A diesel oxidation catalyst is an emissions part that helps clean up exhaust gases. It works by using a catalyst to change some of the harmful stuff into less harmful byproducts.
A diesel particulate filter is a part that catches the smoky soot that diesel engines make. Over time it has to clean itself out (burn the soot off) so the exhaust can flow properly.
DPF X-Fit is a company/brand that makes replacement emissions parts for diesel trucks. They’re advertising filters and catalysts meant to install as direct replacements.
“OEM replacement” means it’s made to replace the factory part. The goal is that it bolts up and works with the truck’s emissions setup like the original.
This is a tool that helps you find the right replacement part for your exact truck. Instead of guessing, it uses your vehicle info to match the correct OEM part.
Supergrip Thunder Valley Nationals is the name of the NHRA race weekend at Thunder Valley. “Supergrip” is the sponsor attached to that event.
Topic
Mission Food Series
The Mission Food Series is referenced as a competition/series within the NHRA ecosystem, with Dallas Glenn identified as the winner. It’s mentioned as a key storyline for the guest segment.
A head gasket is the seal between the engine block and the cylinder head. A copper head gasket is a race-style version made from copper that’s often used when engines are pushed very hard and need a strong seal.
A gasket is a seal that keeps fluids and gases from leaking. “Composite” gaskets use engineered materials (not just one metal) to seal reliably, especially in engines that run hot or change temperature a lot.
A contingency program is a sponsor payout offered when a racer uses that sponsor’s parts and achieves certain results. “Alcohol ranks” refers to NHRA drag racing classes that run alcohol-based fuels (like methanol), where specific components and setups are commonly tuned for that fuel.
A torque converter is a fluid coupling between the engine and automatic transmission that multiplies torque at launch and allows the car to stay in gear while the vehicle is stopped. In drag racing, converters are critical for controlling launch RPM and keeping the engine in its power band.
Automatic transmissions shift gears without a clutch pedal, using hydraulics and control systems. In drag racing, automatic setups are often built for hard launches and rapid, repeatable shifts, and they’re frequently paired with purpose-built torque converters.
Pro Mod (Pro Modified) is an NHRA drag racing class for highly modified, typically front-engine cars running in a bracketed ladder of performance. The cars are known for advanced aerodynamics and powertrains, and they’re built to run consistent elapsed times down the strip.
Top Sportsman is an NHRA category for bracket-style drag racing with production-based vehicles that are modified but still within defined rules. It’s a competitive class where consistency and tuning matter as much as outright power.
Top Dragster is an NHRA drag racing class for dragsters (open-wheel, purpose-built drag cars) competing under specific rules. It’s one of the premier categories for dragsters, where power delivery and traction are tightly managed for repeatable passes.
In drag racing, the “light” refers to the electronic starting tree timing. A “.002” (spoken as “002”) indicates an extremely quick reaction time—so fast it’s near the threshold of what’s considered a perfect/near-perfect start.
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nearly unwinnable final
“Nearly unwinnable final” is a race context concept meaning the matchup conditions were so unfavorable that winning was extremely unlikely. In drag racing, this often comes from factors like traction, weather, track prep, or how well each car’s tune matches the conditions.
Pollen can get onto the track and mess with tire grip. If it mixes with the sticky track treatment, it can make the surface feel slippery instead of grippy.
The “groove” is the worn-in track line where tires have already left rubber. That line usually has better grip, so drivers try to stay in it to keep the car going straight.
The drive wheel is the wheel that’s powered by the car’s drivetrain. If one powered wheel has good grip and the other doesn’t, the car can steer itself unexpectedly.
On a drag strip, tractors are used to clean and prepare the track between runs. They help keep the surface consistent so the tires can grip the same way.
Tire marks are the visible rubber lines left on the track by cars running through a pass. In changing conditions, those marks can reveal where the surface is gripping well (or where it’s slick), helping drivers aim for the most consistent path.
Manifolds are engine components that route exhaust gases (or intake air/fuel, depending on the setup) to the next stage of the system. In drag racing, “Wilson manifolds” likely refers to a specific aftermarket manifold brand used to improve airflow and engine response, which can matter a lot for making consistent runs.
Term
proven engines
In drag racing, “proven engines” means powerplants with a track record of producing reliable, repeatable performance rather than just one-off results. The host is implying these engines have been used successfully before, which helps reduce uncertainty when tuning for a specific track.
“Making nice clean runs” refers to drag-racing passes that are consistent and free of major problems like wheel lift, instability, or poor traction. It’s about repeating the same performance characteristics round after round rather than just going fast once.
In drag racing, a wheelie bar is a small bar with a wheel on it that prevents the car from lifting the front wheels too much. It helps the car stay planted so it can go straight and run consistent times.
In drag racing, “front wheels” lifting or staying planted is a key part of launch and acceleration behavior. The host notes the car carried the front wheels almost to third gear, which implies significant weight transfer and wheel lift management during the run.
A wheel stand is when the front of the car lifts up during a hard launch. Too much lift can make the car harder to control and can hurt traction and consistency.
Greg Anderson is a drag racer. In this segment, they’re talking about how he races well and how his car can still perform even when his reaction time isn’t perfect.
Person
Greg Stamfield
Greg Stamfield is part of the racing team they’re talking about. The segment suggests his side made a strong run, which points to good preparation and execution.
Person
Erica
“Erica” is one of the racers in this drag race. They’re comparing her launch and run performance to the other driver’s, and saying she’s tough to beat.
The “tree” is the set of lights that tells you when to launch. Drivers try to time their start so they react quickly without getting a bad start.
Term
pedal move
A “pedal move” means the driver tweaks how much they press the gas right before and as the car launches. Tiny throttle changes can help the car get moving cleanly and on time.
Reaction time is how fast the driver moves after the start signal. In drag racing, being quicker usually helps you get off the line, but being too quick can cause a foul.
Hood scoops are openings on the hood that help bring air into the engine area. In racing, getting the right kind of airflow can help the engine make power more consistently.
Throttle body injection is a modern way of feeding fuel into the engine using a valve (the throttle body) that controls how much air goes in. “Top mounted” just means that throttle body is placed on the top side, and racing rules can require that specific layout.
A “tune up” here means adjusting the engine settings to make it run right for that race. If it’s not dialed in perfectly, the car may not perform as consistently.
Term
routine
In drag racing, a “routine” is the driver’s repeatable pre-launch checklist and timing sequence (e.g., how they stage, when they verify systems, and how they prepare to launch). It’s designed to keep performance consistent even if the other car has issues.
“Pre-stage” means you’re lined up at the start and ready, but you’re not fully committed to the final start lights yet. It helps you time your launch so you can go as soon as the race officially starts.
“Staged” means your car is fully set at the start line and ready for the official start. The timing of when you stage can affect how fast you react when the lights go.
Term
tap the chip
“Tap the chip” sounds like a quick, small adjustment during the launch—basically a brief input to the throttle or control. Even tiny changes right at the start can change how the car runs.
“Track prep” means how the track surface is prepared to give the tires good grip. If they say it was “prep good,” it means the track conditions were helping the car launch and run consistently.
This is the drag strip event location at Bristol. Because the track can grip differently in each lane, choosing the right lane and having the right setup can make a big difference in how fast you run.
A dyno is a testing machine that lets teams run the car’s engine while measuring how much power it makes. It helps them tune the car without needing to do every test on the track.
They’re talking about the next NHRA race weekend they’re heading to. Race weekends are where teams test and tune for the specific track they’ll run on.
In drag racing, you race in either the left or right lane. If one lane hooks up better than the other, choosing the better lane can help you launch and run faster.
Term
200s
“200s” is shorthand for a tiny difference in elapsed time, like how much faster one car is than the other by a fraction of a second. They’re saying the track can be so sensitive that lane choice can cost you that kind of time.
A Honda Prelude is a Honda sports coupe. The host is basically saying that some older Hondas are common enough that collectors don’t treat them like rare “finds.”
A “barn find” is a car that’s been sitting unused in storage for a long time and gets discovered later. People like them because they can be rare or still have original parts, but they usually need work to bring them back.
Bernie's Speed Shop is a local shop that helps people sell and restore cars. They’re being described as knowledgeable about doing restorations correctly.
A transmission is what sends power to the wheels. A converter (torque converter) helps the car launch hard by multiplying torque, which matters a lot in drag racing.
Paul Lee is a drag racer who competes in top fuel funny cars. The hosts are saying he’s involved in leading the companies behind these performance parts.
Top fuel funny car is a drag racing category. These cars are built for maximum acceleration over a short race distance, and they’re among the fastest in drag racing.
Shift forks are parts inside the transmission that help move gears to change speed ratios. In racing, getting the gear changes right can make a big difference in how fast you accelerate.
The Potomac Nationals is a drag racing event. In this conversation, it’s the next race Angie and the team are talking about after Chicago.
Term
caboose
“Caboose” is a metaphor for the back end of the train—meaning the rear part needs to stay secure. They’re saying they were focused on keeping everything stable so the car/bike could make passes safely.
A V-Twin is a motorcycle engine with two cylinders arranged like a V. That engine layout helps determine how the bike makes power as it launches down the track.
Point standings are the rankings in the season based on race results. If you’re far behind, you need better finishes to catch up.
Term
rules adjustment
A rules adjustment is when the race organizers change the rules for fairness. In this case, they’re changing the Suzuki rules so the bikes can be closer in speed.
Suzuki is the motorcycle brand being referenced. The hosts say there’s a rules adjustment for the Suzuki class, implying the bike’s competition setup (like weight) is being altered for the event.
Over-correcting means you try to fix the bike’s direction, but you do it too much. Instead of getting back on track smoothly, the bike wobbles and you lose speed.
Concept
riding the bike
Here, “riding the bike” means how the rider controls the launch and power delivery. In drag racing, rider technique can make the bike work better, and it also helps the team know what to adjust.
Gainesville is where a big drag-racing event happens in Florida. Teams often use it as an early-season benchmark for how well their bike and tune are working.
The clutch is what lets the rider smoothly connect the engine’s power to the bike’s wheels. If it’s not behaving right, the bike can launch poorly or feel inconsistent during runs.
This is an insurance company that focuses on race cars and race gear. The point is that it’s meant for racing situations, not just regular driving, so it’s less likely to deny coverage when you’re at the track.
Race fuel is the special fuel racers use in their cars for competition. The host is saying some insurance plans get picky about it and may deny coverage if it’s handled differently than normal gas.
This is insurance that’s meant for when you’re actually at the track. It helps cover racing-related problems that happen during events, not just everyday driving.
Fogget is a product you put in/onto your engine to help protect the inside surfaces. The host says it helps protect the cylinder walls and is useful to have on hand when something needs lubrication.
Cylinder finish is the way the inside of the engine’s cylinder wall is machined. It matters because it helps the piston rings seal properly and reduces wear.
This is a filter that catches the smoky soot from a diesel truck’s exhaust. If it gets too full, the truck can run worse, so it has to clean itself out periodically.
The Porsche 928 is a two-door sports car made by Porsche. It’s designed for comfortable driving over longer distances, not just short trips. People mention it because it’s a well-known older Porsche model with a unique look and character.
“Sell out” means the venue is considered fully booked. The host is saying it can be based on ticket sales numbers, not necessarily every single seat being used by a person.
The fire marshal is the person/office that makes sure buildings are safe from fire hazards. Here, they’re being mentioned because safety rules can limit how many people can be inside.
Pro Stock is one of the NHRA drag racing categories. The cars are built to be very fast, but they have rules that keep them tied to real production-car designs.
The BMW 3 Series is a compact luxury car made by BMW, usually as a sedan. It’s meant to be comfortable for daily driving while still feeling sporty to drive. People bring it up because it’s a common, well-known BMW model.
“Nitro cars” are drag racers that use nitromethane fuel. That fuel helps them make huge power for the short sprint down the track, and it’s why they look and sound so dramatic.
The crew chief is the team’s lead decision-maker for race setup. They help choose how to tune the car so it performs well on that specific track that day.
The starting line is where the car launches. If the track is slippery there, the car can’t get traction and won’t accelerate as well.
Term
computer with the weather station
They use computer systems that take weather readings and turn them into guidance for how the car should be set up. The idea is to adjust for the day’s conditions so the car runs its best.
Term
shortest concrete pad
A “concrete pad” refers to a concrete section of the drag strip surface, typically near the start area. The length and condition of that concrete can change how the tires bite and how the car transfers power early in the run.
Term
50 year old asphalt
Asphalt is the main surface of the track. If it’s old, it can behave differently—especially when it’s hot—so the tires may not grip as consistently.
