Daytona 500, Team USA & Grassroots Racing

You know what time it is. It is Daytona week the Daytona 500 is just around the corner here in six days

It's where heroes are made and legends never die year 25 after the fateful day

We had lost Dale Earnhardt. We're gonna recap all of this so much racing going on in Florida join about our dear friend co-host Ryan

flora zoomin in from

sunny, Florida we are here

freezing our

Gunay nays off. I can literally see my breath in the nonsense garage. So I'm ready to head south

Here in a second, but first we got to press go and tape some stacking pennies all that and more. Let's buckle up

Stacking them deep selling them cheap. It tastes like gasoline grubber and victory. Where's that here stack?

Big show on tap today. We've got the duly gassed up

Brinkly loaded down with all the stuff

But before we head to south we got to press go and record one last episode before the big day

I am Corey the joy. This is stacking pennies joined

By now

Booth commentator on flow racing mr. Orion Flores

Joining you live from the Hilton

New Sumerna Beach on Flagler our business center

Marty down here. They called Speed Weeks for a reason. It's been so cool

Got to come down like you said do the booth analysis for the modified racers will dive into and since you're such a great friend

You're asking me if I watched the

Super Bowl yesterday as I had it on the trailer at the racetrack because I raced last night. You're like, oh, I didn't even know

Thanks for keeping up. Yeah, I had no idea you were racing last night actually I thought you were racing tonight being Monday

I'm racing tonight as well. Okay very weeks

It's a whole lot. Yeah. Yeah, I get that right priest is down there racing every night of the week

So I asked them. Yeah, of course everybody's watching the Super Bowl. What was your favorite?

What was your favorite commercials? We're gonna get to that later in the show

You finished third last night

Now your commentator in the booth

On saturday, you did the NASCAR wheeling modified tour. I thought you did a good job. What was your initial takes after that?

Um, buddy, I always thought that being a competitor was the most important thing because we're competitors, right?

that

booth stuff

Is so stressful because you can only screw it up and you're you know when you

Race you're just responsible for your car. If you have a bad day

Blame the tires. You can blame the other drivers. You can blame the motor. You blame the wind whatever you want

But when you're in the booth, you're responsible for you know, putting the pen of paper and telling everybody's story and preparing and

If you mess up, man, it's on you

So it was really good out of Kyle Ricky who's awesome and a great staff from NASCAR to guide me along

And it's just a lot of fun dude at the end of the day once you get rolling and through everything

It's just sitting here shooting the breeze about racing which is why we do this podcast

We just love racing

Well, that's right. I mean also star studded crew down there for the for the whale modified. I'll tell you

Bob donor and matt donor being pit road

Jim Trado

On pit road yourself and Kyle Ricky in the booth

I'll say this the camera quality for those guys is fantastic. It'll look like a shot was shot in 4k

Do the full guys in the production booth like that's all new to me

But they do such a good job like minute they have it broken down minute by minute what you're gonna do and they're always in your

here telling you

Um, what when we go to the break what we have going on the hardest part for me like I could do color commentating and good

Tell you about racing. I really got to work on my driver intro voice

That is not something that I was really signed up for I think I'm a little flat on that

But if you want to know what's going on in the race and you know, who's got tires who doesn't why they're falling back

Why somebody wrecked I could do that driver intro is I got to work on my wrestling voice a little bit

Let's hear a little bit of it

I'm not doing it right now. I had a rough night. I told you earlier

We're staying in a hotel my man crew my little guy fell out of the bed last night about four o'clock

And hit his head and it's been a rough night. So I'm just happy to be here this morning

Uh on stacking pennies with you and my wife handling that in the room for a little bit

Well, I'm glad you're able to make it

Thoughts and prayers to crew is his forehead. Okay. Where was it in relation?

Yeah, I got hit the back of his head a little bit. He's got a little bit of a gash. It's not enough too

That was a hell no moment. You know, we had a whole hell yeah day. Let me tell you

That yesterday at new somerna all my friends there my cousins lived down here like my whole little team

We just it was so much fun. That's like what this is all about

We came race the racing is like the extra point of it

but just having everybody here riding around on the scooters having the kids at the racetrack and just

Just getting a beat together seeing everybody camping and like driving to the racetrack, right the

Spring car haulers sunshine's hauler passes me going there and you see all the other race car haulers and there's so many different divisions

They're showing up on open trailers at the florida modifies

There's just race cars everywhere all leading to the Daytona 500

And it's just really cool to be down here and be a part of it. It's freaking awesome time of the year down here

And there's a wow-wow right down the road, which is amazing

And there's a buckys right there in Daytona beach as well. There's one in jacksonville. I've already gotten plotted out

So, hey, let's dive into the 500. I heard an awesome quote this week

and

I've never really heard it said this way, but your car owner and the guy you filled in for last week rack is last

He said the race determines who wins it and I felt that like I feel as that race goes on in the 500

It just being a pit crew guy and I want to want to hear your perspective as a driver

but

There's these moments of the race so you start the race and you're trying to keep your stuff together and then the first wreck happens

Then the second wreck happens and people get some penalties on pit road

And each time that there's a big moment and you make it through it pressure builds pressure builds pressure builds

Until you're in the position you were in last year with three to go leading the race

Does it feel like that in the car? Do you start feeling the weight of that race as it goes on?

