Phoenix is over, Vegas is over the West Coast
swing is over. They're home and they're unpacking.
So let's unpack. What happened yesterday at Phoenix,
at Phoenix, we saw a great performance by Christopher
Bale and the Toyota teams. I believe anytime you
have a change in the rules and a change in
the package, one of the manufacturers steps up their
game, Toyota stepped it up yesterday and the guy
that led that step up was Christopher Bell. He
darts at the back. He drives his way to
the front by the end of the second segment.
He wins the second segment. He goes and takes
it away. He wins that segment as a slow
pit stop drops back. And what's he do?
He drives his way back to the front now.
He's not passing lap cars. He's not passing slower
cars. He's passing the competition. He's passing the
guys that matter. He drives to the front and
once he gets there, he doesn't look back.
It's his race at different times. We talked or
we heard talk that it was a Tyler Reddick and
it was Denny Hamlin. Those were the two best
cars but the best car all day long was the
20 car. And it was because he had been
out there to test before. I believe that's part
of it. I've got to say that and I
know a lot of people don't want to hear that
in December they had a test. Five teams went
out there to test one of them Christopher Bell,
one of them Chris Buscher, one of them Eric
Jones. And we saw Eric Jones have a phenomenal
qualifying effort. We saw Chris Busher drive his way
to the front with RFK and drag his teammate,
Brad Keselowski along with him. And we saw Christopher
Bell pass, pass pass. That's one thing I
want to reiterate about this package. We saw passing
yesterday and I think we're gonna see it at a
lot more tracks this year than we did last year
if you don't believe me and you don't believe it's
possible. Just watch the tape from yesterday and Christopher 00:01:51.418 --> Bell.