in the end kyle celebrating and our steve byrnes is down there. >> chris, kyle busch jumps out of the car and celebrates with his wife, samantha. kyle, yesterday you said -- oh, thank you. that feels good. yesterday you said the fans won, but today you won. tell us how you won this race. >> i think the fans won today, too, man. holy cow. what do you expect when you have a green/white/checkered finish and everyone has to put four tires on. that right there is -- the days of thunder thing there. what do you mean? there's two laps to go. everyone is going to pit. unbelievable day. i can't say enough about interstate batteries, everybody from interstate, m&ms, peanut, sn snickers, doublemint, toyota awesome today to be here again in their hometown and of course sprint. appreciate them being here and helping us with our sport, monster energy, nothing greater than this to keep the party going all night long. >> can i borrow your towel for a second? >> no, that's mine. >> to krista voda. >> what a weekend for kyle larson. i want to know, could 0 you smell that victory? here you are battling

while i was working on "american sniper" which i wrote with chris kyle, another great, great american. one night chris and i were hanging around in his den, and we were looking at pictures, but the picture came up of some guys who were about to go out own a field mission, and there's one in a slightly different uniform. i said, who is the big guy? chris is from texas and looks at me and said well, thars the only iraqi i ever trusted with a gun. oh, that's interesting, man, tell me about that. he told me that was a translater called johnny walker, and they talked about the missions. i have to say that i where fiction, and the stories that chris was telling me sounded so much more remarkable and more fictional and more thrilling than stories i've ever come up with that i almost stopped writing novels. we ended up putting johnny in the book in american sniper. he's in a paragraph. he changed the same, his background because we were very weary at the time. johnny, we thought was still in iraq, and our book came out, "american sniper" came out, and chris was actually doing this book signin