Episode 375 - RTJ Gets The Globe at Eldora

Hello, everybody, welcome to another episode of the Dirt Nerds Podcast.

Dwayne is here, but he is not.

Hi.

Say hello, Dwayne.

Hello.

I'm far away, like 20 miles.

He's far away, but not far away.

Yeah, this weekend, Dwayne is calling in.

We had to give you a podcast because Honeycutt was bitching at me at El Dora that there was

no podcast last weekend.

So that's right.

I actually, I guess we're going to coin a new thing called the World 100 Flu.

I don't really know, but apparently I got it.

So I just texted Dwayne today and said maybe we should just do a phone call.

Don't want to risk getting him sick.

He's got a business to run, things like that.

So I said, let's just do a phone call that way.

I'm not spreading the World 100 late model IEDIS to you and I think it's too much sand.

Too much sand?

From what?

Yeah.

The race tracks, I don't know, maybe he's on the beach.

Maybe he was, you know.

I was a part of the 22 plus thousand people at El Dora Speedway this week and Record

Crowd closed the, closed the ticket windows and everything.

Never seen that at El Dora in all my years.

Wait, you want the two races?

Yeah.

Two races?

Was there Friday and Saturday, big fella?

What?

No wonder you're sick.

Yeah.

Over-extended myself, didn't I?

Yeah.

No doubt.

You exerted yourself too much.

You're exhausted.

That's what it is.

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I had something different this time.

I can't remember what it was now.

I got it purposely because it was different.

It was good, but I can't remember what it was now.

The pole tabs didn't do any favors.

No, those were not good.

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A couple other people said they went down there

for the first time over the

between the weekend before and the world.

Right on.

Yeah, so this weekend

was the World 100.

Dwayne also wrapped up the

AFCS Championship at Attica

in Fremont.

And then Labor Day

had a few races going on.

Yeah, but the big one, the World 100.

Selling out first time.

I guess they said

the first prelude maybe they did that,

but I don't recall that.

As far as any other... I don't either.

I've never seen the ticket windows closed

before.

See, I think...

Yeah, I don't ever remember the first prelude.

I don't remember that either.

But I would say there's...

I think they quit selling tickets,

but it wasn't...

They just was...

It wasn't a capacity crowd like this

was Saturday night.

I mean,

Saturday was the biggest crowd ever in history.

Yeah, and they...

Yeah, I could tell early

that it was probably going to be another record crowd.

Didn't think it would be that much of a record crowd,

but...

Yeah, it definitely felt like it.

It's one of those nights where

probably strategize if you're going to go to the concession stand

or the bathroom and maybe have to miss...

Oh, that's what Thursday was.

As soon as it's there Thursday,

I'm like, oh, Saturday's going to be a mess.

It's Thursday was by far the biggest

Thursday night crowd I've seen down there for anything.

Yeah, and Friday was...

I mean, it just grows from the opening night, right?

You may have planned to miss

a few laps of a heat race or something

if you didn't want to have to wait in a long line,

but I didn't even try to concession stands

because I knew I'd been around long enough

to know, you know, you're going to be

staying in the line for a while, but...

You know, kudos to Eldora and the team

making it all happen.

You know, nothing too crazy

that I saw ever really happened,

so it seemed like everyone played nice

and everyone enjoyed a cool evening

at the cool weekend for that matter

at the races.

And we got a new winner, first time winner.

One that was always kind of in question.

Can they ever get it done?

Ricky Thornton Jr. taking the win.

Davenport, you thought for sure,

was wrapping that baby up real fast.

I thought he started on the front row

and it was the only guy to go from

sixth to first in the heat race.

Well, he went fourth to first

in his heat race.

I thought he started sixth.

No, because sixth was high point man

in both nights and, you know, for him.

So he has hit the invert

pretty damn near perfect.

But Hoffman and the first heat went from

sixth to one.

Most heat race wins actually,

I think all but like one

came from further back

than the second row even.

You mean they can pass if the invert?

DJ was taking lessons

from Dwayne over the PA saying

and they say, you know,

inverts kill races.

And you know, you can't pass

and yeah, there's some guys proving that one wrong.

Needless to say.

Yeah.

Like I said, a big race

if you invert them, they will find a way to pass.

Yeah, Bobby Pierce didn't get

that didn't get the memo.

Unfortunately for his heat race, finished seventh

had to start like 10th into B main

or ninth and getting the last

transfer spot in his B main starting

on the back row.

So you're kind of keeping an eye on him.

You know, fast time provisional

which, you know, Dale McDowell

from the back of the field at Eldora

is just, you know, expected

to contend for a win

because that's kind of been his MO for so long.

But obviously came in second place

but RTJ, you know,

won a heat race

and locked one of those up front starting spots

dropped back a little bit

and made it happen there at the end.

Davenport was suffering a slow leaking flat tire.

I was reading today

he probably felt it starting on that

last restart that he lost the lead.

You know, hindsight

he said it probably should have came in with 25

to go and just had a caution.

He probably

could have made something happen because he still got back

up to seventh place but, you know,

he thought maybe he could make it last a little longer.

So hindsight

2020 but yeah, Ricky Thorne Jr.

getting the big win finally getting the big one

at Eldora always

kind of wasn't questioned if he could get it

done. So kudos to him.

Yeah, we said

we, you know,

we talked about it. We did

last or when we did our

Wednesday or Thursday one that, you know,

I was thinking there's going to be a first time

winner and I mean

he was obviously the obvious choice

because like I said, Pierce

Davenport and

RTJ's won the majority

of the late model races across the country last few years

but for a minute

there, you know, he thought he'd make it like

a McDowell or, you know,

Rice

kind of had some bad

luck with his engine. I mean,

he looked like Thursday night off to a

great start and then

the engine was screwed up

his weekend right away. Yeah, and then

Hoffman was the other one that kind of was

a little bit of a coming out party for

his Eldora runs. I mean

he's made the shows before and whatnot

but as far as being an upfront contender,

you know, for a whole weekend, this is kind of

the first time he's been in that

seat and seemed like he might have had

something but yeah, McDowell

and RTJ proved a little

little too much for him so hopefully

Hoffman will get his shot but

definitely, definitely strong

contention for him and hopefully

much more to grow on because

like Dwayne said, we'd like to see a new winners

so someone like Hoffman would be pretty damn

cool to see that one there.

Sure, it plays one nuts with McDowell

Thursday night, you know,

the last corner pass of Devon there

Moran and

yeah,

you know, it'd be good to get

some different people in it, not that

I don't like any, I like all three

of those guys but

it didn't seem to hurt to crowd though so

hey. Yeah

it's like, where do you go from here?

You know, I mean, because

obviously each year like you was saying

the crowd grows bigger, bigger and bigger

I mean, now that we sold out

because now next year it's probably going to happen to Kings Royale because

you know, Kings Royale

is a big sell door crowd in history

up till last weekend

which, you know, that's been happening in the last few years

well no, do it

then the next one, you know, it's been swinging

back forth, well now we have sold out

so is that going to happen to Kings Royale

who, maybe, maybe not but

what do you do?

