Denny Hamlin Wins All-Star Race at Dover & Charlotte Preview
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Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour presented by NASCAR on FOXMay 19, 2026
Denny Hamlin Wins All-Star Race at Dover & Charlotte Preview
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massive wreck
A “wreck” is a crash, and “massive wreck” means a lot of cars got involved. In NASCAR, one big crash can trigger more crashes because cars have to react fast and avoid each other.
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blend down a lane
“Blend down a lane” means sliding over to a different lane, usually toward the inside. It’s tricky because you have to line up your speed and avoid hitting other cars.
The All-Star Race is NASCAR’s special “showcase” race. Here, they’re talking about how crashes early on knocked out a lot of the top drivers, so fewer cars were left for the final money segment.
“Dover” is the NASCAR track where the race took place. They’re saying Dover itself produced a good race, even though the All-Star field got hit by early crashes.
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tire dragon
The “tire dragon” is a NASCAR way of running tire-related testing during a race weekend. Here, they’re saying it used the tire compound that’s meant for the next generation of cars, so it helps teams get used to what’s coming.
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next gen or the gen seven cars
NASCAR “next gen” (Gen 7) means the next set of car rules and specs NASCAR is moving to. Saying the tire compound matches Gen 7 means the tires are being tested in a way that lines up with how the future cars will run.
In a race, “strategy” is the plan for things like when to pit and how to manage tires. Two drivers can race the same car but choose different plans and end up with different results.
This refers to an All-Star Race-style format where the field is reordered—often by inverting or “flipping” positions—so faster cars don’t start up front. It forces different passing and pit/tires decisions because the usual “best cars lead” advantage is reduced.
Sometimes race cars get minor damage, and crews use quick fixes to keep the car running. The point here is that teams may patch things temporarily so the car can stay in the race.
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bare bond
This sounds like a quick glue/adhesive used to hold parts together temporarily. Race crews use stuff like that to keep damaged pieces from flapping or coming loose.
The “downforce package” is the car’s aero setup that pushes the tires harder onto the track. If it’s not right for the track or conditions, the car can feel unstable and start spinning.
In racing talk, “momentum” is the idea that recent strong performance can carry forward into the next event. It’s not a points system by itself, but it can reflect improved setup, confidence, and execution.
In NASCAR, “Cup racing” means the highest level of competition. The cars and teams are more evenly matched, so the racing can look different—often with fewer wild swings and fewer constant passes than in lower series.
They’re contrasting the top NASCAR level with the O’Reilly-branded series. The idea is that the racing can be more chaotic there because cars aren’t as evenly matched, so you see more passing and position changes.
A crew chief is basically the team’s head strategist. They make key decisions about setup and race strategy so the driver can perform better during the race.
They’re comparing Cup racing to NASCAR’s truck series. The point is that different series can have different levels of car/team parity, which affects how often drivers can make big moves through the field.
The fuel neck is the connection area for the fuel tank/filler system. In this crash, it got knocked loose, and fuel that was still up in that area likely helped start the fire.
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composite parts and pieces
“Composite” parts are made from special strong materials (often fiberglass or carbon-fiber). In a crash, they’re designed to help the car absorb energy and reduce dangerous debris.
“Full throttle” means the driver is asking for the engine’s maximum power. If a crash happens while the car is at full throttle, it usually means the car is going very fast.
The garage area is where the team fixes the race car between race moments. If they can repair it safely and within NASCAR rules, the driver can get back out.
If you start near the back, there are more cars around you early on, so it’s easier to get caught up in a wreck. You also have less space to avoid trouble.
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self cleaning
“Self cleaning” here means the track tends to clear itself as cars keep running. Even if debris gets moved around, wrecks can still happen because there’s little room to avoid trouble.
The “fastest lap” is the quickest one lap a driver completes during the race. If a repaired car can still run the fastest lap, it usually means it’s back to having strong speed.
NASCAR races are split into parts, and the “final segment” is the last part. Teams time repairs and strategy so they’re ready to race hard when it matters most near the end.
If the car “sits in the garage,” the team is fixing it before it can race again. It usually means the damage is serious enough that they need more than a quick stop.
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photo decks
Photo decks are spots at the track where photographers take pictures. The drivers hanging out there shows they’re waiting for repairs to finish before going back out.
A rain delay is when the race stops because of rain. Teams have to wait it out, and that can affect how they plan repairs and when they get back on track.
A “spin” means the race car rotated and lost its intended direction on the track. In this case, it happened in a Chevrolet during the race, and it likely caused the driver to lose positions because they had to recover and get back up to speed.
They changed the restart order so the cars that were behind get placed differently. That makes it harder to just cruise—drivers have to pass more cars and it can get chaotic.
A flat tire means the tire is basically losing air and can’t work normally. The car will feel unstable, and the driver has to be careful to keep going without wrecking.
A “setup” is how the team tunes the race car for that track. If it’s not right, the tires and handling don’t work the way they should, and problems can show up repeatedly.
A spin out is when the car loses traction and starts rotating uncontrollably. It’s usually a sign the tires or the car’s handling weren’t working right at that moment.
Underbody damage is when the bottom of the race car gets scraped or hit. That can change how the car sits and how air flows under it, which can lead to bad tire wear and handling.
This means the front-right tire wasn’t behaving correctly—like it was wearing out too fast or getting damaged. When one tire acts up, the car can feel off and the driver has to work around it.
“Kept wearing out” means the tire was getting worse lap after lap. That usually happens when the car’s balance or alignment isn’t right for the track, so the tire gets abused instead of rolling smoothly.
In NASCAR, “silly season” is the time when teams and drivers are switching jobs and making contract moves. There are lots of rumors, and it can change who drives the cars next season.
They mention “Kota” as a specific race weekend that mattered for Cory Day. It’s referring to a track where something happened and his performance improved afterward.
A “groove” is the best path around the track where the tires grip the pavement. A “new groove” means the track changes as more cars run it, and someone who figures out the updated best line can go faster.
“No Man’s Land” is the part of the track that most drivers avoid because it doesn’t feel like it has good grip. If someone can make it work, they can suddenly move up fast.
The start/finish line is the spot on the track where the race starts and where laps are counted. When you pass it, you know exactly how far along you are.
A rough track is bumpy or uneven, so the car gets shaken around more. That can wear out tires faster and make the driver’s job tougher over a long race.
The day-to-night transition refers to how NASCAR races change as the sun sets and track temperatures drop. That shift can alter tire grip and car balance, so teams often adjust setup to be competitive later in the race.
“Track changes” in NASCAR usually means evolving grip conditions caused by temperature, rubber buildup, and moisture. Even if the course doesn’t move, the car’s handling can feel different as the surface and tires interact over time.
The “Coke 600” is a NASCAR race that’s long enough to go from day into night. That matters because the track changes as it cools, so the cars can feel different later in the race.
“On the lead lap” means you haven’t been lapped by the leader. If you fall a lap behind, it’s much tougher to catch back up and still contend for the win.
Engine updates in NASCAR can include changes to performance-related components and calibration that affect power delivery and reliability. Teams may bring fresh parts or revised setups for a specific race to improve competitiveness.
A burnout is when the driver spins the tires on purpose to make smoke and heat up the tires. It’s partly for show, and partly to get the tires ready. Here, they’re talking about how long Hamlin’s burnout lasted and how that timing got messed up.
A “stage” is a part of the NASCAR race that happens in sections, not all at once. NASCAR uses these breaks to manage the race and award points. Here, the timing of that break/setup impacted when Hamlin could finish his burnout.
Victory lane is where the winner goes right after the race to celebrate. It’s the spot cameras go to for the winner’s moment. They mention Hamlin driving into victory lane while doing the burnout.
