Did ChatGPT Name the Baby? Why Denny Wins.
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Xfinity
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Car
Ssangyong Kyron
The Ssangyong Kyron is a type of sport utility vehicle made by a South Korean company. It is designed to carry people and cargo comfortably and can handle rough roads. It also has features like seats that can keep you warm.
Term
Sprint cars
Sprint cars are special racing cars that race on small dirt or paved tracks. They have big wings on top to help them stick to the track when they go fast.
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sprint car racing
Sprint car racing is a type of car racing where small, very fast cars race on short tracks. The races are quick and exciting, and drivers have to be very focused because the cars are hard to control.
Car
NASCAR Cup car
A NASCAR Cup car is a special race car used in the biggest NASCAR races. It is built to go very fast and handle well on race tracks.
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pit stop
A pit stop is when a race car stops briefly during a race to get new tires, fuel, or fixes so it can keep racing fast.
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restart
A restart is when the race starts again after a pause, and all the cars speed up together to race.
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crew chief
A crew chief is the boss of the race team who makes important decisions about the car and race strategy.
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damage
Damage means the car got hit or hurt during the race, which can make it slower or harder to drive.
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cup race
A cup race is a big car race in NASCAR, where the best drivers race against each other to win the championship.
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rookie year
A rookie year is the first year a driver races full-time in a new series. It's when they learn how to compete with the best.
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rookie leeway
Rookie leeway means giving new drivers some extra patience because they're still learning how to race well.
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race car
A race car is a car made or changed to go really fast and compete in racing competitions.
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in-car camera
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speed penalty
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motors
Motors are the engines that make the race cars go fast, and in NASCAR they have to be very similar so the race is fair.
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street course
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F1
F1 is the top level of car racing in the world, with very fast cars and the best drivers competing globally.
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McLaren
McLaren makes very fast and fancy race cars and sports cars. They are famous for racing in Formula 1 and building cool cars you can drive on the street.
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PR girl
A PR girl is someone who talks to the media and helps keep the race team looking good. They help solve problems and make sure everyone stays friendly.
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car chief
A car chief is the person who looks after the race car and makes sure it is ready and working well for the race. They lead the team that fixes and adjusts the car.
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dash
The dash is the screen or panel in front of the driver that shows important info about the car, like how fast the engine is spinning. Some race cars have digital screens, others have simple gauges.
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tachometer
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pit road speed lights
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speedometer
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RPM
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Travis Pastrana
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World Rally Championship (WRC)
The WRC is a big racing series where drivers race fast on different types of roads like dirt and mud all over the world.
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radiator
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World of Outlaws
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b-main
A b-main is a race before the big final race where drivers try to earn a spot in the main race. If you don't qualify first, you can still make it through the b-main.
Part
lug nuts
Lug nuts are the bolts that hold your car's wheels on. They keep the wheels from falling off when you drive.
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carbon fiber
Carbon fiber is a special material that's very light and strong. Car makers use it to make parts that help the car go faster and use less fuel.
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powder coat
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Darlington Raceway
Darlington Raceway is a famous race track where NASCAR cars race. It's special because of its shape and how hard it is to drive there.
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All right friends, I am back this week
Four kids at the house. We've been juggling that having an awesome time not sleeping doing all the things, but
Shout out for Kyron for holding the seat now keeping a warm back in my seat next to this Orion Flores Xfinity
Race winner for Kyle Larson this weekend. Oh, I least oh, oh, yeah. Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah, that's right
I forgot about that. We're gonna stack some pennies buckle up guys can be a wild show
I
Taste like gasoline rubber and victory. Where's that here stag?
It's good to be back little recharge the batteries batteries are drained right now
Four kids at the house dude. That'll do it
Picking a boy named now you got three of them. It's kind of hard
You'll want to match put in a chat GPT see what it you know spits out for me now
Wait, you picked your kids name on chat GPT one of the I don't know ten of them that spit out
I'm like I kind of like Emmett. So then you start. Hey, here's our other three names and you say hey compare
Hey chat compare
Theo LaJoy to Emmett LaJoy, and it'll give you the whole rundown
Okay
Okay
Wow that a chat GPT is taking over the world
Theo all I can think of is Theo Vaughn and I love the oval for the longest time with the obon would come to the racetrack and like
Put up Instagram posts. I thought his name because I didn't know him at first
I just knew him from Instagram. I thought his name was the oven on
the
It's all one word. He's like the oven. That's a weird. Hey, the oven's here. This guy's cooking. Yeah, I thought that that was that forever
