“Four wide” means four cars are driving next to each other at the same time. On dirt tracks, that usually only happens when the track has enough grip for everyone to stay stable.
A water truck is a vehicle that drives around and sprays water on the dirt track. It keeps the track from getting too dusty and can help the racing surface feel more consistent for drivers.
Place
Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park is a race track they’re talking about. They’re saying the track does a good job with track preparation, like using a water truck to keep the dirt from getting too dusty.
On a dirt track, the “cushion” is the part of the track where drivers like to run because it gives better grip. If the cushion is big and consistent, it’s easier to race side-by-side and make passes.
“Midget Week” is a special week of racing in Indiana where midget/sprint-style cars race multiple times. It’s a big deal for drivers because the competition is tough and the winner gets a lot on the line.
“Non-wing” means the race cars don’t have a rear spoiler/wing. That changes how they stick to the track, so the car setup and driving feel different than winged cars.
“Modified” is a race class where the cars are changed a lot from what you’d see on the street. The rules differ by track, but it usually means a faster, more heavily built car than the basic stock classes.
“Street stocks” are a racing class meant to resemble regular cars more than the higher-end race classes. The rules are typically designed to keep things relatively affordable and competitive.
Term
super stocks
“Super stocks” are usually a step up from street stocks—more power and more freedom in how the car is built. The exact rules depend on the track, but it’s generally a faster class.
“Refire” is the restart procedure after a red flag, when officials bring the field back to racing conditions. The “8 12 16 20” style countdown they mention is the kind of timing/sequence used to coordinate when cars can get going again.
A restart is the moment racing resumes after a caution or red-flag stoppage. On short tracks, restarts are especially important because cars are lined up closely and drivers fight for immediate position.
A short track is a smaller race oval. Because it’s tighter, cars run closer together and it’s easier for things to get messy, leading to more slowdowns.
A “Dirt Cup” is a one-off dirt race where drivers from two different racing groups compete together. Here, they’re talking about the first one held at Muskegum County Speedway.
“Top 12” means only the best 12 drivers from each group get to race in this special event. It’s a way to make the matchup between series feel fair and competitive.
Brand
Ward of Outlaws
This sounds like the “World of Outlaws,” which is a big national dirt sprint-car racing series. The hosts are saying the best drivers from that series were matched up against the best from Lucas Oil.
Being “sanctioned” means the race is officially approved by a governing group. That group sets the rules and makes sure everyone is competing under the same standards.
Concept
outlaw sanctioned
“Outlaw” usually means the race isn’t run under the same strict, standardized rules as the big sanctioning organizations. That can make the event feel more flexible, but also less predictable.
“High Limit” is the name of a racing series. When they say it, they mean a specific set of events and competitors under that banner.
Term
seven grand
“Seven grand” here is shorthand for a minimum payout threshold being discussed for drivers. In racing, prize money and appearance fees can strongly affect which events drivers choose to enter.
At-large bids are basically open invitations—picking teams or drivers without requiring them to qualify through a specific route. It’s a way to fill spots more flexibly.
“Three wide” means three cars are driving next to each other at the same time. It’s exciting but also riskier because there’s less room to avoid mistakes.
“Sliders” is a dirt-racing way of saying cars are being driven in a controlled slide through the turn. It helps keep speed up, but it can also make things chaotic if someone misjudges grip.
Term
intrusion
They’re talking about an incident—basically contact or interference from another car. The idea is that it can mess up how the car drives afterward.
West Virginia Motor Speedway is a race track in West Virginia. The hosts are saying the big dirt series went there for the weekend and raced all together.
A “B main” is like a second-chance race that helps decide who makes it to the main race. If there are two B mains, it means the field was split into more than one qualifying group.
Heats are early races that help decide who moves on to the bigger races. If rain stops the program during the heats, not everyone gets to run the later rounds.
Place
Tri City
Tri City is a race track where dirt racers competed. The hosts mention it because it was one of the stops on the racing schedule for the series they’re talking about.
Lawrenceburg is a race track. The hosts talk about an event there and even mention how many cars showed up, which affects the racing atmosphere.
Topic
hell tour
“Hell tour” is the name the hosts use for a traveling late-model racing series. They’re talking about how busy the schedule is and how that can spread teams out.
“Late model” is a type of dirt oval race car class. The hosts are saying there are a lot of late-model races, which can make it harder for teams to show up everywhere.
“Saturated” means there are too many races happening at once. When the schedule is crowded, teams can’t make every event, so fewer cars show up to any single race.
Diesel is a type of fuel. The hosts are saying diesel can cost more (or at least differently than gas), which matters because race teams often drive trucks to haul cars.
On dirt tracks, the “racing surface” is the dirt that’s prepared for racing. If it can’t stay in good enough shape for a long run, the race may have to change.
The hosts are talking about a race track being sold and possibly closing. That matters because if the track changes hands, races might not happen there the same way.
A hauler is the big truck and trailer race teams use to move their cars and gear to races. It’s usually set up specifically for racing equipment, not just hauling something around.
The Jack Hewitt Classic is a named dirt-racing event. They’re saying it’s coming up during speed week and describing the types of sprint cars that will race.
“Engine issues” just means the engine isn’t running right. It can cause power loss or even keep the car from finishing races.
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Well, hello, everybody. Hello. Welcome to another episode of the Dirt Nerds podcast. That's us as you can hear.
Dwayne is back from Mexico this week right here in person in person. So I'm gonna get a steak from Elliott, but I'm here.
I had steak for dinner at least. So well, yeah, I'll be nice try and change my ways. No, you're not. I won't call you a dick on live air.
Oh, wait, you're too old to change your ways. Problem. Anyway, hope everyone had a good week. Hope you enjoyed an interview with Braden Harrison.
