Episode 397 - Memorial Day Weekend Review and Mansfield Growing Pains
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Term
open-wheel
Open-wheel race cars are cars where the wheels are outside the body instead of being covered by fenders. That style is common in sprint car and other dirt/oval racing series.
Topic
USAC national sprint car series
USAC is a racing organization, and this is their national sprint car championship. Sprint cars are the dirt-track race cars that are built for quick, aggressive racing on ovals.
Place
Circle City
Circle City is a nickname for Indianapolis. Here, it’s where the sprint car race they’re talking about was held.
Place
Terre Hope
This sounds like the name of a track where they raced the night before. Different tracks change how the cars handle, so where you race matters a lot in dirt racing.
Topic
little 500
The “Little 500” is a famous short-track race event. The hosts are saying Cody won one of the races during the weekend.
Car
Dodge Charger
The Dodge Charger is a car built for performance, usually with a powerful engine and a sporty feel. People talk about it in racing because it can be competitive against other cars. In the podcast, it sounds like it’s doing well in the standings.
Place
Lawrenceburg
Lawrenceburg is referenced as a race venue where the field size and schedule affected how many cars were expected and how many actually showed up. The host contrasts it with other tracks to explain weekend “growing pains” in car counts.
Place
Butler
“Butler” is mentioned as another dirt-track venue affecting the weekend’s car counts. The host compares Butler’s Friday turnout to other tracks to explain why their expectations changed.
Term
high-limits
“High-limits” refers to a dirt-track racing class or event with higher spending/entry rules—often meaning more money, more competitive equipment, or stricter eligibility compared to a standard weekly race. The host uses it to explain why Lawrenceburg drew more cars on Friday.
Place
Attica Raceway Park
Attica Raceway Park is a dirt oval track used for grassroots racing events. In this segment, it’s referenced as the venue whose staff handled a late draw and field-start decisions.
Term
draw
A “draw” is basically a random selection that decides things like where you start. A “late draw” means it happened later than usual, after the field was already mostly set.
Term
scratch
A “scratch” is when a driver or car withdraws from the event after the lineup is set, often due to mechanical issues or other problems. Here, one scratch changes the field size, prompting the track to revert to starting everyone.
Term
pits
The “pits” are the service area where teams park the car between runs for maintenance, repairs, and adjustments. The host notes that with a large number of cars, the pits become a major operational factor.
Concept
tracks shit condition
They’re saying the track surface was in bad shape. When the ground is rutted or loose, tires don’t grip as well and the car can get unstable, especially over jumps and in corners.
Concept
pay a 100000 to win
They’re talking about a big prize for the winner—$100,000. When the payout is that high, drivers often push harder, which can make racing more intense and risky.
Term
rear-end come off ground 34 foot
They’re describing the back of the vehicle lifting off the ground during a jump. “34 foot” is the kind of big, measurable airborne moment that shows how hard the truck hit the jump.
Term
two wheels
“Two wheels” means the truck is so light on one side that it’s only rolling on two tires for a moment. That usually happens after a jump or when the tires lose grip on a rough part of the track.
Place
I-79 Speedway
I-79 Speedway is a race track where dirt oval races are run. Track surface and grip can change a lot there, so drivers’ experience at that venue really matters.
Car
Fiat Freemont
The Fiat Freemont is a larger, family-style car (an SUV/crossover type) made by Fiat. The podcast mentions it in the context of people showing up or running when other events are off. It’s likely just a model name being used to describe what’s being discussed around those track days.
Term
tire tune
A tire tune is adjusting how the tires are set up for the track. On dirt, that can change how much grip you get and how the car handles.
Place
Attica and Freemont
Attica and Fremont are race tracks being compared. The host is talking about how the dirt and rocks on the track affect racing.
Term
track prep
Track prep means the crew works on the dirt surface before racing. They try to make the track grip consistently so drivers can predict how the car will handle.
Term
sifted the rocks
Sifting rocks means clearing big rocks out of the dirt track. It helps prevent damage and makes the surface behave more consistently.
Concept
reconfigured to dirt
Reconfigured to dirt means the track was changed to run on dirt. That changes grip and usually requires different preparation and setup.
Term
four-tenth smile
“Four-tenth” appears to be a shorthand for a track length or timing reference (e.g., a four-tenths-mile oval). The speaker is using it to describe the kind of track that suits certain conditions and racing styles.
Person
Danny Dietrich
Danny Dietrich is a dirt-racing driver. Here, he’s the focus because he got disqualified at Lincoln, and the hosts think it may have come from confusion between officials and the pit area.
Concept
disqualified
Disqualified means the driver’s result doesn’t count in the official standings. It usually happens because officials decide something broke the rules or the race procedure wasn’t followed.
Place
Lincoln
Lincoln is the race track where this disqualification happened. At tracks like this, how officials and the pit area communicate can matter a lot.
Concept
communication issues with the tower and the pit guy
The tower is where race officials are, and they communicate with the teams. The hosts are saying the problem may have been that officials and the pit crew didn’t get the same message.
Concept
PA Posse series operated as series not just let the tracks right use their own rules
They’re debating who should control the rules—series officials or each individual track. If tracks use different rules, it can lead to confusion and disagreements during races.
Term
heat race
A heat race is a smaller race before the main race. It helps decide who does well enough to move on and sometimes affects where people start in the final race.
Term
roll of dice
A “roll of dice” means there’s a random part to the rules. Even if you did well, luck can still affect things like where you start next.
Topic
pavement race
A pavement race is run on asphalt instead of dirt. Asphalt and dirt grip the tires differently, so the driving and strategy can feel totally different.
Term
modified racer
A “modified” racer drives a race car that’s been changed a lot from a normal street car. The rules depend on the series, but these cars are built for racing and often require careful setup.
Place
Kennedale
Kennedale is a place where racing happens. The speaker is saying the driver has experience from racing there, which matters in dirt racing.
Term
late models
“Late models” are a type of race car class used on dirt tracks. It’s a popular category where drivers compete in cars built specifically for oval racing.
Car
Subaru 360
The Subaru 360 is a very small car made by Subaru, designed to be light and efficient. In the podcast, it sounds like it’s used in a specific race category called “360s.” That’s why it’s mentioned when they talk about which cars run on which days.
Person
Brady Bacon
Brady Bacon is a race driver. In this segment, they’re talking about where he’s racing next and how packed his schedule is.
Term
wing car
A “wing car” is a race car with a big rear wing on it. The wing pushes the car down onto the track so it can turn faster and grip better on dirt.
Term
midgets
“Midgets” are a type of small race car used on dirt tracks. They’re built to be fast and nimble, and they race in events where drivers run multiple races in a short time.
Topic
Eastern Storm
“Eastern Storm” is the name of a racing run where drivers travel and race at a bunch of tracks in a row.
Term
Silver Crown
“Silver Crown” is a major dirt-track racing series. Drivers treat it like a big deal, and it’s different from the shorter sprint races.
Person
Bryce Lucius
Bryce Lucius is a race driver. They’re talking about how his car did in races at specific tracks.
Term
main
A “main” is the main race of the night. If you make the main, you’re in the biggest event; if you miss it, you don’t get to run for the main prize.
Topic
Williams Grove
“Williams Grove” is a dirt-track race venue. The hosts are talking about how a driver did there in a specific event.
Person
Troy Wagamon
Troy Wagamon is a person involved in the racing team/driver lineup. They’re discussing which drivers are in which cars.
