Austin Hill shares his emotions after scoring the Xfinity Series win at Atlanta while also giving kudos to his RCR teammate Jesse Love.
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00:00 >> Let's hear from the winner, Josh. >> Austin Hill, now a three-time winner at
00:06 your home track. You won the first two races of the season. Right there you said that's
00:10 why you don't give up. It was stressful for a lot of drivers at the end given the fuel
00:15 situation. Had you saved enough to have enough at the end?
00:17 >> Yeah, I mean, I just got to thank my guys. Just everyone on this number 21, been at Chevrolet,
00:25 you know, we all worked through it. I was really thinking we were down and out. I'm
00:30 thinking that 2 is going to go in. I'm like, hey, if I can't win it, let my teammate win.
00:35 You know, we're riding there, obviously, in fourth or fifth, whatever it was. I was saving
00:40 fuel. Andy was sitting on me and Derek, my spotter, we're sitting there talking about
00:45 how much fuel to save. We came into the restart zone and I'm sloshing it around. We go through
00:51 the gears and when I went to shift from I think it was third to fourth, I actually stumbled
00:56 and the 81 hit me really hard and that woke it back up and I had enough fuel to complete
01:01 the lap. I do got to take this moment to congratulate Jesse Love, my teammate. He ran an awesome
01:09 race. To be a rookie and lead that many laps, he should be sitting here in victory lane
01:13 right now. He just ran out of fuel. You're leading the line. He can't save as much as
01:19 I can. Ultimately, that's kind of what bit him there, unfortunately. Two teams did a
01:25 hell of a job. So awesome to win here at my home track again for the third time, like
01:29 you were saying. With the Bennett gold, it's the 50th anniversary of running this scheme
01:35 all year long. Can't thank Bennett family and company enough. They're only 15 minutes
01:39 down the road is their headquarters. Man, what a race. I thought we were down and out.
01:45 I really did. I thought we were just going to go run second or third. Here we are in
01:48 victory lane, baby. Austin Hill now a three time winner at Atlanta.
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