Blaney's Best, Hocevar Vs Everyone, Daytona Change, Kentucky and Dodge Updates, Wilkesboro!!!

Blaney's Best, Hocevar Vs Everyone, Daytona Change, Kentucky and Dodge Updates, Wilkesboro!!! NASCAR Weekly Podcast · Jul 16, 2026

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Term

super speedway style drafting race

This means a NASCAR race at a very fast track where cars run close together. By following closely behind another car, you can go faster and save energy, so passing often comes down to timing.

Term

laps led

“Laps led” tells you how many laps the driver was in first place. If someone leads a lot of laps, it usually means they had a fast car and made good calls during the race.

Term

stage

A “stage” is a part of the NASCAR race where points are awarded. Teams plan around stages because what happens early can change how they manage tires and fuel later.

Brand

Penske Ford's

“Penske Ford” means Team Penske’s NASCAR cars that are based on Ford. The hosts are saying those Ford cars were strong early, but later the field caught up.

Term

A “restart” happens after a caution when the race begins again. Who gets a good restart often decides who can stay up front, because the field is bunched and passing is easier for some cars than others.

Term

clean air

“Clean air” means the car isn’t being buffeted by the disturbed air created by other cars. When a driver gets clean air, the car usually feels more stable and can be quicker.

Brand

Toyotas

“Toyotas” means the Toyota-brand race cars in the field. The hosts are comparing them to Blaney’s Ford, saying he managed to beat and hold off the Toyotas.

Term

drafting track

A drafting track is a type of NASCAR track where cars can go faster by running close behind other cars. The car in front helps push the air out of the way, so the trailing car has an easier time maintaining speed.

Person

Joey Lugano

Joey Logano is a NASCAR driver. The host is saying he seemed to be running near the front again, which is a good sign for both him and his team.

Person

Ty Gibbs

Ty Gibbs is a NASCAR driver. Here, they’re talking about how he finished near the front and how that track seemed to fit him better than earlier races.

Term

super speedway wins

This sounds like a set of early-season races where drafting and big packs matter a lot. The host is saying Ty Gibbs struggled early on at those kinds of tracks, then got better later.

Person

SVG

SVG is shorthand for Shane van Gisbergen. The host is pointing out that he finished sixth, which they see as a positive surprise.

Person

Austin Dillon

Austin Dillon is a NASCAR driver. They’re mentioning he ended up seventh, as part of a rundown of who ran well in the race.

Term

double white line

That double white line is a painted boundary on the track. If a driver goes under it, NASCAR may call it a rules violation even if they didn’t “mean” to cheat.

Term

penalty

A penalty is NASCAR’s official punishment for breaking a rule during the race. Here, the question is whether the driver’s move under the line should count as gaining an unfair advantage.

Term

advancing position

“Advancing position” means moving up in the race order—like getting ahead of another car. The disagreement here is whether Bubba Wallace’s move should count as gaining a spot, based on when and how he rejoined.

Person

Bubba Wallace

Bubba Wallace is a NASCAR driver. In this part of the show, they’re debating a penalty call involving where he went on the track and whether it changed his position.

Term

running order

The running order is basically the order of cars in the race—who is ahead of who at that moment. NASCAR uses it to decide things like whether a driver gained a spot.

Term

turn three

“Turn three” is the name of a particular corner on the track. They mention it to explain exactly where the situation played out and when the driver got back onto the racing surface.

Person

Dale Jr.

“Dale Jr.” is a famous NASCAR figure who now comments on races. They mention him because he agreed with the hosts’ initial reaction to the call.

Concept

racing out of bounds

It means a driver goes past the allowed part of the track to keep racing. NASCAR officials can penalize it because it can be used to gain an advantage or avoid the intended racing line.

Term

banking

Banking is how much the track corner is tilted. That tilt helps race cars stay on the track while turning at high speed.

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double yellow line

That double yellow line is a “don’t cross” boundary on the race track. If a driver goes past it, officials may call it as leaving the proper racing surface and penalize them.

Concept

last lap

The “last lap” is the final circuit of a race, when drivers are most likely to make decisive moves for position. NASCAR penalties on the last lap can dramatically change results because there’s little time to recover.

Concept

cautions and crashes

A caution is when the race slows down because something happened on track. A crash is an accident, and the point here is that the rule doesn’t stop those from happening.

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yellow line rule

NASCAR has rules about where you’re allowed to drive near certain lines painted on the track. The “yellow line rule” is basically there to stop drivers from using the wrong part of the track to gain an advantage, and crossing it can lead to penalties.

Term

in-car camera

An “in car camera” is a driver-facing or vehicle-mounted onboard video feed used to show steering, throttle/brake behavior, and line choice during a race. It’s commonly used by fans and broadcasters to analyze what happened during a pass or wreck.

Person

Kyle Larson

Kyle Larson is a well-known NASCAR driver. In this segment, the hosts are debating whether his aggressive style helps him win or hurts him by causing mistakes that cost him points.

Term

points

“Points” refers to NASCAR’s season scoring system, where drivers accumulate points based on finishing position and other bonuses. The discussion here is about choosing safer driving to protect points rather than gambling for position.

Person

Christopher Bell

Christopher Bell is mentioned as someone who could move up in the points if Larson struggles again. The host is basically talking about how one bad race can change who’s close in the standings.

Person

Denny Hammond

Denny Hammond is mentioned because the hosts are comparing season points. In NASCAR, drivers earn points during parts of the race, not just at the finish.

Person

Tyler Reddick

Tyler Reddick is mentioned because the hosts are comparing how many points he had. They’re saying Blaney’s stage results have been even stronger.

Term

fast lap

A fast lap is the quickest lap a driver turns during the race. If someone didn’t get the fast lap, it means they weren’t the absolute quickest on one single lap.

Place

Daytona

Daytona is a famous NASCAR track known for very fast racing. The hosts think Blaney will do well because he won there last year.

Term

short tracks

Short tracks are smaller NASCAR tracks with more turns and more braking. Drivers have to be more precise, and the car’s handling matters a lot.

Place

New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a NASCAR venue the hosts are talking about. They’re saying it behaves like a short track in terms of how the racing feels.

Term

brickyard

“Brickyard” is a nickname for Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It’s a famous track where NASCAR races, and the host is talking about how Blaney has done there.

Term

intermediates

“Intermediates” are medium-length NASCAR tracks. They’re different from short tracks and big superspeedways, so the car setup and race strategy usually change.

Person

Danny

The host mentions “Danny” as someone who previously described Blaney’s approach. The excerpt doesn’t say who Danny is, but it’s basically being used as a supporting reference.

Term

super speedway performance

Super speedways are the biggest, fastest NASCAR ovals. “Super speedway performance” means how strong a driver is there, often because drafting and aerodynamics matter a lot.

Person

Roger Penske

Roger Penske is the owner behind the Penske NASCAR team. The host is crediting his organization’s strength at tracks like Wilkesboro and Indianapolis.

Term

three-headed beast

That phrase is a metaphor. It means there are multiple big factors making things complicated—like three different “threats” at once.

Term

odds

“Odds” are how likely something is considered to happen, often based on betting. The host means Blaney is usually expected to be one of the top contenders.

Person

Ryan Blaney

Ryan Blaney is a NASCAR driver. In this segment, the host says he’s performing at the highest level he’s ever seen from him.

Term

pit crew

The pit crew is the group that works on the car during pit stops. Their job is to change tires and do the necessary work quickly so the driver loses as little time as possible.

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top five

A “top five” means finishing 5th place or better. It usually indicates the driver is strong enough to fight for the front of the race.

Term

top 10s

A “top 10” is when a driver finishes 10th place or better. It’s a sign they’re usually competitive, not just having an occasional good day.

Person

Chris Buescher

Chris Buescher is another NASCAR driver. The host is saying he and Ryan Blaney are the main Ford cars doing well in the standings.

Term

cut line

The “cut line” is the cutoff point in the standings for who’s still on track to advance. If you’re near it, you’re basically one set of results away from being in or out.

Person

Eric Jones

Eric Jones is a NASCAR driver. The host is saying he struggled early in the year and that his standing was close to the cutoff for advancing.

Person

Ross Chastain

Ross Chastain is a NASCAR driver. The host is listing him as part of the tough group Ford has to compete against.

Person

Shane Van Gisburgen

Shane Van Gisbergen is a NASCAR driver. The host says people think he’s best on road courses, but he’s still doing well overall.

Person

Denny Hamlin

Denny Hamlin is a well-known NASCAR driver. The hosts are comparing him to Ryan Blaney when talking about who’s performing best right now.

Person

Jonathan Hassler

Jonathan Hassler is the crew chief in NASCAR. The crew chief helps call strategy and guide the car setup, so the hosts think he’s a big reason Blaney is doing well.

Term

crew chief

In NASCAR, the crew chief is the person who runs the strategy and helps decide how the car should be set up. The hosts are saying that role can make a big difference in results.

Person

Joey Logano

Joey Logano is a top NASCAR driver. The hosts say he’s worth watching because he’s been strong recently, including winning the All-Star Race.

Person

Paul Wolf

Paul Wolf is mentioned as someone connected to team leadership. The point is that even with experienced people around, the crew chief and driver combo still matters most.

Topic

All Star race

The All-Star Race is a special NASCAR event featuring top drivers. The hosts mention Logano winning it to suggest he could be strong again.

Place

Talladega

Talladega is a famous NASCAR track known for very fast racing and cars running close together. Because of that, drafting tactics—and rule debates about them—show up a lot.

Term

bump drafting

Bump drafting is when two race cars make light contact on purpose to help each other go faster. NASCAR sometimes bans or limits it because it can get risky and lead to crashes.

Place

Atlanta

Atlanta is another NASCAR track where cars race at high speed and often rely on drafting. Here it’s mentioned as the location for another example of the rivalry happening on track.

Term

slide jobbing

A slide job is a way to pass by carrying speed and getting alongside in a turn, then slipping ahead. It’s usually a bold move that can annoy the driver being passed.

Place

Michigan

Michigan is a NASCAR race track where cars run fast for long stretches. It’s mentioned here as the setting for another on-track incident in the rivalry.

Place

Sonoma

Sonoma is a race track in California. It’s a road-course style track, so weather can change grip and make the race harder to manage.

Place

Road America

Road America is a road-course track in Wisconsin. The host is saying that putting a race there on July 4th Sunday didn’t draw as well, and conditions may have played a role.

Place

Lime Rock

Lime Rock Park is a road-course track in Connecticut. The host is talking about when to schedule it, since road courses can be very sensitive to weather and tire grip.

Term

weather condition tires

Weather condition tires are tires chosen for the track conditions, like rain or damp pavement. The right tires help the car grip better, which can mean fewer race stoppages.

Place

Wilkesboro

Wilkesboro is a NASCAR oval track. The host thinks it’s a better choice when weather is uncertain because the race can be run with tires that handle the conditions better.

Term

red flags

Red flags are when NASCAR stops the race for safety. They usually happen when the track is too dangerous, like during heavy rain or poor visibility.

Term

rain delayed

A rain delay is when the race is held up because rain makes the track unsafe or too slippery. It can push the start time back or stop the race temporarily.

Term

post-race debrief

A post-race debrief is basically a quick review after the race. The driver and team talk through what went right and what went wrong so they can improve for the next race.

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right rear

The “right rear” is the back-right corner of the race car. In close racing, giving up that corner can make it easier for another car to hit you or push you around.

Term

late, very abrupt move

That phrase means someone changed lanes or tried to pass suddenly, at the last moment. It’s risky because the other driver doesn’t have much time to respond safely.

Term

off course

In NASCAR racing, “off course” means a car leaves the intended racing line or track path, often due to contact, loss of grip, or driver error. It can lead to time loss, restart complications, or even damage that affects future laps.

Term

restrictor plate races

A restrictor plate is a NASCAR part that limits how much air the engine can breathe. That cuts power and helps keep cars from going too fast, so people talk about a “restrictor plate era” when that rule was in effect.

Concept

horsepower doesn't matter

They’re saying that on big NASCAR tracks, the cars’ speed in a group depends more on how they work together (drafting) and the rules that limit speed than on horsepower alone.

Concept

going 200 miles an hour in the pack

“In the pack” means the cars are running very close together in a group. On superspeedways, that close racing and drafting helps everyone stay fast—sometimes around 200 mph.

Person

Barney hall

Barney Hall is mentioned as a well-known NASCAR-related media personality who made a prediction back in 1996. The hosts are saying his prediction was about North Wilkesboro coming back.

Term

Napa Elliott curse

This is a joking nickname for a supposed bad-luck streak involving the Elliott team and the NAPA sponsor. It’s more about fan narrative than a real mechanical “curse.”

Term

put it in the wall

“Put in the wall” means the car crashed into the track barrier. In NASCAR, that usually causes damage and can bring out a caution.

Term

mile-and-a-half package

In NASCAR, teams change the car setup depending on the track. A “mile and a half package” means the specific setup they usually use for tracks around 1.5 miles long.

Term

pack race

A pack race is when lots of cars stay close together instead of spreading out. It usually happens on tracks where drafting makes it easier to run in groups.

Place

Kentucky

Kentucky likely refers to Kentucky Speedway (NASCAR’s 1.5-mile oval in Sparta, Kentucky). The hosts are discussing whether NASCAR should add or prioritize Kentucky for future events, implying it has characteristics that can help the racing product.

Place

Nashville Super Speedway

They’re referencing a NASCAR track near Nashville. It’s mentioned in the context of trying to bring certain tracks back or make them happen again.

Place

Chicagoland

They’re talking about a NASCAR track that used to host races near Chicago. The point is that someone wants it back on the schedule.

Place

Texas World Speedway

Texas World Speedway was a NASCAR race track in Texas that hosted big stock car races. The conversation is about whether something like that could come back or be rebuilt.

Term

three mile 38 degree bank

“Three mile 38 degree bank” describes an oval track that’s about three miles long with turns banked at roughly 38 degrees. Higher banking lets cars carry more speed through corners because the track shape helps generate cornering force.

Place

Texas mega speedway

“Texas mega speedway” is how the hosts refer to a proposed/imagined Texas oval concept tied to NASCAR-style racing. They also mention specific track geometry—“three mile” length and “38 degree bank”—which are key to how fast and how hard cars can corner.

Term

infield

The infield is the area inside the oval track between the frontstretch and backstretch. NASCAR venues often use the infield for garages, team areas, and fan-facing attractions, which can affect event layout and logistics.

Place

Disney world speedway

“Disney world speedway” is a tongue-in-cheek reference to a proposed or rumored NASCAR-style track concept tied to the Disney World area. The hosts are using it as a shorthand for a “return” plan and emphasizing they want it done correctly the second time.

Person

Robbie Gordon

Robbie Gordon is a well-known American motorsports driver who has competed in NASCAR and other racing series. The hosts reference him as an example of a driver who “got in his own way,” implying performance issues tied to decisions or execution.

Car

Ford F-150 Lightning

The Ford F-150 Lightning is a pickup truck that runs on electricity instead of gasoline. It’s meant to do the same kind of truck jobs—like carrying and towing—but with an electric motor. The “Lightning” name is tied directly to its electric nature.

Place

Charlotte Motor Speedway

Charlotte Motor Speedway is a famous NASCAR track in North Carolina. It’s where big NASCAR events happen, including special ceremonies and memorials.

Concept

reopen

In racing context, “reopen” means bringing a track back into active competition after being closed or out of service. That typically implies inspection, repairs, and readiness checks before cars can safely run laps.

Term

payouts

“Payouts” means the prize money NASCAR pays out after the race. If the payouts are low, it can make the event feel less rewarding for teams and drivers.

Company

SMI

SMI is the organization running/operating the track or event. The hosts are saying that early on, SMI had problems (like traffic), and that hurt how quickly the event recovered.

Topic

Indy car and truck race weekend

They’re talking about combining different racing series into one weekend at the same track. The idea is to run IndyCar alongside a NASCAR truck event.

Term

super speedway races

It’s NASCAR’s special set of rules and car setup choices for the fastest tracks. The goal is to manage how fast the cars go and how they behave in big groups.

Term

spoiler

A spoiler is a part on the back of the race car that helps it grip the track. If the spoiler is changed, the car can handle differently because it affects airflow.

Term

drag

Drag is the air “pushing back” against the car as it goes fast. Less drag usually means the car can go quicker.

LIVE

Drivers! Start your engines!

That was an absolute bullsh**t.

Not clear.

Awesome.

I'll show you, I'm on my way to the...

What the f**k are you doing out here?

I'm just saying, just race like f*****g idiot.

I don't care.

Let me your guy.

What the f*****g idiot?

Dude!

This is an American oiling lab show.

Did you ever think you would see that?

Hello?

Did that just happen?

Holy cow, where'd the F go?

Let's go!

You know, I got a song in my head.

You guys got a song in your head?

It goes,

Oh, I just died in your arms tonight.

And then something like that.

Yeah, right.

I don't know.

If you're matching Cub's hats, we all look like bobbleheads right there.

We got to do bobbleheads.

I thought you were going to sing,

Hey Chicago, what do you say?

The Cubs are going to win today.

Alright, I've had this one for about 60 seconds.

That is enough.

60 seconds.

We're taking that off.

The bit has been bitted.

Sorry Cubby fans.

Well, welcome on in to NWP.

There's actually plenty to talk about.

It just, you know, it's actually the race ended a lot closer to the start of the show than it usually does.

Ending on Monday morning.

And there's, there's plenty from the race, from the finish itself to drama in the middle of it,

of who works with who and different people sparking incidents.

We got headlines between the super speedway package, reckless speculation,

different expansion plans that NASCAR has held.

Danny even has an update coming up on the Kentucky Speedway.

We dug deep for everything.

Eyewitness news.

Chris, the Danny B talks.

Yes.

But, but let's start with Atlanta.

Now let's just start right away with the winner of the race.

Ryan Blaney with, I believe if I'm not mistaken, a granite, of course, it's like what 260 laps.

The most laps led in a super speedway style drafting race ever for a win.

I think he had 171 laps out of the 200 and was it 63?

Pretty damn dominant.

And I don't know about you guys, but it didn't feel as dominant as the numbers panned out.

He had to earn this win throughout the night.

Well, what would you think, Eric?

I would agree.

I mean, the first stage was dominant because with the sun out, hotter temperatures,

slick racetrack and now wearing racetrack.

We saw the three Penske Ford sort of break away from the field for a bit.

Now, eventually Lugano, Cinderick, they got swallowed up by the Larson's and Reddix and other guys who were able to eventually make inroads.

But as long as that 12 car was out front, he was very difficult to pass.

I thought it was fascinating how about midway through this race, maybe two thirds of the way through strategy pinned the Penske guys like outside the top 10 on a restart.

None of them really went forward.

Ryan Blaney included.

His car was trimmed out to be in clean air.

And if he was in clean air, he was going to be tough to beat.

But I also thought it was interesting how, as per usual, Ryan Blaney separated himself from his teammates in that regard because Lugano and Cinderick, once they faded outside the top five, top 10, we didn't really see them again.

They still got decent finishes, but obviously they didn't lead anywhere near the laps.

Ryan Blaney did.

Just another weekend where Ryan Blaney put Ford on his back and at a track Ford's good at, he was actually able to win and hold off those Toyotas.

So not just a great race.

One of the best performances we've seen at a drafting track maybe ever.

Dan, what was your takeaway from Penske, but in particular Blaney and what he put on display?

Well, they all looked really good this weekend.

Penske as a whole, Joey Lugano was refreshing to see back up towards the front again, looking kind of like his olden days, if you will.

Unk still got it.

I don't know.

It's crazy to call him Unk.

He's only like eight years older than I am.

No, but for real, Ryan Blaney, refreshing as a whole, seeing him even up there.