Repaved means the track gets resurfaced with new pavement. Fresh pavement can change how much grip the cars get, which can make races faster or more consistent.
“Smoke the tire” means the car spins its tires instead of gripping the track. You’ll see smoke because the rubber is slipping, which usually isn’t the most efficient way to accelerate.
“Blow it up” means the car breaks badly during the run, like the engine fails. It’s the kind of failure you don’t want because it ruins the race and can cause expensive damage.
In drag racing, “Q” stands for qualifying. “Q two” is the second qualifying run/round where drivers try to post a fast time to earn a good spot in the bracket.
Sean Langdon is a pro drag racer in the NHRA Top Fuel class. The hosts are talking about how he’s doing well right now and aiming for a streak of wins.
“Four consecutive wins” means winning four straight NHRA events (or eliminations rounds, depending on context) without a break in results. In drag racing, that’s a big deal because conditions, tuning, and competition vary from weekend to weekend.
A “defending champ” is the person who won the championship last time and is trying to win it again. The hosts are talking about how far ahead someone is compared to that previous winner.
A “hundred point lead” means one driver/team is scoring much more than the others in the season standings. The hosts are saying that kind of gap can signal someone is about to dominate.
Term
Coletta air car
“Coletta air car” is the name of a particular drag racing car/team. In NHRA, the car you’re watching is tied to a team identity, and fans use that name to follow who’s winning.
“Super Comp” is a drag racing class where racers often use a target time (“dial-in”) and try to hit it. It’s less about just going fastest and more about being consistent.
Bracket racing is a drag race where you pick a target time ahead of the run. You’re trying to be as close as possible to that target, and “big money” means the prizes are bigger.
A “Top Fuel car” is the nitro dragster used in the fastest NHRA class. It’s built specifically to accelerate extremely hard over a short distance.
Person
AJ
“AJ” is the main racing figure being talked about in this segment. The hosts are comparing how the team’s performance and leadership have changed around him.
“World title days” means the time when a racer or team was winning the overall season championship. It’s based on points from lots of races, not just one event.
Brian Houston is the person being credited with improving performance over time. In drag racing, the team leader helps make the car faster and more consistent.
To “campaign” a nitro car means to race it seriously over time, not just one event. The team has to keep tuning and maintaining it so it can keep running fast.
Here, “full-time” means the team is actively racing most of the time during the season, not just showing up occasionally. Running that often requires a steady supply of parts and work.
In nitro racing, “parts” means the special pieces the team needs to keep the car running and repairing it between runs. The point is that teams can’t just add more cars if parts aren’t available.
Brand
TASCA
TASCA is a name mentioned in the context of racing teams changing over time. The host is using it to explain how teams can get stuck waiting on parts.
“Rear ends” is a shorthand for the drivetrain parts in the back of the car—things like the differential and axles. If they’re not working right, the car can lose power or break during hard launches and runs.
Spark plugs are what create the spark that lights the fuel in the engine. In drag racing, they can wear out or need the right setup so the engine keeps firing cleanly run after run.
Race teams don’t just drive to the track—they often haul the car hundreds or thousands of miles. The car still has to be ready to race when it arrives, not just survive the trip.
Consistency means the car and driver do well again and again, not just once. In drag racing, that usually comes from having a setup that works reliably and repeating good launches.
Term
low keep
“Low keep” is basically about not needing constant changes to get good runs. It means the car stays working well instead of getting worse or needing lots of tweaking.
“60-foot” is how fast the car gets to 60 feet after the start. It’s a key early-race number because getting off the line well is crucial in drag racing.
Qualifying is the timed part of the event where drivers try to set their best numbers so they can advance. It helps decide who goes into the next round and how they’re matched up.
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driver, it's very specific, driving a top dual car
High-level drag cars are extremely sensitive to how you drive. Even if the car is fast, you have to be precise with your inputs to get the best launches and repeatable runs—so a driver can feel rusty at the start of the season.
Concept
plan for that
Even though you can’t win every race, teams still plan ahead. They have to think about limited parts and how to set up the car so it’s strong across the qualifying runs and into the later rounds.
John Force Racing is a well-known NHRA drag racing team, best associated with Funny Car competition. In this segment, they’re discussed in the context of a specific driver and team performance as they work through setup and consistency issues.
Jordan Bandegriffe is a professional drag racer who drives a Funny Car. The hosts are talking about how he’s doing well and getting comfortable with the team and car.
Super Gas is a specific class in NHRA drag racing with its own rules. The comment is basically saying it can be hard to perform consistently when you’re under pressure or racing at odd hours.
“Run low E.T.” means they’re trying to make the car as fast as possible in terms of time. That usually requires the car to hook up well and not spin, while still accelerating hard.
“Spun” means the tires slipped instead of gripping the track. When that happens, the car can lose speed and you’ll often see tire marks where it couldn’t hook up.
The “points leader” is the driver who has the most points in the season standings. It’s about the overall championship, not just winning a single race.
Antron Brown is a well-known drag racer in NHRA. The host mentions him because he recently won the world championship after making a big jump late in the season.
A “bonus point” is extra points you can earn in a race series for doing something specific well. Even one extra point can matter a lot when the championship standings are close.
The “countdown” refers to the NHRA championship playoff-style phase where drivers’ positions and points determine who advances and ultimately wins the title. The hosts connect it to how early qualifying results can matter later, even if the standings feel less urgent at first.
Dallas Glenn is a professional drag racer. In this part of the show, they’re talking about how he performed in the final round and how it affects the championship race.
Peter Rihondo is a racing person being quoted here. The point is that you should race confidently instead of hesitating when it matters most.
Person
Dave Connelly
Dave Connelly is being described as the team member who tells Dallas how to set up the car for the final race. The idea is to go for the win with an aggressive setup.
A supercharger is a device that forces extra air into the engine. More air usually means the engine can make more power, which is why it’s popular in drag racing.
The World Series of Pro Mod is a major drag racing event focused on the Pro Mod class. It’s used as a high-profile proving ground for drivers and teams, since the cars and competition are among the best in that category.
In Pro Mod, “25 pounds” is about how much extra weight the car has to carry (or how much weight it’s allowed). Extra weight can make the car slower and harder to launch, so teams care a lot about it.
The Ford F-150 Lightning is an electric pickup truck. Instead of using gasoline, it runs on a battery and electric motor. It’s the electric version of the F-150, and people talk about it when they discuss how quickly it can accelerate and how it fits into truck life.
“Nitrile percentage” means how much of a specific chemical component is included in the fuel mix. Changing it can change how the fuel burns, which can affect how fast the car runs.
In drag racing, the “fuel combination” is the exact mix of fuels the car uses. Changing the mix can change how the engine burns fuel and how strong the car feels on the track.
“Supercharged” means the engine uses a forced-induction system (a supercharger) to cram more air into the cylinders, boosting power. “Methanol burner” refers to methanol fuel, which is commonly used in top drag classes because it supports very high combustion temperatures and speeds.
Overdrive here is about gearing that lets the engine spin faster relative to the car’s speed. Changing it can affect how quickly the car accelerates and how stressful the run is on the engine.
Willowbank is a drag-racing track in Australia. The Winter Nationals is one of the big events there, and track conditions can affect how fast cars run.
Western Swing is a stretch of the season with multiple races in the western part of the country. It matters because it affects travel and timing for teams.
Brainerd is a race stop, and the hosts say the schedule gives teams an extra week off there this year. That changes how much time they have to prepare between races.
The US Nationals is a big NHRA race. The hosts mention it to show how close the major event is on the calendar.
Term
partways
This word doesn’t clearly match a known racing term in the context shown. It may be a transcription mistake rather than something technical about the cars.
Piston rings are thin metal rings on the engine’s pistons. They help keep combustion pressure from leaking and also control how much engine oil gets into the combustion area.
Ring seal technology refers to design features that improve how piston rings seal the combustion chamber. Better sealing can reduce blow-by (combustion gases escaping past the rings) and support higher performance and durability.
A catalytic converter is an emissions device in the exhaust system. It helps turn some of the engine’s nasty exhaust gases into cleaner ones before they leave the car.
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This is WFO Radio.
Hey, everybody. WFO Radio is back. Joe Costello here with you, NHRA Nitro, and we are about to
have our third consecutive race coming from the Potomac Nationals to the New England Nationals,
to Thunder Valley and the Supergrip Thunder Valley Nationals. On this show, we're going to
have our Mission Food Series winner, Dallas Glenn. Going to be joining us. We're also going to
double back to the Potomac Nationals and catch up with Angie Smith. You didn't think we were going
to let Angie win that race and not catch up with her. Just do it as we're getting ready for the
next one instead of right after. And Jason Galvin going to join us to recap the New England
Nationals, all but two runs, the two Nitro finals. Those will be taken care of on Friday
at Bristol. And, you know, we tried. We tried. Everybody tried. We've got as close as you can
possibly come. And then my nature said, yeah, no, not going to happen. But what a great race.
Record crowd. Record crowd. That's not NHRA's reporting, by the way. I saw Drag Illustrated
reached out to the track and the track confirmed to Drag Illustrated that it was the largest crowd
in the history of New England Dragway. That is awesome. I could tell it's 7 50 a.m. when there
was traffic loading up. So Dallas going to be joining us a second from now. If you're a fan of
pro stock, if you're a fan of drag racing, if you're a fan of Dallas, you definitely want to
share this show to share the show with drag racing fans, put it on your social.
Your friends could be watching a lot worse stuff than this. And, you know, help us out here on WFO
Radio. Now, before we get to Dallas, I just want to thank the people who make it possible,
like Hussie performance.net, not just copper head gaskets or copper gaskets anymore. They've
got composite gaskets. They've got contingency programs in the alcohol ranks. Reach out to
David Allen and the team at Hussie performance.net. We'll tell you a little bit more about them
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to our great friends at Larisse Motorsports Insurance. That's right. It was kind of cool.
I was checking out my national dragster column in the dragster, you know, I send it in, but the
opposite page is a huge full page ad for Larisse Motorsports Insurance. I felt like it was fitting.
You know, you got to cover your equipment, guys. You got to cover it, unless you feel like you
could just dig into your pocket and replace it. And if that's you, bravo, but it's not me.
So Larisse Motorsports Insurance.com, check them out. Our friends at Total Seal Piston Rings,
you'll hear a little bit more about them later. You already saw a little something about Jesse
converters. That's Eric Latino, Matt Latino, our friends, Frank Holley's drag racing school. Of
Canna Foggett and our main man, Marvin Rodak at rodakscoffeeandgrills.com. Our friends at
Bernie's Speed Shop as well. But let's bring on 00 Dallas Glenn, who earned the nickname in the
final round with a 002 light. What's up, Dallas? How's it going, Joe? You're hard on Hartford, man.
You're hard on Hartford. 002, great run, making it a nearly unwinnable final. That was to cap off
the New England Nationals and become our only Mission Food series winner. Yeah, I didn't realize
the rain was quite that close. I didn't see any drops on the windshield or anything, but when I
was doing my interview down there, it started sprinkling. And then, you know, we finished the
interview and I go underneath the tent to wait out a little bit of rain. And then they said,
oh, we just lost the track. They're turning the fuel cars around. I'm like, what are you guys talking
about? It's like barely sprinkling down here. But apparently it was raining quite a bit harder on
starting line than it was at the turnoff. It was. So we were doing it. We were finishing our
Lucas Oil series interviews and then we ran you guys and then we had a couple more to go. And
just as we were finishing them, here comes the rain and it was more than a couple of drops.
But the way I look at it is we got lucky to get that one in. I know that the state of the world
is that someone is going to complain. But given the day, a lot of people felt like we were going
to get washed out earlier on. And then dealing with all that pollen and we knocked out some blocks,
I'm happy we got anything complete. Yeah, absolutely. You know, you know, I knew that there was a
chance of rain coming at some point. I think there was a couple little sprinkles earlier in the day
and I kind of glanced at the radar earlier and you could just see little pockets of rain going
through. So to, you know, to even get all the pretty much everything but two finals done is
I think we were pretty lucky. Like you said, you know, that pollen is the pollen was crazy. I mean,
anytime the wind blew, it was just like a fog just went over the entire track. And, you know,
that the pollen, it doesn't, it sticks to the track VHT and it just becomes super
slick for us. And, you know, so it wasn't surprising that there was, you know, an uncommon amount of
blocks being taken out. Well, exactly. Like the drive wheel is in the groove or one of the wheels
is in the groove and the other is in the pollen. It makes sense that it would turn the car.