Harrison last week, young 305 driver. We've often talked about on the podcast and fourth generation driver. Yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, well, it's hard to fourth generation.
I guess I need to apologize to Josh, his dad, which I didn't think I was too harsh on his dad, but his dad messaged me saying, oh, I seem like the butt of the joke or something.
You know, I mean, if you want to count him as the third generation. Yeah, two and a half. Yeah. Yeah. But we usually give him a hard time like this.
I didn't really think I was that bad on him. But so sorry, Josh, I was trying to be nice. I guess it didn't work real well. You know, he'll live. Yeah, he'll be okay.
Yeah. So Dwayne is gone. So I figured we'd do an interview. I think we'll get more coming up. Dwayne, how's that sound?
Sounds great. Okay, sounds great. Robert Blue's itching to be on. Anyway, hope you all had a good week. Dwayne had a good week.
I had a good week and he'll tell us, I mean, hell, he got home and kept going. So yeah, he stayed a week off about going to the races. That's right.
Well, actually, I went back to work and then Melissa took the week rest week off. She's like, what are we doing? Like, well, if we're going somewhere, it's got to go to race.
Yeah, I was going to work, you know, see everything you're living in? That's what pays for that. So yeah, I mean, I was all right with going racing.
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I don't know if you heard, I did a little, little jingle last week. Not, not crazy.
I don't think I can top the champ over here. So, but yeah, I didn't hear from our buddy Rick. So it must not have been that great.
Probably put it that way.
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Then they have the bunker now open, which is in the basement. They got some pool table, some cornhole games. Anyway, all kinds of fun to be had at the Shershot Taphouse.
Ping pong too, did I say?
Probably. I think there was.
But yeah, ShershotTaphouse.com is the website. Go check them out as well.
And another pseudo sponsor. I mentioned them last week. They did send us some stuff, so I figured we ought to talk about it. I mentioned it last week, but Dwayne's back hasn't gotten to try.
I am.
Horse power hydration yet, so I got him a couple bottles of water to mix them in here, so he's chugging on the wild berry right now.
I think it's pretty good for powdery drinks where you add the powder and don't have that powdery aftertaste.
The gritty taste?
Yeah, the gritty aftertaste. They don't have that.
Yeah. So that's the mixed berry you tried. You tried the lemon lime yet?
I'm not. Let's try it. I'll shake it up here. Let's open her up.
I like the mixed berry a little better, I'd say. I'm not a big lemon guy, but it's still good.
I'm not a big lemon guy, but I like lemon in my water. And actually, I like this.
Good. So there you go. Product approved by Dwayne and Elliot.
This is going to be, I like berry more than lemon, 99.9% of the time. Not this one. Seriously.
Good.
I think this is the best lemon one I've ever had.
Cool.
Oh, seriousness.
I will say, I forget who posted on social media about, have you ever made a, or I think it was Ben Shelton
posted, have you ever made a cocktail with horsepower hydration?
Right.
He claimed to be the first, right?
I took this down the door of my dad. What's the first thing my dad said?
This would go great. Margaritas.
Hell yeah.
Exactly.
So.
Oh, seriously. I usually, that's why I tried to berry first because usually that's my favorite.
But no, I seriously think this is the best lime one I've ever had.
Yeah. Good stuff. Keeps you hydrated.
I will say, if you're going to a doctor's appointment, maybe don't drink it that day or soon before
because my wife did and her blood pressure was a little high.
Oh, that's why you gave me two. You're trying to kill.
Yeah. Electrolytes, you know, a little salty. That's what they are. Minerals and salt.
So, didn't notice that she, part of it was she was at the doctor.
So she's already pissed off and hates being there.
She goes with you.
Yep. That's also a factor.
I'm sure that's a big factor.
But yeah. Horsepowerhydration.com is the website.
Nerd 10 gets you 10% off your order.
Hell yeah.
If you haven't already, head over there and get some.
Dude, I seriously really like the lemon.
I thought, no, it's like the weirdest coincidence in the world that Sprint Speed Week is in
100 degrees.
Right.
That's what I thought at first time.
Oh yeah.
They send it to me. I was like, man, if you're a Sprint car team for Ohio Sprint Speed Week,
like, you should probably have that because those guys are sweating their asses off all
day, working their butts off.
But of course, it's like 74 degrees and nice all week.
But still, hopeful to have for sure.
It is. Good stuff for sure.
So it gives Dwayne seal of approval.
I do. I like the lemon.
Good deal.
Thanks to Michael Riggsby for sending us some of that.
I'll send you some packs with you too, Dwayne.
I got plenty of them.
I could be getting because, you know, I get a little hot and sweaty because, you know,
I'm on the plus instead of the minus side of the weight category.
Yeah.
So on AFCS nights, this could be really nice.
Well, and I was thinking we should probably try to hook you up and get Riggsby to supply
something for it to be the official hydration.
Right.
You know, partner of the AFCS station.
There you go.
So that was something that came to my mind.
He's a late moniker, you know.
Floor racing does on high limits.
I give him a little crap.
Oh, of course you do.
Um, yeah.
So Dwayne's back from Mexico had a good time down there.
All inclusive, which means that place Dwayne probably won the battle.
Let's put it that way.
Let's say the one night, the one day I decided to drink Jack and Coke and I had six at dinner
and that was at the end of the night.
So I don't know how many I had during the day.
Jesus Christ.
That, that day we went to bed pretty early.
The day we went to bed fairly early.
Yeah.
But then I remembered there's 100 degrees on there.
Why don't drink Jack and Coke all day like that?
Because it makes your body a little hot.
Yeah.
The next day that happened to be the day I got the massage with the water treatment.
If anybody's been to one of those fancy places where you go from hot to cold, hot code laying
in that sauna after drinking, you know, how many ever, you know, 20 Jack and Coke string
daily.