Not every NASCAR race counts the same for the championship. A “non-points” race doesn’t add points to the season standings, even though drivers still race hard to win.
“Pit stop competition” refers to how teams are judged on the speed and execution of their pit work—tire changes, fueling, and adjustments. In NASCAR, pit performance can be a decisive advantage because it directly affects track position.
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team pants go red
This line sounds like a mis-transcribed NASCAR timing/strategy cue. The idea is that there’s a moment in the race when teams usually start pushing harder or changing strategy.
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I think overall Dover was intriguing, but the way that it all worked out,
it wiped a bunch of our All-Stars out.
That one is probably the hardest impact going backwards I've seen in this generation card.
When your guy gets wrecked, what do you do?
But as Kevin says, winners win.
Welcome to Kevin Harvick's happy hour presented by NASCAR on Fox.
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This is a clean look.
I did notice that right away.
I think it's because he had to do the victory lap interview.
Is that purple?
I think so.
Is that like a purple flannel?
I think it's a purple.
Eggplant?
Yeah.
It's the eggplant.
Eggplant.
Yeah, well, I mean, it is 85 degrees outside.
Well, it's only big dogs can wear eggplant, you know?
Not everybody can pull off eggplant.
True.
Well, you look sharp.
Thanks.
You look put together.
I wouldn't go that far, but you look better.
Okay.
You look better.
Better.
What a weekend it was out there in Delaware.
You were good on the trucks coming to you for analysis to give Clint a hard time.
That was funny.
We had a lot of fun.
And as much grief as I give Clint, that is he did a really good job.
I really thought he was going to finish 10th or 12th there.
I think we all know the deficits that the Rams have right now.
So going in, I think you had to have realistic goals.
And it was funny just to listen to him.
Well, A, he wasn't very prepared.
And then a week of he kind of dove all in and to listen to him.
He said, you know, when I walked across the race track, it's like the light switch went off.
I remembered exactly what I was supposed to do.
And he actually talked like he was really comfortable in the truck.
And I think he had a good time and our whole Fox crew kind of leaned in.
There was boxes of t-shirts, Clint Boyer t-shirts when we got to the TV compound
to support him and everybody had a good time with it.
And he was a good, really good sport about it.
Highly entertaining.
That is for sure.
So there was a lot going on at Dover this past weekend.
We're going to recap everything from all-star weekend in Delaware preview.
The Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte coming up.
And of course, you have your NASCAR Sunday social sips.
I learned that from OG over here.
He's only one goes up.
They both go down.
They both go down with a frown.
You can have the frown.
Yeah, yeah.
My 11s come out where you're in big trouble.
NASCAR Sunday social sips.
We'll be coming to you live.
Yeah.
Welcome in.
Episode 28.
We are here.
Are we really at 28?
It's way more than that, though, if you had up the last three years, guys.
So I'm not sure what the final number is on that right at this point.
We're 28 this year.
Yeah.
I'm done working.
I know.
I was going to say, there you have it.
The final Fox race.
Nice job, Chuck McDonald and our crew there.
I bet you're excited for a little break.
It's, you know, it's 14 races, 12 points races,
All-Star, Clash, two weeks off.
So 16 weeks if you're counting.
Kevin's been busy.
Does a lot of interviews.
He does a lot of podcasts.
He's the busiest man over here.
So All-Star race.
First off, before we get into everything that occurred in the race,
what did you think of the format?
Did you like what you saw on Sunday with the changes that were made?
Yeah.
Well, really, I didn't really know what to expect when we went to Dover with all the
changes and everything that was happening.
I love practice.
Okay.
I love practice.
The fact that they were able to work on the cars,
have time to think about things overnight.
Saw a lot of guys trying things.
Cars jacked up in the garage.
Team guys working on them.
And, you know, they came back the next day to get the cars inspected.
So they had all night to kind of finalize their setups and things.
And I think that the drivers enjoy that.
And we saw that at Watkins Glen too.
He didn't have the same type.
I think it was one day too long, the All-Star race.
I think we could have had that same practice in the morning,
went through inspection, qualified in the afternoon,
raced on Sunday.
And qualifying was fantastic because Dover in itself is difficult to get on the pit road
hard and be able to make it to pit road.
Denny Hamlin spinning out right here.
Not only was it hard to get on the pit road,
it was hard to get off pit road.
Apparently we saw several penalties of guys breaking the commitment line,
trying to get back up on the race track with full speed,
kind of bouncing up out of control.
We saw cars spinning out like Ricky Stenhouse right here in qualifying.
Looked like Jimmy Johnson.
That's what he said.
Old driving that thing all the way down the front straight away.
In the out of the gas.
Oh yeah.
Done, Ricky.
Yeah, so that was cool to watch.
Not cool for Ricky, but cool for us to watch.
Connor Zillich after about spun out two or three times,
driving the crap out of it on his qualifying laps escapes death right there.
Hitting the end of pit wall with all those sand barriers at the end of pit wall.
They're heavy.
You know, when it's all-star qualifying time, the guys are going to go for it.
And Dover in itself is a difficult pit road,
just making a green flag pit stop on a race run, getting on and off pit road.
We saw a lot of mistakes on pit road during the pit crew challenge
with the pit crew guys, Zane Smith's team.
Shout out to them.
One, the pit crew challenge.
It's actually a Joe Gibbs development team.
Which is, oh, when you go back into the shop.
Oh my gosh.
They're the devos guys.
Kept in the step.
Excited.
Yeah.
Because I think they also were, it was the 54 crew.
I think it was one of the last ones to go.
And they, so they're in the same, same group.
And they like know that they got their guys.
That's fire.
Well, Denny Hamlin was the last one to go to qualifying.
Yeah, that's right.
So, you know, you had a couple of Gibbs cars there late in qualifying.
And the old development crew wound up on top.
I think on Sunday, the first two segments were,
yeah, interesting.
Lap two, we had a massive wreck with Ryan Priest kind of making a mistake right there.
Trying to blend down a lane and took a massive hit.
Crashed a bunch of cars to go along with that on lap two.
And just crossed the line on lap two of the first segment.
And that, that wiped out a bunch of cars.
And then we did it again in segment two, wiped out a bunch more cars.
And at that point we were looking for cars to race.
Fancy garage area, yeah.
So I think that the, the first two segments about right,
I think the last segment was about a hundred laps too long.
And, you know, I think that a little shorter last segments,
the fans showed up in droves to come out and support it.
I don't know where all the rumors started about Dover going away or not having a home,
whether it's all-star race or, you know, I think it's probably, you know,
it's, it's a fun racetrack to drive.
The, the, the resin on the racetrack made the grooves all over the place.
We saw on Saturday, core day, when the race up against the fence.
And that was the way it was on Sunday as well.
You know, you had a lot of options from that standpoint to, to move around as a driver.
So I think overall Dover was intriguing, but the way that it all worked out,
you know, it just, it, it wiped a bunch of our all-stars out.
And, you know, you had a lot of our all-star cars in the garage.