Dude, it's like

It ratchets down

Every passing lap every passing stage

But what I love about it is when the sun starts to go down, you know the pressure is going up

Like the sun goes down

Lights come on it's like, okay, we're getting down to it and I got to start making sure I'm in the right spot

But yeah, I mean brad

I believe this this is

Kyle Busch is 20. No brad's 20th year

Going down there looking for harley jarl trophy

so

for him to say that

For him to say that the race choose that that's a great that is a great way to put it because

There's a lot of times when you get caught up in something

Very rarely is it your own fault sometimes it is but very rarely is is it your fault?

And you have to be perfect and then still your chances of winning could be zero

I think about being a good example of the race choosing who wins it

Ricky stenhouse spent on pit road during a green flag sequence

In the last stage of the in the last stage of the year he won the first year of the next gen car

The entire field piles up into one and he's on the opposite side of the track

Which should have been a massive mistake a day killer

Wipes out the entire field and he goes on to win the race

Yeah, and you used to always be able to just ride in the back right like

But now if the race doesn't play that way

We've seen a lack of the big one per se at some of these super speedways

Because everybody's saving fuel in the packs a little bit tighter and it's way harder to pass than it's ever been

So where the strategy used to be where you could just ride in the back and save your stuff and keep defenders on it

And then pounce with 20 to go now you have to be

Most of these guys feel like they have to be racing all day long in the front making moves and

Jockeying for position and trying to lead your manufacturer

You want to be if you're in a Ford or Chevy or Toyota?

You want to be the first one of your manufacturer off of pit road after that last pit cycle and when that

Last pit cycle is done and we have enough fuel when everything's finished now. It's time to get it

The table is set for the feast if you will after the last pit sequence

And then I could all get jumbled up when a big caution happens, but

I think that I see something the NASCAR they're doing instead of the full speed all on the playoffs

They announced they're doing like a race specific

I think that's what they're doing. So they're doing they're following a couple guys Zillich. I believe is one

For the 500 and a couple other ones. Uh, so that's what they're going to be doing for that full speed show

So that'd be cool. I think though

They're missing the boat

on

Following an open car now. I would be if I wasn't

Trying to make it as an open car

I'd still would say that because knowing the pressure that these teams feel to try to go qualify for the 500

It's the most pressure they'll face all year

Whether it's the car chief

Entire team building the car to try to qualify on a wednesday night or the driver thursday night trying to qualify on for the dual

That's like the biggest story from wednesday until friday morning

I've never been in this position core. This is the first time i've ever been on a car that's not locked in

And I feel the pressure of it with that 40 car and just getting prepared and

going

to hendrick and being kind of part of that system

And preparing that pit box and getting ready and like meeting with the the car chief and the crew chief and being like, okay

If this situation happens, what do we need if this situation happens?

What do we need and waking up in the middle of the night and being like, okay?

If all of the open cars wreck

In our dual and we have to be the ones that beat them off a pit road and finish the race

What do we need for damage repair because it's easy to just go?

That's an open car if we get wrecked, you know, we're done

But that's not the case you want to be prepared for every instance every situation

Because the ones that you don't prepare for are the ones that go into arise

So you want to make sure that you have all the boxes checked and this is where 20 years of experience helps out

But i'm ready to get down there and i'm nervous. I have that little bit of anxiety in me of like

Oh, man, it's getting close. I can only imagine how you feel

I feel loose

Like this is not an unfamiliar spot to be for me. I mean I've went down there and made it with some donkeys, bro

Like the literally this my first time there with bk

We were the slowest car by like four tenths

Like there was everybody

And then there was us

and somehow we

Beat re-sorts and and got what I spun him out, but still made the day 200 500

Somehow just some somehow we got by the grace of god and 700 horsepower might have crashed him in the trial

But might have crashed and he left the door open

And like I said, I crashed my mom. Sorry for your luck

Crash my mom made the they thought I was sorry. So speaking of guys being pissed off

Listen, we get all this hype all this cool stuff going on with Cadillac f1

And I don't I don't look up who michael bay is obviously a high shop producer

But he's suing them over a super bowl commercial like what are we doing?

