Kyle Petty sounds off on the NASCAR Playoffs' Round of 8 drivers following a Jekyll and Hyde day at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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00:00It's Vegas and guess what? There's a lot of losers this week. There's one big
00:05winner, Joey Logano. Man, what a change in one week. What a drastic change. I'm
00:12telling you what, I do not know how any of these guys that are below the cut line are
00:17going to recover. We talk about it all the time, you can't make up points. We saw
00:21it in the Xfinity series, let me say that, but you're not gonna make up points on
00:26Joey Logano and Kyle Larson and William Byron. It's just tough. We go to Tyler
00:31Reddick, he takes everybody out.
00:42Now we go to the other guys. The 12 car, Ryan Blaney, loser. Man, that wreck took him out and set
00:49the tone for his entire weekend. I feel so bad for him because he had speed, but he got
00:55caught up in that lap 88 wreck where he got up into the outside wall. We go to Chase Elliott,
01:01he's in the middle of it with Martin Truex, he's in the middle of that wreck, he takes
01:05him out of it. And Denny Hamlin also gets a piece of it and gets his nose damaged. Now,
01:10I go to that wreck, that wreck in particular was caused by impatience, somebody trying
01:15to make something happen early. But, when you're racing for a championship, you gotta
01:19make something happen. Now let's go to mistakes. The 5 car, Larson, loose wheel. The 11 car,
01:25Denny Hamlin, loose wheel. Listen, when you're at this level with 8 players in the playoffs
01:31and only 3 or 4 races to go, there is no mistakes. There's no room for that type of thing. These
01:36guys are taking themselves out of races. Now, Joey Logano, a week ago, 15 minutes after
01:44the race, he's standing in the garage area at Charlotte with his tail between his legs
01:48and his head down. He's headed home. He is out of the playoffs. Fast forward one week,
01:5515 minutes after the race, he's standing in victory lane. He's hoisting the trophy and
01:59he's got a ticket to Phoenix. Thank your lucky stars, Joey Logano. Somebody's looking down
02:05on you.