Because yeah, he's been like, well, he's been top five in the standings all year, but it's been the most quiet top five season you could possibly imagine.

This was only, what, his only, if it's fourth, top five of the season and we're how far into the year?

I mean, so yeah, great to see if he is going to get a top five, half a chance.

It's going to be a win at this point, I guess.

So, you know, it's really good to see him getting the win here, but you know, a lot of other good guys up here seeing Ty Gibbs finish fourth in this one.

Well, I guess it originally was like a, it's still top five, but the Bubba situation, we'll get into that kind of help to elevate a little bit more to fourth.

But Ty Gibbs says the name, he didn't do well in the first few Super Speed Wins of the year.

This is one of those tracks that you didn't know, like how it was going to go for him.

But then he, honestly, when he crashed out in the spring, I can't recall on Ty.

I know he didn't have a great finish, so a lot of those tracks really helped kind of help Ty down his average finish this year.

Pardon to pun there, I didn't mean for that to happen.

No, I mean, I think we saw some, some names were used to see in some days, and a few, you know, refreshing names, SVG getting the sixth place in this one.

I picked the wrong Austin, Austin Dillon up there in seventh place.

Hill was up there for a little bit of a start, but didn't get the finish as they were hoping for.

Yeah, I mean, I thought overall this, I mean, I'm going to ask the question like, race of the year?

I mean, I know it's still 16 races to go, but that was really, really damn good.

It didn't really have a signature moment that we're all going to, I mean, unless you count Crucivar singing on the radio and then the team playing the music back at him.

Unless you count that moment, which was memorable, and I think we'll be on like compilation, YouTube compilations as long as YouTube exists, probably.

But aside from that, it didn't really have a moment that'll make you go like replay over and again.

I think though from start to finish, I do think I agree with you, Jared.

I think this was the most complete, most entertaining all around race.

If not for that three hour delay in the middle, it would have really like packed the perfect punch, I think, for a Sunday night.

But I mean, what are you going to do?

I don't know if I put this one in race of the year, but it's definitely, it's going to be up there my top three.

If I had to go race of the year so far.

Most of us when it's all day gets up there for me, but it also put, also put, you know, San Diego in there.

Corey Heim went in it with a, you know, pretty, pretty good overall battle of reddit there at the end until, you know, reddit had the tire rubbed.

So I think I still put that one with my race of the year so far.

Yeah, for me, it's between this and San Diego.

I was really high on the San Diego race.

But I just, what I liked about this race is that you could almost see the track changing and the driver strategy towards it changing.

And like that first stage, for instance, they got all spread out.

They're all using different lines.

I mean, it looked like vintage Daytona and then you get the rain delay.

They're under the lights.

Now they're all drafting close together, but the pack is still spread out enough that you get runs.

And, and it started feeling a bit more, you know, I won't say fully like gen six, but just what we're used to with Atlanta.

And then at the end, it seems like it's the new Atlanta signature is everyone coming out of four is three wide heading to the finish and somebody's going to pull ahead right at the end.

And, you know, I was thinking about when they announced this and I'm pretty sure all of our reactions were either, I would see it, I guess, or what in the hell are they thinking.

And I think the fan base at large was in the what the hell are they thinking category.

I can't think of a success story with a racetrack in my memory that just everyone has been so wrong on for the most part in the best way possible.

And Atlanta is for me, it's just top of the board with that.

It's like every time we go there, unless it gets rained out, like my poll, Jeff's poll, like they're always 80% or higher positive everyone's happy about it.

And, and I think that Sunday night, Monday morning was a perfect example again of, of that plenty of positives.

Why don't we go to a negative real quick then, but for bubble Wallace at least fair or foul the penalty on bubble Wallace for going beneath the double white line and getting a penalty even though he did not technically advance his

is running position on the track, I should say.

I think that's an important way to define that.

That's the distinction.

I think it ultimately comes down to how do you define advancing position because no, he did not gain a spot in the running order until he came back up onto the track and they went off into turn three.

Then he did nose out in front of host of our and and Blaney, I think briefly for that matter.

Did he make me with intent to pass as my question?

Well, I don't think intent even matters here.

I think the fact of the matter is though he did gain positioning on host of our by going below the double yellow line.

So I was honestly shocked that this was as much of a debate immediately afterwards and in the days that follow that as it was.

I saw it in the moment.

I had the same thought Dale Jr. did.

I thought that the moment and I didn't even know that apparently now giving the spot back doesn't matter.

I didn't even know that.

I thought if he'd given the spot back, maybe it would have been a no call.

But the moment I saw Bubba go where he did and not lift, he said he didn't lift not lift.

I mean, it was like that's an obvious penalty.

It's the easiest call in years.

That was that was my reaction watching on home on TV.

Clearly Dale Jr. thought the same.

So when afterwards everyone was like, well, no, he didn't gain the spot until after he came back up on the racing surface.

I'm like, guys, he gained positioning.

The only he literally muscled host of our off the bottom by going out of bounds.

Like the entire spirit of the rule is to keep people from racing out of bounds, especially heading off into the corner right before you get into the banking.

So I thought it was an obvious call.

It sucks because I mean, Bubba had an amazing race was top five almost all night.

I thought he hosted barn Blaney were like the stars of the show most of the evening.

So to see him walk out of there with I think nine points total was very disappointing.

It didn't feel like he deserved that.

But I think the call was easy.

I think this was one of the easiest double yellow line calls in the last decade.

So this is now two Atlanta races in a row that Bubba has made the wrong decision on the last lap.

Yeah, too high in the spring, too low in the summer.

Yeah, damn, damn.

Get him next spring.

He'll be perfect right in the middle.

Just right.

I think it is the right call pretty easily based on the wording of the rule.

I'm just going to go again and say that I just think it's still a dumb rule.

I get they say it's for safety.

It does not stop cautions and crashes through the years.

It's not really done anything to that degree.

All it's done is muddy up usually great finishes.

I think at least this one, it didn't, you know, he wasn't going to win the race either way.

Based on what happened.

So it's not like, you know, it took the win away like a Regan Smith.

I just, I'm kind of at this point where I just fully want to just get rid of it because I think that by the rule, yeah, it's right.

But I think it's a dumb rule at this point.

I mean, I think I went through like two or three years ago that statistically big crashes went up with the institution of the yellow line rule some 25 years ago.

And they've never went down since and it like went up even before in general NASCAR overall had Rex go up.

So I just want to abolish the rule altogether at this point and it's just one less ball and strike call that's going to be a controversy that we have to deal with.

I'm torn.

I don't I'm too young to remember the days before the double yellow line.

I mean, I've gone back and watched replays.

Most of the replays are Rex or you know, and so it's like I'm trying to remember like how many Rex were avoided.

With the double yellow line rule not being in place.

It's hard for me to say.

I think at Atlanta, if you're going to test it, test Atlanta and see if you can get away with no double white line rule at Atlanta just because it is so different from Daytona and Talladega.

But, you know, we have a controversy or a penalty come up like this about every year or two at one of these races.

So it's not happening every race.

It's not happening, you know, every month.

It's it's a fairly rare debate and discussion.

So I don't think it's a huge issue one way or another.

I just think in this case, I mean, Bubba made an aggressive move and just I think yanked the wheel a little too hard.

And, you know, you pay the price for you.

I mean, it's I think everyone at this point, everyone knows not to go down there avoided at all costs.

So it's just kind of it happens.

Looking at some of the other points before we get to the, I guess, the one that overarked the entire weekend at this point.

Kyle Larson sparked the only actual major incident of the night.

Just I watched the in car camera he had and he made this great run for like five or six laps, whatever it was leading up to it.

Going from the back of the pack up to almost the top 10 before he self clears and sparks off the wreck.

I don't know if there's really much to debate here, but I just I wanted to point that out for one.

I think we had 29 drivers on the lead lap in a super speedway race in 2026 and Atlanta is so narrow that I think that just makes it more impressive,

especially looking at like the crash last year at this race.

But two, it's just another instance.

We'll look at points in a bit where Kyle Larson has choked away more points at Atlanta through moves that could be completely avoided.

And honestly, it was kind of a reminder of like so that big 20 car pile up last year at Atlanta.

It wasn't entirely unforeseen because it is a drafting track, but it was a little surprising because the first few years of this version of Atlanta,

it was a lot of single car spins, two car incidents.

It was like because there were enough gaps within the pack, it felt like the inevitable big one pile up wasn't inevitable.

Like there were ways to avoid it.

So it made last year's huge crash sort of stick out even more so.

But yeah, I'm with you.

It was impressive that they kept the night relatively clean.

Larson, though, man, back to back weeks where he's sort of ruined his own top five worthy night.

Not good when he was vying for that fourth spot in points and now Ty Gibbs is kind of running away with it.

I want to see, I mean, he finished.

I have the wrong notebook.

I have so many damn notebooks that keep picking up the wrong ones.

34th.

And let's just say he finished 10th.

That's 24 points there.

And then he finished what at Chicagoland, like 29th or something.

I do not know.

Jesus Christ, he actually 34th.

Holy hell.

He finished 34th two weeks in a row.

And he would have probably been top five there.

So it's just, you know, I put a tweet out earlier in the year at the Atlanta one, just like these, because I think he made like a dumb move there.

If I remember right.

Or at least just the SVG wreck.

Yes, stage end.

That was on him.

And I put out like this is the, both the strength and the weakness of Kyle Larson is that he's always on that razor's edge of aggression and, you know, outside of super speedways that, you know, just on the razor's edge where the car will be.

But he's just sometimes he can't just go from 100% to 90% and take the points.

And I had so many people come in and be like, no, he is one of the best drivers in the world.

And he's, you can't tell him to stop doing that.

He needs to race this way.

It's like, if these dumb mistakes, it's like, just do take the points.

Like you, you, you're coming back from a bunch of problems after a 34th a week ago.

Who cares if five cars get past you.

You got still, I think it was what six to go, five to go.

Like you have plenty of time to make that up in a super speedway.

So it's just, it's disappointing because Larson, I think at this point could be vying with Ryan Blaney and Ty Gibbs for third spot and points.

Exactly.

And now you look at the points and one more bad race and Chris Bush or Carson Hosevar, or even Christopher Bell could be right on his bumper or ahead of him.

And I think he has the speed to be a championship contender, but these kind of moves are going to take him out of a consistency based points format and structure like we have.

And especially since obviously wins are not guaranteed for Kyle Larson anymore.

Yeah.

Gosh, it's crazy looking back at, you know, you talk about consistency and I was talking about how it feels like Blaney has been very quiet in the top, top three.

He has been the most consistent.

He has the most top 10s of any driver to season at 15.

It's just that in a row, that separation of 15 top 10s, only four or top five to those being wins.

It's such a difference maker in his season this year.

He has more stage points than Denny Hammond and Tyler Reddick were both tied at 151 this year.

It's crazy.

This race here, we can be looking back this race in a few weeks and say Atlanta was so pivotal for Ryan Blaney's season because of how much he maxed out in the points.

He, you know, getting the most stage points, getting, you know, most laps led, winning the race.

All I think he didn't get was a fast lap because I went to Cody Ware.

I mean, he literally about maxed out all those points and, you know, we went from having two guys, you know, within, you know, 100 of each other from the lead.

Now he's right in that mix.

Only 65 back.

This weekend was such a pivotal weekend for Ryan Blaney and, and Ty Gibbs is creeping in there too.

Now he's 126 back.

Yeah.

Look at the next six races too.

I mean, the next six races, we have another super speedway.

Blaney will be a favorite.

It's Daytona, but he'll be the favorite to win that race.

He won it last year.

And four short tracks.

Well, short flat.

I'm counting like New Hampshire is a short track.

Four short.

I went because I had to prepare for this week's.

I went back to see who was good at Bristol.

Who was good.

Ryan Blaney and Ty Gibbs are right up there.

Blaney is top of almost every short track statistic of the last two years.

And I'm going to mention to Ryan Blaney since they brought back the brickyard, 5.0 average finishes while there.

I mean, like, I have a prediction coming up later and people might say it's bold.

I got a prediction.

But like, I've been saying this for weeks because Blaney, we've seen it all these mile and a halfs and intermediates.

He's running like Danny said, like six to 10th, getting stage points, getting top 10s, not flashy.

That's not where Penske's best.

Penske's best at this track and short tracks.

So what does he do?

Just put, he literally just put together the best individual super speedway performance of this generation.

He just did that.

We've seen Hamlin win three and wrote a theory.

It wouldn't shock me if Blaney goes on a run and wins three in a row because Wilkesboro and Indianapolis win it for Roger Penske.

I mean, I would not be surprised if he won three in a row.

Exactly.

So this is definitely a three-headed beast considered.

And we got a high enrichment put him down for five in a row.

Question mark.

I mean, I'm saying Blaney, he might be, he might be the favorite.

The next six races, like he might like the odds.

Every race, he might be the, he's not going to win all six, but he's probably going to be either the favorite or top two, top three in the odds every week.

I will put a little cold water at least on the brickyard part, even though I brought up the numbers just because Ford, I believe Ford is holding him back this year.

And it's like, to me, no matter if as long as he doesn't win the championship, this will be a what if season for Ryan Blaney.

Because in my opinion, and I've said it for months now, and I'm going to bring it up again because I do think that the way Atlanta is now is much more driver talent oriented towards who is up front.

It's the same people up front in Atlanta more often than not, as long as they don't get taken out in the 30 car wreck.

And Ryan Blaney to me is the best Ryan Blaney we have ever seen.

And it's not even close.

This is better than he ran, you know, in any of the last couple of seasons when better than he ran when he was winning like two or three in a row before the playoffs or 21.

This is the best Ryan Blaney.

He's had to overcome Ford.

He's had to overcome a terrible pit crew on a weekly basis.

They've gotten better.

Now they've made changes.

They're better.

They've gotten better, but it's nowhere near, I think, some of the best, the best still.

Like if he did win, he won Phoenix in spite of them.

So you're right about that.

And so, you know, 15 top 10s being the most the four top five.

So that tells me is, I mean, he is just willing this car up to the front.

When you look at Ford's in the standings right now, it is Ryan Blaney and Chris Buescher.

That's it.

It's 14th on down or the rest of the Ford's in the field.

And they're all right there, hovered around a cut line with an Eric Jones that had a legacy that was completely lost for the first half of the year.

Like it always is with a Brad cause, well, I guess Brad cause I see one.

I'll say a Ross Chastain with a lost track house, a track house driver and Shane Van Gisburgen, who everyone looks at as a road course merchant and is getting, but even then is still maximizing as much as pot.

I mean, these are the guys Ford is racing with.

And then there's Ryan Blaney and Chris Buescher.

It just, it baffles me how different and it's why I still can argue that I think the driver has such an impact still on what a team does.

Cause I think Ryan Blaney hot take Ryan Blaney is, I think right there one A one B as the best driver in NASCAR with Denny Hamlin right now.

I had that exact same thought in the shower this morning.

I was like, should I say that in a video or is that going to piss people off or get.

It's true.

That's funny.

No, I agree.

I agree.

I want to give Jonathan Hassler his due credit as well.

Cause I do think the crew chief makes a difference and he and Blaney.

I mean, you'd think Paul Wolf and Joey Logano would, would light a spark and be great considering their championship pedigree.

But no, it's been Hassler and Blaney.

I'm going to give him credit too for helping lead the charge as well.

But I'm fully with you.

Blaney is having a tremendous season for Penske's credit.

This, this weekend could be one, you know, you talk about Logano as well.

This one could be one to watch Logano.

He did win the all star race here.

How many years ago was it at this point?

Two years ago.

Yeah.

I think he was battling Bell last year too.

Yeah.

So for what it's worth, watch them this one.

Cause I guess, I guess we're not going to have to be too dependent on pickers.

This one.

Cause I guess we can't, we can't do traditional pit stops here.

I don't know if they, if they've made any adjustments to the track or not.

I actually don't, I assume they have normal pit stops.

Cause then we have to do it weird for the all star races.

I don't actually know.

That's a good question, but I'm pretty sure they're normal pit stops.

I haven't seen anything on it, but quick shout out SVG six place.

And then Jerry still dropped in the standings.

A point difference between him and Cinder.

And no, I did not sing Chris John, not, not that, not, I sing sometimes,

but I don't, I sing songs, I actually know the lyrics too.

I'm like host of, I didn't know the lyrics of that song.

Speaking of host of our Jerry,

you talked about guys who at Atlanta always seem to find the front and Carson host of

our thing has to be chief among them.

Like he's doing a lot with seemingly very little drafting help.

Do we want to talk about Carson now, like the rest of the internet?

I think that's a giant can of worms.

I'm willing to open up right now.

Yeah.

I mean, where do you start at this point?

Do you start with the race itself?

Do you start with the reaction that he got from?

I mean, let's name, let's name him off.

Jamie McMurray, Jeff Burton, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kevin Harrick, Denny Hamlin,

the veterans or former veterans of the sport.

Do we start with Zane Smith hating him as a human being at this point?

Jeff Burton during that mid-race break sounded like he wanted to put a fire suit back on

and go fight Carson host of our himself.

I felt like he was holding back.

He was like, he was angry.

He had a scowl the whole time.

He was like, he like, he was, even though he's not driving anymore,

he's not racing against Carson or he seemed personally offended by Carson's sort of,

I see what people, you know, people say Carson hosts like Napa raising fences.

Carson hosts far as not a Dale Earnhardt clone.

He's Ross Chastain 2.0.

And it's not, no one's saying he's Dale Earnhardt talent, but the way he gets under his competitor

skin, the way he truly intimidates people is Dale Earnhardt like.

And for me with with Carson, what I really like is that one,

he just, I say this in the, not in the necessary way that he doesn't completely care.

Cause I think he does obviously he cares about winning and cares about,

but it doesn't seem like stuff gets under his skin very much.

Like the comments of other competitors or the comments of people in the media.

And what I like is that so far, and I hope he keeps this up because you can't dish out

as much as Carson hosts of ours dished out and not keep this up.

He hasn't bitched and moaned when he gets it back at him.

Yeah.

I wanted to keep that up because if, if he were doing all of this and then the moment

that he got hit, he started, you know, bitching and moaning about it.

Like I think everyone would start turning and being like, stop, you did this and you,

you know, don't, don't pull this shit on us.

But I'm trying to call the guy out, but like, don't be like Joey Logano,

cause he will dish it, but he hates it when it's dished back to him.

And Joey, I thought that same thing when Joey a couple of weeks ago was like,

you know, I, I wrecked half as many people as he did, but they hated me.

And I'm like, well, Joey, I think it was that attitude.

I think there's also reason people still like Larson is cause Larson's made a lot

of aggressive mistakes and taking people out or put guys in bad spots,

but he's also, I mean, I'd look, think back to that Kyle Busch,

Chicago land finish, like when he, he can take it.

He usually can take what he dishes out.

And I think that's what fans resonate with.

So I'm with you there on hosts of our, if he keeps that part up,

that part of his attitude is what people really like.

Danny, you said earlier, um, you were, you were mentioning the,

the hosts of our Earnhardt Chastain comparisons.

I've kind of given up trying to compare Carson to anyone else because I think

he, he is extremely unique.

He is the first like true Gen Z superstar this sport has had.

And I mean that like he's on social media.

He, he, he's again, I don't want to call him careless.

Don't want to call him too nonchalant, but he's laid back.

He doesn't take it too seriously.

Even in the moment, singing on the radio, you know, he streams on Twitch.

He's just, he has a different sense of humor.

He has a different way of carrying himself that literally because he's like

the youngest, one of the youngest drivers in the sport we have not seen before.

He is the first like Gen Z star to make inroads with Gen Z fans.

So many of his fans go into bat firm on social media.

You get the feeling are teens and 20 something year olds.