Well as we have now starting to learn race teams love controversy and lawsuits

Just add another one to the list

Cadillac f1 comes out of the gate. They also had like a shadow box. Did you see that in time square?

the second that the

Commercial happened they you know flip the switch and it comes and reveals the car

I'd be curious what they spent on that thing

What's that spot 30 second spot?

10 million bucks eight to 12

Without any cost of production

and

Like don't hate the livery don't love the livery

I was expecting a little bit of I was hoping for a little bit of yellow

Because those Cadillac hypercars a couple years ago with the yellow and the red and the silver dialed

Hi, listen, I'm I'm just looking at it now. I didn't get to see it last night as we were racing

Why is the default f1 color silver every car I see is some sort of like some sort of silver

I think it looks sweet, but there's like the same they're they're all the same

It really chaps my ass. What about guys with all white cars? Yeah, one team gets a color. Hey, we got blue

No one else can okay. We got silver or we got red

Like I I want I don't want to see all this

It's like it'd be like watching my kids basketball team if all of the kids had the same color jersey

They're just running around. I don't know who's who what is going on?

That's what that's what we've got. We've got we've got that going on right now. We need a little more color speaking of that

Did you watch a halftime show? I didn't I didn't get to watch a halftime show

Because I was racing my wife though 100 porto rican. I have been to

A bad bunny concert

I really enjoyed the bad bunny concert, but I'll be honest

He said thunder and lightning twice

And there's only words I understood but it was a hell of a time

He came out on a horse like I had a blast and we listened to bad bunny quite a bit at our house

Because my wife's porto rican roots. I love bad bunny, but

And I can sing the words. I just don't know what they mean

I bet carissa was

Dancing in the trailer while you were going around the track. Well before the race like it was kind of lining up

uh to where

They feature was rolling out the same time the halftime show was going on

Uh sounds like babe, it's okay. You can stand where we were parked like you could stand in the back of the trailer

And watch the super bowl and just watch me come off turn four and just make sure if I stop coming off turn four

Just go check the record and make sure i'm all right

But yeah, a lot of people talking about that halftime show and look man, I feel like every year

No matter what people are pissed off about the halftime show about something

Well, that's just that's just life

They're gonna be pissed off

There's gonna be 50 of the population pissed off about it wasn't the other

Way the halftime show fans must be the same fans that were mad about nascar for the last 10 years

I bet you there there's really there's probably only like

10 000 people

In the grand scheme like there's probably

Even less than 10 000 people that are the ones that are most vocal that are pissed off about you know

Nascar on social media, but I don't want to get down that rabbit hole

I had I wanted to see what all the hubbub was about with the all american halftime show

So I pulled it up on my phone. It's just like all right. I can get down at lee brice

He's performed over joey's

Hasn't he done joey's charity charity?

I believe so yeah concert right then they had ol bob

Kid rock doing his thing

And I just had it on my phone let's go open it out

Kelly ripped me a new one

real pissed off

Said that I wasn't supporting

The halftime show that was on the television. I said I'm watching both

I want if if there is an espanol svu episode on I'm gonna look

For the english svu episode because that's just what I understand

I always speak uno

language

senior

Well, it was funny because my wife, you know, my wife naturally being Puerto Rican and a huge bad bunny fan was frustrated

about

Just why she was frustrated that everybody was frustrated that bad bunny was gonna be um

This super bowl halftime show and I said I don't think people are mad. I just think they don't speak the same language

Like it's just natural thing. She was we get kind of a conversation about it

Well, like a week or this happened like a month ago

And like a week or so later after this conversation

I'm a huge peeky blinders fan like I've watched peeky blinders

Three times through I've never watched anything more than once

Uh, so I was watching peeky blinders like hey, you want to watch peeky blinders with me? She goes no

I can't understand what they're saying and I hate reading the subtitles and I said, baby

Point in case of why people are frustrated

With the super bowl halftime show and she's like

Damn it. You got me. It just left the chat. But uh

But yeah, I don't know like it's and that's the thing

Different strokes for different folks man, it's america. You can pick what you want. There's so much. It's a melting pot

If you want to watch bad bunny if you want to watch

The other halftime shows if you want to watch the puppy bowl

You got options. I literally brought the puppy bowl. Everybody else's options. You could just I literally brought the puppy bowl

I'm gonna do this. I said honey

Would you be mad at me if instead of watching bad bunny and espanol I flipped over and watched the puppy bowl

Would you be mad at me then?

Just because I'm watching lee brice and bob richard doesn't mean I'm like I just want to listen to some english

And also, hey great production on the halftime show. Look pretty cool. You know

Means you're one more week away

From Daytona 500 and I love and one more week away from the hell. Yeah, dude. We how about the the commercial that nascar put up

The video they put up on instagram. Have you seen it?