So I think there's a, there's a valid conversation as, as to maybe that first segment should have
been the open. Second segment should have been, you know, the second and third segment should have
been something a little bit different, possibly, because the fans want to show up and at the
all-star race and watch their all-star race. And unfortunately, a lot of the all-stars got wrecked
in the early parts of the race. Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney,
so many of those guys that, that got tore up. And, and, you know, I think that when your guy gets
wrecked, what do you do? Go home. You said people. Yeah. There are a lot of people that left after
segment two because so many guys were, were wrecked. And we actually got to the point where
NASCAR didn't even really know who the fan vote was because there were so many guys that we didn't
know if they were out of the race. And we were waiting on NASCAR to tell us who was officially
out of the race and who was in the race and who the all-star vote was. And it wound up,
the vote wound up being Suarez. And then they wound up figuring out who wasn't going to attempt to
come back on the racetrack and didn't get their car fixed. So it was a little bit confusing
at the end. I think that Dover put on a good race. I just think that I hate to see all of our all-stars
tore up and not race in the final segment for, for the million bucks. But the first two segments
were entertaining. We just ran out of cars. Well, Kevin, you covered this entire format
in your first answer. So we are going home now. All right. Thanks. What do you do? All right,
that's it. I'm kidding. That was a great breakdown of the weekend. What did you see from your vantage
point? Did you like it? Did you think there should be some tweaks to the format? I think,
I think tweaks are always good. We should always be tweaking stuff. And if you don't try stuff,
you don't know what worked and what didn't. I think Dover deserves a points race. I think it
put on a great race. Interesting. I was listening to Parker Klingerman and Landon Castle Talk that
this was the first week that they used the tire dragon with the actual tire compound that the next
gen or the gen seven cars are on. So I think that was interesting. I think between the tire dragon
and the resin, it made the track very racy, very wide. I thought that was great for everybody to
watch. There was comers and goers and like the strategies were different. And then the format
itself with the guys flipping to the back, like the big good cars being in the back,
that reminds me of back home at Thunderwood Speedball. We have a race called the milk bowl
and we do that with three segments. They do that same thing. Low points is your winner type situation.
It reminded me a lot of that. And it was fun because when I talked to Denny Hamlin about,
he's like, you know, normally as you get to the front, your good cars are the front. It gets
harder to pass them. Well, it's actually the opposite of this. And that brought a whole different
challenge and a different part of fun. And I think Kevin, you talked about the crew guys
being able to work on the cars and actually work on them. That's really fun for them. That's what
they lived on. That's what they're used to. That's what they want to do. They don't like just kind
of putting the cars together and then being in this box that they can't make adjustments. So
for them to be able to do that, probably brought them back to it. And the other part about working
on the cars, when the red flag comes out, you should just let everybody work on their cars.
Should be an open red. What difference does it make? Just take the cars to pit road,
finish cleaning up the racetrack, let them work on their cars. They want to change the tires.
Let them do whatever they want to do to the cars. It's a freaking all-star race.
Like just let them work on their cars because some of those guys just needed to knock the
fenders out. They needed to put some duct tape on, bare bond, whatever it was to get their cars
prepared. And I think that from that standpoint, I think that's one thing that I would change.
I love the downforce package. Cars hard to drive, spinning out on their own, handling deficits,
fall off. Cars that were good at the beginning, good as they would fall off. But definitely got
to understand the tweaks that need to be made to make sure that our all-stars are in the race.
And I think that it was a little bit strange to me that it was in the middle of the day.
Not at night. I want the night. I think I definitely do.
There's just something about the night that makes the all-star race a little bit more.
The energy. Yeah, the energy is just a little bit different.
Spectacle. I think that Dover was intriguing on Friday. I think it was intriguing for practice.
I think the first two segments were intriguing. And then it kind of lost its luster at the end
for me because of the fact that we lost so many of our good cars to those crashes.
And, you know, look, you want the cars to be hard enough to drive to crash, but
you also want the guys to be in the race that are supposed to be in the race. And if you're
going to have the all-star race be the all-stars, like, do we want to celebrate our all-stars or
do we just want to have a race? Because it just, I think that's the thing. I think the facility in
the racetrack did everything it needed to do. But I think we lost sight of exactly who our all-stars
are and the guys that deserve to be there from the 19 guys that were in on winning past champions
or past all-star winners. And we kind of let it just be an everybody race. So either it needs its
identity as an all-star race or we just need to have another race. Because if you're not
going to celebrate the guys that are locked into doing what they do by being an all-star,
I know we need all the cars on the racetrack probably to have the best race possible.
But if that's the case, it just needs to be another race. And I think Dover obviously has
a place on the race schedule. The fans support it. The racetrack is great. It's so unique.
The drivers love it. So there's just, it's kind of like the clash, right? You got the guys that
are supposed to be for the poll winners. It's supposed to be an exhibition race. You just don't
want to lose the identity unless you're going to change it. If you're going to change the identity
of what it is, is an all-star an all-star or is an all-star a guy who's never won a race?
Well, fortunately Denny Hamlin won this race, but three of the drivers in the top five is their
first top five all year, which speaks to the fact that a lot of the top competitors were no longer
in the mix. But as Kevin says, winners win. And of course, he got the pick once again. He made
the selection of Denny Hamlin. And I know it's not for points, but he still had a very solid
execution to get this victory. Well, Denny Hamlin's great at Dover. Joe Gibbs Racing has been great
at Dover and they executed and did exactly what I thought they would do. And that was win the race.
But when you go back to a guy like Connor Zillich, you know, he had a miserable Friday
and had a lot of mistakes on Friday. It's a great opportunity for him to make mistakes and go out on
the racetrack. And, you know, he ran even without everybody wrecked. He was going to run towards
the front of that pack. That 88 car was good. They had a pit road penalty that ultimately put
him to the back of the pack and he had to drive himself back up to the front. And, you know,
he had Ty Dillon and Austin Dillon up towards the front of the pack. But even on Friday and
qualifying, Ty Dillon actually had good speed in his, or on Saturday in qualifying, actually had
good speed in his car to be able to, you know, to be competitive. Eric Jones was a great surprise
to be able to run like he did all day, qualified well, ran up front and did all the things that
he was supposed to do. So to me, that was the biggest surprise of the weekend was the 43. I
don't know what you guys thought. I would agree with that. Just kind of quietly made things happen.
Got his first top five of the year. We always say momentum is everything. And I know it's not
perfect points, but it can give them a boost to confidence moving to Charlotte. For sure. I mean,
I think last year Corey stepped into that car for Eric because Eric was, Eric was hurt and Corey
Heim did a really good job in that car as well last year at Dover. I mean, he ran at the top 20.
So that was like a completely random one off with a random team. So I love to see legacy
having some speed and showing some grit up front. Like you said, Connor, I mean, he needs that shot
in the arm. I think him when he goes down and runs the O'Reilly series and he remembers that he is
in the Cup series for a reason that helps. And now it's starting to kind of trickle over a little
bit. I think they got a good crew and they've been struggling all year. We've talked about it a
bunch. They've been struggling all year. So for them to find some speed and find some things that
they can point to me, like, Nope, we do know what we're doing. We remember what we're doing here.
So I think that was good for him. And it's great for that. Connor is not going to escape the fact
that it's going to take a couple years to get all this figured out. Yeah, it's it's cup racing.
And I hate to break it to you. O'Reilly racing is great, but it's not cup racing. If you took
all those cup teams and put them in the O'Reilly cars, it looked very similar to what Sunday did,
because the difference in the cars would be much less. And that's not a knock on any of the teams
that are that are racing in O'Reilly. But when you put that top caliber of crew chief, driver,
engineer, team owners, shop guys, that whole the dynamic of that that race changes tremendously,
because you don't have the variance in speed that you see in the O'Reilly series and the
truck series, which is what makes racing interesting and gets all those those passes and
guys going from the back to the front and doing all the things that they do. That's just not what
cup racing is. It's a lot harder as you've seen from guys like Conor Zillich who go and dominate
in the O'Reilly series and then go cup racing. I think that's a big conversation week in and week
out on socials. Everyone's like, man, the racing on Saturday is so much better. And it's like,
yeah, but do we know why? And I don't think a lot of people understand why. I think Kevin,
you just explained it perfectly. One, the talent behind the wheel is different. Two, the talent
on working on the race cars is different. And three, the organizations that are putting it all
together are also different. So all that stuff matters. Big difference, obviously between Cup
and O'Reilly. It's good for Conor Zillich though, not letting what happened in qualifying derail
his whole weekend and just kind of still fighting through that. So 23 of the 36 drivers entered,
we're involved in accidents. You referenced this. I want to go back to that very initial one on lap
two where Kyle Larson, Todd Gill and Ryan Priest make contact on the front stretch,
entering turn one and trigger this big multi car accident right out of the gate.