And it's like, wow, we have not seen a driver resonate with that demographic

in this sport in years.

And I think that's part of where this whole discourse comes from is folks

don't know how to handle it.

This isn't, this isn't your, your blue collar, Ross Chastain,

watermelon farmer, scratching and clawing for every position.

This is a, this is a kid from the Midwest who's, who was watching stop motion

videos and playing video games for 10 years ago.

And here he is in the cup series, winning race, winning a race.

It sounds weird to say you, you literally mentioned, uh, watching stop

motions and being, you know, an active person of your comment section,

wanting to be in one of your stop motion effect.

And it truly is like, if you took one of us, one of our people in the chat

who watches us every week, who is truly just a lifelong NASCAR fan and

gave them a family and backing and motions to, to progress into racing

and, and, and carry them all the way to the top.

It's as if you literally took a NASCAR fan and said, here you go.

Go, go get your path.

Well, and I, and I do think that at some point, like he's going to have

to get a little more balance with it, at least like the on track stuff

and with the competitors.

Cause like Denny Hamlin was right.

I know he got a lot of flack for it, but he was right.

Like you're racing the competitors.

You're not racing the fans and you're not trying to, to just win the fans.

But on the other end of that, until it really starts like, you know,

2015 Joey Logano blowing up in his face kind of thing.

I don't want him to stop because I, we have basically for the last 10,

15 years, all we've heard is the drivers are boring.

It's cardboard cookie cutter.

It's, you know, all of these different descriptors of, of just boring.

Like, it's almost become more interesting to figure out how we can

rip on the drivers for not being interesting than actually find an

interesting driver.

And now we have one on a silver platter right in front of us who is,

I mean, he is, he is the, like, yes, I know there's been other Gen Z

drivers in there.

Like technically I'm Gen Z and I'm, how old am I, 28, 28, but, but,

he's the first one that it's like, it is clear.

Like he, he makes up that.

He's the stereotypical Gen Z on his phone, on social media, speaks

almost a different language.

That's what I mean.

And NASCAR is a very old school and, and I don't mean that this is

in a mean way, but very old person driven sport by the way that a lot

of people, I mean, all these people that were talking about him on TV

are in their upper 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s.

And it's like, yeah, he's going to get under your skin.

I know, I, I like that.

I want a driver that comes in who doesn't come in to make friends,

who doesn't go in being like, well, oh shucks guys.

Like, you know, it's just so cool.

I'm standing next to Denny Hamlin.

No, I bet you if he raced Denny Hamlin, he would put, he'd put him

door to door and maybe put him up in the wall out of the corner,

like Denny and Larson do to each other all the time.

Like, and I'm, I'm all right with that.

I want to see that.

I would rather see that than another cookie cutter driver.

If I want to see a driver who just shows up, never gets into any

kind of problems, the only problems that happen are fans bitching

and moaning about him being boring.

I'd root for a Hendrick driver, but, but I'm not, there's a place

for that, but there's also a place for host far.

Like I want, I want a host of art as much as I want to mark Martin

in the field because I think that balance is really, really fun.

And I also am really interested going to a short track.

Who the hell is going to get him back this week?

Shoot, they took, you know, Zane took a shot at a mile and a half.

So that's off at a half mile.

Well, I also want to say to that point, like it is, I think host of

ours environment plays a role here too.

Like I think racing for Spire who, I mean, have you met Jeff?

Have you heard Jeff Dickerson speak?

Like he's not, he is happy to get under people's skin.

I think he fully embraces that.

I think that's a big part of his character and identity as well.

He's the scrappy sort of a thorn in your side, I suppose.

And I think that's why he and Carson host of our get along so well.

A lot of folks at the start of the year, why is host of our

signing a long-term extension with Spire?

We don't even know Spire's any good.

This is why, because he gets along personality wise, I think

perfectly with Jeff Dickerson vice versa.

So sometimes it is about fit.

Cause yeah, Carson's a column antics.

That, that sounds derogatory, but Carson's personality probably

wouldn't fly at Hendrick Motorsports.

Cause Rick Hendrick, have you heard, have you heard Rick Hendrick

talk and compared him to Jeff Rick?

Rick Hendrick is like your, your quiet, you know, old uncle

or grandfather at Thanksgiving who wants to instill his wisdom

in you after years of experience.

Very different than the thorn in your side, Jeff Dickerson.

Jeff Dickerson's the one who brings up politics and then just

steps aside from the table and lets everyone else go.

He's that family member.

Yeah. No, it's just interesting.

I think that's just such a great fit and they're kind of just,

I mean, that's why it's, you're getting the full host of our

experience right now because his team is pushing him to just

keep going.

I mean, he's eighth in points.

I guess it's working so far.

It's working so far.

Danny, I saw, I think you and I saw the same tweet.

I know host of our was trading in other drivers t-shirts.

Did you see the numbers?

Someone, I don't know who this is.

Somebody tweeted the numbers.

This is Lyle on track.

And I'm assuming, I think it says just your neighborhood,

NASCAR photographer, Diet Coke Infusius and Evan Taylor Swift

listener is his bio on X.

So Lyle is doing some work.

I know there's a big, there's a click of people who are good

friends of Carson.

It kind of was helping organize this in the merch hauler from

this weekend.

So here are the official numbers and I did all the math.

They did have officially 77 people come up and trade in their

shirts.

They're of an active driver or team for hosts of our shirts.

I'd like, I'd like for you guys to take a guess.

Eric, have you seen the numbers?

I don't know if you've seen it or not.

I saw the first couple.

So I know who, I know what's sure got traded in the most.

Zane Smith.

No.

I would not.

I'm surprised because I would think that some people would buy a

Zane Smith shirt just for the sole reason of the, the bit.

So you guess Zane Smith and Eric's already seen it.

So he can't play in this.

Um, the, the correct answer is NASCAR's most popular driver chase

Elliott with 20 shirts traded in for Carson hosts of our shirts.

Oh my God.

Double digit, plenty of them.

I saw, I wish I had the tweets still pulled up.

Shout out to whoever replied with a chase Elliott fans,

not beating the bandwagon allegations.

So this is home track getting 20 traded in.

This is what I like about this kid.

Right.

He, he, he knows exactly how to generational head,

but everybody else with this thing, cause I know,

I know that gets under people's skin that he just,

cause it's completely harmless, but it's just rolling with the punch.

And the thing is that he's on social media so much with like the,

the Twitch streams and all the other stuff he does that it's,

like he is just absorbing it all.

Do you see what he put on his Instagram story the other day?

Uh, I think it was yesterday, like early in the morning.

It's, it was a two minute compilation of Dale Jr.

trolling Jeff Gordon on the racetrack, just getting under Gordon's skin.

Like there, like there's one at Talladega where junior just bumps him

right into the corner when bump drafting was banned into the corners

and Gordon's getting pissed and junior does it by like three or four straight

laps.

And then like the next one is Atlanta where junior keeps going and like

slide jobbing over Gordon and he's bitching and moaning.

And then the other ones at Michigan in 2012 or is like, you better,

you better tell the 88 to thank me for not wrecking his ass.

And all I'm thinking is he had that whole segment where junior's telling him

to stop doing all this stuff basically.

And it was like all of them doing an intervention kind of on the air.

And then he immediately posts, Hey, look, it's Dale Jr. doing like the same

shit I do.

So I've got some more numbers to share on this one.

So Chase, obviously with the biggest gap at 20 in second is William Byron

with eight shirts traded in a tie for third Kyle Larson with seven traded

in also tied of him.

Zane Smith with seven traded in.

Okay.

So there's Zane.

So they said there's seven, 20 Elliott.

And what was the other one for Byron 10?

Eight.

Okay.

So we have what 35 shirts that are Hendrick shirts right at the top.

Yes.

And I will say just as an honorable mention, Alex Bowman did have three

traded in as well for Carson hosts of our shirts.

So a lot of Hendrick shirts were traded in here.

Just a few others.

Chris Bush shirt.

He's the, he's the fifth with four shirts traded in.

Also three, you have Bell Blaney Gregson.

Furniture row.

Sorry.

Front row motor sports with two traded in along with two for Legano,

two for Bubba, two for SVJ and two for Ross traded in all with one

shirt each junior motorsports 2311 track house, tie,

Gibbs, Connor, Zillish, Eric Jones, Jimmy Johnson,

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Denny Hamlin all with one shirt traded in.

20 minutes ago, Carson hosts of our replied to this post confirming

this is the official count of T shirts traded in and added,

what should I do with all of them?

Didn't think of anything creative yet.

So they shot a shirt blanket.

Yeah.

In case host of our is potentially watching or goes back and sees

this chat.

What should Carson do with all this?

Honestly, you got 77 in front and back.

Big giant T shirt blanket hanging up in those apartment.

I just got.

No.

Hey, no, have, have it as like, you know, and you have the awning

on your, your infield RV have that hanging up.

So all the drivers have to walk by and see it.

What you need to do is cut them out and sign where your shirt is.

Ooh.

What I think he should do.

I like that idea.

He should cut them all out and somehow glue them or shape them

into a 77 and then yes, have all the drivers come sign their

shirt.

That's a great idea, Danny.

That'd be an awesome art piece right there.

That'd be super cool.

Well, how do you think like some of these drive, like some of

them probably actually don't care, just roll their eyes, but

there's got to be at least one or two of them that are like,

really?

Like my, my fans.

Really?

Is having four shirts.

I mean, how many Chris busher t-shirts are really out there?

So to lose four of them right there is tough.

It's just a NASCAR driver equivalent of like in a war,

capturing the enemy's flag.

Kind of.

Yeah.

That's what I'm talking about.

This is this.

I love this.

I don't think you do this as long as it doesn't financially hurt

them.

Do this at a few more tracks.

I'm curious to see what this would be at different places.

They did Atlanta.

Try it at Bristol.

If they do it at one of the races I'm going to, I mean,

I got like a few Bowman shirts and tend to just take one

myself just to get a host of our shirt.

I mean, that is true because chase Elliott at Atlanta,

there's probably a lot of chase Elliott shirts there.

So that might have swayed the, the, the polling a little.

I'm not sure.

Not sure.

But yeah, fighting over fans.

Isn't Jared, isn't that the plot of K-pop demon hunters?

They're fighting.

Yeah, they're, they're fighting for the fans.

Yep.

Yeah.

So I wouldn't be surprised if we made a reference to that next.

Next.

Yeah.

Well, that, that, and I saw you was, um, he's trending with like

this really big TikToker that they're like the rumor they're

dating and stuff.

And Amelia comes bursting in the room the other day and she's

like, Eric, I'm like, what?

She's like, did you know this?

And I'm like, you know, I don't, because I guess this is just

some like lifestyle TikToks and, you know, girl.

I mean, he's like, yeah, I've followed her for years.

She was very excited about this, that her worlds were colliding.

I saw he was a Nashville, like a few weeks ago and it like wasn't

Nashville week.

And I'm just like, what was he doing here?

And then like, I saw these pictures and I'm just like, huh.

Hmm.

Who knew?

I just thought he was with K-Adams.

I just thought another good idea that he could do with the

shirts that he collects.

For the all star race, as long as they can get sponsored or

approval, get them to take all the t-shirts they collect and

fabricate it into his fire suit as the outer material.

They could do that somehow.

That would be hilarious.

Even if it's just for a photo, because I don't know if you could

make them flame resistant.

There's probably some somehow some way they could re-invigorate

the material.

I don't know.

Spire could just have all their employees where the shirts to

the track as a joke.

We could probably do this all night.

We should probably actually get back to a bit of Atlanta.

There's one other thing I did want to ask that people are talking

about.

And it's as fun as this is, because honestly, like I would want

to do this all night.

But so the race is Sunday night and it rained and it rained.

Yeah.

And we were stuck there.

And I don't know about you guys.

Our forecast called it.

He did say it would.

He nailed it.

But I would admit, I took cat naps throughout the red flag

because dad life has hit me hard and it has hit my ability to

pull all nighters anymore.

But should NASCAR keep running so many Sunday night races?

We're actually coming up to the end of a three-week stand of

Sunday night races in a row.

There's not much room for other delays.

What do you guys think?

Keep it the same?

Change it or go to Saturday nights?

I've been very vocal on team Sunday night.

So I'll back off.

Sunday nights are just so hard when it's not like, you know,

like Memorial Day weekend and everyone has a day off.

Like do it on a Labor Day weekend.

Do it on Memorial Day weekend.

But I just don't.

I mean, I guess it's because I'm still old school.

I grew up, you know, just looking forward to, oh, yeah,

Saturday night race.

Yeah, this is nice.

You know, watch this and then, you know, have a Sunday, you

know, to do whatever the next day.

And I don't know.

I guess I'm still very old school in that regard.

If it's a night race, unless it's a weekend, like a holiday weekend,

it should be Saturday nights.

But that's because I'm old boomer 30 year old now.

I mean, I'm not a huge fan of Saturday night except for Daytona

and Bristol.

I think those have established themselves as a good tradition.

So I like those.

I kind of agree though.

I think Sunday night races should be reserved for holiday weekends.

Like the 600 ends late.

That's a holiday weekend.

You mentioned Darlington Southern 500 ends late holiday weekend.

You know, I can understand July 4th weekend, especially with it

being, yeah, like July 4th weekend, maybe that one running a

little late.

I get that it's hot in the summer and fans baking and metal grand

stands at 34 o'clock in the afternoon at a lot of these places.

Doesn't sound pleasant.

It's not going to be an easy sell for tickets.

So I understand some of the physical reasons why they've run all these

night races, but I'm kind of with you guys.

Like I think Sunday night, late Sunday night races should be reserved for

very special occasions.

Three in a row is, it's not, it's not my cup of tea per se, but you know,

it's, it's what it is.

So I, just because it, the numbers have proven out ratings wise.

I mean, we'll talk about the ratings in a bit.

This race on a Sunday night into Monday, almost matched last year's Saturday

night race.

They had like a 30 minute delay.

Like it's, it's kind of crazy the difference there.

But I think a middle ground can be reached where we don't have to worry

as much about it.

Now it might not be like night on TV, but it might be night for most people.

So like what I brought up is maybe like San Diego, you know, you get the

laps right.

So it doesn't go into the darkness, Sonoma, same thing, but you're not

going to have to deal with weather more than likely on those races in the

summer.

And then maybe, maybe an Atlanta can move then to a Saturday night.

I mean, the fourth of July is on a Sunday.

I don't know about you guys.

I, I, the ratings weren't great for road America when it was July fourth Sunday.

And it's more than likely going to be the same kind of cable race anyway.

So I would say move have Atlanta before the July weekend.

It races like old Daytona.

So, you know, you did get that same feel and put that on a Saturday night.

You know, and then you can maybe move lime rock to Sonoma week when the other

two series are in Sonoma and they can be in lime rock if they come back.

But I think the other way they could do is maybe move it instead of like a

730 Eastern start, maybe make it 6pm Eastern.

I think the Southern 500 this year actually is starting a double check,

but I think it's starting an hour earlier than it usually has.

So moving it, but yeah, it's starting at 5pm Eastern instead of the normal

like 6, 6, 30.

So I think that they can keep trying it, but I think there needs to be ways to

open up the windows more.

Maybe go to tracks like Wilkesboro that you can use weather condition tires.

So you're not having as long of red flags if it comes up.

But I do think it should be chosen on certain basis is like that because the

amount of times we've been rained out or rain delayed.

Like Chicagoland was nice that it didn't and it worked out really well,

but forever Chicagoland anymore.

There's what we just had.

And I don't want to stay up till 233, 4 o'clock in the morning on a regular

basis at this point.

I think it's, I think part of the fatigue is it's three in a row.

If there's a way to spray some out a little, maybe wouldn't be having this debate.

But yeah, I'm kind of, because yeah, Saturday night's not good for ratings,

unfortunately, maybe on July 4th weekend, it's the best case though.

So I don't know.

I don't have a strong opinion one way or another.

It's just been a rainy summer.

I don't know about where you guys are, but where I've been,

it's been a very rainy spring and summer.

So that's just, that's NASCAR just kind of impacted by that.

Yeah.

Well, it's definitely picked up.

We had a very kind of a dry spring here in Tennessee.

We're actually in a drought, but it's more than right up for this summer as we've gone on.

I saw this as funny.

Good call.

Well, there is one last thing to talk about before we kind of get into the

rest of the races and everything.

And that is the standing.

So going into it, we got the top 12 right here.

By the way, starting until we get done with the regular season,

there's a green dot next to your driver.

It means they have locked themselves into the chase in any respective series we show.

So Denny Hamlin and Tyler Reddick, I don't know how it maths this way because

I thought it was like the max points you could lose is how you get in.

But Bob explained that there's like kind of an equation to it.

So if they just finished dead last, they would at least be in the top 16 somehow.

Yes.

Yeah.

Based on what Bob was saying, NASCAR said there was like no mathematical way that

17th on back could make up the points all at the same way.

There's no way that 15 could pass Denny Hamlin and 14 could pass Tyler Reddick.

So potentially it won't be long until Blaney hits this then.

Probably this week, I would assume.

So Denny Hamlin, for those that are listening, 791.

So 24 back is Reddick, 65 back is Blaney.

Danny, you alluded to this earlier.

We now have three drivers within a race worth of points of each other

battling for the regular season championship.

Eric brought up, it's pretty strong for Team Penske coming up.

So it is not done.

I made a very ill fated prediction that Reddick had it in the bag and he does not.

Ty Gibbs, 126 back kind of on an island.

Then you got Elliott, 181 back, 197 to Larson, 223 to Buscher,

five behind him for Josefar, 12 behind Josefar as Bell.

Bell is only nine points above 10th place, Chase Briscoe.

Suarez, 262 back is about 13 behind Briscoe and then Byron is nine behind Suarez.

So just watch, Ty Gibbs.

This could be sneaky.

This could be a sneaky run of races without good days.

They've been on, in general, but on short tracks this year.

This could be sneaky for them to get into that conversation

for the regular season championship as well.

Yeah.

And so the battles here, you know, when you talk like Gibbs is that middle ground.

So like he could, he really could jump up into it.

I feel like we're kind of split in between two battles at this point.

It's first and third and then fifth on back.

And I'm just kind of thinking, what driver do you guys think could pop up

and get into that top five or six that hasn't been there so far?

I mean, I guess the easy answer, you said top five or six.

Yeah.

Jumping up the top six has basically been the same for most of the season.

Yeah.

Then I guess, I guess the easy answer would be Christopher Bell or Chase Briscoe.

So we did see what they were both capable of at Chicagoland.

We know what Joe Gibbs racing is capable of as a whole because of Denny Hamlin

and Ty Gibbs success this year.

So I would, I would tend to point to one of those two.

I would agree.

I'll mention William Byron just because this has been a, you know,

I think there's been a lot made of how Belle Briscoe kind of off this year.

And I think that's amplified because Toyota has been so good.

So why are they off?

That doesn't add up.

And Rick, I know it's been a little more hit and miss,

but seeing William Byron 12th and then seeing and hearing him and Rudy Fugel kind of go at it.

It's the most animated you'll usually get from William Byron over the radio.

And then just, yeah, seeing him 12th, it's like, man, man,

like this is a guy who's usually in championship contention.

And if he goes into the chase 12th, he's not winning the championship.

I can say that pretty confidently.

So he needs to gain a few spots here the next month.

Yeah, I would say, I mean, I thought Belle was going to be handicapped by the broken wrist and all,

honestly, I think he's gotten maybe luckier because he's been at the same rate,

but he's gotten better luck of not being involved in as much crap.

And, you know, he has as many top fives as Ty Gibbs and Kyle Larson at eight at this point.

And he's led a ton of laps.

So I think if Belle can stay out of trouble, he could easily be the fifth or sixth seed going in.