He said our forefathers didn't throw tea in the harbor of boston

Like it's like so we could just hang out. It's awesome, dude. It is so good

We need to play it on here because it's just who we are and bodies who we are nascar

Is embracing that as a sport as our fan culture

And I'm I'm all in for it and look dude

I

Cannot wait for thursday

But I am looking forward so much

To friday with tony store back in the field cletus mcfarland you the friday night truck race is going to be so badass

That's a whole lot. Hell. You have no commercial and that's who we are right nascar is so badass and when I think of other sports, right?

That have adopted the nascar way like look at golf right when you go to waste management. What's that hole 16?

They have adopted a nascar way, right?

They want to make that like the infield of talladega the infield of michigan what we have

And for too long we have been trying to be like other people or like them like golf where we

Wear our nice clothes and go to the racetrack and act important screw that dude. We're there to race. Let's go

And own it own what we do well and also like I'm sure that there is a very large percentage of golf fans purists if you will

That absolutely hate that

Guys running in at 6 15 in the morning to try to grab their seats

Freakin throwing drinks onto the to the green if they get a hole in one like

I'm sure the people that create a golf in ireland don't take too kindly to that sort of environment, but it's sick

but also

ireland

Scotland somewhere over there. Sure. It's it's it's it's it's over there, but like

Where's the balance though too?

Did they get a hole in one? Oh, they when they were putting the pin in they were loosening their mind. That's awesome. Like no

Is that good? I like that guy's got the awesome job too

You know what the you know what the only

Thing about golf that gets me. It's the only hell yeah moment. I have a golf all day

I suck all day long on the golf course. It happens every time

I'm over it lose every ball in my bag. I got one ball left

I go to hole 18. I stripe it like I'm tiger wood straight down the fairway

And then my chip shot 10 yards from the hole and it always keeps me coming back

It pisses me right off. What would be the equivalent of like

stages or like

Playoffs with golf like if we were to fix golf like it stinks

We need to spice this thing up. No, no, no

No

Golf is what it is

We ain't fixing anything if you like golf go play it. We already had people try to fix NASCAR

I don't want that anymore. We are what we are. It's been great

If you want to play golf go play golf

But let there be a space

For hole 16 at the waste management for people that enjoy it a little bit different

Let happy Gilmore come in every now and then that's what I'm about

Well, yeah, because everybody can't be happy Gilmore than if everybody's just normal

You're damn right. Then you get a bunch of phony. Also

Shout out to cleetus and host of our spraying flame throws with the back of Dale truck really I mean there

That thing's getting some use. I gotta give it to him. Last night. We were at the bar

Um, did you see figure skating? Who I don't know the guy who won was

We were watching it. The guy was badass american won the thing even if

I did watch it. I wouldn't admit that I turned it on voluntarily to watch figures

I didn't say that I was at the bar. It was on at the restaurant bar that we were

Oh, hang on. Hang on. Here's the headline olympic ski jumpers might be using penis injections to fly further report

Alleges, okay. I mean, I don't want to see pictures, but give me the cliff notes on what's going on here

Uh, less drag

I mean, how big is their junk if that's affecting how far they they're flying

Every little bit a every little bit matters. I mean, you're trying to look for a 10 thousands on the roof

With an extra layer of of decal two centimeter increase in your suit size in your groin area

Could add five to six meters

Based off reduction of drag coefficients

Stuff a couple socks in there, buddy. How bad do you want it?

How bad do you want that is so funny because like think about it

We we're all doing it right think about it like a racer would if I learned

That that would happen

I would

Probably get in penis injections too if it meant I would win

but

You know, then you start thinking like well

I fell one time. I think I need to wear a cup

And your cup size gets a little bit, you know, like that's how my brain goes

Just like any good racer any good competitor. It's like we're gonna maximize this

Have you thought about sticking a needle in your wiener? I mean, hey if I'm training for four years in my one shot

They said hey jam this jam this up there and just gonna get you extra five meters. Yep

But I'd be like, hey, don't let this out on social media because we're really gonna get roasted

We had to keep this one. Yeah, make sure it doesn't end up on a us today article

But other than that. Yeah, I'll try I'll take a look at it

who

Let the penis the doping out who told everybody some and no with somebody in this room

There's a story talk about, you know, just looking for the gray area

It Daytona is where you always used to you still do weigh in for the season, right?

and

Now especially that all the cars weigh the same your weight bracket is set

So they came out with weight brackets when Danica was was driving cut they used to be like, hey

You would roll your car across and then it had to weigh 3400 pounds for example

Didn't matter if your driver weighed 100 pounds like Danica or 240 like Ryan Newman

So Ryan Newman's car would weigh 140 more pounds in theory than Danica's car would back before they had these brackets, right?