We was talking about this today on my radio show

and Jim's like, well can you

put more seats there? I said well

you maybe put

a few smaller bleachers over by

the big screen where you know

you're not going to interfere with that

that have to be smaller one. I said you could

put some more bleachers but

not, I mean, I don't think

you'd want to build a little bridge

across the creek and have people walk over the hill

turn two, I just

then you couldn't do your pyro and any of that stuff

but I just, I don't see that being

a viable option, I'd be honest with

having a bunch of people walk

in and you'd almost have to make a bridge

over the creek to get over there

and I don't see

that being, you know.

Yeah, then I think their biggest problem

is parking, to be honest.

Oh yeah, yeah, it's

already been a problem, you know, just like

camping, I mean because you're going to

those talent campers go clear down to Fort Recovery

you know, Fort Recovery, the fairgrounds

that in Greenville and

Sliner were packed, that fairgrounds

with campers, I mean, so yeah,

parking, but

you know, do you put

bigger stands outside

of those stands, I mean

you know, or do you just

sell it out, I mean Knoxville Nationals

well it's been three years in a row

now, they quit selling pit passes

and stuff because you know

El Dorre quit selling pit passes there, I think

that was the only thing, oh okay, I can't sell it out, we'll just buy a pit pass, well

they didn't quit that

Knoxville's done the same thing, so

or just keep going selling out

over here, you know?

Yeah, you know, the other concern

which, you know, they do a pretty good job mitigating his

bathrooms, right, they have their

regular ones in place

but they bring in a lot of Port of Johns

and things like that to help with that, but

at some point you just

run out of infrastructure for all the people, so

it'll be interesting to see what they do going forward.

You ever think you'd see that day?

