Corey’s Big News + The Racing Memory That Started It All
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NASCAR
NASCAR is a type of car racing where drivers race specially built cars on oval or road tracks, mostly popular in the USA.
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IndyCar
IndyCar is a type of car racing with very fast, open cars that race mostly on oval tracks and road courses.
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Xfinity race
The Xfinity race is a type of NASCAR race that is a step below the biggest NASCAR races but still very competitive.
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NHRA
NHRA is an organization that runs drag races, which are short, straight races to see which car is fastest.
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WRC
WRC is a big racing competition where drivers race cars on different types of roads, like dirt and snow, all over the world.
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turbo spool
Turbo spool is when a special part called a turbocharger starts working and makes the car feel more powerful quickly.
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Ford Ranger
The Ford Ranger is a medium-sized truck that people use for work or fun, popular in the USA.
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Toyota Hilux
The Toyota Hilux is a strong and reliable pickup truck used for work and driving on rough roads.
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IMSA time attack
IMSA Time Attack is a type of car racing where drivers try to go around a road track as fast as possible, competing for the best lap time.
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ear plugs
Ear plugs are small things you put in your ears to protect them from loud noises, like the sounds from race cars.
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cup car
A Cup car is a special race car used in the biggest NASCAR races, built just for racing with a strong engine.
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V8 American muscle cars
V8 American muscle cars are strong cars from America with big engines that make loud sounds and go very fast.
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midget racing
Midget racing is a type of car racing where small, fast cars race on short dirt tracks. It's popular for its exciting, close competition.
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pit road
Pit road is where race cars stop during a race to get fuel or new tires. It's a special area with rules to keep everyone safe.
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Penske
Penske is a famous racing team that runs cars in big races like IndyCar. They are very good and have won many races.
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right rear flat
A right rear flat means the back tire on the right side of the car loses air and goes flat, making it hard or impossible to keep racing.
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tailpipe
The tailpipe is where the car's exhaust comes out. Where it points can change how loud the car sounds to people nearby.
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header
Headers are pipes that take the engine's exhaust gases and send them out of the car. They can make the car sound louder and run better.
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rub blocks
Rub blocks are tough metal pieces under race cars that scrape the ground to stop the car's bottom from getting hurt.
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flat tire
A flat tire means the tire has lost air and is no longer good for driving. It can make the car hard to control and slow.
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air system for shocks
It's a special air system that pumps air into the car's shock absorbers to make the car ride higher. This helps drivers keep driving even if they have a flat tire until they can fix it.
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tire pressure
Tire pressure means how much air is inside a tire. Changing it can make the car stick better to the road or go faster.
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clean air
Clean air means the air in front of a race car is smooth and not disturbed by other cars. This helps the car go faster and handle better.
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Formula 1
Formula 1 is a type of car racing with very fast and special cars that race on tracks around the world. It's the top level of car racing.
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DRS
DRS is a special tool in Formula 1 cars that helps them go faster by changing the wing on the back, so they can pass other cars more easily.
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Mercedes
Mercedes is a famous car company from Germany that makes fast and fancy cars, especially in racing.
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Ferrari
Ferrari is a famous Italian car company that makes very fast and expensive sports cars, often seen in racing.
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victory lane
Victory lane is the special place where the winner of a race goes to celebrate their win.
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Chevrolet Camaro
The Chevrolet Camaro is a fast and sporty car that many people like to race. It's been popular in local racing for a long time, especially older models from the 1980s. People talk about it because it's a cool car that goes really fast on the track.
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Chevrolet Monte Carlo
The Chevrolet Monte Carlo is a type of car that people often race on local tracks. It's known for being strong and easy to handle, so many racers choose it. Older versions, like the one from 1987, are especially popular because they work well on the race track.
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Chrysler Daytona
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Joe Gibbs Racing
Joe Gibbs Racing is a famous team that races cars in NASCAR, started by a football coach named Joe Gibbs.
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What's up friends? I am Ryan Flores aka skip and our buddy Cori LaJoy went in the hospital this morning
Not for anything bad. He's having his fourth baby with his wife Kelly
So we wish him the best, but he can't be here this morning
So it's me and executive producer Kyran. We're gonna break down all things NASCAR Ryan Blaney's incredible drive
After a lot of pitstop woes
Indy car was in town. I did the Xfinity race. I raced some modify yesterday myself
We got F1 and NHRA a lot to break down buckle up. Let's go
Stacking them deep selling them cheap. It tastes like gasoline rubber and victory. Where's that here stack?
This is stacking pennies anybody that's new here. We break down all sorts of racing each and every week
I'm Ryan Flores. I've been a tire changer for the last 20 years. I changed tires in the O'Reilly series now for the 88
It was William Byron this weekend Kyran Brent. You are from South Africa originally grew up in Canada
But you are an American redneck now. You're here in
Charlotte, North Carolina at a company called Let's Be Friends. That's who produces this show
But you guys are well versed in racing. We've been doing a lot in the motorsport space
I remember looking over the dashboard of my my uncle's Subaru rally card
It was a WRC car out of South Africa and racing that was that was the first hook when you feel that turbo spool and hit you
My first introduction to NASCAR was actually Tony Stewart and Home Depot. Oh, just the sense of seeing this dude
And I was like this guy looks like an American
He looks corn-fed well bred and just like that's who it is and then I learned about Crossman truck series and
Coming from a South Africa. We had not pickup trucks. We had Buckeys, which were the Smola version Buckeys
That's like a Ford Ranger best gas station in America. I mean Buckeys
But it's all a little difference. It's Buckeys were a quarter ton like your Ford Ranger be considered a buckie just like in
Australia where they call me you something similar. Yeah, but the youths are slightly bigger. Yeah, and so for us it was these people race
Trucks, yeah, because we have the Hilux. We have America buddy Dakar where we have that sort of thing
And so seeing that I was like that that was the hook into NASCAR
So for me that was where it went. I went more the road course IMSA time attack that world
Spent some time in Indy car F1
But NASCAR has been one of those things where I was always they just turn left and then you go to a race, right?