So now they have every 10 pounds 100 to 110

10 to 120 all the way up to 240

So wherever you weigh in at they take the difference and your car rolls across the scales at that weight so

if

Ross Chastain weighs 150 and I weigh 200 my car would weigh 50 pounds less that way when we sit in it

The cars are relatively the same. So now the game is the drivers want to go try to weigh in heavy

Okay

So they now have now

NASCAR has now caught on to all of the shenanigans

Because now they make you weigh in with your skibbies on no socks

like

On the scale and some some guy goes in there and checks doesn't give you a pat down, but you know

Scoping out make sure you get the injections an unnamed team

made tungsten jock straps

So we're all waiting in line. This is like six or seven years ago. We're all waiting in line

there's like

eight or nine people

another unnamed driver

Driving for an unnamed team at the time. I had a candy sponsor

Passes everybody

Stands on the scale because now this previously we're on our clothes

Jackets right you're like water bottles in your pocket like Wild West like I'd weigh in 185 190

I could weigh in at 220 if I really wanted to

This guy gets on the scale tink tink

260

And this guy would be 160

If there was a strong wind right and walking around 160 and the the official looked up like

Beat it come back

I'll tell you I'll tell you off camera who that was but so yes

There were teams making tungsten insoles for shoes

tungsten jock straps

Who knows what the other sort of accessories they might have had hanging on them but

nonetheless

If they're a racer and there's an opportunity to go get more they're going to go take it all

So now we weigh in and you're in your boxers

There's not a whole lot of shenanigans

You do eat a big breakfast and eat drink as much water as you possibly can to try to get to the next weight bracket

Speaking of racing in the olympics, you see Lindsay Vaughn went down certified babe of the week. Lindsay Vaughn

Well, she last week

She tore acl right so she was doing some rehab

Unbelievable skier 41 years old coming back for one last olympics and goes down the first run. Do you see I saw some pictures of it

There was like right off the bat. There was like a traverse like a hill

In her pole her stick. What do you call this pole?

caught the gate

up in the air yard sale

going that fast down

Like any going that fast anywhere, bro

They are just your body and skis if you get the slightest bit of tug the wrong way

It's got to be brutal

But she like going through like no acl like all the stuff she went through

with just rehab and recovery

When you are as great as she is and you get in your 40s and your body doesn't heal or starts

giving up on you it is such a

Tough time because you're transitioning out of being that you know elite athlete

And you got one more shot and to go down like that to have to get meta

Which you get medevac off of the helicopter

Yeah, the chopper off broker femur mountain

man

Shout out Lindsey Vaughn for for representing the United States like a true professional

Gold gold medal winner. The women's hockey is just obliterating people right now. Did women's hockey?

Electric in this in the olympics for sure. Yeah, I followed that up

I mean hell more. I love love that

Uh, yes

Shout out to tamirah to tamirah tamra tamra mensa stock in 20 tokyo 2020

so that like think about I think about

like the

basket you watch the basketball documentary with like lebron step when they all want to play and like those guys are

Millionaires like well brown james like a billionaire multi-millionaires

And they all go there and don't get paid anything and how important it is for them to represent their country in the legacy

that the dream team left behind and

It's it was so cool just to see

Like those that that documentary and to get a peek behind the curtain of just what it means because those guys could turn a blind eye

And be pissed off and and be too cool for school right and leave it to just college kids

But the moments that come out of the olympics man, I think of the miracle and

Great moments are born

From great opportunity from great opportunity here tonight boys is a great

Opportunity we have my pit coach brian holland for a long time

He would send us quotes from that he would quoted himself

he would always bring it up because he was a hockey guy and

Man, there's just there's nothing better the moments of a country versus country and how everybody rallies together

It's it's freaking especially mother russia taking them down 1980. I've been to that

That arena it's sick, dude

And I got down the rabbit hole. Was there a new netflix doc about the miracle?

I was watching a couple episodes fire me up, dude

That's what the olympics do man

And then you've got then you got some figure skaters here doing the

Impossible forbidden flip dude that guy's doing a backflip on ice. I can hardly walk 10 skate 10 feet

And this guy's doing a backflip. Can carl edwards do a backflip on ice skates karen ass. I'm not sure if we somehow

Find our way in victory lane. I am gonna I would do I would attempt a backflip 100 percent

Dude, you would be

Connor zillich got beat by

A window net last year. You cannot attempt a backflip

You graciously accept your price and stay on your feet, dude. No, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna commit and let god

Jesus take the wheel

That would be the worst thing ever if you if you won

The Daytona 500 and then you try a backflip and break your neck or knock yourself out

It would be

It'd be great for ratings on the show. Don't get me wrong

That's what i'm going for if I won the Daytona 500. I'm not getting

On sport center top plays. I would get number one not top 10 for the for maybe the next

month if I

Break my neck

And have to get gurneyed off the ball field to victory lane and do my entire

Pressure in a neck brace. Have you ever done a backflip in anything before I could do it on trampoline

And I land it 30 percent of the time

How many what's your percentage 30?