What a very vicious hard hit for Ryan Priest. Very glad he is okay.
Yes, that was a massive hit by Ryan Priest. And that wreck started, see the car catch on fire
as the cars are still full of fuel. And the way that it hit it, knocked that fuel neck off. And
I'm sure that the fuel that was still up in that fuel neck is, is what started that fire. And then
it gets onto all those composite parts and pieces. And, you know, they're obviously going to sit
there and burn, but just glad that Ryan got out of the car. But you see him side by side,
three wide right here and you see the 60 fade down, not clear, drives over the right front
corner of the 34 car of Todd Gill and, you know, that's what, that's what triggered that wreck.
So I think that was just a mistake and kind of a misjudgment on the, on the 60 car of Ryan Priest's
part. Yeah. He's had some big hits. He's had to endure this year. He's found some big hits in
his cup career. That means like that, that one is probably the hardest impact from going backwards
I've seen in an, this generation car, like that he was smoking down in there. And when
it turned around, it looked like it picked up speed going up the hill. So really, really glad
that he's okay. You know, it happened three quarters of the way down the straightaway. So
there's really full throttle. So you're almost at max speed right there, you know, for, for that
racetrack, a hundred and whatever miles an hour, and it didn't slow down at all. It hit hard. And,
and that's, you know, as much as we talk about this car, the strong point of this car is safety,
you know, and that's, that's really what NASCAR set out to do was make sure the drivers were
as safe as possible with this car. And that's, that's where you see this car shine. Very good to
see Brian Priest walk away from that. One of the drivers who was involved in that incident was Kyle
Larson. I love what he said about his team, because they went to work doing their due diligence
in the garage area to get the five fixed up. He said, it's the five team arts and crafts,
which we saw this even last year. This team had no quit when it came to repairing and trying to
get him back out there, which they did eventually rejoin the race power steering issue relegated.
Yeah. And kudos to all these teams, the five, the 12 and the other cars that, that fixed their
vehicles in the garage to get them back out, knowing the importance for those fans to, to see
their cars back on the racetrack. NASCAR didn't let a couple of them come back out on a racetrack
because of damage to the frame. So they, they weren't allowed to go back on the racetrack,
but let's also not lose sight why these guys crashed. The five and the 12 were in the back.
The nine was in the back because of things that, that happened in qualifying that put
themselves in a position to be in the middle of the storm. And you know, those are the types
of mistakes that, that you see week in and week out from a lot of these guys that are just getting
them in trouble. And when you start in the back, you take a chance of getting in those, those early
crashes and that's exactly what happened right here. I feel like at Dover, that tends to happen.
There's always a larger crash at Dover. Oh yeah. Like always because it's self cleaning and there's
nowhere to hide. And you bounce off one end, the lower part of the wall, and then you go back
across the racetrack and you're just up and down. And so that, that tends to happen. But those guys,
I think there's a sense of pride too for the, for the guys like want to fix their car and get it back
out there. Like there's a lot of pride in that craft. The five is the one that's leaned into it.
And I love the fact that they, they just don't, they aren't going to quit. They're going to get
that car back on the racetrack. And sometimes we see them come back out on a racetrack and run the
fastest lap of the race. We've seen that a couple times. So, you know, you just never know you
think you, you can eyeball it and get it all prepared. And, and this time around, those guys,
you know, they didn't get them prepared well enough to be able to contend again. But they,
like Blaney was going back up through the field and making some progress and passing some cars.
And even though they may have wrecked too, but that, that car sat in the garage until the final
segment, just like the five. It was funny just watching all those drivers just waiting around,
you know, waiting for the repairs to take place, to get ready for that final segment.
Hanging out on the photo decks with the photographer.
I'm going to wait over here until we get it fixed. We'll be back at the end.
I'll be back at the end. I'll never forget those. When me and Ryan were, were roommates,
he ran the 500 and then he wrecked out, but there was like a big delay. I think there was
like a big rain delay. He made it back home. Me and him sat there on the couch, watched the rest
of the 500. This is the weirdest thing ever. Me watching this 500 live with you.
I have 100% gone to Daytona or Talladega, wrecked early and made it home to watch the
end of the race. That's impressive. Yeah. Coming all the way from Daytona. There you go.
So segment one was pretty chaotic. Segment two, Shane Van Gisburgen, who was the winner a week
ago, but resulted in a 19th place finish, goes for a little spin around with 60 to go. And
segment two, just what did you see here? Well, you know, segment two, we inverted the cars that
were at the back of, of that 26 and, and Almond Dinger and SVG were, were some of those cars that,
that had started towards the front of segment two. And, and really this is where Redick almost
wadded his car up, just doing exactly what Denny Hamlin talking about, just not, you heard Chris
Gale say it, don't tear the car up, getting back through the field. We know we have a car that
could win this race. We got to make it through segment two without, without damage and, you know,
Shane and, and AJ were just racing as hard as they could. And I think AJ was getting tired of,
of having to deal with Shane on the inside, squeezed him down really low. And there wasn't
any room to chase that car up the racetrack when it got loose, but both of them just had
a deficit there with their cars not, not handling good. And, you know, just going for it at the
all star race and Shane ultimately spun out. Yeah. I think my big brother, AJ, because they had
been duking it out for, I think it was like four laps at that point. And when you're, because
obviously AJ probably was a little bit better because Shane was just able to hang on. It just
felt like he was able to hang on. And eventually AJ is like, I am sick of you hanging on my
quarterback and put on his, like, see you later. So, but it's hard racing. And that, but that's
what we also want to see. We want to see that. I want to see guys going for it. So.
Yeah. And really right there, I mean, SVG just wound up with some flat tires. He didn't have any
damage and, and was able to, you know, to, to keep things headed in the right direction.
Speaking of tire issues, a not typical day for young Ty Gibbs with the right front tires that
we saw multiple times kind of plaguing that team. What do you make of that situation?
Yeah. I mean, it looked to me like they just missed a setup and didn't, didn't put it all
together from, from Friday to, um, to Sunday and, and ultimately see him spin out right here
all by himself. And, you know, then drove the car all the way around the racetrack. And once
you get the underbody damage, it looked like it must have been really tight because we saw
two or three right front tire issues on, on the 54. But, you know, you see the, the 11 up front
and everything that, that they were doing and, uh, 19 up there and, and you expect the same thing
out of the, out of the 54 and the 20 and so do they. But it looks like they just missed it right
there. And then, um, went through a whole bunch of tires with the right front, uh, kept wearing
out. You see that one, uh, that they took off right there, just hair hanging out of it everywhere.
It looks like Mamba on a day when he hadn't got his haircut after a couple months.
You'll have that. Yeah, you'll have that. Um, we gotta find an old picture of Mamba with his old,
the high top haircut. That thing was, that thing was quick. Added quite a few inches.
Why'd you cut it off? Can you go back? No, uh, there's no sex appeal. How long did it take you
to grow that? Oh, I think, I think I start Coley summers who used to be at SHR in the paint, in
the paint room. Um, he's like, man, let, let's do flat tops. I'm like, okay. I didn't really think
about what mine would look like versus his. And, uh, so I think I started in 2013 and I kept it
until like 16 or 17. That's a long time. Yeah. Three years. Yeah. Did you hear he said no sex appeal?