Yeah, you know, you can see the tractors go down and drag the track and you can actually see exactly
the tire marks that they leave for you or the car in front of you when it goes down. You can see
those two tire tracks and normally you can't see them. Now you have that kind of a darker area
in the middle where the groove is. You can see it gets shiny on the outside where there's no cars
have been running its fresh spray. But, you know, you can just see it's just green on the outside
and then the center just two little black strips of tire marks. So it was made the groove really
easy to see, but it, you definitely had to make sure your car was going straight or at least you
got back to the groove really quickly. People saying congratulations in the chat. Congratulations
Dallas on your win. Kenneth says he just got his 75th anniversary ring today and that's great.
Hussey Performance out there watching. What's up, David? How are you? Two great guests today,
right? Angie going to be back on as we get ready to head to Bristol. We'll get into that, but let's
do your round by round Dallas in that it was a fun day at the races and you stormed through.
You had to go up against Shane Tucker first round. You're 31. He's 32. That was a scare for you.
Shane Tucker. So, listen, a lot of news has been coming out talking about, you know, Jason
as a consultant on the team and Wilson manifolds as a consultant. And as we unfold the layers,
like those engines in that car, those are proven, proven engines from the past. You know, I don't
know if I'm supposed to say where they came from, but people are now telling me like, yeah, man,
those are world championship engines from someone from the past that doesn't drag race anymore.
But now they're out there turning left, but I will not say where they came from. But that was a
close race. Start us off with that one. Yeah, no, I know where those engines came from. And I know
they're, they're good engines. But yeah, no, I wasn't taking Shane Tucker lightly at all. You
know, I said in my interview, we've been slightly frustrated with the car. It just hasn't, we haven't
quite hit that, that window of making nice clean, clean runs, you know, it'll go out there and it
might make an okay run and we'll try to be a little bit more aggressive on it. And then it'll
get on the wheelie bar too hard and try shaking. And then it just, we haven't quite got the balance
of it figured out. And so I was a little, you know, a little worried about it going into it. I knew
I couldn't be a slouch or anything like that. So I just tried kind of doing my normal thing. And
luckily we, we squeaked around there and we made a decent run. I think they might have
underestimated how good the track was going to be for first round, because they came scrambling back
there and moving weight and making all their last minute adjustments. And then it carried the front
wheels almost to third gear. So I was like, yeah, I think they had a little too much,
much wheel stand in it. So, you know, Dave's looking at the run, he's like, I don't know what we can
really do. Let's just, let's just drag it back up there and see if we can run, you know, a 56 again.
And, you know, we got Erica and she had lane choice and the elite cars seem like they had been
taking the left lane. So, you know, we thought we were going to go to the left lane, which is a
little bit worse down track, but the starting line seems to be a little bit better. I think, you
know, at least, at least that's my opinion. But then, you know, with Matt Latino shaking a little
bit and, you know, being first pair, they in Greg Stamfield making a good run in the left lane,
Erica jumped back over to the left. So, you know, then I get swapped over to the right again,
back where we're at, and it made a much better run and we felt like we squeaked around Erica there,
too. I made a little bit of a pedal move to try to get a little bit better on the tree and I went
from that was at 31 to a 23. Yeah, and pause there because like the day gets tougher as we're
watching it, it kind of all blurs together. But you go against Shane Tucker and then you go up
against Erica, the flagship for elite motorsports, the Nemesis, and Erica is doing Erica things,
right? She's 25 on the starting line. You're 23 on the starting line. She's 58, you're 56. So,
that's six championships, you know, vanquished in that moment to advance to another six with Greg
Anderson. Like, you know, I don't think there's a tougher back-to-back in motorsports. No, I mean,
the, you know, not taking anything away from Shane Tucker at all, but the second, third, and fourth
rounds there were, you know, Matt Hartford's won two races for a reason. He's really tough. He's
taken me out a bunch. You know, I'm definitely, but you know, going against Greg and a part of me
was almost not glad, but slightly glad that I was racing Greg in the semis rather than the final,
because I don't really have a good record against him in the final. It seems like no matter what I
do against him in the final, you know, I'm double O2 in the final against him and he always drives
well and gets around me. You know, in Pomona, I think I was double O2 against him and he still
beat me and he was like 18 on the treat. So, you know, he's got a fast car and he shows up when
he needs to. He's really tough. 114 national event wins. It's crazy what's happening with Greg
Anderson. You're on the inside and I'm sure there are fans who are just like over it, right? Like,
flipping him off again and driving so well again. Not always. He's had some mediocre reaction times
here and there, but the car has been able to bail him out a few times and you know how it goes,
some intimidation victories and all. Nobody is perfect. Nobody is perfect in this deal,
but it's just crazy. Like, what do you make of this guy? Like, here you are, a young man,
the young lion, the world champ. You battled him, you wrestled it away last year, but you still
have to marvel at like, what is this guy made of that he is able to win and rise to the occasion
as often as he does at his age. Yeah. I mean, you know, I get to work with him every day and the
dude is a machine. You know, he flew in yesterday from up there and, you know, and I think they
flew out of Manchester, but so he flies in yesterday. I don't know if he lands it like
noon or one o'clock. He doesn't go home and we come straight to the shop and he takes apart his
engine so that he can start working on it on engines. I mean, the guy's a machine. He's a
absolute workaholic. You know, his desire to beat everybody is unmatched. He'll be in here seven
days a week trying to find every last thousandth that he can and it's crazy. You know, I've had,
you know, this is the start of, I'm going to say, like a fourth, like really good year for me in a
row and I haven't even come close to scratching a percentage of the wins that he has. So it's,
you know, it's think about, you know, the last three or four years, you know, I have,
would that be 15, almost 20 wins in the last three, you know, four years and I'd have to have,
like, you know, seven more, times that amount to just get close to him.
It's crazy. the math, right. Like the math, that's when you really start
to think about it and that having been said recently, I did the math of what it would
take for Greg to catch John Force and that was another multiple of craziness. Like, what would
he'd have to do? Yeah, he'd have to win, you know, five races a year for the next 10 years
to, you know, that's probably, you know, not possible, but yeah, these guys who have dominated,
who got the sport to where it is, they've been really good and that whole workaholic thing
that some have suggested that changing the rules next year does not benefit you guys because you
guys are looking good already and we're going back to hood scoops and we're going to top mounted
throttle body injection and in my research, it seems like, you know, Greg doesn't really care
what the rules are because he's going to apply what you just told us and figure whatever it is
out. Lawn mowers, all right, we'll figure it out and use the same formula, which is work you into
submission to become victorious. Yeah, I mean, you know, we have a lot of really smart guys here
and it's not like we're just going to wait until the end of the season and, you know, throw a hood
scoop on it and two throttle bodies and just go, okay, well, here we go. I guess we've got to run
this now, you know, they're going to be working on it. I don't know when they're going to start,
but I'm sure it's getting, you know, they're going to start working on stuff. They're going to
build all the pieces that they need to and start developing stuff and we're going to try some stuff
and I'm kind of excited to go see what the tree looks like with a big hood scoop in front of me.
You know, the whole look of the car is going to change from inside. You know, I'm sure it'll
still be, you know, the same old pro stock car, but you know, I'm excited to see if it goes any
faster. We're already kind of right on the edge of setting national records. So, you know, putting
the throttle bodies up top, hopefully it makes a little bit more power. We get to go, you know,
a couple hundreds faster or so and maybe we can go start, you know, resetting national records
and track records again, because that's always fun and exciting, especially for the fans.
But, you know, we're going to keep working. You know, if you have a team that has that strong
desire to win and, you know, we're going to go and put our heads down and figure out what it's
going to take. Well, we will see next year. I like to build anticipation with people, you know,
good or bad. Like this is the last year of this and we'll do something different next year
and we'll see. And as you suggested, I don't think they're just going to go grab an old intake
that was up in the attic and scoop and throw it on there. They'll probably be R&D. And you said
that, you know, I don't know when they're going to start. My guess is that they've already started
Dallas and you're just not telling us. That's my guess. Well, I haven't personally seen anything
on the dyno yet. So, all right, I haven't. I mean, they do they do all kinds of stuff
after I leave in the truck, but I haven't personally seen anything on the dyno.
And now, and I believe you, I don't I would never accuse you of like lying, but I think that maybe
while you're gone, right, you're gone a lot. You drive the truck, you're out on the road,
highways and byways of America driving the truck and trailer that carries the car that you won
the world championship with. I think that's why a lot of people really like you is you are old
school racers, racer doing what it takes to be out there to live this dream. And it's amazing.
Let's talk about that final round against Hartford, who is very similar running his company,
blue collar guy veteran, United States Navy worked on submarines, right engineer. He was
like a Scotty on a submarine like Scotty was on the enterprise. That's a Star Trek reference.
I don't know if you get that Dallas, I think you probably do. But here you guys, you're always
tough on each other. Like that's always a good race. Talk about Hartford. I want to hear what
you, you know, what you make of this guy, because of the privateer teams, you know, doing it all
themselves. They've been really good. As you mentioned, 12 races, and hadn't lost a race,
you know, a final, if he made it out of first round on this given season. So once he won first
round, a lot of people were thinking, oh, man, Hartford could end up winning this deal. You're
double O and you outrun them. And you win the race. But talk about prepping for Hartford,
you know, he's can get tricky on the starting line too. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing, you know,
when I, when I race Hartford, I know what power he's got. I know he can run just as fast or faster
than me. So, you know, when I, when I ran Greg and I got kicked to the left lane, and I, and I saw
the tree roll well, I didn't move my pedal at all for Greg and I, and I hit it good and I was 11 on
the tree. Dave comes to me, well, we're prepping for Hartford. And he's like, Hey, I'm about to,
I'm about to throw some stuff at this thing. Do you want to back your pedal down? You were just
11. And, you know, it's definitely going to react quicker. And I was like, No, I think I'm fine.
We'll just leave it. You know, I'm, I'm thinking that, you know, Hartford put a new engine in a
fresh engine in for the semis, and he went low for the round being first pair in, you know,
first run in that thing, I'm sure that the tune up wasn't perfect. So I was fully expecting him to go
you know, low 53, maybe even a high 52 in the final. So I was hoping Dave could get me into that
53, 54 realm and try to get one or two on the tree on him and see if I can sneak one away from him.
You know, he's, he's good on the tree. He can go up there and drop a light on me at any time.
You know, at the same time, Eddie over there, he, he's not going to back down either. So there's a
chance he could go up there and shake, but I, you know, you need to be ready for everything.
They're, they're a tough competitor. They're, they're all smart. They know what they're doing.
So we just left the pedal alone. Dave did, did some magic to it through some,
got aggressive and, you know, we went over there and I knew I was going to be in the left lane
again because Hartford was in the right in the semis. So, you know, we went up there and, and I
just tried it. When you're racing Hartford, you know, he, he's been known to, to play games and,
and the games wouldn't bother me at all. Typically, I usually like to start my engine
before the other guy, I let the other guy start their engine first just because, you know, if
anybody has a problem, I usually have a pretty quick routine. So, you know, it can, we end up
pre-stage about the same time. So it all works out. But Hartford's one of those guys who's pretty
quick and I know he's going to wait for me no matter what. So I usually just go ahead and fire
up against him. There's, there's a few guys that is like, yeah, I'm not going to wait. I know that
they're just going to wait for me to fire up. So I just go ahead and fire up and, you know,
go do my routine back up. And I don't even remember who got staged first. I think I don't
even remember who it was. I think he might have gotten staged first. Or, you know, I know Greg,
we kind of staged on top of each other, but I was almost expecting it based on when, because
he's normally pretty quick. But no, it was, it was a good race against Hartford though. The car
felt amazing. Dave did a fantastic job. Dave and Rob and Nate did a fantastic job. It felt like
a really clean run. Front end was up. I might have tapped the chip a little bit in low, maybe
knocked a tower two out of it. But other than that, it was just nice clean run and the track was,
was prep good. Didn't, you know, I got a little glance over there. I didn't see him. And, you know,
got the wind light just in time too, because it was probably about a minute later, we will probably
wouldn't have made that run. Yes, which would have been totally different. We'd be waiting for
Friday and Bristol will talk about that in a second. Hopefully, Montenegro allows us to race.
These guys are chatting though, in the, in the chat section, like, yeah, right, don't let them fool
you. They've been, they've been working on it since the minute, maybe since before. On the dyno,
keywords. I guess seen it though, right on the dyno, right? People are accusing you. I'm not
accusing you. This guy says, rock in the gaming set. What's your go to game, Dallas? Says this guy.
Well, this actually isn't a gaming set. This is for driving, but I do have a gaming set.
I like to play a lot of PGA golf. Sometimes I play some War Thunder flying airplanes.
