the crew chief, and we put a team together. Will Lein was the team manager, which worked on the three car for 100 years. Through all of Dale's championships, Will Lein was there. David Smith was was uh involved. All these people were all really really good racers, really smart racers, and it brought the whole RCR up. It not only brought the truck side up, it brought the cup side up. And uh I think it made RCR a lot more competitive. I was thinking if with the truck series being so new and you're starting out to get creative with stuff, you got a pretty light rule book, I would imagine, because they're not exactly the same as a car. And it hasn't really been exploited and bolstered up by people, you know, coming up with stuff saying you can't do that anymore, add this, add that. Did you have any rules? It was basically like a cup car chassis and suspension, motor, everything, with the truck's with truck sheet metal on it. And so that's basically how it started out. And when we started, the rule book was about that thick. At the end of '96, the rule book was that thick. And it was just from us, you know, you can't put light roll bars in anymore. You can't do this, can't do that. We They really um we never got busted, but we got our hand slapped a lot, and and you know, don't don't come back with that. And the next week it'd be in the rules. And then and we started moving the tails over on them and the nose over that way. Don't do that anymore. Okay. Well, we just kept pushing the envelope as hard as we could, and the rule book just kept getting thicker and thicker and thicker. It's just innovating. It wasn't cheating. It was like you read the rule, you interpret the rule, and you go, "Okay, well, it don't say anything about this. Well, hell, it don't say anything about that, either. So, let's do this and that." And if, you know, I've always told my boys that they were they were racers and and it's not There's no magic wand that you can wave over a race car. Kyle Larson's car North Wilkesboro. The 24 car is the same car, you know. He just had it figured out. It's the hundred little tiny things that you do from bumper to bumper, from top to bottom, and then the engine shop, same thing. It's not always the engine that makes the most power on the dyno that's your best race engine. You have to It's a big package. Like at Martinsville, we used to detune the the the bottom end of