I want to I think it was the out in California. It was in Fontana, Montana
Yeah, and it was the full one of the 400 races and it was just a oh
This is you feel the rumble and I was like, oh, this is this is special. Well, it's crazy you say that because I
All I've known is NASCAR forever and tie it back in this weekend
I just know how loud it is how crazy it is and we had Indy car there with us on Saturday and
the
So two things to take away from Indy car. They are so fast. It is
Amazing watching them. I don't know how fast they are. I think they're like five seconds faster than us
But they're so quiet. It's like when they were running
I had ear I got ear plugs out because when we get to the track on Saturday
The Indy car races before the O'Reilly's race
so I have to glue lug nuts and work in the pits and
You know when there's cup qualifying or a truck race right before us
You got to wear your plugs because it's just too loud
Everybody your plugs out there. I'm like, are they running yet?
Like I thought they were under caution
But those those cars are so much more quiet than a cup car so I'd be interested to hear from the fans
Because we've heard that like it's just too loud. It's too loud. Who says that a lot of people really because I'm watching at home
Hey, I'm with you, but I
Wonder if that's something they go man. This is kind of nice than being a little more quiet
I think that it's part of who we are part of our DNA being loud v8 American muscle cars
But it was really cool to see Indy and it's so much different
The reason I love
So yesterday it's getting yesterday a little bit
Because this will tie it right in we went to caraway Speedway for their 61st home opener
So I have I haven't been off on Sundays in 19 years. This is the first time that I've been able to
Just be a little bit more laid-back of a schedule and because of that I like to race a lot myself
I race midgets and modifies and have a have a modified. We just ran a new somerna
We got a win down there
It was really cool and this car was ready and I was kind of looking at schedules from different tracks around and caraway had their
61st home opener this weekend. I was like, man, let's it's on Sunday. Let's go there. I'm gonna have Sunday off
I didn't take into account the time change because we flew back from Phoenix, which was
It was three hours behind and then or it was two hours behind and then we had daylight savings when we flew
So when we landed it was light outside. It was seven o'clock in the morning
Went home took a shower real quick left my shop at 830 with the truck and trailer and drove up the caraway
And then we just had a long day there. They hate it's so much different
and
To tie this back in man, I just loved
Going there and walking around the pits
And I love seeing what like the guys with street stocks or four cylinders the way they get to the racetrack the innovation that they have because
On in the NASCAR space you have all of the resources
To make anything you want
but if you go and you watch a guy that's doing this in a hobby stock and the way that they make the make stuff make
Their trailer work make their pit boxes do stuff to their car because they don't have the resources
They have to be a little bit more. I don't know like tactful and it's really cool to see how they do stuff
And I feel like I learned just as much from those guys
As I do from going and watching Indy car race like the Indy cars pit boxes are so much different
It's even to the fact of like they're fueling stations. They don't have gas cans. They have
Like these big tanks and they plug in with a hose from them and their gravity fed
But they have water buckets all down pit road
So they have a 55 gallon drum full of water and two buckets next to it full of water
So that way if there's a fire, they're just throwing water on it and they're in each pit stall
That's something that we don't have in NASCAR. We have firemen there
So and they they run different fuel, which is which is why it's different
but it was just crazy to see and I've been around Indy car a lot being at Penske but
Practicing and being at the race are two totally different things and it was really cool to have that all together at one place this weekend
It was really cool for the fans
And they start the weekend off with Joseph Newgarden. David Maluchus
It was dominating the race. He just got that he just got signed with Penske
It's like a dream come true for him
But Joseph Newgarden's like the king of ovals right now in Indy cars and Penske went winless last year
And they come out and they win the second race of the season saw Palo get wrecked early
He's won like every race. He got wrecked early, but I
Was really I'm a I'm a huge willpower fan
Because just will has been around for like his name
That's what will's got a great name, but he's been around for a long time and you know
I kind of got let go from Penske and had to find his way and he was leading the race there late and
It was like one of those racing deals where he kind of came up in their car
Car was like on his outside and he got a right rear flat and took him out of the race
But it was just a really cool event
Then we got it was a quick turnaround time. We got right in our race
we had William Byron in the 88 this weekend and
Just didn't quite have the pace that we thought we're gonna have
We ran third to fifth all night and then got got tore up at the end
but Justin Allgaier was able to
Just put the team on his back and he drove to the wind
Jesse love dominate the race
But Justin Allgaier came through at the end and won that one and it was it was a great night
Those are my teammates now. They were pity right next to us
it was really cool to celebrate with them and
Really cool to celebrate a win like we talked about yesterday at caraway to put a bow on that
We went there random modified qualifying on the pole won the race. So it was a it was a really really fun weekend all the way around
I mean
This was my first day to one of 500 with next-gen cars at the prior race I went to with the old series
It felt louder. Is that since you've been around them or is that changed at all? So for me, it's louder now
Because you got to think about where I stand I stand in the infield
So the pipes with all the old cars always came out the right side
So they always shot towards the grandstands now the pipes on the next-gen car come out both sides
So you have that noises is going both directions the biggest adjustment for me was I
Changed the I've always changed front tires
So you change the right front and the left front and when you come to the left side and the car leaves
The tailpipes around the right rear so you don't really hear it. Well now the
The headers dump right behind the left front tire
So that thing is leaving and the it's going like right across your face
So the first time it left I was like, holy crap that was loud
So that changed it so that's where I was a little bit different
you become used to it right away but like the first couple of times I was like, oh my goodness and
We had we have better radios and stuff now
With comms and noise canceling all sorts of different things that we didn't have when we started with next-gen five years ago
So that helps
But yeah, the next-gen car is is a new animal for sure
We were watching in the pits and something confused me just in that is the safety thing was an SVG spun
Yeah, it was a tire issue. What a however you spun. Yes
Well, I didn't know it first came there the chicken of the egg right because when you spin out you're gonna get flat tires
So but he did rally to like an 11th place finish, but he so he spins out then the car shuts off
Yeah, you can't drive out of a spinning. How what's that?
