I have literally stood in this parking lot three years in a row not knowing what I'm going to be doing next year. ZANE SMITH: Yeah, definitely a lot has changed. How is it now sitting there the champion, bright future ahead? A year ago you had the runner-up finish in the championship. Yeah, I just truly can't believe the night we've had. It's been so cool to celebrate it with family, friends, just on the West Coast in general. It's been the busiest Victory Lane celebration I've ever been a part of. Unfortunately Bob isn't here tonight, but I can assure you I probably have a phone call from him. I was just wondering if you had a chance to speak to Bob Jenkins yet and what that conversation was like? I got really loose and then really tight and then I heard the screaming of my spotter which I knew we had it, and I'm just now getting my voice back. Then I started getting really loose and I was so worried he was going to - it was an Xfinity finish from last year do-over. I talked to my spot tore, he said that he was on my bumper from the time I turned off the wall, but I really didn't feel him until about center of the corner. How nervous were you going into that final corner knowing that Ben was going to take some kind of shot? With Ben behind you, he drove you pretty hard, but he didn't wreck you. I don't know if it was an exciting finish, but I about had a heart attack at the line. We were fighting for a championship, so a lot of respect goes out to them. We had every opportunity to wreck each other, and we battled hard, hit each other, but didn't wreck each other. I mean, I have said it in a few other interviews but I just want to give a shout-out to the other three. Yeah, I think I was underneath Chandler at that time, and we were dooring each other, and we were nose to nose and both of us obviously weren't going to lift. Yeah, a lot happened that I don't even know. Was that with like five to go? How many was that to go? 10 to go, oh, man. ZANE SMITH: I have no idea when that was. The four-wide move you found yourself in, four-wide bottom, was there ever a doubt that that was going to work out in your favor? It's scarred me too bad, and yeah, probably the craziest finish I've ever been a part of and obviously the biggest win I've ever had. I wasn't going to - Bob Jenkins was going to get a wrecked chuck or a championship trophy at the end of the day. ZANE SMITH: Yeah, I knew our night had gone too smooth at times and we struggled bad on pit road and I went from dominating the race, being the first seed, to restarting 11th with 11 to go as the fourth seed. Were you not going to be denied at the end? Were you just not going to be denied? Another runner-up finish probably you would have been apoplectic after that. THE MODERATOR: We are now joined by our 2022 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion driver, and that is Zane Smith.
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