Lance Stroll is a Formula 1 race car driver. Here, they’re saying he hit the barriers during the Monaco race, which is especially easy to do on a narrow track.
A “full course yellow” is when the race is slowed down everywhere because of an incident. Drivers have to be careful and can’t race at full speed or try risky passes.
Kimi Antonelli is a Formula 1 driver. The hosts are praising how he was extremely fast at Monaco—first in qualifying, then in the race—showing he could manage the car and the situation like a seasoned driver.
George Russell is another Formula 1 driver. When they say Antonelli lapped him, it means Antonelli was so fast he got a full lap ahead during the race.
A “qualifying lap” is the timed lap drivers do to set their starting spot for the race. At Monaco, qualifying matters a lot because it’s hard to pass once the race starts.
They’re talking about why Monaco is won in qualifying and how a driver can then manage the race afterward. The point is that being fast once (qualifying) and then staying calm (race control) leads to big results.
Formula One is the highest level of race car competition in the world. Drivers race very advanced, open-wheel cars on tracks around the globe. Teams and drivers earn points across the season to win championships.
Barcelona here points to the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, a common Formula One venue. It’s known for a mix of high-speed corners and heavy braking zones, which makes car balance and tire management important. Teams often use it as a benchmark for setup changes.
A penalty situation means the race officials decided someone broke a rule. The penalty can cost them position or time during the race. In F1, that can quickly change who finishes where.
Team cars are the two cars from the same Formula One team. The team tries to coordinate strategy so both drivers can score well. If something goes wrong, like a penalty, it can affect how far apart the cars end up.
A yellow flag is a warning that something is wrong on the track. Cars have to slow down and drive carefully, and teams often time pit stops during this period because it can be safer and sometimes saves position.
A five-second penalty is a punishment where the team has to stop the car for five seconds before it can continue. The timing matters a lot—if you don’t serve it correctly, you can get an additional penalty.
Double stacking is when a team brings two cars into the pits close together, one after the other. It can save time, but it also makes communication and timing more complicated.
A pit box is the designated spot in the pit lane where a race car pulls in to get serviced. Different racing series organize these spots differently, which can affect how penalties and timing work.
A drive-through penalty means you have to go through the pit lane without stopping, while driving slowly. It’s a penalty for breaking a rule, and it usually costs you positions because you lose time.
Max Verstappen is a top Formula One driver, and the transcript says an early-race problem involving him changed how the race played out. The “whole complexion” comment refers to how one incident can reshape strategy and outcomes across the field.
Ferrari is a famous Formula 1 racing team. When people say Ferrari is expected to dominate, they mean Ferrari’s cars are likely to be the quickest and most competitive all weekend.
“Generational laps” is a dramatic way of saying someone set an amazing lap time—something really rare and impressive. It suggests they were driving and the car was working at a top level.
The grid is the starting order for the race, and the front row means the two cars lined up directly at the front. Starting from the front row is valuable at Monaco because track position helps you avoid traffic and reduces the chance of getting stuck in incidents.
They’re talking about how Monaco creates pressure in two ways: when someone is right behind you, and when you’re leading and start to lose focus. Either way, a quick mistake can send you into the wall.
“Vegas” is shorthand for the Formula 1 race in Las Vegas. They’re talking about how long it’s expected to stay on the calendar and how big it’s become for the city.
The pit lane is the area next to the track where race teams pull in to work on the car. During the race, it’s controlled and you’re not supposed to cross boundaries or enter it the wrong way.
In NASCAR, Pit Road is the official pit area where teams work on the cars. It’s a specific part of the track/pit complex with rules about when and how teams can act.
“Under green” means the race is in normal mode—no slowdown or caution. Cars are still going fast, so teams have to be careful about what they do in the pit area.
A full course caution means the whole race slows down because of something on the track. Drivers have to follow the slowdown rules, and it often changes the race strategy.
Joseph Newgarden is a professional race car driver in IndyCar. In this segment, they’re talking about how he won again in St. Louis and how hard it is to beat him there.
In motorsport broadcasts, “pyro” refers to the use of controlled fireworks or flame effects for spectacle, often triggered at the start, during cautions, or for big moments. The host is reacting to how dramatic the show was at this event.
Christian Rasmussen is a race driver in IndyCar. They say he’s usually very exciting on short tracks, and in this race he fought up front and ended up third.
“Short ovals” are smaller oval race tracks. Because the laps are shorter, drivers deal with more cars and more frequent passing, and the host says Rasmussen shines in that kind of racing.
“Points” are how drivers earn standings in the championship. Finishing well in races gives you more points, and the host is saying Rasmussen was near the bottom before this weekend.
“Push, push, push” means the team told the driver to keep going hard instead of backing off. The goal was to stay fast, but it can be risky if you don’t have enough fuel.
Running out of fuel means the car runs out of gas. In a race, that’s a big problem because you can’t keep going normally and you lose a lot of positions.
Emergency fuel refers to an unscheduled, urgent fuel top-up—typically when a car is at risk of running out. It’s a sign the team’s normal fuel plan didn’t work out, so they scramble to keep the car running and avoid being stranded.
Scott Dixon is a race driver. In this moment, he had to get extra fuel when things went wrong, and because the pits were closed he ended up far behind and had to work his way back.
Fuel mileage strategy means deciding how long you can stay out before you have to pit for gas. If you guess wrong and try to stretch it too far, you can run out of fuel before the next stop.
Teams sometimes stop in the pits at a very specific moment to come out in front of other cars. The idea is to beat other drivers to the next “event” on track. If the timing is off, you can lose positions quickly.
In racing, one big strategy decision can go really right or really wrong. If the timing works out, you look like a genius; if it doesn’t, you end up with a bad finish. Weather and cautions can make that swing happen fast.
“Yellows” means the race is under caution, so cars slow down and drivers have to be careful. It can shuffle positions because everyone is moving differently than during normal racing. Strategy teams watch for it because it can make or break a pit call.
Road courses and street courses are two types of circuit layouts: road courses are purpose-built tracks, while street courses use city streets with temporary barriers and tight geometry. Street courses tend to feel more “unnatural” to drivers because the track is narrower, has less run-off, and passing is harder.
A feeder category is a lower-level race series that helps drivers get ready for a bigger, higher-level series. It’s where drivers learn and prove themselves on the way up.
A qualifying run is the timed session where drivers set their starting position for the race. If a driver forgets they already completed qualifying and does an extra lap, it can affect how they’re scored and where they start.
The high line means driving near the outside of the track. Drivers use it to keep momentum or set up a pass depending on grip and track layout.
Term
inside
The inside is the part of the track closer to the middle. Passing on the inside usually means you’re trying to get alongside and get the better line through the corner.
USF 2000 is a stepping-stone racing series for young open-wheel drivers. It’s one of the places drivers build experience before moving up to higher levels like IndyCar.
An “oval specialist” is a driver who’s really good on oval tracks. Those tracks are high-speed and mostly turn one direction, so the driving style is different from road courses.
These are the non-oval tracks. Road courses are normal race tracks built for racing, while street courses use regular city streets that are closed for the event.
The Indy 500 is a huge open-wheel race in the U.S. It’s run on a big oval track in Indianapolis, and getting to race there is a big deal for a driver’s career.
AJ Foyt refers to AJ Foyt Enterprises, a historic IndyCar team associated with multiple Indianapolis 500 entries. The mention of a “third AJ Foyt entry” implies the team could field multiple cars for the Indy 500, increasing the odds of a seat for the driver being discussed.
It means someone has to provide the money to make the racing entry happen. In racing, a driver’s seat can depend on who pays for the car and team effort.
Kyle Busch is a well-known NASCAR driver. The hosts are talking about his win record and how the race included a tribute connected to him, even though he wasn’t there.
A restart is when the race starts again after a caution. The last restart is the final restart, so it usually matters a lot because the race is almost over.
A safer barrier is a crash wall designed to absorb energy when a car hits it. Instead of staying rigid, it’s meant to crumple in a controlled way to help protect the driver.