LIVE
Hello everybody how's everyone doing hope you're doing well another episode of the dirt nerds
podcast coming at you live in person ish in person kind of tape delayed yeah tape
delayed but in in person we're live hope you're all doing well hope you all had a
good couple of weeks sorry we missed you hope your Memorial Day weekend was good
even though here it was rainy and crappy but some racing did happen some things
did get in we'll be sure to talk about those I cooked steaks there something
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sponsors I guess we got a decent amount to talk about not as much because
Mother Nature wasn't that kind more of a weekend no but you did go down to well
I guess you watched on a video board but you saw an awesome finish at the Indy
500 I did which we we can see a lot on our seats because we can see turn one all
to clear down the back stretch and the endurance of three then we can actually
see a little bit of X of a four through the trees yeah but yeah yeah what a what
of you know most a record-setting one most lead changes ever close to the
finish in history and there's three or four other records too that drivers had
that broke that day so yeah perfect weather I mean it was like 72 and
cloudy for the most part and yeah yeah really really good race which it was
that finish it was one of those and you know how long it Indy cars are I mean
you could hear the crowd way over the cars what I'm not finished I mean the
whole crowd just I mean is bigger than one Jason Johnson passed down any shots
and oxfell it was louder than that I mean it was very loud and electric in there
so yeah yeah seen Felix Rosenquist kid is first Cindy yeah first Cindy win and
they do such a little Dave Malukas I know he is oh yeah I mean it would be I
mean you're yeah you're that close and Malukas is the one actually Melissa's
talked to him he's shows up at the Christmas market that she works and
she talked to him you know he's super cool and but I'm sure he's he's he's
probably gonna be you know tough again next year yeah I'm sure he's after that
race thought I got 364 days to think about this again yeah no doubt but yeah
great finish pretty clean race I mean there's couple I'll tell you watching
from the from the couch it wasn't probably more one of the more exciting
ones I've seen there's a lot of passing yeah I mean
there for a while course we weren't sure about the rain you know cuz they get
rained delayed oh yeah I mean just a little bit yeah it wasn't crazy but a
few times but you didn't know I mean looking at the forecast I mean you know
some of them are fighting until the halfway park thinking well yeah maybe
it's gonna rain and stay raining because if you watch the radar I mean the South
Bayer got hammered yeah you know so if that would have drifted just a little bit
it could have been one of those the leader at 101 could have been the winner yeah
I mean that's like Connor Daley was kind of fighting for oh yeah when he he got
the lead I'm sure the place went pretty much other time places went not the
place went nuts every time he took yeah which he did a great job it was cool it
got off sequencer and a fizzling out a little towards the end but yeah I'm a
Lucas man how do you gotta watching his interview afterwards oh yeah feel for the
kid man yeah just wild yeah so yeah there's you know a great one and packed
house you know I tell you they do a great job with the opening ceremonies oh
yeah the helicopters yeah dude those are I mean seriously we're second row from
the top they look like they're on your lap they are close to you I mean they
really are I mean you know not as close as it but they're still I mean they're
really close and there's nothing I mean they're right there yeah they're right
above you I had a friend who was sitting in three so you could see around four
down the back stretch out three and I saw right about where you were sitting
all the way down the back stretch to him I'm like those got to be like I level
with you guys oh yeah they were close yeah they are they're about I level and
everyone looks like it but they have they're they're above you I mean when
they're doing the corners but yeah they're they're they're right there by
yeah it looks it looks cool odd is it's having those things fly over you like
that is just like wow yeah this is crowd loves it everyone's going I hope hope
we don't have one you know the soldiers love it they're hanging out waving right
I got to see one similar obviously a little different but I went to Cleveland
Brown's Bengals game a few years ago and that was the flyover was helicopter
same thing I was sitting in the club section which isn't the lower bowl but
section up and it's like yeah they weren't that low but it sure felt like
they were right on your lap you know yeah then they had two flyovers you know
otherwise and yeah yeah oh yeah the opening ceremony said you get and we
actually went up really early this year we went up the track about nine o'clock
and hung out and said because it's such a nice day yeah you know we said picnic
tables with umbrellas and that we sit up there and got some stuff to eat and
just chilled out and watch the people yeah and you know my buddy vanilla Chad
not chocolate Chad my Chad Wilson from Indiana he snubbed me you know over in
his section we was sitting right outside picnic table and he had Floyd's deluxe
and everything but you think he could call me oh no he'll call me want me to
drive 1200 hours to the Obstock yeah you know when he's 30 feet
from me you know he won't he won't get a hold of me
I gotta give him some care. Well it's cuz yeah I mean you're in Indiana you're a
Ohio guy can't right that place you can't be seen with someone from Ohio. Well that's
probably true that's probably true yeah but then you ended up pulling off the
double. Yes didn't look like we was gonna get to a traffic was a little heavier
leaving than usual and then we stopped cuz you know didn't really if we had some
stuff to eat in the morning but you know nothing too relevant so it's like oh
we're gonna stop get a sandwich and we got the world's slowest steak and shake
I mean I thought I was gonna have to go in there and cook it for him and so yeah
we get made at the Kokomo we missed the Sprint car heats but got there and it's
weird cuz and I don't know if it's cuz it's raining most of the day the rather
but the car count was Kokomo was you know 21 sprints I think it was like 20
mods and 14 15 16 Thunder cars and but yeah but I tell you it was excellent all
three a mains were spectacular when we seem even like the Thunder car heats and
mod heats were good then nobody had any be main so we got out there real good
time yeah but yeah excellent races two of them came down the last lap of the
Sprint cars Robert Blue was leading and it's like man okay he's gonna get another
win which the year before I think it's the one that he won from the tail and so
he so this time one is good he started on the front row and took the lead and
sitting there and I tell you Kale Coons and the 63 car you know the dual lane
that BC drove for cuz BC double I mean Kale you could tell he won is the best
I've seen him driving his life just unfortunately had a little mishap with
the turn to cushion and I mean cuz he was pressuring blue is actually
excellent he pressured him and they just swapped a little bit then all of a sudden
here come Jaden Rogers from deeper in the pack and it's like even when it when
Coons and Blue was battling like dude Rogers is gonna fly by both of them on
high site and they ain't gonna know it I mean that's how good you know typical
Kokomo you got two guys down here battling kind of from the middle down
just sliding and stuff and then well it's weird cuz like three and four of
those on the bottom side one and two of those top side so then Rogers is just
ripping the lip the whole time it's like here he comes he's just gonna fly by
well then Coons had his mishap and Rogers almost got collected in it and
then he didn't then yeah they had a restart and he just executed a slide
job on the restart perfect our good at the white flag is like green like two
laps go or green white check or whatever he he had he and he gave blue and you
know I know a lot of people bitch about blue but he gave blue the option of
either you're gonna lift or we're gonna crash and blue lifted gave him tried to
slide to the back under him and just couldn't get it and Jaden Rogers took
the wind and the mods
oh Alan not Josh Alan that's the quarterback I can't remember yeah the
Alan 21 a yeah he took the win and another really good race and I can't
remember one the Thunder cars but it was a good really good
race to yeah you know all all through your spectacular and I mean that's why
Kokomo I don't care if there's 20 cars there or 200 I mean track was just
excellent for racing wasn't as heavy we actually got dusty no you just don't
happen at Kokomo especially with the rain and everything yeah you just don't
happen at Kokomo but it made it was spectacular racing I mean it really
was all three divisions was really really good yeah so being Memorial Day
weekend in Indiana there's a lot of open-wheel stuff going on USAC national
sprint car series raised at Circle City yeah Briggs Daner got the win there I
race at Terre Hope the night before right before and Mitchell Moles got a
win yeah so and the little 500 little 500 Cody won yep third one I think I saw
or is it third or fourth yeah something like that yeah and then was there
IRP didn't race this no I got ringed out yeah they they ringed out early they
say yeah they switched it it's like June 25th yeah yeah I'm not sure they
they ringed it out like on Tuesday I was gonna say I remember it was like super
early and I was like oh you know almost seemed like they just rescheduled it more