It's it's different in every situation
So in that situation when you spin and you're in front of the field there
You just kind of lock it down and when you lock it down the motor can shut off and then you got to cycle it and get it
Restarted sometimes they fire easier or not and then sometimes you kind of have a slow lazy spin you keep it running
but
The way that he spun the first time
Off of turn three there kind of onto the front stretch by the start finish line
There's a lot of cars coming by you
so
What you don't want to keep doing is keep driving it in the traffic because that's how you cause a big wreck and we saw a
Bunch of big wrecks yesterday. It was crazy. We saw especially the one with Joey Logano where
He dove onto the apron came back up and AJ Elmdinger had just filled and clipped them and
it just
He was spun out and like the next 10 cars got by him
then he spun back in the traffic where SVG just locked it down and
Shut the car off then it was hard to get it refired
Then you have flats and with these cars when you get a flat there on the rub blocks
Which saved the belly pan so the rub blocks just think they're hard steel digging into the ground so
Well, NASCAR has come up with because we've all seen it. We've talked about it for years
That when you have a flat tire you can't drive these cars back to the pits all your days done because you're a couple laps down
They keep counting the laps under caution
So in the every time the pace car passes you you're another lap down and you're just stuck there
So what they came up with is an air system. That's right
In the driver's window they'll walk up. They'll plug this air system in there
It'll charge the shocks and push them all the way out
Then you can drive the car back to the pit stall when they get the pistol and change the tires
You pull that there's a relief valve on it. You pull it it lets the shocks back down you keep going on with your race
So it's something that's really innovative that NASCAR has came up with
Super cool. So that saved his race and he was able to rally but as
As like new levels new devils right with SVG he keeps getting better keeps getting faster
But he's gonna keep stepping over that line and spinning out. I think he had a flat tire or two at another point
But man a lot of tire issues yesterday, and we were talking about that. So we had the TV spooled up
We were all watching the race together yesterday in the trailer a car away. It was a lot of fun and
What happens there and we talked about it at length
Last year for the championship race and Corey's talked about a lot
that air
Taken a little bit a couple tenths of air out of a tire
Especially the left rear of the right front is worth a lot of grip and a lot of speed
but when you run on low air like that at a place like
Phoenix where the transition from the banking to the flat apron of the track is very aggressive and the guys use that if
you have low air and you
Even just pull out of the pits wrong and load the tire wrong
It'll compromise the sidewall of the tire and it won't go flat right away
But as you run that thing's getting weaker and weaker and weaker and then all of a sudden it blows out
So it happened to chase briscoe on the left rear. We saw a bunch of right fronts
Kyle Bush kept having them and
It's just it's like you're playing Russian roulette with your tires all day long and it's like okay
We're gonna do this, but we're banking on somebody else having an issue before us and then it's even
Something that the drivers I think you saw less and less shortcutting of the dog leg yesterday
Especially early in runs because they know now that if I'm aggressive going from the banking to the flat
Early in a run the risk of my tires blowing out later in the run or in a couple laps is way higher
So everybody's getting a little smarter with that
But I'm team chaos. I love the chaos of tires blowing out
Crashes people, you know the bunch in the field back up and we had a ton of that yesterday at phoenix
I mean the one thing that really wouldn't say confused me or was just shocking to see was just
The continuous issues over and over and is there a way to cheat like how do you even bend a rule around that?
No, I said a lower air pressure and find that sweet spot. That's it
I don't think there's a way to cheat air
That's how they're getting there is you're getting too low on air because that's the the juice is worth the squeeze of speed
And you asked me yesterday. You're like, well, why not just put air in it?
And I think steve latart says it the best
he says
you can be
Uncomfortable or you can be slow you have to pick so
To be in the top five here you have to be uncomfortable all the time
You have to be uncomfortable on pit road pitting the card because you to go as fast as
Some of these teams are going you have to you have to live right on that edge
Same thing with the tires and the crew chiefs and the strategy and the drivers, right?
That's why we're seeing more crashes too
You can be uncomfortable
And be on the verge of wrecking or be on the verge of blowing a tire or be on the verge of having a loose wheel on pit road
Or you can be slow you can be safe, but you're going to run 20th or 25th and it's easy
To have a bad day and run 30th now, right? We're a good lap to the finish. It's yeah
It's you put yourself back there. Not often. Do you see a guy?
Do what ryan blaney did yesterday back to back pit road issues?