So if you had six at dinner, that means you had seven for the whole day, right?
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
That's what it was.
When they're not like, Oh, it was like, Holy shit.
I forgot how hot.
I mean, don't take much for you to sweat to begin with.
And then so I switched.
Well, I had some of those fancy, you know, ice drinks.
We did some margaritas.
We did some of my devices.
We did some mudslides.
We did as a bummer.
You didn't have some horse power hydration.
I did some vodka and vodka and sprite or starry or whatever the hell they had.
Good times.
Oh, yeah.
I didn't have one beer.
Nice.
Now I can sit there 100 degree weather and get bloated drinking all day.
Beer and hot days.
Good.
Yeah.
So there was some racing that happened, even though Dwayne left.
We raced.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
There's 10 of us there.
And, you know, we raced so we could drink, you know, the fastest couple of times.
We had some racing going on this area.
Dwayne went to some.
We'll get there.
Later in the week.
Watch some.
Watch some.
Got some.
Went to some.
Whatever.
But obviously the big one coming around this area this week is Ohio Sprint Speed Week with the All Stars.
Opened their night at Attica on Friday where Dwayne's happy to say the first two races were crowned.
We're won by AFCS guys.
Yeah.
First one's fourth in points right now.
Yeah.
Craig Mince won Friday night and then the late models are Buddy Devin won.
Yeah.
So good night for him.
I saw Kyle Moore had some rear end issues.
He was coming.
I was not there to touch Kyle's car.
So I don't blame that on me because he does park next to Devin.
But yeah.
Yeah.
Just unfortunate luck for him.
And then Craig Mince obviously winning the 410s and they went over to Sharon on Saturday.
And Zest Sable getting his first ever All Star win.
Yeah.
He's third in AFCS points right now.
Not far out of the league.
$7,500.
These are running boosted purses.
So good one for him.
Second in the points last year.
So yeah.
Yeah.
So far I think it's AFCS 2 All Stars 0.
Yeah.
If anybody's keeping score.
If anyone is.
I mean.
And they are racing tonight at Wayne County which they got 40 cars.
46.
40 plus cars.
That's one thing.
The car counts have been huge.
49 at Sharon.
43 I think at Attica.
Yeah.
So I haven't been under 40 all week so far.
Yes.
Good for them.
And the first two crowds are pretty good.
Yeah.
Wayne County I saw had a lot.
So good for them.
I know Wayne County has been hurting to get races in even.
Yeah.
So which to have another one added it sounds like.
Yeah.
So yeah.
Breaking news before we came on.
Which will probably get into the story a little better.
But Atomic Speedway.
Was going to be the home of the finale for the All Star 10,000 win this week.
That has now changed to Wayne County.
They're at Wayne County tonight.
They're going to finish off at Wayne County on Saturday for 10 K to win.
And we'll get into probably why here after a while.
But you know all the arguments the last two years the money's there.
Obviously the money's not there.
Yeah.
Interesting development as of late.
But yeah.
Otherwise kind of in the area Indiana midget week is going on as well.
Which is where Dwayne was able to visit a couple races.
Yeah.
So I watched Wednesday nights.
Some of it.
Then because then yeah we went Thursday took off went to Lincoln Park.
I like midget week.
And a little I don't want to say disappointed because it was good.
I mean I was happy with 27.
I think it was about 27 28 midgets both nights.
You know using midget week.
You get some of the Pennsylvania guys coming in and some of the power eye guys.
And you just didn't have that this year.
But I'm not complaining on bit because it was great.
Then there was 30 I want to say 34 or 35 sprint cars on Thursday night.
But yeah great racing.
I mean really really good racing.
And even though it's not my favorite guy to watch when he drove a hell of a race.
And I mean if there's a good race and nobody's taking each other out for the win.
I'll give them credit.
I mean they did Justin Grant drove his ass off.
He didn't Justin Grant anybody.
And I was what his first midget Indiana midget week win in like seven years.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean it was hell of a race.
I mean it was back and forth which you know sometimes it's four wide you
know.
I forgot how much I love Lincoln Park because they have a water truck with the keys and
it works.
Yeah.
There's always a big cushion.
I like these tracks.
I always say well we can't get it watered enough to not be dusty during you know and
heck it was 90 degrees that day and windy and sunny.
Yeah.
Big old ash cushion.
Yeah.
Right now the sun's going down later so it's you know after nine o'clock for sunset.
So they obviously did a pretty good job.
Yeah.
They always do there.
Always do.
But Circle City was the opener.
Hayden Reinbold won.
Paragon was the next night on Wednesday.
Carter Sarf won.
He did.
And then Lincoln Park is where Dwayne picked it up.
Which Hayden Reinbold I'm pretty sure has his first midget win because he has his first
sprint car win last year.
His first midget win.
But yeah.
So then Friday we took off.
I haven't been to Bloomington in probably ten years and you know they did some work to
the place.
No.
There's some grand stands in the old grass towards old grass in turn four.
A lot of it's just all cement slabs where you can use some blanket or a lawn chair.
But still still pretty much.
I mean they improve the restrooms a little bit and concession stands seem to be improved
a little bit and stuff.
But a great race track stayed decent all night.
And another another really really good race in both of the sprint cars on Wednesday or
Thursday night.
Jayden Rogers won after getting taken out by Recky Lewis on the night before.
So then they go to Bloomington which 32 cars I believe 33 sprint cars and 27 28 midgets.
So another great race in Logan Seavy.
Took the win.
He led majority of it but he got I mean he was challenged a lot.
Then thought maybe he's going to do the double.
He was in Lane and Simon Sprint car and was about mid pack.
Then all of a sudden there's some issues in a few laps ago.
He is up the third and I thought maybe he could do the double.