Oh, man, it was big week for the LaJoy house was also a big week in motorsports at out in Vegas
They had sprint cars. Yeah, O'Reilly's cars. I give a tumble tie Gibbs
I give him credit for and we talked I went on a monologue on tie Gibbs last week
But I give him credit for getting a sprint car, but a shrink car is not something you dabbling or learning
It's just like you end up in a bad in bad way quick and then things he got lucky the way he hit the fence
Yeah, because if you would have came down with the seat on top of the fence like that's a that's a
Broken back and like the stats keep up catch up with well in cup racing like if you get hurt man
You're you're out for a little bit. We saw happen at bowman. All right
We've seen what the way the points are now you can't afford to miss a race
You cannot afford to miss a race anymore. It's not like it was no with the playoffs. You have to protect yourself and
Like but on the flip side of that
You're watching Kyle arson and chris bell and these guys different deal. They do it. Yeah, you know, it's like when you
When you you have to be both feet jumped in to the deep end of sprint car racing
You can't be just tread and water like i'm gonna go try to jump in because then you just drowned
And larson won the first night he four day won the second night, maybe and now core day was fast
he won won anyone um
Kyle spun out on the reef he was mad at himself because he spun out on the initial start
he's like i stepped on it and
They went we so oh rally's race start the race
Starting second with larson. You're like, okay, we're just gonna keep him in the race all day
He's gonna we're just gonna kick their ass all day long
Drop back to like 10th
and he's like dude, i'm just too tight front tires don't work and
Marty we threw the kitchen sink at it and marty linley who's great. They won like 10 race last year
He's like scratching his head. You could he was wearing it during the race
He rolls the left front tire in and stands next to me and he was just like, I don't know what the hell's going on
well you
As a crew chief don't get Kyle like if you look if you don't win with Kyle arson
It's not your it's not his fault. Yeah. Oh you you just know like when you go
You have to we go a rally's race with a cup racer with a cup driver
You just you gotta assume you're gonna lap the field right or dominate the race
And we just couldn't couldn't make anything happen
And uh, I said to kyle who kyle
Bevis who is um our front of mechanic. I was like
Man with him being this tight if we can just get some clean air
We might be all right because clean air will make we'll free that thing right up
Get some air on the nose
Some air on the nose makes it turn like we can just get if he can find a way to get clean air
So he gained one of the last pit stop kind of got jumbled up on the chews of some guys that stayed out
And he was able to boop boop boop boop get to the lead
He had a couple rough restarts
So I think set him up to have a really good one at the end like figure it out
And uh once he got the lead i'm like, oh, yeah, we're going to victory lane boys
You watched it between chase briscoe and kyle both running the ex sooner races week or the oh rally's races weekend
It takes
Half a race to get used to how i mean chain talked about it van gisburg and talked about how those things drive it to forklift with the
Tales hanging out bigger sidewall the tire those guys are acclimated and their senses are
like tuned in and dialed into the cup cars
Connor zillich looked like
Superman last year couldn't lose. Yeah, doesn't matter where he went
and
How important
confidence and people and continuity is
To success because he jumps in right you would expect same car same team that he's running with
Think rotting children is on that the one car
Championship winning cup crew chief, right? He's got all the tools know what's to do what knows what to do and connor looked
Granted he had a little right front damage early in the race
But like look pretty human and then turns around. Yeah, and then look pretty human in the cup race
he ran right with us all day which
Look kyle arson looked human too, but your car is not very good
You can't do much with it, but you're not gonna look like he's been hanging out
He comes because he drove the 88 last year
He's been hanging out in he hangs out in the 88 truck sometimes I go
It's like a big like I see you just come here hide from the the realities of cup racing because even the cup race
He had damage and didn't have a great day and hasn't had a great start to the year
Talked about this with let's heart last week went on let's heart show and he's like I get I give him
This is a rookie year like let's
Give him some leeway and I'm like, ah, yeah, I know but six so much success like zillich has had
early in a career
is sometimes
detrimental
Not and look because you really because well and it's just easy to be successful
They you get in the cup series and go, oh
Shit, this is a way bigger jump than I thought it was gonna be you mean ricky stenhouse is driving around me
What are you talking this guy's supposed to stink remember when joey
Logano first got in the cup series and he was like
How like all these guys are freaking good like michael waltzrup just blew right behind me
He's like
Freakin even michael waltzrup's driving the crap out of that thing. Yeah, dude running 30th. Yeah driving away from me
I don't know what i'm doing. It's a different game up there. That's when I learned like oh boy
It is it's a it's a big difference and dude
It's crazy to think you got to give denny hamlin so much credit 20 years with a win
consecutive all the different cars. He's one. He's won a race for yeah in a 21 61
Race is won dude. That's so hard to do
People pile it on denny. We've piled it on denny before but
He
Is so good behind the wheel such a good leader for the team and he's won in every different race car
They've given him I watched I rode along with him, right? I'm not hbo max
And somebody gets speed penalty. I'll swap over to their in-car or watch them carve up and see how far how far they can go
You know, I'd watch chase aliad. I would just pan through some different guys
So when when he sped denny sped I went to his in-car camera. It's like all right. Let's let's see the master at work here
You know that guy magnus
Magnus carlson. No the world champion chess guy. Okay, like the best ever in chess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
That's what I felt like riding along with with denny
Like didn't put himself in bad
He's three corners ahead of everybody else
Because so much of it when you're following somebody is reacting
Okay, this guy gonna go middle is he can go top he's gonna go bottom and then you just go opposite
like he
Generates the run three corners before
and makes people
Choose because they're in the mirror and trying to cover the run and he just does the opposite
But it's not like reactionary. He is forcing somebody in front of him to cover go somewhere and I'm like