No sex appeal. Yeah. Girls did not, they thought it was cool, but they didn't like what did they,
what did they think they, who did you think you looked like? I don't think I looked like
I can't remember the show that I'm thinking of. I can't remember the show that I'm thinking of
where they had all those high top. Are you talking about the house party movies? I'm not sure. Will
Smith, Fresh Prince of us? I mean, his was a little lower. Mine was, bro, mine was like six inches
tall. I think it was up there. It was. Yeah. Um, I don't even, I don't know where I was. It's a fashion icon.
I'm glad you finally come around to understanding that. Yeah. I'm not sure about the purple in
the camo, but it looks good. Speaking of fashion icons, Kyle Busch won over the weekend. Yeah.
Oh, by the way, I just want to hit the other series really quick before we move on from Dober.
Win 69 for Kyle. Win 69. Yeah. He was pretty proud of it. He said his wife wasn't there. Yeah.
Brexton was out West racing at Madera. Mom was out there too, but Kyle won the 69th race of his
career. Yeah. Good job, Kyle. He pretty much smoked them. Yeah, he did. Yeah. Let's be honest.
I mean, he's been running better. Look, that car has been better. So it's the three and the eight
have both been way more competitive. And when Kyle Busch is winning those, that other things
start to look better too. And that obviously the change at crew chief or the change organization
is working. There's more connection. And I look, I would love, I want to see Kyle Busch
win so bad. I can't pick him yet. I'm not, we're not there yet, but when he wins on Saturday and
everyone's like, Oh, he's washed and then he dominates like he did on Saturday. I'm like,
yeah, he's super washed. It's great to see that. I like seeing that. 69 wins. Congrats. Cory Day is
a ways behind Kyle. He's at win number two in the O'Reilly series, but an impressive showing
out of that young racer. I just think this whole scenario is super intriguing. The silly season
piece of the puzzle with Cory Day, because I think back to Kyle Larson and just, you know,
he showed up in the truck series and then all of a sudden it was like, Oh, he was super competitive
in the truck series and then showed up in the O'Reilly series and it's like, Oh wow, that kid's
pretty good. Well, let's just, Gnasi puts him in the cup car, let's him get it out of the way.
And I just, you know, I think that Cory Day probably needs another year in the O'Reilly series,
but I was not a believer in this whole situation last year and to start this year.
But the amount of progress that Cory has made over the last few months and really all that kind
of came to a head at Kota when he had that, that issue there with whoever it was. I think it was
Zillich in the one car. And ever since that weekend, he has made strides that have been
way bigger than the strides that he's made. And I just think it's going to put a lot of pressure
on a lot of people, you know, at Hendrick Motorsports to say, okay, if he's progressing this fast,
what can this kid be? Because it's so weird because he's got the same kind of mannerisms.
Bizarre. I told him that. I said, you are copy-paste of Kyle Larson. I said,
I feel like I'm talking to Larson. The car on track when he was stalking the seven.
For some reason, it just looked like a Kyle Larson. Well, he's up there.
It just looked like Larson. In No Man's Land, found a new groove that nobody else found. And that's,
that's so Larson, right? Yeah. It's all of a sudden you've got a Kyle Larson and Tyler Reddick,
and they're just in a lane that nobody even thought about going to or brave enough to go do it.
All of a sudden he finds a lane and he's driving to the front and wins the race. And
I don't know. I mean, it's just a, it's a super intriguing situation to me because of how fast
all of a sudden he's making strides to get that car to victory lane. It's not Talladega.
No. Dover is not Talladega. Like you just, you, you grid up and figure it out at Dover. You're
going to be okay at most places as you go forward. Certain tracks that if you win at,
it definitely means, it means something different as far as who you are as a driver. And Dover is
definitely one of them. It is interesting. I haven't talked to Larson yet, but like,
he seems to have an eye for certain guys coming up. Like, well, like Larson, Larson has put his
name on. He helped Rico. And Rico is great. Rico only had one year in trucks, but he was very
competitive when he was. He put his stamp next to a C bell, Christopher Bell, and now Corey Day.
And like, he remembered racing Tyler Reddick back in the day. Like he's, there's guys that he's
like, no, they're really good. And then they end up being pretty, pretty good.
Just find it funny. They're driving styles. They're similar. They're mannerisms,
their voices, the way they answer questions. It's very interesting. So good for Corey Day,
getting that second win. That was everything that happened at the monster mile. Shout out also to
Denny Hamlin saying he's going to give that million dollars to his mom, who of course,
the family had the fire and he wants to help get her some more furniture for a new house.
I like that. That's a good use of the million there, Denny Hamlin. Time now to move on to
Charlotte Motor Speedway, which is coming up next, a home race for all of us, probably the most
patriotic and ceremonial race that we have. It's also known as the 600 miles of remembrance,
which of course is a tribute and reflection to our military alongside the competition side.
It's just a really special weekend, Kevin. It is. And if you're ever going to go to the race early
and watch the pre-race, this is the one to do it because it's, there's just, it's just a,
the whole sequence of events and the plane of taps and the national anthem and, you know,
all the military and there's not a sport that does it better when you talk about supporting our
military. NASCAR does it better. And this is the weekend that it's on full display at the
Coke Cola 600. So always, always a pre-race that I would go out and there might be landing
helicopters. They might be shooting cannons. They, I mean, you never know what is going to be
a part of the Coke 600 pre-race. And they do a really good job, but I love the fact of,
of how they support our military and the things that we do year after year. And it doesn't just
happen at the Coke 600. It happens throughout the year. Our sport does it the best. They do. It is
a very beautiful display to honor our country. And it just reminds the fans and the, and the viewers
that this is more than just a race. It's about more than just a race. For sure. And shout out to the,
you know, the whole SMI group for really, like really taking that on. Cause I mean, a lot of
what we do with the military, I feel like they kind of head up and it's start, it doesn't start
here, but this is the nucleus of a lot of that stuff. And it's always so great. I love the
driver intros because the servicemen and women, they do it. They come out and they
announced the drivers and they do it in a, in a voice and a sequence that only they could do,
you know, and I think that's really cool. It's always really fun out there. The show,
whoever the headliner is, is always a high, high name. And so the fans always rocking out there.
It's great. It's a special weekend for sure. They honor the military. As I mentioned,
putting the names on the cars. Is there a story you remember from your career of one of the military
individuals that you guys honored that stayed with you? Yeah. One year they brought, they brought
the flag that they flew on the plane and just pictures of the fallen soldier that was represented
on the car for that particular year. But it's always a very moving conversation. When you have
the parents, brothers, sisters, whoever is, is a part of the group that comes to the racetrack
with that soldier and having that meet and greet kind of puts things into reality really quick
when you get to, you know, have that conversation. So it's a special weekend and having all those
fallen soldiers and the interaction with their families is something that's pretty special to
try to just give them a little bit of joy and respect, you know, for their family member that
was unfortunately taken in the line of duty. So it's a, it's a pretty incredible weekend.
It really is. And it's a home race. As I mentioned, what kind of advantage is that for the team just
getting to race in your backyard and not having to rush out haulers leaving earlier in Charlotte?
Well, as you know, going back and forth to all these races, the first several weeks, I mean,
being able to drive home makes a big difference. Getting home late at night, getting up early,
coming to do this show and all the things that we do on a weekly basis, it drags on you after
a while. And those guys are doing it 38 weeks a year and straight. It's great. Everybody flies
private and, but in the end, when you get home from California and it's three o'clock in the
morning, two o'clock, four o'clock in the morning, whatever it is, Texas, Vegas, it, it, you have to
get up and do the same meeting that you would do on a Monday that you would if you drove home from
Charlotte. So when you can drive and sleep in your own bed and spend time with your family and
you know, that's the great side of it. The bad side of it is everybody wants to go. So
you wind up with more people, all the guys from the shop, all their families, and you wind up with
a ton of people in the garage. So it's a, it's kind of a balance as to, you know, how, how you
work things, but I always enjoyed it. the fact that everybody, especially
from the guys from the shop that work all the hours on the cars are able, especially when you
win to be able to celebrate in victory lane with guys that aren't there on a week to week basis.