“Jaws of life” refers to heavy-duty rescue equipment firefighters use to cut open a wrecked car. It helps free people when the car is too damaged to open normally.
A port-a-power is a hydraulic tool set that can push or lift heavy things with a lot of force. Here, it’s used to move parts of the crash barrier back where they belong.
The foam in a safer barrier system is part of the energy-absorbing design that helps manage crash forces. After a major impact, the barrier may need to be disassembled and rebuilt so the foam and structure can perform as intended in a future crash.
This phrase means getting the car pointed straight again after it gets shoved or starts to turn the wrong way. It’s about regaining control so you can keep driving instead of spinning out.
This means one car is right up behind another car, very close to the back bumper. That kind of close racing can create pressure, but it also makes it easier to accidentally hit and cause a crash.
“Left front” means the front-left corner of the car took the impact. Hits there are often serious because they can mess with how the car steers and handles.
Bubba Wallace is a NASCAR driver. After the crash, he’s shown talking with another driver about how to race hard but avoid causing wrecks.
Person
Hosevar
Hosevar is another NASCAR driver mentioned in the conversation. The hosts say he’s very aggressive, but he’s been improving and learning how to race without wrecking people.
Term
aggressive
Here “aggressive” means racing hard and pushing for position. The point is to do it in a way that doesn’t cause crashes.
Kevin Harvick is a well-known NASCAR veteran driver. Here he’s being quoted saying that if you stop making contact, you’ll usually finish better because you avoid wrecks and damage.
They’re talking about changing how much air is in the tires. That changes how the tire “touches” the road, which can make the car grip better or handle differently. Teams adjust it to help the car work better during the race.
“Behind the wheel” is a racing-specific way to say the driver is actually controlling the car on track. In this context, it contrasts with other roles (like appearing on TV or doing fuel-related duties) and emphasizes that the person is now driving competitively. It’s not a technical term, but it’s a meaningful role distinction in motorsport.
Pit stop practices are practice runs for the crew to change tires and do the stop quickly. The better they practice, the faster and smoother the real pit stop goes during the race. It can directly affect track position.
Jeff Gordon is a famous NASCAR driver. In this segment, he’s mentioned as being on the radio, meaning he’s helping the driver with advice during the race. It’s like having an expert coach talking to you in real time.
Road courses are tracks built from a mix of left and right turns, often with elevation changes and braking zones that resemble real-world roads. In NASCAR, they’re distinct from oval tracks and can favor drivers with touring-car or road-racing backgrounds.
“Gen Seven” is NASCAR’s newer generation of race car. The host is saying it’s similar enough to the Australian supercars that drivers can adapt more easily.
The ARCA race is part of a stock-car racing series that’s connected to NASCAR. Drivers often use it to build experience before stepping up to bigger NASCAR races.
If it rains, race officials may stop the race early for safety. They decide whether to end it based on how bad conditions are and how much of the race has already been run.
A “truck race” is NASCAR’s series that uses race cars shaped like pickup trucks. It’s a major stepping-stone series for drivers aiming for the top NASCAR levels.
The Chevrolet Spin is a small family vehicle meant to carry passengers and luggage. In the podcast context, it’s mentioned because someone had a “spin out” and an accident involving that vehicle.
Eldora is a famous dirt-racing track. The hosts are talking about a big race weekend there where drivers qualify through heats and then race for a large prize.
A flat tire is a sudden loss of tire pressure, which can drastically reduce traction and control. In dirt racing, it often forces a driver to lose positions immediately because the car can become unstable or slow enough to be passed.
The throttle is the pedal/command that tells the engine how much power to make. “Put the throttle down” means press it hard to get maximum acceleration.
“Cup side” means the top NASCAR series, the Cup Series. The speaker is saying what works in sprint cars should help when the driver moves to NASCAR’s biggest level.
“Victory line” is a racing way of saying the spot you want to be in to have a real shot at winning. It usually means being near the front and positioned well when it matters most.
Denny Hamlin is a famous NASCAR race driver. Here, the hosts are saying he drove really well and deserved the top honor for the week.
Person
Marz Rowe
Marz Rowe is the driver the hosts pick as the winner of “driver of the week.” They’re praising how he handled the race without needing extra pit stops or complicated strategy.
A pit stop is when a race car pulls into the pit lane to get serviced. Here, the hosts are saying Marz Rowe didn’t need to stop for tires or other changes to win.
Kimmy Antonelli is a driver the hosts mention as a strong contender. They say he won in Monaco, which made him part of the conversation for driver of the week.
They’re talking about a racing series called “IndieNext.” The point is that it’s not as famous as the biggest series, but the racing can still be really impressive.
They’re talking about the Indy 500, a huge American race. It’s famous for racing on an oval at very high speed for a long time, which makes strategy and consistency really important.
They mean the 24-hour race at Le Mans. Cars and drivers have to keep going for an entire day, so it’s as much about staying reliable and consistent as it is about being fast.
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circuit de la Sarth
That’s a race track in France. The hosts are talking about it as a place where racing weekends are fun to watch.
Le Mans is a famous endurance race that lasts 24 hours. Cars and drivers have to keep going for a full day and night, and it’s a big event to watch.
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Kim Kardashian, she breezed onto the, onto the grid and stalled the racewinner's towel to dry her brow.
Vegas Asia, let's go get messed up and have a while weekend race.
Jason Kelsey, Hendrick Motorsports, troublingly they didn't give him gloves.
They probably had nothing that would fit him.
Yeah, right?
Yeah, I mean that is a big man.
Hello folks and welcome to Speed with Harvick and Buxton, fueled by Poet.
Let's talk racing, Will. We've got a lot of it.
Man, we've got a lot of it.
You are in the studio.
I'm still, I'm sorry I'm not there, mate.
I'm still in St. Louis.
I don't know if you can see behind me, but it's not the nicest of days.
We only just managed to get the race in last night before this hellish weather front
managed to sort of break its way in.
So delighted we got the race in.
But as you say, like one unbelievable weekend of racing, it was.
And as a race fan, being able to to watch everything that we it was still kind of weird
to watch Monaco, not with with the Indy 500 and I know it still didn't feel right.
But there was plenty to watch for sure.
There was Monaco early in the day.
I think we're going to start off actually with Monaco.
We say a great amount of racing this weekend.
Is Monaco a race?
Because for 50 laps, mate, I almost fell asleep like it is it is an event.
It's an incredible event.
And if you're ever lucky enough to go, it is it's so stupid.
Like it defies sort of any logical belief that it that actually still exists as an event.
It's off the charts. Cool.
But God, it was dull and it always is because you just you just can't pass and nobody can.
But luckily, Lance Stroll did Lance Stroll things and clattered into the barriers
fairly close to the end, which brought out full course yellow.
Then we got a red flag when Charlotte Claire bumps into the barriers.
And what we got was a pretty exciting end to the race.
But beyond it all, I think, you know, the only thing to take out of that race is again,
the level of Kimi Antonelli, this 19 year old phenom, five race wins in a row,
the youngest winner in Monaco ever.
Dude, he lapped George Russell.
He left his teammate.
It's I mean, it's it's it's an and it was it was a brilliant drive for a number of reasons.
First of all, his qualifying lap on Saturday and Monaco is all about qualifying, right?
It is it is take your skill, your guts, everything that you have about you create
that one perfect lap to give yourself the best opportunity of winnings.
And Kimi was off the charts, good on Saturday.
And then on Sunday, just controlled it, pulled away from the field, drove with so much
maturity and skill and calm.
It was look, if we were talking about a drive we've been in Formula One for 10 years.
If we were talking about one of the all time greats pulling out that kind of drive,
you wouldn't be surprised to hear it.
But for a kid in just his second season in Formula One to put in that kind of a display,
for me, it was it was very, very special.
Yeah. And I think when you look at the race, I was fortunate to be able to watch
qualifying and the race.