Definitely.

Now the cut line, and this is just all the guys that are within it.

Bubba has now fallen from the first group to this group.

He is within a race worth of points from falling out plus 55 still.

So still pretty good.

Cedric 32 and 31 for SVG eight points between Eric Jones and Joey Legano.

Then 26 back to priests, 43 to Brad, 45 to Chastain, 47 McDowell and AJ Almendinger falls to 50 points back after Atlanta.

So I want to pose two questions.

The first one is of those below the cut line, who you sticking a fork in?

Who's done?

Brad.

Honestly, I wouldn't say that confidently about anyone top 20.

I think even Ross has had some good runs lately.

So I would say McDowell on back.

No chance, but Brad was, he started on the pole in the, I think he won the all-star race pole last year at North Wilkesboro.

So I'll hold out for another week or two on Brad.

See what they're doing.

I'll say, I think I'll go with the 20th on up for now.

But for me, I think this is the moment of truth week for Brad and Chastain.

Ross, I just, I always had better runs.

But I just, I can't see Chastain making up 45 points on Jones.

I can't see him being that much better to make up what, is it 68 points?

He'll end up having to make up on SPG.

They're figuring it out.

They're figuring out why too late, but it's not like they're figuring out where they can win.

It's like they're figuring out where top 10s can be more optional again.

And then the other question I'll ask is which one would be, which one do you think jumps in and which one do you think falls out?

These next few tracks, man, I, I, I, with only eight points back, I can't doubt Logano in this situation.

If it's him versus Eric Jones, I like Logano.

I would trust Logano to do well on these next few tracks more than I would Eric Jones.

I honestly feel like Jones and SVG are going to fall out.

And I think Logano and priests will get in at this rate again, considering the tracks that are now Eric Jones is the question mark.

And Shane, Shane's had some good short track.

He was 11th at Martinsville.

He was, where was he at?

Phoenix, I think he was 11th at Phoenix in the spring as well.

So like some of these short flat tracks, SVG can be okay, but he's so inconsistent.

I'm going to assume Shane drops out.

Eric Jones is the wild card because he's gone on this summer surge, but it's mostly been the big ovals.

It's been big intermediate tracks, Pocono, Michigan, and he's fifth at Atlanta.

We don't have any of those.

Well, we have Indy.

I guess we do have Indy.

He needs a big race at Indy and then he's got to survive or exceed expectations of all the short tracks.

I just, I don't, we haven't seen Jones do well at short tracks consistently for me to say he's going to hold on to that eight point deficit.

So I feel like Joey and priests who are both great short track drivers will get in.

I'll say Lugano gets in and SVG falls out.

I trust Lugano with these kinds of tracks and I, it's not that I don't trust Shane.

I don't trust track house because for Lugano, I think I looked it up.

I think he finished, finished top 10 and both Bristol and Martinsville earlier this year.

And I mean, this is, this is a race like, this is a race that Lugano could legitimately win.

And if he does, like that really sets him up in a much better position than Eric Jones and definitely climbs him in there closer to SVG.

Yeah, SVG has two wins, but again, Lugano is going to be going to likely be more consistent on these ovals in the next few weeks.

Well, we will see.

It's crunch time now.

Like I, so I thought there were more races.

And then I looked at when we finished up, I'm like, God damn, there's six left.

Damn.

The thing is, if Lugano gets in to this, to this chase, that's where I'm like, what have they been sleeping on all season?

What, what could they do if they won like six races in the chase?

I just don't, I, I don't think they could.

I mean, I think, I think if Joey gets in, he's limping in like 15, 16.

Just depends on how consistent they can, they can swing in this last round.

I mean, if they, if they come out, they come out winning a race or two, they watch out.

We'll see.

Let's go to a few of what viewers thought or, or at least showed out for, let's start with TV ratings.

Cup scored one and a half million viewers after a three hour delay down only 7% from last year's 2025 Saturday night race with a 30 minute delay.

And TNT says they were on track for 2.4 million viewers before the rain delay happened.

So on a pretty good track on that one, O'Reilly scored just over a million viewers peaking at 1.072 million.

It was the most watched Atlanta O'Reilly summer race in five years.

And then trucks at Lime Rock actually did pretty good.

522,000 viewers for the truck series, which on FS one around noon during the day, it's not bad.

And then the poll, iceberg poll, my poll, 10,000 voted 73% of voters said that this was a great race and 20% said good.

So 93% net positive for this race, 5% at average, 2% said negative.

Looking at some of the numbers here, this was the third highest polled Atlanta race, which just shows how good Atlanta races have been.

The 2026 spring race and 2024 spring race were the only two that were ahead.

It was the second highest polled race of this year behind Atlanta.

And it was the third highest of 40 polled super speedway style races.

The top four are all Atlanta races.

So good company.

It was the 27th race also to join the 90% club out of 279 races I've polled and the sixth highest net positive of all time.

So people were very high on this.

It was only behind the 24 Atlanta spring race and this year's spring race, the 2019 Bristol night race, the 2024 Kansas spring race and last year's Kansas fall race.

The Kansas fall race and this year's spring race had 94%.

The other three had 95%.

And it's the highest amount of voters that voted great on one of these polls since last year's Atlanta race in the summer.

So sounds like people like Atlanta.

Yeah.

Looking at the comments.

First comment was from Matt positive negative or meme.

We don't usually see a man here.

So some of our usuals might have already been asleep.

So that's why we get a new name.

I'm gonna go with a.

Go for negative.

The meme.

It's 146 a.m. and I stayed awake for that.

Worth it.

Oh, I thought I had it there for a second positive.

We got a positive.

Top one was from bland spaghetti.

He said, I want to talk about the idiot that thought a 7 p.m. start would be a good idea on a Sunday night.

That is late.

I'm with you are about earlier like six Eastern is maybe the cutoff for a Sunday night race.

Mars says, shout out to Cody Ware for getting the fastest lap.

That guy says Atlanta never disappoints worth every minute.

Blaney's one hell of a driver.

He earned that one.

Kasselowski needs to retire.

Just straight right at the end.

That was like lap two or whatever he had an issue.

SBG says it took some divine intervention, but the Todd father is still in this thing talking about the end season tournament.

Final four, baby.

Got my prediction wrong.

It's weird because for most of the race, I noticed he was like a lap down all of a sudden.

You know, I was, you know, fight and sleep towards the end of it, admittedly.

So I didn't look the next day.

Oh, Todd Bate Bowman, the Todd father made a call.

And then Abram says, I am still energized and it's 1 a.m.

And then the gutter comments from the Salis who says too damn long, they should shorten this race.

No, no, that's a big fat.

No, they've already reduced it because originally the first race Atlanta was like 500 miles and that was way too long.

That was too, I think too much for that super speedway style.

It's fine for Talladegan Daytona, but Atlanta just because how much slower they are, that felt forever.

There were two other races, by the way.

So the O'Reilly race, I feel like we all just want to forget about it.

Justin Allgaier won.

By the way, we went through all of that for a Justin Allgaier win again.

Yeah.

Shout out my guy, Brennan Pool, man.

He's always, not always, but he often finds himself at the front of these drafting tracks.

One of these days it's going to work out for him.

If y'all haven't seen it after this, check out new episode of Power Hour I uploaded earlier today.

We spent the first 15 minutes, basically it was therapy for Brennan.

It was basically his post-race debrief, trying to break down what he could have done differently

to defend against Nick Sanchez and Allgaier and Quaple.

Was there that much he could have done, though?

I mean, he talked about maybe, I mean, he was, he gave him maybe a little too much room,

but he also, you know, you don't want to give up your right rear.

So yeah, I'm kind of with you.

He committed to Elaine.

Sanchez made a very late, very abrupt move.

Quaple was all over him, then they got hooked together and that's what caused the wreck.

So it's just, you know, it's Justin Allgaier was like the only guy up front there who's kind of like got it made, all these other guys.

Brennan included, but especially like Nick Sanchez, Quaple, they're fighting for every opportunity.

I mean, Nick Sanchez has been fired, not fired.

He's lost his ride twice in the last six months, once to a guy with funding and the other because his team went out of business.

So Nick Sanchez is desperate, Quaple trying everything he can.

And so it's just going to happen.

That's why you're going to see whatever it was, like four red flags in the final stage alone.

Seven on the weekend, by the way.

Yeah.

We had seven red flags.

We had one in the truck.

We had to think what, no, two in the truck race, four in the O'Reilly race, one in cup.

Yeah.

Brutal.

It was a rough race.

Rough race.

Yeah.

I'll ask this too.

Was that the, was that the worst race of the year?

Because at least in this final stage, it felt like it.

I mean, maybe, I don't know.

And I got a full disclosure.

I was at a concert the whole time.

I was watching the whole thing on my phone without sound most of the night because all I could hear was the bass and guitars thumping, echoing throughout the auditorium.

So Eric was at a concert and I was at the Cubs Reds game.

Like it was supposed to be over.

It was supposed to be over before the main act came on, but because it went like three and a half hours, it ate into the first couple of songs.

And so I was the only person in the auditorium sitting in my seat, sitting down, not standing, watching overtime to see if Brennan could pull it off.

But yeah.

So I didn't get the, like I had other things to entertain me when the race got slow, so I can't speak to that.

It was rough though.

It was definitely a hard watch.

I'd say you could say it's the worst for this series.

The worst NASCAR race of the year.

From what I've seen, what I've gathered online is whatever that Coca-Cola race was yesterday.

I race race.

God, people want to get us on the e-ticket last year because we let them race till the end.

Meanwhile, they're literally all stopped at the finish line.

God, I mean, even when all the drivers are ripping on it, I think it's fair.

I guess with people running out of gas, was that the main issue in that?

I think it was like they, they had them, I think if I'm not mistaken, because I'm going to be honest, their rules are way different than any other races.

Because the leader when the caution come out ended up like not winning the race.

I don't know.

Yeah. He ran out and then they were trying to catch the pace car.

And it just, I don't know.

I gave up on that series a long time ago, to be honest.

What I haven't given up on is the chase for the O'Reilly series.

So Justin Allgaier has not only clinched a chase spot like he had before.

He has clinched the number one seed already with what, four races to go, three go.

He's just on one.

Jesse loved 240 back, but he is clinched into the chase.

And then it's, it's just sort of a scrum.

273 back is Creed.

Four behind him is Day.

11 behind third in fifth is Quaple.

Then 302 back, which is about what 29 behind third place Brandon Jones in sixth.

Five behind Jones is Austin Hill and 20 behind him is Sammy Smith.

So I feel like at this point it's a battle between Creed and Day.

I know the others are kind of close, but I think it's between Creed and Day who gets a third seed.

Here's a, here's a fun fact of how Allgaier has such a massive lead.

He's 240 above Jesse Love.

Would you guys like to guess how many stage points he has this season?

A lot.

240 ish.

Yeah, it's ish.

263.

He has more same points than his gap to second place.

If he had just lost, you know, if he had just lost the 240 of his stage points,

he'd still only be tied of Jesse Love.

He, um, he has more stage points than three full-time drivers have total points this year.

He's the only driver in the 200 range.

Jesse Love does have 179 stage points.

Sheldon Creed, 126, Corey Day, 133, Quaffle 158, Brandon Jones, 131 and Austin Hill, 102.

And there's a few other guys scattered in there to have more than 100 stage points,

but definitely the good finishes, the wins, the stage points, all that has added up to this just phenomenal regular season.

Now this means, this means no guarantee that they're going to continue this in a chase,

but I would be highly shocked if it just stops.

Carson Quaffle is someone I'm looking at to maybe contend for that three seed.

I don't know how many race, regular season races he has left in the one,

but if let's say he, all of them are, I see no reason why he couldn't make up those 11 points.

I mean, if he can just stay with them through Indy and Iowa.

It's Daytona.

Yeah.

Rodney Childers.

Looking at the cut line here, Parker Retzlap plus 71, almost a full race up Sam Mayer plus 33.

He just can't get away from it.

Plus 18 for Cruz, Gray 17 above Raja and then 21 back is Swalich.

I still, I still feel like if Raja can't make up a good amount of points in these next two races,

I think he's in the 32 and at least one of them, I feel like this is going to be the top 12 still.

Yeah.

I don't have any faith in William Swalich getting up there.

Yeah.

Raja, it's just going to come down to can he maximize his days in the 88.

That's what it's going to come down to.

I feel like he's feeling the pressure and I don't know that he's felt that kind of pressure a lot.

Like he's always felt pressure.

He's always had pressure to race for his next opportunity.

He's been in positions to win truck races and he's won truck races and he's made deep playoff.

Like remember last year he was probably going to be in the championship four until he got like a cut tire at Martinsville, I think.

So he's been in high pressure spots, but like this is going to be week after week after week.

And I don't know if he knows his future plans.

So there's, I want to see Raja get a full opportunity in one car, maybe, maybe the 88, maybe something else.

I'm just so, I'm just so surprised at everything because they say the reason is not an 88 full time.

It's because of sponsorship.

But yet when he's in the 32, it's usually a Hendrick cars dot com paint scheme still.

So I think that's part of kind of baffles me a little bit.

I know it.

They can pay a lot less per race for, you know, Jordan Anderson as opposed to junior motorsports.

But at the same time it's Hendrick cars dot com.

Like what are we talking about?

They're on Kyle arson every week.

I don't know.

I don't know the money is there for him.

I just don't know why it's not being spent on the better, better opportunity for him.

I don't know.

Maybe, maybe he's an option for RCR to look at next year.

We don't know it.

I don't know.

I think they probably have like a deadline of getting sponsorship fully up for him before they had to fill in the others.

I mean, that's the only thing I can think of.

But yeah, I, I mean, I get him.

He needs to win a race.

Yeah.

He could win Daytona.

He could.

It's just hard.

You get, and I feel like Kate and Honeycutts feeling some of this pressure in the 11 truck.

You step in for a guy who just had the greatest season ever in that exact truck, same crew chief.

And Honeycutts been good, but he's, I mean, Corey Heim stepped in there and beat him still a few times in a different truck.

Like he's, he's having a good year, but he's not like Kate and Honeycutts been a slight disappointment this year.

And I think it's safe to say Raja and basically everyone who's not a cup driver in that 88 has been a disappointment.

Nobody expected 10 wins like Connor Zillich.

Nobody expected that.

But Connor Zillich did do that.

So we know it's possible.

And so for that trick car to not be winning at all this season with, you know, with the regulars in it, I think, I think that's, you know, you just got to win.

I think the truth is Raja's got to run better when he's in that car.

That's not.

Raja's one of those guys that, you know, it wouldn't shock me if, you know, if he does indeed miss the, miss the chase this year.

He can be one of those guys that, you know, even though he misses the chase, he could still play spoiler.

He could, he could win a race inside the chase.

Like, you know, what if we go to Bristol in September, he's not a chase, but he goes out and does well and wins Bristol.

You know, he could, could be one of those guys that slowly starts to cement himself and get better as the season ends to prep for next year too.

For sure.

And then going all the way back to the start of the weekend, let's go to the trucks real quick.

Grant Endfinger finally is starting to hit his stride, breaks through in a chaotic race and chaos was the name of the game on Saturday in general.

Racing itself wasn't all that much to write home about.

I think the big question for you, look at the points on that.

Do you think that NASCAR should keep trying at Lime Rock or because the crowd was there?

You know, they had a pretty good crowd.

Yeah.

I liked it.

It looked like a decent crowd.

I watched this whole, I watched the whole race.

I was glued to my TV.

It was fun.

It was different.

It was a different race.

Yeah.

It wasn't amazing racing all the time, but I mean, shoot the second half of that race.

There were guys off course, every lap.

People were pushing.

I mean, the honey cut and Gio, Rogero getting together, not backing up teammates, not backing down from each other.

That's a little bit of spicy drama.

Like I actually thought it was a pretty, pretty entertaining truck series race.

And it's fun that the folks up there in Connecticut have this one off.

ARCA comes up there with them.

It's a standard.

It looked like a good crowd.

I think it's cool if they can fit it onto the schedule, if it makes sense.

I think it's cool to have these kind of standalone truck races.

See, it's one of those is like, yes, it's very cool.

And I guess it's not, it's not, well, it's not too far out of way.

It could be one of those things that I don't know if it works fitting in Atlanta weekend,

but what if we try to find a way to fit it into the New Hampshire weekend and just send a rally series

and cup series up to New Hampshire and then do trucks at Lime Rock Park that same weekend.

Cause there, I mean, there are only a couple of states away from each other.

It's not that far from, I'm looking at a map.

I see, I see Concord, New Hampshire right there and there's Lime Rock Park.

I guess it's maybe like a three to four hour drive from each other.

I feel like they could, would either coast, I think they could have Lime Rock cause like,

if you do it with East Coast races, they're all heading the same direction.

Like you said, and maybe we can have a little bit more crossover to if that's the case,

like a cup driver could fly out there and run the Lime Rock race or something like that.

And then on the other end, like if like it's Sonoma weekend, for instance,

that way the trucks don't have to travel as far, maybe don't have to spend as much.

So I definitely think that there's spots in the schedule if NASCAR elects to do so.

My question is, you know, if they make an effort to go to certain other tracks, does it get the boot too?

I hope it stays cause I think we got a pretty tame race last year and a wild race this year.

And much like bubble Wallace on the last lap of Atlanta,

I want to see if we can just like get it right down the middle on the runway on year three and try number three.

I think it is fun that we do have a few places that just the trucks go to.

Like we've had them a walking mile for a little bit.

We've got IRP, you know, for Indianapolis weekend.

I've seen some people throughout the idea of just taking trucks up the road,

America and hate to wake in a Chicago land, Spadeway trucks,

trucks only on like Friday of that weekend.

You know, it wrote America could, could be interesting.

And some of my comments in that Kentucky Spadeway video game.

We'll talk about that later.

Some people throughout the idea of just trucks were in a Kentucky Spadeway.

And that's, that's not a bad weekend for Atlanta weekend.

A couple of shout out.

I just want to shout out a couple of guys in the truck race real quick because I don't want us to forget them.

Landon Lewis second place is pretty cool.

Parker Kligerman.

I know he's from Connecticut.

I think he's like an investor in the track fourth place for him.

And Thomas and Nunziata won the Arco race.

Truck burst into flames randomly in the truck race.

He was sent to a hospital checked and released seems to be doing okay.

Per his most recent update.

But yeah, I just want to give him a shout out because that was like, whoa,

don't see that.

It's too bad he couldn't have ran that for about, say me intended to cause

would have been great seeing that one.

Yeah, that, that, that does, that does suck, man.

Looking at the points here, Lane Riggs and Caden,

Honeycut have flocked themselves in there,

head and shoulders above the field.

44 points between them.

Lane first, Caden second, then 154 back to Chandler Smith and the battle for third.

One point between third Smith, fourth Accus, 10 points between Giorgio.

I, this one, I, we could ask who's going to get what,

but I feel like when you have Wilkesboro, Iowa, Richmond, New Hampshire,

we all have the same type of races.

I, I feel like that falls into at least in my opinion to Chandler Smith

and front row, cause I think front row really excels at these type of races.

Christian Accus is a good short track guy.

Christian Accus is a good short track guy too.

He's one races there.

So I think he'll at least hold serve.

Yeah.

And then looking at the cut line, wherever else?

Yep. And now it is.

It's actually gotten a lot tighter.

A lot of people have fallen down to the cut line now.

Majeski plus 62, the yo-yo season has went down the valley.

Now it's hopefully for him going to go up the mountain this week.

He's 62 up.

Ben Rhodes, 54 up.

Hemerick 53, 42 now for the finger, who was well, well, well below the cut line.