I

know, I mean

all my years I've never heard of what a

capacity crowd really is at El Dorre

so

you know, I don't, well they posted

30 plus thousand I've seen today

well okay, maybe, because Stuart said on the

stage

you know

pre-race ceremonies that there was over

22,000, which you know

20,000's always kind of been the number you hear

well that might have been what he told the tax guy

yeah

well and I don't know

what does that include, is that just reserve

seats, is that ticket sold, is that

plus pit passes, you know, there's a lot that

factors into, you know

yeah, sweets, you got the sweets, you know

and that little

boo thingy over there in turn one and two now

yeah, so

yeah, I mean it definitely felt packed

I will say it didn't feel like it was any more

packed than the year before

but like you said

Duane, over in the turn two by

the scoreboard, that's my telltale

line, is how busy is it on the hillside

over there because usually

that's the last place that gets people

so far from the track

the lighting's not great over there

but I mean it was packed over under the

scoreboard even all the way to the track

to the fence, so

it was pretty full, needless to say

well and then from the pit stand

there was two there in turn three, right

oh yeah

there's a lot of people sitting on that hill

on Thursday night, so I

figured that was capacity

yeah, I mean, so you're basically

out of room, I mean yeah you could put some bleachers

you know

it'd have to be maybe

three-quarter the size

or two-thirds of the size

of the ones you have in the corners, like

you get another section over

underneath the scoreboard but obviously

you can't make it as tall because you don't want

the scoreboard to be interrupted

or

anybody thinking they're Superman

touch scoreboard or something

you know

I mean but really

I mean there's not

a ton of room unless you did

some deal over there

off turn two which I just

I just don't see that as an option, I mean to me

that's too

like I said it's dark, you'd have to have

lights over there, you'd have to have

build a bridge over the creek and you wouldn't want

a bunch of people, not that

everybody's

carried away but

you wouldn't want a lot of people consuming a lot of alcohol

walking over a bridge over a creek

to get over there either

yeah Stuart said

in pre-race he said yeah

you know once upon a time Earl looked at

moving

the creek behind and he said that was a fine

that was larger than I'm willing to pay for

so

yeah so I don't think you're going to get any seats

back that way especially those billboards

they cost a lot of money they

help to track a lot we'll say

right exactly so I don't

that's what I mean you're pretty much out

I see maybe putting like said over there

underneath the billboard and like said

it wouldn't be the huge ones but

if you put up enough for

500 people

it would be better than nothing

the only thing I could see is maybe

getting bigger grandstands around

the corners

and you'd have to take some room away

from what's behind them like three

and four it's foot traffic

in the souvenir trailers that

are back there turn one it's a little more cramped

so

maybe do some like

you know like Toledo Speedway

put in old MIS bleachers from back in the

day which you know they're huge

sections something like that maybe

but you know I don't know if that's an

investment they necessarily want to make

or just sell shit out

every year and call it what it is

exactly

yeah prelim nights

there's two of them but

you know four features only two winners

both nights Dale McDowell

and Jonathan Davenport getting

wins

I'll tell you Dale McDowell made a

lot of new fans because Friday night when he

took the lead the place was going crazy

when he got out of the car people were going

crazy and when he went over

the stage for driver introductions he got

the loudest cheers out of anybody so

let's move on Friday

or sorry Thursday night

yeah everybody

you know everybody thought

Daven had it wrapped up and was

clapping and cheering and all of a sudden here comes

McDowell makes that pass

and the crowd just erupted

you know so

yeah he definitely made some fans this weekend

for sure and

you know not a whole lot of drama

for once it seems like out of the

of the late models at Eldora

but that's bullcrap

yeah you know

Thursday night accident with Shane

Clinton and Michael Page kind of

spark some which to me

to me it just looked like Page pushed across

the corner

just missed it a little bit and

pushed up the track got a hold of Clinton

obviously Clinton wasn't real happy

understandable but I don't think it was

an intentional thing by any means

say he's never happy

and then Saturday Friday night

there's real no big

Saturday the

was in the B main

or was it a heat race

I think it was I was last heat race

Tyler Millwood yeah

60 yeah

Kohler rusty yeah rusty

got well tagged

end of that one and sent Millwood

for quite a ride but

everyone walked away just fine

and I actually ended up with

some of Tyler Millwood's parts at my

camper

really yeah so

I was telling Dwayne before I recorded

had a

a listener of the podcast there you go Dwayne

I'm not a dick to all of our listeners

ball time

a listener of ours

got a hold of me I believe

over the winter he's working on a school project

and you need to talk to someone

for the project from

about racing stuff so

he reached out to me and he's from

Bozeman you

well he picked me and Fiedler

but Fiedler never got back to him so there you go

suck it Fiedler

yeah

no hate Fiedler's a good guy don't have a problem

but

he mentioned he was going

maybe gonna go to UNOH

so I said well you got my number

like keep me keep in touch you know

you're gonna be a long way from home and all that so

he moved into UNOH last weekend

Labor Day weekend

and he asked me about

when's Attica racing and I said hey

come this Friday I'll get you in

and you know it's

light model sprint cars and

him and a buddy came so I got to

meet him face to face for the first time and

you know

Racing Montana a little different than where we're at

but

Wolfie is a guy's name

and named after his grandpa

but

you know never seen that he's never seen

sprint cars and he's never seen

super late models and he's also never seen

that many cars in a class

show up to a race track

so that was Attica last weekend

loved every second of it and I said well

I said what are you doing next weekend

he goes well I might try to go down to the

World 100 and I said well

I got you if you you know want to come

I said my parents got their camper

I got extra tickets like

we'll hook you up so

Wolfie came down Friday and Saturday

watched you know of course first time ever

going to the World 100 he's there for

a record breaking crowd and

right had a great time

you know never seen fireworks at a race

before and obviously never seen a drone

show before never seen that many people

at a race before so

absolutely loved it knows

Michael each obviously

the 09 car from Montana

and

Michael's dad so

he was in the pits a couple times talking to those guys but

yeah after the races

Saturday night I said I'll take your

lawn chair back he wanted to go in the pits so he did

and then comes back up to the camper with

the Millwoods

upright from the car

and then the fender

cover from the car so

and he got B. Shep

to sign the

sale panel on the back

because it said Rocket XR1 on it so he had

B. Shep sign it for him too so he had

he had a good time needless to say

awesome that's good

yeah so he's in Lima

so he's playing on getting to the

for crown and wants to go back for the dirt

track and all that stuff too so

you're talking

you know Lima's an hour for him and he was

used to he races compacts

out in Montana and

his Sunday night track is shared in Wyoming

which is five hours away

wow so

he said like one track

he gets spoiled

and he starts moving around from Lima

to all the close tracks

that's what my dad said my dad said dude if you drive

five hours from where you're at you can see a lot

of different stuff race

oh yeah no shit

you can see a ton I mean

you still see a ton this year just a few

you know still within an hour

I guess Millstream has the outlaws

still and Wainsfield has

410s

and 305s yet in October

and Fremont's racing for a couple more weeks

I mean hell he could definitely see

a lot of racing yet

yeah

yeah he said the closest track to him

is like 10 or 15 minutes away

and then after that it's everything's over three hours

wow

so got quite the uh

sometimes our people don't realize how lucky

they have it but even though they'll sit there and

bitch and belly ache about something stupid

you know you could be in a situation like that

where you got one close

track in three hours

yeah

so it's funny talking to him

because

you know ASCS sprint cars always

went to Montana and there's always

the race where you'd win and you get your picture

with the bear

right you know Montana is a big state but

a small community he's like oh I actually knew

the guy or know the guy that had the bear

and I guess the bear died

so that's why they don't do a picture with the bear anymore

no shit

good reason why

so I just remember the picture of Wayne Johnson

like sitting there

you know scared shitless after winning

out there

and the bear standing next to him wanting to hurry up

get the picture done so

yeah that's cool

he was you know

another grand kid to my mom by the end of the weekend

he's going through the cupboards of the camper

getting snacks and everything and you know

he's uh

he was broken in the right way we'll say

there you go

so there you go

you know his mom was still up here