A loose loose left front and then a loose left rear the following pit stop
He got mired back to he was the last car in the lead lap
So he was essentially 40th drove all the way back to like the back side of the top 10 top 12
Pitted had a loose left rear had to stop in the gonos box
They tighten the left rear goes all the way back to the back and drives back to the front again
And that's so challenging as a pit crew guy
you
Couple things the 20 car who they were racing right now is the hottest team in the sport
So you're coming down there. They're so fast
They've been together for a long time the 12th team has a lot of new guys on it
They say team you mean the car or the actual team the pit crew. There's only one way to get there and it is
consistency
equals confidence
And confidence equals speed you can't skip any of the steps
So you have to be consistent first and the consistency comes
From working together for years
In practice at the racetrack
Knowing each other and then you build this consistency and then you get confident
Right, and then you know what each other is going to do. It's like a dance. You know where someone's going to be
You know you're you're just
You're almost in sync
Fully with the guy next to you
You can tell by the way his elbow moves if it's a little weird that you have to check off and make sure that wheels
Tight in a tenth of a second or a hundredth of a second
And then from that
Confidence comes speed because now you feel but now you're
Your threshold for being uncomfortable is way higher, right? Your your stop was a 9o, right? That was uncomfortable for you
Now it's an 8 5 that's uncomfortable. So that all moves together
A clean air was king yesterday and you didn't want to give that 12 car clean air that that was for sure
But shout out to those guys. They fought all day. I texted blaney last night. He just texted me this morning
He said i'm proud of everybody that they just kept fighting all day and that's what it's about, right? A couple years time way
Less people are going to remember that the 12 had a tough day on pit road
Way more people are going to remember that the 12 team was in victory lane and that's what it's all about
It's not about winning the race off pit road. It's about winning the race. So
They won a stage. They won the race at a great points day
It's going to be some hard conversations this week in the shop
But i'm sure they can fix it and they're going to be better for what happened in phoenix
It's almost like golf, right? Like the like the year golfers talk all the time, but it's just about the next shot
The ball goes in the water. It's still about the next shot and you got to fail fast
you got to
Shake it off and move on so
That was the day that was the cup day yesterday a lot of stuff
was going on
On pit road and on the racetrack a lot of crashes syndrake took a big big hit
um, man, it was just an exciting race and
shifting gears from from the cup race
The f1 race was exciting too. What I saw from f1 this weekend
Was something that I haven't seen from f1 ever and that was
George russell and charles eclair swapping
The lead going back and forth with each other locking tires up making mistakes missing the corner being able to pass each other
Without using drs. Like it was a great
Race for me to watch the little bit that I got to see and I also saw oscar pietri
wreck before the green flag at his home race. I felt so bad for him. I had
sense of um
The scottie mclaughlin at indy
Man, it was just brutal, but it just shows like you owned it like a champ. Did he yeah, they said it was a hundred
I think it's a hundred kilowatts or something. Um over we have it here some one of the notes, but
He's like, hey, that was on me. It was unexpected. Um, but we've got parker clingerman saying
He slams f1 2036 rules after misades one two
So clingerman a former nascar driver called the 2006 regulations a betrayal arguing they prioritize battery power and car maker relevance
Over pure racing excitement the rules begin begin. Sorry the rules feature lighter cars active aerodynamics and a 50-50 split
Um between sustainable fuel engines and bigger batteries
Which drew complaints from drivers like lando norris and max for staff and who called the cars artificial and too formulae like
While mercedes dominated and and some praise closer racing fans insider's worry f1 is losing its thrilling edge and made the push for
sustainability
Who didn't complain
The two winners the Mercedes drivers and the ferrari's right and the two guys that have been dominating cities one two
well, yeah, but but the ferrari's are up front too, but
This is the classic case of drivers
Complaining about a car. We saw max for staff and spin out by himself and qualifying and crash
The mclarenz did not have the speed. We saw them have problems as well
so
The guys that have been dominating and won the last couple world championships
Right are complaining that the cars are artificial and they're not good because their cars aren't good
But the guys that are in mercedes that have been running third or fourth behind
The mclarenz and the red bulls they love it
So this is just a classic case of everything we've been talking about on the show for the last five years
You can't let the prisoners run the prison
because the drivers are always going to
have
their own agenda
And their agenda is to get in a victory lane
To win races to win championships inherently make more bonus money like that. That's what it's all about, right?
and
That we see that this weekend and that's where I have a hard time
I
Love racing it, but I am not
Like I'm the same way when I go race my indoor cars and something changes. I've been dominating now. I'm not I get frustrated
But I want to be more self-aware to not bash the series. I want to leave racing in a better spot than where I found it
so
If there is truly something wrong
Then just then say it, but if there's just truly something wrong and it's not working in your favor
That's why you're mad these guys got to check themselves
unfortunately
Their drivers race car drivers are very egotistical
So you're not always going to have that
so
it was a
It was a good weekend for them something yesterday at caraway that was
It's just it's good old racing, right? You have the what was the modifiers go out and they just
wreck
Oh, the truck the late models
The late models go out and they just take into the corner their dive bombing and there was some big shunts
There's big wrecks like and how far is you going on one of those cars down probably doing almost a hundred?
I mean and you're
Plowing into a wall
Yeah, the 44 car that was next to you guys went in the wall and they brought the thing back in
Rip the front half off and then sent it back out only for it to keep losing pieces on the street
Which caused two more wrecks and that you know, it's we get we get so bogged down with
And don't get me wrong. We love it. We're at the tip of the spear of motorsports
When you have a career in NASCAR
As long as we have you almost forget
It's so nice and kind of refreshing to go back and see the passion
And see what makes motorsports what it is and see how many people are at these short tracks each in a week
The pits were full yesterday at caraway and each one of those trailers has a story, right?
It's a family working together. It's a driver trying to do his best trying to get the car to the racetrack anybody that's
Gone racing know how hard knows how hard it is to just
Get the car loaded up and built and prepared for the race and have it not fall apart during the race
There's so many parts that can fall off
That bolts are loose or you didn't have enough oil in it or fuel filled like there's so many different things
So just to build your race car to go race
And it's really refreshing to go back and just see
The grassroots of it right on vicks the crown you heard you heard race control say
Well, I don't want to do a southern accent here, but we can't start the race because the boys are still at the auto parts store
Is that what they said? That's what they said on the on the radio
They said we can't start the race
We don't have cars because the guys are getting parts and one of the guys couldn't qualify because you have a mass airflow fan sensor
Yeah, like
Crown vicks on the new street stocks too. It was it was really really cool. It was souped up cars
Yeah, it was it was awesome to see that there was one of the four bangers
There was a Cavalier the kid drove it out the track into the parking lot where I was parked and loaded on to a U-Haul Dolly
And drove it up that's whatever it takes right people ask me a lot
What is a racer?