Yeesh, that's what he said in his post race, too. He's like, look, I just work hard
Like that he said this is just hard work
I'm so he said I'm so lucky to be here and be in this position for the last 20 years
And I just feel like I work hard and everybody else which
Dude, once you get to the cup series everybody's supremely talented like we just said
But the hard way there is nobody with a higher racing IQ
And with a better work ethic from what it looks like from the outside looking in than denny hamlin
So that's why he's 161 races, right? All you young guys take note 61 races is
It's only 15 less races less than dale earnhardt. Yeah, he could get there
If he raced for three more years, of course, he can he could be a five win a year guy
So so like you watch that
And and I'll say it here
It's way harder to win now
Oh, yeah, because
Even back
And we've got a big guest coming in next week jeff gordon
Breaking news you're gonna say that to him
Yeah, you know because you watch I'm not taking it any way
But there was four guys that can win any given race and they were had they had single
File restarts. Yeah, it called nine right called nine generous. Oh sure, but
Uh, I'll give a single file restart. So as you and they had no stages
Yeah, so if you could get into a groove make a faster car build and lap up to seventh place
Now there's more cars on a lead lap than there's more opportunity double file restarts
Yes, more pit stops, right? There's more opportunity to do better or worse than your competition. Everybody's got the same motors
Relatively nowadays, right and cars. It's way different. So it is
I guess if you just boiled it down if you were a stat guy
Denny Hamlin's chance is any given sunday or let's just say like
I don't know the odds would probably say different. Let's just say like an eight percent chance of winning
Some guys less some guys comfortable
Jeff Gordon back in the day. His chance of winning was 50 percent. Yeah, you know, yeah
When he wins 83 races or however many races Jeff Gordon when he knows he knew any given sunday
He was either going to win or something was going to happen to pre prohibit him from winning
Now they say there's a steep decline after 700 starts, which then he's already there of wins
But it doesn't look like he's slowing down right now. Do you think that that's from the safety of the car like
Because when when a Ricky Rudd or
A Dale Earnhardt or these these, you know titans
From yesteryears like their bodies were beaten up
After that many starts on rex and well, we're smarter as humans now of what we need in the car of what we need for recovery
There's a reason that Hendrick just put in that facility and everybody's in red light therapy beds and in the hyperbaric chambers
Not just at Hendrick everywhere. Yeah, so people are understanding what you need drivers, right?
Like the Tony Stortz when they were overweight and just racing every week
Cocon Oreos to now, you know guys are trained in four or five days a week better hydration electrolytes in the car stuff like that that
We're just so much further ahead. I mean you remember
One thing that held Jeff back for a little bit was carbon oxide poisoning even back then we'll have a lot on Jeff Gordon next week
I'm really excited to talk about
All things motorsports. I want to dive in a lot of different things with him
But before we get there, did you wake up? I watched all of it, dude
You watch all the indy car. I watch f1 this weekend. I mean, where am I gonna go? I got four kids
I got a little guy trying to keep my life start with indy car. What'd you think about the inaugural?
What would they call the race at cowboy stadium Arlington gp? Yeah
Yeah, it was it was in Arlington Jerry's world if you will right outside the parking lot
It was cool. I've been down
In that area a couple different times and they'd race right alongside Texas Ranger Stadium
State at that Lowe's hotel. They they'd drive right by so I was like, oh, I've been on that street
Oh, that's cool that they go around this little barbecue joint. So a lot a lot of cool familiar places
Kyle Kirkwood. He is the master
Of street courses. He really that's where his first career win at Long Beach came a couple weeks a couple years ago
And he turned the wick up. He was I don't know half second faster than the field last couple
Yeah, he's one there's a stat on here like four of the last five or five of the last six street courses street road courses
Five or six. Yeah, and yeah, it was cool because
And I love I'm I'm excited. I was thinking about this yesterday. I'm excited about
Going to Coronado later in the season and like getting svg's
thoughts on that place because right after practice
Now he was fast
Um
But uh, Scottie McLaughlin was like instantly my favorite street course of all time, right?
And they have more experience on street courses than anybody Scottie McLaughlin
But then he said Arlington. He said like right after I think it was fast
He's like instantly my favorite and then he wrecked the next one instantly my least place sucks
Like I was like wondering, you know as a driver if it would change
They're doing some really cool things in indy car right now with uh that with washington dc
And they go to a lot of different places what they do with their pit lane where it's split right and left is super cool
I want to go to the washington race one is
Uh, it's you think it's august some bokeh no weekend. Maybe you know some people karen. Can you hook the brother?
that would be um, but they uh
but
Jerry talked about it in the pre-race. He was like look the penske group. I told them
If we do this everything has to be first class
We can't like everything's got to be great and there's no better group to do it with than that penske
Sports and entertainment group what they've done to indianapolis
And what they're doing for for indy car for the series man
It's really cool to see and look high tide raises all ships
It's making all of north american motorsports better and it's cool to see
Guys like f1 guys come over like mick schumacher now in the field
It's really cool to see all those guys in the field tough day tough day for mick
Uh, I think he was a couple laps down. I want him to he ran well at phoenix, right qualified
Well, I don't know how he ended up finishing but we didn't get him in here and asked him about obels sick
That'd be cool to to talk to mick. Uh, who what what else from speaking at f1. Oh, yeah, arlington shout out willpower
Sketchy pit road dude. I was watching a shout out willpower always pull forward power friend of the show
Yeah, that penske forever. That's that's an intense that's an intense fella. That's a intense fella. I'll see
He'll look right through you like burn you
You don't know what's going on up there the wheels are always their wheels are always spinning
You don't let go you're gonna kill me. Yeah, kill me. You're gonna be compliment. What are you gonna do pit road?
