Austin Hill shared he was struggling with rear grip for about 5-6 laps to go. Then, he asked for Kyle Busch's help, and something told him to start adding front brake.
"I was going down off of Turn 5 into 6, I'm like, 'Man, Kyle, if you're watching this race, I could use some help here.' And for whatever reason, something told me to just start adding front brake to it.
"And that exact lap that I asked about it, I just started cranking front brake. ... Normally road courses, it's kind of unorthodox to put a ton of front brake into it, but I had to have put six plus rounds of front brake into it.
"Started actually glowing the front brake rotors a little bit, and that kind of heated up the front tires enough to tighten the car up. And those last four laps, the car just came to life."
Hill dedicated his win to the Busch family.
"For Samantha, Brexton, Lennix, Kurt, their parents, just everyone in the Busch family, this win is all for them. This is why we've been putting in the effort that we have. We always put a lot of effort in, but the effort has went up tremendously these last several weeks.
"It goes to show that hard work kind of pays out if you just keep digging deep. And that's what we did today."
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Austin Hill now has consecutive Top 20 finishes for the first time in his Cup career. 20th at Michigan and 18th at Pocono today.
Between starting 14th and finishing 18th, the most complete weekend Hill has had so far since taking the wheel of what was Kyle Busch's car.