And what's the key attribute? What makes a racer and a racer will?
Always finds a way
So that that's what's cool about going to places like caraway and that's why I continue to do stuff like that because
You got you learn and you see the passion and it just makes me more hungry to go
You know on saturdays and sundays to go race and and represent that. It's it's really cool
How do we get more people involved to someone like myself?
How do you get more involved in the sport right because you had how many people I don't want to ruin your
Spoils you a victory here, but you had six in your class
Yeah, there wasn't a lot of cars there
but like we went to somerna one and there was 30 cars there and
Yesterday was a home opener. I figured there'd be 20 caraway usually has about 20 modifies
We got there there was like six cars, but we were there
So we raced anyway and and we did well don't get me wrong like I felt
It was like an awkward victory lane because there wasn't a ton of cars
but we still wins a win and
I just like going racing with my friends like it was that's what it's about about doing it and more so walk around the pits
Learning from other people and just being part of it supporting short track racing. That's what I just love that. What am I going to do?
Said at home all day. I got this race car. It's done. Let's go race, but
I don't know. I was pleasantly surprised with how many crown like the way that you get more people involved
They don't know can't build a modifier don't try that is the crown vicks and the force owners
There was full feel to them shout out to cletus McFarland for the freedom 500. Yeah, I mean that's that's phenomenal
Not just viewing pleasure, but just anyone can race. Yeah, and crown vicks are going to be more
That's listen street stocks forever have been camaros and Monte Carlo's
It's very hard to find an 87 Monte Carlo anymore or mid 80s anything
There's a plethora of crown vicks crown vicks are the new
Street stock. Can we start buying futures on from crown vicks? Well, I
I don't know just start stacking them up back. I know that word. Yeah, but they're gonna race those this year bowman gray
They're gonna have six races at bowman gray for crown vicks. So between cletus
And his poll there's been a lot of talk about cletus McFarland
Should he be approved? Should he not for NASCAR?
That's way above my pay grade
I like to see him involved. I'd like to do it. I'd like to see them do it the smart way and not just chase the short dollar
I want to see him
Develop if he wants to be a race car driver to put in make sure he's putting in the work
Um, whether it be cars tour late models
Even if you want to come run the modify like stuff like that
Make sure you're putting the work late models out of this track that he owns. They're the freedom factory
It's hard to just make that big step into
IMSA does it well, right? They've got their different styles of driving different
You know levels that you can be whether you're a hot shoe or factory driver
You're a silver you're any of those even a gentleman driver
So you're still being supported from the different series whether you're in gt4 gt3
They're going up the rung. I mean it's so unapproachable with so many people. It's just easy to go
Let's go run the 500 so include his position. I agree. I would love to see him
Build out something like that even if it's invitational. I think NASCAR is more America than IMSA. I think like I like that you can
I I still think there's a little bit of
Like hey, man, if you can get it you can come race
But but I do think there's a fine line like I don't love the licensing the super license f1 thing
It's sticky. It's messy to me
Uh, but I also like I didn't I've won a good amount of short track races
I didn't get approved to race Richmond in a modified race a year and a half ago. Why they just didn't approve
They said I didn't have enough seed time
I've done a lot of short track racing
won a good amount of stuff
Cleetus McFarland I I could argue I've won more short track races than Cleetus McFarland for sure and put in more time
They didn't approve me
for a modified race
But they approved him to go run Daytona in a truck or you know rocking him in a bush car different different deals
I understand that money is a big
part of it and I
I like that Cleetus is here. I like the eyes he brings and I feel like NASCAR has needed the bridge to grab between car culture
and
NASCAR fans for a long time
The next gen car helps out a little bit. It's a little bit more digestible people understand it more
Guys more guys like Cleetus and Travis was trying to help that
I just want to make sure we're doing it the right way and not just going for the short money if that makes sense
There's a place for everybody
Let's just make sure he has good people around him
We're not just getting him there for the clicks or we're using we have the clicks like we want that
But we also want to develop him to be a competitor and not to be laughed at
We don't want him to be a laughing stock when he's the right guy too. It's the right guy got famous in that case
He's a great human being even owns his mistakes
What I would love to see is NASCAR or someone in the paddock do something with a grid life or something like that
That they take cars around like when the NASCAR went to them all
That was cool. Yeah, that was really cool. Yeah, I see that car every day. Yeah, I mean, I think okay
I mean, I think there'd be something that's you know going to grid life going and showing the fans
Whether it's a local drift event even a cars and coffee do a tour go around follow the grid life series
Yeah, what does that look like? I want to go. There's a grid life in Kershaw. We talked about yeah
One thing I wanted to touch on here on the show. We're not
Huge on just clickbaity hot topic issues
We want to keep take a deeper dive and give an objective opinion
So with this we haven't really touched on it because it hasn't fallen under the show, but also
There hasn't been it's kind of been all speculative and it's in the courts now, but chris gabhart
Leaves jgr. It sounds like they had a closed door meeting him and coach Gibbs
What I'm hearing is he didn't like a lot of what was being done on ty Gibbs team
He felt like ty was getting favoritism
they weren't
chris gabhart felt like as a competition director
He was
Supposed to be
Having control of all the cars. They gave him control of three cars and not control of ty Gibbs's car
And he really kind of slammed ty
I don't think there's anybody that's bigger fans of ty Gibbs than corey myself. We've been critical of them, but
I know ty Gibbs can do it
It's really easy
To just say
Hey silver spoon rich kid nepo baby. It's easy to say that
But what's hard to do is look at him as a human and as a race car driver
Without thinking of who his grandfather is and then you gotta think about