Indy car stuff is so sketchy
Like when I watch it
Like what we do sketchy, but
They're with tires flying around like when a tire gets airborne there was a there was an instance where
Someone was coming in a pit road and they hit the tire as they came in and it flew it right at the rear changer
The outside rear changer and I was like, oh, it's so sketchy dude because tires they don't look bad because they're flying
But that's a 40 pound
Um, but a rock rock
That's coming at you
So, uh, but really cool to see out there. We're not able to do that in nascar
There's a distinct
Advantage to pitting on the right side or the left side first
But an indy car it's it's pretty equal so they can split off and have
They can do just unique things and fit a lot of
Cars in a small amount of space because they make their pit road half as long and twice as wide
With having cars been on the right side and the left side. It's really cool optically to see. Yeah
Yeah, because doesn't the front
Outside tire whichever direction it is that guy's stationary right it pulls in and that guy's already sitting there
You're stationed everybody's stationary except for the outside rear. Yeah, so it makes it makes it pretty
Even uh speaking of pit lane and the clarins and f1 didn't even make it off pit lane. Holy crap
so
You know that the the chinese gp
I woke up in the morning. I got the alert from you know the f1 app
McLaren
doubled dns
First time in 20 years and I was like what?
It's crazy did not start
Did they legitimately did the cars did not start did they shunt them did they shunt them in the last practice?
I didn't keep up with that close, but I went and looked back like they were just
Watching the race
Just brought all the stuff to china to watch everybody else go around in circles
Uh oscar piastry has not run one lap
the
runner-up in the driver
Championship last year hasn't made one lap a lot of controversy with the cars a lot of conversation a lot of controversy
I'm gonna talk about that zooming out
I like that they can pass each other as much as they do it looks way better the eye test
Yeah, but then when I zoom back in as a competitor and I realize why they're passing each other so much
It's no different than why everybody was mad at our play at our playoff format
Because we're forcing
You want game seven moments, but you don't want them forced now. They're forcing passing
I would I would
Change the analogy from playoffs to
like the 550 high downforce
low power
Because it's more of a
Well, you're just we're automobile. It seems I like it. I want them to pass each other. I want them to race more
But it does seem
Super forced now that I look at it with clear eyes like all right. Hey, we're gonna it's it's I guess you would call it gimmicky
Yeah, right that that's now I see why as a purist it's gimmicky, right as a race is a casual
Yes, as a racer that understands what's going on as a casual fan. They're passing more
um
And that's the balance right you got you got two knobs to crank you got the entertainment knob and you got the competitiveness knob
I don't think they're racing the hell out of each other though. They are dude
Like the hornet's nest in the f1 field right now from like
7th to
14th those guys are Dyson red bull and mclaren just are not very dude. I saw the red bull just spun out right by itself
Isaac hajar spun out right by himself twice. It's just it's way different, but it is cool to see lewis hamilton which
Dating kim kardashians questionable like that's that has not worked out good for people anybody. It's not
But whatever man. Yeah, if he wants to keep wearing the stuff he's wearing he's gonna have to do something
Questionable choice of fashion. Jesus
But it's good to see him on the podium and what was crazy is the kid that took his seat at
Mercedes kimmy anthinelli
19 year old the second youngest guy to ever win an f1 race
Uh, there was a picture of him in 20 like 2018
I was like a little kid shaking lewis's hand and then now in 2026 them on the podium next to each other
But man, that's like the classic like
Aaron senna like I got to go to the faster car and then you chase the faster car or new rules come out and then
Uh, oh, I should probably stayed there bro. They gave him the bag to go over there
but
That's a miss similar to daniel ricardo, right? He chased the bag going to reno
Chased the bag going to mclaren and neither time did it work out for him. Yeah
Because if they give you the bag, they're not giving the bag to the engineers make cars go faster. Yeah, well
Yeah, you only have so much. What do you want to talk about lewis's you want to harp on lewis's fashion choices?
Yeah, you can't wear what he's wearing and not be on the podium. He was on the podium. I know I know
so you can't wear, you know hefty bags and
Female Gucci shirts around and run seven
So I'm glad him to see he's least backing it up when I would when we would have these competitions at penskey every
Wednesday and when I would like know I had to have a good day
I would talk crap to everybody
Yeah, because I'd be like if I'm talking crap and doing this stuff. You got to be great. Yeah, maybe that's what he's doing
He's like, I'm gonna wear this. No, he's always kind of done that now
I think he did
He started, you know, like the last couple years in mclaren
He he started wearing like the team kit a little bit more often just kind of walking in there like normal
But now he's getting a little bit at lewis's swag back
Who would be the NASCAR driver that?
Been john hunter lately
Is it john hunter's been wearing a lot of the camo pants and kind of the fashion stuff? Okay
But before we get off topic, I don't want to I don't want to forget this talking of people being sharp with their old team
Or like laughing with their old team
Daniel Suarez is on with the track house right now
Yeah, he has run in the track house car like three of the first four weeks and then he was fighting ross chastain
It was gonna I thought they're two guys that are gonna fight is ross chastain and danis Suarez
And pr girl had to get in between them. Hang on. I got a bone to pick with that
It is not the pr girls wearing a straw bucket hat
like
Place to get in between two guys that have beef
Hold the water bottle
Respectfully over there
I got some stuff to talk about from our point of view, but her job here like her job, right if she goes back
to
The track house and they got in a fight. She's they're like, where the hell are you getting the middle of that?