I play a lot of different, different games though.
Well, NHRA's new legends, NHRA game is available on mobile from what I understand. You can go
do some playing for that. I have been playing that some too. I've, I've, I don't know how exactly
far I've got, I don't know, five or six cars in that now. All right. Well, yeah, Galvin's
playing it as well. It's, it's, listen, it's for kids, guys. It's for people to just,
man, I mean this in a positive way. Mindlessly waste their time when they're in the doctor's
office or something, right? It's not, you know, it's not a crew chief simulator. It's a game.
Yeah. No, it's, it's, you know, meant for you to wind down a little bit before you fall asleep.
That's it. Instead of doom scrolling. All right. So congratulations on the win. That is a huge
sold out crowd. Record crowd. New England was amazing. You walk out of there with a diamond
wally. Now we're going to the Supergrip Thunder Valley Nationals of Bristol. The all new Bristol,
new surface. I've been eavesdropping on several people and I was told that it's going to be the
best that we've ever experienced Bristol. Oh, well, I'm really excited for that because
Bristol was one of those tracks that was, you know, at least the whole time I've been going there
and driving, it seemed like it was a very, you need lane choice kind of place. You know,
you're going to give up 200s if you lose lane choice. So there's a couple tracks like that,
but any jury tends to do a pretty good job of keeping them even, but Bristol was one of those.
The bumps in one lane were just, you know, they always got you and I'm really excited. They've
been, you know, they tried working on it a little bit last year. I think they did some grinding on
it last year, but to hear that it's completely new is really exciting. You know, Bristol is a
fantastic facility and it's so picture, you know, picturesque and you got the big giant cliff on the
one side, you're right in the valley, you know, you go with this uphill shot down. It's a really,
really cool place to race at. Yeah. And then you don't have to get a tow back to the pits.
You can just go down the hill. Yep. You just coast right on down the pits all the way to the scales.
So we're looking at the point standings. You're 39 up on Greg. You're the points leader and the
champ. You guys have been 12 throughout the year. Then Greg Stamphild, 189 back then,
Hartford, 239 back. And so it's, it's, you know, we have the countdown and so it doesn't,
doesn't matter, but shaping up to be a showdown between the two of you again, the way the elite
cars are performing, Hartford's going to factor in. There's going to be multiple factors, but
are you ready to battle this guy again? Yeah, no, I'm feeling great. You know, Dave's starting to
get a better handle on the car a little bit, I feel like, you know, having him get all four
runs on Sunday, I think helped. You know, he's been trying some new things, but
it's, you know, you can definitely tell this year that the competition's a lot tighter.
Everybody's running good. Everybody's running more aggressive. Everybody's driving better.
So it's, it's not going to be easy, you know, you know, Greg keeps stealing the points lead
back from me and I haven't tried to, you know, shove him back down into the corner.
No, it's going to be good. You know, you still have, it's really exciting that we still have
that, you know, regular season championship bonus. So, you know, all these, all these points matter
right now. And everything matters. Is there anything that you wanted to tell everybody that
I didn't happen to ask you about as we get ready to complete this three in a row?
No, I mean, not really. Everything's been going good. One of the things that is, is kind of,
you know, all these three in a rows or East Coast races that we go to,
a lot of the other teams don't get to go back to the shop, but, you know, being where we're
located in North Carolina, you know, we, we came back from Maryland before we went to Epping.
We, you know, we were at the shop right now, work on everything. It kind of almost plays into our
favor a little bit because we get to, you know, work on our stuff in between races, make sure
everything's serviced and fixed and it's good to go. It's a lot of work for us, but it's, it's
kind of cool. A lot of people don't realize they really think we, you know, we might just go race
to race, but no, we're, we're back at the shop working hard. You know, one of the things that
I think a lot of people missed is while we were in between those rain sessions there, I
got my first heckler in the winter circle. A guy didn't seem like he was very happy that I won and
he gave me the one finger salute all the way until when he was, and he was yelling at me. I was
kind of like, we all were all in shock about it. We're like, yeah, what's, I don't know, we're
this guy's upset about, but according to Greg Anderson, if you don't have haters and you're
not doing good enough. So, you know, I just take that and use it as motivation.
This is, I'm okay. So yes, it's great, but no, it's not great. Like it's two things are true
in that, yeah, if you don't have haters, you're not doing it right now. You're too good a guy.
So what this guy challenged you, there's got to be video of it out there somewhere. Somebody's got
this guy on video giving you the one finger salute telling you you're number one. You're
made of mad that you won the race. I don't know what he was mad about. He was saying something.
I needed to go complain about something else and then he flipped me off and was yelling at me. So
no, it was, it was, we kind of just caught us all by surprise. We were like, man, I mean,
what's this guy mad about? And I'd love to know what he's mad about if he ever wants to send me
a message, but you know, I wronged him in some way, but there's a video out there. We got to
find the guy, the guy's probably watching WFO. We need to know like who, who is this guy related
to or what's the deal? The New Englanders are so nice. They're so nice.
No, the crowd was fantastic. There were so many people there. You know, it was, it was almost
hard to, to, you know, go to the scales and back in the morning. There were so many people.
Yeah, record. Well, single day record for a facility that's been around for like 60 years or
something like that tells you all you need to know setting single day records at, you know,
tracks back to back. I don't know if we set a record for Maryland, probably not. They got that
World Cup or President's Cup, which is a pretty big event. I don't know what their single day record,
but New England's single day record was still pretty good though. I mean, there was, there was a
very good crowd there. I think they said it was sold out on Saturday. Saturday was a sellout and,
and Sunday was 90%. I would say of the crowd that we had on Saturday, but not quite a sellout, but
that number, you mentioned might get the one finger salute from someone else.
People get very sensitive about the word sold out, words sold out Dallas. Great job. As usual,
we'll see in a couple of days. Congratulations. Man, I love pro stock. I really do. Not everybody
fully comprehends how amazing it is, but you guys are all putting on a show. It is so much fun when
you guys roll out and we got so much more entertainment coming. Yeah, I mean, I mean, there
was a lot of races that were decided by one or 2000 So it, you know, that, that super
close finish at the Indy 500. We do that every weekend. Just like that. Exactly. Every race,
every weekend, somebody is doing that, but hopefully not swerving all around. We don't need
that. All right. We don't need that. Dallas, thank you very much. Appreciate you making the time.
Absolutely. Thank you. There he goes. 00 Dallas Glenn, 002 in the final and speaking of the Potomac
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Angie Smith. Hello, Angie. Hi, Joe. How are you? I am great. I'm great. How is Matt? That is the
question. He's doing better. He had surgery on Thursday to remove his call bladder. Then they
had to go have surgery on Friday just to do a sweep of the ducts that come out because he had
like one or two stones still remaining in there. So they did a sweep and got all the stones out
and he feels much better. He's just sore, but he's doing, he's already, he's back here at the shop
working. So he's doing better. Excellent. Well, he's tough. Like, that's the thing about Matt Smith
that we all, you know, if we didn't already know it, him coming back to the racetrack, you could see
he was in pain and toughed it out and got the job done. The fact that you were able to do that,
really amazing. I'm so thankful that you guys, you especially came on the show after Chicago
because it ties the two stories together. Yes. Chicago, Matt wins and was sad because that
was your race, but the bike didn't go down the racetrack and we got to learn about dogs and
shift forks and all that stuff. But you said, you know, like, all right, and you went out there to
the Potomac Nationals, a new track and just on a mission. I, you know, I wonder, did the Matt
situation cause you to focus on things outside of, I hope I win, right? Like that, that was the
furthest thing from your mind because in the end, you did everything right and you won the race.
I was just trying to make sure the, as I, as I tell the crew guys, make sure the caboose doesn't
fall off the train. We were just trying to make sure that everything was going right and that
everybody felt comfortable making passes. I've never raced without Matt Smith at the racetrack.
Gianna probably has never raced. Well, she's never raced a V-Twin or whatever without Matt at the
racetrack. And I mean, to be quite frank, none of our bikes has that have ever went down the track
without Matt being there. So that was a new hurdle in itself that we had to overcome. And, you know,
there were jobs that we had to learn from me to Michael Ray. There were things that Matt always
does on our race team that he has never taught anybody how to do. And we had to learn via FaceTime.
And I, I don't want him to ever be in the hospital again because it was a lot of stress,
but I think it took my focus off focusing on winning and it just, I just had to focus on
making sure all the bikes were prepared and making sure everything was going smooth.
And so I didn't have time to think about, you know, winning the race, which every racer thinks
about winning the race, but I didn't have time to think about winning the race at that point.
And maybe that's why you won the race. Maybe. I don't know.
You were so locked in, like we could see it. You were locked in. You had to deal with just
other stuff. Also, we theorized that Matt being only able to focus on making the bikes fast,
you know, whatever he was doing, like that has to be, be a little bit of a benefit
to lock in on that. But in the end, you know, I'm looking at the round by round. You were the
number one qualifier. You went up against Brayden. You got around Brayden. You're 008 against Clayton
Howie. And then in the final round, you're going up against Fly and Ryan 668-201, just
dominant performance, two races in a row from Chicago to the Potomac Nationals.
Did you know that that was the 200th race for women?
I knew I lost it in Chicago, but I didn't know that it was still a potential to have it in Maryland.
Matt told me on the way home, he was like, I don't want to bring bad news and I really don't
want to tell you this, but I know you're going to watch the show. So I'm going to go ahead and tell
you, it was going to be the 200th win for women in professional categories. And I was just like,
I was bummed because, you know, that's a mark in history that'll always be there.
And I was really bummed. Well, you fast forward to Maryland. You know, I really wasn't doing the
math. And at that point, I wasn't thinking about 200 win for females. I was just trying to survive
and keep my head above water at that moment. So I'm so glad that it happened. And I think,
you know, everything happens for a reason. And Shirley was there. It was just incredible.
There's Shirley. Yeah, Shirley was there. Like it pink. It was, you know, some people believe
that there's a plan and everything happens for a reason and that it's already written. And some
people think that it's totally random and we just don't know. Well, whatever, whoever is right,
that's a pretty crazy deal. That it all came together with an icon like Shirley there. There's
pink. There's the whole thing 200 win for females and she's able to present the wallet to you in
that circumstance. Like that is, that's serendipity. It was, it was outstanding. And you know, I just,
you know, you always replay the highs and the lows of racing. And it was just
the only thing that I would have changed would been Matt to be there all weekend and racing. But
but maybe the outcome wouldn't have been the same. So maybe it was the stress level
of all the stress that I just had to hurdle through to get the win. That's it. Now we know
you got to load. We got to load you down a little more. Load me up. That's it. I think you got
about five more pressure to Angie and then we'll and then she cream the cream rises to the top.
So on that note, I'm looking at the point standings, right? Richard is leading the way. You're 26
back. Matt's 48 back. We'll talk about Matt. Matt's got a replacement rider this weekend. Guy is
pretty good. Gage is 98 back. John Hall is 135 back. Then Clayton and Ryan like there's a lot of
fast bikes. We just got a rules adjustment for the Suzuki's. So they get to take a little weight off
as I understand it. It's not going to get any any easier. But I don't know. You tell me, I feel
like you are unhindered by I haven't won in a long time or I don't know, you know, what it's going
to take for me to win. Suddenly you're in a new place where you've dominated a couple of races
now. And I feel like you might be to use a football analogy in the open field and able to run with
the ball a little bit. Well, we'll see. I really don't focus on the points because at the end of
the day, it comes down to Pomona in November. But I will say this over the off season, I really
tried to focus on all of the rounds and the races that I lost because of things that I did on the
bike, whether it was from, you know, not a great light or, you know, me over correcting the bike
when the bike didn't go straight. I really tried to focus on me and I really tried to do a better
job riding the bike so I can give Matt better data so he can give me the best tune up as possible.
And, you know, I went back and looked and, you know, there was more than several rounds that
it was, you know, I turned the finger to me and, you know, I want to fix that and I want to do the
best job I can. And that's what I've really focused on this year. I know, you know, we started out
the season pretty good in Gainesville and then Charlotte, we had some hiccups with my clutch
and it was just nothing anybody did. It was just, you know, just some minor problems.
