean, it's hard to come down here and get the pole, but we found some things in the
00:19off season with the Daytona worked, and we just kept that momentum going. So really proud.
00:24We came down here with a game plan. Game plan was to sit on the pole, and we did that today,
00:28and that should put us in the lead for the most polls for the year. That's that's something
00:32we have circled. But there's a lot of racing left, obviously. But more than anything, you
00:36know, we had the car to win here last year, too, and needed about 400 more yards to get
00:41to the checkered flag. So hopefully tomorrow goes smoother than that. But it's great to
00:46have a fast Ford Mustang. Thank you to Doug Yates. Everybody at Roush H Engine shop. I
00:51mean, to get five polls is pretty amazing. And you hugged all the team here, Michael.
00:57For kind of a distracting week, it seems like they've been pretty focused. How did
01:00you and them keep things together? After all the news? We've been laser focus. The 34 car
01:05knew what we need to do. We need to get the pull of Talladega on. And we just focus on
01:10that all week. And, you know, it's all about details. And the guys worked really hard to
01:14make sure that we did everything exactly how we did it last time and always try to make
01:19things a little bit better. So huge effort. Really proud. You know, there's not always
01:24an opportunity for you to come down here on the pole, but we know that the Fords air
01:27super fast right now. Super Speedways in everything's playing into our hands to be able to do it
01:32next year. That might be different, right? And so you gotta capitalize why you can get
01:36it. And we did that. So I'm really proud. Look on that first one of the season tomorrow.
01:40Thank you. Appreciate it. Lee.