Just a few weeks ago, 17 up for Anchorum over Friesen and Garcia,

21 back to Butterbean, Perez 31, 34 to Haley and Gray is 41 back.

So I just mentioned, we got, we don't have a super speedway in this run

like the other series.

We have four tracks that are a mile or shorter ovals.

I feel like if anyone's going to jump in, it's probably going to be Stuart Friesen

at this point.

Yeah.

I was, I mean, well, Brendan Queen comes from late models.

We'll see if he can carry that ram truck, but the ram trucks are just so.

Ah.

It is nice.

I had to go above the cutoff line.

I remember a few, few weeks back on that grand finger was below and I,

I told y'all, don't, don't sleep on grant to do out there and sneak a win somewhere

and be, be in a good spot.

And sure enough, he did.

He did get that win.

I told you to be on the lookout for now he's rather comfortable and 42 above.

Yeah.

Oh, by the way, Cory Hyme would be on this list if he were eligible.

I should just add that in right off the bat.

He would, he would actually be three points behind Tanner Gray.

I still think he should be eligible.

That's one of the more dumber roles and NASCAR in my opinion that this is the

series.

He's, he's at least approved for points.

I think it should still count.

Yeah.

These all got 14 starts by the way to his five, but he is starting this week.

Um, so maybe, maybe he makes up a boatload of points.

Who knows?

Uh, but that'll do it for what was a pretty damn long weekend.

A lot of stuff going on.

Let's go to the first super chat stage break guys.

And there were a bunch of them before.

So I don't know if I'll put them on screen or Eric, you might be able to.

I'll try.

Uh, starting out with a few from Joshua Boston and talking about the package

here says, uh, smaller spoiler.

Good horsepower drop to four 65 bad.

I hope NASCAR reconsider this drop in horsepower during preseason thunder in

20, 27 and uses seven 50 instead.

That's all too much.

So I don't mean to put Joshua on blast, but I've seen a bunch of comments.

I like less horse.

This is more horse.

This is a super speedway.

And this is still more horsepower than almost the entirety of the

restrictor plate era.

Like the horsepower doesn't matter.

It's just a number.

They're still going to be going 200 miles an hour in the pack.

That's all it matters.

Anyway, he also says the late great Barney hall predicted back in 1996.

We'd return to North Wilkesboro again.

What a shame that the voice of the motor racing network is unable to see

his prediction come true after passing away 10 years ago.

Yeah.

One of the greats.

Technically, this is the first official points race back and be very

interested to hear who's a defending winner later.

Yeah.

Uh, Jeffrey King says the Napa Elliott curse continues since 2022.

Dega Palm tree says, I'm pretty sure I woke up to the neighbors across

the road, uh, wake up the neighbors across the road when Brennan got put

in the wall, just one loud, devastated scream of full.

So close.

So I didn't finish those last two letters.

You're not mad.

Bailey says the O'Reilly race felt like an Arcus super speedway race.

Absolutely embarrassing.

I pretty, pretty true.

Uh, Palm tree says also with house stage one strung out,

are we ready to put the regular mile and a half package on Atlanta and

modify Vegas or Texas for drafting?

I think Atlanta is slick enough.

It's still have great racing and the West coast needs a pack race.

I don't want to super speedway if I anything if we don't have to anymore.

This is enough.

Yeah.

If we're going to do us another track do do Kentucky instead,

just because that one needs to help anyways.

Dan, he's really trying to make Kentucky happen now.

I might Nashville happen.

I'll do it again.

He spent, I'm like, I'm like goofy.

I'll do it again.

He spent a few hours there.

And now it's like he, he, he bonded so deeply with Kentucky.

That is never going to happen.

I, I wheeled in, I wheeled Nashville super speedway to come back.

Jared wheeled to Chicago land to come back.

We need you to wheel a track to come back.

Do you want to hop onto Kentucky speedway bandwagon with me, Eric?

I could give two shits about Kentucky speedway.

You can.

It's dead and gone.

Texas world speedway.

It's dead and gone, but you can wheel a rebuild of Texas world speedway

over, over a neighborhood.

Actually, no, no, no.

We talked about this years ago, the three mile 38 degree bank,

Texas mega speedway.

That's what we want.

With a Bucky's in the infield.

Yes.

But the return of Disney world speedway, Disney world speedway

coming, coming soon.

We'll, we'll get it right the second time.

I'm looking at a few more here.

Let's see.

Joshua Boston says, a host of art is great for NASCAR.

There's no denying that, but we also want him to stick around and

not fizzle out because he's too wild for his own good.

Like Robbie Gordon before him just saying Robbie did get in his

own way a lot.

Yeah.

That's a delicate line.

It's a slot third.

This season has made me too depressed and have switched my loyalty

to Indy car.

Stay away from Indy car Ford.

We'll continue to watch NWP there.

Well, thank you.

We'll keep you updated.

So does that mean Ford is running people off with their midness this

year?

That's very sad to hear.

Indy Carson says, Hey NWP, could you do a poll for me and see a

fans during the show prefer NASCAR racing should be on at six

current Sunday night races or old school Saturday night races like

eight in 2012.

2026 has only three probably later on do it during like

whether Saturday night races back in the day.

There were a ton.

I don't remember that many.

My gosh.

Cause we had Texas had one for a couple of years.

At one point it was like Phoenix, Texas, Darlington, Kentucky or

Chicago and interchangeable in there.

You had Richmond, Bristol night race, Daytona.

That's six right there.

Charlotte.

Yeah.

Right.

So depends on the year.

But yeah, a few more here.

Blake says Fox is so bad they managed to also ruin the MLB all star

game last night only showed the updated lineup like three times

the entire game.

Terrible.

Oh, I watched some of their broadcast.

The AI slop was out of control.

So it's not just NASCAR on Fox.

I had this conversation with Amelia actually.

You can tell it's the same people making all the calls for Fox

sports because when it comes to their on air talent, they're not

really interested in who actually fits great.

Who's the most talented.

They're looking for names.

Like I remember a Fox executive on Twitter was defending their Jeff

Gordon in the booth pick when people were like, yeah, Jeff Gordon's

not that good.

They're like, well, it's Jeff Gordon.

Look at his resume.

It's like, yeah, he's a great driver.

Is he good in the booth?

I don't think so.

I was watching the Fox baseball broadcast.

They have Derek Jeter, David Ortiz, Alex Rodriguez, like the who's

who of the 2000 some of the greatest baseball players ever.

Phenomenal.

They sit down with Justin Verlander for an interview and get every

single stat based on his career wrong.

They did no prep, no research.

They do nothing.

It seemed about maybe the greatest picture of this century.

So it's just, it's, it's classic Fox AI slop and style over substance.

Tom Brady in the booth.

Is he any good?

No, but he's Tom Brady.

So he's got even heard Tom Brady in the booth.

Like I'm just saying he's gotten, I will say Tom Brady's gotten better,

but that's also because I'm pretty sure the NFL probably like put a gun

to his firstborn 10.

It's like, you better get it right.

You're crossing this money.

Tom Brady's probably going to be like Jeff Gordon in the sense that Jeff

Gordon started off doing commentary and then he went away to focus more on

the ownership side of Hendrick Motorsport.

It's just like Tom Brady is going to eventually leave and focus on the

ownership side of the Las Vegas Raiders.

The Brady comparison is probably unfair, but the baseball comparison was

totally fair.

That was a joke.

MLB's All Star broadcast a joke.

Fox's broadcast a joke.

Let's get three more.

Bayley says Joey Logano hasn't had a top five since Martinsville.

And this was his first top 10 since Michigan.

It's been a bad year.

Thank you for the dollar.

And then we'll finish off with Chris John, who says, not going to lie.

I was in thrall to buy a wipe out.

Oh, that was wipe out is really bad now, man.

It's really bad.

I didn't watch it.

I know that was on during the red.

I didn't watch it.

It's no bueno.

You know, it is really good though, especially when I'm not caught out in

it like I was last night.

I went for like an evening run after I did an interview and I was not

crazy about being caught out in a real life lightning round, but I

love this lightning round.

I really love this one.

Let's go and do it here.

We of course had the NWP channel, which is linked down below.

We will at some point get a date to you of when we're going to do our

little like 1000 subscriber special on that channel.

It's just, uh, I think we're actually like talking about like texting about

it last week or like, oh yeah, we probably text about it.

Like after the race or like sometimes it's weak and then the race

decided to just go into the week.

Um, I racing is racing at subscription prices in August.

I think it's like a buck 75 a month more.

So it's not like killing you, but still it's notable.

Uh, the public memorial for Kyle Bush will be held in the Charlotte

Motor Speedway on October 9th.

So for anyone that's going, keep that in mind.

Uh, Peterson racing group is rumored to have two full time teams in

O'Reilly next year.

Uh, Marcus Smith and SMI will be joining the ownership group for

the cars tour.

So that might be something to look at maybe as a more companion

series in the years to come when it comes to races that might not

have O'Reilly or trucks at an SMI track.

So maybe keep that in mind.

And then, uh, next week will be on Danny's channel again, July 22nd,

8pm Eastern time, uh, talking all things Wilkesboro and heading

into Indianapolis, Brickyard 400.

So it should be a lot of fun.

That was, that was a quick lightning round before we go to

headlines, Danny, we have been teasing it a little bit.

You have updates from being literally at the Kentucky Speedway

without breaking in.

Yes.

I was on my way to Cincinnati, Ohio from Nashville, Tennessee,

and decided that since, uh, I was going to my buddy Matt,

Claudia is, uh, out of the country.

Uh, you guys remember I went on that mission trip of our church to

Jamaica last year.

She's back on it again from mom.

So I had a weekend to myself.

So I called my buddy Matt up.

It's like, Hey, do you want to go to MLB game?

The Cubs are playing at the red.

So it's not that far away.

It's only like four hour drive.

So yeah, we booked as a hotel and, uh, it was just about 17 minutes

away.

So stop checked into the hotel and drove up to, uh, drove up to

the Kentucky Speedway on the way since it's again, this is the,

this is more shocking than me.

Cause everyone just, when you think about Kentucky Speedway,

think about that traffic issue and it's very first race.

And I guess things have changed a lot since then.

They've added in some, some better road system since then,

but it's literally off the interstate.

So that's the crazy thing.

You know, people talk about, you know, attracts being out of the

way.

It's literally off the interstate.

You can about see it from the interstate.

It's that, that's that close to it.

Um, but I got there and I was only been six years since the last

race there.

And that was the race without fans.

There's starting to be a lot of deterioration already only six

years later.

Um, there's grass that's starting to grow through the park.

A lot of people, you see it on map.

You just see a bunch of Ford trucks.

The Ford trucks are gone.

That was when they had a period where they were waiting on parts

that were in short supply.

So they needed to just have a place to house those.

Those have been gone for a while now.

It looks like.

So the only things going on there, every, every pathway into the

track has like little barriers.

You can't get, you can't get into it any further than the road.

So don't go any further than just the road.

Like the, where I got as far as you should be able to, to, to see

it.

Don't, don't, yeah.

As, uh, as Ethan, uh, says there, uh, respect Danny for not trespassing.

Yeah.

Don't go trespassing onto the property.

You can see plenty from the highway, just like I did.

That's all you need to do.

If you go, if you do pass for that area, there is a building that

actually there's two buildings I saw.

One's the old credential building, which is like a little trailer.

And there's a more of a bigger garage area that says operations on

it.

And I think that's the only building where what little staff is,

they, they do have a Kentucky speaker.

Cause I do have some people is just working out of an operation

building.

They're not working, they're not working out of the big, like nice

Kentucky speed with admin building.

That's got a barrier in front of you.

You can't, you can't go up there to it.

Um, even that kind of looks like the building started to kind of

just get dirty looking from the outside.

Um, a lot of the parking signs around were the worst, uh, that

you'd see around the property, like definitely lost their color a

long time ago.

Cracks in them like crazy.

One even had missing panels off of it.

Those are definitely starting to look really bad up there.

Um, I guess the grass is getting mowed, but it's like, it's pretty

obvious.

They're only mowing at like once a month and probably just like doing

a bush, bush hog with it real, real fast.

Just kind of get rid of, you know, just so it's not going to be like

a jungle out there.

Um, yeah, it's, uh, if I had to put.

This on a scale of one to 10 in terms of like unsavageable race

tracks right now, I guess I'm going to go a generous, if 10s being

the most unsavageable, one being like Chicago Lynn Speedway,

perfect condition, I'll put this at like a five and a half.

I'm not willing to say that it's being possible to race there again,

but what I could see from the track conditions, it would be a very

worn in track.

Cause this is, you know, this, I might have seen some that they've

still done the NASCAR racing experience there here and there

every now and again since then, but that might be the only cars that

have really hit the track there unless I'm missing any kind of

Goodyear tire tests that I don't know about.

Um, so it's been bare minimum track activity there.

Kentucky land to Kentucky Speedway.

They call it Kentucky land.

What am I doing?

Rename it to that.

And we'll have a, we'll have a great new track track name for it to reopen

under, but no, um, yeah, it's, it's definitely, it's definitely, uh,

not ready to go racing right now.

I'll just put it like that.

No, your video showed a lot of good just images.

I was surprised to see how kind of decayed looking parts of it were.

Um, that was a little surprising.

So I, on your one to 10, and I wasn't there in person, I'd probably go

with 6.5, but, uh, but yeah, who knows.

I mean, I feel like you're right.

Maybe I should have said sick.

I'd say five and a half, but six is probably more realistic.

Like it's, it would still need a good amount of sudden care.

Like it would need at least a year, a year to get it back to racing shape

in my opinion.

And I know it's not crazy far from other race tracks, but it being so close

to like Ohio, especially, I think that's the thing.

Let's smack that middle between Louisville and Cincinnati.

And those are too good market.

I drove, I was in both of them literally on my way.

Uh, so I don't know.

It's just so, so fascinating to me that, you know, it, it didn't

draw in more fans than it, than it really did.

Well, and, and I will say too, like,

Chicago land had a big ground swell behind it for a while before NASCAR

brought it on.

I honestly think if, if Chicago land didn't have so many fans that

we're pushing for it for so long and bringing it up on a regular basis

and then drivers bringing it up, like, I don't know if it would come back

as quick if, if it would be back yet.

Whereas like Kentucky, it's sort of the, well, the next gen,

the next gen's good at mile and a half's maybe be good at Kentucky.

It probably be a decent race.

I'm being honest.

And even the import is worth, I guess the last two were the battle,

the bushes was probably the best one.

The finishes were good.

I still wouldn't say the racing was.

I mean, the racing definitely wasn't like as horrible probably as we remember,

but it was, it wasn't very good.

The thing too is that the payouts were some of the lowest in NASCAR too

on top of that.

It's like, I feel like once SMI had the traffic issues in the first couple

of years didn't go right.

They were just sort of like, eh, they're spotting the schedule.

Just do the bare minimum and whatever.

I know things and people also advocating they'd like to see Indy car

at another oval and Kentucky would be one they'd want to, they'd want to see

considered.

So, I mean, if this is just purely SMI, if they wanted to go that direction,

I would argue to do kind of like what they used to do with Texas,

but our speedway back in the day, do an Indy car and truck race weekend.

If you just want to have something at Kentucky speedway,

it might be worth the shot, but I'm glad we have some updates on it.

Cause you are right.

You can see it from the highway.

So it's pretty cool that you got pretty good footage out of you.

I haven't watched Danny's video.

I should probably put it in the description after we finish this up.

So I'm going to.

Yeah, I don't get to do many videos, but I was able to put that one together

pretty quick.

Did it literally, I edited it literally under the red flag on Sunday.

That's how much time we had.

And you may be texting about it.

I'm just like, yeah, I guess go for it.

But let's jump into the full headline section now.

We'll go through these probably pretty quickly.

First off, the big news from today.

NASCAR has unveiled the new super speedway package for, I know they said Daytona,

but I'm assuming it means for Talladega as well.

Then the big highlights are the spoiler will go from seven inches to four inches,

which is same as the intermediate tracks to try and reduce the drag.

So that way they don't have as much of a parachute, I guess, going out of line

and trying to make a pass horsepower going down from 510 to 465 to try and reduce

some downforce with that one.

It's pretty similar to what the gen six era was.

It also would mean less horsepower.

More than likely it also mean less fuel being burned.

So maybe that could help with saving gas a little bit.

NASCAR said they anticipate about three mile per hour increase for single cars,

but about the same speed for the pack itself.

Denny Hamlin said that the goal is to try and make the Atlanta style racing

at Daytona and Talladega and said that quote,

it's the first bite at the Apple.

It will be a 33% gain in the right direction.

Also worth noting there still is no practice for this race.

Of course, of course.

No, but I mean, my first reaction seeing this is finally,

finally we're not sitting on our hands.

I mean, this has been a complaint since I would argue like 2023.

I think 2022, the first year of the next gen, it was also new.

We weren't really sure exactly what we were watching,

but I feel like since 2023, it's been, you know, fuel saving has gotten worse

and worse and worse.

It's gotten to where your saving fuel ride in half throttle for 45 laps

just to go hard for 10 to 15.

And even in those 10 to 15, you're usually stuck in line,

unable to pull out of line without fear of getting blasted by air

and fall into the back.

And so it's just now it's not been great racing.

You know, it's just push, push, push until one lane pushes too hard and wrecks.

I mean, that's how a lot of these Daytona Talladega races have finished

the past few years.

And I think it was overdue for a change.

And, you know, so I will give NASCAR credit, NASCAR, the manufacturers,

everyone credit for being willing to make this change,

especially mid season like this.

But, you know, I hope this is just the beginning.

I hope that there's still those rumors about an extended preseason,

thunder test.

I hope they bring some real hardware out to that.

And that does happen.

And we can maybe make some larger changes next year.

Denny says this might get us 33% of the way there.

Hopefully we can find the other 67%, you know, in the off season.

But I'm glad they're doing something because I just,

I feel like the suit, the big super speed ways now are,

I just, I frankly don't really enjoy watching them.

If I can be completely honest, it's like it kind of,

I have a stomach ache.

The whole, like there are moments I love,

but I kind of just end up like clenched just like the whole time.

I hate to say this in a bad way.

I guess it's like, you know, it's long and you're just like,

just waiting to see who can survive till the end of one of these.

And you're hoping no one's going to,

no one's going to commit the sport ender in the middle of the race somehow.

And you're just like, it's just a question of like, okay,

who's going to be in this in the end?

That's basically what you're waiting for in one of these races.

I do wonder with less downforce,

what the effect is going to be if a car does get turned around like before.

Because, you know, all of the flaps that they put onto the cars,

especially for super speedways had in mind the package we've been running.

So I'm wondering if maybe that might be something that rears its head.

I'm cautiously optimistic, but I don't know if it's going to be like 2019.

No, I don't think it will be 2019 to 2021.

I don't think it's going to be like that.

I think if we get what we had in like 2013, 14, 15,

I honestly think that'll be a massive improvement

because people could still make their way up the pack.

People could still make runs at the leader.

The leader had a big advantage and it's not really all that fun,

but there is no advantage now.

I mean, it's, it's, you know, we talked about that,

that Talladega race at host of our one earlier

and how much of a highlight that was,

but like the race itself was not good.

It was bad.

I think the rate that the finish and the winner

is what elevated a lot of people's remembrance of that race.

Same with the way that the 500s last relapse

where people are like, oh, it's pretty good.

And then it's like, you know, like back and you're like,

no, no, it really wasn't.

So I just, I hope people don't overblow this that this is like,

oh my God, we're back.

This is like, you know, 2000 super speedway race.

I don't think it's going to be that way if it is.

Holy hell NASCAR.

I can't wait to see what you cook up in preseason thunder.

Like if it's open to the public, I'll be there.

But I, I, I think, yeah.

And it's important.