You look at those victory lane photos and there's just three times the amount of people,
because they don't, you know, they don't get to take that picture very often in, in victory
lane and, you know, all of them. So everything takes longer. No matter what you do, whether it's
a meet and greets, you know, you get more passes than, than you typically would. You, a lot of
times have more sponsors, just with, with all the things that are happening around that particular
weekend. So it's a, it's a great weekend to, to celebrate a lot of things and, and get to,
get to do those things close to home. Did you win, did you win the year that, that Dale Jr.
ran out of gas? I did. You did. So, were you worried about getting out of the building that,
that night? Because, so I remember specifically the national guard car almost won the Indy 500,
came out of turn four, slammed the wall and lost it by like a few hundred yards or whatever. And
then Dale was about to win in the national guard car. And then Kevin stole it from him at the
last minute. He ran out of gas. Denny Hamlin ran out of gas first and Dale ran out of gas. And then
we made it to, made it to the start finish line, but no, none of that stuff ever bothered me. I
didn't care. I had Dale Jr. with fans waiting at my house after Martinsville one year after we won,
but I had no problem. problem ripping it out from underneath your driver and feeling good
about it. I didn't feel sorry for any of them. Not apologetic, doesn't need to be. It feels like
with this race though, for 600 miles from pit road to the engine, to the driver doing his job,
everything needs to go right to win this race. It's a, it's a brutally long race. I remember
several years, you know, because as you get to start finish line, you can glance over and look
at scoreboard and you can see the lap count. I still don't really understand how they count it
down now with the way that they do it. I don't know why it just doesn't say like 200 laps to go.
So I got a little confused for a couple of years when they started doing the countdown a little
different, but either way, you can look at the scoreboard and they're like, all right, halfway.
And you're like, what 200 laps more to go. And that, but that your mental clock is like,
okay, I can run four or 500 miles. No problem. I'm in the game. That last extra 100 miles and
Charlotte's rough and it's a, it's a fast race track. It's a rough race track, takes a toll on
your body. It's not going to be as hot as it has been some years this weekend. It's going to be hot
all week up until race weekend where it's, you know, looking a little rainy and the temperatures
are coming down with that. So, you know, it's either way, whether it's hot or cold, it's a,
it's a race that takes a, takes a lot to get through. And that last 100 miles is tough,
but you wind up with a lot more pit stops. You wind up longer in the seat. You wind up
going from day to night. So there's a lot of things that are super challenging for this race.
I was going to ask you guys about that, the day to night transition and what that's like
trying to keep up with the track changes and what you're going to need. I had one goal.
What's that? Coke 600. Just make sure you're on the lead lap when it gets dark.
Okay. Because it's a, it's a race where you're going to see a lot of things happen. You're
going to practice. You're going to get to the start of the race. The cars are going to handle like
crap because you, you know, you, well, you set up for the night. You're set up for the night,
right? So you just got to try to keep yourself in contention. And there's always stuff that's
happening at the 600. There's always these crazy instances. We saw the cable fall out of the sky
one year and wreck a bunch of cars. We've seen cars blow up. We've seen massive accidents. We've
seen so many random things, but you're going to see mistakes on pit road. You're going to see
just everything will happen at the Coke 600. And if you can keep yourself in it until it gets dark
and wind up on the lead lap somewhere around the top 10, you're going to have a shot because you
just, there's just, there's a whole race left. And if your car is just survived, if you can just
survive the daylight and do that, you can keep yourself in contention because it's just a,
there's a lot of wear and tear on, on everybody and a lot of opportunities to make mistakes.
It's hard to come back. Who you eyeballing for this one? Who am I eyeballing? I, I've been,
I've been thinking about that. I've been thinking about Chase Briscoe. Let's start with this
before you start eyeballing things. Before you start eyeballing things, what do you see every year
when we go to the 600? What happens? I mean, a lot happens, but somebody, somebody that would
not use the mix that you were expecting. And why is that everybody wants to run good in front
of the hometown crowd and all those updates to the engines, all your freshest cars, all that stuff,
all you've got. And whose shop is closest to the speedway? So go ahead. Whose shop is closest to
the speedway? Hendrick. Who, who hasn't been running as well? Mine's a little closer. Well,
yours is a little, yeah. I mean, barely. No, we're not much. We're not much. So, I mean, I would think
that the Hendrick cars are going to really show up because this means a lot to them. Yeah. Just like
Indy means a lot to Team Penske. I think it's on that type of level. The car that I'm looking at,
though, isn't one of them. It's the 19. Chase Briscoe runs very well at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
And I think, you know, they have a little bit of momentum, momentum matters, and them running so
well. Yeah. This past weekend at Dover, I think it matters. Yeah. And it's a, are we picking? No,
not picking. No, we just, well, I think it's the first time in two years that we haven't seen
Kyle Larson just focused on NASCAR, right? He's been doing the double. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So,
you know, I think it's, it's, it's, it's been a little bit since Kyle Larson has been 100% focused on
winning the Coast 600. I agree with you. I think that there's a lot of pressure on those guys,
as there always is, to, to go over to Charlotte and perform, right in your backyard. And I know
we're talking about everybody, but it always seems like Hendrick Motorsports shows up. I don't
know that, I don't know that I've seen, I haven't seen consistently the, the speed out of, out of
that group. They've been varying consistent. William Byron ran a lot better at Dover this weekend.
And they've been probably the most inconsistent. I know the 48 has had a lot of issues with Bowman
and his health and drivers in and drivers out. They've settled in over the last three weeks. He
but they've run well the last few weeks and, and have had some solid finishes to put themselves
back on track with the confidence train to, to be able to do the things that we all know Alex
and the 48 team are capable of doing. So, but I, I just, man, it's hard to bet against those
Toyotas right now. They seem to have everybody in it. I'm going to ride that Hamlin train until.
Oh, you're going to ride the Hamlin train. The wheels come off. I'm going to ride that Hamlin
train until the wheels come off. He's going to ride the Hamlin train right up until a road course.
He's going to ride the SVG train. That's right. He does tend to do that. Winners pick winners,
right? Winners win. Don't overthink it. If you're going to win, if you know he's going to win,
just pick it. Is that your first win this year? Second. I guess you got SVG. The week I had off,
I had a sure fire pick. You guys didn't let me pick. Otherwise, I'd be so far ahead. Here's the end
of that. All right, Kevin reference. I'm still winning and gave you guys a race. I don't think this
counts. Kevin reference the double. And I do want to just hit the greatest day in motorsport is coming
up on Sunday. Of course you have the Coca-Cola 600 for NASCAR. F1 will be at Canada. The ND 500
at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. All of that coverage will be on Fox. Catherine Legg is attempting
to become only the sixth driver to do both races. Listen, man, that doing both of those things and
running 1100 miles, that is not no joke. I don't care. I don't, in all the moving parts, we've
obviously, we've seen Kyle try to do it. There's just so many moving parts to get done. So anyone
that pulls that off, you got to salute their grit and what they're doing. Going to Mount Kilimanjaro
or something, right? It's just some people's bucket list. And I think that for Catherine,
this is probably just saying that I did it, right? She's not going to win either race. It's just a
matter of putting the effort in to be able to do a pretty incredible feat to accomplish that is
just something that a lot of people don't have the opportunity to do and hard to do. And I think
ability, it's, you know, it'd be quite a feat if she can pull it off. We'll have to see how she
does in both celebrated races. She said it would be an opportunity of a lifetime. All right. So
that's the preview for the weekend up ahead. Time now to turn the microphone over to mama's
the worst part of the show to Dylan. Well, our government name is crazy. Dylan couple.