We went testing after, after Charlotte before Val Dosta, we went and rented the track at
Rockingham and we got a couple laps in there and I knew when we were there that we had got the
handle on the clutch and kind of from there, you know, I haven't really been on cruise control,
but I, but kind of have, you know, I've really just been trying to focus and do a really good
job riding the bike and just really trying to focus really hard on giving it my best effort
so he can do, so I'm trying to make his job easier, I guess you could say. No, well, you're
doing a good job. You've been very strong and keep it going. We're headed to Bristol. You guys are
back, new track surface. Joey Gladstone going to do the photos you sent me of Matt in the hospital,
by the way, for whatever reason, my software doesn't like them for whatever reason, but
he's seeing everybody rally around Matt, Matt in his hospital gown, he's tuning the bikes,
he's doing everything. Joey Gladstone going to drive a ride for Matt and I can't think of a
more competitive person to throw on that bike. Joey's wonderful and Joey's had multiple conversations
with all of us and Joey was my replacement rider when I crashed in 2023 and him and I have always
had an understanding that if something happens, you know, I get hurt or, or whatever, if anything
happens, you know, him and Michael Ray were my replacement drivers. If Michael Ray can't do it,
then it was going to be Joey. Obviously, you want to try to go in-house and get the person that is
in-house and works for you to ride the bike. But, you know, Michael Ray has so many responsibilities
on this team from lining everybody up to doing all the wonderful jobs that he does that, you know,
we really had no choice but to get Joey when, you know, my accident happened and Joey did such a
great job when he was my replacement rider. So, you know, he, Matt went over and asked Joey ahead
of time and, you know, I don't think that he brought a suit or something like that, which I mean,
that's obvious. Joey probably doesn't care. He is suit around when he went to the hospital and so
I think they worked something out that Joey was coming back in Bristol and going to ride his bike
and Joey's wonderful. Like, he's about the same weight as Matt and he does a really good job on
the bike. He did a really good job when he rode my bike and he would always tease me after he read
my bike when I crashed. He would always tease me and say, man, your bike's fast. I'll love your bike.
If you ever need a rider, I'll come ride your bike. So, he gets to ride the red rocket. I've never
even rode the red rocket and there's only one other person that's ever rode it and that's Chip
and Chip did a great job this past weekend in Maryland. So, you know, just a wonderful opportunity
for Joey and I think he's going to go really fast and I think he's going to be some of my competition,
which there's others out there that I'm worried about but, you know, at the end of the day, I'm
just going to keep doing what I'm doing and we'll see how the chips fall. There it is, how the chips
fall. Yeah, Joey, he's got a shot to win Wally, right? Get one of those diamond wallies and this
is his opportunity. So, I wouldn't expect he's going to, you know, give it half effort. I do
ask Dallas what the situation is over there. That's a mistake by me, right? Because is he going to
That's right. Is he, he can't do his job? Yeah, he's going to work on the car. Okay. And then just
come on, put a suit on, get on the bike and go make a run. Okay, there it is. So, Joey is doing
double duty. I talked to him on the starting line. He's like, yeah, I didn't want, you know,
I want to let Matt make the announcement but he seemed very, very excited. So, that's good for Matt
to recover, get healthy in time for what matters at the tail end of the season, whenever he's
ready. Joey's getting a big opportunity. You're going out there fast, but let's, let's look ahead
to Bristol, new surface. That was, you know, from what I recall for the bikes, it was a little sketch
and now we've got a new surface and people are saying it's the best it's been.
And that's wonderful. I mean, it had a couple bumps in it, but I mean, I didn't think it was
anything out of control. I mean, as long as this, they sprayed the track really good for us, it was,
it was all right. You know, you just got to be aware of the bumps and you got to be aware of
where they are. And I mean, the shutdown's great. All of those things were great. And
you know, I've had a pretty good motorcycle even in the wind and all of that. So, we'll let you know,
we can always see where the bumps are on the track because the, the draft shaft, the engine,
RPM and all of that will spike on our data when we pull our data. So, you know, when the bikes
come up there and run, we're always a good indicator. And usually some of the track people
will come over and look at our data just to see, you know, what the track service looks like.
All right. So 11 other topic, right? Like, what is this? This people spend their whole life
fishing, especially here in Florida, you know, Dolphin is what that is, Mahi Mahi for those that
you know, order in a restaurant, right? Dolphin not like Flipper, but that's not Flipper. Angie,
that thing is as big as you are. That is, maybe it's bigger than you. What is the story behind
you catching this fish that is bigger than you? So, we went, so we went fishing. We have a house
at Oak Island and we went fishing. I guess it was like the week before, it was a week after
Chicago, I think. This is how you wound down from Chicago. This is it. Yes, that's right,
because I was like, I needed to catch something. It was something rewarding. So we went fishing and
right now in North Carolina, it's Mahi Mahi season. The Gulf Stream, the Gulf Stream is coming
close in. So you only have to go out about 60, 65 miles versus like 80. So we went out fishing one
day and you know, we had probably caught already like 20 Mahi Mahi, but we had caught one of the
guys on our boat caught a big one. It was probably earlier in the day and we were going to troll one
more time. So you have to catch Mahi Mahi around seaweed beds and you have to go all the way out
to where the seaweed lines are. And so we were just going to troll one more time, one more path
around the seaweed and then we were going in. And we trolled one pass and the Mahi Mahi hit
and it took off me about probably like 30, 35 minutes to reel it in and it was a tough
cookie. The thing about it is, you know, usually they don't get that big. I guess they maybe they
get caught before they're that big, but that one was 43 pounds. And so that was a pretty big one for
you know, the area and things like that. I was stoked to catch that thing because
you always want to catch a big fish and I'm an avid fisher lady or whatever you want to call it. I
love to go fishing. It's kind of our getaway. And man, I was stoked and we went home and filleted
the fish and we had we had Mahi Mahi for dinner that night. I put it on the grill and it was
amazing. It was really, really good for the next like 30 nights. Like you got Mahi for a lifetime
off that guy. We do have a lot of Mahi to eat in the coming weeks. It is so good though, but
so much fun going out there fishing. And we caught a 43 pound one and a 46 pound one. And
actually the big rock fishing tournament is going on right now in North Carolina in the
Outer Banks. Well, it rolled off Moorhead City and they caught one last night that was 66 pounds
and that's pretty massive. That's crazy. 66 pounds. Now are you going to do the the taxidermy thing
with that one? Because that's that's a big fish that could be on the wall. No, they actually
said that I could go get a citation and what a citation is that you can go and you know, record
it with I guess, I guess wildlife or whatever because it was pretty it was that big. And I was
like, no, I know where I called it and I know that I called it. So I'm good with it. Yeah,
it's documented on now. It's even documented on WFO radio. That's right. So there you go. No,
but that's impressive. Five, I'm five foot four. And like when I picked it up, you couldn't even
see me in the picture. So yeah, at least that that big status, that is insanity. That is a bit
must have been a heck of a fight. You're like the, you know, the woman in the sea, like battling it
out, battling it out. The thing is wild. Well, Angie, listen, congratulations, you know, following
that journey that you went on from Chicago to the fish to Maryland and delivering on the deal.
Matt being sick like that. That's what this sport is. That's this sport, that kind of journey. And
it happened, you know, I know flying Ryan would have loved to have won that race and spoiled it
because he's been hard luck for a couple of years too, but he's on the comeback trail. But that's
why people watch and you deliver like you closed the circuit on the story. And that like one of
that like the Clay Millican winning story, like there are a couple of them that are really great
that will last forever. This is one that I'll remember forever because people, you know, oh my
gosh, she didn't even get to race for it in the race where she really dominated. And then she comes
back at the next one and closing the story. So congratulations, but good luck for bigger things.
More wins and contention for the championship down the road.
And thank you. And I want to say one more thing. Kudos to everybody that, you know,
lended us a hand because it was mass chaos in our pit from the Vanson Hunts team to Ryan's team to,
you know, every single person in pro-stop motorcycle. And there was other teams
from Leah and Tony and Sean Linden and everybody. They actually stuck out a lending hand to me
because they knew that what I was going through, I was in, you know, unfamiliar territory and
I just had to keep my head above water. So shout out to everybody that sent me a lending hand.
It's very appreciative. Which reminds me of a moment that was not recorded that scared the crap
out of me is Angie in her leathers climbing a metal fence with a cliff on the other side to go
say hi to Leah and Tony. And I'm like, Angie, don't do it. And you made the fence climb and you
survived. Yeah, I've survived. You survived. Don't do that again. I know. I mean, I'm a daredevil
sometimes. Yeah, this was it. This was your daredevil than going 201 on a motorcycle was
climbing a fence and the leathers with a cliff on the other side, which you handled it very well.
Angie, thank you very much for coming on WFO radio. I appreciate it. Congratulations.
Thank you, Jo. There she goes. Angie Smith later. See you in a few days. Angie Smith with us here
on WFO radio. Yeah, she was climbing the fence on the fence and she went over. No problem. She
made it, but it was, it was dicey. You know, at some point, the fence climbing days have got to
be over, but not for Angie Smith, I guess not yet. All right. When we come back, Jason Galvin,
who called the race on Sunday, most of it, we'll, we're gonna recap. We're gonna have a good time
with Jason Galvin. But first, I want to tell you about Larisse Motorsports Insurance. Guys told
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England. We had a good time. Mr. Jason Galvin joins us now. What's up, Jason? How are you?
I'm good, Joe. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. Getting ready like recharging
to get ready to head down to our head up to Bristol, you know, three in a row, the third
race of three in a row. No matter how much we all like each other, it's going to be a little brutal
this weekend. People get people get a little ornery in the third of three in a row to my
experience. But we've had two good races so far, Maryland, and then setting a single day record
at New England. I didn't know. I didn't expect it to be that big. Yeah, Saturday was Saturday was
crazy. I mean, I've never seen anything like that in my life. And it's funny. I didn't feel good
early Saturday morning. So I texted you and, you know, you're like, oh, I'm at the track already,
says we're good. I'm like, OK, well, I'll still be there before we start running cars. And I was,
but like barely. I mean, I left our hotels like 30 minutes. I left our hotel at 8 15.
I rolled in like 928 cars are on the water box. I got to two miles from the race track.
And Paige Hamlin is the NHRA Division Services Coordinator D4 and D5. And it was her birthday.
I texted her happy birthday. And she said, I'll take a sellout for my birthday. It was like 845.
I said, I feel pretty good about it. I'm 45 minutes from the track, but 0.8 miles away.
He had to walk in. Right. I mean, it was, it was, I mean, it was, you know, it was
Saturday Gainesville or Saturday at Maple Grove. You know, I mean, it was one of those types of
days. Obviously, the facility is not as big. But, you know, listen, I don't really care how big
your facility is. First off, that means not the smallest facility in the world, right? It's not
the biggest, right? But it's a decent amount of people in there. And, you know, somebody commented,
how many seats does it take to sell it out? And my response was all of them. So it matters, right?
I mean, does it matter if it's, you know, 45,000 or 15,000? Like it doesn't, you know? And I don't
know what Epping's actual capacity is, nor do I care. But the point is they have X amount of
seats to sell. And we sold just about every day on one of them. And the rail, the rail was wide.
I mean, you see the rail on the right side by the starting line. 15 deep at the starting
line on the right side. It was really cool. Gainesville like, look, no matter what, first
of all, happy birthday page. Page is a friend, love page and know about her birthday. Happy
birthday page. That is number one. Number two, no matter what, on the sold out post, there will
100% be somebody who has to stop at it in some way. Like there's no way they have to do it. It's
like, well, and I also understand like what constitutes sold out because I don't think there's
ever a point where the fire marshal is sending people with money away, like no money, you've
got to leave. We'll find a place for you. But there is a, especially when they got that hill
down in the back, there is a formula like within, like if the place holds 10,000, if it's got 10,000
seats, if you sell 9,980 seats, that counts as a sell out. But if you also sell 10,500,
it's also still a sell out. Now is everybody required to sit in their seat? They're not.
This is the United States of America. You don't have to use the seats.
This is a Dodger hat. The Dodgers have sold out like 600 home games in a row. I guarantee you,
I could walk into Dodger Stadium, their next home game by the cheapest ticket I want and find a seat
behind home plate, right? I mean, like, come on, is what is. At this point, it's funny. But here's
what matters, right, to your point. I mean, we have had just two raucous events in a row. And
it's funny you mentioned the fire marshal say no. My understanding is Saturday at Maryland was
about as close as we've ever gotten to that moment. I mean, like we waited and waited and
waited to make the announcement Saturday, even though it was crystal clear 30 minutes before
we ran a nitro car Saturday in Maryland, that we were going to announce a sell out pretty much.
But I mean, to the point where I had people in my ear, like production people were like,
when are we announcing this? And our boss was texting me like pump the brakes, like the line to
in is crazy. They're literally trying to find places to park cars. And we don't want to announce
it and have those people have parked a mile and a half away and walked in to hear sell out and
then turn around and walk back to the car. So I mean, like, we were darn near close to tell them
people, sorry, like, you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here, which was, which was a
really cool experience. So that's great. You don't know, we will find a place yet. We've had two
great events in a row and you're right. Like Bristol's going to feel long. Bristol's already a
long three days, you know, that's a race that could be a four day race. It's a long three days.