when he came to Attica

and I was like where's your mom

he's like oh she's just out in the car

like she just

you know she'll find something to do

or whatever and I told him

I kind of wanted to meet your mom just so

she knew like you weren't hanging around with some

weirdo guy you know that you just

oh then why do you want her to meet you

oh that's what he said

she's listening to the podcast she already knows

I'm like oh great

shark knows you're weirdo

so

yeah so cool experience

like you said around here

sometimes we probably take it for granted how good we got it

but uh

it's cool to be able to

I'm happy I was able to

get someone to their first world 100

and a record breaking one at that so

well I remember at Attica

and uh I never

I never did run into him that night

and uh

so yeah hopefully I meet up with him sometime

yet this year

yeah he's wanting to hit up the foreground

that'll be a good Dwayne event for sure

oh well I'll be there

Armstrong's gonna be down there too all three days

our buddy Kyle

Kyle's gonna be there

yeah we got down the hot laps

or down to the pits Friday is hot laps

we're kind of starting so

swing by the Simpson trailer but

the front straight in the pits is kind of

crazy so I didn't want to get run over

by a car or anything and obviously

Wolfie never seen uh

you know big cars like that let alone

from the infield at Aldora so I was like

dude you gotta you gotta see hot laps from the infield

at least so oh yeah

he had a hell of a time

good deal as you could imagine 18

year old kid that loves racing he was

he was loving every minute of it

oh I bet

oh no

so yeah the other

100 stuff

again nothing too crazy but

supposedly bigger

bigger and better next year is what everyone's hearing

has officially been announced but

supposedly bumping the payday

up to over six figures is what I hear

oh cool deal

what about uh did you buy any merch

I got me some new merch

why is it on there you getting anything new

no I don't buy merch cause I'm too much

of a fat ass and shirts don't fit me right so

well they don't

mean they're too much but I

got uh you know I had to

get Jenna's brother I've been wanting a shirt of his

you know they finally had it and then

uh you know everybody

says I need a 99

jr. shirt and so

you know my buddy Frank

Hekenass

had it and

I don't know if they knew who I was or not but they act like

I was a celebrity coming in there I had like

holler VIP

treatment and everything I go oh no

you're coming in the holler by years you get the VIP

treatment

so I'm not sure but

I got two of these holler and

cool time so

it's cool uh laying me a few

uh shirts of the drivers I've been wanting

to get for a long time

yeah um

I speak of my buddy Wolfie being from Montana

obviously Michael Leach

driver in the 0-9 car for Montana

uh didn't realize it but I guess

his dad is like uh one of the owners

of Longhorn Chassis so

when everyone sees Michael Leach

run around uh the Midwest this summer

um and he's from Montana

you know you put two and two together

he's pretty much able to race

out of North Carolina at the uh

Longhorn place right so

um young up and coming driver

first year in super so

obviously his results maybe aren't as good

as he would like but uh

he's at Eldora you know gotta

put some laps in there to uh to have some

success so keep an eye on

but he's had some good runs this year at times

well he qualified really good Thursday night

I know

so there's someone else

to keep an eye on but obviously

Wolfie got a good treat he knows them

uh help them work on their cars and stuff

up in Montana when he was racing with

Soda and IMCA so uh

he knows excuse me

Michael's dad so he was able to

run with them a little bit in the pits and say hello

they were just happy to see someone else from Montana there

oh I bet

so you hear any other rumors

about using the Eldora besides

the uh World 100 getting

a pay hike

there's some

some silly season rumors but I don't know how credible

they are about one I heard particular

is Overton in the Riggs car

um but I don't know

we'll see what happens I guess

I was hearing about events at Eldora

oh what'd you hear the one coming up

the dirt track

mm-hmm

that it might be the last one

there yeah

I you know we were kind of hearing that too

but then they were talking to Carl Scherr

on the PA and

he act like he loves having it there so

I don't know what the good

well I heard he was you know

you know he could go to some of these tracks

that he's had that before and probably get a bigger

cut out of his deal

because you know

um you know

where he'd go into some of these tracks

but uh yeah that was kind of a hot rumor

that maybe uh

he was taking because he wasn't happy with

you know the cut he was getting

but you know because he's always kind of

controlled that deal and he's always had it

at places that

you know he can kind of control the narrative

where you know

he can't control it as much

I don't think and

that's kind of the rumor I was hearing but

I hope not I think it's a hell of a race

well I think if you're

Carl Schort in that instance you also got to

think that you're Lucas Oil sanctioned

for that race and that's

one of their championship final events

so

yeah I have a feeling if Lucas Oil doesn't

want to move it Carl Schort probably isn't going to

want to move it

well you wouldn't think because

yeah you think he'd be

you know

okay even if you're making a little less

why not have it at

one a facility you know is going to be awesome

two it's going to have a good car

counting crowd and three they're going to do

everything they can to get the race

in where you know that's

why it left some places because the track

conditions sucked or you know

if you know or

they just had issues that some of the places they

had it over the years so

why would you take it away from

one of the best places to have it

yeah not to mention a place that can

handle all the cars because you got four classes

racing over three days

right exactly

yeah I mean I didn't expect

I didn't expect it to be at Eldora

forever but

the way it's gone I think it's going to be kind

of hard to move it away from there

I do too I do too

I wholeheartedly agree

so that's kind of

rumor I heard from a couple

insider people but we'll see

how like I said

that rumors kind of floated around a little bit

before but

hopefully that's all it is but it's

starting to become that season which

we've already seen some of that

with more and more coming

in other deals

some silly stuff already happening

yeah speaking of silly stuff though

you had your AFCS championship

weekend so let us how did

that go we did

yeah I mean

that is

exciting as years pass

or you know come down

to the last lap and points like

two out of the last three years

or anything like that

Cap had it sealed up

all they had to show up

each night well then

he didn't even have show up

on Saturday to be honest because

Friday had to show up if he didn't show up

both nights he could have got beat

but all they had to sign in

basically Friday and he sealed the championship

but

he didn't win all weekend it was kind of

rare because he's got 15

wins on the season

tight I think for the 410s

in the nation right now but

yeah good car counts we had 28

in each division on

Friday

and you know some good cars

and

good race

had a little bit of issues getting the 410 race

going I mean

you know the last race this season

I don't know if they thought Maytag was sponsoring

those or what because a lot of guys

was in the spin cycle

so much

we had to have a fuel stop

which first time

I think it's first fuel

I know it is first fuel stop we've ever had

in AFCS history in seven years so

you know not bad

not bad and it is more of a

precaution so

we're not running out on the last lap or two

like it's happened here there

and past the

I mean because it was getting close

and it's like okay we can run

but

if there's you know one more

caution

it's going to get close and if there's two more

cautions it's going to be really really bad

and it's like rather safe

than sorry why we already had

you know there's I don't know how

many yellows there was there's reds

and yellows and

you know sometimes you have races like

that

but when the racing was going

it was good there's good good battles up

front all night and

Zef Sable

took the win

his second win

and

for the 410s and then

somebody used to race 305s that

moved up the 410 was racing the 305

the other night we were racing

the 4T Tadio car

Casey Generzak

somebody I know that your family knows

Casey got the win in the 305s

which

the track champions

were crowned then too so Cap got

the track championship

Zef

Snyder got the 305 track championship

and then Kyle Moore

won the late model feature

and won his second consecutive

late model track championship

and I don't know if you

heard about that

all that drama

I had not but

I don't know did you see

in the Victor Lane from

Attica I did not

no

well Kyle Moore thanked Attica

Raceway Park for standing up

and backing their drivers because

we all know

the big blue bulldozer

that was a bulldozer down to

Kyle Moore with Josh Rice and some of them

on that Sunday show

had a little thing

while he

there's some things going on behind the scenes

that

if

the big blue bulldozer

was trying to pull some shenanigans

to make sure Kyle Moore didn't win the title

and he did some things

where

if he showed up Kyle Moore

was going to have to leave

and

Attica Raceway Park basically told

sorry you're not allowed to come race with us

oh really

and so did Wayne County

very good I did not know that