But and that was a great race too.
Maybe even better than the midget race and was great.
Jordan Kinzer came out Cody Tremble.
A guy I haven't seen race for or yeah Cody Tremble.
Is that who it was?
Yeah.
Not Tremble.
Why am I saying Tremble?
Tocca yeah.
What the hell Cody?
We're looking.
Timeout.
Yeah.
Timeout everybody.
Timeout.
Timeout.
Yeah it wasn't Cody Tremble.
That's a 34 car.
I think.
I haven't seen him race for a long time.
Yeah Cody Tremble second.
He was right up there the whole race and I thought maybe he's going to get the win
and him and Kinzer is battling and then see if he kind of got in there at the end
and Rogers was up there for a while and yeah good race and Jordan Kinzer.
Yeah.
I think if I'm not mistaken I think he's only Kinzer racing anymore.
Yeah Craig's not anymore.
Yeah Craig's not and I don't Dallas.
I haven't seen Dallas race this year.
Yeah I haven't seen the name anywhere.
I haven't seen Dallas race you know because he races non-wing local.
I haven't seen Dallas race I think.
I think he right now yeah I think he's only Kinzer racing.
Yeah.
Then they went to Tri-State on Saturday where Justin Grant got another win.
Yeah.
And Kokomo was supposed to be Sunday.
They rained out unfortunately as All-Star Sprint Speed Week also rained out Sunday at Millstream
but Carter Sarf was crowned champion of Midget Week by three points.
Yeah.
And the Paul May Motorsports entry.
Oh is that who he was driving for?
Yes.
Yes and Paul May Motorsports entry.
That's cool to see.
I usually talk to Paul but we didn't go on the pits either night so cool to see them get a win.
And you know who's leading the USAC national points right now?
Jacob Boxle of that Westfall four Kings.
Boxle had some good runs.
Yeah.
Jacob Denney kind of struggled a little bit each night.
Just didn't qualify the grace but charged up through the field every night.
But yeah tight tight Midget Week 15k to winner and the shark.
It was shark week in Indiana.
Nice.
The shark took her back to Missouri.
Well some of it.
Yeah.
Paul May kept the other right down there in Tarah Hope.
So then you actually went to a race Saturday as well.
Yeah Saturday.
I did not go to the Midget Week one.
We went to our buddy the Milkman promotions.
Mount Pillar Speedway had our regular non-wing show with modified and street stocks and whatever
super stocks.
Yeah.
Whatever.
Two stock divisions and yeah 25 which is the second highest in state because Lincoln
Park had 26 21 sprint cars down to Hobbstad with Midget Week and then so they had 25.
And I know it's not Ohio but didn't atomic race.
Tomic had 18 with boss.
So I was surprised that there was that many sprint around to populate.
Yeah I went down there with my buddy Chris Whitick's team that Chad Wilson's driving
for and part of that deal a little bit.
So went with them and help them out a little bit and seen some races and how of a race
up front between Ricky Lewis and Rylan Gray taking the win and Chad
didn't do bad.
Started ninth.
Dropped back to 13th on the start.
The car was a little tight and then searched around till he found a groove that went forward
and ended up eight had seventh down the middle of the back stretch and tried to slide the
pack and try it was trying to go from eighth to sixth and did good then got beat off the
corner.
So but yeah good run for Chad hasn't raced non-wing one time so far and like the last
seven or eight years.
Yeah he went back to the wing stuff and got out of that.
It was a thrill fly for a while so getting used to everything and but yeah yeah it was
good.
My pillar is good race.
I love the milk man and what he's doing there but they got to figure out the cautions.
Just have to.
You can't have I guarantee you there's at least 40 laps of caution on the sprint card.
Yeah.
And Chad so helping a team and you know not not to dogging on him because that milk man
has done wonders at that place and making it but you know a little constructive criticism.
I Chad said he goes dude they had a red flag and he's like anywhere I've ever went.
He goes they're telling you OK when we go to refire you know it's 8 12 16 20 you know
I'll read read the restart he goes then say a word.
He says then they fire off and he says you know I make 34 caution like he goes
I almost thought my radio wasn't working.
He says then after three or four caution I'm so like OK line up.
Well and especially a short track like that.
A lot of guys are side by side so then you get them run side by side because they you
know driver ain't going to be like OK I was beside that guy.
I'm going to try to get that spot and they didn't tell me so maybe I did get that spot.
Maybe I didn't.
Then they go another three laps and he's like OK well you know 18 goes in front of five
or you know six goes in front of 12 or you know so you're basically doing six caution
laps where they're like hey OK here's who goes where.
And the guy because last year when I was there a couple of times the same issues I mean just
yellow lap after lap.
Yeah he said it took almost an hour to get the feature.
Yes.
Yeah it was still daylight when it started.
It was like cool we're going to be out here.
I mean it was a couple of minutes until nine and then get over with almost 10.
I mean there's two red flags but not long red flags but the same guy.
So the second one is just check on because he did hit the wall pretty hard.
But yeah it was but that's the only criticism I have of places there.
I don't know who's doing the race wrecking or up in the tower but man they just they're
awful lot of caution laps that could be cleaned up pretty easy by just just a little bit you
know just a little bit OK hey why are you caution be telling them hey here's here's the running
order Chad's like yeah he goes I literally thought maybe my radio wasn't working because
they didn't say a word.
Yeah.
You know they said red he goes I heard him say red then he's like it's dead.
It's like nothing then go like 33 laps under after the refiring OK line up OK
well he's side by side with two cars at times like who's got the spot.
Yeah there's a lot of guys that way they're running 23 wide and it's like that'd
be my only constructive criticism is try to try to tighten it up tighten that up.
And dude if they would tighten that up the whole program probably would have been over
by 10 o'clock.