And I think it's good that Danny and them are making

or sending that message that it is just a step,

a small step, hopefully in the right direction,

not having practice is goofy.

I mean, I get it.

You're going to get all the data and stuff you need in the race.

It's hard to replicate race conditions,

but not having even a half hour to just feel things.

That's kind of dumb.

There's still time to change that.

We'll see if they do.

But, but no, I'm, I'm glad they're doing something.

Yeah, I'm kind of with you.

Like I'm not expecting this to be an all timer.

I'm not expecting it to look like Atlanta.

I'm just expecting it to be at least a little different than

the past four years.

And that different than the last four years is good with me.

Hopefully that means different in a good way,

but I'll take anything at this point.

I'm glad they're trying something.

Well, let's look at some reckless speculation now,

briefly here.

So there was a picture that's been floating around on X Bozy.

I think he quote tweeted it,

but colleague is spending more time in the Ayrton wind tunnel.

And a lot of that talk has been about dodge.

There is, I believe that like raminate Ram truck or whatever X

account that has a lot of the rumors and is pretty good with it.

That's been like, they're pretty far along with it.

So I'm just, we're not even going to like talk too much about

what they're doing cause nobody really knows right now,

but more with all we know with the rumors flying around,

what percent zero being of obviously no chance,

a hundred being full just cause for some reason somebody at home

is going to get confused on that.

What percent chance do you think we see a dodge in the 2027

Daytona 500?

What do you think Eric?

You go first on this one.

I'm not even trying to be funny.

I'm going to go 50, 50 cause either we will or we won't.

But I genuinely, I think they 100% are trying.

I think they still believe dodge to Daytona in 2027 is on the table.

I might, maybe I'll go over 50.

I think they're that confident.

They might be able to make it.

I might go 60.

I'm right there with you.

I'm agreeing to 60% and the reason I'm at 60% and not a hundred percent.

You guys, yes, I know they have every intention of it happening,

but I don't know what is the end result of NASCAR's final approval process

and them getting the car where they can all be approved on it.

That's the outside factors.

You know, yes, we have dodge and colleague that want this,

but then you have to get the other side of that approval.

So that's why I say there's 60% intent, 40%.

We need to finish the other process.

And that part's actually why I think it's more likely than not

that they will make it on track next year.

Cause I think NASCAR wants them on track next year.

I think NASCAR is, I think they already maybe have, you know,

extended deadlines or, you know, tweak the timeline to try and accommodate them.

Cause I remember reading a while back, you needed like to submit your body

and everything for design like a year and a half in advance.

We're obviously well within that range.

So it's, I feel like there's, I think NASCAR is trying to hold their hand

and help them along the way as best they can.

I think that part is true.

So I think there's a good chance they'll make, they'll get it done.

The engines are the part that I'm very interested to know.

How are they going to, that report from, I think it was from Bianchi a few weeks

back that they discovered a breakthrough and how they were going to produce engines.

Cause that's always been the chatter.

Like colleague, they don't have an engine shop.

You know, not a big robust one like Roush Yates or like, you know,

Toyota or Hendrick or ECR.

So how are they going to develop cup series engines?

If they only have two full-time cars, maybe that's a smaller operation.

Maybe that's where the breakthrough came from as they did find somewhere,

somehow they could do it and meet capacity.

But that's, that's probably the biggest hurdle they still have yet to clear.

That's going to be the interesting thing.

Cause when you think of, you think of Dodge, you think some very,

some very powerful engine brands that come associated them, you know,

across multiple different ways.

Cummins, Cummins engines, you think of the Mopar brand, you think of a Hemi,

you know, you think so much good engine power of Dodge's history.

So that's one thing that's kind of interesting.

Okay. Get them a chance to get their brain on things and what could end up happening?

I'll be more aggressive.

I'm going to go 80.

I think the aggressive nature that they've gone through with all of this,

the rumors more and more floating around that it's not just that they haven't had

a breakthrough.

They're, they're, they're there.

NASCAR extending deadlines from the sounds of it.

Like I think it's more than likely it happens.

And competition wise, I don't think it's a right call.

I'm going to stay firm on that one.

If we think they're struggling in trucks with Ram,

imagine how much you're going to struggle in cup,

which is infinitely more competitive than trucks.

I don't think it's the right call.

I think 2028 would be the right way to go about it,

but knowing how Stellantis runs things now,

I think it seems so unbrand for them to rush this into 27.

And I think it's more likely than not that we're going to see two dodges,

one driven by AJ Elmendinger.

Who knows who's going to be in the 10 yet?

It could still be Ty Dillon.

But I think more likely than not we're going to see it.

I know it's aggressive.

I mean, to your point of how fast this is all happening,

it's only been about 12 months and roughly a year since they first announced

that they would be coming to trucks.

It was Michigan.

That was like late June, one year ago.

It's basically a year ago.

They announced, hey, we're coming to the truck series.

And here we are a year later and they're going to cup already.

Like Toyota in the mid 2000s spent three full seasons just in trucks

before moving their way up or before their cup series program got off the ground.

So, you know, I know times have changed.

The next gen car has certainly sped up that timeline a bit,

but I do agree.

It's an aggressive.

They are there's an aggressive, very aggressive timeline.

Last bit when it comes to the headline side of things,

NASCAR has sort of talked about even though Steve Phelps is gone,

who was really pushing expansion and going to different areas.

They're still trying to go on that path.

So there were three main points for domestically what they were talking

about and three points internationally that came up.

I believe it was a sports business journal put an article out about it.

So domestically, still a very big push for Chicago in 2027.

Again, from what I heard, I pretty much a lot of the details were done.

It's more in the hands of state and city governments at that point.

So get ready for politics central as much as we hate it in our chat.

There is an effort sooner rather than later to be back in the Pacific Northwest

and continuing talks to bring back Naval base Coronado for next year.

Internationally, there's a high focus on getting a race to Canada.

They're looking at possible events in Europe and England was actually mentioned by name

as like the top country to look at for NASCAR to maybe do an event,

maybe points race, maybe just its own thing.

And then possibly,

I mean, come on.

Well, and then possibly an event in Lamar after the success of garage 56.

I think IMSA did a NASCAR style event.

So taking all that into perspective and what we've seen NASCAR do the last about

10 years with the schedule, what they've talked about pushing.

Like for me, I think that this is just sort of, you know, same plan,

different person running it now.

That that's what it seems like.

And that's never really something I feel like was dedicated just to one person.

I feel like that was a, that was a thought amongst the entirety of NASCAR management

that they want to see these kind of events happen again.

I know we've talked about, I've hammered this thought.

I don't like the idea of going to the same cities over and over.

If we're going to Chicago, the street course.

Okay, let me our street course.

But then let's go do another one next year.

Then another city, then another city.

Like I like the idea of one street course per year and make these cities fight to be able to have it

and put it a fair fight to not get the same city every year.

So after hearing that, I love that there at least is interest in the Pacific Northwest.

Obviously interested in staying in Southern California.

I think it's, there's a lot of fans out West that have so few options now.

So I'm glad to hear that NASCAR is keeping a close eye on that region.

And I love hearing Canada, I think Canada, what they're going to go international again.

I think they could do Mexico City again, but I think Canada would be an even bigger win

if they could get that Montreal, you know, collab off the ground finally or who knows.

The Europe stuff, I get where their head is at with international.

I think, you know, so many sports international.

I mean, Formula one, that's obviously the model they're looking at.

I'm sure Formula one is blown up across borders.

I mean, the World Cup, I mean, that's proven to be a huge hit.

I mean, this entire country's embraced it as well as I think anyone expected,

maybe even more so than a lot of folks expected.

And that's a huge international, huge international appeal.

So I get like the world is more connected than ever.

Sponsors companies are more international than ever.

So I'm sure that is playing a role in NASCAR wanting to get some of these international events off the ground.

So I get the business side of what they're thinking.

A race in Europe, it'd be cool.

But goodness gracious, it would be the greatest logistical challenge yet.

And so I don't know, I just, I'd love to see how they make that work.

What's their plan for making that work?

The Canada and West Coast stuff, all four, if they can make that happen, that'd be great.

I will note one thing that wasn't mentioned at all in it and was a big point,

even up until about 22, 23 that was still talked about.

No talk of a race in Saudi Arabia or the Middle East at this point, like it was before.

I'm just, I'm just saying.

I mean, it's probably next talking about it briefly.

Remember that headline?

Yeah.

And like much of that area of the world, it got bombed down really quick.

Anyway, we'll see.

I mean, I think that the future, the next 10, 15 years, especially the next TV deal,

I think is when it's going to be really interesting to what they do.

I think the way that American sporting leagues in general have been really putting a focus on Europe.

I do think at some point we're going to see a NASCAR race in Europe.

There's plenty of great historic tracks.

NASCAR fans in America will be pissed because they are pretty much all road courses,

but it's, you know, that's just the name of the game over there.

But I, I, I'm willing to embrace, I think one or two international races is awesome.

I think having a street race a year is pretty cool.

Like I'm, I'm willing to have a diversification of the schedule because NASCAR is, in my opinion,

has done a pretty good job of balancing old and new.

We, we, I mean, we've brought it up for every Chicago street race.

We get a North Wilkesboro for every naval base Coronado.

We're going back to Chicago land.

We have rocking ham back, Bowman Gray.

You know, there, there's been a good balance so far.

So I, I trust until they screw up and, you know, it could be, they could do that next year.

They could do that in 10 years.

I do trust the schedule makers at this point though, that I think they will get the balance right.

Here's just an idea.

If we, if, you know, talk about some inner, some technically international race options

that could be some look at in the future.

A little bit easier logistics and it's technically part of the United States.

Puerto Rico actually has the one and a half mile Ponce international speedway park.

Interesting.

One and a half mile 12 turn road course down there.

Oh, I thought it was going to be a mile and a half cookie cutter.

I thought it was going to be another Kansas.

All NASCAR, a lot of like NASCAR fans who are just like looking at a cursory of you are going to be like,

Oh, another mile and a half.

And then we're going to like show up and just be like, it's a road course too.

I say, I say look into the, if you haven't ever heard this before, this is my first time ever looking it up.

Like it's pretty interesting track design.

It's got some hairpand.

It's got some longer stretches, some, you know, bus stops.

Pretty interesting.

We're looking at, um, but guys, let's have, let's have a little fun.

All right.

We've got through our headlines, talked a lot of stuff.

It's going to be a long night, but let's, let's look at our, uh, predictions.

So each host will make two NASCAR motor sports or show related predictions.

We'll keep track in our accountability session.

As long as I put the right damn ones in this week and, uh, we'll keep them relatively concise within a few years.

But let's be honest with all these rules, we pay fast and loose.

Me, I got two right.

I said, RCR would lead less than 50% of the O'Reilly race.

And they did buy a wide margin.

They, uh, a lot less on us said that both races would end under green.

They tried not to at least the O'Reilly race for sure didn't, but we got them in.

Uh, Eric one for two, said a spire car would be in the top three at the white flag in Atlanta.

They were leading with cars.

I was glad I got that one right.

Uh, now somebody asked Austin Hill about grunting, but he basically did not bite at the question.

You said Austin would grunt or reference grunting in one of his interviews this weekend.

He was not in the mood to grunt.

Yeah, he didn't.

Yeah, that's fine.

That's fair.

I think that's fair to put that in red.

Uh, Danny said Austin Hill would lead laps in both Atlanta races.

I, he did not lead in cup.

And then Alex Bowman would be in the final four and advanced this week in the,

I really, I really felt better about that for a long time, but in the end, no Todd got him.

Oh, the Todd father.

Uh, so looking this year, I am leading at 60.47% Eric at 46.15 Danny at 35 flat.

And, uh, all time I have 40.052 Eric at 34.44444 repeating.

Somebody can do their loop on that one as well as this one with Danny at 32.77777.

So house of our.

Yeah.

And third here this week.

Well, there's no cup 32.

So I guess Jordan Anderson, Carson, Oh, so far.

So I'll lead us off on the predictions and I'm going to have a positive one for next year.

Um, well positive for everyone, but Jamie little, I will say that Eric Brennan will be the full

time truck announcer in 2027.

Now does it count if he's full time, but like there's a week or two, maybe where he doesn't

do it for whatever reason.

Um, as the week planned in advance, or is he announced the full time one?

Cause I'm saying he's announced the full time one.

I'm not going to, to try and technical loophole this one.

Got it.

I was just curious, just curious.

Uh, I teased this earlier.

I'll just go and make it a official here.

There are six regular season races left.

I predict Ryan Blaney will win at least two of them.

Is that the one you were alluding to like way earlier in the show?

Yeah.

At the beginning of the show, we were talking about how Blaney could win like, but Danny

said he could win five in a row and I said he might be favored for five in a row, but

I think he'll actually win two or more.

So you're just saying he's going to win two more races of the next six of the regular

season races.

Cause that's basically what I have, but worded differently.

The way I had awarded with Ryan Blaney will finish regular season with at least four wins.

I suppose that is essentially the same prediction.

Well, Eric, what are the exact words of yours?

I just said two or more.

Yeah.

Basically four or more wins in the regular season.

Those are essentially the same prediction.

Basically the same.

You're going to have to give me time for a second one just because you went for four

maybe.

Use your second one now then, and then we'll run through again.

Predict that he wins five in a row.

All right.

You know what?

I'll just say, I'll just say he'll win at least five races.

I'll give him one more.

I got enough time with the Ryan Blaney.

I'm dead.

I'm dead at Ethan in the chat when we were having the same prediction.

He goes, both could happen.

Yes.

You know what?

Hey, I'll just give him one more to shoot for.

I don't know how I'm going to get the retic one and this one.

I like that.

Thanks for doing that.

That's funny.

I mean, you'll know by the week if it's still possible or not.

I think.

Yeah.

All right.

So rolling on my side, the Lyme Rock circuit will get an O'Reilly or Cup race by 2030.

Okay.

I'll go aggressive on that one.

2030.

That's four years away.

What happened to contain and concise?

Okay.

Well, how about this?

Then by, we'll do it by 29.

There you go.

There's three.

You can do 2030.

I'm just saying you're going to keep track of it for that long.

My second prediction.

I had another prediction I made earlier in the show, but I want to codify it here in

our segment.

Ryan Priest and Joey Logano will make the chase.

They're both outside right now.

I think they'll both make it in.

This is a interesting one here.

Then I'm going to shoot with.

Now, a lot of people instantly wanted to point blame and get mad at these guys for what happened

with the Anansiata paint scheme this past weekend, but it really seemed like that was

more of an issue with the team submitting things in the end of all of it.

Not necessarily this particular company, but I'm going to say that before the end of,

before the end of 2027, M&Ms will return to NASCAR in some capacity.

You can make it spicy and say where the track you think it'd be at.

It doesn't have to be part of the prediction.

It can just be like you predicted off the record.

Off the record, I think we'll see it, I'll just say potentially this year during the

chase in some capacity.

I'll just leave it at that.

But I think before the end of 2027, we'll see them backs in some way with a response

during a race with someone that'll be back somehow.

I like it.

Well, those are predictions everyone will follow and I will keep potentially for a long

time with my Lamarack prediction in the, in the chamber, but that means we have one more

fun segment to jump into.

And it also means that the chat and my two co-hosts will be not seeing each other for

a few minutes here.

Random driver of the week.

All right.

So Danny leads Eric 4543.

We got those petty enterprises numbers now.

Eric has three of the last five though with Blake Cook, Red Byron and Matt Kenseth.

Danny has Kevin Harvick and James Buescher.

So let's get into it.

This random driver is a New York native.

I heard NY.

Why?

God, I like how like they put their, um, they put their predictions for who the driver will

be before I even have anything said.

Is anyone right?

No.

This random driver shares a name with competitive swimmer on the Olympic team for Team USA.

Like this, like same first and last name.

Yep.

Same first and last name.

Is that Ryan Newman?

Ryan Newman.

I didn't know where he's from, but I know if you would always look him up and bring up

some random girl side, it's like, I don't know who she is.

That's why I just shot that one out there.

Michael Phelps.

Final answer.

Michael Phelps.

No, I was joking.

I know, I know, I'm just, I'm just giving you shit.

If you've ever, if you've ever just Google search Ryan Newman, it brings up him sometimes,

but usually, oh, is she an actor?

I didn't know what she was though.

I think she is.

I, I don't know.

I would always just be like, I don't, I don't want to see a girl.

I want to see a portly looking man.

Put that one on out of context in WP.

Oh, that one, that one would go great.

He said portly looking man.

Jeez.

It's all right.

Do you know, do you know what the dude in the X-wing, the big dude that gets blown up

at the death start?

Do you know what his name is?

So Danny knows Eric.

Do you know what his name is?

I don't know his name, but.

Oh, okay.

No, no, no.

Porkins.

Oh my God.

Porkins.

John Pork.

All right.

This random driver is noted to be a huge fan of the Carolina Hurricanes as well as the Denver Broncos.

Go Broncos.

Oh, oh, oh.

Oh, that, that's a huge hint.

I think.

Oh man.

Oh geez.

The amount of times we tweeted about this random driver.

I haven't.

Danny has once.

Eric has twice.

I just wanted to put the suspense there.

Just twice as many times as Danny.

Yeah, but 69 less times than you name whoever it was he did 71 for her.

I think that was might have been Matt Kenseth.

No, no, you were over a hundred for that one.

Yeah.

I think you are.

Yeah.

This random driver began racing at the age of four.

I will give you the.

Oh, go ahead.

Go ahead.

Give me vibes of definitely not being like someone from like the fifties or nothing like that.

Well, this random driver's most recent number that they drove in a NASCAR was the eight car.

Is that the only number?

No, no, no, that's just the most recent.

Okay.

This random driver drove Chevy's, Ford's and Dodge's in their NASCAR career.

Chevy's Ford and Dodge, as you said.

Yep.

Let's see.

I don't want to give it away too soon.

But most recently drove the eight.

Okay.

This random driver made 208 O'Reilly series starts.

Solid.

And 16 of them.

Okay.

Cool.

This random driver made 224 cup series starts.

And one once.

One cup win.

This random driver made two starts, though, in the all star race.

I guess they race their way in once or something or fan vote.

Man, I should know this.

It's on the tip of my tongue.

This random driver's first start was the 2007 Food City 500.

We got that race, Danny.

No, I didn't get to start going till 09.

All I really know about that one was that Kyle wanted.

I can give you the numbers this random driver drove in.

There are a lot of them.

So make sure your pens have ink.

Ready.

I just got a text from someone that said the Olympic swimmer lives 10 minutes away from me.

Geez.

At least, you know, I check my DMs when I get messages, y'all.

Okay.

That's funny.

Numbers.

56, 58, 63, 65, 78, 88, 92, and 95.

I guess out of all these, I'm just going to go with Regan Smith.

Regan Smith.

That's who it is.

Oh, no.

I was hearing a ton of Regan Smith numbers in there.

Regan Smith.

I don't remember.

So his most recent start was the eight in the O'Reilly series.

Yeah.

He ran, he ran eight for junior motorsports.

He's from New York.

He drove for furniture.

Of course he's a Broncos fan.

That's, I should have known that.

The next clue is going to be he made two cup starts for Hendrick motorsports.

Good, good poll, Danny.

I'm mad I didn't get that one.

Apparently we did Regan Smith too already.

I don't remember that one.

Did I get him?

Did I even out with Eric?

I think the chat just guesses like all the, like they put it like a million

guesses each week.

So they, they've like probably convinced themselves.

One of the past ones was Regan Smith because they, they thought it was,

you know what I mean?

I'm going, I'm going down the double check.

I don't see it in the list.

But that probably didn't put it down there.

Well chat, then if we did it before who won, did Danny break even so I can

say that I gifted both sides or.