You know, we're going to fight the elements a little bit this weekend. That's not going to help.
It is what it is. You know, it would have been nice if Bristol was on the front end of this,
right? Like, because then we could just have this nice relaxing, like we go to Epi and then we
start a little later and we're usually done pretty early, except for Friday, which is on purpose.
And then we can go eat by the water and the water. That's like a borderline vacation. That's
what I did Sunday night. Like as much as I hated that we didn't run top fuel and funny car,
like you drove back to Boston. I was an idiot and forgot to book an airport hotel.
Guess what I learned? What? I'm on a 740 flight Monday morning. I'm not booking
airport hotels there anymore. Really? Sunday night, I went to Portsmouth where we stay.
It was quiet. Restaurants were busy, but not slammed,
sat on the water, had a nice cup of canned chatter. Thanks to your recommendation.
You like that, right? Garrett, Garrett in IT. Garrett, that one's for you.
Garrett, IT. There you go. Third hand. Third hand through, I guess, Mike and Tick and Aces.
Garrett says the surf. Oh yeah, the surf went to the surf. Whoa, nice. Great chat.
Yeah, chatter was great. Had a really nice local blueberry ale beer. It was really relaxing hour
and a half Sunday night. Went to that ice cream shop we like, see? Learned something, Joe.
Yeah. Okay. Well, I like going back to Boston, although it was raining. It was raining
miserably. I got back on the drive. I did not everywhere. leave the hotel. I just
stayed in, but I was, you know, I was able to get home real easy. No issues. All right. So
anything else about Maryland while we got you? We didn't have you last week. Anything, any other
notes about Maryland other than it was great? I feel excited for the next one. I feel like Maryland
could, could be an event that we look back on at the end of this season and circles a turning
point for our sport in the whole, because we went to South Georgia and we did not put on a good show.
It just is one of this. Like nobody's hiding from that. We didn't put on a good show. Yeah,
yeah. We were in 345, a couple of 340s and like it was exciting. Pro stock was exciting. Like,
I guess that was a good show if you're into like craziness, right? But like the nitro cars did,
it turned into a one lane track for whatever reason. I don't believe it was as bad as with
the racing showed, because I think we have a stubborn crew chief problem from time to time,
you know, the crew and rightfully, I understand the crew chiefs get paid more money than anybody
in the sport, whether the fans realize that or not, the crew chiefs all make more than the drivers,
even the ones who get paid. The crew chiefs get paid that money to make the race cars go,
you know, 365 at 345 miles per hour in top few. So they're trying to do that everywhere. Like if,
if the air and the grip meter on the starting line, you know, which for as, as great as it is,
I think is also handicapped us a little bit. If the, the combination of the computer with the
weather station and that box on the starting line says we can run 365 at 345, then dammit,
I'm trying to run 365 at 345 and I get it. That's what the job is. I totally get it, right?
But we went to South Georgia. We put on a bad show. I think it scared the crew chiefs. They went
to Maryland. They were all worried about shortest concrete pad and 50 year old asphalt and this
and that and people are taking videos of it being gummy on Thursday when it was 90 degrees out.
And it was up against the wall by the way, right? And everybody had to go back to racing the track.
And then we put on one of the greatest drag races I've ever been a part of from
few one first pair down Friday, right? Like Dell version, first funny car out
right down the track. He didn't run 385. Who cares? People loved it. Place went nuts.
Went nuts all the way to the final pair down the track and we were to 10,000 in top fuel
in the finals. And we went to Epping and put on another really good drag race,
like a really good show. So I, you know, who knows, right? We're going to get to, you know,
some of these tracks, if the track is good in Bristol, they repaved and it's cool Friday night.
And we get to snowmen at 65 degrees on Friday, like everybody's going to, you know, try to,
you know, leave the Cajones on the floors. Jimmy proc likes to say, right? But like
bring the, bring the briefcase. I mean, but, but I'm hopeful that people will,
the creatures will think back to these last two races. And like
when it, when it's not time to run 365, just run 376 and give us a good drag race.
Like that's best for everybody in the long term, because the fans at the last two races,
nobody went home from either last two races and said, man, that sucked. I'm not spending any
dollars on a ticket like next year. Everybody went home from the last two races and said that
was sweet. And it was fun. And it made for a great product for us. And the, you know,
I know I've talked to Brian and the Fox shows have been bangers the last two weeks.
I think because of that, right? Their number was huge in Maryland. And I think part of that
was because people tuned on and that maybe not don't watch us every week. And they're like,
man, this is cool. You know, it's not as smoke the tire and blow it up fast. And I understand
we're going to have weekends like that. But that's my, that was my biggest takeaway from Maryland.
I really hope like this on record now, I really hope that you and I are sitting at the banquet
at the end of the year, think ourselves like, man, we had some awesome racing the whole back
half of the year. And maybe it tracks back to that weekend in Maryland where everybody was
scared of a new racetrack and a surface that's a little bit different and learn how to
drag race again and not just set the world on fire. I love it. And I'm here to set the world
on fire. Like whether God's be nice to us, give me 65 and sunny Sunday or Friday night in Sonoma,
like let's set the world on fire when we can, right? But also let's have some great racing.
Yes. Well, so Friday night at Thunder Valley, you know, we're going at six and we're going
at eight 30. That said, we got fireworks after Q two on Friday night. Like that's going to be fun,
man. It's going to be a fun deal at Bristol. But all right. So we didn't get the finals in,
but let's just take it up to the finals. Right. So we're going to start off with top fuel where
Sean Langdon is pursuing four consecutive wins. And it's not so much the numbers that impress me.
It's just the way they're handling like Sean's got a smile on his face. He's doing his job.
He's inside the pocket as in handling his business. Brian is handling his business. The car is going
straight as a string. And it's got me thinking, uh oh, they got a hundred point lead over the
defending champ already. This could be one of those years like a breakout, like a getaway year
like Katie bar the door kind of year with Sean Langdon, one of the greatest of all time. Brian
Houston, young man, not really thinking about anything other than himself in the race car.
And looking to have a shot at four in a row, Leah could stop them. Maybe that will happen,
but just the same. This is a special thing going on for the Coletta air car.
Yeah. And I've known Sean Langdon a long time. Obviously you've known him, you know, a long
time as well. I think this is the best mental place I've ever seen Sean in his life. And he
talked a lot about that coming into the season, right? He, you know, he spent a couple months
overseas in Qatar racing and, um, you know, spending time with, with the shake and with
Khaled and his boys. And, um, you know, he really focused on his fitness and, you know,
I mean, it shows and he looks fit, right? And not that Sean was ever like an unhealthy human,
right? But I mean, Sean looks like he'd go run an Indy cart race now, right? And, um, and his
confidence is, um, you know, overflowing as it should be, but not in necessarily an arrogant
way. And Sean can be, you know, an arrogant guy from time to time. He's earned that right.
Uh, he's one of the great stragglers of all time. It's why he's on the top 75 list. He was one of
the ones that I think got a couple eyebrows when that came out. They're like, Oh, you want to,
you know, a top fuel championship. It's like, yeah. And, and two super comp titles in a row
and a junior title and how many big money bracket races that, by the way, it's, he's not out doing
that every weekend, right? He's like, he loads a super comp car up and goes big money bracket
racing on the one week between five out of six weeks. He's running the top fuel car and kicks
everybody's butt. So he's earned the right to, you know, believe in his abilities and, and yet
here we are. This is, this is as good of a race car. Sean Landon's ever had in his career and
it's about as good as he's ever driven in his career. Certainly goes back to, you know, the,
the world title days with AJ. So, um, you're not wrong. I mean, they're, they're kind of beating
the door knobs off people right now. And listen, the, the kind of unsold story of this entire season,
I think, um, is the emergence of Brian Houston over the last three years. And, and we've seen
these, these gradual steps, right? Brian has gone from quiet Robin to AJ's Batman to emerging crew
chief with a chance. Uh, but, you know, would Connie really let him take the reins and that
first year, you know, it car made some big runs and they won a couple of races. Um, you know,
but, you know, they also had moments of weakness, right? And then, you know, who knows how the
finals would have played out had, had Vegas not happened, how it happened. And then last year,
they, they turned the corner into a consistent threat every, every week, right? This doesn't
just need to be a week where Brian's on like every week that car shows up. They got a real chance
to win this race. And this year, he's taken that next step to like, all right, now, like I've had
a couple of years of this and I figured out how to, how to race when I need to race, which is
the one thing AJ has never gotten enough credit for, right? Like everybody always talks about
like Alan Johnson's ability to just throw down better than anybody. Sure. But also you don't
win 12 top field world championships unless you also know how to get down, you know, a dirt road
on a hundred degree day, which he's also made a living out of. And, and that has clicked for Brian
in a big way this year. And we've seen this emergence. It makes me think of whom else is out
there? Honestly, you know, who, who's the next Brian Houston that's floating around? We talk a lot
about needing some, some younger crew chiefs, right? And that doesn't mean they need to be 35.
You know, it's great to have the Jason Bunkers and, you know, Neil Strauss balls of the world,
but, but, you know, who's, who's the next, who's that next crew chief? You know, who's that next
person who's been sitting around, right? I mean, what, what can Max Average do? Does Mac want
that job? I don't know. But what happens if you just hand Mac a car now that he's had these years
with Grubnick and Alan? Mac wants a car. is on the show a couple of months ago
and he said, yes, he does want that. And so in case anyone doubts, Mac is absorbing and and Brian
spent forever. Like that's the thing is that this is so hard. It's of all the things that there are
to learn and do is like how to successfully campaign a nitro car without melting the whoever
owns it into a puddle of aluminum. But I was learning, you know, I learned, I learned a lesson
on that one. It's too bad it cost you $200,000. But now I know not to do that. Those two perfect
example. I'd love to see Mac get his opportunity and the limiting factor that is the limiting factor
is that the people who are knowledgeable enough to campaign the cars at a high level is very limited.
Very, very. There's a lot of conversations about, man, I miss the days of, you know, 20 full-time top
fuel cars and 19 full-time funny cars. And listen, I miss those days too. I'm also here to tell you
that if tomorrow I snap my fingers and we added what that's collectively, what, 11 more full-time
nitro cars? Yeah, we can't do it. First off, where are we getting the parts? I mean, like that's
the other thing we don't talk about enough, right? Everybody's talking about car counts, car counts,
car counts, car counts, this, that. Guys, teams can't get parts, right? I mean, I'm pretty close
to the prox family. I kind of, you know, lived through some of that transition transition over
to TASCA. The stories that they're telling and Bob's telling about like redoing the whole team
and throwing everything away and buying new parts, but then having to wait are not lies.
Like they, you know, they really did roll into Chicago with the combination they wanted
for the first time all year. Like that wasn't some fictitious story to make excuses for why
they struggled early in the year. And there's a lot of reasons why they struggled early in the
year, but that's one of them. Like the first time they had really everything they wanted
was the sixth race of the season. And it talked to any crew chief right now. I mean, the fans
welcome the fans that have questions about some of that stuff. Walk through the pits and ask the
crew chiefs. They'll tell you, you know, and on top of it, we're going through another kind of
weird run as we do from time to time. Every year there's something, right? A couple years ago,
it was rear ends. You know, we've gone through it with spark plugs, right? Last year, early in the
year, it was spark plugs. This year, I mean, we're kind of back to the clutches deal. Like I've heard
it from a couple, a couple of crew guys out there like, ah, you know, it's harder to kind of match
the clutches up than it has been in years. It's not to say they're bad. It's just harder to match
them and get the combination you want. So it's not easy. I mean, you know, everybody, everybody
wants to be a tuner and an owner from the couch, right? But until you go buy one of these things
and try to put them together, it's, you understand when you're in it every day, like we are Joe,
just how incredibly difficult it is to make a race car go 335 miles per hour, eight times in
three days and then load it up and put it on the road and tow it 4000 miles and do it again next
week. And that's what they do every week. Yeah, it's great. It's, it's well, that's why we love it
because it's hard, right? You don't want to be easy. You want it to be hard and it is really
and truly amazing. So the final four, well, at the final four was Langdon and Doug and Langdon got
the job done. And then Leah, and I want to talk a little bit about Leah. I feel like Leah has been,
you know, the third best car for a while now going back to her championship run in the final
round of Pomona, then she goes off to start the family. Tony had a season of learning and then
rallied back was a regular season champion. And that team with Neil, they are the best car that
is not a Coletta Motorsports car more than likely. Tony now with Mike Green and those guys probably
sliding in clearly the fourth best car in that area. Who can rival this Coletta Air team right
now? Like who can step up to challenge them? Can I put another car into that top five? It's
something I've been thinking about the last two weeks. Do it. I think that we have slept on the
Capcom car. And that really started to hit me Monday after Maryland. I was going through our
log of stats, right? And Billy went to the semis for the first time this year, that race. And I
was going through our, all of our stats info that we get from Pete Richards is a great job
putting it together in NHRA and Fox producer. And it was the Maryland sheet. I just, yeah,
man, there's 140 pages, right? You can't possibly read everything. You just know where it is if
you need it. But I started kind of digging in some top fuel stuff. We're having a conversation with
some friends about consistency of race cars and drivers and other stuff. And that car has low
keep and consistently really good. Like we're talking the third or fourth best car from week to
week getting down the track. And you know, I don't think Billy maybe did the best job driving it
early in the year. But I tell you what, the last two weeks, like that Billy was living in the 60s
and 70s last weekend, and he was not rolled in, right? Like it, you know, I think maybe he raced
Josh Hart round one, if that sounds familiar round two, and I think they both had it chunked in there.
