Kyle Larson: ‘Great car, great team’ lead to third straight Cup pole

Kyle Larson discusses winning the pole at Texas Motor Speedway and also details his busy week preparing for the Indianapolis 500 in May.

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00:00Jamie, I don't know how he does it. He's so calm, no matter what. The fastest pole qualifying

00:06speed since we've gone to this car on a mile and a half. How do you do it, Kyle? A great

00:12car for one great team. So, yeah, cool to get three poles in a row. Um, that was I said

00:20on the radio after the first time I was like, That's about the most intense thing you can

00:23do or experience throughout a lifetime. It's just it's so on edge and like, you know how

00:30much like throttle time you have to have to run fast, and it's just sketchy. So sketchy.

00:35So, um, yeah, that was cool. Um, 250th pole also for Hendrick Motorsports in the Cup series,

00:43which is amazing and I'm glad I can contribute to some sort of numbers since Williams been

00:48stealing all the thunder here lately. But, um, no, just a great day. And, uh, you're

00:53happy, really, really happy to get a pole. This is honestly, since we've gone in the

00:57next in car, this has been a place where I've really struggled it qualifying, like committing

01:02into turn one. And, um, I told myself I was gonna commit today and paid off. So happy

01:08about that. The way you describe driving this car today reminds me of what drivers say when

01:11they drive an Indy car. That's something you got to do this week at Indianapolis Motor

01:15Speedway. What was it like? The sensation of speed there and then coming back here and

01:19jumping in in your stock car? Yeah, no, I think I mean, for sure, that doesn't hurt

01:23to feel, you know, to twenty something there. But it's surprising, like this felt way faster

01:31today just because the lack of grip, you know, the Indy car there was cold and overcast and

01:38the track was green. So I had a lot of grip to go along with that speed. So you don't

01:42really get that sensation. But here today, like I've I've felt on edge, you know, every

01:46lap and you're having to commit. I mean, we're running wide open to three and four. It's

01:50bumpy and you wanted to. You're having to commit really hard. So it's just it's intense.

01:57But for sure, I think it definitely doesn't hurt. We can go to twenty something a few

02:01days ago. So just a fun week so far and look forward to racing the sprint car tonight across

02:06the street here or across the parking lot at the dirt track here in Texas and get my

02:11fix of of all the cars, I guess, to speak. He races all the cars and he does it well.

02:16Great insight there. Kyle Larson will lead him to green on Sunday night.