You better talk to the pit crew and just do some sort of half-ass backflip and they can catch you

Just try not to kick them in the face

I think i'm gonna leave my helmet Hans on and i'm gonna look up at the

Up at the sky. The Hans isn't doing anything without seat belts, man. I'm doing it. What's the what's the worst thing that could happen?

Like I end up like landing directly on my head, which is a highlight. My kid fell out of bed last night

It was a two-foot fall and he was bleeding

Well, yeah

Car on the apron stand in the door

So you have a three-foot elevation if I tuck as hard as I can I think the chances of me landing it are

Pretty good 50 50. I like my chance. I'll meet you. Here's what I'll do

I'll meet you over at Halifax medical and I'll sign

That's what I'll do. I think I'd have enough I'd have enough amped up to pull it off

So hey, let's let's dive back into the 500 because we got down the wrap hole of the

Uh olympics, which is awesome. But you know the term that earnhardt always used you could see the air you could see the air tell me about

How that how that works tell me about how the air works in the draft. Can you feel it?

Can you see it? What's it like when we had the early morning practices and it

What is the dew point down in florida what everybody's windshields are fogged up like you can see

The trail off of the

Like how like when like a super modified you watch it an old school concord, right? You see the vapor trail

Come off the corners of the spoiler or the roof

Uh, so in those instances you can see it but mostly it's off of feel

and audio

So you can hear your rpm

Ah

And you know when you're a good spot and you can also see

When you're affecting somebody else's air

so

I think that when people say of course they learn heart

Didn't have like x-ray vision to see the air

But he had a feel for manipulating the air around his car and other people's car probably better than anybody else did

So yeah, man, you're just you're trying to position your car you're trying to

Slow other people you're not really speeding up any the pack's going to have one terminal velocity

You're just trying to position your car and slow down other guys relative to yourself

And try to lead a line because the lead in the line is okay

When can you feel when you get in the pack like is there a pressure differential?

Like almost like when you're taking off in an airplane or something like that with the air

Yeah, your your your ears will pop

um

because

Like here your window nets when it's when you're going is like right it's it's uh fluttering when you're in the pack it's just like

Like you would be standing still you can like mess with it

um

And there's like no air flow in your car

That's when you're able to run 30 40 throttle

But that doesn't mean like it's easy like you're since the car has so much downforce on it

to slow it down

Because if they didn't have if they didn't have the big split splitters and the spoilers like they would go 230

So when you're in a pack and you're like fourth or fifth car in line

You don't have any downforce on your car. So you are some in some instances swatting flies, but

back to the truck race like

There's nothing more fun than those at a speedway because they're so draggy

with big roofs and big spoilers

That NASCAR has to keep their horsepower up. So you get

massive runs

And when those things don't have any downforce on them you get a really bad spot

That's where you see a lot of guys spin out off turn four because you come off turn four

A lot of guys that hadn't been there before in a in a line and they come off four real tight tight tight tight

And they get up and the air hits the right front headlight and spins them out

You're definitely going to see some of that. There's like 12 guys that are really good

And know what they're doing and there's about 20 guys that never been there before

And they're just going to make sure that the feathers are attached. They're dark. So

It's going that that race is going to be nice. You got you ricky stanhouse carcinose far

Please make farland, but tony store. Oh butter bean queen and man. I can't I'll never be able to say his name

The same way again after here in chrysorize. I'm always going to say minotaur ale

a minotaur ale

wins the ram

Drive for the seats are really excited for those two

To be in there. But man, tony store

American badass american hero our modern day aj foy is back in the nascar and it feels damn good

It feels damn good to see him out there for sure. It'll be cool to shake and bake with him

That was one of my biggest reasons why I wanted to try to find a truck ride

Dude, he's got so many wins at daytona, but never won the 500

But it was like for years. He'd drive that orio car

For junior motorsports

He was unbeatable in a in a one two races

At tony ad with tony store at daytona vote to cope go 400

When earnhardt passed away or tony sort picked up the baton

It's wild that he never won a 500 because he was literally unbeat clash

duels

bush races

He literally won like a hundred bush races

Yeah, i'm excited for him to come back to these kids in the truck series, man

They never had an ashtune like tony store

Some of them have never raced against the guy like tony store and it shows and they need that

You need that one guy to choose that ass every now and then

so

I'm excited to see him back pit road this week. So let's let's just talk about new somerna one thing

I love about the modified series as we get in our

Little pit road segment because we're getting ready to go to daytona, right? We talked about the fuel

We've talked about the preparation

We broke down last week. How much fuel you're gonna have to take and how your

Crew chief and your gas man and your driver are gonna have to be in sync to save tenths of a second

Which equate spots off pit road and spots on the racetrack and you want to lead your lane