But like, you know, I was watching him qualify and he was, you know, 68 71 with strong 60 foot
times. I think that there's a fifth car in this conversation. And maybe we're not quite there
yet. But I mean, I would not be shocked to see the Capcom car in the finals, Sunday at Bristol.
Like I think they're there. I think that, you know, that team went through, you know, I think a
kind of funky couple of years, right? They they had this cohesive crew that the four world titles
in a row. I mean, I'm not did they change one group person, maybe maybe one over those years,
right? For the most parts, the same group. And they saw some of those guys on the team now.
But, you know, that they went through kind of this, you know, weird run, right? Steve started
the family. And, you know, we saw mild Steve and, you know, Steve, Steve decided he wanted to,
you know, take this year off to focus on family and the race cars and more power to him. I hope
that we get to see him. You know, I hope that we get to see him soon. I don't know that he's not
racing this year. I certainly hope he is. They've got two cars, right? To my knowledge, I don't
think they sold all that stuff. But, but I'm okay about this. And as you can count on, there's a
couple of things you can guarantee is that one, Steve will not come to the racetrack and not race.
But you know, he comes to the track, he's racing. Mama K confirmed that, you know, Steve is
taking over the mass responsibility of running Capco. And that is not an easy thing. It's a
challenging thing. There's 400 personalities that they got to manage in different situations.
And Steve is kind of going through that transition. So, rightfully so. That haven't been said on the
Steve point. I also have a note on the, to reinforce what you're saying is that I talked to Billy
and Richard and they said, the first thing that they said was exactly what you just said. Like,
Billy's like, man, I was very rusty at the start of the season. And I'm starting to come out of it
now. Like the driver, it's very specific, driving a top dual car. Like it has to be perfect.
It's not the super top car, right? Like it's a different thing.
Everything, like to the second. And Richard said, he goes, Joe,
our clutch disc allocation is set through the finals. That's what he wanted me to know.
He's like, we got our clutch disc allocation set through the finals. And so we know that
that's the challenge. That's the problem. That's why Antron is messed up right now,
because they're trying to figure all that out. They're trying to sort it out. We saw
caps a couple of years ago, that clutch disc situation. What's it going to do? How is it?
Gosh, we don't know. We don't have enough. That's not a problem for Team Capco.
That's a great point that you and I should talk about a little bit more just throughout
the season, though. Think about the amount of planning that goes into that. Richard Hogan
came to you and said, our clutch disc allocation is set for the entire season.
Now, you have to plan as a crew chief, like you're going to, nobody thinks it's going to win
every round of every race, but you've got a plan for that. So that's four qualifying runs,
four eliminations runs. There's 12 races left. That's five qualifying runs at Indy.
That's testing. Like nobody's going to run all that and then not go test, right? In between
Brainerd and Indy. You know, they're going to test that Monday after Norwalk. They're testing,
right? There's probably four more test sessions. Like, so you start adding math up times six discs
in the, in the pack, you know, you throw two or three away every run. Think about how far in
advance Richard Hogan and Bobby and the Capco team are, and they're not the only team that's
like this. I'm sure that they already have this planned out and set for the entire year.
That's wild. Yeah. Wild. It's wildly impressive to me. The amount of work that goes into this
is vastly underappreciated by the rest of the motorsports world, I think.
I think you have to be organized. You have to be pretty organized, I think, to be a top fuel
crew chief. Yeah. Are you doing that? Because I'm not doing that. Zero chance. Well, there are
some things that I think I could do, like, you know, with the proper training, there's some
things that I think I could do, like maybe, you know, maybe with the proper training, I could,
I could get a pro stock car down the racetrack, but I could not do a pro stock motorcycle. There's
no way I could never, like I do not have the ability. I'm lesser than when it comes to the
level of these. And that's why there's so few of them. All right, let's talk any, any final
notes on top fuel as we get ready for Friday's finals. Hopefully my nature lets us do it.
Top fuel. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Nutrack would be fun. Yeah. And let's talk
funny car now, where, you know, Austin got back on top, but a little smoke. Talk to Jimmy. As you
know, you said you're close with them, certainly are. They're figuring it out, right? It's not the
kind of thing that just comes back. You got to get back into a zone. They're getting back into the
zone. Funny car, John Force Racing, this Jordan Bandegriffe, man, this guy's got some star power.
I loved his number one qualifier interview. He's a friend. Let's just be out there with this guy's
a friend like Jordan doesn't go back into this like zone of stranger driver who we got to develop
a relationship with. Like we've seen him struggle to call super gas in the dead of night in Vegas.
Like he's doing this naturally. He comes out and he's working the crowd. And all of a sudden
Jordan Bandegriffe, Jack Beckman, final round, John Force Racing. I was really excited to see
how that went. Yeah, me too. And especially when you think about how those cars ran in the semis,
or Jordan had the best race car all weekend. And Beckman did the same thing he did in Maryland.
Same thing that in Maryland. Low E.T. of the event semifinals out of nowhere, right? That
shouldn't happen. Not as part of the day. Not as part of the weekend. It's Sunday. It's race day.
Why would it now be the time that you try to run low E.T., right? Just go out there and run 95
like you've been doing and win the race. 95 would have won in the round. No, let me run low.
Just like Maryland. And the finals in Maryland, you know, they got, you know, I don't want to speak
for them, but it certainly looked like they, you know, they're living around the edge and it spun
a little bit in the finals in Maryland, right? And it cost them, right? I mean, they didn't smoke
the tires, but you could see it kind of black tracking down there and the speed is down a little
bit. That's pretty indicative that, you know, it started spinning. All right. What do we learn
from that? You know, it's, it's been a minute since Jack Beckman won a race in Chicago last year.
That's uncharacteristic for that team, for how it's run the last couple of years.
And I think Danny Hood and Tim Fabrizzi are tired of hearing about that, honestly. Like,
forget Jack. I'm sure Jack's tired of hearing about it. Jack's also happy to be here.
Danny and Tim, like, that's a competitive joke. Those guys are competitive. Tim Fabrizzi does not
like to lose drag races. It's pretty obvious when you stand behind them and like Danny, Danny
isn't either. Everything's Danny's just like, you know, cool laid back surfer guy. I think it's
pretty competitive, dude. They're tired of not winning races. And like Jordan's won, right? Like,
I guarantee you there's an internal struggle there. Like, we don't want to get, we don't want to get
beat to the winner circle by Alexis. Like they want Alexis to win. I'm sure everybody at JFR does,
right? The whole sport like to see Alexis win again, but they need to win race and they've had
the best car the last three weeks. And number one, you know, a couple of weeks in a row now,
number two to Jordan this weekend, right? Like in the finals again, that car has come on strong
in a big way. That final, I was disappointed because the way the two cars were running in both
lanes, it was going to be fun. And now we've got this great wild card of, you know, Friday at Bristol,
who knows. Right, coin flip kind of kind of takes it out of the that event, the context of that event,
the way they had been running on that track. It could, it could be a little bit more of an anomaly
who wins in both cases, which is why, you know, Leah could win, which is why
either either could win. We don't know, but that's those are the breaks.
Point standings in funny car. Ron Kapps, the points leader, J.R. 15 back, Jordan 29 back,
Hagen 71 back, Chad Green 72 back. You got five drivers within 100 points. Jack Beckman is the
sixth driver. He'll move up this season. A funny car racing is just outstanding so far and only
going to get better and better to go in any direction. Yeah, it's, it's like a coin flip right
now. You know, the last couple of years, the funny car has been all Austin Proc with a little bit
of Matt Hagen, which is kind of what we feel like we've gotten top fuel right now. Right. It's like,
it's like all Sean Langdon with a little bit of Doug Coletta. And then there's Tony and Leah and
every once in a while, Justin and Billy, right? And like, that's kind of how funny cars have been
the last couple of years, right? All Austin Proc with a little bit of Matt Hagen and then every
once in a while, you get, you know, Jack Beckman and Ron Caps and Chad Green want to race, right?
A funny car this year is funny car this year is what top fuel was what two years ago, right?
When we came to the finals and Antron Brown came from six to win the world championship at the
last race. Like that's really what it feels like we have a funny car right now. I hope we get to
Pomona and have seven or eight cars within 100 points. And I'm not putting it out of the realm
of possibility. Like if I told you right now, we got to Pomona and you have all three JFR cars,
Chad Green, Caps Hagen, JR and Austin Proc and they're all 100 points apart. Would it shock you?
No. Right. Historic season happening. And I am here for the chaos of that. Sign me up.
I want to be watching every run. I want to be watching every run of qualifying in Vegas and
Pomona thinking this run could change the world championship, qualifying, just qualifying.
One bonus point to be the difference. Well, I'm in for it. And that's why this mission
food is too fast to tasty challenge. And you know, talking to Allen and talking to Brian and
they're always like, you know, oh, my position on the ladder and this and that was like those
championship points may matter at some point after six races in the countdown.
Did you read the update on that this morning by chance? No.
Did you read it? Yes. Yes. He did send it out. I read it, but I didn't retain it. What stuck
out in there? Paletta team has made some money on that program this year. Like for everybody who
thinks that program is like, that's free money for this. That's found money for these race teams,
right? You're going to run Q3 and Q4. You're going to do it. If you're a full-time championship
competing team, you're running Q3 and Q4. That team already has almost $100,000 in bonus money
to share. It's a great program. Again, just opportunities they had to commission foods for
that. Yes. Forget the championship points. The championship points are cool for all the other
reasons because it puts extra impetus on winning and the importance of it and whatnot. But like
the bonus money is a big deal. $100,000 is a big deal in a nitro car, believe it or not.
Yes, believe it or not. Well, that's the thing people are like, assume, you know, Connie, this
guy doesn't matter, doesn't think about money. But for bonuses, for crew guys, etc., like,
where are you going to work? Where are the best guys going to go to work? Well, where they can
make the most money. It's kind of funny how that works. We spoke with Dallas Glenn at the start
of the show. Dallas and Hartford in the final round. Dallas goes through Hartford, Greg, Erica,
Shane Tucker, who's got those gray motorsports engines that are doing so well. And what a day at
the races. But Dallas lived up to the nickname, double O Dallas. And, you know, carrying the
weight of the number one pretty well. Yeah, he certainly is. And look, Matt Hartford, Matt Hartford,
Matt Hartford drove as good of a drag race as Matt Hartford's driven in the last three years
on Sunday, right? He was all over the Christmas tree. You know, he won Charlotte, drove good in
the final, you know, had a really good car early in the race. He won Gainesville. He had the best
car in Gainesville on Sunday race day, right? But, you know, he got left on in the finals of
Pro Stock. People forget that, right? I mean, Greg, Greg left on Matt in the final. Matt made a hell
of a run. And Matt's driven much better this year. You know, he was obviously very hard on
himself last year and the way things went. But man, Matt Hartford, Matt Hartford drove a race
that deserved to win Pro Stock. And Dallas Glenn in the finals just said, nope, like, yeah, just
not today. Like, I'm going to be double O two, and we're going to load this thing up. And if it squares
the tires and we lose, so be it. But if it sticks, you're not beating me. And that's a world championship
mentality out of that team. And they delivered in a big way in the final. Yeah, just like that.
Kudos to all involved. And you got to Peter Rihondo once told me here on WFO,
you got to race without fear. And when Dave Connelly tells Dallas that we're going to load
it up for the final and Dallas was 11 and said, yeah, we're going to leave it as it is. We'll be
OK. He's double O two. That's racing without fear personified. Like, that's how you do it.