About uh, joe gibbs too, right and the stuff he's been through. So there's a couple different layers chris gabhart
comp director
He has all the notes everything. He knows everything about every piece
of how Gibbs operates from salaries to recruiting athletes to
um on the pit crew side to
Car setups measurements on the race cars air pressures everything
Data that the drivers get how the meetings run
There is no guy that has his finger on the pulse on how joe gibbs racing runs more
Than what chris gabhart did so he departs and he goes to spire
Spires are making a huge investment. They've been getting more and more great crew chiefs over there
Drivers you can tell that they are they're here to stay
Well, joe gibbs goes. Hey, wait a minute
You stole info from us. We can we see
That you took this this and this and put it into a doc on your computer and we have these
uh
IT guys now like everybody in NASCAR
From the mechanics to the pit crew guys to even the IT guys. They're really top level
And IT guys are like russian hackers. That's what I say
Like I've worked with a lot of these IT guys like if I need something fixed on my phone or even at my house
Like they'll come help on the computer and they're so smart. They are going to figure out what you took off your computer
and put on your
Personal computer or put on laptop and it just came out this week that they had a private investigator following them and saw them go
have
lunch with dickerson who owns
spire
And that's all going to take care of itself in court. It's the second time that there's been a big
lawsuit type antitrust thing with
Or not antitrust, but like a stealing information thing with gibbs
um jazzy one of their engineers
Was going rcr and they said that he gave information to rcr when they won richman a couple years ago
So it sucks that they're back in the news for this
But this two-fold on chris gave parts part and got gibbs's part
We have single source suppliers for these cars now
So everybody has the same parts and pieces essentially
So your ip or intellectual property and how to build a car is that
That's what you own now. That's that's all you have. You can't just go build a better mousetrap
You could take the parts and pieces and make them a little bit better and we're talking
30 thousands here or there on wheel placement or body placement makes a huge difference
so
We're in this age of motorsport where
You're not stealing shock builds, you know, it's a little bit of everything now
So it's super important you keep that stuff in house because once it gets out once the toothpaste out of the bottle
You're not getting it back
So they're trying to do some damage control there, but then let's talk about joe gibbs, right?
He's catching a lot of flak for having his grandson in the car
Ty Gibbs is a great race car driver. He did a he won an xfinity championship
A real riley series now championship. We want a ton of races coming up. He runs
Well in the cup car a lot of the times
He finished fourth this past weekend. He was in the hunt
but
He's had he hasn't won yet all his teammates wins everybody's talking about how he hasn't won
It's really hard to win the cups here. Especially to get your first one. He's got great people around him
But you got to think about let's separate and let's let's talk about ty Gibbs for a minute
He's a 23 year old kid that's grown up in the spotlight. He lost his father in a tragic way just a couple years ago
When they won the xfinity series championship in phoenix
Celebrates with his dad as dad goes back to the hotel doesn't wake up in the morning
Pass away and asleep the night that he won the xfinity that is
They think about that for anybody
And how hard it's got to be to go back to the racetrack
To start your cup career without your father who was a prominent figure that ran the team think about joe gibbs
He lost both of his sons and it's not it's no longer about your win. It's about your dad
Well, we forget that these guys are people
We we forget that
We just want to scrutinize them as a race car driver
But it was a lot of the same stuff last year like tyler reddick was having a tough year people were pounding on
They didn't realize what he had going on at home with his young song rookie in the hospital
They couldn't figure out what's going on. That's you got to think about
But yes, they're race car drivers and I get they get paid a lot of money and they're here to entertain us
But there's a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes and ty Gibbs is growing up in front of the camera
in a huge
spotlight
With a lot of pressure without a father
Right his grandfather is running the team
His mom's helping run the team then you got to think about joe gibbs
Think about the drivers that he's let go, right? They developed joey legano
From a young age, they had joey legano there in the same situation took ty Gibbs is in he didn't win right away
he got he got a win on rain delay one another race at pokono, but
it
He didn't have the success that his teammates were having that denny hamlin was having that everybody that was
Around him. They were having tons of success joey wasn't they let him go
He goes to penske. He's a three-time champion now one of the best to ever do it
Or you think about eric jones like
Eric jones they developed eric jones
He did he won a couple races a couple darlingsons, but he never
Was doing what denny hamlin did is a culture they let him go. No, I just
I don't know if it's culture. It's just
Ty joe where I'm going with this is joe is not just gonna he's probably learned from his mistakes of letting young guys go
And this is a different layer because it's this grand kid. They're not gonna let him go and drive somewhere else
But he's probably given up on young guys too quickly. So they're learning the lessons
in his car
And then he says you can't do it go somewhere else
So he takes out they took all the lessons they learned from Gibbs go to another team transplant it and they're successful
so he's probably
That's got to be in the back of his mind too. So it's a very unique situation
Um, I hate to see it getting piled on ty, but I think ty said it best this weekend
I'll just let my performance on track do the talking
So hopefully that's what
What he does he did it this weekend he put himself in position to win ran forth and they're having a decent
Start to the season. We'll see if he can get his first win this year
We've got uh vegas come up next, right? We got vegas next. Um, it's the first real test of a mile and a half
You're going going to vegas change the tires kyle arson for the 88 just to know Riley series
I'll be there saturday fly out saturday fly back saturday. Uh, and then
I'm really excited to see last year. We saw a ton of pit road problems, which brings us to our pit bosses a week this week