So one thing we did together and I was able like we said being the commentating booth for the modified race

You and I like 15 years ago

I forgot about that until I heard the richie evans memorial on friday night and we changed tires on a modified

um

And I smoked that that was oh and I was watching it again

From the booth and I forgot

I've changed tires now for

15 20 years the sketchiest moment I ever had in my life was there a new somerna because it's so tight about got ran over

Um, and there's no fenders on those cars

So you can't even jump and just get on the hood you just get run over by the tire

15 inch wide tires

So I was watching that on pit road and seeing everybody kind of navigate that

And it was really cool to see that 51 team with just a montaner

He went on the win speaker did a phenomenal job. They have live pit stops

It's not like arco where they stop and they it's like real deal

Live pit stops should let them do two pit stops two tire pit stops at a time. You got a fuel

It's just like what you see in the national series

And it's cool because it project, you know

It gets those guys ready to move up if they want to move south and chase the dream

but

Speaking about Justin Bonson or him and his car owner ken masa

Have been together for 10 15 years now a long time

And they have now become their second on the all-time win list as a driver for just my 48 wins

But ken masa the all-time winning is modified to our owner and I saw something. Yeah

That's that's got to be our pit boss of the week

They are the pit boss of the week because the dude that pit crew is like the flying aces out there

They're unbelievable. They do well

Justin said in his interview. He's like our pit crew has been struggling. We had to chew their ass

He's like we got we got them back and they're all volunteer guys, right?

Maybe they're making 100 bucks and a hot dog. They're doing it for the love of the sport

But so cool to see that series is so competitive and Justin is a four-time champ for a reason and you know, he got the

I love we talked about with priests last week

I love seeing Justin and michael christopher and austin beers get get these opportunities because of what priest is doing

I I know that it might not all because of what priest is doing

But it definitely has an influence

And it was really cool to be part of that modified community this week. What do you eat? What do you what do you drink?

Hashtag athletes you treat your body like a temple

The last thing you want to do is be sick

for sunday

And there was a stomach, but we used to get a beach house down in new somerna last year or last couple years

and

There was a stomach bug that went around from Tuesday until race day

And I happened to get it on sunday couldn't even eat an apple dude. I was in bad shape

But let's just say a normal day where I feel well

I

Coffee in the morning get a little caffeine going

Pretty big breakfast. I'll probably just go to first watch like I always do

Right across the street jumping the golf cart cruise across the street

I'll eat breakfast there pretty much every every day of the week and I'm bringing Levi my five-year-old

So it's just gonna be him him and I down there hanging hanging out having a good time little guys trip if you will

Um

So they had some cool tech a couple years ago the r&d center did that we played around with

That I think some indie car guys do it where you take a pill and the pill has

sensors for your

Heart rate

Your core temperature and it sends it to a reader that

Either like a chest strap or something like that. So I did that a couple times. I'm out on that

That sounds like some weird matrix shit. Just a whoop is fine. Why do you have to swallow something because it's more accurate?

Yeah, okay. That's some indie car shit, dude. Speaking of this is a way off the rabbit hole

Did you see that tight end commercial yesterday where they have?

uh bruce arian's like

he was the

Superwoman coach for the bucks

Coach for the the cardinals and it had all of these it had like

grok

grok uh grok and

uh

He's on amazon prime now. He was a tight end

Tony Gonzalez, they had all these guys like in their uniform like tight ends like the whole thing was

The whole commercial was talking about tight ends and then right at the very end like

Do you have a tight end when it comes to prostate exam?

Yeah

And the product was like some sort of a

You know a blood test and they said don't worry about having tight end. What do you do with this pill? You poop it out

Yes, hopefully plug it in like what the hell is going on? I'm not gonna be rummaging for it

Yeah, so they did they did say that they had to recover the pill

Before they had the transmitter to send the data live

And just drink some electrolytes to get in the race car, dude. We don't need to know that much

Kale y'all bro ain't digging through shit for a heart rate monitor

Yeah

Things david pierce and never said hold on i gotta swallow my heart rate monitor before i get in this thing

He was he might have been taking a pill

But it was just some damn i'd be profing because his arm was broke

No back there was goodie's headache powder and a coca-cola

That's what marry. That's what race cars are built on buddy and a winston dart before the race

The question keeps coming in. Where do you pee?