Looks good though. Yeah, you, yeah, you would. Ladies and gentlemen, Kevin cup. I just have a
Fox Charlotte cup. We got to work on that. Well, yeah, but the stickers are back there.
Anyway, it's about me, not about you. Welcome to your favorite segment of the show,
mom, but social sips. And we're going to start with the last word of the week of the year who
run the tape. Oh, Willie B is doing Willie B. Thanks. Just quietly staying in the hunt. He
was good on the long run. Do not forget about that 24 No. And you know, he's just not
a loquacious type of person to go out there and really exploit everything that he's doing. So
you and your word always sneaks up on you, put away the
the Soros. We're headed for the Echo Park Automotive restart zone.
It's not rare that it's very rare that you hear Mike Joyce stumbling on anything.
Yeah, that made it even funnier. Last one of the year. And it's not you stumbling. It was
were you nervous about that word? Did you think that was hard? No, I mean, I did think it was
a little hard. I was at, I was at the bar and I was like, I need to come up with a new idea at
the bar last night. There's a guy was sitting next to me and we're having some laughs. I'm like,
you see my gay intelligent guy. Give me a good word. And he gave me that one.
This is a stranger that gave you a completely stranger. Yeah, really? Yeah. I thought it was
pretty good. I thought it was going to stumbling a little bit. Yeah. He wasn't referring to you
though, right? No, as being the question. No, no, no, no, no. Not me talking too much. Yeah,
just thought it was a good word. Yeah. Yeah. I got you. Dude, I saw this news come across my
feed and I'm like, wow, this is about to be interesting. We all know Clea's likes to do some
fun stuff. And you know, the Crown Vic race, the big deal, Stafford, love it, New England. What I
didn't think I was going to hear is Richard Childress was going to be racing in it. Check this clip
out. July 17th is our Crown Vic Stafford race, right? Like our favorite spot kind of Richard
Childress is racing in it. Really? Wow. The Richard Childress. That is shocking.
His face when he said it is so excited that Richard is running. Has Richard confirmed this is what I
want to know because I'm a little nervous. I think so. Richard's 80. He's 80. 80, 80. I think Austin's
going to get wants to get in it with him. Oh, really? Like Austin's going to ride? No, no, no, no. Like
a different car? Yeah, race with it. Maybe Richard should ride with Austin.
Like a two-seater. You got no faith in the old boss, man? Well, I just don't want him to get
hurt. Me neither. I love Richard Childress to death. I just don't want him to get hurt. Apparently
y'all didn't talk about this last week. No, we did not talk about this. I don't think it'd come out
yet, but this was the news item. Yeah, that'll be interesting though. R.C. back behind the wheel.
July 17th. I got up there. We did interview with Richard and Dr. Andy last week
at the RCR Museum. It was so fun. I walked in. He's like, welcome home.
It's really cool to go walk through that museum. Anyway, we had a great interview with Richard and
Dr. Andy on our Speed episodes, so if you haven't listened to it, check it out. That's some cool
stuff in that museum. One of the probably the funniest guys in the garage that you wouldn't
really know because he's very dry in his humor and you just you wouldn't expect it coming from
Austin Cendrick. He's been doing this thing every week. We're going to show you right now. We're
on the clip. As I sit here reading this script that I wrote on my phone, it is sinking in now
that I've committed to doing this for the rest of the season. Honestly though, I love it. Let's get
into it. Decider is important to start with the classic, the BIC round stick M. We're writing
with this pen. I feel like I should be filling out some redundant form in a waiting room. Even
the ink is dull. He's breaking down pens because he's a nerd writing pens and giving them a grade
and this is his promotion for every week's race time start. So he writes it out on the sticky note
and then no, that's me. Don't worry about it. He writes it on the sticky note and then puts it
out. But I just say it's just hilarious because he's like monologuing his brain and the way he
does it's pretty smooth. I'm impressed with his monologuing. What's that? I'm a pen nerd too.
Same. There's something to a good pen. I will not. That pen that he has right there is a total
piece of shit. These are legit. No, I don't like these either. I don't remember. Mine is some sort
of BIC, but it's some sort of special ballpoint blah, blah, blah. I am a total pen nerd. That
pen that he has is a total piece of crap. I agree. I have no reason to even have those in it. You
get them on a certain surface and they won't write well and they kind of get splotchy because the
ink won't come out of the pen. Waste of money. It's like when you go to a restaurant and you
got a tab out, you always notice like, I can't sign the paper. The pen means something. You know
when you're on that receipt that they print it, you're supposed to write it on the table. You
can't write it on the table. You're supposed to write it on the little leather thing or the
pen won't write. Oh, there you go. Learn something every day. Honestly, he's more. Not on the leather,
not the padded piece, but like the hard piece of the little book. You got to use that pen on that.
I haven't seen him smile so hard. He's smiling hard about the pen. That's a weird one to admit
because I will absolutely go through a ton of pens. If they quit making my, when they quit
making my style of pen, you're in trouble. I just, I just had to go through this to find a new pen,
and I'll order it on Amazon. I'll have like 10 different types of pens. I'm like, well,
I didn't try this one or one. And when I don't like them, I just throw them in
the garbage. Okay. There you go. See, you hit them. This is a happy sip. Hit them in the fields.
That's it. Yeah. I didn't expect that. Did you? No, I did not. I'm trying to put my,
I'm trying to wrap my mind around that. We need a Kevin monologue on the pen then. Oh,
me, you and Austin should do a collab on a young score. You should do a monologue pen video.
Millbridge is one of the, one of our local tracks here in, in the Charlotte area.
Does a lot for the, like grassroots and the kids and the, well, there's a group called the DNQ
series hardcore hardcore. They're the OGs of the OG mechanics and everybody. They trick up some go
carts. Now these things are fast. They're fast. Whoa. And I think about going to race with them
every year. And then I see something like this at least once a year. And I'm like, I'm thinking I'm
good. I think this is the same group that also has the road course through the, they do. Yeah,
they do the road course at Millbridge, but I've watched a few of these races at Millbridge.
And what you see right here happens more than just right here.
That's wild. Yeah. I, they're getting after it. Yeah. That looks like it hurt. Yeah. We used to have
a, we used to have those carts and I had a go cart track in my backyard. It was a little
eight second. Well, no, it was probably six second oval. Yeah. The quack oval. And we had those types
of carts. We had a few accidents like that. The joy used to have, they had that in the back
of the little joy seating too. Yeah. And there was some big, big ones. Yeah. Some
So hey, that's, that's your favorite episode for this week. You know, mama's social sips.
So we appreciate it. If you want to leave a voicemail 805-317-4175 harvickhappyour4
at gmail.com for the mail bag. Appreciate you. Where are you social sipping for Charlotte?
Listen, NASCAR Sundays, we are back at it. We got 13 straight until the next break. So we're
going to go, we're going to hop and hop in down in South Boulevard. Just want to cook out, which is
perfect. So we're doing a cooking. I don't know. I'm going to be there eating whatever they got.
If you're going to promote your own show, you're going to have to know what the hell's going on.
No, first of all, I don't even know what the, I got surprises. All I'm doing is
bringing the racing aspect. They're bringing the food. Well, you got to know the menu. No.
If you're going to sell it, you're going to have to sell it. Hot dogs and hamburgers, man.
There you go. They better have some damn hot dogs and hamburgers. They better.
If they don't, I'll be disappointed. I'll go find some, but it's going to be fun
down there because, you know, we, it's rare, right? That we get to throw the party and the
race is going on in the same place. But I think a lot of people get excited,
but they might not necessarily make it to the race. So this is going to give people a place to go
and really watch the race. When you go and pick these places, you just kind of go out and ask
them if they want to do it. No, actually they, they've come to us. Okay.