so for other reasons but yeah I mean that's what seemed like to me too but yeah
sure yeah other racing the show me 100 happened out at Lucassell Speedway where
Bobby Pierce won from 20th after going through the bee and it rained out so on
yeah Saturday so they had to run it on Sunday there was the one night I think
they got in yeah JD won and then I think they got rained out the other nights so
that's why the finale pitched to Sunday around here I 96 butler and crystal were
supposed to have a big three-day weekend 10,000 the win unfortunately I 96 was all
that got in turbo yeah good that sucked too because you turbo Trey Mills what
you called yep Ashton winger came up so good you know some good guys showing up
to hit all three and yeah okay laudi yeah I would he came yeah that's yeah
had some good cars cars just a shame that they didn't finish it off only one show
when yeah turbo got himself the win yeah so oh yeah Luke Maury was another one
yeah Luke Maury that's the other one I was thinking of so anything else for
the weekend dwindling not that I can think of a whole lot nothing notable anyhow
I mean yeah nothing too nothing too to shed I don't remember too crazy well
there's a lot of rainouts yeah you know say word of outlaws race that Knoxville
yes the one night Jacksonville Speedway that we can before Aaron Wright so one
at Knoxville yep and then the Thursday before at Jacksonville Carson
Macedo yeah which sounds good race I watched that that was buddy and Carson
and actually Cole mm-hmm and growl it's right Cole is up there yeah Cole is
battling for the lead Jacksonville is a badass little trap man yep so fast
forward to this weekend Dwayne you had some AFCF stuff going on we did back at
action it seems like like it was the first race of the year it's been so long
since we were raced yeah then we got another big break now but yeah Friday
night 28 had 28 and 28 on Friday which is weird because we had 28 and 28 on
Friday and 29 and 29 on Saturday yeah which is a weekend I wasn't sure because
there's a lot of sprint car races even on Friday you had Western PA you had
something else going on then Saturday we you know Highland Mr. Butler skyline
was racing with fast had Western PA sharing yeah so there's a lot going on so
it's one of those like me wonder what what they're gonna have but yeah so
excellent car counts Friday night me and Attica was spot on for passing left a
little cushion there and yeah cap cap stunk to show up because he started
third and got the lead early and was leading by 67 seconds but from
third to fifth sometimes third or second I mean second to fifth sometimes second
to seventh was up there and our hard chargers I mean you know some nights
there are hard charger you get like a 10 or a 9 or something like wow man there's
a lot passing our hard chargers who only award one but it was 16 14 11 10 9
then like 3 8 since like dude there was and it wasn't because from Big Rex I
mean it was just a lot of passing mm-hmm like Darren Knight has started 21st up
ran up the fifth yeah you know so yeah good race cap Henry returned to victory
lane extended his point lead up just a little yeah and then Brian Speedo which
is a team with Bobby Clark this year and they're putting down that hey they're
there you know we've never had anybody but Jamie Miller and Paul Weaver when
they have CS titles and this is our eighth year and both of those guys pulled
in during the aiming wow yeah and which gave us Speedo point lead he kind of
dominated that then the late models you won there I wasn't you tell because
Devon you know did really really well on one yeah race I wasn't supposed to
happen yes you know nice thing you know Attica well with me it's what I'm late
miles that Attica didn't have late miles had the trucks on there and but you know
the late miles only race one time at Attica this year so yeah because all the
rainouts and Devon was talking to me about it actually says yes as Justin
called us hey we're thinking about adding late miles and he goes good count
us in because we're racing anywhere if you guys ain't racing he goes we ain't
on Mansfield we yeah he goes I 96 don't have us mm-hmm you know and that so he
says we ain't traveling anywhere else so yeah they end up with 26 yeah yeah and
you had Doug Drown that races without laws on Thursday J JR Gentry well then
you had like Dan Wallace show up was there yep John Miller yeah you had you
know some of the oak shade cars because they haven't raced hardly any times
either yeah so yeah it turned out pretty good that that was a Eric I'm gonna say
Yoder it's not Yoder the seven car I was a seven-car Wilson Eric Wilson from
27 or 27 he's number 27 I thought it was a black seven yeah I know that was
Nick's Nick's Nick Cox yeah that's Nick Cox but Nick Cox showed up and I think
that Eric Wilson showed up and some people from you know like Sharon Wayne
County area that you don't get yeah so yeah yeah that was a good race is a
really good race that Devon end up with him yeah and that was I watched the
replay of it and yeah Drown got him and thought that was kind of it yeah and
Devon little patience a little luck and made it happen on the bottom so yeah yeah
then Sean Blaney took trouble in the trucks had most trucks they've had
their yeah quite a few times at 18 I was gonna say last few times they've had
them they barely get 20 if that yeah and then the truck guys are pissed that
they don't have them regularly anymore yeah and it was like well you guys don't
show up why would we have you so this was a good good thing for the trucks I
think yeah oh yeah I think so too to show up and give them some numbers then it
created a pit a packed pit area oh yeah there's 105 or six cars or vehicles as
we had trucks yeah yeah and that I could kind of change things a little bit all
the sprint cars hotlap then came out and every division qualified two cars at a
time well they said you know it kind of worked out or it's quicker it seems like
we do two at a time which it went pretty quick yeah but still you had 105 yeah six
cars that then a couple people had a few issues stumbled a little bit so yeah it
was a late night and can't skirt that at all I mean if anybody's there they know
it was late I mean they get over with truck feature didn't get over with this
last one to get or if a little bit after midnight which you know Attica don't
usually like to do that but yeah just just out fell circumstances this week
yep and I've raced hardly all year so yeah it ended up turning out to be a
pretty decent crowd good good yep so yeah so then Saturday moved on to Fremont
another perfect night for a weather wise and yeah 29 and 29 and action packed a
very action packed cap was up there it started eight oh the Caleb Henry and
Cap Henry were the two best of points so we do the qualifying and heatrace
points and all that stuff and however whatever magic formula you stir in the
pot you come up with in the rolling version and it happened to be eight so
that put a Caleb Henry 8th cap Henry 7th and you know when those two are
starting 7th 8th there's gonna be some passing you know and a cap got up there
quicker than Caleb and then cap ended up blowing up you know and it creed
coming all was up there running really really well and some other guys and here
come Caleb Henry it's had to keep giving him some laps and Caleb Henry ended up
taking the win and yeah very action packed 410 a main which with and and
TJ which was second in points did not have he had his worst night of the
season too but held on enough but for the first time in three and a half years
cap Henry is not the fcs 410 point leader TJ Michael in the processor 19
I saw three point lead by three yeah they're they're static like Ryan Ryan
process like I know it's early and he goes caps that's a standard I mean he
goes we're just happy to be somewhere close to him you know and you know cap
had a little bit of bad luck which you know he says hey he said but we'll take
it we're just happy we're showing as good as we are you know and they brought
their a game so far this year TJ's really TJ looks excellent the cars got
speed and you know had a little bit of hit cups and qualifying and that dinner
Saturday but yeah long behold we're halfway through our season we got nine
races left now we have a three-week break cuz speed week and gonna be gone
this week so we don't race until June 20 we got one race in June June 26th then
July we hit it heavy so July's gonna make or break our championship because we
only got one show in August then the championship weekend so July's gonna be
huge for yeah for especially for cap and process everybody our top 9s within 87
points top 10 top 3s within 10 points Craig mints is right up there's a
disabled so we got as I say we're getting things heated up for sure yeah
but then 305s or something we haven't had happened in 305s for a while even as
good as Miller and Weaver's been don't have too many people sweep the
weekends and Brian Samito says hold my beer watch this but it ended up being a
pretty decent race I was didn't stink up the show like you did on Friday night
but ended up taking the win sweeping the weekend there and a
chanville and he shoved the week at the end of the trucks so yeah and you're
305s interesting to note you know we said Jamie Miller and Paul Weaver usually
dominant yeah there's only two champions we ever have and they're fifth and six
yeah points you got a shesnider second rando and John Ivy in front of them yeah
Randall was a point leader then Samito took it over and Seth's right there I
mean they're neck and neck and yeah Johnny I got hard charger and keeping
his self right there in the points too so yeah we got got some good battles
brewing hopefully hopefully at last for the last nine races once we get back at
her it's January's gonna be kind of January July's gonna be kind of grueling