Yeah no kidding.
I mean in all seriousness.
Yeah and I like the place I like what they're doing.
You know I mean and I'm going to say the drivers do too because you know it wasn't a fat or
a boss it wasn't a GLTS is just an open show and there's a second most in the whole state
of Indiana.
Well in the whole region because Ohio is running like said boss to and it was the second biggest
car count of yeah all the tracks running so that tells you guys like it.
Yeah doing something right.
Yes.
You guys come back as decent pay.
I mean it was 2000 to win a thousand per second.
I think 300 to start.
Yeah.
So I mean it's pretty decent payoff for a non-wing show.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That was a good time and they got some more shows over there so I know we'll be back.
Yeah.
Mother racing kind of going on again in our area but really not that close but in Ohio
on was it Tuesday night or Wednesday night.
I can never remember Wednesday Wednesday the inaugural dirt cup over at Muskegum County
Speedway.
So the Marans came up with this idea to kind of pit the top 12 Ward of Outlaws versus the
top 12 Lucas soil guys they all showed up.
So for one.
So for Brandon Overton who had a pre-planned vacation wasn't able to be there so Danny
Ebert got the nod from the Lucas side to take that spot.
Did you watch that at all.
I watched some of it.
Dude Danny Ebert.
He was running up front.
Yeah.
I was going to say I was like man.
He was running for third there for a while.
I get tried impression.
It was funny like he wasn't even supposed to be here.
Yeah.
He was the first guy out and I was hoping he would have won just because it's so cool
like yeah.
Hey sorry you weren't good enough to be here.
Oh really.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But no he had a solid run.
I think he ended up 10th.
Okay.
Ended up 10th.
Yep.
I know it dropped there towards the end but.
It was a 20,000 to win feature.
Yep.
It paid really good to start as well.
Well each car so they got 5,000 to show up.
That's what it was.
Yeah.
And then they got 2,000 for starting a main so each car got at least $7,000 if they started
a main and then it paid decent on up.
Yep.
So Bobby Pierce won for $20,000.
It was like $200,000 per 24 cars.
They got so they did some interesting things but they it was if you're familiar with golf
there's a thing called the Ryder Cup where US and Europe plays each other every two years.
You know there's alternate shot.
There's different formats they play throughout a few days to kind of you know who's better
right.
So while you may be racing or racing golfing with against a team like you have to win that
match that gets your team points right.
So at the end of it whoever gets more points as a team wins so this was kind of similar.
Yeah I think the winning team each driver got a thousand extra dollars.
Yes it was a thousand dollars for the one.
Yes it was $12,000.
Yeah so they had some interesting ways of doing that.
They did some heat races and then you know the top so many got points and then so far
after that got none.
So obviously you just want your guys to finish in points-paying positions stuff like that.
Then they did the one-on-ones king of the hill type races which were just a match up.
That was just 1v1 and winner got the points is all it was.
So it wasn't like a king of the hill like they do at Kokomo or Chili Bowl or maybe Kokomo
is I'm thinking Chili Bowl.
Yeah both Kokomo does.
Yeah.
It was doing it.
Yeah you win in advance right.
It wasn't that it was just first in points versus and then all the way
back to 12th and then you know winner of those races got you points which those ended up being
pretty cool.
Or some of them that was pretty damn good.
Yeah I mean it wasn't.
Ricky Thornton Jr. and whoever like finished like a few thousands a part or whatever and
it was cool because I really think like with Muskegum it was good to only have 24 cars
because the track state, good condition, racing was good.
So it was all said and done.
They did run the feature like we said Bobby Pierce won but the you know the format was
was it 117 to 84 Lucas Oil won.
So again in the feature that paid points so far back and after a certain point there was
none paid.
So yeah but yeah pretty cool deal it went a little long they even admit that yeah.
But some things you know but it was the first attempt.
But it was cool because it was a $40 or $45 ticket but that was an all access pass.
Yeah I got you pit passes and you got to go in the pits do the head corresponding sponsor
tents next to every hauler so it was like good way to mix business and racing.
You know there's a lot of people supporting racing so it's good to kind of get out there
and say hi to the people that you're advertising to and then yeah obviously driver meet and
all that stuff was all included so it's a good good way to package it all together.
Yeah yeah and I thought it was great I mean and you know because some of the complaints
like when Kokomo did the king of the hill and the chili bull is like man we're out there
tearing our tires and engines and all that up just for a starting spot still pays the
same.
Well that's why I think it's cool that right off the rip you got five grand for showing
up.
Yeah.
Which that's an a main win at you know yeah that's the summer nationals a main win you
know.