And you see, I love the Saturday because of the progression of speed, right?
Like he yeah, every session you get a little more risk out of all those guys.
And Antonelli just kept rising to the occasion to be able to keep that that car
on the pole to start the race on Sunday.
And I think the thing that amazes me with him and you look at the red flags
and you talk about the restart and all the things that were happening,
the track coming apart, which is, in my opinion, why Stroll and Leclerc were.
I think that's why they both wrecked.
And when you when you really saw the marbles and everything there,
I know that Leclerc had some some break trouble, but it the track was was coming
apart. And, you know, I think that to me, I was kind of like 50 50 on whether
they were going to actually restart the race with the with the way that the track
was coming apart. But have you what was what can you relate the whole Antonelli
success to? I mean, it's just so abnormal to have a kid that's this young,
this successful and doing all the things that he does, especially in a in a scenario
like this, where you see so many of the young guys bang into the barriers,
even when they have a fast car. Is there anybody that you can relate this to?
No. And I think that's why he's so good.
I've seen people draw comparisons between him and Jim Clark.
In the gym was ridiculously fast, but never flashy with it.
It was it kind of pace under control all the time.
It was never all arms and elbows.
It was never wild.
But Kimmy, I think, is his own driver.
He's his own style.
And I look back at, you know, when Max Verstappen broke into the sport or when
Lewis Hamilton broke into the sport, even Michael Schumacher, when he came in,
was very young and was putting in, you know, these kind of impressive performances.
It's rare that a driver so young in their career has a car capable of dominating
at the front. But then when you have that car that is so good,
you have to take advantage of that situation.
And then George Russell is no slouch and George Russell is no idiot.
And he's got almost a decade of experience in Formula One under his belt.
And he is being schooled week in week out by a kid in his second season of Formula
One, who's only just turned 19, only just passed his actual road driving license.
You know, it's it's astonishing.
But we said in Canada, George Russell had to swing back and had to step up.
And then after Canada, we said, George Russell has to step up in Monaco.
And now everyone's saying, when Barcelona, George Russell's got Kim,
he's got almost double the points that George Russell has at this stage of the season.
So let me ask you this.
The one thing that sticks out to me was this whole penalty situation
in the team dropping the ball. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So so when you see that and you see what like we expect George Russell
to at least run second, right?
Like he shouldn't see the gap in the team cars.
But when you see the penalty, does that make you think that there's maybe not
the details and things that are going in from driver and team side of it?
Because that's a that was a major blunder.
He had the penalty and they brought him in to make a pit stop under the yellow flag, right?
So you have to come into your box, you stop for five seconds.
Then the team can start work on the car.
Mercedes double stacked their drivers.
So George is waiting for Kimmy to have his stop.
Then he rolls in.
Now, I think George thought that he would have taken his five second penalty
by waiting behind Kimmy, but you can only serve it once you're in the box.
And in Formula One, they have one pit box that serves both cars.
They don't have individual pit stalls per car number as we see in in carp
or as we see in Indy car.
Now, there were some members of George's on the pit crew
who were aware of the five second stop and they waited a couple of seconds.
But then when they saw the other guys just start immediately, they were like,
oh, OK, maybe it's been served and then they all sort of piled in.
So he then got a drive through penalty for not observing
the five second penalty when he took that initial stop,
which is what dropped him all the way back down the order and outside of the points.
So it was it was a bit of a cock up and not very Mercedes to make that kind of a mistake.
Yeah. And you know, I think when you look at the start of the race,
you you have the Verstappen problem at the beginning of the race.
I mean, I think that that changes the whole complexion of it, don't you?
Not having to worry about Max on the original start.
Well, because here's the thing,
everyone's expecting Ferrari to dominate this weekend.
They were quickest all the way through practice and then you get two phenomenal
generational laps, one from Max, one from Kimmy, puts them on the front row of the grid.
Then the lights go out and Max kind of stutters to a halt and his day is done.
And I think Max said afterwards, like, whatever, I've only got 500 meters to go
to my house. So I don't think he walked onto a boat
and he was just chilling on a boat for the rest of the race, which was which was great.
I think there was a video on social of him just sort of,
you know, chilling out and and making his way away.
And you know, he's a Monaco resident, so he doesn't he doesn't care.
He's off.
But yeah, look, if Max is in that race, maybe it has a different complexion,
but you play the hand your doubt and Kimmy played it perfectly because we've seen the greats, right?
We've seen Senna leading by half a lap, a lap, however, you know, far ahead he was.
And he lost concentration and crashed out.
So for a 19 year old, you know, there's there's two forms of pressure at Monaco.
One is when you have somebody right up behind you, pressuring you
into hopefully you make a mistake and then they come through, you crash, whatever.
The other one is when you have such a lead that your mind wanders
because a momentary lapse of concentration and you're in the barrier and it's job done.
So for Kimmy to drive the way that he did, pull the gap that he did,
dominate in the way that he did at such a tender age at those speeds at that track.
Truly was a phenomenal run.
And I think when you look at the gap that he has now,
Lewis Hamilton second in the championship after finishing on the podium this weekend.
Everyone's going to say it's Kimmy's to lose.
Kimmy came out with a great line at the weekend where he said,
I can't lose something. I haven't yet won.
And I like that mindset.
He appears totally unflappable.
He's going from strength to strength every weekend.
We're witnessing greatness.
We're witnessing, you know, a season that's going to go down in Formula One history
because this kid is so special and you think it's just his second year in the sport.
He's so young.
He's got so much to learn, so much potential to grow and improve.
What the hell does the future look like for this kid?
Well, it looks great for him and Mercedes.
And is it over, though?
No, I mean, it's so early in the season, right?
Everything can flip.
But if Kimmy, all he has to do is maintain the level he's at right now,
let alone improve and grow and learn and get better with this car.
If he does, by midseason, you're going to be saying, call it.
But yeah.
Hey, did you see that?
Did you see this best overtake video of the weekend?
Best overtake of the week?
Which one?
You didn't see this?
Oh, we got to play this.
You've got to give me more clues than this.
I can't give you any more.
You've got to watch it.
Oh, brilliant.
Yes, I did see this.
I did see this.
I mean, that's that's the pitfalls of Monaco, isn't it?
I guess I love it.
Yeah, I mean, Seagull, Seagull stealing the pizza straight off the table.
We had a fun moment actually in the IndyCar paddock.
Nolan Seagal, who drives from McLaren in IndyCar, saw that video
and posted a photo posted a video of himself with a with a slice of pizza.
Looking for a Seagull, but he was in the wrong spot.
He didn't find one.
Did he in St. Louis?
We have we have our own.
We have our own Seagulls.
Nolan Seagull in IndyCar.
So that was that was quite fun.
Yeah, man, that's Monaco.
It's it's mad.
Well, I tell you, actually, I tell you what else is Monaco.
Obviously, Lewis on the podium, who was there with him this weekend, Kim Kardashian.
So that apparently, you know, that relationship appears to be real.
And obviously, you know, half of the Internet went completely nuts one way.
And then the other half of the Internet went nuts.
The other way over the fact that Kim Kardashian was there.
One thing I will say is that I don't know if you saw this video.
She so she everybody kind of goes on to the grid right after the race
to celebrate the top three.
She breezed onto the onto the grid and stole the race winners towel to dry her brow.
It's like it's like she's she's unaware that there are rules for for anything.
Like she didn't do the pre-race interview.
Didn't steals the winners towel off the podium.
I mean, what in the world?
In what world do you live in where you walk up to, you know, in this
in this new environment and just assume that somebody has placed a towel there for you?
Yeah, I asked my wife this this weekend to see of humanity, right?
And you're there and there's like the car in front of the P1 box and all of that.
That that perhaps it might be for one of the drivers who's just, you know,
you are not the star of the show.
And I asked my wife this weekend how that towel was not for you.
It's just it's such a small you tell me this level of entitlement is tell me this.
What I when I asked my wife this weekend, I said, what?