though because we have four well we go July or June 2026 we come right back
the next weekend July 3rd and 4th and we're off that the next two weekends
because the King's Royal Royal yep then well and usually Attica don't run on
the Friday because of Doty's but then we're back the next two weekends right
after that with the weekend after Kings Royal I should I guess I like and I think
it's July 31st and August 1st maybe then or else it's July 30th and July 31st
whatever we have that then we have like August 8th at Fremont and then
championship weekend September so we got some right in a row there that it'll
fly by us too oh it will but it'd be interesting to we try not throw it all
together like that but it's just kind of how it happened but which we got a
break in there I mean we got two weeks off so but yeah it's shaping up to be
who maybe the best year yet yeah I mean another kudos to the series I won't say
kudos to Dwayne because I would never give much credit publicly but you got
24 305s of perfect attendance yeah and you got 15 for 10s with perfect
attendance so that's pretty cool you got guys coming back each and every week and
yep you know you have good fields with that yeah you know you only get 15 you
got 15 for 10s you know you're gonna get a few more so yeah gonna have good
fields yeah we've hired car counts has been great I mean we've I honestly did
not think we was gonna get 28 29 this weekend because I had a few people from
Wayne County calling hey what's what's start money and how many cars you think
as those all thinking same deal thinking you know I thought for sure we'd get like
26 maybe at the most 24 to 26 on on Friday and then I figured we'd only get
maybe 18 to 20 on Saturday and yeah yeah especially like Lawrenceburg had a
high-limits Friday and Butler I'm sorry we only had 25 on Friday because now I
think about it because there's only 24 to begin with and then they've had a late
one draw because kudos to John Boers and the staff at Attica Raceway Park and
Justin Liske and that because said oh there's only 24 draw then it's like
10 minutes for it in the pill draw of course right it in somebody comes in makes
25 John's like you know we haven't raced much these guys chose to come here let's
just start them all yeah and I like that's awesome because I you know there's
times I've tried to get him to do that and it just didn't work and so then we
got 25 and like what do you want to do I like well we'll see and then lo and
behold one scratch so we went back to okay start them all yeah you know so
kudos because that cost him to our 1600 extra bucks yeah you know because if you
don't make the main it's 150 it's 400 start today so well so only cost him
250 but still a thousand dollars yeah cost him a thousand dollars extra to but
and if you think about the money side of things a hundred plus cars in the pits
yes well and as a hundred percent choice you know they came to support you and
all most those guys support them every week yeah award them a little bit
especially the way the weather's been they pulled their cup you know last time
got rained out so you know it's like hey you know they burn up fuel you know just
which kudos because there's tracks that don't do that oh yeah and oh yeah we've
been to tracks where they send two cars home yeah yeah yep yep so yeah so it was
good yeah and have and have subpart medical facilities too yeah medical
procedures will say pretty successful weekend and you know few hit cups here
and there and we'll see see what happens there yeah yeah all know man I'm
telling you it's fire this point standings right now and I hope it keeps
that way it gets everybody excited everybody kind of because you know you
take a Craig mince that thought he might miss a race or two but he's right there
in the points hunt mm-hmm and it seems like he's raced a couple that he didn't
think he was gonna race because he's in the points hunt so hopefully that keeps
going so he can keep showing up and then you got you know you got some guys in
there you know gauge Garcia starting to get a little bit going with the 16
cars start off really rough so Stuart Brubaker had a great weekend he was
another one from the back yeah Friday I saw him and Attica's recap video up
front and I was like oh sweet yeah well it's funny because I came to Archibald
on Memorial Day weekend to that go-kart race on Monday I saw yeah Stuart was
racing and he's like oh I start on the front of this feature I should be good
he goes but I touched the cart and he goes well I'm in the sprint car lately I
touch touch it and it goes it all goes to shit so he says let's hope not then
the cart did the same thing goes I got quit touching shit he says so it's funny
Saturday I went up to his trailer I said okay I need to know who did you touch
the car he goes we touched car but I did not he goes so they did it he goes and I
just sat back and he goes look what it did it's like well just you sit on your
hands from now on just drive the damn thing yeah so it's kind of funny
because Stuart Stuart's good guy we give each other shit all the time and he but
it's cool that go-kart race over here in Archibald had guys like that racing yeah
I saw you were there and I forgot it was going on and I was like oh yeah that's
going on and yeah cool so I ended up being a corner I saw you're working the
corner yeah yeah just like on you know sometimes the truck stop working the
corner all pays the same yeah yeah well I went over there cuz Chad Wilson was
racing he actually need some brake clean that I've been gonna get him for a
couple weeks and then so I went over there and I show up and they're like hey
we need a corner work hey we need this that like I didn't come here
work I've got made a visit for a little bit well I'm leaving well my little bit
turned into about three and a half hours of course so but yeah it was fun yeah
deal yeah good AFCS weekend and we're doing good yeah so yeah the reason Attica
wasn't gonna have late models like Dwayne had said was Mansfield was having
their big word of outlaw weekend yes if you didn't see it was a myriad of
interesting things going on but Friday night like smooth track was not one of
them yeah had their issues with the track which kind of predicted nuts one
reason I was kind of staying away I debated excuse me I'm yawning a friend
of mine texted me he's like if I wasn't going camping you know I'd see if you
wanted to go on Saturday so it didn't work out to go but yeah kind of especially
Friday it was a little bit of a drag-on show had a lot of issues with the track
a little rough a little dry and dusty in spots you know had some track work
periods I think they got done kind of late obviously for only having a couple
classes but the interesting story was it was 12,000 to win and the local
businessman in Mansfield I looked them up and he's got pretty high net worth
from what I can tell so yeah he asked him because if that's his walking around
Monday I'd see what he's real money yeah so I was 12,000 to win pre-limb show
became a 100000 to win after a man named Dan Ness donated $88,000 to
the winner right before what Turbo talks about like they heard on the race yeah
there's already in the radio are already in the car because he says he thought
oh shit they like oh we got a special announcement goes let me guess they're
not gonna make it a point show now that I start up front because tracks shit
condition and they're like oh by the way it's gonna pay a 100000 to win
and he's like wait a minute yeah I knew if I could bounce to the front which the
guy said they literally bounce I don't know if you've seen any of the videos so
some of us who's interesting well and I was wondering about this because did you
see like the week or two before they had whatever out there and they had jumps in
the monster trucks yeah and in the racetrack on the racing surface I saw
that too and do they look like there's still some I mean literally I think it
was the bottom of three I don't think it was bottom one I'm not sure because I
seen the video is the entrance of one of the corners they said top of three was
pretty bad I mean they was hitting the bottom in like Pierce the one time I
mean his rear-end come off ground 34 foot mm-hmm so do you see the two
seater with turbo I didn't it was on two wheels he had on two wheels and they're
everybody's like dude everybody wanted to be in that car but he about flip the
two-seater yeah but there's guys up on I got a lot of guys on two wheels are
bouncing on one it's like that's just shit on equipment yeah oh yeah I mean so
leading from that to Saturday Mark Richards and David Wells Mark Richards
got a text from Steve Francis to say hey what do you think cuz Mark Richards used
to run I-79 Speedway for years and had some a lot of the big teams very upset
yes because you're racing for a 100000 and even and on a plump
you can't race yeah that's a turbo say goes I knew as long as I didn't dick up
when I got up that nobody's gonna pass me without taking us both out because
it's too choppy too rough and yeah that's if you didn't take yourself out on
the rough yeah so Mark Richards ended up I didn't really want to it sounds like
but ended up taking the keys of the greater and what he thought would be a
an hour or two on the track ended up being about five or six yeah around along
with David Wells you know brand over to not over to any more Chris Madden yeah
was on a skid steer as well working through the night to like four in the
morning that I know Richards I think said he was back up at 10 a.m. on the
greater again trying to make the Saturday night show go off better and it did it
wasn't a hundred percent perfect but it was at least 50% better right is what
the driver said you know Garrett Alberson I think I was reading said you know the
whoop-de-whoops on the front stretch he was worried about but once the track