I just want, I didn't know there was a swimmer named Regan Smith.

All I'm hearing is we did it.

I know we did it.

I hear Mandela effect.

I don't know.

But now that I think about it, Regan Smith definitely it sounds like it

could also be a girl's name for a swimmer.

Yeah.

That's possible.

We did last year.

I mean, it obviously made for a good one.

On the right track with the Ryan Newman thing, I guess.

Jarrett used the same Olympic clue.

Was I not on the show that week?

I don't, what do I don't remember?

Yeah.

I'm looking back at the ones we've previously done and I don't see Regan

Smith on here.

Unless like Jarrett probably just forgot to.

Is there a strong enough that can tell me every single random driver I've ever done.

I'm going to laugh if they said that we did it before and then it ends up we

didn't.

And it's just one of those like, I think they're just gaslighting us now to be

funny.

Either way, it makes for a fun show and don't read too deep into it.

All right.

Well, let's head on over to North Wilkesboro.

A few weekend notes.

The only extra cup car outside of the chartered ones is Chad Fincham.

The 66.

So we know who finished 37th on Sunday.

Trucks wise, it's going to be a stacked field.

Corey Heim in the five for Tricon.

Chase Elliott in the seven for Spire.

Ryan Newman in the 25 for colleague.

Halmar Friesen with the 62 and C bell.

Shane van Gisburgen in the 71 for Spire and Carson Hosevar in the 77 for Spire.

So Spire has a pretty loaded roster.

So I got this right.

It's the faith fest 250 for the truck race, 250 laps.

I don't think I got the stages on my end.

This is, this shows how damn tired I was cause I do all of this stuff after, but

I have the stage lengths on my end here.

So I can read them anyway.

Uh, 70 70 110 is the stage lengths when it comes to the truck race on Saturday.

Um, and that will be at 12 30 PM Eastern on FS one and Fox one and NRN Chandler

Smith, the most recent winner, uh, North Wilkes Burroughs Cup race, the

window world for 50 450 laps.

That one will be, uh, 80 and I believe one 85 is the second stage ends on 265.

And then I think one 85 for the last stage, a math thing on the fly.

So let me know if I'm, I'm wrong on that one, but I think I'm right.

Um, that one will start at 7 PM Eastern time on TNT and PRN.

The defending winner of the last points race here was Jeff Gordon in 1996.

So Danny, you alluded to it earlier.

Like it was a, it was an interesting one for sure.

Uh, Danny, you also have the forecast for this week.

So I'll pop that on the screen and, uh, let's see what we got.

Uh, well, hopefully, hopefully weather is not too bad.

Did I sound like I'm sick or anything?

I got a text from mom saying that she's, uh, she's been watching us and she's

about to head out for a night, but she said my, some of my allergies are bothering

me, said I'm kind of flimmy like Adam Sandler.

So that's, that's funny.

Thanks for the text, mom.

Love you.

Uh, but as for the weather, this comes in from our meteorologist friend, Jeff

Borek, uh, typical foothills weather holds true in North Wilkes Burroughs weekend.

Friday will be very hot with slim at best rain conditions.

Uh, stay well hydrated and take it easy.

The weekend brings thunderstorm chances at times with a cold front and disturbed

weather pattern moving into the region.

Saturday brings scattered storms, especially after the conclusion of the

truck race into Saturday night as the best ingredients in the mid upper

levels will move in by then.

Sunday features hit or miss storms at times, but those will just come with

the heat of the day.

Thankfully wet weather tires are available to speed up the process.

Of course, once lightning is out of the area and he says he'll be updating on

X and he will be there on Sunday.

So, uh, follow Jeff on Twitter if you're not already, cause he's constantly

sending out new updates for the weekend as they come out.

Very, very nice.

What is it nice for the three of us as the pick points chat at 362.

I'm still, we kept the same positions.

We just felt back points wise, 25 points back to me, 29.

Danny and Eric are tied.

Danny, you have the tie breaker because you have more both cup and overall

wins than Eric.

So right now we're, we're, the three of us are in the basement.

Me and Eric are on the same couch together.

I'm on the more comfy seat of the couch.

Eric sitting in the one that's like just like, like warrant, like super

worn in and no longer feels comfortable anymore.

And Jared, you're just up grabbing a drink at this point.

Yeah.

I'm just getting a beer before I end up probably having to take Eric's

seat after this week, knowing the luck that we're all having this year.

Chat, chat's on a roll right now.

Chat is in the master bedroom at the top.

Are you kidding me?

They're, they have a sky room at this point.

They're just penthouse.

Uh, so that means that heading on into Wilkesboro, Eric, you started

us off, who's going to win the truck race?

This is a stacked truck series field.

Uh, I, I mean, if you've, you've Jared read off some of the names of

people who are in this race, but I mean, Ryan Newman in a Ram truck is

going to be fun to follow.

Carson host of our in the 77, very enticing pick, very enticing chase

Elliott in the seven.

He's doing like triple duty this week and run, run a light model, run

in a truck, run cup.

But y'all know what time it is.

Yeah.

I got to go Corey.

Hi, man.

If he's in the race and a competitive truck, I got to take him.

Corey.

Hi.

That was my pick.

Which one is seeing again?

I kind of forgot the five.

The five.

Okay.

That's why, cause on the actual official entry list on, on the, uh, on

the NASCAR upside, it just says I in parentheses.

It didn't actually have a driver listed there.

So I didn't know that was Corey.

Hi.

Number one.

They had the meme.

Yeah.

Sports.

Honestly, you taking him makes it even more harder.

Cause I've got, I were like four names down.

It's like, I got regular guys, I think could still prevail.

I got some wild cards.

I didn't mention Christopher Bell.

I forgot about him for a second there.

But you know what?

We're on a short track.

I feel like he's going to have more of an edge.

I'm going to have Carson host the bar.

Ah, all right.

So you got my first and second, which means I am going to stick with who

originally before we had all of these people announced to be in this race

was going to be my number one pick turned to number three.

I'm going to go lane rigs.

I think that, uh, he's the only one that can, I mean, he was the only one kind

of last year that could keep up with Corey Hyman point.

So he's only gotten better this year.

I think he extends his lead gets the win.

So chat, chat simply trending Christopher Bell on this one.

Yeah.

That's what it's looking like.

I'm going to give him a bell.

I've seen a few for chase it.

I'm seeing way more for Christopher Bell.

No, Kate and honey cut picks.

That's surprising.

I mean, he's good for a second place.

And I know no chase Elliott pick.

That surprised me.

Yeah.

No, Shane Van Gisburg in pick either.

He's in the 71 probably top 10.

I would think.

All right.

Who's going to suck in the cup race?

Oh, that's right.

I start my back.

Um, I forgot.

I forgot.

I forgot how this works on your man.

I love how we're all surprised when we're in the basement at different

points were like, shoot, shoot, it's me this week.

Um, I feel like I'm going to go to 2311 guy and I hate to pick on this dude

because people think I pick on him, but he's been really good lately,

but I think he falls back down to earth.

That's Riley Herbst.

I hate to pick on low hanging fruit too, but I just got to go Conner

Zilish on this one.

Oh, hanging fruit.

The fruit is buried at this point.

I'm going to go.

I'm going to go Alex Bowman on this one.

I am not convinced of Chevy and, and Hendrick at these short tracks yet.

Especially the 48 team.

They didn't, they didn't advance into the incision challenge.

They really lost anything they were trying to work for this season.

And it looks like, I mean, they've seen a bunch of others,

but there were a lot of 88s in there.

I was going to say they're going Noah Gregson, which was also a little hanging fruit.

Yeah.

The Noah really come in.

I think they're just trying to try a different sort of taking Noah instead of Conner.

I would give him Noah then.

No, there's no points and we know they're not going to pick either of them.

So who's the dark horse this week?

I'll say Ryan priest.

I'm going to triple down on my prediction that priest is going to,

you know, climb up the points these next few weeks.

Even though I said, I think he's probably not going to make a chase.

I'm still going to go at this stage, his career, Brad keselowski as the underdog.

All right.

So we're all on the Ford train.

I'll stick with you guys on it, but I think this guy,

he's done well at mile and shorter tracks before and last year,

you know, nearly had a winter two at different points.

I'll say Josh Berry.

I think he might surprise some people.

It's a very good pick.

Very good underdog.

He's got a lot to fight for.

He's got to figure out what he can do next year.

Let's see.

Oh, hi.

Hi.

So I'm like, Hey, who are they?

Who do they got?

I haven't.

I wouldn't look and then on my end of chat moves slower.

SVG pretty clearly SVG.

All right.

We're ranking on him getting some extra seat time going to help him this weekend,

which could be fair.

Yeah.

I think that's very fair.

Well, not the moment of truth.

I think he did good at Martin's.

I think he finished like 11 there too.

So that's actually not a bad one.

He wins the cup race this week.

I think it's between two guys who are also going to be battling for the in

season challenge win or the in season challenge semi-final round,

I should say.

Laney versus Bell.

I'll take Ryan Blaney to go back to back.

Okay.

That was my number one.

So I'll go with someone who's been very good at short tracks and a lot of our

tracks this season, Ty Gibbs.

Danny is he cashed in on the Ty Gibbs one at Bristol.

Yeah.

That one I felt way more comfortable.

I literally cashed in.

I put, I put some, some money on the line on that one.

I'm not doing that for this one though.

He'd been on that one for weeks leading up to it.

Well, I got my number one still on the board.

So I'm going to take him because we're back to tracks that are normal and

driver oriented with where they're pretty good at.

I'm going to go Danny Hamlin.

I think he just decided for a chat because they were very split on 20 and 11.

I think you're going to see them go back to back.

Christopher Bell, most likely.

Yeah.

I think, I think they're going for a bell.

Christopher David Bell weekend sweep.

Yep.

Here come all the 11th or changing the 20s.

I took Christopher Bell.

Does that, did anyone else, if you don't listen closely to that, that,

that commercial it almost sounds like because of the echo.

It's like that check was for 1000000000 dollars at times.

I've always, it might be a good deal.

You're terrible.

It's for one.

A million dollars.

Making a God's zubillion.

God's zillion.

Yeah.

It's just a Godzilla roar in the distance.

Make it infinity and beyond.

All right.

That was, that was fun.

That was a lot of fun.

So we got all those picks in.

We'll put those up on X on Saturday and Sunday.

And, and now I guess, uh, before, before we go to the super chat,

cool down lap before,

I know a lot of you guys might be heading off to bed.

We are on Danny's channel on July 22nd, Wednesday.

We are in the second half of July guys.

This year is flying by but eight PM Eastern time talking about the

triumphant return to the points paying schedule for North Wilkesboro

should be a lot of fun.

By the way, I keep forgetting to mention it, but Eric,

you remember how you,

you had a little bit of a duel with, uh, with an old guy,

Tibbs in fantasy.

It's hoping you weren't going to bring this up.

Guy Tibbs is leading the fantasy point.

I got to say this year way different than last year.

I just, I realized that we haven't shouted them out at all for like months.

Uh, look, look at how many of them are within 100 points.

So what, what did Eric say?

He was going to beat guy Tibbs.

He was going to get up there and pass and beat guy Tibbs in the,

so for you to do that, you've got to literally win it all now.

I think it was because I, I think the prediction was I forgot to enter

my lineup the first week.

So I was starting the year down one race.

And so that inspired me to say that Jarrett's wife would end up

baiting you as well.

Cause she also started a wake behind.

Yes.

And right now Eric is 86 with 35 15 and risk is 73rd with 36 98.

So right now it's not been going good for me there.

It's not great.

I said, I'm proud of risk.

I don't know if she's watching right now or listening through the door,

but she has locked the fuck in.

I mean, she had a bad week this past week just cause she wasn't able

to change her lineup because she was busy with some stuff.

But like, um, during the race, but like when I was at Chicago land,

she's just like, Hey, by the way, like this was my lineup I had this week.

I'm just like, Jesus, I didn't even have to.

Cause so first few weeks she'd ask who was good.

Now she's just like, Hey, this looks good.

This looks good.

Statistically last few years, like she is locked in man.

That's good.

I will say caution guy Tibbs and others that, you know, he's still got

half the season to go.

And if you've burned all your Denny Hamlin picks already, I did.

Well, it resets in the chase.

It does.

Yeah.

You get five for drivers in the chase.

Yeah.

Oh, fuck.

I didn't know that.

Oh, man, Eric, he's going to pick Denny the rest of the year.

Yeah.

I probably, I think I still have four or five Denny picks.

I'm just going to pick in the rest of these next five weeks.

Yeah.

I wish I should.

I wish that these aren't, I mean, he'll probably be good.

These aren't, I guess I should have read the fine print.

I should have read the rules.

I was curious where I'm at.

I'm in 47th in the league right now.

25, 25.

I was, I actually, I think I finished third this week with Atlanta.

Like I nailed my predictions.

Let's see where Claudia is.

Oh my gosh.

I'm 47.

Claudia is 48.

She's just going right along with me.

We're two points apart.

I can't.

Nice.

And we don't, we don't, I don't help her for picks.

You don't help with mine.

We just pick them and we say, after we picked, who'd you get?

I got these guys.

Who'd you get?

I've been playing it so conservative, literally saving a bunch of my Hamlin

picks and my Blaney Bell picks for the final 10 weeks.

I had no idea.

This is, this is devastating.

To be fair, that's what I did last year.

Claudia is 39 55.

That's crazy.

Yeah.

So I won't show you who they are, but like I actually back before Nashville

mapped out the rest of my year and I change it based on like who I have to

sub in and out and stuff like that.

Like I went full like, like for, for every time I struggle in fantasy football,

like all of that goes into me locking in with the NASCAR one.

I want to, I want to be on this line by the end of the year.

I mean, you have a horrible mention.

I'm just saying guy, guy tips.

You better not choke now.

Cause now I'm at a huge disadvantage.

I'm at a, not knowing the rules disadvantage.

If I give myself an honorable mention, there are four other people that

have been doing better than me that deserve to be on there more.

So I'm going to earn it or I'm just not going to be on there.

But let's go to the super chat cooldown lap because it's been a long night.

We got this one here.

Podcast isn't late till one minute past the hour guys.

Yeah. We started on time.

Actually, we started before it was six 59 when we started.

Someone purposely accelerates their clock in their machine to be one minute

passing and say we're late real quick.

What was the poll that, uh, that.

Indy Carson, uh, but was it, um, Sunday nights versus Saturday nights?

I think it was.

Yeah.

Cause I'll put it in here for now.

Sunday nights.

So is it six Eastern and Saturday nights?

Uh, eight Eastern.

Okay.

We'll do that.

And I'll just per put pull refer.

All right. So there you go.

We'll pull that the rest of the way.

That way I'm a man of my word on that one.

Um, Mikey, can we have a conversation about legato?

He hasn't looked good since 2022 and is consistently outrun by his teammates.

He also never won a crown jewel on a skill track benefited from a bad

format than a mouse.

It's a fair, the fair conversation is weird.

I think this, I think this year's format is putting a spotlight on a lot

of people who have struggled before.

Can't wait to see Elliot race four times this weekend.

Hopefully he at least gets two wins should know the track well by Sunday.

I think there's multiple cars tour races.

Yeah.

Um, and, and levels there.

Yeah.

If anyone should know the track pretty well this weekend, it's going to be chase

Elliot.

Uh, another insane Joey stat.

He has more finishes of thirtieth or worse than top fives and top tens

combined seven to six.

Uh, let's see.

Went fishing today with a friend and got doost on by a bird two on two

separate occasions.

Glad I have NWP to help me feel clean again.

Did buy a lot of tick.

Uh, so I, I've had that happen more than once.

I remember when I was like five, playing out in the area near

the condo I lived in at the time and I like look up and there's a bunch of

crows in a tree and I'm like, Oh, that's cool.

Cause I was a weird kid that we got really fascinating with birds.

And then I like looked down next thing.

I know my shoulders really warm.

I've never, I've never been pooped on by a bird while fishing, but I have

been pooped on by a largemouth bass before that was interesting.

And then I'm trying to go with PG way to say this, but there was, um,

me and my buddy Mark were fishing for big stripers.

Gits splooched on it.

It one, when you put them beside each other for a picture because we had

two of them, I guess it, it triggered something in the brain and it

decided it's time to make babies with a mommy's striper and a daddy's

striper get caught by Danny B.

I mean, I guess it's better to have that from a striper than a stripper.

At least I wasn't the one holding it.

Mark was the one who was holding those fish.

Um, Atlanta has been redeveloped twice since by SMI two wins.

Uh, Texas Bristol rework two fails.

North Wokesboro win.

Just don't F with Dover.

Um, I won't say the last part, but you know, where's the World Series

trophy, buddy?

Uh, it's the only, it's the only Wisconsin team.

I can say that too.

I'll be honest.

So I'm going to, I'm going to take it where I can.

Uh, Indy Carson here says handed P chat.

Sorry.

I forgot to suggest to pick Ryan Blaney last Wednesday since nobody

picked him.

I thought about him all week, even before last Wednesday's show,

but missing a miss, putting the 12 in the chat pick.

Pretty good pick.

Be smelly says, I'm so sick and tired of races on Sunday nights

when there's no holiday on the corresponding Monday.

I don't even think it serves fans at the track.

It can still be amazingly humid at night in the South.

That is true.

I mean, like I said, I went for a run after dark yesterday and it

was still in the 80s and it felt good, but like until the storm

like lightning at least rolled in, it was, it was pretty humid.

Uh, C bell keeps doing his best Mark Martin impression.

Five seconds.

Oh, okay.

I was like, what am I missing here?

Right?

Not that he's jacked.

Yeah.

So let's say is he jacked and Mark break his wrist at a time I

didn't know about Christopher David Bale bitch is 300 pounds.

Oh man.

That, that, that I'm surprised that hasn't become a meme.

Um, I want to thank you all for, for all you do in the racing

community.

You guys are fantastic.

Do you guys have any advice to start working in the industry?

Um,

like in the, in the industry.

I mean,

we're kind of,

we've made our own way to doing what we do, I guess.

I think a big part is just like, you know, at least from what I,

when I, when I've talked to people like, for instance, that have

went and worked in Charlotte, um, one of their big things is

basically just send applications all over the place.

Um, like I know somebody who works at dirty mode, but he sent

applications all over the place too.

Um,

having stuff on your resume that's relevant is definitely important.

I'll, I'll say this.

I don't want to get, I don't want to say too much when I went for a

job transition at the end of 2024.

Um,

I went with one company in the same field of who I was last with,

who I'm with now.

Um,

but I did have an interview with a NASCAR team,

but it did not work out for eight or party in the end.

So having stuff that's relevant and having good connections is a

very, very important.

If you're trying to work in the industry and definitely talk

to people too.

And it depends on what you want to do.

Cause I feel like there's some roles, some jobs in the industry

that they are, they're very happy to hire for.

Like there's, there's, I would say labor shortage in a lot of

areas of the industry.

If you're trying to get into media, best thing I can say is to

start working on your own stuff to start with and, uh, and see

where it takes you.

Cause that's how the three of us,

you'd be surprised in the media center these days,

how many are actually starting to get their way doing what we're

doing because they're working on their own projects now.

I mean, they're so, they're, frankly,

are very few major outlets paying a lot of money to send people to

races to cover races on the regular.

There's very few, like there's a handful.

And so a lot of folks that used to be part of that group are now

independent.

They're paying their own way.

They're in there doing it their own thing,

publishing their own content.

It's, you know, it's changed the economy of it a bit,

but it at least still means there's a lot of opportunity for

up and coming, you know, journalists and media members to

find their place.

So just keep working at it.

Uh, let's see, to be fair, they learn heart proposing out of

bounds line.

He did.

I disagree though.

I know his son does.

You can't do that.