yeah because

it would have cost him

it's kind of a premises behind a two off

I do this

and I show up he's going to have to leave these

tracks and not win track championships

and

both tracks kind of like

that crap and you take

you're behind the scenes shenanigans

and whatever you want to do

you know behind the scenes

with some actions or whatever you

think you got

and they're going to spill on the racetrack at our place

very good yeah it's

yeah that's a shame people got to be that way

and

I mean hey

we've both been around racing long enough to see some of those

rivalries

and you know bad

feelings towards each other

happen but when it comes to getting on the

racetrack everyone kind of knows

we all kind of have too much money into this

to screw around and wreck

each other shit so

well yeah when you start taking things behind the scenes

and making it where

if you show up that guy's got to legally

leave

then publicly say well

yeah he ain't going to win track championship because I'm going there

and he's going to have to leave

yeah I give

I give kudos for

I mean basically

Acura Raceway Park

stuck up for their guys and say

this guy's been here supporting us

every race for three or four years

you've come once or twice a year and

sorry

yeah back to shit and stay home

yeah

and we've seen this happen at Oak Shader

this year

he's got an affirmation of character because

they said he's spun out on live TV

on dirt no on flow

he's threatened a lawsuit and they said sorry

you can't come back so I like seeing

people that are

being dumbasses and threaten stupid shit

racetrack saying hey

you ain't coming to play here because

you know if they're threatening that with one deal

all it takes is one little thing

and they're going to be doing something stupid

you know

you don't need assholes like that in a sport

plain and simple in my opinion

yeah

glad Attica handled it

appropriately

they did and it sounds like Wayne County did too

yes good deal

but then you had Saturday night

to cap off your AFC

a season over at Fremont Speedway

which

Jamie Miller had a whoa

Jamie Miller had a terrible weekend too

he didn't win all weekend

but Jamie we thought

the 305's might get real close

because he started

on the pull of the 305 feature Friday

and had some throttle issues

actually pulled in the pits and

got just out of the work area

in time before they

wanted to go to take the tail

and salvage it

but he came charging through the

field but Attica but

Jamie basically all he had to do

is sign in to Fremont

and he did

and it's probably a good thing it wasn't close

because he got like 15th or 16th

in the AMA and he had a very off night

but Jamie Miller sealed up

his second in a row title

his third overall with the AFCS championship

and

yeah I've had 25 of each division there

of the 410 friends from 305's

and another good race

and you know

same winner as we

had on Friday night but different division

410 Casey Jeterzak

had the 11 in there and I put it

in Victor Lane with

pretty good battle and man

he made some moves in traffic that

sealed him the deal right

there about

the two thirds mark it looked like

he might get past because

it was a pretty good three car battle

then bam he made

a couple real good moves he split some

lap cars and

bought the last six laps he pulled

up to probably a two second lead

and didn't look back but Casey Jeterzak

took the 410 win

which was 5,000 to win both

both ended up paying 5,000 to win

and then

a guy that's only had

one 305 winning his career

Logan Rio

took the 305

win with their battle of

Dustin Stroop and

some guys up front that looked pretty good

and then Logan Rio took that win

and then

you know trucks

Fremont still goes for a couple weeks

with the trucks, Sean Villani won

in a very close race

as three trucks

him, Brewer and

Thorg were

three wide with

two laps to go or three laps to go

and I mean it was pretty good race

too so Fremont got over us super

early it was

heck we was done by ten we

got together and there's

I don't know I stopped a couple

different haulers and had some beers

and still got out there by 1130 after

hanging out for an hour and a half afterwards

so yeah very

season the crowds

were pretty decent both nights

and I said a little chilly

Attica was a little chilly because it was 40 mile per hour

wins earlier in the day and

died down to like a calm

like 20 mile per hour win through the races

so

I'm so

yeah because it ends up being

pretty good season well one of the

farce payouts and everything

it was our highest by far

and great car counts

and got

Tyler Sheets as our 410 rookie

of the year and I'm

95% sure Daniel Hoffman

is going to be our 305 rookie of the year

so all three of them still had a chance

or three of them had a chance

on the last night and all three of them didn't run so hot

so

I think Hoffman end up winning that battle

and yeah

you also announced that

you're going to be having a

end of season celebration too

yes so

November 22nd

it's going to be combined with the all

star circuit champions

it's going to be all star circuit champions

AFCS sprint series

the moonshine nightclub

or something right downtown Fremont

moonshine something that's

double duck replaced

so the awards

ceremony is going to be free

to the teams and that but that's going to be more

of an invite deal

we're going to have the top ten

and the all stars and AFCS through a 5

and 410s and prior rookie of the years

up there and have a quick little

dinner

and awards deal

and then after that's over

I can't remember the timeframe

right away but then after that

the downstairs is going to be open

free and it's going to be opened up

to a fan party is what we're going to call it

fan fest fan party

for everybody

it's going to be free admission it's going to be cash bar

but there's going to be some like appetizers

stuff all night and I believe

there's a band and this place has a bunch of like

games like

open ball machines and different games

that are just going to be

open for everybody to use and just kind of

a little party combined with the all

star circuit champions so

right on

should be fun it should be

a fun night and I've already been

told by a couple of drivers they live

close enough that we can over there

so we're going to have fun

that's all I was told

alright sounds like trouble

I can imagine it will be

yeah

speaking of sprint cars

one of their big races

happened this past weekend

the Tuscarora 50

over at Port Royal Speedway

for the High Limit Series

a three-day show I did not

state up to date on much with this

I saw Mackery won the opening night

Aaron

Wright so with the boot the boot from Clute

got the win on Friday night

I believe Mackery was the first race back

and then

I didn't even know the kid came all the way

out here but you know hell let's

go win you know

$58,000 in Pennsylvania

Ryan Tim said

not just the Knoxville Nationals

let's get another big win under our belt

I think it was his first 410

weekend there too

ever at Port Royal

if I've heard right

and yeah and he didn't do crap

the first two nights I mean he was

like 18th

16th, 18th and

he's just struggling out here

and then I don't know if you've seen it but they said

in the last month you know he's won

his first High Limit show

his first Outlaw show

the Houston Track Championship

Knoxville Nationals

it's his combined because he's got

midget wins this year

he's got 360 wins he's got 410 wins

I think he's got

I think that was his 17th win of the year

and he's won over $400,000

this year at 19 years old

yeah and I see

on the final restart with 25 to go

he took the lead and drove away to

a 7.265 second

win

yeah wow

which we've talked him up a lot because

he's one of those kids that we've seen

midgets that has talent

that's been in the KKM deal

one of them that don't recycle cars

a lot I mean has he a little bit

but yeah not like

not like some of those

he's got talent and he's not one of those guys

that you know runs over

or anything and

just shows how good he is

I mean he goes out there to Port Royal

and you know

was struggling the first couple of nights

but like I said then

the third night when the big money was on the line

they hit something right and yeah

drove the almost 8 second

win and yeah pretty crazy

USAC national sprint cars

were in action through Illinois

and Missouri

Briggs Danner got the win at Tri City

Speedway

and then Justin Grant

with the

with the contraption on his broken foot

and over at Wheatland

the soil speedway becomes the all time

winner for the

USAC national sprint car series

yeah

yeah he's still doing good

broken foot and boot ain't falling him down

or plate you know contraption

to help use the brakes so

I said well who needs brakes anyway

you know yeah that's right

um other than that

Labor Day weekend

we had some races happen in our area

we mentioned the Attica Ambush

that was all-star sprint car weekend

um

sorry I'm looking for results here

I know Friday night we had the Ironman

late model series

on cap with the

sprint cars

and uh

cap Henry Briggs

yeah say cap I thought swept the weekend

uh for the sprint cars

well at Attica and Fremont or I mean

Attica both nights and uh

he didn't go to Wayne County

where Casey Gendresek got the win

the Pete Jacobson Morris so pretty cool there but

yeah Ironman late models were five grand

to win uh at Attica Friday night

as well Kyle Moore

uh got himself another win

big pan win for him so

actually he ended up winning three features

midway on Sunday

and uh got the win

so he won at uh hilltop

Saturday night I believe for 5,000