That's where they would tell her. I would say not the maybe the maybe the car chief
You know, I would argue that a car chief is going to escalate the situation for a pr girl is going to de-escalate the situation
We're staying the man at I didn't see him out there staying the man
Smell beef cooking from a while away. He must he must have been on the other side of pit road
Like there's obviously no love loss like he so Daniel Suarez put a just a memo out there for all the pr girls stay out of
Let the let the drivers figured out they're big boys. I like that. You said that in a pr way. I knew you were gonna go
yeah, um
stay out I
Respectfully, I would say that you're appreciate Daniel Suarez says
He there was a quote from where he was like, yeah, we've never had a me and ross
I've never had a good relationship. It's always been he's always been fake is basically what he said or two-faced. Yeah
Which I was like, oh, okay. So there was a lot. There's a lot of disdain from
It seems as though there's a lot of disdain no love lost from Daniel Suarez the track house right now
Well, I think two-faced is an often used
Explanation for somebody that you're pissed off at when it comes to race driver joe ilgano
One of the best guys that we both know on and off the racetrack
The guy the the person you have to be with your kids at your house or even in the shop
Is not the guy that you have to be on the racetrack
Did you ever see the alon the fernando alonso quote when he was passing schumacher put it put schumacher in a bad spot
Like the fast spot. This guy's got I knew he'd lift. He's got a wife and kids at home
I was like, man, that's such a hard thing to say dude. I was like 30 years ago, too
Now he's out there waving at people as they
He's got a wife and kids
Oh goodness, so we shift the gears to to Suarez and Ross and I don't think that's the last we're gonna see of that because
Spire
Speaking of bags getting out they are getting the bag gave the bag to Gabe Gabe Hart apparently yeah, I touched on this a little bit last week
But I'd love to hear your
synopsis so
If you are a race team with a common source race car
Common parts dampers everything that you buy it from the same people it all the
Gampers are made fans people call shocks nowadays
Shock I don't think shocks like six grand apiece or something and there's about an infinite amount of ways you can
you can build them and
If you had an endless budget
You could go poach
Somebody from Ford to go get their good ideas
So they went and got went went and go and went and got uh matt mccall from roush
Brad keselowski's crew chief got him on board
You know whether or not it was yucky whether or not that he takes his laptop and plugs a thumb drive in and downloads all the setups
Regardless of that. He's bringing all the stuff and knowledge and philosophies that Ford does
Sees the wind tunnel native sees that all the things right
The only person that now they have an open notebook to hendrick, so know what those guys are doing
Based off the relationship between dickerson and rick hendrick
So the only person you don't have and the people you're getting your butt beat buys toita
Why not go give
A bag to the guy that knows all the keys and all the information that to it is doing
What's oh, you're he's leaving leaving Gibbs. How much is it going to take for you to bring all your knowledge over here?
That's the right way. You got to go about it
Really yucky right now eight million dollars. I guess is the is the
lawsuit so
Private investigators clearly the setups are working because spires cars have general speed, but
You get a guy like gabe harden that knows
What body panels are cooking where they're pushing the boundaries on rules how they're twisting these things up?
What damper builds like that is you can't even put a financial number on that and I think denny put some sort of
Quote out there in the lawsuit like he has the keys to every sort of intellectual property that toita has
And if if you have
What's the quickest way to go from a 25th place team or 20th place team to a race winning team
Winning team is by the information
From the race winning team and that's what they went and did I mean they said that so
Jgr is saying that gave her allegedly took car setups driver salaries tire analytics sponsor revenues full pay rolls
I would say that he's got the keys to everything they had
Yeah, and it sounds like I talked about last so he sounds like it's tumultuous because of his release of betai gibbs
And him wanting control of all four teams and they said they didn't have to control
I talked about that quite a bit last week
The tie gibbs been running good and it doesn't seem to hurt toyota because toyota's won four the last five cups right here back
It wasn't coincidence ties
Words word selection in his post-race interview after phoenix. What do you say?
I'm just happy to have people around me that believe in me
He went back to that point like three or four times and you know, he was just rife one darts over at gay part
um
Because there was I read all the same stuff and hear all the same stuff
Anybody else does that wants to get into it?
But certainly some bad blood
There between gay part gay part was making a lot of money
And then when they asked them to go sit on the pit box for a couple weeks
Yeah, it's gonna be 25 grand a race
Is that what they said?
Yeah, so this contract said like yeah, I'll come sit on the pit box can be 25 grand a race
No, you're worth like I was like hey, how are you so mad? Hey everybody negotiates their own deal
Yeah, but just like anything else he wanted more control. He wanted all competition
Decisions to run through him, which I believe he has now it's spire
It's kind of a common law now that like these race teams don't steal from each other
So that's where the lines are getting a little blurry. Uh, so I don't know. We'll see where it all goes
It's not stealing. It's borrowing without asking before we get into these videos. Let's talk about pit road real quick. What about um 20 car
Pit boss of the week. I mean, they are on
Fricking fire just crushing everybody's face. I want you to tell me real quick. Why?
