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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dude, give me fo give me that.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Back on the Rob Devils Show, Ben Darnell in your
Afternoon Drive. Coming up this Sunday, September twenty first, at
two o'clock will be the mobile three oh one of
the New Hampshire Motor Speedway driving number five Hendrick Motorsports
Chevrolet drives us.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
His name is Kyle Lars and Kyle has had a
tremendous season and Kyle, this is a huge playoff race.
How much does this playoff race mean to you and
your team?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Well, I mean, yeah, they're they're obviously important because you know,
if you don't execute well, you know, you can find yourself,
you know, out of making the next round, and your
chances winning the championship er over. So yeah, I mean
there's there's massive emphasis on every race throughout the year,
but you know, I think the execution side of it
just becomes more more important in the playoffs because you
(00:57):
don't have, you know, twenty races to make up for something.
You've only got three. So yeah, we try to do
a good job and hopefully, you know, New Hampshire goes
well for us this weekend. We ran well there in
the past, and I haven't been able to get a
win there yet, but I feel like we keep keep
inching up on getting better and better.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, trying to do a good job. With three wins,
eleven top fives, sixteen top tens, you're in third right
now going into the playoffs. What has been clicking for
you and the team all season long?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Well, the first the first half of the year was
going really well for us. I feel like where a
lot of our stats came from, you know, the wins
and top fives. Especially the summer was a tough stretch
for us. We weren't we weren't as competitive as we
wanted to be, had some misfortune and some bad luck
along the way. But we've been getting our speed better
(01:50):
here lately. Uh just got to get get the execution
back to where we needed to be to really challenge
for wins on a consistent basis, which is what we're
typically used to. But you know, really confident our team.
I definitely think you'll be within your motorsports. We're on
the best team and you know, just got to put
it all together. It's coming down to that time of
(02:11):
year where yeah, you got to be perfect and we're
working our best towards that, so hopefully we can get
it started this weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Talking to Kyle Larson, he'll be racing at the New
Hampshire Motor Speedway coming up this weekend, September twenty first,
two o'clock. It is the mobile three tozho one. Talk
about that. I mean, how much time do you get
to practice in the car and try to figure it
out when it's not going well?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You don't you don't have much time at all. So
for a NASCAR race weekend like this weekend, we'll go
and you know, we'll have practice on Saturday, and they
split it up into two groups. So the group that
I'm in that whatever, you only get twenty twenty minutes
of practice, which is nuts. So that's not even the
(02:58):
length of a few of a full you know run
in the race. So you're trying to learn really quickly.
You've really only got time and practice for maybe one
adjustment on your race car, you know, and then you're
you're just trying to study the data when you get
done and learn that way and make the proper adjustments
on your car overnight, you know, proper adjustments as a driver,
(03:21):
you know, studying yourself as well as others and then
you know, three hundred and one miles or whatever it
is on Sunday for the race actually goes by pretty
quick too behind the wheel, So the sport's really tough.
You've definitely got to, you know, be prepared before you
get to the track and you know, hope that you
have a good car, good balanced race car and can
(03:44):
qualify that front. It's really difficult to pass these days.
Everybody's so good and equal, so qualifying is extremely important.
And yeah, hopefully hopefully New Hampshire is one of those
tracks where we can be fast right off the bat and.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
The sport's extremely physical. You got bumped around a little
bit this past weekend. Can you take us through that
and just what happened with Suarez and then racing night
and day. Did did that have any effect? But like
when we watch that and watch that little bump, like
when you watch it in the in car footage and
you hear the sound, it sounds like a car accident,
but I'm sure it feels a little bit different when
(04:18):
you're going at the speeds that you guys are going through.
Like take our listeners through that particular incident and what
it feels like for you and your body and how
you have that quick recovery time to go to get
to New Hampshire.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, knock on what. I've never been in an actual
car accident on the road, so I don't know what
that feels like. But I've been. I've definitely Yeah, No,
I've definitely been in my fair share of you know
rex on the racetracks, some big ones. This weekend was
you know, really small compared to a lot of the
ones I've been in. But no, our cars are so
(04:51):
solid that I feel like the hits that you get,
they do they are you know, they feel quick and
solid and harder than you might anticipate. But we have
all the safety year right like we have you know,
you know amazing helmets, you know, neck restraints. Our seats
are molded to our bodies, so we don't really you know,
(05:14):
we run you know, seat belts, you know, and that
aren't like your car seat belt. You know, we have
like a let's see, like a seven point harness you know,
seat belt system. So we're pretty safe in the car.
But you know, when when you get to these tracks
where the speeds are really fast, you know, it can hurt,
like you'll you know, sometimes I've had rex where they'll
(05:36):
measure the you know, the impact and it'll be over
fifty g's of an impact, which is wild. You know
those ones, Those ones definitely hurt. But the one at
Bristol wasn't wasn't big at all, but it did break
our toe link in the right rear, so we had
to repair that. But yeah, I don't know. Crashing is
part of it, and after you do it enough, you
(05:57):
just get.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Used to it.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I know they call you one to most versatile drivers
on the circuit. And you did the Indianapolis five hundred
and then you went over the Coca Cola six hundred.