Yeah and then if you start a day you got another two grand so there's seven grand right off
the you know and you know a couple guys that was having issues went out started a main got
there so they got seven grand you know then like I said the winning team if you happen
to be a Lucas oil member then you got another grand on top of it so then you're eight grand
so Lucas oil guys got a minimum eight grand then like I said each spot and feature paid
more so that's what I liked about it and I think the guys race that way too like sometimes
some of those king of hills like if it's just for position there might be one really good
one the rest kind of just like okay whoever gets to jump we're not going to tear anything
up but these guys were racing pretty hard but I think that's part of this is like a monster
truck deal or whatever you're automatically guaranteed this money so you know we once
please put on a little bit of a show and you win a little more for your team winning
so yeah give them incentive so here's the incentive if you keep winning your team it's
going to get you're an extra grand you know so it wasn't like for nothing
yeah I think that's why it made them a little better races and the guys to me they race
pretty damn hard yeah I feel like they took pride in it for sure oh 100% yeah which was
cool did you see the crowd good crowd awesome for Muskegum so yeah yeah unique event this
was the first year they're trying it they want to find a sweet spot yeah where they could
get all the guys and get them committed to be there which is hard you're talking 2014
this hard yeah especially with those are guys racing for a living so it's it's hard to get
them just to show up for anything yeah obviously Devin being out on tour probably helps right
you know but like you said money as well right you're pretty much guaranteed seven grand
because you're going to start the future and you're going to get because everybody made
the main so you're guaranteed seven grand just make some laps you know and and for some
of those teams that's good money yeah some of those small budget teams that I'm making
that on the tour yeah I mean no offense to like a Dan Ebert but like you know you gotta
finish top five Chamberlain yeah like you gotta frame it damn good and I was gonna tell
12 grand to win feature to get that much right yeah I think they did it very
smart yep yeah like they said you know they just driver engine but like I said there's
a lot of sponsors and each one of the guys had a sponsor and they drove them out in their
vehicles which that took that was a little unorganized but you know like I said is the
first time give them a little bit yeah I read the an interview with Tristan Moran who's
you know Devin's brother but is technically the promoter and obviously it's a family family
or deal but he said that was that was kind of there not a problem or hiccup but it's
like you know this event like we're in charge of it wasn't outlaw sanctioned it was a Lucas
sanctioned who usually runs the show like they had to be on it for everything so a lot of
moving parts but I don't care how much you plan trust me from a guy it doesn't okay how
much you got on paper and how perfect of a plan you have there's a hiccup every time
yes and you got to adjust on the fly and sometimes it goes well sometimes there's a little oh
shit yep you know and but sounds like it went off well enough I think so I know it had you
know your sprint car folks talking yeah we got high limit we got word about a lot of
people that watched it I have seen a lot of people that I talked to at the midget deal
I was like dude that was pretty cool thing you know like yeah I mean well and they did
good because they're showcased the 12 top 12 of each division and so you got the best
of the best in there which makes it you know it's gonna be good right yeah oh yeah it's
not gonna be yeah I see the I would love the sprint car idea is great but will those series
ever work together you know yeah it'd be more do you have it yeah you can't have it at El
Doran or Knoxville or something boring pretty much yeah like Kokomo Lyma yeah somewhere somewhere
where it would be but try not to tear a lot of shit up either yeah interesting endeavor
we'll see if that ever happens but yeah it's pretty cool concept and yeah I don't want well
and they want to keep doing it eventually maybe get it on a weekend great for the drivers
I mean seriously like if you know you're pulling in and getting at least seven grand yeah I
mean that's a no-brainer yeah I mean you know I saw I don't know if it was a driver that
posted it and said like should we have like at-large bids or wild card right I'm like
I don't know I mean I'd say here to know like do it how you did it I've seen a couple people
a couple fans like well been cool like we had a couple like like Ryan Markham and Doug
you know get a couple local people in there too but then you know I know I like how they did it
just two teams it makes it head to head that's you know good enough I think so too I mean I like
how they did it I mean obviously I think it worked really really well for a brand new idea and a one
off you know trying hey let's let's try this yeah you know and I think it was stated maybe Lucas
and more of outlaws get a little more involved with it right to you know and which one is funny
because Pierce you know before the race like well I start third we'll see how the start is
and you know I got two more races at the end of the week for you know championship points
as well panning so you know we'll see if I don't get a good start I'll just probably ride around
for a while yeah yeah okay put 20 grand on him Hoffman and who was the other person honey
was up there for a while yeah they were going three wide with sliders and yeah yeah oh josh
rice yeah yes it was josh right yeah because rice guy I don't know if it screwed up his car when
he got an intrusion you see he got into chamberlain he chamberlain was getting lapped and rice dove
way low and Tristan he got in Tristan his car just didn't seem as right afterwards and
yeah because he looked like he was gonna be unstoppable yeah for a minute he finished
second Hoffman third hoodie fourth Tyler herb fifth yeah herb came up there at the end yeah
but pretty cool uh idea hopefully I mean they want to do it again so that's always good well
I kind of like it I mean obviously you know they have some serious shows there but kind of uh
I don't want to say off track but kind of it's not your fairberry or Lucas oil or your yeah
Eldora or your you know kind of spotlight to track that you know because what have we heard
about muskewing and I've been there you hear oh it's so dusty you can't see the they prove that
you know it could be a great racetrack I had a lot of people seeing a lot of people was like man
that track's cool have you ever been there I had a lot of people ask me that like yeah I said usually
it's kind of dusty but you know I had 24 cars they got to yeah you know do good track prep and I feel
like that really helped having less cars like oh 100 then slick off as fast there's plenty of grip
make them race like I've been there one that that's been you know not so many divisions and
not be so dusty yeah I mean growing up you always heard a muskegum right like elsewhere Donny race
Devon obviously started there um Rick Auckland was always there like it was a popular track back in
