Nick Payne, spotter for No. 45 driver Tyler Reddick, breaks down fighting off a swarm of bees and the late-race pass to win at Homestead.
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00:00Here in victory lane with the winning spotter for the number 45 Nick Payne who dealt with not only a victory lane celebration
00:06And it's covered in champagne, but bees all day. What was going on with the swarm of bees on the spotter stand?
00:11Yeah right there in stage two
00:13There was some bugs flying around and we just started looking we were kind of like what are these things and then all of a
00:17Sudden there was thousands of bees up there just chasing us around
00:19So I went one end to the other kind of hid because I'm allergic
00:22But yeah, and just a little crazy there hard to spot NASCAR was aware
00:26So they helped us out send some people up there and took care of us
00:29All right
00:29Well, it didn't look like it was hard to spot especially on that final lap for the 45
00:33But you guys are championship four bounds you'll race for a championship at Phoenix. What does this mean for you?
00:37And it's a lot it starts all the way back to when me and Tyler started together two years ago
00:42We've just kind of built on everything we've done and it's just a testament to the pit crew and all the engineers and everybody back
00:47At airspeed and everything we put into this
00:49It's just a testament to that and we got some good momentum going forward
00:53It hasn't been a great playoff for us
00:54but now we can kind of take the week of Martinsville and kind of focus on Phoenix and just get to work there and it
00:59Just means a lot to me
01:00Something I've always wanted to do as a kid and just a race for a championship means a lot to me my family all my
01:05Friends everybody back home. Well, congratulations not only on the win, but you survived this swarm of bees in Miami
01:09Yeah, I think that was the biggest win of the day
01:12Congrats