What's it like getting into one car and getting into
the other car and how much can you you practice
in the open wheel car to get ready for the
Indianapolis five hundred.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, they're they're actually more similar than I was expecting,
at least the way that they felt and handled and stuff.
The Indy car goes, you know, a lot faster, but
I felt like the overall feel of the car wasn't
too different, so that that kind of helped the transition some.
But yeah, strictly for the Indy five hundred, you get
(06:39):
like I don't know, six or seven days of practice
and then you know, you get plenty of time to
get familiar and comfortable with things. Obviously, I think if
I was something I did, you know, as a career
racing Indy car, you know, I probably would have done
a better job and been more you know, in tune
(06:59):
with the rhythm of pit stops and restarts and stuff.
But that's where I think it becomes difficult. I think
the driving the car part is pretty simple, you know,
driving back and forth between the two types of cars,
but the race procedure stuff, the racecraft, pit stops, all
that is quite a bit different. So I think that's
where it got, you know, a bit overwhelming. But it
(07:21):
was a super fun experience, you know. Cool to be
a part of the biggest race in the world and
you'll get to a temph to run You're both races
in the same day. It was really cool.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
You can find them in New Hampshire this weekend and
number five for Hendrix the New Hampshire Motor Speedway Mobile
one three oh one big weekend of events. It's really
already started. Campers are already pulling in. They have been
all weekend long. What's been the Bugget booth for you
with this track? Larsen? Why can't you? Why can't you
win this one?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I don't know. It's it's just a challenging place. It's
I feel like I typically do better on the faster,
you know, more banked kind of tracks, where New Hampshire's
got really really flat corners, so you have to you know,
slow down a lot, and that's been something that's been
a challenge for me in the past. But you know,
we've been getting better and I actually think that style
(08:10):
of track's good for us currently. So I'm I'm really
optimistic about this weekend. I think we can have a
good run and hopefully we can put it all together.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Well, thanks for your time on man, good luck up
there in New Hampshire the mobile one three oh one.
Just thanks for your time and stay safe and then
good luck the rest of the way. Maybe you end
up with the championship at the end.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah, thanks a lot. I appreciate it.
Dude, give me fo give me that.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Back on the Rob Devils Show, Ben Darnell in your
Afternoon Drive. Coming up this Sunday, September twenty first, at
two o'clock will be the mobile three oh one of
the New Hampshire Motor Speedway driving number five Hendrick Motorsports
Chevrolet drives us.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
His name is Kyle Lars and Kyle has had a
tremendous season and Kyle, this is a huge playoff race.
How much does this playoff race mean to you and
your team?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Well, I mean, yeah, they're they're obviously important because you know,
if you don't execute well, you know, you can find yourself,
you know, out of making the next round, and your
chances winning the championship er over. So yeah, I mean
there's there's massive emphasis on every race throughout the year,
but you know, I think the execution side of it
just becomes more more important in the playoffs because you
(00:57):
don't have, you know, twenty races to make up for something.
You've only got three. So yeah, we try to do
a good job and hopefully, you know, New Hampshire goes
well for us this weekend. We ran well there in
the past, and I haven't been able to get a
win there yet, but I feel like we keep keep
inching up on getting better and better.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, trying to do a good job. With three wins,
eleven top fives, sixteen top tens, you're in third right
now going into the playoffs. What has been clicking for
you and the team all season long?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Well, the first the first half of the year was
going really well for us. I feel like where a
lot of our stats came from, you know, the wins
and top fives. Especially the summer was a tough stretch
for us. We weren't we weren't as competitive as we
wanted to be, had some misfortune and some bad luck
along the way. But we've been getting our speed better
(01:50):
here lately. Uh just got to get get the execution
back to where we needed to be to really challenge
for wins on a consistent basis, which is what we're
typically used to. But you know, really confident our team.
I definitely think you'll be within your motorsports. We're on
the best team and you know, just got to put
it all together. It's coming down to that time of
(02:11):
year where yeah, you got to be perfect and we're
working our best towards that, so hopefully we can get
it started this weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Talking to Kyle Larson, he'll be racing at the New
Hampshire Motor Speedway coming up this weekend, September twenty first,
two o'clock. It is the mobile three tozho one. Talk
about that. I mean, how much time do you get
to practice in the car and try to figure it
out when it's not going well?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You don't you don't have much time at all. So
for a NASCAR race weekend like this weekend, we'll go
and you know, we'll have practice on Saturday, and they
split it up into two groups. So the group that
I'm in that whatever, you only get twenty twenty minutes
of practice, which is nuts. So that's not even the
(02:58):
length of a few of a full you know run
in the race. So you're trying to learn really quickly.