Parker saying, uh, are any of you going to be at the Coke zero

400 in person this year?

I am not this year.

I went last year.

I'll be there.

I will be there.

Um, be some metal.

If you want to run on Sundays, go to the upper Midwest or

Northeast and run in the daytime.

Uh, if you must run summer night races at Southern tracks, do it

on Saturdays and get TV off their asses to market them.

If you go to the like far enough in the Midwest, like I don't

get darktail late, late.

I was watching some guy who was chasing tornadoes yesterday.

It's like 10 30 PM here in Nashville and it's, he's up in

Canada.

It's still daylight.

That's how it was when I was up in Montana when I went there

about 2021 years ago.

It's, it's amazing.

Uh, Hey guys, just arrived at my hotel looking forward to going

to North Wilkesboro on Sunday.

Nice.

Very nice.

Have fun.

Hey iceberg.

Great video on host of our, when I just died in your arms song in

the background, since he did just listen to that song during the

Atlanta.

Yeah.

I found the eight bit version of it and I was able to put it in

the back without getting dinged for copyright.

Yeah.

I just, I put it in the back had it really low.

Um, and, and I also might've put the clip of him singing it at the

very end too.

And maybe one of those things that like you're fine now, but then

like eight months from now, you're going to ramble, get a

made all the money.

It's fine.

Cause at that point that's what happens.

They don't, they can't just go in and take the money away from you.

They just let you keep what you made and they start claiming it

for what you're going to get like a view a day on it.

This show to my house.

And it's like Larry Mack, like download the road ranger app and

give me your money.

Uh, I enjoy host of our stick, but it's going to blow up in his

face if he can't find a balance between playing the heal and

being a dick on track.

Yeah.

I mean, it's kind of what we got to on it.

Uh, host of our as CM punk, uh, Danny, you can do this better than

me.

I think so.

Our as CM punk.

I didn't come here to make friends.

I came here to make money.

Just his mentality alone is enough to root for any time it's

WWE Danny, I will always defer to you because you get it way better

than me on that.

I took my brain not long to think of that for a month, but I think

I pretty much got the, uh, the tenacity of that one.

Uh, did you all see or did, did you?

Did you talk, see Noah kind of let the, did you all see Noah

kind of let the cat out of the bag?

Yeah.

He's looking for a ride for next year.

He said this on Dale Jr.

Download.

I did see that he talked a bit about that.

Um, I think, didn't he mention like, you know, punching somebody

has consequences?

I think it's unknown, I should say.

I guess this was the first confirmation that he doesn't have

a deal for next year, but I think it's been known for a while

that he's in a contract here and I mean, just look at the, look

at this last weekend.

I don't think that's all Noah, but clearly whatever's going on

at front row is not working out.

Does front row even try to replace him or is that somewhere

do they try to work at work?

Well, yeah, I was thinking, do they do, do they even do that

or they try to make that work of RFK to get them their, their

other charter.

I just, the Ford pipeline is so bare and you can't let somebody

I think like Lane Riggs possibly get lured away.

Like you got it.

You got to take advantage while you have them.

Uh, let's see another one here from D Carson says, A&WP, which

do you think, what do you think of my YouTube profile photo this

week from IndyCar at mid Ohio that Bob Pocrus took on July 5th?

I can be seen, uh, on the left of the photo in the blue shirt

with my awesome beard.

I'm just going to go to Bob's Twitter.

It's because it's easier to see.

I can see the, yeah, I can see the blue shirt, but yeah, I guess

we'll have to go to Twitter.

No, I'm not going to Bob's Twitter because he tweets a million

things a day.

I'm never going to find it.

I mean, I like the shirt.

I, it's so pixelated on my end though.

I can't see much more than that.

Sorry.

Uh, which current cup driver do you all think will have the

least amount of fans or has the least amount of fans excluding

where and the part timers?

Hmm.

I've never really put enough thought in this one.

So which current cup driver do you all think has, well, has

the least amount of fans?

Can't say Cody where.

I don't think after this, we can say Zane Smith because there's

going to be the anti-host of our crowd that'll jump on board

now.

And that is sizable.

Yeah.

I'm like, he won a championship.

And I also thought of like Cole Custer, but like he won a

championship.

So maybe there's some fans from his O'Reilly.

Days.

Nima check.

Yeah.

Honestly, I think you'd have a decent amount.

His fans of his dad who might be still fans might be.

I wouldn't say Riley Herps because the 2311 and there is a

chunk of the fan base that are Toyota guys.

Plus I've, I've seen a number of people in my comments who

defend Riley Herps pretty hard.

Hey, look, he's better than you guys said he was.

So that's, that's a tough one because I mean,

and Josh Berry has the junior connection.

Yeah.

He's got junior connection.

He's got Tennessee, which is a big state.

He's got the whole light model scene.

But I wouldn't, I wouldn't.

Then again, are they like, they want to seem to do well,

are they really a fan?

What do you, what do you call, call that?

We got the fewest votes on the most popular driver this year

or like all star fan.

Did they ever show it?

No, no, but we don't, that's what I'm saying.

Like, but like that's the metric is like how many people are,

yeah, you might like Josh Berry, but are you going into vote

for him for those awards?

Probably not.

Unless you're a fan.

Is it Ty Dillon?

Maybe.

I feel like he's been around long enough that he's probably

gained fans just being here.

And he's the Dylan Childress.

Well, I think, I think on the other end, I think what we have

to look at too is I think every cup driver is going to have

some kind of tax that adds on to them.

Yeah.

We're not saying these guys don't have fans because there's

not a single one that you can say that about.

But, you know, so.

Oh, I think it is.

Dylan, I've been torn between Ty Dillon and Cole Custer.

I just think I probably would think Custer if I had to, but.

I don't know.

There might be a weird amount of people who are clung onto

the days of Stuart Haas racing.

They're like, I'm supporting that Haas guy because I like that

that Stuart Haas idea for Carson to take the collected T-shirts

and turn them into a paint scheme.

Oh, look at the baby.

Oh, there's a who's a good puppy.

He's got a toy.

We've run long tonight, so he was clawing at my door wanting

to see what was going on.

He's got his little leopard.

It risks if you're watching.

Let read in.

I don't know if he's still awake.

I'm really shocked that Shuggs is not in here because like I said,

it's just me here for all this week.

I'm really shocked he's not in here.

I'm going to text Chris and be like, can you let,

can you let read in?

Brett can make a cameo.

Let's see.

Or did she just know I think she's actually,

I think she actually just,

Minnie Berg is, is, uh,

was chilling with some friends tonight.

So I think Chris is out of the house to collect a Minnie Berg.

Uh, uh, but I don't know.

There's so many super chats.

We've got to, we probably should hurry them up a little bit,

but maybe, maybe we'll have time for Brett to make an appearance.

Uh, Bristol Motor Speedway is my vote for Saturday night racing

on Independence Day weekend.

If not Daytona, just try it.

Hey, I've been on that train.

Yeah, you mentioned that.

Uh, there's Shuggs.

What's up, Shuggs?

My gut feeling is in order for 16th to win the chase.

Top three would have to have multiple 30th or worse finishes.

Have not even attempted to run the numbers.

Uh, I would think that and then 16th would have to,

on top of that, probably get a good amount of wins.

Cause you got to think the other guys that are in there are going to run pretty well.

I mean, 12th on back are going to be over a full race back.

So it's, it's pretty much over for them.

Like that's why it's so imperative for Byron to get up the, the points.

Uh, Atlanta night races cup go back to Saturday night races NASCAR.

I didn't even try to watch since it was so late on my Monday workday.

Wish it would have been a first win of the season driver instead.

I get that.

Uh, Calypso says one might ask why is there rain despite Jared's debt being gone?

Guys, I don't actually control the rain.

I've just trolling y'all.

And it says we need a villain for the rain.

Mother nature is the paragon of goodness in weather and raining.

Out races isn't good.

Is it might as well be the villain back when I did a brief period of making

NASCAR skits, the, the mother nature of me just wearing a rain jacket was a very

fun character to portray.

I remember that.

Uh, I feel like Larson and Bell are sleeping giants waiting for that first

win.

Which one could you see pulling a Tony type chase run this year?

This year, Christopher Bell.

I think just because he's in the best equipment.

What I think he's getting better to is the years gone on where it's like Larson

is good.

And I think Hendrick could get there, but I need to see it first.

Yeah.

I just feel like Larson, if the Chevy's get, find out one little thing they're

missing, I still feel like Larson is the leading guy.

I, but yeah, it's hard to say.

Christopher David Bale.

Um,

seems like dodge will return in 20, 27, whether that's right or wrong.

Who knows?

Do you guys think it's going to happen and who will take over the 10 car?

So we talked about the, whether or not it would happen, the 10 car.

I think we talked about that last week where it could be somebody like a Justin

Haley or a Cori LaJoy, somebody with some cup experience before then.

I was literally about to super chat that I was at a concert before Eric said he

was at a concert to Keith Urban's two opening acts both finished before I

saw the O'Reilly race was still going.

Yeah.

That's kind of the same boat I was in.

Uh,

O'Reilly way too many wrecks with drivers who don't have smart brains in the

event with some old winner winning again and trucks at Lime Rock.

Best race of the weekend was over before six PM and drivers with a driver,

the first one of the season.

I loved it.

Truck winner had battery issues,

but still won the race like Gordon at 2007.

Darlington.

Yeah.

I mean, it was, it was a good showing on his part.

And then Coke 600 or Southern 500 with holiday the next day are acceptable.

Other Sunday night races, not important until they go back to Saturday night.

Uh, we have to work Monday.

You idiots.

Fox, Amazon and TNT.

Uh, wipe out on TNT during the rain delay was so dumb.

Yeah.

I, I muted the TV.

I was back here in the office away from the TV in the living room.

I kept just saying, like, am I hearing John Cena?

And I walk in there like, Oh yeah, I had no clue to had John Cena doing wipe out.

That was the most I'd watch.

If this is what he meant by I'm, I'm leaving wrestling to go Hollywood

and that's hosting wipeout.

Again, most of us, I watched a wipe out in 15 years.

Uh, try to host of ours.

Radio saying gets interrupted by TNT ad read and Mamba 77 radio.

And it's, I just died in your arms tonight.

It'd be the worst time to be singing that.

And like just gets like right hooked by somebody.

Scott, great to see you guys.

Hope all as well.

Question for Eric, since you're an Astros fan and I'm a Tigers fan,

which cap should Justin Verlander wear when he goes into the Hall of Fame?

Oh, bias.

I say Tigers.

Yeah.

So it's, I mean, it's probably going to be Tigers and it probably should.

My argument for Astros is he won two Cy Young's in two World Series

in an Astros uniform, but he was only healthy for like five seasons.

I think so, you know, the Tigers draft to develop them.

He's played most of his career.

I think it makes sense.

It's all about where he, where he found the most success.

It's like, that's the Astros.

So it's, it's like, it's, it's like Tom, Tom Brady.

Yes.

He entered the Buccaneers, but he's definitely remembered more for Patriots.

Yeah.

I mean, the difference would be as if he'll never won a Super Bowl with the Patriots

and then won two with the Buccaneers, but he still played super long one, like five

MVP.

Like that's the difference.

But I guess it probably Tigers.

Aaron Rodgers, a better example.

Cause he's always going to be remembered more as a packer.

I'm going to accept that it's Tigers, but there's certainly an argument for Astros.

And it feels like it could be two.

I wish they could do two.

I don't know, but it is where it is.

Is Jared muted or am I muted?

No, I muted it cause I was moving and coughing.

I didn't unmute.

Don't forget my Saturday or Sunday night race poll.

I did not.

It's running.

Hey, Danny B.

Great work on the video on Kentucky Speedway.

I was there last year in November.

Did you stop at the closet?

Uh, Ramada hotel closest.

I'm so fucking out of it tonight.

Um, no, I did not.

I did not stop there.

We stayed in a kind of quality and in Carrollton, Kentucky.

Uh, there was, I guess there was a lot of Kentucky Speedway memorabilia in there and

the race teams used to stay there.

So, nice.

Uh, Eric, nice t-shirt.

What driver or racing event are you wearing tonight?

What music artist concert did you go see this past Saturday?

Uh, oh, it was a Young the Giant with Cold War Kids opening.

My wife's a big Young the Giant fan.

They're good.

It was a good show.

It was a good time.

Cold War Kids.

I wasn't as familiar with Cold War Kids.

I knew a couple of their hits.

They were fun.

I enjoyed them as an opening act.

Nice.

Remember kids, 67 is code for Heim time.

That's true.

If you ever say this, it means we're big Corey Heim fans.

If NASCAR goes to England, we need Richard Hammond to be the grand Marshall.

He flat out said he likes NASCAR better than F1.

Hell yeah.

Uh, if NASCAR went to CTMP, I would 100% go.

I would love to see that race.

Uh, race on Isla Crusace.

Is that how you say it?

The Island of Davy Jones.

Love her.

Release the Kraken.

Do you fear death?

Uh, Bill Nahi.

Uh, Circuit Gile Villeneuve or Silverstone would be fire.

Argentina is, but Argentina is Jimmy Johnson.

When it comes to a World Cup soccer, they have a lucky horseshoe up their ass.

Hey, you can't kick me out.

I have a right to talk about other sports.

I thought this was America.

Hey, you called it the right word of soccer.

So yeah, you're, you're cool in our book.

You passed the Bob test.

Yeah.

Please let me back in the car.

Yeah.

Good follow up.

And thank you for the five gifted memberships.

Larson fan here.

What's the super chat going right to earn a guest spot on the show the week after

my birthday on September 25th?

Keep it up guys.

Uh, we probably shouldn't do that because I don't want to.

That's not a good idea.

We probably shouldn't sell.

We shouldn't be bribing guests.

Appreciate your support even though you don't have to,

but I don't think that's the, that's an opera we're willing to entertain at the

moment.

Uh, paying the iceberg toll.

Also what modern rivalry has the best chance of giving us a finish like Craven

and Bush at Darlington note three.

Well, that wasn't really a rivalry, but now I feel good.

Had to be more of a friendly rival.

I feel like and they have to run up front.

So somebody maybe like, I guess if you have it, be a rivalry upfront,

maybe like Denny and Larson, the way that they race each other.

And I don't know.

I guess the only like real rivalries I can remember like that it resulted in

crazy stuff was like the, for a little bit, the Carl and Brad keselowski stuff.

Like, I guess, I don't know, maybe, maybe one of them has the best chances

like of doing something more like that where they're just constantly around

each other.

Uh, the weekly iceberg toll.

I love Eric's t-shirt.

Texas Terry was my childhood driver.

Sweet.

Very nice.

Yeah.

Uh, good job chat.

I've thought of bell all week since too many second place finishes.

He's going to be, he's going to be a threat.

Uh, why is nobody talking about Quaple being fifth in points in three

different cars?

That is pretty impressive.

Yeah.

No, that's, that's.

They're all JRM cars, right?

He was in DGM for a couple.

Okay.

That was a very brief period and they made it work out to get him back

into all JRM equipment, I think.

Yeah.

Still multiple races, even with JRM help with that team.

That's, that's pretty good.

No, he's been very solid.

Now let's see, please join my in season challenge group, NWP fan.

Is there like a fantasy thing for the in season challenge?

There is.

It's like way too light.

Isn't it?

Yeah.

I don't know how it works now.

Got my full driver's license earlier today, celebrating by watching

some NWP, hopefully not while driving, but I like it.

Congratulations.

See you on the roads.

Uh, and then thanks iceberg for the short track.

Well, no problem.

Chick-fil-a order.

Oh, give me some grilled nuggies and some, uh, waffle fries.

And then if I'm in the mood for a sweet treat of vanilla milkshake,

I mean, I'm a, a basic portly guy.

Just the classic chicken sandwich and waffle fries and coke, I guess.

Dude, I get, I have like five different orders at Chick-fil-a,

but probably my main is like a grilled sandwich waffle fries.

Dr. Pepper, add Colby Jack cheese to the sandwich.

Give it a little extra something, something.

I will say, if I got to change it up and get,

get nuggets instead of the chicken sandwich,

usually like the nuggets in that buffalo sauce that they have,

that buffalo sauce is really good.

It is pretty good.

Blaney on the final lap.

I need a hero.

I'm holding out for a hero to the end of the night.

Bell's got to be strong.

He's got it.

God wish me to the wind.

Oh, that's right.

That's right.

The singer of that song, Bonnie Tyler, passed away.

So RIP.

Did she, was she the one that's saying it too in track

or was that somebody else?

Cause I remember that song from track.

Like I am.

Yeah.

Did they use the original?

Yeah.

I'm trying to think, did they use the original break?

I don't know.

That scene was good.

I remember being the theater six year old me just watching a giant

gingerbread.

Oh, yes.

Yeah.

Shrek 2.

Shrek 2 was a cover.

You did a lot of.

I think about that wrestling.

That sounds like the original in the movie.

That wrestling scene in the first Shrek.

That's the song Carson Hosevar needs to sing next.

I don't give a damn about my bad reputation.

That's a host of our song right there.

That should be his Bristol Night Race intro song.

That was actually also.

That was the fame song that Ronda Rousey used while she was in

WWE.

Oh, really?

Okay.

Maybe it's too popular then.

What if you walked out playing Joan Jett with Ronda Rousey by his

side?

That would be a cameo and a half.

A few more popped in here.

Hello on WP.

How are you feeling with NASCAR going to international outside of

North America?

Do you think it is too much for us?

I am fine with the new tracks.

I think they would definitely have to slow roll it because

they're nowhere near as much when it comes to money,

nowhere near the NFL or Formula One or any other applicable league

or racing series.

I like anything in North America.

I think it's cool.

Even Mexico City again.

I think it would be cool beyond that.

I'd love to hear them out.

Yeah.

The chase lines up so well for Kyle Larson.

Hashtag last.

It does.

Same for Denny Hamlin.

Could be both of them down the line.

That's true.

Yeah.

Is Carson the most marketable driver since junior?

I mean, I'll still say it.

Chase Elliott's going to outsell.

He's more overall marketable, but he is very, very, very, very

marketable.

Kyle Larson would be very marketable if it weren't for 2020.

What's impressive is it's all self-made.

Carson, there's no Carson host of our senior.

There's no like, he's kind of the first to break into this

and to have made the waves he's had is very impressive.

Like Elliott Earnhardt, they both had family legacies to lean on.

Host of ours starting from scratch.

So I think he deserves credit for that.

By the way, ending the poll, it's 53.47 for at least what I'm saying

for Saturday nights over Sunday nights.

So it's pretty even.

Yeah.

So head to a marathon there.

We will be on Danny's channel next week, July, the 22nd,

8pm Eastern time.

Probably not, probably not going to go as long, I don't think,

but we appreciate all of you guys for sticking it out with us.

As for my co-host Danny B and Eric E, I am, I'm Jarrett Lundberg,

the iceberg.

And we will see you guys very soon.

Very nice shirt.

Great hats.

No cap.

Got a hang on here.

Don't over drive.

Just let me do my job.

I don't care if I wreck the whole s**t deal.

I'm over him.

He's just a bore on us.

That was an absolute bore.

Not clear.

I'll tell you, I'm not going to raise no s**t.

What the f**k are you doing out here before saying this?

You're a s**t idiot.

I don't care.

Let me your guy.

What the f**k is he doing?

Did you ever think you would see that?

How the f**k did that just happen?

Holy cow!

Let's go!

Let's go, baby!

Let's go!

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cautions and crashes

Denny Hammond

Danny

three-headed beast

Paul Wolf

late, very abrupt move

off course

horsepower doesn't matter

going 200 miles an hour in the pack

Barney hall

Napa Elliott curse

Kentucky

Texas mega speedway

Disney world speedway

reopen

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