Are why is it so easy to speed at biggest? So there's a hot zone
Not the first segment but the second one like where the chris pit road turns, right?
So you enter straight and then right when it starts the first kink
There's like a span of probably seven boxes. That's hot
so hot being when
When the timing lines might be
six inches eight inches closer together than what
teams
Calculate their dash for so you can be running a certain rpm
And in this section because the lines is a shorter distance shows that your car is running faster
Uh, so I was on actually chris bell's radio
During that time because the 19th sped in that section
The 54 and the 11th sped the same section under under yellow
There's like 16 speeding pounds of 48 sped. Yep. So just an all guy gets in the 48
He speeds the first
Then he speeds the first green flight picks up comes back down speeds again. What yeah under his under penalty
So what's the difference?
On running pit road times in a cup car with your dash to running pit road times in a
O'Reilly's car like justin's used to is is the dash much different?
Like what's that look like? Why why is there so many variables?
See there's so many variables because you as a driver are just
told to run one set of lights if it's
If there's nine, so the lights in an O'Reilly's car are the same as the lights in a cup car. No, they're okay
That's what i'm asking. What's your visual cue different, right? There's a tack
There's a tack in the O'Reilly's cars. It doesn't have a digital dash. No, so you're just watching your tack
Yeah, and then you get in a car. There's big. There's like these big
Nine lights. There's some people run, but some people run two greens
Or yell everybody runs something different. Yeah
But as a driver you put full trust into your engineers
Hey, if you run in this light if you run, let's just say there's nine total bulbs
You run seven green and two red and you bump the last red
You're not going to speed you don't know how fast you're going. There's not a speedometer in the car
so
It might even be typical driver explanation here. It might be the engineers fault that
The the rpms are too fast in that segment where you needed to be down a light
But if you don't know that until the penalties already been paid shifting gears
From vegas over to the lady in black tripleheader this weekend trucks
O'Reilly's and cup cars. You got a throwback truck to your doleman's doves. That's cool
So I go up there and I'm like, oh, that looks pretty cool from the front, right? It's got white. It's got red on the doors
and it's got
like
I don't know like just yellow not a particularly flattering color yellow
So I told Lenny Chandler shop for my hey, man
When it comes to throwbacks, I'm a little bit
Of a purist like it's got to be right. You can't half-ass it
This thing had flow numbers
It better have flow yellow numbers on there call your decal guy up and put yellow numbers on this thing
I'm on it
Yeah, well you did it
Well, I haven't seen it this week, but the message was passed along that it needed to have fluorescent yellow numbers
To match man draws his line in the sand
Yeah, you got it's got to be it's got to be right. It's got to be same colors
Preferably same number. We don't have that. We don't have that option. So talk to me about the dodge deal
How do they feel like they're doing so far? Like you've been up there
They knew it was going to be uphill battle
Where do you think you can run? Do you think you can win the thing? You think you're a fifth place truck?
You think you're a tenth place truck? Like what does that look like? So I'll just put it this way the truck that I ran
I'm running they bought from spire. Okay. It was the truck that I ran
at
Bristol last year run ninth eighth or ninth or something
And that was the hardest fought ninth place I've ever like tongue hanging out
So
I think spire trucks were considerably off last year and they wouldn't have sold the trucks to collie if they were good
I think so they built all brand new ones
Different bodies which we knew that the body builds in the downforce are different move the tails over a little bit. Sure
They don't have any simulation zero
Like not either on a desktop to build a setup and you can see how wedge affects aero platforms and things like that
Do many truck teams have a lot of simulation? Yes all like
I don't know
20 of them. Okay. I mean they got some time and they go like chevy probably has the best
I would say dodge is building that from zero with pratt and miller. So they're building it from zero
So they seem to think they're going to have that
July, okay, right halfway through the year
So this is literally just pencil paper me calling alexion. Hey man, what what do you think for a right your spring?
I think 1100 ought to be pretty good. Yeah, okay. Let's try it
Because the unfortunate part is you don't get a chance to change it
Whatever you show up to the racetrack with is what it's got
And you you dealt with that at darlington last year driving the spire truck where you just weren't very good all day
We weren't good all we we'd run seventh
Pulled out of line on a restart quote unquote and got
Passed through we can I think a top 10 would be a
win which
You know, I don't think anybody necessarily
Bray champagne bottles for that but we'll put it on a fence. Let's hang out buddy. Who are your predictions for the weekend?