I don't understand what she's actually famous for.
But can you tell me?
Because I don't know reality TV, isn't it?
Yeah, but that's been so many years ago.
I know. But didn't she start off as she was Paris Hilton's PA, I think,
very, very early on.
She's look, she's made a career being a brand herself.
And look, you take your hat off to the graft and the work to get where she has.
But there's, yeah, there are moments where I think even if you are as big
and as famous as Kim Kardashian, you have to realize that the moment is not about you.
It's it's about it's about somebody else.
And they read the room on the Monaco Grand Prix weekend, love.
You ain't the story.
You ain't the superstar.
It's the it's the race drivers.
And that's who you're there to celebrate.
But now, listen, and and and huge and massive in terms of publicity
and everything for the sport and and honestly, like, look,
if if her and Lewis are like they're a genuine thing and they're super happy,
just over the moon for both of them.
Because what's what's what's more beautiful than two people find in love?
Like, it's a beautiful thing.
Yeah, I guess someone else's towel.
Yeah, I guess I guess we'll find out if they're in love in about six months,
but or if it was a PR stunt.
I'm British, mate.
We're we're protective over our over our towels.
You know, we're we're some of the first to the pool in the morning
to lay our towels down by the pool and get our get our spaces.
That's what we that's what we do.
We're protective about our towels.
But but a lot of cool stuff happening in Monaco over the weekend.
McLaren, it was their one thousandths.
So it was their one thousandth race, but not their one thousandth race.
Stark is neither of them started back in China.
But, you know, these these these anniversaries are always kind of, you know,
there's always going to be somebody out there who says, well, it's not it's not
the one thousandth, it's actually the 900 and ninety ninth or it's
actually the one thousandth first.
But whatever they had a great celebration.
The McLaren MTB M2B is for me to say, put my dentures back in,
which made its debut in 1966 was out on track.
I think Mica Hackingham was driving it, which was very, very cool.
And so they had their first car and their current car, both there and
yeah, totally, totally awesome.
And also confirmed over the weekend, Vegas.
Vegas will be on the calendar now almost to 2040.
I think it's 2037. It's been huge.
And I know there's been, you know, a little bit of discontent in Vegas itself.
But I think it shows the sort of, you know, the financial and the cultural
impact that the the race has had, that it's managed to to get that
continuation all the way to 2037. That's that's big.
Yeah. Well, you know, I think that the the spectacle of racing down the strip
and all the things that that happened with the race, I think overall that the
market itself itself is recognizable to the rest of the world.
I think that that matters, right?
Like I think when you go to even when you go to Austin, right?
Like it's still it's Kota.
I mean, it's well attended and it does all those things, but it's it's become better.
But Vegas is immediately recognizable to the rest of the world.
I think look, every Grand Prix has its own personality, which is reflective
of the country that it's in and its history and its place and, you know, its culture.
But one thing I've I've discovered and absolutely loved through spending
so much time here, states, I, particularly over the last 18 months,
is how every single state feels like a unique country.
It has its unique culture.
It has its unique history.
And so, you know, when you have three Grand Prix in the US, each one of them
has naturally its own soul and it has its own personality.
And so you can't compare an Austin to a Miami and a Miami to a Vegas
because each one is so very different in, you know, just how it feels,
how the track races.
Yes, what the weekend is all about.
But just the whole vibe of it is is completely different.
You know, Austin is the sort of your diehards race.
Miami is your your business B2B race.
And then Vegas is your let's go get messed up
and have a while with the party place race. Exactly.
It's the party place.
That's Vegas. Talking about party place.
Monaco, of course, is a party place, big party place as well for F2 this weekend.
A couple of deserving winners in Nicholas Solov, who put on a total
masterclass and Noel Leon won again, which was was cracking for him.
But we did see a stupid moment, like ludicrously dangerous moment
involving Colton Hurter, actually, as he was coming into pit lane.
Do you see that?
Whoa, what? What is that?
What is happening?
Yeah, mate. So so I've got so I've I've been in that pit lane so many times
in order to get into the pit lane, you have to leave the paddock,
go over a bridge that crosses the track, you then come down a walkway.
And there are then security guards, local police and marshals at the bottom
of that walkway. There's then a wall that you have to step over.
And then you have the pit lane.
And then on the other side are the garages and in the garages is where
all the teams are. It is where the FIA and the way bridge and all of that are.
You've got sort of timing systems up there and all of that.
So you are not allowed to even make it that far without the right pass.
And even sort of for me, I haven't done 25 years in the sport and I had,
you know, access all areas past there were times where I wasn't allowed
to even cross that bridge during a session to get anywhere near the pit
lane. So in order to get that far, you have to be of a certain level.
I know what you're doing and be be there.
But I I don't know what who I can't recognize.
I don't recognize that person.
I don't know who they were.
I don't know whether they just jumped the wall once they got there and got.
I mean, it's and you're not allowed over that wall to cross that pit lane
during a live session. You're not allowed to do it.
So it's been a serious breakdown in in access and in conversation there.
But that could have been it absolutely horrible.
And I really dread to think of how bad that could have been.
But for somewhere which is usually overly
officious to the point where I've almost got in fights with the local police
because I've needed to get, you know, somewhere during a session
and they haven't allowed me to go and do my job.
I found that very, very surprising.
Yeah. Well, only thing I've seen like that in NASCAR is when, you know,
the tire would roll across Pit Road into the infield and, you know,
the crew guy would run while the cars were were under green to go grab
the tire out of the infield grass.
But I've never seen something something like that to where the cars
are actually coming in the garage. That that could have been bad.
That that was really bad.
That was live.
That was a live pit lane during the race. That was not not good.
We got a race in St. Louis last night, and I'm so glad that we did.
And I want to thank everybody for tuning in last night and sticking with us
through full course cautions, through red flags for rain,
because we got an absolute barnstorm at Joseph Newgarden,
his sixth win in St. Louis.
Big boom to start things off.
As always, I love that pyro, man.
Nearly rocked the commentary box off the top of the grandstands.
It was crazy, but it was it was a great race.
Polo took the poll by over a mile an hour, and we were like,
he's just going to walk this, right?
Is he's going to walk it?
He didn't.
Marcus Erickson led the most laps of his Indy car career last night
and looked so comfortable, so in control.
But you can never discount Joseph Newgarden not here.
He had five wins at this track coming into the weekend,
put on a masterclass display, great battles with Christian Rasmussen,
who had signed a new deal earlier in the week with ECR.
Been a horrible year actually for ECR and for Christian Rasmussen,
who we know is such an electrifying driver on the short ovals,
but he was second last in points coming into this weekend in St. Louis,
but showed us the old Christian Rasmussen,
the one that we love on the short ovals, took the fight to Newgarden.
Great battle between those two.
Newgarden comes home the winner.
Erickson came home second.
Rasmussen came home third.
Brilliant race also for Reemus VK in the small Hongkos Hollinger racing team.
Could have had a podium, ultimately came home fourth.
But a disaster, disaster for Alex Polo for the whole Chip Ganassi racing team,
actually, because with all of the cautions coming out and the rain falling,
ultimately the teams had like a choice to make of,
do we try and do it on fuel or do we just push, push, push and make one extra stop?
The majority went push, push, push.
Ganassi tried to play the smart game with the fuel.
Kiffin Simpson ran out of fuel.
Scott Dixon had to take emergency fuel and a closed pit lane,
and ultimately ended up getting thrown to the back of the field
and had to make his way back through again.
As you see here, Alex Polo runs out of fuel, coming onto pit lane.
So all three Ganassis running out of fuel during the race
because they just tried to stretch it too far.
Yeah, and when you were watching that moment right there, the part,
it was when they first, the drivers behind him first realized
that he was going too slow and out of gas.
You're not supposed to pass to the left, but in that situation,
it was like, all right, do I do it, it.
And then they finally all started driving by him.
But those are rare mistakes that you see out of that Ganassi bunch
with all the fuel mileage strategy.