Yeah. So hop in traction. I'm kind of surprised you didn't do it closer to the track.
Well, but then it kind of gets into the tracks. Yeah. But the after party would be great. Well,
that's true. That's true. See, this is what we need. Oh, he's trying to get these kids out in
the NASCAR. So you should have done a watch party and then an after party. Hey, how, how,
what would it take for Kevin Harvick to come to mom's NASCAR Sundays? Probably never happened.
He's lying. He's going to be there. And I'm going to let you guys know when he's coming.
I'm going to get on the couch. Now he's going to show up. I'm going to watch,
I'm going to watch the Indy 500 F1 race weekend and the NASCAR race. No, this in general. Oh,
throughout the year. I don't know. We'll get you to one. Maybe. Yeah. I know what to do.
I know his bosses. We'll see. We're going to be hopping. It's going to be super fun. I'm excited.
There you go. Don't miss out on the NASCAR Sundays. Time now everybody for our last call.
And we're going to grate the burnout. And in order to do so for Denny Hamlin,
we're speeding it up because he took a long time to do this burnout.
But he did a good job. What do you think here? Well, it lasted for about two point
two minutes, 223 minutes, which is an eternity on TV. That's an eternity.
And we had a lot of things happening afterwards. Denny was doing his burnout and then he stopped
because NASCAR didn't have the stage set up. And so Denny's sitting down there. We're like,
well, is it broke? We didn't, nobody was communicating to us. If he had a gas, what is
happening? This is the best part right here. He kind of let off the gas to go around the steps
to not wipe out the steps. And then he drives the thing into victory lane, burns the tires down
till they pop. And then they said, Hey, can you back it up a little bit? Like it took forever.
Because they were trying to set up the stage on pit road. And so eventually I think they just
cut us off the air. So you're giving that like a B? What do we say? It's almost like a NA because
he didn't, it's almost like a non available because he wasn't able to be, you know,
wasn't able to kind of finish the burnout. And it was really broke up. So I'm going to give it a,
I'm going to give it a B plus. It was good burnout. It took a long time for it to all materialize.
If it was all set up and it was all connected and he pulled up. It all felt totally disconnected.
Just because of how broken up it was, that sucked. There you go. He's going to work on it. He
apologized. Oh, he did? Yeah. He said he said he's going to work on it. He said he explained what
happened down in turn one, but he's like, I'm going to work on it because he was waiting on the
stage. He was waiting on stage. Oh, he'll come up with something. Oh yeah. Denny Hamlin 100%
understands the showmanship. Yes, he does. Let's get to that part. Yep. Well, that was definitely
the right call speeding that up to recap it because we would have been here for a while trying
to go solid. Not the best time. Now I'll take a look at the point standings where
Kevin was the only one. I don't know if you should get points for this because it was a non-points
race. You know what I mean? Look, you can, you can take a race away from me. You can take the
all star, you can take the all star race away from me. I'm going to beat you anyway. It doesn't
matter. It's just a matter of win. I've been handed some bad luck lately because I've gotten Belle
the week prior. I'm pretty sure he was wrecked and I picked Blaine. He got wrecked. Your pick was,
I at one point thought Bubba had the best car. I know what happened was down the back stretch
when the sixth bunny center punch him. That was it. Yeah. He had the fastest car at one point.
I was arguing in the booth with Clint about this. He was like, nope, I'm telling you,
Reddick's got the best car. I said, I don't think so. Oh no. To me, that 23 had the fastest car.
Smoked. There was some smoke in that thing. Well, Kevin is currently leading at 51.
I'm at 44 and I'm at 40. All right. Who wants to go first? He has to go first. Remember,
you guys made me go first. I already told you I'm riding a Denny Hamlin train. He's going to win
again. So what's funny is I'm picking Ryan Blaney again, even though I picked him last week,
but I feel like he's gotten his bad luck out of the way. He won this race in 2023. A lot of pit
stops. Yeah. Well, true, but they've been a little better. Will fell off this week. Pit stop
competition. Yeah. I mean, true. They usually look the 12 and team pants go red. This is usually
when they start. This could be where he starts, but I'm, he started early this year. This year,
they were good at the beginning. So they've had the speed. I, I really want to go team Hendrick.
I really do do it, but I think I gotta go chase Bisco. Okay. Yeah. And he's another guy that
from the All-Star race, right? Yeah. They finally put a whole day together. And this is a great
weekend to make up points with the four stages and everything that, that goes with the 600. Yeah.
It's a great weekend to get some extra points. And if you can win the race, get some extra
stage points and all the things that, that you can capitalize on, they better start doing it
pretty quick because they're championship's hopes every week that goes by goes down, down, down,
down. This race with the extra stage can really help, help your stuff. I also think for my
pick, like this is a big weekend for Penske in general, you know, they always put a big
premium on this between the 8,500 and this race. I'm sticking with this. I mean, he's the only
Penske car that it's going to be. If you're going to pick a Penske car right now, that's the only
one you can count on. I mean, I think the RFK cars have been a little bit better than the rest of
the Penske cars. The, and the last three weeks, Blaney's been all over the board performance-wise,
but I mean, he, they, they have the speed to be able to do it. As an organization for Ford,
it's been RFK. They've definitely been leading it. You might get lucky.
That's what he says. You said all over the board, which brings me to Clint Boyer and
Mike Joy are your interview for Thursday. Oh yeah. We had a great conversations about,
very open conversation about all things NASCAR teams, drivers, sanctioning body,
you name it. We talked about it. Did you film it in the booth? Where'd you do this?
We filmed it in a suite next to the booth. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So we had a nice little round table
conversation to summarize what all of our opinions were in the Fox portion of the year.
How many Bush lattes were I had during that? No, we worked. Okay. We went straight from the
booth straight there. Okay. Still on our booth attire for practice. Okay. They'll be in the fancy
suits. That wouldn't quite that. It wasn't Sunday dress. Okay. We wore t-shirts in the booth.
For practice. How'd you feel about that? I felt great about it. We had Clint Boyer t-shirts.
Are we wearing those? Everybody had that. And Clint showed up in his driver's seat.
That's cute. Okay. Well, we look forward to that. You can catch that on Thursday. Make sure you
subscribe to our YouTube channel, follow at HarvickHappyPod for Kevin Mamba myself. We'll
see you after the 600.
About this episode
Denny Hamlin’s All-Star win at Dover is the centerpiece, with the hosts breaking down how early wrecks thinned the field and how Dover’s resin treatment and pit-road difficulty shaped qualifying and strategy. They debate whether the event still feels like an “all-star” exhibition after crashes, then connect Dover momentum to the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte. Along the way, they discuss tire/setup issues, pit-road rules, and what to watch during the day-to-night transition.
Denny Hamlin’s $1 million NASCAR All-Star Race victory at Dover Motor Speedway, massive crashes involving top Cup Series drivers, Erik Jones and Connor Zilisch shocking the field with top-5 finishes, Kyle Busch’s Truck Series win, Charlotte Motor Speedway predictions, and the ongoing debate over the NASCAR All-Star Race format headline this action-packed episode loaded with NASCAR news, analysis, race reactions, and insider discussion. On this episode of Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour, hosts Kevin Harvick, Kaitlyn Vincie, and Mamba Smith break down Denny Hamlin’s All-Star Race win, debate whether Dover Motor Speedway should continue hosting the NASCAR All-Star Race, discuss the biggest wrecks and surprise performances from the weekend, react to Kyle Busch’s Truck Series performance, preview the upcoming NASCAR Cup Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and dive into the latest edition of Mamba’s Social Sips.
0:00 - Intro
2:59 - All-Star Weekend Recap
30:00 - Charlotte Preview
42:56 - Mamba’s Social Sips
52:27 - Last Call
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