Let's not cut that the 19 team
19 was by far the fastest. They've been so good here lately
um, let's talk about them real quick, man, they
They had a little bit of a shake up on this team this year
They had a veteran tire changer
Daniel smith on the rear of that car
and they had uh
lee bob
Who's was their front? He was a rear changer forever. Then he moved to be their front changer
They moved him back to the rear aj rosini who was out with health issues from the 11 last year came back
He's on the front of the 19 and they've just been kaleb dirks the jack man
They've been hitting on all cylinders this year
Uh, so it's really cool to see that these changers are able to go from the rear to the front back and forth
And the coaching it gives is is phenomenal. Brian holland
I was a really good friend of mine has been the head coach there for a long time
So shout out to the 19 boys pit boss the week best average fast
fastest stop goes to the 23 23 team did a eight
Okay, eight six or an eight seven. I don't know what it was, but uh
They were they were the fastest team. I expect to see
If say an eight six was the fastest stop this weekend
I think in vegas we could see maybe an eight one with tires four tire stop four tire stop
I think we could see maybe yeah an eight one and it was cool to see this weekend on the gibbs front
Uh jackson gibbs on the last two tire stop. He barely got back across the nose
uh
and
They interviewed him. We saw they saw just
Here on a two tire stop
So the jackman you you tighten the right front and the jackman drops it right away
Right when you're getting up and these cars are launching out of the pit box so fast
Everybody kind of knows how much it takes three tenths of a second to get passed by car on pit road
So they you know they the 54 team was in our pit box right when the Xfinity race ended
On saturday night scraping the rubber and prepping the pit box surface so they could launch better
And then you see the 54 launch out of the box and almost hit their tire changer
So that stuff started saturday night. We right when the race was over
They started putting chemicals on the pit box to take the the rubber up to get a clean surface because they've been doing they have these
And you'll see it in an hra
They have these pieces that go on the ground that measure the grip of pit road
and they uh
They have been tracking this data at each track and then figuring out chemicals to put down on the surface to get the
The cars to launch better
That makes it a little bit tougher on the front tire changer because now when the car drops
There's no wheel spin it launches and we saw Jackson Gibbs jump over the front of that
I just saw Blaine Anderson on the 77. He didn't quite get a get a cross. There's a video on bozi's twitter
Where he ended up on the hood
easy to do
Uh, we talked about it last week. I I would always if the car was launching
I put my hand on like where the headlight is and just push myself off the front of it
Or even where the emblem is you can kind of get up and the car will kind of shove you out of the way
Uh, I did have my finger go in the hood pin one time, which was super sketchy
Um, but lived the fight another day kept my thumb, which was good
But yeah, that a lot of cool stuff and then I interviewed Jackson that Jackson Gibbs
The other grandson of ty Gibbs jd's son changes front tires for ty
So there's two grandsons on one car. He was out there cleaning the pit box
So so really cool to see but uh, yeah, those are 19 teams are pit bosses. Um, shout out
bummer friend of the show last week austin prok
Goes to nha this weekend
Impamona with a new team didn't qualify for the race. Uh, he had some choice where for
uh, nha about oil on the track and
Saw a lot of comments, but uh bummer to see that
but
Hoping nothing for the best for austin prok and everybody in nha. It was really big weekend for motorsports
That kind of covers everything that we got here, but I think we have a couple questions
Let's hear your promises from next week. Who you got for vegas? Who do I have for vegas, man?
It's hard to go against kyle arson of vegas. I'm not just saying that because I
um
I'm changing tires for him on saturday. I'm just talking about sunday alone
They that is like a
Put your nuts on the dashboard go as hard as you can
type race
It's really easy to get in the trouble
It's one of the fastest racetracks we go to
And that falls right in the kyle arson's like spring car mentality
so
I'm I'm going
If I had to put my money on somebody it's going to be larcen. What about you? Who do you think you're going hosibar?
He's in a wreck someone. He's not going to be in the wreck and he's going to be out there. Well, I think I think the
The thing that hosibar said a couple weeks ago if you cause the wreck you're usually not in it
That kind of pertains that kind of pertains to
Super speed waves a lot of the times. I think vegas is one of those places where
You can wreck and you can wreck hard and if you're getting into somebody you're going so fast that if you cause the wreck
You're probably going to be in it
um
But hosibar has got a ton of speed too so and and those spire cars have been better and better running the top 10 the whole race so
this is
that's a
You're picking hosibar to get his first win at vegas a lot of guys have gotten their first wins there so
We'll see if that holds up. You got a lot of questions though. I saw you put a lot of questions
We put him up last night just in case something happened. You know, we had a bit of a sneaking suspicion so
We'll go with something a little from c kill gore 19. Who wins in a fight a grilled cheese or a taco taco
Why uh, you know, I think about taco is built in mexico a lot of great mexican fighters
The mexican boxers have always been super scrappy a grilled cheese is just the grilled cheese. There's no protein in it
There's no real protein. You know taco. You can take your choice of protein taco is going to win every time
All right, we got brie. No no well no
Why did drivers reference each other by number instead of name and interviews the x car?
I think that's something they do when they're mad
Makes it a little bit less personal
Uh, so instead of saying hey, i'm i'm pissed off at aj. I'm gonna go to 16
Just just ran me in the fence. It makes it uh, I think when it makes it a little bit less like a personal shot when you
Name somebody by name. It seems a I think people are a little bit more mad. So I think that's that's kind of a nice way to
Uh, not throw somebody on their bus and it's kind of like a subtle
condescending dig
We said it here though. We say the 12 car the 22 car. That's that's numbers are important, man. That's how you're known
Professional that's it. Um, this is a great question from brett bows. Who do you think we'll get a cup series win first?