I mean, we've seen him win so many races on those types of strategy
with Dixon and Polo and through the years.
And to miss it with a couple cars like that,
that is definitely not Ganassi and their strategy
in the way that it normally plays out.
So rare to see those mistakes out of Polo and that team especially.
They're so good at strategy, right?
They're so good at calling it.
They're so good at usually kind of seeing ahead of time and figuring out,
OK, we're in a dangerous window, so let's pit to get ahead of something
that could happen on track and then boom, that thing happens on track.
But you can't predict Mother Nature.
And they tried to play the smart game.
And look, it's as it always is in racing, mate,
when you take those chances is hero or zero, it pays off for you.
You win the race, your heroes, if it doesn't.
And the yellows fell at precisely the wrong time for them.
The rain arrived at precisely the wrong moment for them.
You know, if you don't look like a hero, you look like a zero.
And ultimately, Alex Polo has only finished outside the top 10 twice this year.
Once at Phoenix, once at St. Louis.
Two short ovals that we've had on the calendar so far.
So I'm sure most of the drivers will be hoping for more short ovals
on the calendar in 2027, because certainly in 26,
there are Alex Polo's Achilles heel.
I love short ovals, man.
Like when I moved over to Indycar, the short ovals were the ones
that worried me the most because from where I'd come from
of being used to road and street courses, it was the most unnatural for me.
And yet they're the races that I enjoy the most now
because I love the amount of passing.
I love the amount of action.
I love how crazy it gets.
I love that when you come in for a stop, you actually come out
and you're like two laps behind and then you see the whole thing shake itself out.
They're a total joy, a total, total joy.
And I'll tell you what else was a total joy, mate.
We were looking at McLaren celebrating a thousand years,
a thousand races in Monaco, but.
Throwback livery and respect for the past.
Nobody does it better than Penske.
They do it in Indycar.
They do it in the Cup series.
Their throwback liveries there are are insane, but this weekend,
Scott McLaughlin got to choose what throwback livery he wanted to celebrate
Penske's 60th birthday and he chose Elio Castro Neves 2009 Indy 500 winner.
And it's that classic livery.
I don't know if we're allowed to say the sponsor,
we'll probably get our hand slapped if we do.
But you know the one that it was, the kind of that the neon orangey red
and the white and Dex Imaging allowed them to do that.
And it just took you under the lights, mate.
It just pinged and it looked.
Oh, man, when he was on the fresh tires and he was flying at the end,
it was like, this feels like the early 2000s.
You know, it was just I mean, and think back, think back to how long
that car has run through Formula One.
It ran through Indy cars.
I mean, just iconic, that simple iconic paint scheme
has been through so many different series of open wheel racing.
And it's fun to see those paint schemes come back.
Yeah. And because some people do throwback liveries all the time, right?
And you guys, you know, with Darlington, you to do the throwback all the time.
And it was it was super, super cool.
Some people do throwbacks and they don't quite get it right.
Or they'll half ask it and it'll be kind of slightly there, but not quite.
And ski I have to take my hat off to them
because every time they do a throwback livery, they get it spot on like spot on.
So, yeah, I thought that was absolutely superb.
And it looked it looked great.
And also some special liveries for some of the drivers this weekend
with the overalls and helmets part of helping Fox celebrate the fact
that the World Cup is coming this week, the World Cup kicks off just days away.
So all the IndyCar drivers had fire suits and helmets
to represent their countries that are in the World Cup.
Micsumac, it didn't have a German one, though.
Don't know why that was or at least he wasn't in the photo.
Just to be clear, those are fire suits, Will.
What do I say? You said jumpsuits.
So did I? Listen, listen, sorry.
Listen, we know that there's I normally say overalls.
It's you said overalls. I'm sorry.
You didn't say jumpsuits. You said overalls.
So we just got to make sure that overalls are fire suits people.
So Will and I, we have we're we're covering two different ends of the world.
So that's that's the great thing about this show.
I know I need to start saying things like straight away.
And yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly.
Exactly. I've got to get away.
I have to change my lexicon for the correct crowd.
But make look, we were talking about IndyCar.
For me, though, the driver that we can didn't come from from IndyCar at St.
Louis, it came in IndyNext, which is the feeder category for IndyCar.
And Miles Rowe, he was so fast in qualifying that he forgot he'd already
completed his qualifying run and did an additional lap.
So it was pushed to the back of the field, starts last in IndyNext.
It's a 75 lap contest, no pit stops, no strategy, straight push, 75 laps.
What does he do? Starts last wins the damn thing, took the lead two thirds
of the way through the race, passed everyone on the high line on the inside.
Didn't matter where he found you.
He would pass you cut straight by this kid is so special.
Seeing him come up through the ranks in USF 2000.
He was brilliant on all types of track since moving into IndyNext.
He's become more of an oval specialist.
He's not bad on road or street courses.
He just hasn't had the victories to back up what he's able to do on an oval.
I want to see him get an IndyCar chance.
If not a full season, I want to see him at the 500.
So do you think is there I mean, is that a realistic opportunity for him
to get a seat at the Indy 500 with the with the things that he's doing right now?
Well, he's backed by Penske.
OK, Jonathan Dugud was down there sort of helping him celebrate after the race.
If he's not in a third AJ Foyt entry for the Indy 500 next year,
if Roger doesn't front up the cash to put him in one of his own cars
and Penske runs a fourth car at the 500 next year, then I don't know.
I don't know why not.
I mean, he is so special on ovals.
I think it would be such a great story to have him in the Indianapolis 500.
I'd love to see him get a full time shot in IndyCar, as I said.
But if it's not going to be the case, then at the very least,
you know, maybe an oval only seat or just for the 500.
We have to get that kid in the Indy 500.
Like he needs the backing, support, he needs.
And I don't just want to see him in a seat.
I want to see him in a good seat at the Indianapolis 500.
Because, my God, he would electrify that place.
Yeah, well, first, like it was no matter what you drive,
when you can go last the first, it is definitely definitely something
that is abnormal to the rest of the drivers in the series.
No pit stops, no strategy.
That's just pace, right?
That's just skills, spec series.
Everyone in the same car, everyone with the same engine.
Same to everything, the same.
That was one of the single best open wheel performances
I've seen in a very, very long time.
It was nothing short of sensational.
Well, I've got some some good news and some bad news.
The good news is we solid it again in the Cup race.
Denny Hamlin went to the back, back to the back of the field to the front.
Again, two weeks in a row.
And in that time, he has cut Tyler Redick's points lead in half.
And I think we all thought that Redick was going to protect that lead
and run decent, but he had an accident this week in the middle portion of the race,
wound up with another DNF and that has allowed Denny Hamlin to cut that
that points lead in half along the way.
Denny Hamlin has tied to Kyle Busch with his 63rd career win.
And I think that the the celebration was awesome.
And to hear the story behind getting Richard Childress and Joe Gibbs racing
to agree on this flag right here, just really awesome tribute
that that Denny came up with and the folks from from Joe Gibbs racing
and Richard letting them use that stylized eight on that flag.
I hope that they can agree to sell that and let the fans join in on that
because that that was a great flag.
And I think you really got to see the other side of the competitors
as we went through all this stuff with Kyle.
But I know and when you listen to Denny Hamlin talk about tying Kyle Busch
on that on that win list and be able to have that tribute as part of his victory
celebration, I know that's something that that will stick with him for a long time.
So Kyle Busch still just can't believe that we're sitting here talking
about Kyle Busch not being here.
And I think that is a heck of a tribute and heck of a weekend for for Denny Hamlin
went to the back, had a flat tire in practice, had to change some of the under
bodied and so that is an unapproved adjustment, had to go to the back of the field.
Methodically worked himself through that field, got a great last restart with
like 38 laps to go, beat him by 11 seconds and 38 laps.
Just absolutely demolished him at the end of the race.
But we had some moments here, you know, where Denny was saw the we saw the seven
and the 77 Suarez and Carson Hosevar get to racing right there.