the day race weekly so yeah kudos to them glad they had a successful uh successful event we'll
hope for another one I guess but the outlaws like Dwayne said word of all eight miles moved over to
West Virginia Motor Speedway for the weekend had a 30,000 to win uh race fest uh they called it
2001 first night yeah so Bobby Pierce ended up winning Friday which I saw some video there that
pretty good race you know brand shepherd was there in the rocket car they'll dice in it up
up front track looked in pretty good shape I know there was a lot of questions about that
but Tyler Erb got himself the win on Saturday for 30,000 dollars 30k so good for him Troutman
second Hudson O'Neill third and Bobby Pierce fourth uncle T he's got 130k in the last couple
weeks yeah he's been uh uncle T or uncle T Bobby uncle T oh yeah that's right 100,000
that's right I forgot about the teeth Bobby Pierce has 100,000 plus in the last few weeks too yeah
uncle T yeah that was the end of May so yeah within the last three weeks a good car
counts on hand you know 40 some cars right two B mains both nights so kudos to West Virginia I know
there's a lot of questions so especially with the dirt track coming there in the fall but uh
look like there's hell of a crowd yeah it did our buddies uh James Honeycutt Kyle Armstrong
and Ken Bob was there I saw I actually got the invite to meet him there because it's Honeycutt's
birthday Ken Bob message me he's like hey you want to surprise Honeycutt we're gonna be there
yeah we already had plans so yeah I'd like to get down there sometime me too I went I've never
been there when it was the big track but same I'd like to get there for this one we always went to
I-79 down the street down the hill from Rocket Chassis where Mark Richards was the promoter
I went to I-77 a couple times yeah I didn't I don't know I've never been to I-79 there's not
there no more it's an option lot now we have to watch Tim Hitt and Chuck Harper race there's a
kid actually I think I have a picture in victory lane somewhere with Tim Hitt I think it was yeah
so cool good days but yeah good to see some solid race in West Virginia again yeah um
what else do I got on my list here word of outlaw sprint cars at Knoxville
got uh for one day one and a half days let's say they finished one night they started
the other rain came and uh put a damper on that the day gravel was in the non qualifiers race
yeah as I say it was an interesting uh you know outlook on how the field was turning up but Brent
Marks broke his uh yes his skid we'll say and got himself the win Friday night and Saturday night
they started and I forget how far they got it was in the second or third heat heats so they got to
heats and had to call it due to rain but uh I know I we haven't mentioned it but Brent Marks uh
sponsors you know have changed a little on the car yeah sponsor go which that doesn't surprise me
yeah it was nothing we were but it was Fenton Marks racing I think to start the year and I don't know
some something something fell through which didn't surprise us people know some of the inside
yeah but ever since Marks had changed up it seems to be running a lot better yes so
yes kudos to him but they had what 54 cars or 50 61 60 yeah so they had a hell of a field out there
yes um yeah and they raced uh Plymouth and Angel Park the weekend before yeah so they had uh
you know Sheldon Hineshield won one of those and uh he won Plymouth and Carson won at Angel Park
was uh unfortunately nobody knows Sheldon his dog Pella passed away yes yes so he won with a heavy
heart that night yeah and Pella is you know on his t-shirts yeah was on his t-shirts and stuff
t-shirt stand uh anybody knew Sheldon and Zane knew Pella yep so uh but yeah um yeah well then a
lot of them well only I think only Spencer was at Houston's last night because the big 300,000
won shows this week and so while the High Limit guys were at Houston's last night Zad 41 42 cars
maybe no I think 43 but uh Ryan Tim's yeah doing Ryan Tim's thing I was gonna say that kids got a
good combination there yeah tough um hell tour is in action oh it's yeah started uh Monday I think
yeah sounds right so um yeah we're gonna butcher all these results but uh deal with it
Shannon Bab one the opener Bab what was that Brownstown for his 103rd win
and then moving up to the next night which I can't I don't know if it was the next night or not
but Coles County a little tiny ass track that was Fager Friday night that was Friday night so they
get a couple rainouts maybe they had a rain out but it was Bab Fager one at Coles yep um and then uh
sorry I'm looking here that's Fairberry yeah Bab one at Fairberry with 41 cars on hand so I know
car counts have been a little thin except for Fairberry obviously yeah but in the low 20s and
last night Sycamore uh surely surely the squirrel yes one it seems like there was Kankakee got rained
out pure yeah pure yeah so they didn't have to that got rained out um but yeah 11 month dry spell
for uh Brian Shirley with the hell tour so Bab getting to right now Tanner English is leading
the points yeah say Tanner's had some good yeah he's running the whole thing they had a good interview
with him being the 40th anniversary he says he remembers running the hell tour with his dad oh yeah
that means uh but yeah so you got he's running it full time uh Michael Leach Michael Leach's
younger brother Tyler mm which started off good on I think it started Tuesday yeah maybe Tuesday
and he started off good but then uh he got a few crashes and then um Fager I think's running the
thing um a couple other guys I think McGrath maybe maybe I think he is yeah so right now before
Willemot which is tonight Tanner Leeds Fager second Daniel Adam third yes Adam's running Frank
Hekenast yes his fourth Gardner tied for fourth and Clay Stuckey is the other name up in the top
yeah I think ran it all last year too I don't know if Gardner I doubt if Gardner runs yeah usually he
doesn't uh but uh yeah keep an update on that but yeah they're up in Willemot tonight so yes
we said 21 cars last night looked uh GLSS was in action yes past weekend at Tri City on Friday
there were Phil Gressman got a win which is crazy to think but it's been a while since he's got
a GLSS win he dominated it for how long yep and then they went to Butler Butler
once another guy that has a one for a while chased right an hour
ah okay took the win then they actually had four 10s regular four 10s with him and uh Sterling
Kling that raced uh Speed Week on Friday went to Butler and won four 10s yeah and uh Cody Brewer
one of our AFCS guys up there and uh ended up fifth right on Cody I think that's the first time
he's been to Butler yeah very cool um any other result stuff Dwayne I'm sure there's plenty but uh
what else Oakshade Colin Shipley won yeah beat Rusty he stepped in yep um Lawrenceburg had the
northern all stars which um Adam Stricker won yes Adam Stricker 7500 bucks too yeah
Jenner's brother was there racing yes he's leading the points oh yeah yeah Lawrenceburg
as a I mean he won Friday night at um that one ponderosa I believe got you yes yeah I can't
remember uh who's all racing wear anymore um yeah um I think there was 18 cars at Lawrenceburg
or something something like that 18 20 yeah 17 showed up which you know kind of a bummer but
and Lawrenceburg's a great place uh you know really good late model track I think just the size