You've really only got time and practice for maybe one
adjustment on your race car, you know, and then you're
you're just trying to study the data when you get
done and learn that way and make the proper adjustments
on your car overnight, you know, proper adjustments as a driver,
(03:21):
you know, studying yourself as well as others and then
you know, three hundred and one miles or whatever it
is on Sunday for the race actually goes by pretty
quick too behind the wheel, So the sport's really tough.
You've definitely got to, you know, be prepared before you
get to the track and you know, hope that you
have a good car, good balanced race car and can
(03:44):
qualify that front. It's really difficult to pass these days.
Everybody's so good and equal, so qualifying is extremely important.
And yeah, hopefully hopefully New Hampshire is one of those
tracks where we can be fast right off the bat and.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
The sport's extremely physical. You got bumped around a little
bit this past weekend. Can you take us through that
and just what happened with Suarez and then racing night
and day. Did did that have any effect? But like
when we watch that and watch that little bump, like
when you watch it in the in car footage and
you hear the sound, it sounds like a car accident,
but I'm sure it feels a little bit different when
(04:18):
you're going at the speeds that you guys are going through.
Like take our listeners through that particular incident and what
it feels like for you and your body and how
you have that quick recovery time to go to get
to New Hampshire.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, knock on what. I've never been in an actual
car accident on the road, so I don't know what
that feels like. But I've been. I've definitely Yeah, No,
I've definitely been in my fair share of you know
rex on the racetracks, some big ones. This weekend was
you know, really small compared to a lot of the
ones I've been in. But no, our cars are so
(04:51):
solid that I feel like the hits that you get,
they do they are you know, they feel quick and
solid and harder than you might anticipate. But we have
all the safety year right like we have you know,
you know amazing helmets, you know, neck restraints. Our seats
are molded to our bodies, so we don't really you know,
(05:14):
we run you know, seat belts, you know, and that
aren't like your car seat belt. You know, we have
like a let's see, like a seven point harness you know,
seat belt system. So we're pretty safe in the car.
But you know, when when you get to these tracks
where the speeds are really fast, you know, it can hurt,
like you'll you know, sometimes I've had rex where they'll
(05:36):
measure the you know, the impact and it'll be over
fifty g's of an impact, which is wild. You know
those ones, Those ones definitely hurt. But the one at
Bristol wasn't wasn't big at all, but it did break
our toe link in the right rear, so we had
to repair that. But yeah, I don't know. Crashing is
part of it, and after you do it enough, you
(05:57):
just get.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Used to it.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I know they call you one to most versatile drivers
on the circuit. And you did the Indianapolis five hundred
and then you went over the Coca Cola six hundred.
What's it like getting into one car and getting into
the other car and how much can you you practice
in the open wheel car to get ready for the
Indianapolis five hundred.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, they're they're actually more similar than I was expecting,
at least the way that they felt and handled and stuff.
The Indy car goes, you know, a lot faster, but
I felt like the overall feel of the car wasn't
too different, so that that kind of helped the transition some.
But yeah, strictly for the Indy five hundred, you get
(06:39):
like I don't know, six or seven days of practice
and then you know, you get plenty of time to
get familiar and comfortable with things. Obviously, I think if
I was something I did, you know, as a career
racing Indy car, you know, I probably would have done
a better job and been more you know, in tune
(06:59):
with the rhythm of pit stops and restarts and stuff.
But that's where I think it becomes difficult. I think
the driving the car part is pretty simple, you know,
driving back and forth between the two types of cars,
but the race procedure stuff, the racecraft, pit stops, all
that is quite a bit different. So I think that's
where it got, you know, a bit overwhelming. But it
(07:21):
was a super fun experience, you know. Cool to be
a part of the biggest race in the world and
you'll get to a temph to run You're both races
in the same day. It was really cool.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
You can find them in New Hampshire this weekend and
number five for Hendrix the New Hampshire Motor Speedway Mobile
one three oh one big weekend of events. It's really
already started. Campers are already pulling in. They have been
all weekend long. What's been the Bugget booth for you
with this track? Larsen? Why can't you? Why can't you
win this one?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I don't know. It's it's just a challenging place. It's
I feel like I typically do better on the faster,
you know, more banked kind of tracks, where New Hampshire's
got really really flat corners, so you have to you know,
slow down a lot, and that's been something that's been
a challenge for me in the past. But you know,
we've been getting better and I actually think that style
(08:10):
of track's good for us currently. So I'm I'm really
optimistic about this weekend. I think we can have a
good run and hopefully we can put it all together.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Well, thanks for your time on man, good luck up
there in New Hampshire the mobile one three oh one.
Just thanks for your time and stay safe and then
good luck the rest of the way. Maybe you end
up with the championship at the end.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah, thanks a lot. I appreciate it.
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