And Denny was able to to get a great run and go by both of those guys.
And once they let him have the lead, it was lights out over with.
So those guys doing a good job again at Joe Gibbs racing.
And Denny Hamlin always putting in the work.
So another another another great day.
But we had some big hits in this race.
I saw I saw that took a mass.
I mean, I've seen the on board of this as well.
And it just I mean, it sends shivers up your spine.
Yeah, Chase Elliott got loose under Christopher Bell right here.
And you see both of those cars hard into the wall.
Bell making, you know, the biggest impact right there.
But that that's safer barrier.
I can't tell the race fans.
I've hit them both.
I'm so old that I hit concrete walls, which is the thing of the past.
You see the dash fly out of the car in this video right here.
Just a mistake, Chase Elliott trying to get a little bit too much right there
and winds up taking them both out when that car snaps around.
Christopher Bell walking around with a soft cast on his on his arm,
banged up his ankle a little bit based on what Joe Gibbs said after the race.
And Chase Elliott felt so terrible.
He was over there just making sure that he was OK.
But I've never seen the wall bend and stay bent like this.
They had to literally take the jaws of life and the port of power
to get this wall back out in order to get the foam back in in place
to get the safer barrier back intact.
So just massive hits there at the end of the race for Christopher Bell
and Chase Elliott glad they're they're both seemingly OK.
We had another big wreck, Carson Hosevar.
He's in the news again, and I love the way that the kid races.
And he's gotten a lot better about not tearing stuff up.
But he's making friends, isn't he?
Yeah, this moment right here, you know, I think he it's just
he was just a little offline with the 42 car of John Hunter Nemechek
got into him and tried to square that car back up while he was against the bumper
shot Nemechek to the right and that wiped out everybody from second place back
at the front of the field took out Tyler Redick, Ty Gibbs.
Diddy Hamlin actually spun around in the middle of this wreck and didn't get hit.
That's that tells you where his luck is at right now.
You see Austin Dillon right there, massive hit, you know, to the left front of his car.
So after the afterwards, though,
Bubba Wallace kind of sat next to the wall with Hosevar and was trying to explain
to him that he needed to figure out how to be aggressive, but also not wreck cars.
And and, you know, I think, you know, Bubba was was I've had this talk with Bubba, actually.
Kevin Harvick told me, I don't know, whenever I was hitting four or five years ago,
he said, stop hitting and your finishes will result show.
There you go.
No better shooter, a third hand shooter of what you taught him.
And now he's teaching.
Pay it forward. That's like that.
That's how it works, right?
The veterans always teach the younger guys what the right etiquette is and give them advice.
And I think that Hosevar is super aggressive.
He's he's he's cleaned it up a lot.
And I think for for Bubba to go over and and do that, I'm not sure.
He got a little bit of damage in that wreck, but he was definitely frustrated.
And let him know you talk about the experienced drivers
and experienced heads needing to give the youngsters some advice.
What advice would you be giving Conor Zillich right now?
Because, you know, we talk about Antonelli being this amazing young
phenomenon in Formula One, Conor arrived amidst such fanfare into the Cup series.
But it has been a really, really tough beginning for him.
It really has.
And I think my advice to Conor at this point is just you've got to take a deep
breath and slow down. You've got to finish these races.
That's the that's the part that is really hurting Conor at this point.
He's wrecked out of so many of these races.
Some of them by his own doing this weekend was by his own doing.
He just lost the car twice and wound up, you know, putting it in a fence.
And I think that the thing that he is missing,
I don't think his cars are where they need to be, but I think some of that
ultimately lies on the driver's shoulders as well, to be able to communicate
to the team during practice where your car is at so that they have the guidance
on where they need the balance to be and all the things that happen.
Now, this weekend at Michigan, all three of those track house cars qualified
thirtieth or worse.
None of them ran very good, but you can't crash them, right?
Like you've got to be able to make all the laps.
And I think that's the thing that concerns me about Conor.
Is he's not getting the experience that he really needs to be
getting by finishing all these races and learning how to make adjustments
on your car, what to tell the crew, get to feel those adjustments.
Did it make it better?
Did it make it work?
Because now you're not getting any direction to be able to fix your cars
during the race to say, well, Conor likes, you know, he liked the car up or down
or, you know, whatever the adjustments are, air pressure up, air pressure down
on whatever tires.
They're not getting a notebook because they aren't running all the laps.
And that's my biggest concern.
So just take a deep breath and just finish the races, even if you're
two laps down, like we can't crash the cars.
To finish first, first, you must finish.
That is correct, sir.
100 percent champion, Jason Kelsey.
He got a bit of a NASCAR experience, didn't he, with Hendrick Motorsports?
I thought this was quite cool, pretty great to see somebody see him embrace it.
We've seen him on the, on the fuel before, but I hadn't seen him behind the wheel.
Troublingly, they didn't give him gloves.
Yeah.
Well, they probably didn't have any, they probably had nothing that would fit him.
Yeah, right?
Yeah.
I mean, that is a big man.
And I think to see him lean into all this stuff at the pit stop practices at the
race and now in the car, he's got a pretty good teacher up there with with
Jeff Gordon on the radio, though.
So didn't have any excuses.
No, none better, none better.
That's been fun to watch the little, all the little skits that they've been doing.
Yeah, I love that.
I love him getting, getting into it and fully embracing the NASCAR world.
You know, it's sad news, though, this week, Ned Jarrett, of course,
two time cup series champion passed away at the age of 93.
Jarrett, of course, was also a second year inductee into the NASCAR Hall of Fame
and one of the first competitors to make a successful transition from race car
to the television booth.
As colleague and friend to so many in this sport, he will be deeply missed.
Kevin, how should people remember Ned?
Well, Ned was just one of the kindest human beings that you'll ever meet in your
whole life. And, and, you know, when you go back, I didn't get to watch him race,
obviously, but I remember Ned from the television booth and just the, you know,
just the calmness of his call and, and, you know, hearing him call Dale's
victory at the, at the Daytona 500 and the emotion that you heard out of Ned
that day to, to call that to the start finish line was just one of those
moments that, that, you know, race fans, you know, will never forget.
But I, the thing that sticks out to me the most about Ned is just he was a
great human and, you know, I think that, you know, just a kind, gentle person
to be able to have the success and do the things that he did in the race car
was amazing, but he was just a great human.
I love that, man. Love that.
Beautiful words.
Incredibly, Kevin, as we, as we move on, we have an exclusive
on speed this week.
We've uncovered, we've uncovered news.
We're breaking news.
Not sure if you know this or if I'm going to be breaking this to you.
Supercars, Aussie Supercars standout, Matthew Payne was set to make his debut
in the NASCAR Cup Series Chevrolet, wanted to place him with RCR in Sonoma.
However, as we understand it, his Ford Grove racing team down under have
blocked the move and so he now won't be racing at Sonoma.
But when we look at the impact that a Shane van Gisburgen has obviously had
on Cup after transitioning from supercars and how brilliant he is on road courses,
it makes sense that more people would be looking at supercar standouts.
But also, I just think it's a massive shame for such a huge talent,
who's currently second in the in the Aussie Supercar Championship
to be denied the chance to try his hand in Cup machinery.
However, he is adamant, I believe, that he wants to try Cup machinery
and remains under serious consideration for a full time switch at a very near point
in the future.
I love this.
And I think that the supercar guys have, I think with SVG coming over here
and showing just how much common ground there is between the Gen Seven car
and the supercar over in Australia.
I think that when you see that talent, but I also think that if you can be able
to compete in four or five races a year on the road courses and get to Victory Lane,
that's better than most teams can do.
If you can win one race on a road course, let alone two, I mean, that's going to put teams
in a position to, you know, to have a chance to go to Victory Lane.
And I think that they, you know, that they have to look at that.
I think that the but with the manufacturers also seeing what happened with SVG
and what could happen if they send another guy over here and has success
on the road courses or wants to wants to stay here and race full time.