I legitimately think Kyle Larson can take his rental car and go run him top
He might be able to he could I'll tell you what I always love
Tyler retic here, but I was with Blaney last year. We should have won this race Larson wrecked late
We got beat off pit road, but Blaney was on a heater here last year
This picker right now doesn't have the pace that they that they need to have to win the darlington race
But if they can just keep him in it all day, he was so fast that he could win this race
As fast he was last year
I think Ross generally runs well in top five six
And it could potentially bounces away if he's in the mix
Indy cars will pullo bounce back. Yeah, he's had a couple rough ones since he got he's exceptional
cleared himself of welly three different teams
First three races of any car season, but I think Alex pillow in that ganassi group. Yeah, I'll go scotty mcglockland 33s
I'm a big fan. He's good at road courses and then who's going to beat
Mercedes
Nobody Ferrari might I love to see Lewis up there. I mean they have to have Mercedes has to have catastrophic issues
For one of their two cars not to win. They are
Light years ahead of everybody else. So a car wants to know why doesn't
NASCAR do a world tour? I don't know either. We've been talking about there's a NASCAR brazil series. We'd love to go down
Check that out. Go check that out. Yes. There's NASCAR canada. There's NASCAR Euro series. They're not quite what they're NASCAR Mexico
Let's put them in a container, man
Alex w33x
Best time management advice for hard-working dads with auto hobbies slash addictions
I'll tell you what has managed my time is moving everything closer to my house
I have my shop and my race shop closer to my house. So that way
I can shut the doors of the race shop and be home in five minutes for dinner or be at softball
so
I would say kind of getting everything
Any good time management starts with good preparation cleaning up your tools
Having everything prepared life says this me all the time
Saying yes to something means you're having to say no to something else
So you got to prioritize. What are you going to say yes to and what that takes away from what you say?
The next one's a hard-hitting question from
jamie lee
underscore one I played baseball with and against cori growing up
Shout out northwest caberas high school baseball or race car driver preference for the kids
Anything that they want to do that they put their effort towards and they get motivated to go do I will support
If that's baseball, it'll be considerably cheaper than what racing will be if it's racing
I know how much that provided for
My life and how obviously connected
My family is to be able to go do that relatively inexpensive
But man race is hard man, you got to have a deep well to
Have your kid do it the right way with good people
cruise two days a week with t-ball
And harpers three and a two week with their softball team
Then just made another softball team where they practice Sundays and they play in tournaments like I'm deep into it
The sub team sports are important for character building
And racing is important for her and I to build a friendship and a relationship because we're competing together
That's that that is a big thing too. It's like
It's like
Inherently your kids are gonna be interested of what in what you present to them. So that's a hard thing for me to figure out
It's like, what do you present them to where they might want to take some interest to it?
Do I think he's got some some clips pulled up for for us here on the in the wide world of motorsports
We had some rallycross. I saw the rallycross that was in America this week
Someone up in a group chat and some guys were sending it
One thing I'm not doing ever
Is going and standing on the side of the road as rallycars come by not even as they come by as they jump
In 150 miles like these guys stand 15 feet from them. Yeah, I'm like, dude
There's a tie rod that can break and you're done. Yeah, like I've bolted stuff on these racecars and uh, oh man
I tell you if you don't get excited watching a
This was in the 100 acre woods
Zipping through the woods. You're not a merit. They called this one the 100 acre woods in Missouri
Is that where Winnie the Pooh lives?
100 acre forest. Yeah, that is where that's where the Pooh and Eore lives man. They would be
Pissed off looking for some honey out there with the old Travis Pastrana wheeling her around
He won the race to Pastrana. What a stud
He is exceptional when it comes to just driving anything with an engine and tires whether it be two or four
Faster than anybody else. Yeah. Yeah, he's good. And then they had uh, where was wrc at this weekend?
Was in Kenya. I saw the mud was really deep on that one video you had pulled up a minute ago
Oh, my god, that is way worse than any first practice with sprint cars. I've ever seen
Dude
Oh
Are these how stock are these types of
world rally cross cars
A molligated chest. Yeah
Oh, so it's overheating
And they just got water out of a puddle
What he's like he didn't get stung by an electric eel. I've been watching too much river hunters
Our river river monsters. Dude, this thing is destroyed too
Literally goes get some pond water from a creek
And some I got some drinking water shout out Andy J
on water. Now his, um
Radiator has parasites
Unfortunately, I shot. Yeah, I'll burn them off dude. Imagine popping like their radiator caps are way different than ours. Yeah
Pow
I'm twisted that thing when it was hot. I get 30 degree burns
He's filling it up with a 16 ounce gatorade bottle. You're gonna be there a long time filling that thing up with gatorade bottles
Oh, dude, and then this guy is just the whole right rear quarter panels ripped off of it
Flat right rear just on the throttle can't lift we'll get stuck
What now back to that I can't believe that guy has a notebook. He doesn't have an iPad yet
Is that what people are on?
Everybody I've seen is on yeah, sometimes, you know the old trusty dusty notepad is I I'm a notepad guy
A lot of people are talking about the podcast track, but this week walking back from victory lane
Maddie B from uh from in arizona. He's a fireman at the racetrack and he gave me one of his shirts
I meant to wear today. Damn and I was so mad at myself washed
It was it was actually like it was a killer shirt. I think it's it's like perfectly worn too
Like it's uh, it's like a used shirt, but I loved it and it was their fire department. Um, I think it was nice
What's up? What do we got for videos here?
Oh, I mentioned this earlier
What would know I didn't see what he was doing dude the the Aston is
Historically bad. Did you see it? Is it that bad right now? Well, it's also getting doors side pot blown off by the Cadillac
so if that tells you anything
There's this art is a race car driver and Fernando clearly after 20
30 years of driving an F1 has figured it out
To separate himself to make it look like the performance of this car has nothing to do with me
Well, we got fat filter on F1 drivers if they were a NASCAR driver. Why do they just think we're all fat?
Well, that's Noah Gregson, dude. Oh, that is George Russell. Noah Gregson. What is this?