smoothed out that got and slicked off that got a lot taller more tolerable or
they could race yeah and then again mr. Ness shows up said well 57,000 to win
let's just make it 157,000 to win so yeah they donated $188,000 which made
Mansfield put on man and you see the crowd on Friday or I mean on Saturday
standing room only at 530 they said yeah so the track condition I don't get it
because it's been pure shit track conditions let's I mean let's face it
yeah and people are just running there to see a crap but if Attica's off one
night or Freemont's off one night or Eldora's off one night there's 80,000
professional track prep people on the internet oh I'm never going back again
because piece of shit when you know I mean and I don't know what's going on
there but they obviously need a lot of work on track prep yeah and I mean in
their defense it rained a lot this spring well I only had one race on it
obviously they have some learnings to do yes and Matt Tiff there's a nice write
up on dirt on dirt and he said you know those are all in things
that happen but they're still not excuses we want to hold ourselves to a higher
standard so you know there's gonna be something happening I mean it's gonna
happen a tire tune but that's happened every race so far yeah and then yeah
there's someone that said well yeah they got the dirt from Attica and Freemont
which was a big miss they need to get rid of that and I'm like I think I've been
fine from what I can see so yeah I'm not sure I don't know you know again it's
there's a lot to track prep it's everyone knows it but nobody's ever done it
well I guess there's some rocks because Attica and Freemont pretty much sifted
the rocks when they put it on and maybe they do it because I heard there's some
really big rocks too I heard there was like that first race they had in May
there were some reports but it was definitely wasn't like the first time
no man's field back you know seven years ago or whatever it was maybe it's on a
hollowed Indian ground on the new one because the place has had a lot of bad
luck with weather and track conditions yeah reconfigured to dirt yeah it seems
like it's been hard to get but I will say Tiff does a good job and his team do a
good job promoting yeah getting word out you know what they've had packed houses
I mean my trucks pass the fast ball shows packed late-mile deals packed so yeah
but hopefully they can get it because eventually cars aren't gonna start showing
up if the crack keeps that way yeah time after time especially a four-tenth
smile that's a big track for those kind of conditions but anyway Nick Hoffman
took home a 100000 a 100057 dollars that's the
best way to say it because it's a 100057 dollars yeah
because I saw the track posted a hundred and 57000 right I've
always posted a 100057 I'm like okay there's a big
difference in those yeah what one is it so but yeah well I thought so they didn't
add I thought they added a 100000 to it no okay so they made it a
100057 yeah 1005 track yeah I did have it
at a hundred and 57000 at one time right the track yeah the track
posted 157 but word of outlaws did not and then the check also
said 100 you know 100 comma 057 so anyway still nothing to still
guy gave away 8000 and 43000 yeah so he he he helped
him out a little bit which kind of cool and not right it's cool someone gets a
huge paycheck but it's like especially Friday night would have been nice to
spread that there's a 100000 to win and what 6000 per second
yeah which I see people bitching about that and I get it but same time he's the
one putting the money up that's right what do you want to do with it bro I
guarantee it turbo's not bitching yeah for sure I know like Alverson was up
there towards the end and got you know Josh Rice he was having a good run to
had some issues so there was a couple mechanical issues you know probably from
rougher conditions on Saturday but definitely not as bad Friday right again
want to place to succeed doesn't doesn't sound like they're ignorant on the fact
of this dude put all that money up that if his walking around money is like a
hundred and twenty can his pocket yeah yeah it says he's got some business there
some he's got a few lot of properties I saw let's just say it's
something it's a you know it's a million the word millions on the end and
there's two numbers in front of it so yeah and the first number is not a one
so I wonder if he likes AFCS print cars because I'd like to have a hundred
thousand dollar race to win there you go but a good way to have a finale yeah so
it's a it was a healthy healthy weekend yeah crazy you know turn to post that
much money yeah not you know I don't know if you get more cars if you post that
headed to you know some people are saying hi John the import's probably pissed
you know I think it's awesome because that the way they do it because the fire
I'd love to do that that's why I said if I ever won the lottery and you know did
AFCS we go like I could do this big deal and we're not gonna announce points
fun until the night everybody's there gets there like hey you want to join us
this year trust me then whoever shows up just like well here's points fun it's
100000 to win yeah 10000 for 10 yeah yeah you know and
give one of those you see like you know Brandon Moore's and well so that's why
Saturday's purse at Mansfield you know was a little more oh yeah cuz fifty
700 yeah like just starting that show was big money for some team so
yeah that paid very healthy throughout the field yes so they had a good set up
there but yeah I'm glad they got it in 46 cars so good car counts yeah it's like
46 on Friday and 40 on Saturday yeah that's a few that were mm-hmm what's
like Matt Tift raced on Friday one of Brian Mark was back up cars and
obviously didn't race Saturday so he wanted to get out there and see kind of
see what the drivers were feeling and sounds like he felt every every bit of
it so yeah we'll see where it goes in the future but you know their first big
show in good crowd sound like crowd supported it and clouds brought it and
some local businesses did so it sound like you know as far as concessions and
things like that sounds like they got some of the hiccups out a lot of like
t-shirt trailers and stuff so look like it was a pretty good yeah pretty good
time pretty pretty good energy hopefully I mean hopefully yeah goes hopefully get
figured out what yeah more to come this year so we'll keep an eye on how things
handful of fast ball shows but maybe a couple American night or spring cars
October so yeah before that there's handful yeah I think if they get some
things ironed out that word I'll show be packed yeah oh yeah I think it's
probably gonna be packed yeah word about laws were in action Thursday night at
Wayne County where Ricky Thornton Jr. took the wind and then Wednesday night
they were out at Marion Center for the makeup of the counter Bobby Memorial
which was 30,000 the wind and Bobby Pierce got himself the wind so big week
for the word about law late models yeah yeah unexpectedly yeah
um high limit as the other series as in our region in our area Friday night they
were down at Lawrenceburg which I got to watch on flow racing and wow that was a
hell of a talk I'm sure from the night was the slide job pulled by Tanner
Thorson well if I called a slide job attempted yeah it was I don't even know
if it was attempted but anyway it was way bad if it was yeah for his radar was
way off I know he said he lost vision of me but when guys out there besides you
the whole time you pretty much know he's gonna be somewhere yeah so right so was
leading and we know right so has been hot lately Thorson was kind of catching
him and went to do a slide job and turns three and four questionable at best
we'll say and made contact and with the left rear yeah with the left rear right
so went up in the wall flipped and junked the car pretty much oh yeah his
guys had to tear the whole thing down like the engine to yeah tear the whole
hit hit the worst part you could that I don't like that opening and turn for
that yeah it's right where the cars pull on there's an opening you know the
blend ends going with traffic not against track but still and there's been
times couple times the people has been close to hitting that's like that's just
a very dangerous spot on that track yeah so took out right so and Thorson had
damage I didn't see if he got back on if he don't think he did say if he did he
didn't do anything you know substantial going forward but Rico got himself the
win but yeah the show was Kyle Larson sir had a flat tire to start and then had
to restart in the back and some guys got squirrely so he had to spin to avoid back
there on another caution so he was running 20th at one time and ended up
finishing second yeah I was hauling ass he's excellent at that track yeah that's
his jam yep so yeah yeah Rico taken take another win then they go up to Butler
Michigan yes good for Butler huge crowd yeah standing room only again yeah a
good crowd there butlers butler little interesting but a good race right so
kind of had the lead well actually Thorson had the lead right so in second
you're thinking this might get interesting but then Thorson into
breaking having to pull off handing the lead to right so back through you know
top 10 was good racing and passing lap cars got a little tricky it was kind of a
bottom-feet of track couldn't get much going on top but Aaron Wright so got the
win you know talked about victory lane how that car was pretty much a bare
chassis start the day because his whole this team had to just tear it down and
rebuild it so you know huge team effort by them so and right so now the points
leader or still the points later maybe but by 11 over Rico yeah so well I liked
you know always do the angel donor which I haven't figured out who that is yet