I think that seeing the manufacturers block that going from one manufacturer
to the other doesn't surprise me to say the least.
Yeah. Yeah, it would have been incredible.
Absolutely. Absolutely.
That that's not actually going to happen.
But yeah, it could have been amazing.
And what might be, you know, for the future, will we see him actually
make that transfer over?
I think that would be pretty great.
Well, in supercars at the moment, it would be awesome to see somebody be able
to go head to head with SVG and having that supercar story and everything.
That that would be fun.
Something else that was awesome was the truck race this weekend.
Yes.
Corey Pine, actually, he put on a clinic at the end of how to protect
your spot for his 26th career truck series win.
And he's won it 22 different racetracks.
That that is pretty remarkable that he can he can win.
But he and Hayden, Caden, Honeycutt had a heck of a battle there there at the end.
And Corey Heim did not misstep.
He put he was very aggressive with his blocks and did everything that he needed
to do to protect that lead.
And then after the race, Honeycutt was not too happy.
Had a couple of snippy comments.
And so they asked Corey Heim about that in the media center.
And and he said, I guess he just needs to get thicker skin and deal with it.
And I was like, wow, that was was a was a pretty pretty good exchange to
to answer the question like that.
But Honeycutt was not thrilled after the race.
And I think, you know, Corey Heim kind of put it straight out there.
But doesn't seem like there's a lot of love lost between those two
to be perfectly honest with you.
No, it doesn't. Not at all.
Yeah, I love that race.
Another driver who won, you know, from far back in the field.
What was it, 23rd to the win?
Yeah, he started.
And that's the tricky part about Michigan with those trucks, right?
Like you want a truck that's got enough downforce that you can push and shove
and do all the things that you need to do.
But in the end, you have to have some downforce to be able to keep the throttle
down as as you go throughout the day.
So a lot of times you'll see a lot of fast trucks qualify up in the front
with less drag and then the the trucks are going to race goods
sometimes wind up in the middle of the pack.
And that was definitely the case right here with with Corey Heim.
But that kid is amazing.
I can't wait to see him consistently in that cup car.
Yeah, pretty stuff.
Pretty stuff.
And Geo Rogero won the arca race this this weekend.
They had a little bit of weather like you guys over there in St. Louis.
They had a little bit of weather to deal with through the race.
So that race actually wound up being called early because of of the rain.
But Geo, his third win in four Arkham and Nard series starts this year.
So he's been on a roll, done a great job in the truck.
And Cletus was back.
Cletus was back in the truck, had a little spin out, got involved in an accident
at the end of the truck race.
But he wound up finishing 14th in the same kind of scenario
in the in the arca race where he had a little incident there late.
But he was able to get some more laps and put himself in a position.
He's actually on the pole for the arca race this weekend.
Qualified on a freaking pole.
So he's getting better.
Does he need to stop playing up to the cameras?
Like every time I see it in car camera with him, he's playing up to the camera.
And I'm a little bit like, mate, just focus on the driving.
Yeah. And I think that, you know, I think that, you know, look, he's
he's definitely a showman, right?
Like that's that's how he got here, right?
He's a he's a YouTube sensation, does a lot of skits, plays to the crowd.
And I think he's just being who he is.
And and, you know, I think that the race, the racing stuff on the racetrack
is is a steep learning curve.
But, you know, look, he's he's he's doing what what he thinks he needs to do.
And and he's definitely playing into it.
It's different than everything else that we're used to.
That's for sure.
Cletus certainly is one of a kind, mate.
Wonderful stuff from the world of racing, as ever.
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MotoGP news and look, I don't think we mentioned it.
Kevin, we were talking about Joseph Newgarden taking the win.
He had a busted up left leg after his crash at the Indy 500.
But if you want to talk broken drivers or broken riders,
they don't come much more put back together than Mark Marquez,
who won both the sprint and the Grand Prix in Hungary in MotoGP.
This weekend, his 100th career victory across the classes,
a return to the front, a brilliant race from him.
I mean, for heaven's sake, he had surgery a month ago.
The guy shouldn't really probably be on a bike.
And he's back there winning Grand Prix.
Mark Marquez, one of the best to ever do it.
What a hero. What a legend. Just amazing.
Obviously, the Grand Prix saw Beths and Jorge Martín taken out right at the start.
But a great fight between Mark Marquez and Acosta
to bring him home the victory and wonderful to see him up there on the podium.
I mean, he's just he's something else, dude.
He's something else.
Yeah, well, I can tell that your kids aren't old enough yet
because he gave the whole 67 celebration there.
I was trying to avoid referencing that.
You can't avoid it in my house.
It has kind of gone away.
It's it's it's it's pretty amazing.
You know, when you when you think of athletes, drivers, riders,
whoever it is and they get in these moments where they have
one arm basically to go out and ride this motorcycle
and he just goes out and gets it done.
So it's fun to see athletes push through things like that.
And and pretty amazing to see it on that motorcycle, though.
Yeah, amazing stuff, amazing stuff.
Well, we also had the Eldora dream this weekend,
which pays a 100000 dollars to win dirt, late model race.
And Bobby Pierce, he charged from his 13th starting position
to claim his first career, dirt, late model, dream, win and the 100000 dollars.
So that was a pretty amazing race.
I sat around and watched racing all weekend.
And, you know, when when this race started, I did not have him as the winner.
Bobby Pierce actually had a flat tire there
and he wound up going around him on lap 59.
But this this whole process to get all these dirt cars qualified
and into these races is like a three day process of qualifying heat races,
B mains, and then they all go out on the racetrack and do what they do.
So Eldora's have you been to Eldora?
Well, no, OK, so we've got the day to 500
We've got the dream.
Anything in Eldora would would be just fine.
So we might have to travel.
We might have to make a bucket list, travel itinerary next year
and go to a few places together.
But that was that was pretty amazing.
Kyle Larson, high limit sprint cars.
My goodness, this guy is on an absolute tear right now.
When in three straight races in a row in the same week.
High limits, they put the throttle down with their schedule.
But Kyle Larson is in he's in full blown.
The highest form that you can ask for right now in that sprint car
needs a little bit of that over to carry over to the cup side.
But can't blame it on the driver because he is on the gas
doing what he needs to do in the sprint car right now.
Brilliant stuff. Amazing.
Do we think that he is in the conversation
for the most versatile driver on the planet right now?
I think so.
You know, I think that his cup stuff is not going how he wants it to go.
And I think that's really where you're going to see what Kyle Larson is made of.
And, you know, being elite like Denny Hamlin also requires you
when the cars are off to be a part of that solution.
And I think that that has been some of the conversation with Larson.
As you've gone through the years, he can get in and drive it fast.
But if you're going to consistently be at the top of whatever division that you're in,
and it seems like Verstappen is very similar to that with his team.
He can push for things to to get the car to be better.
That's where Larson really has to be a part of getting those cars back on track.
If they're going to get back into victory line and not just rely on the team
and getting them and drive them, but he can get in and drive them.
No doubt as versatile as anybody when it when it comes to that conversation.
He certainly can.
Yeah, Sheldon, how does Sheld fought through
what was a devastating personal heartbreak at the weekend to capture
what was an incredibly emotional victory in front of a record breaking
Wisconsin crowd just hours after losing his beloved dog.
Long time companion was always there at the racetracks with him.
Pella right in the track driveway.
He channeled all of that grief into just like pure adrenaline
clawing his way from eighth on the grid to hunt down the leaders
following a late a late race restart.
He he pulled off this sort of spectacular pass, just five laps to go.
It left the crowd, I think, totally in awe.
One everyone over with his victory.
And he won one for his for his best friends.
Man.
Yeah, what a.
What a day, man.
I lost my dog this morning and right here in the driveway at the track.
And it's been a tough day.
Yeah, man. Yeah.
You know, there's just a lot of emotion right there.