so Kyle Moore had himself a hell

of a weekend last weekend

yeah I think they said uh what they say

Victor Lane at Attica

the other night that was his

I think 23rd

or 4th when he said he don't know

between the mod and late model he says seriously

he goes I've lost track but

this guy thought it was like his 23rd

end of the year 23rd or 24th

between two um

and then Attica Saturday like we said

Henry got himself

another win I believe paid 7,500

on Saturday night

and then the old man John Ivy

got himself a 305 win

yes he did

were you there for that yep on a night

on a night I wasn't there

I was gonna say he's probably pissed at you

he's last three wins

I've not been there

and that's what a two year

two year drought for him too

at Attica so

I'm sure that was a popular

win for sure

oh yeah for sure yep

and then Sunday the Baltes

Classic happened they did a split field

uh two features

40 or sorry 24 cars

in each field

and me and Duane were talking about this

the week before say man hopefully they get

48 cars well I forgot last year

they got 65 cars

so that's why they did this

and this year they got 65 cars again

so Kyle Bronson

yeah Kyle you were down there

for it I know but Kyle Bronson got

the win of one and Ricky Thornton Jr

was breaking in that new chassis

got the win in the other and

obviously he went on to win the world 100

our buddy Jerry Bowersack got the modified win

over 51 modifies

with a broken

well he thought he had a broken hand

um because he got in a crash

uh well

talking about the big blue bulldozer

um

he got into it with Rice earlier in the night

and Rice

let him know at the scale when he crawled in his car

how well he saw them

and Rice actually said he scratched

but then they got the car going and

they got in the

the B main

or no it was in the feature I think

a battle on there

um uh Brennan and Rice got into it

on the last lap

and Brennan got stuck

in the fence and Bowersack had nowhere

to go and hit him and then a guy come up

from behind Bowersack and had nowhere

to go and apologize Jerry while his hand

was steering the steering wheel so he drove

the modified a main

with his he went to the

EMS and they're like well

we think it's broke we're gonna have to X-ray it

and he goes I got on the track

or I'm leading the points in the modifies

in the next race

so they put a brace on it says okay go Rice

so he was basically

driving one hand in the modified race

and strumming actually pasting

and uh

restart a few laps ago and Jerry used

his Eldora experience and uh

that was a very popular win I didn't realize

it's been since 2000 I think they said

13 that Jerry's won the modified

race and Eldora

yeah I would never guess that a very popular win

yeah very popular win so

that's cool because we went down talk to him

afterwards because

I've seen him in Attic and talked to him a lot

on that Friday and uh

he's somebody we're friends

with he listens to the show and we're friends

and uh we

it was funny because Friday night we was making our dome

plans of uh

you know we drinking beer and eating pizza

again he's like yep I'm staying the same place

so he's like I didn't think I had rooms there

and I do so we did all that so then it's like

we gotta go down and see

him uh

after he's win and yeah it's like what the hell happened

in your hand he goes that wreck in the modified deal

he says they want to take me to the infield care center

and then he goes hell I'm leading points and I was like

I'll just go out there and race

and they're like well let's put a

brace on it at least so

um but when I seen Thursday at Eldora

um I guess

it's not broke it was just

he said it was still very sore

they didn't have the brace on Thursday at Eldora

but um

so uh

the Jedi you know getting a win

and extending his modified point lead

which uh

I think they got one more modified grace down there

I believe

probably the dirt track

yes

so uh he's going for his next track championship

at Eldora hopefully that weekend

and I mean

jeez over 51 freaking cars too

yeah there's

31 stock cars

yeah that's crazy that's a hell of a show

there's 65

late miles, 51 modifies

and 31 stock cars

I mean it was a hell of a show

I mean it was

I tell ya it's becoming one of those shows

if it keeps going like that that uh

we talk about

if you want to go to Eldora it's kind of like

the castle full night in America deal

it's like or the dirt track

if you want to go to a bigger one with not as

biggest crowd uh that involves

starting to be the same deal and yeah

modifies from all over

said Stremia's there

a bunch of big shots so uh

all the races is good

um

I think Conover I think Conover won

stockers yep

stock cars but uh all of them are good

great races I mean

all three of them are well four

cause there's two late model 8 mains

all of them was really good races

yeah always been uh

crazy that races gone up and down with car

attendance uh over the years

and um you know last

handful of years it's become what it used

to be where it's that true tune up for the

world and we're seeing it more and more

so as the cars get

more advanced track time becomes more and

more important so obviously

well that Ricky Thornton Jr

you know was uh it was an

important weekend for him

well yeah and

and here you go

we're using our head you know like I said

promote you know some tracks just got

a knack for uh making

smart decisions and you know

uh well okay

so having one feature

with uh 24

cars and sending 40 some home

tell you what we're gonna do like we do the others

we're gonna do a group a group b

and have two a mains paying 5000

win 500 start now

48 guys are getting paid so

you had 65 there and 48

made a main money I mean that's

kind of a no brainer of hey

let's go down there because

uh you know even if they get

60 you know and

like I said one getting valuable lap

time at El Dorre but two that's a good

time to go to El Dorre if you haven't been there

if you're like hey I'd like

to just go down there and race some time

that's why some of those modifies were

because it was a holiday weekend and some

of them like hey it was their first time at El Dorre

like always wanted to go there

um so they went

but uh 48 cars make

a main it's kind of a no brainer

and El Dorre fire let's see what can we do

to better the tune up oh let's

just make sure 48 guys get a main

money you know I mean

a very smart move on their part

I mean obviously we talk

Ricky Thornton Jr. and Kyle

Bronson but you had Mike Marlar there

Tyler Herb Corey Hedgecock Brinn

Overton Jimmy Owens

Tanner English Kyle Strickler

Mike Hekinast I mean

lots and lots of freaking good cars

showed up so it's uh

yeah Leech I think was there

well it wasn't he was

I think he was

yeah so just one of those again

you'd never know who you're going to see

I've seen Billy Moyer there I've seen

you know Jimmy Mars Brian Burke

Offer they show up for that

for those races and

yeah it's uh becoming

I'm glad it's becoming what it used to be

that way

yeah for sure yep

um yep that was good

any other uh results Labor Day

weekend to to go over to Wayne

well

where'd you go Saturday

I can thank you

Saturday on Labor Day weekend

I went to

shit I don't remember

that was you know five

races ago oh

I did I went to demolition Derby

County Fair oh nice

the most piss poor

van were piss poor demolition Derby

ran that I think she

in my life really

I house it was

very badly ran

I mean it was why

like the cars not crashing to each other or something

some of them

yeah I like the so the big

cars paid like five thousand to win

and they only had

like nine of them and like

four on the same team

and I mean

um

they was just

putting foot around most of the time they just

been in each other in circles because

there's like two outsiders

well they got kid took an hour right away

well these guys don't want to be

out of the cars when they're on the same team

so they just kind of

would hit each other and just spin each other

and I mean barely tap each other and spin

each other in circles and when they

do that it's hitting the full throttle making it

sound like a monster truck show

like

we go out engines

hit somebody it's a demo Derby and

then

so they come down

you can't tell me this guy's an outsider because

his ain't like the other ones

well now he was on the same team

and they hit each other

fairly hard once

and you're like oh the

Imperial

stalled so he's like okay this station

is a chance to win

and uh

he breaks his stick right away

why the Imperial is still on time

well here I found out it was like grandfather

and grandson or something and

all the other ones are on the team and

they had five I think different

classes and two of them are like that

now the vans was good

the vans was very good but

just uh

it was badly organized it was just

uh one guy that

one literally

hurt I mean

you know I don't know I know you haven't

been to a lot of Derbies but all of my

men too if you hit the driver's door it's illegal

and you get disqualified I mean this dude

hit a guy in the driver's door

so bad it broke the door

and wrapped it part way around the guy

the guy was rocked I mean they actually

threw the red flag and got him out of the car

and he he you tell he was

hurting and then and that guy

went in it's like dude you there's no penalty

for you know

yeah

um and it was

I mean and then

they I don't know they probably had

seven

or eight red flag

fire it was probably more than that

to be honest but let's say eight just

on the safe side but it was probably more

like twelve um

well red flag fire fire fire and

they thought they seen a fire