Why dude, why are why are all these Noah Gregson?
What is this from and they got on the front stretch of indy
Gerard burger
What what is uh, well, okay. He looks like sam mary a little bit. That's the box
Charles E. Clair
hulking burger
I like I like hulking burger. He looks like it. That looks like an engineer and it looks like right serious back
Back after the garage and right
Now show them's way cooler and that kind looks like show them
No, that I'll tell you that you know who that looks like
Well, why yeah, why why is NASCAR drivers catching strays like that? That's not cool
Somewhat accurate. No, it's not
There are a couple
There's a couple guys. There's a couple guys, but there's not there's a couple guys that don't say
Oh, he stopped to check the car
Oh finger dislocated. Oh, no, I broke my finger
I got it. Oh no
Dude imagine that standing up. Ah
Oh, I have that happen sometimes
We're not not we're dislike, but where my finger gets it is smacking it like the move
I feel like you're kind of grabbing it. I've had it where my stink finger gets stuck and I'll like grab it and bend it back
Yeah, I don't know if that's from 20 years of change tires or what but the hands have taken some abuse
But that guy that guy right there has clearly had that problem before if you just give it a whack and keep
Okay, we're we're good to go
Big iron shootout. It's a cool name for a race. What is that?
Oh, oh my god, you watch this and yes, I watch this in the group chats. So this is
um a straight mountain snowmobile going straight up mountain
This was a hero run, bro
Like gets it to the top 99 percent of the way there and ha ha ha ha
I have had so many friends break their legs and get messed up on stumble wheels because they're so fun
But and they don't they it's kind of like a mix people
I thought before I drove one they'd be like kind of like a four wheeler. They are not like a four wheeler. They're not like
They're awesome. They're like a jet ski. They're awesome. Yeah, that's why I don't mess with them
It's like drugs. Don't do them because you might like them some of these. What do we got here and this next one?
Last video of the day NASCAR Mexico
Trucks trucks, where are these at? Dude, this track is sick. There's NASCAR Mexico trucks
Clear whoa, I didn't know that
Oh boy
How can I get in a NASCAR Mexico race?
Just ask I guess I feel like I want to go run one
We are three wide coming to the white here
Dude, this looks absolutely no racing etiquette. I love it. Dude, this looks fun
This is this is awesome
Whoa
Okay, here we go. We got a little right rear hook and action going on we got battle for the lead jams it in the bottom
Oh, that's a big hit direct big
Those things are sweet those things are the track is kind of sweet too. It's like a greenville pickings
It is it was a greenville a shout out greenville might be come back. That looks like that track looks like it was just built
But the pavement looks old but the walls look like it's well, it might have a fresh cut of paint on them
That is that was cool. Hey NASCAR
Let's let's take a ride down to Mexico and put us in a truck. Let me drive a NASCAR Mexico truck
I want to go to Chihuahua. Yeah, that's a badass track. There's some cool tracks down there Mexico
Well, cool. There's a lot of cool stuff a lot of cool motorsports all around the world
Do that we'll have to get the clip next week Steven Padula big wreck in the
Modified to friendship right up the road here in Elka, North Carolina. Big wreck
I'll
We'll get in and shout out to everybody at
World Outlaws man. That's scary at the racetrack. It's just talking your doubt about it. They
No, there was a side-by-side wreck between the officials
During the push off for the b-main and official actually got killed at the world outlaws spring car races weekend
So just thought some prayers to everybody there. There's infinite
Told your dad once I had kids
I realized how many different ways there is to get hurt at the racetrack
Infinite amount of and you don't take it for granted make sure you're safe
And and be maybe we can look and put the starters on you know, maybe that'd be safer. I got the stickers
like
That's another argument for another day ladies and gentlemen, that's enough motorsports today. We got some stuff to do here
You got some stuff powder coat and some lug nuts to hit. I got some carbon fiber delay ladies and gentlemen
I appreciate you guys stacking pace with us
Coral the joy here alongside riding flores big week going down to darlin's and running that ramp
Ram trip have a little fun with that thing. What are you doing this week going down there changing tires on the 88? It'll be fun
Um, come come say hey. We'll both be at the racetrack this weekend. I'm excited to watch this race on sunday as well
It's going to be really really good
Darlington's just one of the best races of the year. It's awesome. So you can follow us
At underscore stacking pennies on instagram. I'm skip floor is on instagram. He's cori
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About this episode
Corey LaJoie dives into a wide-ranging motorsports discussion, from family life and naming kids with ChatGPT to detailed insights on NASCAR, IndyCar, and F1 races. Highlights include Kyle Larson's sprint car wins, Denny Hamlin's impressive career longevity, and the intense competition in modern racing. Corey also touches on team dynamics, tech controversies like Gabe Hart's move, and the challenges of pit road speeding. The episode wraps with thoughts on racing safety, international series like NASCAR Mexico, and upcoming events, all sprinkled with personal anecdotes and industry observations.
Original notes
Corey’s back, the baby is here, and the first question had to be asked: did ChatGPT name it? From there, the guys get into why Denny Hamlin keeps winning, what McLaren actually broke, why Vegas pit road catches so many drivers out, and what’s really going on with the Gabehart/Spire situation. Plus IndyCar, Mexico trucks, Darlington picks, and more from a wild week in racing.
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