And and, you know, you you hate to hear those stories, but, you know, it's
it's always ironic that that you wind up hearing so many of those stories
when they come out on top like that. So yeah, at least there's a, you know,
some some shining moment that to cap off the day.
Time for you guys to get involved with the show as always.
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We have a question from Jacob in Richmond, Virginia.
Hey, this is Jacob from Richmond, Virginia.
Will, I cannot tell you how many times I have watched that epic
Indy 500 finished between Felix Rosenquist and David Maluchus.
That last lap call you did was just so epic with that said, if you had to go back
and time and call a historic moment in racing, whether it be NASCAR, F1,
Indy car, World Endurance Championship and so or any other racing series,
what would it be? Oh, boy.
Um, I, the Lewis Hamilton winning
his first world championship in Brazil was very, very special.
I was in the media center that day with the rain pouring through the roof
and through the ceiling and dripping all over the the desks.
And I would have loved to have called that.
I would love to have called that.
It was a, you know, last corner, last lap, last race of the season,
wins the world championship.
That would have been a special one.
Yeah. I think that's the one I'll pick.
That's the one I'll pick.
You know, I think for me, it's
I'm a race fan and I
I'm as we call the races, I always want to make sure that I step out
in order to let Mike finish calling the races.
But if I'm in the booth and able to call a race, when I when I think back to it
and, you know, we've been through so many things lately.
But when you look back at that 98 Daytona 500 finish with with Dale Earnhardt
senior and knowing everything that they had been through to to try to get back
to Victory Lane, I just think that the emotion in the racetrack in the grand
stands and everything with the sport at that moment was just at this
pinnacle of enthusiasm because of of of him winning that one single race
and trying to do it for 20 years.
And I just to be able to just be in that environment at that time and call
the race up until that point and and see the finish.
I just think that the emotion around everything would have been pretty
incredible to be a part of.
I got a question for you.
How would you call this version of the Weenie 500?
I think that this is a very creative and this is all about Indy cars.
So I mean, I can't really get involved because you guys are the ones that call
the Wiener races. So honestly, I don't know if I'm ever going to be allowed
to call the Weenie 500 again.
So it might this might be why I have to make do with it for the future.
Well, we probably don't need to explain any further.
Yeah, that's it. That's your latest from across the.
Let's move that on. Let's move on from across the racing one.
So now, as always, it's time to crown our driver of the week.
Uh, Kevin, I don't think I need to ask who you who you picked.
No, I'm just on board with the old guys.
So Denny Hamlin, I mean, back to the front again, just an absolute clinic.
Yeah, hell of a drive, drive.
Look, there are so many drivers we could have picked this week.
I think Larson was in contention for the top four that we that we put out on
social media, Joseph Newgarden winning at St. Louis with, you know,
pretty much like a broken leg, amazing from him.
But they didn't even make the cut.
For me, it was Marz Rowe.
I already spoke earlier in the show about what a phenomenal performance
I thought he put in one of the best open wheel drives I've seen
in a very, very long time, just sensational.
No strategy, no pit stops, just got the job done.
Also for contention this week was Kimmy Antonelli,
obviously winning in Monaco and Mark Marquez,
the bruised and battered Mark Marquez taking the win.
I'm very interested to see who's won this week, because I think
I think there were so many great drives across the board.
I think it could be a pretty close one this week.
What are the results?
Marz Rowe wins.
I love our fan mates. Oh my goodness.
Well, that's an upset.
That's great. I love it.
I love what our audience is.
Yes, this is great.
Well done, audience.
And I'm not just saying that because he was my pick.
Like, I'm glad that that the audience recognizes
just how brilliant that drive was, because the IndieNext is not.
You know, it's not Cup.
It's not Formula One.
It's not like the top level that you would expect in terms of its notoriety.
But the level of the drive and the level of the win,
I think is absolutely worthy of that recognition.
Well done, Miles.
Brilliant job. Well done, folks at home for picking that.
I'm very proud of you.
Very proud of you all for choosing that one.
Mega. Yes, let's get Marz Rowe now in a seat for the Indie 500.
Brilliant. Brilliant. I'm over the moon. Yeah.
Let's take a look at the final lap
and everything that you need to be on top of for the racing action this weekend.
And guys, we've had Monaco.
We've had the Indie 500.
What's left in the motorsport triple crown?
That's right.
The Le Mans 24 hours is this weekend.
At the circuit de la Sarth in France, always a massively enjoyable one.
Formula One itself backs up its weekend in Monaco
with a weekend in Barcelona, Spain at the circuit, the Barcelona, Catalonia.
NASCAR Cup Series is in Pocono.
O'Reilly is, of course, in Pocono.
The cars tour at Dominion Raceway, cars tour West.
Stateline Speedway.
And that is your final lap and all the races for this weekend.
Can Kevin, what are you most excited to watch?
Well, I won't get to watch as many races this weekend that that I did
last weekend, because I will actually be at Stateline Speedway in Idaho,
running the late model at the cars tour West race.
So I'm looking forward to that.
But never since I'll catch up on everything.
I'll somehow watch everything by the time I get to the show on Monday.
But I'm not sure that you're going to have to.
When you talk about the Le Mans race and the 24 hours Le Mans,
if it's on, you at least have to watch some of it, because it's just
that intriguing, preferably at night, because then it gets pretty sketchy.
It gets sketchy and the commentary gets hilarious.
I love nothing more than a 3 a.m.
hour of Le Mans 24 commentary.
It's it's absolutely brilliant.
Having been in the States for the last five weeks, I'm sensing my jet lag
when I get home might be not great.
So I think the Le Mans 24 is going to be a pretty serious consideration
for me as I'll be awake all night anyway.
So, yeah, man, excited for that.
Excited to see if Antonelli can maintain that run in F1 as well
and make it six on the bounce.
That would be that would be something very, very
I think something special, but I think he can, too.
Yeah, it's going to take something to be him.
A joy, as always, mate.
Thank you so much.
That sadly, folks, is all we've got time for on this episode,
not because we've run out of things to say, but because I have an airplane
that I have to run to to return to my wife and children.
Still plenty more to come this week because coming up on Wednesday,
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About this episode
Monaco’s weekend gets derailed by weather, but the hosts still dig into why the circuit feels like “an event” and how “Monaco is all about qualifying.” They break down Kimi Antonelli’s dominance—keeping pole, lapping George Russell, and handling red flags/restarts—while also discussing how penalties and team execution can swing outcomes. The show then pivots to IndyCar St. Louis, where Joseph Newgarden wins, and to NASCAR, including Denny Hamlin’s comeback and Hamlin tying Kyle Busch’s win mark. They wrap by previewing Le Mans 24 hours.
The future of open-wheel racing has officially taken over Monte Carlo. This week on SPEED, Kevin Harvick and Will Buxton dive deep into Mercedes phenom Kimi Antonelli’s spectacular, chaotic maiden Monaco Grand Prix victory while championship hopefuls George Russell, Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, and Lando Norris walked away with a devastating zero.
Will is in St. Louis where he called Josef Newgarden’s weather-shortened short-oval masterclass at WWTR and witnessed championship leader Alex Palou's strategy disaster.
Over in NASCAR, Denny Hamlin pulled off an incredible last-to-first comeback at Michigan to secure his 63rd career victory, tying Kyle Busch on the all-time wins list. The guys break down the heavy impact between Chase Elliott and Christopher Bell, Carson Hocevar's post-race confrontation with Bubba Wallace, and what Jason Kelce thought of the Hendrick Motorsports experience.
Plus:
Myles Rowe's historic Indy NXT drive from the very back of the grid.
Marc Marquez joining legendary territory with his 100th career Grand Prix win in Hungary.
Sheldon Haudenschild's emotional, heavy-hearted World of Outlaws triumph dedicated to his companion, Pella.
Kyle Larson's spectacular multi-race dirt track streak.
We close out the show by crowning our Driver of the Week and looking ahead to a massive weekend featuring the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Barcelona Grand Prix!
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