and they had run out there

and I mean

mess around for ten minutes and there was no fire

anywhere well then when there is a fire

there was a huge fire and flames

are coming out of the headers like

burrowing out of the headers it wasn't backfire

because this car is out smoking

steaming and they're just lollygagging

and they got the red flag and they're out

walking out there like oh look at that

that's pretty it's a hot dog

she's not like

it was

I couldn't believe it I was like

who the hell is putting on this goat rope

I was seeing a monkey in a football

I didn't see that I can tell you that

so what made you want to go to that

well

um

you know what's nice talking

we've been talking about going to the fair

and there's never been to Van Wert

we're like yeah we can go to the race

let's try something different and I said

well she was like I haven't been to Derby

in a long time I said well I think it's

going to be good over there and

I got to look and say do this 5000

win the one class that's got to be great

you know

yeah not so much I thought maybe you knew

somebody or something

yeah I actually one of my

friends that uh worked

in an app store in southern Indiana that

I actually ought one

we used to before COVID when

you could actually have meetings in person

and you know now that everybody did

online shit you know

it was virtual just about

um

we used to the only thing out sales

means that he runs and

and stuff and uh he was in it

and his kid was actually in the power

wheel one but now just

just something different and uh

you know get some good fair food

which had

the best sausage sandwich I've ever had

at a fair so you know there was that

that was good

but yeah the Derby I

got a big car Derby

nice I don't

I don't you know I've been to like

two Derbies my entire life just not my

thing but they can be fun

um a guy I work with

who's actually from India

um he's you know

he works he's technically a subcontractor

for us but uh

he uh lives in Wasian

Ohio and the Fulton County Fair happens

over Labor Day weekend

and the final night is

before the world and they do the Derby

that night well he

he actually goes he's been to Oak Shade a few times

and stuff and likes you know car racing

and he said

Demo Derbies is something they don't have in India

so he likes to try to go so Thursday night

him and his wife went up to the Derby

and they got to the ticket window

and uh they sold out I guess at Fulton

County

yeah no pit passes anything they

they quit selling tickets to the whole thing

so that was I guess I never heard

what happens or not at the fair but

our fair is a very large fair

um for people that don't know we're in a

very agricultural area so

our county fair brings like 120,000

plus people over the course

of six days or whatever it is

it's huge

so much so you avoid the fair grounds

during fair time or traffic's a disaster

but yeah I guess

the final final night the Derby

sold out there didn't obviously don't know

I didn't hear that uh cause

Trebs ran in it

Trebs worse for me ran in it

and uh

he didn't say it sold out but yeah so

yeah interesting yeah Derby's a pile

I'll fill one over here at our county fair

Williams County fair

this Friday and it usually

the grandstand usually sells out

but they never stop selling

pit passes so uh they're

heard of that so uh same yeah

yeah it's been uh

been eventful uh

Labor Day is always busy time in our areas

our farms are going

I actually thought

that uh that's what I was doing this Friday

cause uh

thought I was gonna come out of my Derby

retirement and run uh

they got a special one

over here a new thing they're doing

where

you it pays

1800 to win but you don't get the money

you gotta represent

a like a fire station

or an emergency

like an EMS deal

or something and uh first responder type

of thing

yeah exactly so uh

I thought uh for my old hometown

Evansport we uh

we had a van offered to us for free

but it just uh

didn't work out to get in time

I mean today is the first day

the guy was around in two weeks to deliver

Savannah and Derby's and you know Friday night

and I'm

gonna half-ass it if I'm gonna do it

we're gonna do it right and get it ready

and uh so I thought I was gonna

be running the van Derby this week

or this Friday but uh

didn't happen or not gonna happen

let's put it that way nice

um

so I guess nothing

more race results

there's a few news notes to uh

to talk about to discuss

the big one I mean

it's not totally surprising uh depending

on who you are I guess but uh

oh I should say word of outlaw

sprint cars raced at Vado I know their

second night got rained out

who won the first night

um

I don't even know to be honest

I forget I forget to

gravel there you go surprise there

I'm shocked

yeah um

but uh yeah big news

out of the word of outlaw side of the world uh

Sheldon Hottonshield will depart

Stenhouse Jr. Marshall

racing at the end of the season

and his crew chief

yeah and Kyle Ripper as well

they've been together for a long time

but uh yeah they're both leaving

and sounds like they are leaving

which I never thought Sheldon

would get fired from the car even though the results

have just not been

guaranteed not up to

anybody's expectations or probably

wants and uh

so I don't know exactly

what he has going on but uh

Ripper lives

in the Knoxville area and I'm

pretty sure Sheldon's wife's from

Iowa so obviously

everybody the rumor

mill is he's going to the 18 car

um

but uh I'm not sure

you know that's a hot rumor because

Ripper and that's no secret

Ripper's talked about getting off

the road for a few years or you know full

time where he could be more of a car chief

and being based there

you could do that a little more probably

than based in

you know

but I don't know

uh the rumor is

about a second car with gravel

um then

you know some people's brought up

oh whoa hey remember

when he had the 93 car and started Tony

Stewart kind of helped him that oh well he's

going to go in the Stewart car but

I know I'm banking on

probably just if you go with

Ripper and all that

leaving so you know they got something going

that they're both leaving and

I

I would think it'd be the 18 but I don't know

yeah I'd agree that makes sense but

uh I guess time will tell

but yeah when both both parties

like that are leaving uh kind of the end

of the season that kind of tells you they got

something lined up is what it sounds like

only 100% yep I would say

and you know being the 18

from you know not far from Knoxville

and Ripper lives in Knoxville

and all that I

you know maybe maybe not

but uh

I could see that happening

the next question

is what's happened to the 17

I would think maybe

uh Gio just stays

with the team and once uh

once um Sunshine

comes back I you know I mean

maybe not but

I think that would probably be

an easy move

yeah it'd be I mean they're not technically

team cars but they kind of are so

right um yeah I mean

it it makes sense

to do that switch but I guess

time will tell us um

yeah and then the 15 car

which obviously may not be 15

um that'll be interesting to see where

where that lands and who lands

in the seat

right for sure

um other one I don't know if you saw

it's not a huge

headline but Spencer based in

announced being the Tarleton car for the California swing

for the word of outlaws yeah

yeah well Tarleton's kind of

announced it before he did

I don't know if you've seen that they had a picture

hey that uniform looks good on you

why don't you uh bring it and come

race the outlaw swinging for the next

couple weeks nice

yeah no I did not see that I just

saw it real quick today and I was like oh

it's interesting yeah yeah it's funny

they put they post a picture

of Spencer and his Tarleton uniform

they're like hey Spencer base and

uh that Tarleton uniform

looks great on you why don't you

you and it come out to California

for the next two weeks of the outlaw swinging

come drive for us

okay I'm sure he

appreciated the offer no matter how it came

yeah well yeah they probably

they could I'm sure they probably just did

that for show but they probably

had it worked out before that but uh

it'll be interesting too because

you know Donny's in the W car

with Paul Silva

for some of those shows too

yeah he has them for the

west coast swing so

yep excuse me

uh last one I have

just uh

make sure I talked about it did you see the

shots from West Virginia Motor Speedway

yes

I was talking last time we talked

about it coming back the short configuration

and I had made a comment about

I don't know what they're going to do for lights

because the last pictures didn't have light poles

on the inside of the back stretch

well now that it's kind of the final

uh you know final deal ready to go

I see there is lighting all around

the track now so I want to make sure

to put that out there so everyone heard me say it

um yeah just uh

it looks like they've done a great job with it

hopefully all goes well but uh

I had to see it come back to life in October

yeah I think it would be

neat I think it looks pretty

uh good configuration it

looks like me which to me

the picture might be deceiving but it looks like

it might be a little narrow but I'm not sure

kind of hard to tell from the picture

yeah yeah I don't

I didn't think it looked too alarming

in any way um

but yeah get some cars on there

see how it races I guess

and go from there it happens for sure

any other

news headlines I'm missing Dwayne I feel like I am

but uh I know

one I guess to bring up Brent Marks

uh put an apology out because after

uh Saturday

at Port Royal he had to

bust ass out of there wasn't able to stick around