Of course shit is pants last year after they told the 500. That was the story

After race. Yeah, I uh, I forgot forgot my had a stomach and it never fails

The end of the race you've been in the car for four hours

You're gonna get a red flag that's gonna last 20 minutes because they got some car on fire

That's when you think about having to pee right you make sure you go pee. That's like if side note

For fans if you want

Every single driver's autograph on some helmet or some piece of memorabilia stand next to the bathroom

In the garage

Where everybody comes and goes

Every single driver will hit that one bathroom before the race

Pro tip that's where you want to get your autographs. Some guys might not oblige

I would happily oblige and sign your stuff and no one washes their hands. Nobody wash their hands

So you're gonna have piss all over your autograph. That's false. I would say that half

I'm not telling you which side of the coin. I'm on of that but

Yes, don't shake hands buddy

If you come out of the porter potty, you might get a squeeze of the half ass sanitizer, but you are not

Washing your hand. No. Yeah. No, I'm not going now. I'm not going to

I'm not leaving a ported potty and then go into the little deal with the little pump foot pump ain't happen

What a waste of time

Nice invention

Very inefficient. Just keep it moved. How you doing? All right. Hey, so

Here we go. I I gotta get going south, bro

You're you're you're really making this thing longer than needs to be

That's why I just want to make some picks and get the hell out of here

I want to know can't pick ourselves. Who's gonna win the 500 and who's are all too soon season champion

Here's we are in the dawn of the 500 as the season looms upon us

I'll be a company man

Because nascar always has a way of getting delivered

unbelievable storylines

So i'm gonna go

After 20 years of trying 20 years of frustration brad keselowski overcomes a broken femur and wins

the Daytona 500

Last guy that broke his leg won the cup championship. So I could see I could see brad. I can get behind brad

I'm gonna go the the only penske guy left to not win the 500 is blaney

So i'm thinking that blaney's he's a previous winner at Daytona. It's gonna be hard to go back to back

I saw some stat like in the last 15 races the only guy to win

You know back to back super spear races is william byron like with the 500

But I think blaney, um, I think he's gonna be strong. He's always strong

And then my all-two season championship pick i'm gonna go back to william byron

I think that this

This the way he was the regular season champion last year

He's made it to the final four. So he's always good on points. He wins races him and rudie always have good days

And he's fast at every type of racetrack. There's some racetracks where you circle certain guys

But william's always up front road course short tracks super speedway

mile and a half

and

The way that the new system's gonna work with the chase

I think he can win the radio season championship and that carries him over and he's got a good enough team where if they get a

Points buffer they can just maintain and figure out how to win this championship

I think that's 2014

You're gonna be back on top

That's good. That's a good pick. Chris bell has always been in the hunt another championship four guy multiple years

He also strikes me as somebody that's that's

Pretty consistent that even though they do occasionally lay some eggs which over 36 weeks you're gonna lay some eggs

but

Once those guys get into the chase

I think they can lock it in and and make a deep run

Hashtag penny for your thoughts questions. You guys keep a rife on a minute from kyle. No, go 15

Is skip gonna call more races this year. He absolutely crushed the mod race

last night

No, go I really appreciate that. I am going to call um right now tentatively martinsville claremont and new hampshire

uh for the modified series, so

Love that love that opportunity and hopefully it turns into more. Yeah

From jacob pollen. Are we getting any new spp merch for date tona?

Um, no, you can go get the in guy. We have in guy. We trust hat though. That thing is sweet

Got a bunch of them in the in the office up there. I don't even we're

Lindsay is it on the website

quarterlyjoyracing.com

Backslash merch or link in my bio if you want those in god we trust hats

And I don't even think I said in the podcast. I think it just said it's somebody else

The only thing guaranteed his life is death death taxes and downforce

We were kicking around the idea of making that a t-shirt. I think that would sell alex mccullough any problems slash mods to your

Cummins tow rig

Uh, I haven't had I mean knock on wood. I've only had it's got 4 000 miles on it. So this is literally the first trip

I'm literally going from this podcast

Taking the star link put it in the brinkly and headed south me and levi

And some fellow coming to shoot some video and vlog with us

So I will let you know after the week now. I'll tell you that wrinkly unit those guys

I got hooked up with those guys. They that thing is sweet

Super efficient on space looks cool

um

Got a toy hauler in the back got the golf cart got bikes got all the stuff. So

Can't rock it any more truck racing this season. Yes

I have signed a deal for two races

Not ready to be public public with that yet, but it's gonna be pretty cool

And one I think one's gonna be in march and one's gonna be in may

So yeah, uh cj

Mcglashland 88 83 if you could bring back one track from the dead, what track would it be and why this is this is a great question

What do you think rod you hear it?

Oh man, that's a tough question. Um, if I could bring back one track from the dead

I'm not going with the cup drive going with flemington speedway

I thought flemington was awesome. It was in my home state, new jersey

I love going there that truck races there. It was square

Race like a circle. I would bring back flemington. I thought it was bad ass

Like a circle

What about you?

Texas world speedway keeps coming to mind

Two mile like michigan ahead of its time

So i'm gonna yeah, I'll go i'm gonna stick with texas world speedway. Good question guys

Let's land this bird. I'm gonna head south because it is too cold in north carolina. I need to get down to some sunny weather

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