because suppose they're from Fremont Ohio that does the $1500 to the winners
charity I don't know if you heard that because he Aaron always does it to Texas
Children's Hospital because his kid was in Texas Children's Hospital and they
didn't pay a dime he says they really helped his family out so he always does
that then Aaron usually put some money in with it too well a couple weeks ago he
did Ronald McDonald house because he says hey they helped him too and then he
wanted to spread it up a little bit but he says he went back to Texas Children's
Hospital on Saturday because he says the coolest thing happened he says angel
donor reached out to Aaron says I just want to tell you this he says Texas
Children's Hospital got a hold of me and says hey like we see you know one week
you're donating 1500 bucks I'm nice is 3000 sometimes it's you know 2000 like
because sometimes they're no match so then sometimes some of the fans will or
what but anyways they go like is this from something special and what is our
mean behind this you know cuz and so he told him the angel donors like oh so
it's one of the race car drivers yeah doorbells ringing he his kid was in
there and he's a professional race car driver and now I give and when they win
and so he picks cuz you guys helped him so now they wanted to come out and do a
big story mm-hmm like what about what was up there and kid and there you know
just it's morphing into a whole thing that they didn't even know this is cool
race car you know who's race car driver so it's super super cool and sounds like
they're gonna actually hopefully flow gets involved in it and yeah but they're
gonna come out I guess and they want to talk to Aaron and just you know and talk
the whole deal so much I thought that was pretty cool and then Aaron's like dude
he goes if they reach out and ask me says I don't know if anybody else has a
story like this I don't think so because most saying people they donate to
don't you know he says but they reached out to the angel donors like hey we'd
like to know you know what's is there a story or is there yeah they're just like
giving us money you know and so so that's I thought that was pretty cool yeah
man I think that's super cool yes for sure that's cool fair and to give back
to somebody has helped them that's what he said he goes you know I mean they
helped us tremendously when his kid was sick so yeah right all other action
going on like the way mentioned the Western PA Speed Week was happening
yep and bonus points to you Dwayne if you can remember who's won everything
well first to Mercer was AJ Flick Pittsburgh then I only see
that because AJ Flick posted the results so yeah let's see Mercer Pittsburgh
Spidhaler 1 looks like Spidhaler 1 last night last night tri-city oh tri-city
okay Sharon was didn't blame you in what didn't blame you in one let's keep
looking blame you in Friday Friday was Lernerville yeah I think he won Friday
I think you say that pretty sure Blaney won on Friday Wagner won did
why what are you listening to I thought I hit my race pass and I hit I heart
radio and for some reason Logan Wagner won at Sharon yes Logan Wagner I think
didn't Blaney won on Friday gotcha at Lernerville that sounds right so yeah
Western PA Speed Week I believe AJ Flick's leading the points so well it's
over now yeah last night was it so he won the point yeah Blaney won at Lerner
ville yes he did yeah I didn't hear much or see much good car counts decent car
counts 30 some yeah 39 each night they had like almost 40 on Saturday even oh
yeah they did Sharon's got car counts usually so I mean like said Logan
Wagner came and raced a few Billy Dietrich ran Ricky Peterson ran most of
them yeah I was surprised to see Tim Schaffer's name only on one I think yeah
well he's I thought run the all-stars yet too right yeah well the old one Williams
car like it was parked or something but I thought it was that don't surprise me I
thought it was like a medical deal oh I don't know yeah cuz I see they didn't do
the high-limit show either yeah and I from my understanding it was like it
sounded like a temporary one night kind of thing but obviously I haven't seen the
car in a few weeks it seems like so Joey Amantia ran it's a carbon-pair ago put
the wing on and raced a little bit so they had you know Mark Smith yeah so Tim
Schaffer Milliams Motorsports are looking for see if I can find the post but
yeah Tim Schaffer was back behind the wheel of the Grove 45 which was raced
by key shepherd junior which everyone was kind of like what's up with that and
then next thing you know shepherd posted like an hour before we started the
podcast like to make it official he is out of the ride now so kind of a
interesting or dealer don't know the full scope of any of it at this point but
yeah I don't know where you'll see Tim Schaffer for sure but sounds like it'll
be not in the 01 but I don't know if that's permanent or if that was a short
term deal or what so right yeah I don't know yeah either cuz yeah though I mean
the 01 you know I know this trying to do the whole year but I know the cars never
completed the whole year I don't think when they've hired a driver so I'm not
sure what's happened there yeah but yeah and Schaffer it could just be a one-raised
deal because sounds like 45 might be cutting back a little I just said
differences of whatever budgets and what it takes and in such so yeah yeah so
anyway sorry for the kind of confusing rambling on but I don't know any yeah it
was due to family circumstances will not be at Fremont and that's where the last
I saw about the 01 and don't know yeah it has been out since yeah haven't that was
May 12th so anywho it's racing for you yeah did you see the news about Peoria
Illinois being for sale track I've been yeah well it's closed they're gonna have
the summer national race yeah but their weekly operations is done mm-hmm yeah
yeah that's glad I went to it when I did yeah it's kind of weird I knew it was
always kind of a cool track I've always heard good things about it but that's
interesting Illinois is a tough place to have a race track just because there's
so many of them well yeah we'll finish that but talk about how tough it is you
see Spoon River canceled yeah because a little car after everyone was there right
yeah cuz they only had like seven or six modified like three street stocks and
four they literally had less than 20 car in the pit for four to the or four
divisions I think and that's yeah I mean it was literally like I think the most
they had was six in one division mm-hmm but there's a lot of other stuff going
on yeah I mean it's tough you look at even a you know Fairberry like their
weekly show paced 2,500 to win for late models and they may only get 18
sometimes well because you got you know King keys racing again mm-hmm and some
of these places like like small and that's another like King Kiki's racing
against whoever else so all Farmer City they're Friday night yeah they're both
Friday night oh it's Kiki Friday yeah so you know each one's been getting about
14 to 18 late models you know it's like yeah I guess tough I mean especially with
the travel expenses now that which helps some of the smaller teams because they
can make the main yeah Spoon River had 16 total cars five mods 34
cylinders for e-mods and four SRS late models which caused them to cancel their
show so unfortunate but it is a risk you take as a fan going to a race yeah yeah
and what do you do at that point do you just race what you got I mean I think I
would have I mean it sucks but you can you can make a show you say okay we're
gonna do you know a heat race and then maybe we'll do a dash or something I
mean just yeah because you kind of screwed the guys that came there support
and the fans that came to support you don't want to like I'm just fine
ain't your sponsors yeah you still want to show faces what I would say you know
like let people know you're reliable like it won't race for 16 cars because
that's all we got or go hey okay this is what we's gonna pay let's do this we'll
have two features and pay you know obviously if you only got seven cars
you wouldn't gonna pay the whole purse say okay here's what we're gonna do we're
gonna pay let's have two features yeah invert the whole field we're gonna pay
whatever you know give the guys there yeah something and fan something you know
tonight it's 500 bucks to start you know yeah something like that something you
know hey you came out we're gonna do yeah yeah I don't know but not our track
yeah unfortunate but yeah I did see that now that you say that yeah the other
news we were talking about a little before we started recording but just see
the Danny Dietrich deal out in Pennsylvania he committed from PA Posse
series yeah he's got disqualified at Lincoln for sounds like there was some
communication issues with the tower and the pit guy and pits his clothes before
Danny got pushed off and then the disqualifying is leading the race right
I don't know that sure I just yeah he was up front or towards front yeah and
Lincoln's a place that he's he has supported over Port Royal oh yeah for
years mm-hmm and you know of course it's Danny Dietrich and he's not afraid to
speak his mind than everybody else like always just being a baby he's being why
I don't know I'll be pretty pissed too in his car what really is this car owner's
pissed now oh yeah you know and Kaufman's done a lot and they've supported that
place forever and it's like okay you have a miscommunication which you know
here's a place without a flagman mm-hmm and all that so you're lying and and I
think to me I don't know if they got a new announcer but to me it's one of the
world's worst announcers and yeah they have some communication issues in Danny's
like hey I got disqualified and we can support it if you stand by well they're
pretty much said like you know we would rather the PA policy series operated as