It gives a host of r. Oh, that's a tough one great question. Um, man
They're that's a toss up. I i'm going ty gibbs. Like I said, I'm a huge ty gibbs fan
but I'm also a huge karson host of our fan but
Ty gibbs has just consistently been been finishing the races. I think host of r has been running up front more
Um, but ty I feel like ty can win any weekend
I feel like there's a couple select tracks that host far is really good at and I still think he has some weak points in his game
where ty
has
Obviously spires made leaps and bounds in their program, but they're not proving like gibbs is yet, right? They're not championship team
So that's one thing ty's got going for him
And then he seems to be able to to finish like when they're having a good day to finish off that good day
Uh, host of r still has some hiccups in that but man, he's fun to watch. I mean, I want to see a gibbs american story
Go what it's an american story, right from the whole entire family legacy when the you know overcoming this
You know, I see both of them win. Absolutely. But yeah, if I had to pick somebody to win first, that's what
Holy moly underscore e how many times can skip decides to describe something as electric getting that a lot?
Uh, I've been getting that a lot
I don't know man. I mean I get fired up. That's the word I use electric. Sorry. I'll try to switch it up
But yeah, I got I got uh
My guys at the powder coat shop roasted me on that this week too. Those guys are funny. Yeah, they are
That's a good group. Those guys also drove from all over the place this weekend. Well, they were all together
We all kind of drove up from concord. So we got some guys doing dirt stuff
Yeah, that yeah my buddy dylan roger shout out to dylan
We he had a long weekend like I did he was racing down at golden aisles with third late models
And he drove up to crew chief the modified yesterday. So
Racers man, they'll do whatever it takes. What else we got? Here's a segue from
Bailey hobaroo with an x you at the end of it. Um, what's your cookout order? Oh man, so
I don't need cookout a lot. It's usually after darlington on the way home. There's a couple
I don't try not to eat fast food a ton, but there's a couple races where that's all you can eat on the way home
martinsville, it's taco bell
Cookout is usually on the way home from darlington
I go um to I used to be blts
Or my jam
But now I go to of their snack wraps chicken, honey mustard kind of chicken snack wrap
Uh, I like the hush puppies and
An unsweet tea sweet tea fills me up way too much too much sugar
But I will get a mint chocolate chip shake is always really good
I remember seeing this place go cook out this magical land first time in the south
And the first time I went was the one off sugarcreek
To him in the morning talk about being overwhelmed that menu hits you in the face of all sorts of colors
Yeah, everything's a dollar
Yes, so I got a so we're celebrating
One of our clients going to a big national chain and so we're having a good time
So we're going out to his cabin 40 minutes away. I was bringing food
I think we got 12 different types of burgers bunch of shakes bunch of everything and the next morning
We felt like we were hung over. Yeah, but it was good. It was worth it. Um, are we gonna race legends cars?
I don't know we can go we can go race legend cars. I'm down to race whatever whenever the cookout invitation
Or what do they call those they call the cookout summer shootout. Um, that's a really I've raced that when I was younger. It's a really awesome
Uh
Cookouts just made a huge investment
But the shoot summer shootouts a great way to get into racing and bandoleros and legend cars
It's a lot of fun and we see guys out there like svg bubble wallace
It's got a mclochland racing last year. So it's it's really cool
It's a really fun way to get some racing in on midweek shows
I think it's live on flow now. You can watch it and you know, that's that's a way to break into racing
We talk about how do we get more people involved with cookout summer shootouts a great way
That's 20 minutes from my office
So I would go in the afternoon sit there with my laptop and work at the stands and watch the race
That's great. Yeah, and the cookout also makes a big investment in the NASCAR youth racing
It's kind of wherever max Reeves his family owns cookout
So wherever he's been racing they make a big investment in that and and it's really cool to see
Let's wrap it up. You're from Nicholas Olson. What's your favorite memory from your dad race?
Do you show me when you're in your trophy room the other day and you've got numerous trophy rooms
You've got the garage. You've got the closets. You've got all sorts of memorabilia and there was a lot of your dad
The wins are great, but sitting in the race car with your dad when he loads it on the trailer and that type of stuff just feels so cool
Uh, those are my favorite memories and that's kind of what's molding me as a man on a racer today
That's why I continue to do this stuff
So so those little things driving to and from the racetrack helping load the race car up
Just being there and being around that's why I do it now with my kids and we have a lot of fun doing it
So people always ask why the hell am I doing this stuff?
And it's chasing those memories from when you're a kid and pass them on to my kids
They were so excited this morning when they woke up and they saw a trophy
I remember this my dad won opening night at wall state and I wasn't able to go because it was east
It was the night before Easter and I came home next to my Easter basket was his trophy
Uh from wall and and that was just one of the coolest memories and I was able to do that this morning
Kids woke up went downstairs saw the trophies sitting there
So you're always no matter what your dad did or what you're always inherently just trying to make your dad proud or
um
You know share these memories and pass them down. So that's a little bit what I can do with my kids
We're wishing the best to Cory. We really appreciate you guys hanging out
Sorry to carry the show today. Cory will be back next week. We'll talk about baby number four
We'll talk about vegas. We're heading to vegas this weekend a lot on the docket. It's going to be a great weekend
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About this episode
Ryan Flores and Kyran Brent dive into a packed weekend of racing action, covering NASCAR, IndyCar, F1, and NHRA highlights. They reflect on the unique sounds and speeds of IndyCar compared to NASCAR, share personal racing experiences at local tracks, and discuss the challenges and innovations in pit stops and car setups. The episode also touches on the impact of next-gen NASCAR cars, including their louder exhausts and new safety features. Stories from recent races, including Ryan’s own modified win and Justin Allgaier’s Xfinity victory, add a personal and insightful touch to the motorsport discussion.
Original notes
Corey’s out for a big reason this week, so Skip carries the show and breaks down a loaded weekend in racing. Blaney survives Phoenix, IndyCar puts on a show, F1 sparks a bigger conversation, and the episode ends with the racing memory that still drives it all. Plus pit-road truth, grassroots racing, and why the best teams are always living a little uncomfortable.
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