Kyle Petty sounds off on the Round of 8 finale at Martinsville Speedway and how Ryan Blaney's winning performance was overlooked by Christopher Bell's wall ride.
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00:00Martinsville, once again, it does not disappoint as the final cutoff race of the season.
00:07We saw some great racing yesterday.
00:09We saw some guys with their backs against the wall rise up and do some special stuff.
00:15All anybody wants to talk about are those last few laps, but I'm not going to talk about
00:19the three, I'm not going to talk about the one, and I'm not going to talk about the 23
00:24because let me tell you why.
00:25That is a call that NASCAR has to make.
00:27Everybody wants to say Chevy did this, Toyota did that, no, you can't ride the wall in the
00:3320 car of Christopher Bale.
00:35When he got into turn three, he gassed her up and came on home with it.
00:39Guess what?
00:40They loaded him on a truck and he went back to Charlotte with it, not in the playoff because
00:44he rode the wall.
00:45It's a rule.
00:46NASCAR took 20 or 30 minutes to make that call.
00:49Everybody wants to whine about it.
00:51Why did they take so long?
00:52Why did they take so long?
00:53Listen, it's called an investigation.
00:56They could have had a knee-jerk reaction and sent him home right off the bat, but it
00:58would have been a knee-jerk reaction that would not have had any teeth to it.
01:02The sad part about all of this stuff that you guys want to talk about out there, the
01:07conspiracies, the grassy knoll, everything you guys want to talk about, we saw one of
01:11the greatest drives of the season with Ryan Blaney.
01:15We saw him do something extra special yesterday.
01:19With his back against the wall, he makes it to Phoenix.
01:23He wins when he has to win.
01:25The crazy thing about it is he comes off the disappointment of Miami, where he could see
01:30the win.
01:31He could see Phoenix from turn four.
01:33What happens?
01:34He comes home second.
01:35He gets sent to the house, but he comes back a week later and he makes something happen.
01:40Phenomenal, phenomenal drive.
01:42Tip of the hat to Ryan Blaney.
01:44He's got to be the favorite rolling into Phoenix.