And then, you know, maybe in another timeline, he goes red, talking about a couple of thousands
of a second. But in this case, they won the race, race without fear. And really, really amazing run
by Dallas Glenn. All right, let's let's talk Bristol. Aaron Stamfield can run Pro Mod.
Cool. And for the rest of the season, as I understand it, that's kind of cool for double A run,
you know, spreading his wings, right? He's going to run top fuel, they're going to get licensed.
He's going to promote the rest of the year. Aaron Stamfield. And we got the new track surface
and a lot of good stuff coming up here at the Supergrip Thunder Valley National.
Did you see the rule change in Pro Mod? No, I didn't see that one.
25 pounds on to the. Yeah, yeah. Supercharger cars, right?
Both the hard charger and the charger are considered the same thing.
Yeah. Yeah, regardless, which would be interesting because Aaron Stamfield, of course,
is going to get into a car with a screwdriver on it. But, you know, I listen, I mean,
Aaron Stamfield's cars, you know, that car has run really well.
And we obviously saw at the World Series of Pro Mod that Aaron Stamfield could drive a
Pro Mod. So that's not a question, right? I mean, as if anybody needed to know that Aaron
Stamfield could let go of a button to leave a starting line versus dropping a clutch because
you've never watched him racing like top dragster, right? I mean, the kid can drive anything.
But, you know, I think like Jason Collins, Justin Bond's car, which I hear he may have
a substitute driver this weekend. I've not seen the official form, which is why I won't
publicly say who it is. But I was told Sunday night that he has a substitute driver in this weekend.
A pretty good one. Just leave it at that. Yeah. Yeah. If it happens, you'll know. And if it doesn't,
then then Justin Bond's on the car. He's a pretty good driver too, right? But like those cars,
25 pounds is a big deal in a Pro Mod. It really is. So I'm curious to see kind of how that shakes
out. This couple of changes to follow. You know, I missed the first like two minutes of your Angie
in it. So I don't know if you've gotten into that, but we mentioned the Suzuki's, the weight
change and the Vans and Heinz just touched on it. You know, people go to NHRA racer to get the exact
details. Lightning up those Suzuki's. We mentioned Joey, of course, no get by our fuel car this
weekend from what I am told. Interesting. Yeah. Why is that? They'll be back at Norwalk. Okay.
Okay. And I don't know the answer, but that's what I am. Logan's got another college interview
this weekend. That's it. He was getting, you know, Yale this time. This is what Heiner wants to hear.
MIT. Where else can we send him, Joe? How's Johns Hopkins looking? Does he want to be a
doctor instead of a lawyer? So funny. So funny. Like, how do you raise the cortisol levels on
someone? You know, what is the most expensive school I could do? Just wondering. Just wondering.
No, but I noticed a couple of different rules, adjustments as we get to this point in the season
throughout. Increase the nitrile percentage on the a fuel combination by .5.
McSteel's been asking for that. McSteel's been asking for that. Reach out to Bellamere about that.
And he says he doesn't he thinks can help a little bit in the summer, but he doesn't think it's high
enough to prevent hurting the engine just yet. That having been said, there was a top alcohol
funny car record set down in Australia by 33 zero with a supercharged methanol burner.
But for those that are wondering, they are allowed more overdrive than our guys are allowed.
Yes. Well, over 100% overdrive. So that's, you know, it's not apples to apples, but still kind
of cool. Their top fuel cars went 368, 333. So now, you know, American and Australian records are
both, you know, 60s. I think it was in the 60s previously, but they had a good event down there
at the Winter Nationals, Willow Bank. But, you know, I guess it's that time of the year where
we start making some adjustments with our rules. Yeah, yeah, you know, we're almost halfway home.
It's hard to believe that, right? But I mean, we're past the one third mark where,
you know, next thing you know, we're going to leave Bristol. And it's, you know,
I was thinking about this the other day, right? We leave Bristol this weekend. We've got Norwalk.
We have two races, Western Swing. We get an extra week off for Brainerd this year because of the way
the calendar shook out. And then we're the US Nationals. I know, it's crazy. It's not far away.
Bristol is this weekend, which means Norwalk is kind of next. Right. And then the swing Brainerd,
and that's that. It's bizarre. It is. It's bizarre how quick. Well, I missed the first two races of
the year. So for me, I'm in a different timeline. It feels, it feels crazy for me. Is there anything
else that we didn't talk about that you want to talk about? You want to put out there? You want to
make sure everybody knows before we have partways? Good, good sportsmen racing and eping. Like that
race historically has lower car counts just because the toe is hard. It was, it was much
hussy and no problem getting gaskets. No, that's, that's for sure. They got stacks upon stacks.
You know, I realized the circumstances around why the car counts were up is probably not something
everybody in the division one loves. But I am hopeful that there were many racers who went to
eping because they, they had to for a national points, right? Because we only ran two categories
in Maryland and because we lost the Grove, right? You know, that had a good time and will make that,
you know, a regular trip or maybe complain about it a little less. And I can't do anything about
the cost diesel fuel, right? But we had really nice fields in eping and sportsman class. So
the last couple of years have been down. We had some really competitive stuff.
The final five in super stock was like a who's who of national and division one,
hall of fame, caliber, top 50 sportsmen, racer level stuff. I mean, like that was at, you know,
that was as good as you could have gotten in, in the final five of super stock, you know,
Shane Oaks, who drove the wheels off that thing this weekend and was totally locked in. And if you
just listed the names on paper, no offense to Shane, who would probably have been the fifth name on the
list that you would have picked and he wins the race. Yeah, 100%. Crazy. Yeah. Well, I think the
other four were either world champions or had won this race like three times, right?
Yeah, Shane's great driver and, you know, was doubled to the finals was perfect twice in the
stock Eliminator car. Yeah, I mean, locked in. So great. That was good to me. That was fun. You
know, I do a lot of the sportsman department in HRA. And it was nice to see the support from the
from the community. You know, we had a bump and top dragster. And, you know, in an 18 year old in
your second national event, win the race of all things, right? So just just some really fun,
really fun stories there. Yes, great stuff. And as went in his first national event stock, right?
I mean, just cool stuff. Charlie Canopic, Jason Mazoda. I love hearing the Brian Lones,
you know, stay away from that guy. Stay away from that guy. I like it.
I'm telling you, like for people that miss this, right? Like, so we don't get to see Super
Street, the one national event for division and Mazada is a Boston guy. What you're working on
that for us though, aren't you Jason? Yeah. Everybody loves they deserve more than one.
I agree. And it's at the top of my 17 page long word document for you. Jason, listen,
loans Friday, for those who haven't seen it, go to NHRA Social. Hoosier has this new bit,
I guess we'll call it, called the Hoosier Sportsman Spotlight. And the first one was his past
weekend and loans because he can and has all the power did on his dad. It was great, by the way,
to build up with him and his son, you know, a nationwide search to find the first one ever.
Who should have this honor? We landed on my dad. It was great. Deliver like only loans can and,
you know, onboard cameras and this and that. So anyways, I found out this Friday or Saturday
morning as they're rolling up for round one and I'm sitting in TB booth with loans and they have
all the, it's got a couple on boards on the car. So we're watching those as he's rolling up. And,
you know, that means got that unique kind of situation where the lanes come up like an L and
they turn uphill. So you can't really tell who you're paired with from the tower and the racers
figured it out, but we couldn't tell until he turned the corner and loans looked back like
eight pairs back and saw Masada back there and he's like, Oh, God, I hope you didn't draw Masada.
And I'm like, I don't know anything about this guy, right? Like he's, you know, there's a couple,
you know, he's Broody Matthews, right? Like there's some super street racers that, you know,
everybody, but I don't know anything about Jason Masada. I've lost to Rudy, right?
But I don't know anything about Jason Masada and loans is like, man, that like that guy is nails.
Like he will absolutely clean your clock here. And Bob loans missed him by one pair.
And Bob wins the round and Masada comes up next pair. So I'm like locked in and he's like,
double low, take double low, like something's saying, right? I'm like, okay, well, Brian was
pretty nice thing, you know, he's in the finals and I'm like looking at my sheet, like, and he's
double low again. And he's double on the semis. He's double on the finer. He's double on the
finals and his opponent was like 240, which didn't help, right? But like, you know, so that
wasn't easy when for Masada at that point, once it was green. Man, loans comes bursting out of
for those who don't know the Epping Tower, the smallest tower we're in. And there's just, you
know, there's a door that I would hardly classify as strong enough to be the bathroom door at my,
you know, my guest room that separates us. And that thing slams open. I shared loans. I told
you about that Masada guy. It was world class moment. I mean, we're like, well, it was great,
funny moments. But yeah, great, great racing, to speak with the drivers down
there and we'll do it all again this weekend. Jason, thank you very much. Great to have you
back on the show for a little recap section. Good that they're, you know, they're not working you
so hard that you can't come on WFO for a while. Evan gave me a lighter work load this week.
That's great. Well, you know, you have been working 24 seven for three consecutive days.
You're not far behind. I'll see you Thursday. Later. There he goes. Jason Galvin with us here
on WFO radio. Thank you, Jason. Final comments in the comment section, guys. What did you think?
Any thoughts? Yeah, we're a little over time, right? And that that was a fun debrief
with Jason Galvin. I do want to add, you know, New England, that tower, it's, it's
closer than I want to be to anybody. But once you get used to it and the concept of
personal space goes away, you get used to it and you get, you get to really know your,
your fellow announcers and that's Seth Noble. What a great job. I know Jason would have said that
if I had given him more time. Great job, Seth, 18 years old. Excellent work. And being in there
with Lones, Tony and Mike Rice and everybody really, really fun overlooking the starting line.
Elsa Greeny was in there with us. We had a great time. So your final thoughts in the comment
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the final comments. Geron Settles got something interesting happening with next-gen race cars.
He called me right before the show. I missed the call. Didn't get it. I don't even know if he left
the voicemail or something, but some sort of big breaking news happening with Geron. So go to his
social media and see what's what. And before we get on out of here, we can play the music and see
what. Thanks, Joe. Thank you, David. Bummer for Dell this weekend.
Love Dell Worsham back at the track. You know, it's tough to just come in part-time,
but Dell Worsham is as high level as it gets. You know, World Champ and Top Fuel and Funny Car.
I like to listen and learn another great show. Thank you very much for saying that.
AJ, congratulations on graduation, AJ. Way to go.
Thank you. Great show today, says AJ's mom. I think the only thing different on the team
Colletta Dragsters is the steering wheel. Fox would have better numbers if they aired at a
decent time. Thank goodness for NHRA team. What? What? Seven o'clock? It's not a good enough time.
Thought it was at 7 p.m. I thought it was. And the week before, they got 900,000 viewers in Maryland.
Listen, I'm going to give you an education about TV numbers. It's just as simple. Ready?
Your numbers are based on what was before you and what is on after you. And if you're between
something good, doesn't matter the time. It matters what's on before you or after you.
That's that's it. Like if you're on right after Monday Night Football, you're getting good numbers.
Even though it's 11 o'clock at night. Final is an epping for Funny Car or a Blockbuster. Well,
and still will be. We're just going to do it in Bristol. Feel like we've done that before.
15 cars, Funny Car for Bristol. 16 Top Fuelers and 15 in each of the other two categories.
You know, guys, you can't get hung up on that because there are so many other factors.
And right now the price of diesel is one of them. There really are, especially three in a row.
All that. I'm happy we've got 15 cars, frankly, super excited. Hey, guys,
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About this episode
Dallas Glenn and Angie Smith stop by WFO Radio ahead of the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals, with the show bouncing from Pro Stock and Top Fuel storylines to track-traction talk. Glenn’s “.002 light” nickname and recent staging tweaks lead into why rain, pollen, and lane choice can swing results—especially at Bristol’s new surface. The hosts also cover NHRA rule changes, clutch and reliability realities, and a few sponsor/partner segments, including emissions parts and consignment/restoration services.
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Dallas Glenn and Angie Smith join WFO Radio before the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals, Dallas Glenn recaps his NHRA New England Nationals Pro Stock win. Glenn who was "Double O" in the final round gives the details of his win. Angie Smith returns as the most recent winner on the tour following back to back Pro Stock Motorcycle final rounds with a win at the Potomac Nationals. Angie will preview NHRA Bristol, give an update on Matt Smith's health situation and Joey Gladstone riding for Matt Smith Racing at Thunder Valley. NHRA's Jason Galvin recaps Epping, NH and previews Bristol, TN with WFO host Joe Castello.
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