Crew chief for the No. 22 Ford Paul Wolfe breaks down his fuel-saving gamble that won them Joey Logano the race and a Championship 4 berth.
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00:00Here in victory lane with the winning crew chief Paul Wolfe of the number 22 for Joey Logano
00:04I talked to Joey about the highs and lows of this sport
00:07But I don't know if anybody has had a roller coaster of a week more than this team
00:12Can you even walk me through getting from we're out of the playoffs to now we're locked into the championship for
00:18yeah, I think Joey said like it's hard to believe right and
00:22It is there when you think about it
00:24You could you could categorize it as hard to believe but I think just having belief in our team
00:30You know, that's what it was today. Like it was we were the best team. Were we the fastest car?
00:36No, but we had the best team. I have a great group of guys around me that helped me make those tough calls
00:42And we we had a plan going into the race this scenario
00:46was talked about how we would handle it and then just
00:50In my memory bank of how the season's gone how the last two season on it
00:55How well does Joey do it saving fuel and if all those things?
00:59go into those tough decisions that
01:02make it a lot easier and and
01:04Was I nervous on the box? Sure
01:06but honestly
01:07I felt confident in my guys what we've been able to do and and you got to have that confidence and to make those calls and
01:15Ultimately, like I said at the end of the day, it doesn't say who is the fastest car
01:19It said who's the best team and carrying the trophy home and being able to focus on Phoenix for two weeks is is what it's all
01:25You mentioned that call at what point of the race, do you know? Okay, it's time to take a gamble and we can stay out
01:30for a fuel
01:32honestly, I
01:33When the caution came out there like we didn't really feel like it was a gamble based off of where we were
01:39I was actually surprised we heard
01:42Guys talking about pit that they were maybe gonna split it or pit
01:45But I didn't realize the majority was thinking that because like I said, we had talked through this scenario
01:52pre-race and
01:53We kind of stuck to what we thought and what we knew and and it worked for us these next two weeks
01:59I asked Joey
02:00what do they look like but I want to ask you about championship prep because you get two weeks to prep for Phoenix and
02:06The last time you guys got two weeks to prep for Phoenix you won a championship. Yeah. I mean, it's worth so much
02:11I don't know how you you know
02:15How you value it? I know it it's gonna give us two weeks ahead of everyone else to just focus on that
02:21and
02:22I really like our short track program. This year has been very strong. We've won, you know, our share of races as a company and
02:31that gives me a lot of a
02:33Lot of hope going to Phoenix and I know we can go there and win the race. Congratulations. Welcome to the championship for all right
02:39Thank you