series not just let the tracks right use their own rules kind of thing so yeah
there's half people agreeing with him and yeah he says this is why people why
people travel away from it and I know like not so much anymore but you had
gone through that a little right like yeah we haven't now we got tracks with
two but you know we had it then I had everything the same and then last
couple years it's different again because we got one track that has to have a
mystery formula but yeah basically mm-hmm I mean it's it's it's not bad now
that once you understand it though I mean because you get points for qualifying
you get points and keep your heat race and then after points and you have a
roll of dice and but it'd be nice if they're both on the same because yeah
people come in from the outside to get confused mm-hmm or hey last night we did
this and you know yeah I mean get Danny's deal because I have it all time I
get drivers bitching all kinds of one track we have four heats if there's 28
cars or more and the other one it's 32 cars or more mm-hmm and you know the same
deal I mean we got one track if we have over 30 cars we start 22 and the other
night if we have 24 we start them all and another track that nope is 20 no
matter what unless it's like unless we get like 40 mm-hmm so yeah it's it creates
I get it it creates issues I mean he's 100% spot-on because I've lived it the
last years yeah for sure yeah pretty wild the first couple years that took me a
couple years get all straightened out then we had it then it's back to two
different tracks two different formats and that mm-hmm it's a pain yeah and yeah
we'll see like you said Dietrich was a proud supporter of Lincoln I've
never said like and now we'll see where where he ends up I guess he's coming
to Ohio yeah for Speed Week sure the other news was pavement
but yeah was it Chase Holland was the guy's name yes which he's been a big
modified racer yeah for a long time yeah pavement race I don't say a long time
he's younger yeah I would at Kennedale I believe right was it Texas or
California Texas Texas yeah so the series was the American crate slate model
series of some kind to pavements late models no it's dirt was it dirt yeah
okay I'll just say Kennedale as I'm talking about no shit yeah it's dirt
but yeah American crate late model series or something because he switched
late models this year gotcha that's what's getting confused he switched late
probably my excuse anyhow so anyway Chase Holland wins with this series at
Kennedale and goes to victory lane and gets pictures taken and everything is
all honky-dory and then what the permission of the racetrack
cruise and family yeah go ahead get your picture taken victory lane and we do
it every time every time the series has been here we've done it never been a
problem well fortunately this night it was a problem for some reason and Chase
got disqualified the series owner that races a car to finish second yeah it's
now the winner of the race yeah so pot some more so yeah the track told the
crew they were good to go we do this every time track track posted put a
post out there saying hey we said it was okay never had a problem with this
series has been here before we've done it every time never been in the series
rules is a crew cannot be in the infield then they said oh at any time now if you
read some of the post the people at race that series says there's no rule like
that that exists in the rulebook show us where it's at so there's yeah there's
all kind of controversy in the tracks pissed because yeah you know they feel
like they screwed the guy you know they feel bad because they told everybody
get in there then so they're supposed to said rule but then then there's not a
said rule according to other people and bottom line is if you own a series or a
race track keep your ass out of a race car during your events plain simple yeah
I mean because it leads the controversy like this yeah I we've seen some of it
with you know Larson and Brad's oh we've seen it with a lot of yeah I see we see
it on a local level at times too mm-hmm so yeah got dequeued after the race
American Crate Lake model series that's what it was called yeah so yeah I mean
we've seen different promoters and owners oh like I said Matt Tiff drove a
car there tonight granted he didn't do boat what you know he's open as you know
let's say he won or something he gets second somebody gets disqualified over
something goofy not that it's gonna be like this but you know I'm saying it
just leads it wasn't Larson and the guy waving the flag was confusing and he
pulls in the infield and tells well you gotta give us another chance cuz I well
because Rico pulled off and they gave me a spot back and yeah there's yeah
there's all kind of yeah conflict of interest yeah we've seen it many times
on look yeah local level national level yeah well serious I mean yeah so any
other news the Wayne that I missed I'm sure oh damn I guess not I can think of
oh my pillow race did you see that oh they had a loss yeah that good car count
I did see that Recky Lewis took Jacob Boxwell out for the win I didn't see
that yeah Brandon Maddox ended up take winning because Recky lived up to his
name and mm-hmm and junk the Matt Westwall 54 I said Matt was happy oh
there are some words I heard it's changed in you know went down there and you
know yeah so that happened on Friday but yeah my pillar 39 sprint cars yeah
boss Roguesh on Brandon Maddox a guy that didn't didn't go out to Knoxville we
didn't talk about you so yeah right I have them pulled up yeah you second
Knoxville good car counts Corn Belt Nationals 360s on Friday and 410s on
Saturday same winner of those oh yeah Ryan Tim's Tim's one on both yep and
then the non-wing a Kyle Cummins one on Friday then Brady Bacon 15 grand yeah
one on Saturday which a Jake Swanson you see his flip man I'm with cars at
Knoxville I like him but dude they're out scary yeah they're scary because
they're going so fast and then you got them that big-ass guard rail mm-hmm yeah
but Jake didn't get in the guard rail but still I mean it's yeah speaking of
Brady Bacon schedule for June yeah he is crazy yeah he's racing Eastern Storm
yeah he's racing tonight at Davenport tonight then he's heading over to I
forget where in a wing car then it's Eastern Storm in midgets galore like
dude's got a pretty freaking pack schedule you have to if you do it for a
little yeah hey I mean they don't sit on the couch like you watch on TV I mean
they're not all millionaires like you yeah let's face it when it comes to racing it's
the hardest part is having funds in a race car to do all that racing but he's been fortunate
and he's got a lot of different good rides yeah yeah here we go he's got high limit
tonight ceilings Grove on the fourth Williams Grove the fifth Lincoln the sixth
Baps the seventh then he goes to Grandview then we go Eastern Storm and then Port Royal
of Eastern Storm he's doing a Silver Crown and a national sprint then it's PA Speed Week at the
end of June so oh one thing we didn't bring up yeah I knew about and I didn't break the news
because I didn't want to curse you know like I said Bryce Lucius in the Hefner 27 acts yes
had kind of you know didn't make this a main at Williams Grove on Friday first night in it I
think missed a main by two or three and then made the main at Lincoln I think was mid-pack I think
in the main so yeah but yeah Bryce Lucius as we said was out of 32 car picked up the Hefner
which I knew I knew that two weeks ago talked about it said he had a good opportunity because
I don't know if I was the first one but I know they called him you know what do you think the
right type thing I think it's a great opportunity not that that had anything to do with him taking
it but you know I'm saying yeah to me I mean they've had great hot net and the second car you know
in Hefner's helped several people but it still does help several people but in the second car
that have that the X because they got Tim Wagamon Wagamon Troy or Troy Troy Wagamon yeah yeah I
think so Troy yeah no Tim yeah there is Tim but this is Troy Tim Troy yeah all the same yeah but
anyways that's our main car which you know has had hot net for years and all these people
have been this they've started the second team that they've had you know Stephen Snyder Jr
that's not that he quit because he got a hell of a deal of spires in that 87 you know and
and such so yeah great opportunity for Bryce hopefully that goes well he goes to Bryce for
kind of going out of the out of his realm and racing the Tough PA Posse series I know they're
gunning up for Speed Week and such I think they might come to Ohio Speed Week because they did
with Stephen last year and go to Pennsylvania Speed Week and see what happened so hopefully
it works out well yes yes thank you for bringing that up I forgot to mention that oh yeah looks
like we got what 30 cars at Davenport tonight so that'll be on flow as we talk here so I think
they're running the big track I was wondering if they just run the bigger looks like it's a small
track is it yeah good they don't run the big track hardly I don't they haven't ran that in a few years
no for motorcycle races I think once but well yeah well didn't they do the late models they're
your or a couple years ago they did both yeah they did late the half mile one night or the big
track one night in the small track the second night that was like two or three years ago I think
it was more like six years ago was it because I was there what four years ago and they did it
it was before that event so it might have been like 2020 when they're trying to get races anywhere
so they came up with that and yeah we're good the small track would be a lot more oh that'd be
awesome for sprint cars yeah man it's a great track for late models so I see you get like J.J.