and talk to fans his daughter actually was having

an appendectomy uh

emergency appendix

removal so he uh had

to scuttle out and uh go be with

his family definitely understandable I don't think

anyone holds that against him but hopefully

uh I haven't seen any update

hopefully everything went okay and all as well

um

I know an update on one of the drivers

that listened to our podcast and his dad

which is his crew chief car

or listen a lot Bobby Elliott I don't know

if he knows he got life lighted on that

yes I forgot to mention that

yeah yes he

uh actually uh went back

college today and I could carry

his laptop uh he's got

you know uh broken

I think T5 T4

and T5 and he's back uh

don't need surgery but uh obviously

out um

for a while and um

but I've talked to him uh

oh two or three times and uh

so it's just sore you know

and uh doing better and uh you know

uh thankfully he can walk around

and do things and uh

it's a big step for him today because he could carry

his laptop to college so uh

um good to see

he's starting to improve a little bit and then

I've seen uh Robert Blue is

officially out for the rest of the year

uh um he wasn't

sure if he would be

back you know but he says

he's said uh

he's been having some issue with his one hand

and he says screw it

while his back's out

he goes why sit here and wait so he had

uh the surgery he's been needing

on his hand um

last week and he says that'll officially

make him done for the year

gotcha um

which he was he didn't want to but

he's like hey if it's kind of stupid why don't I do this now

you know

and uh

to throw it down and out why not uh

why wait and do this in uh

so he is officially done

because he had uh some hand work done too

yeah and I uh I know with Bobby

Elliott's uh I didn't see

any video or anything but I saw he posted

like man looking at it like

that's the wreck that hurts

you know I get hurt in so it sounded like

it didn't look like a very vicious wreck

from what I saw no everybody talked to you said it

was not everybody talked to you said it

was not at all just this way

you hit mm-hmm

yeah bummer to hear that I forgot about that

thank you for bringing that up sorry Bobby

hopefully you're uh back behind

the wheel no time a man I know probably

out the rest of the year to let things heal up

which is the smart thing to do but

you know we want to see back man for sure

yep I know they plan on

being back he says they just

getting the engine and everything out

and uh you know getting it

to go get refreshed they come back next year

I know it's a plan good deal

anything else I missed

um

I'm sure there is I'm sure there is

but I can't think of it uh why

do you see uh

the uh

USAC race in

Arizona now was paying

20,000 they upped at the

35,000 to win

today or yesterday

so they're in October

uh the USAC sprint car

I think that's the finale for them

uh gonna pay 35,000

to win though a thousand to start

that'd be good hopefully some of those

California boys and west coast guys

will come on out

and have a hell of a car count

yeah thousand to start and that's what they're trying

you know a thousand to start

good money for non-wing and 35,000

to win now so they're

really trying to pump that deal up

are you going anywhere this weekend

uh yeah right now

uh the plan is

uh Circle City on

Friday uh USAC

sprints it's the else Ashley Elverson

Memorial um which

we talked about a couple years second year

you know the young racer there killed

in the road rage accident outside of

D&D um but it's gonna be USAC

sprints uh

USAC D2 midgets and the all

star TQ midgets

uh then

Friday or Saturday I don't know if you've seen

our buddy the milk man yeah

uh is paying $6,000

to win for non-wing

sprints now USAC go down

the hobstod but uh

I'm pretty certain uh

my pillars should have some cars for

6000 to win uh with

fides and street socks

and trombics so right now

the plan is um

Circle City Friday

and Montpelier Saturday

yeah no that's actually I wanted to see

if you're going because I want to make sure to mention that

that's uh pretty big payday

for non-wing guys and decent

amount of money for our buddy Ryan Sutter

to put out there for uh

for the non-wing guys so uh

yeah Montpeliers I told

our buddy Wolfie from I said hey

we're not real far that'd be

a good place to check out on Saturday

yeah it's a neat place and yeah

I'm hoping to get the support

from the cars and the fans because it's the biggest

payday he's done for non-wing sprints so

uh but yeah plan on doing that

and uh I don't know if our buddy

you know Jerry Bowersock maybe racing

a mod over there he races over there

once in a while so yes he does not sure

but uh that's the plan as

of right now cool

and uh what three months racing both nights

this weekend right yes

gym forward classic uh

the all-star finale uh Friday

nights uh 5,000 to win

when dirt trucks join

them then Saturday's 10,000 to win with

uh 305s yeah

so still still I limits

are at uh

Lernerville for two-day show ah that's

right um yeah a lot

of stuff coming up uh still

racing to go I know once Labor Day comes

it kind of feels like things are wrapping

up but uh there's still some racing to be

had so be sure to yeah we got a lot

the week after we got a ton because

you got high limits at Lawrenceburg

on Wednesday then Forecrown Thursday

Friday Saturday um

the week after so yeah we got

we got quite a bit yet in our area

and then the week after that Friday

night you got word of outlaws at Millstream

yes and you're

sack of butler on that Saturday

but we're going

to I don't know if I told you but we're

going to Sunday

we're going to Coles County to

the uh

rule king uh

you mentioned one to go road to the dome deal

yep we got our tickets so we're going

cool

did you see uh action track

and Coonstone had late models

yes for the first time

Trevor Feathers won uh they only had 12 cars

show up but uh

uh it sounded like it was a good race and I was thinking

it paid like six grand to win or something

yeah something like that yeah

well that's kind of how Coles County

is going to be I think uh

about like that because uh you know

it's invite and there's you know some good

guys that accepted the invite already

so uh

I know some people

that thought it'd be sold out by now

which I did too because you know they got some

good names but uh

it's like well you know Brownstown's

the day before I think some of them is afraid

of what happens

Brownstown gets rained out you know some

of these invite guys they're going to make it

but they got some world outlaw guys invited

to and uh

it'll be interesting to see what happens but uh

um I seen

one of the best remittances I've ever seen

uh couple or a liar last year

when we did the Illinois midget week

so hopefully in late models uh

I know Bobby Pierce and some of them is testing

on it uh before going to the dome

so uh hopefully

uh it should be interesting

yeah um

Trevor Feathers won at Coontstown

which is another fifth mile

they say I don't know where they're measuring it from

but it looks smaller than that

um but Screvin also had

a 10,000 to win show

uh Dalton Wilson ended up going down there

instead of uh Eldora

which is a little uncommon but Mark

Mark Whitener won

uh 10,098 dollars

uh over

Screvin Georgia so

still some decent races happening

not just the world 100 but uh

yeah obviously the world 100

came to the big dog on the block so

yeah and I don't know

I know the all stars were

at New York and Mercer

which Spithaler run at Mercer

and um

Caleb Henry won

in New York yeah I was gonna say

I thought Caleb won one night but yeah

I forgot about that

yeah Terry Wilbur Memorial

yes

cool

so yeah a lot of stuff

a lot of stuff still happening

Butler still races uh for

I think three weeks so

yeah like you said they got USAC national sprints coming through

we got outlaws on middle stream

we got uh four crown

there's quite a bit still happening

yep

all kinds of things happening yet

cool

alright well

I guess that'll wrap it up for us then

does that sound good to you?

sounds excellent to me

I'm done talking to you

I don't want to talk to you this long

likewise

we've had NFC in person

hey did the Browns win yesterday

asking for a friend

no they should have won the story of our life

hey if your Steelers didn't have a 75 year old

kicker with a leg made of

freaking dynamite you wouldn't have got to win either

I know it hey

but I hope that's the Aaron Rogers

we get every week

he looked the best he's looked in probably five or six years

I have a feeling though

I hope he didn't use it all in one week

yeah imagine if you're the giants

and you see Daniel Jones just go off like crazy

right

for Indianapolis and Russell Wilson can't hit the broad

side of a barn

no not at all

you know the year before

Saquon to Philly and he had a freaking record year

yeah

some interesting stuff I should say

who have thought Steelers defense

was going to be the weak link

we had all these veterans

and they give up 300 rushing yards

I could have ran through

and got 10 yards

on the carrier I think yesterday

yeah I was

under the weather so I started

watching

the Browns game

and then I just started dozing

so I just turned the TV off

and fell back asleep on the couch

but I mean

I missed a typical Browns game

which I've seen before

nothing too crazy

that happened in my opinion

yep

alright

I guess that'll wrap it up for us

so thanks everybody for listening

thanks for tuning in we appreciate it

each and every week

until next time

I guess we'll see you then

as always stay dirty

bye bye

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