Hickle showed up and you know that runs in Knoxville yeah they got him parked in the pavement
lot too off turn four that races like Jacksonville in places so yeah so I'll be going on tonight
yeah Kyle Larson's in the house uh-huh there you go alright anything else we got the dream
coming up I'll be down there Friday night and Saturday will you you won't be here
next week no I will not be here next week so blame me this time for the podcast not Elliot
I will be in Mexico who's winning the dream who is winning the dream
Pierce has been hot yeah Thornton's had his moments yeah Thornton I don't think JD's been
a little more relaxed but still winning yeah um
Hudson O'Neill uh-huh Hudson's been running strong yeah not a bad pick Hudson O'Neill it's hard to go
against Pierce so that's what I'm thinking it's right now he's he's got her figured out but usually
whoever the big dog is going to El Dorre usually isn't the one that wins the big race yeah I mean
it's hit or miss yeah usually it's like the dream comes and Davenport wins right oh he's he's
taking the world for sure yeah and that's the one that kind of flutters on so you know Brandon
Shepherd's been running well in the new yes rocket car version I mean I mean it could be any
McDowell El Dorros McDowell won yeah I mean it really does and uh Madden I mean what you can't
get out McCready yeah he's been I mean you know at El Dorre you can't count him out yeah it's hard
to count a lot of guys out yeah that's what I mean but I don't know I think you know Hoffman's been
pretty strong this year too he's kind of had a few of those Eldora O's and moments and I'll
throw a real sleeper out there and I think it could happen Josh Rice oh yeah I mean he's been
better and better at El Dorre now he's I'm gonna say he's never been a bad late model driver no
but I'm gonna say when you go out on the road your game gets a little tough yeah it gets a little
more refined for sure yeah so now you take that a more refined Josh Rice because he's been close
to El Dorre before take a more refined Josh Rice put him there and you know yeah I would say
I'd say he's my sleeper pick got you but I think Huddy I don't know why I just think Huddy
because Pierce I mean it's hard to go against Pierce it's kind of like you want to pick Pierce
but you're just like it's so obvious you don't want to pick Pierce right right that's why I'd love to
see like a Josh Rice or a James James and runs good there all the time I don't know if Jen will be
there help with him or not but you know yeah it's funny I got some attract officials and I'll send
me pictures hey Jason her uh Jenna's brother's here well see if one for me it's really not that much
of a sleeper but like I mentioned Nick Hoffman would be one right I'd like to see even though
you just want a hundred grand but right um yeah still El Dorre yeah let's see Rice or Jamison
or somebody that you know kind of the off the expected you know because you expect Pierce,
Huddy, Shady, Shepard, yeah yeah it'd be cool if you got a you know even uh he's had a shitty year
but like adult and Wilson's had good runs down there before yeah you know and he's had a terrible
I don't want to say terrible but not to your he's yeah I feel like he's had a lot of bad luck but
as far as driving and results he's he's been pretty good another one I'd put in the sleeper
category that could possibly he's never been spectacular at El Dorre but he's getting better
as Drake Troutman yeah he's been tough you know I mean yeah that's the thing that's what's great
about the those races El Dorre because yeah you got your okay yeah these guys and Overton's been
all right at times this year and you know Chris Ferguson's another one yeah you know
that's the thing that you could tell him 20 guys that wouldn't surprise you but then you got some
sleepers in there it'd be like oh well yeah yeah split fields Thursday Friday like they've done the
last couple years so you'll see that 30,000 to win each night this year 715 thousand dollar purse
yes that's not counting Wednesday yeah flow night in America deal that's about 20,000
20,000 to win yep yeah so which is one of my favorite races year and if you listen to this
before Wednesday if you want to see all the big shots for a lot less crowd than what's going to
be down there later in the week go on Wednesday mm-hmm if you're a sprint car fan and you're going
man I'd like to go to one of those big late mile races once but I don't want to crowd go Wednesday
yes because you'll be because I've had a lot of people like man we'd really like to go some more
sprint car people because it seems like those late miles are getting pretty good I'm like go on
Wednesday yeah go to the flow night in America that's the time to go yes but which I usually go
but I'm actually gonna be elsewhere Wednesday because uh it's kind of I kind of had a weird uh
it was Friday I remember now I had a pretty uh weird Friday for you know a sprint car fan
to spend his whole life I had a little 500 Hall of Famer drop off my crown batteries oh yeah
yeah who was that by the way uh David Harrison like oh super days yeah super days little 500
Hall of Famer oh I didn't know that him and his dad are both in it gotcha yeah well then you know
you know his son never made Hall of Fame no his grandson might grandson's definitely a better
track than yeah yeah yeah so you know but yeah I had had a little 500 Hall of Famer bring me batteries
and less than a half hour later I had a national sprint car Hall of Famer message me
and tell me he's gonna be racing an all-star pavement midget at a wasp on Wednesday night
so that's where I'll be yeah because now you have Sammy Swindell which could have been the
national Hall of Famer that messaged me uh Ryan Newman Christopher Bell Ryan Newman's daughter
all racing all-star midgets up to a wasp along with I just seen uh had a Glenn Steyer's car on
there which was weird I didn't know he had a pavement car maybe he does it says there's almost
40 entries now oh wow part of the 30,000 to win the next race there's four races it's race two
of the race for a million 30,000 win I think 300 or 3000 to start up the wasp
but then yes this pavement I know cause pavement nerds some people do um but they've that dude's
put in millions like almost 13 million dollars of work in that track I guess or 8000000 or
what I haven't been there since they've done all the work okay don't have so they go up there and
hey when Sammy Swindell messaged you tell he's racing close to your house you gotta go right
yeah yeah I mean that probably don't happen a whole lot no he's obviously you know and he won
a couple weeks ago in the all-star midget so I'd be awesome to see him win one more race
yeah I mean he's obviously got his uh groupies contact information right yeah you gotta go if
he calls right exactly yeah I mean Christopher Bell and Ryan Newman wasn't the last one so
competition might be a little tougher so and that's this that's the race for the million
night too you said right yeah they're both yeah yeah the midget and the race for a million on
Wednesday so I won't be at Eldora but uh be going up though also it was right on then Thursday
I would like to go the first night of the dream at Eldora but uh we fly to Mexico Friday morning
and I think we got to be there like at 7 38 o'clock so that means I'm gonna have to leave
like at 5 30 or 6 yeah and even and Eldora the you know usually Thursday night shows usually
over with by about 10 yeah but you know my time I get home's gonna be 11 30 ish 12 and I'm gonna
have to be up you know on the road to Detroit probably by six at least maybe before that so
I don't know if I want to do that yeah I don't blame you I mean I usually try to sleep on the plane
but we'll see cool we'll see yeah we'll have some kind of episode next week maybe it's just me
bumbling by myself but uh hey regardless we'll we'll put something hey you could get a guest
yeah I know you get like the winner of the dream I was thinking who should I get but uh we'll see
we'll see what happens maybe nothing Robert Blewett probably volunteer yeah I bet he would
anyway that's gonna do it for us get him out swander get you could get swander call him
no I want people to keep listening so hey maybe you can have an ocean yeah no thanks
anyway thank you all for listening thank you for tuning in as always we appreciate each and every
week yeah one of us will be in Mexico the other be at the dream so we'll see yeah you'll actually
get to a race I'd say it's crazy when I don't it's crazy I know just remember I went to East Bay
you never did that's true so there you go I will have that over your head forever you will so
you will I'm happy for that anyway have a great week everybody I'll see you next week
so next time stay dirty bye
About this episode
Memorial Day weekend recap kicks off with racing plans, sponsor shoutouts, and track-weekend logistics like where to eat near Eldora and how to get it delivered to your campsite. The hosts then bounce between big-picture race atmosphere—Indy 500 records and crowd noise—and dirt-racing weekends shaped by rain, rough track prep, and last-lap drama. Mansfield and Kokomo get specific attention, including car counts, points battles, restart slide jobs, and rule/officials controversies.
Original notes
This week we catch up from a week off. Duane tells us about his time at the Indy 500 and the BC Double at Kokomo. We also talk about the big World of Outlaws Late Models race at Mansfield Speedway, which ended up paying but money but didn't come without some growing pains.
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