and everything works well for them so if you notice one thing I've noticed this year and that's
one reason I think the hell tour is kind of in the low 20s is there's a lot of
late model races you know hell tour you know paid five pays five at least and some of them's 10 but
you know just like the other night there's three or 7900 uh 10000 when
late model shows you know spread out all over so yeah it's getting a little saturated well and I
especially when gas is five bucks again well and that's the thing it's uh seven bucks six bucks
if you're diesel well unless you're in Indiana then you pay 307 for that I seen diesel at four
or something yeah but you know this is Ohio governor won't lower the tax or get rid of it like
yeah I seen 3113 a buy filled up for 307 mm-hmm yep we're still four bucks here buddy
401 yeah thank you Mike Dick wine I'd do wine um uh at least they use our tax money for good
things yes but I think it's cool that I mean yes it stinks and some of these shows is getting 18
20 cars but for the teams it's cool because all these guys get paid well yeah yeah you're racing
for 500 to start mm who else michael page want to race somewhere that was a pretty decent paying
one too I was gonna say I mean there's some down south the front was racing magnolia uh winger won
yeah winger won five grand at cochran saturday the epilections yeah that's going on too yeah
winger was what eight and ten or twelve or seven and twelve or something he won eight grand uh
at magnolia the one night and I think he won 12 the next night he's yeah he's swept the weekend
you're at 12th stand and then clinton won 75 or I'm sorry page 175 at Sonoya yeah see that's that's
what I mean so there's a lot of there was a ton of them so you know it's not surprising that
some of these are only getting 20 mm-hmm but like I said there's there's a lot of guys getting paid
which needs to happen right now yeah yeah I mean you can race you know for a couple hundred bucks
to start or 500 bucks to start with only 18 cars there right it's like kind of a no brainer for
some guys right I know our buddy jedi was there yeah power sock oh yeah I think he ended up
seven or three mm he's got brand new t-shirts first time he's had a t-shirt in the long
time yeah brand new car too first time he's had a brand new car in a long time yeah so as far as
we talked about the all-star sprint speed week finale getting moved a little bit of a
the one other race got moved out of there already too in October the I am EX or whatever like some
I think it's legend cars and shit I think yeah I did see someone said the legend car race but I
didn't even see where it was yeah it was supposed to be there a big championship like big championship
three-day deal got moved out of there yeah so don't know where yet if you didn't see someone posted
some court filings yes from a bank uh you know in regards to atomic and pretty much the bank was
calling its notes so a bank will get along your money um as long as you pay and everything is
it takes they usually don't care yeah and it takes for them to pull their note it usually takes
a while yes of no payment like no payment no negotiations yeah and why I mean a while I mean
like a year or more so yeah there was a fine links of in the court one of these they missed one
payment yeah in the court for like one loan was a million the other was a few 100000 I
think but it was like 1.4 million in total yeah because there was like 8000 and some interest on
some deal yeah there is yeah yeah one point 16000000 or something for the
the big one then there's a couple secondary ones and yeah so anyway it's about like over a million
dollars in notes that were called uh by the bank from atomic if you listen to the atomic they say
oh it's not a big deal but I mean yeah leverage for a million bucks on a racetrack is tough
needless to say it's a big deal it's tough especially when you see you know we already know
the old the money's there but the money wasn't money's there no it's not then most of the guys got
paid then you still see some lower division saying hey we haven't got paid on certain things yeah we
saw many few drivers Bryce Lucius being one of them saying they never got paid and said oh yeah
tracks that there's all these issues with wiring and money I guess sending a check that clears is
too hard I don't know um but that was eventually paid somehow um obviously this was all operating
of a line of credit for the track which businesses do awesome the car all took longer than that yeah
so we heard a few different things happening and the track said all's well all's well well
then this comes out the track went online uh like Dwayne said said that's not a big deal which I mean
called for a million plus dollars it's kind of a big deal I would think that's a big deal that
means the bank says no we want our money now is what that means um and pretty much said like
yeah if anyone wants to buy it it's up for sale and just I'm running it as is but um what you're
not going to get a sale out of that property to cover those notes yeah no so uh anyway back to the
the headline today like before like we said before we started recording all stars print speedway
finale has been moved yes and the legend car deal has been moved at the end of October so
how many more races will get moved how many how many people will go there on the
because it's I mean yes most people's got paid you see some guys saying hey we didn't get paid
for this and you see some people because you know that brings everybody out of the woodwork well he
didn't pay me for this for from 1927 yeah you know you know whatever you know some of those you
kind of just shake your head at but others you're like okay so to me I honestly think that's going
to hurt the car count yeah like guys aren't going to go there expecting like if we race we're not
going to get paid so why go exactly yeah I can tell you that was a factor because uh you know
Whitickson Chad was talking about like okay do we go down there you know he's got to pay it now
boss is always paid because Aaron usually pays it out of his own checkbook but Aaron needs a check
from the track yeah oh yeah to put it in there you know what I'm saying so it's like what races are
going to get paid and what races aren't you know and uh he had a thing yesterday about how all the
all stars are you know sticking with us and we're having this and rick swallow is sticking with us
how about well that changed in a day so is Lucas oil ones in jeopardy yeah I mean
I don't know yeah but yeah I'm gonna say which sucks because I like atomic and he's tried a lot
down there but you know obviously something's going on um it's like I have a bad feeling it's
I don't know I hate to say it but I don't know if it'll last until the end of the year yeah I mean
if you were paying online you can't keep losing money yeah well if you're paying on lines of credit
and those just got froze like where's your cash coming from right and you can't keep uh you know
he's tried some new things he's doing this Wednesday night blue collar thing which is low purses
uh you know like having sport mods and so which I think is a great idea yeah because not everybody
can go on there's people at work weekends and can go during the weekend their crowds have been
from what I've seen not that great but so how many shows can you you can't lose money on any shows
now yeah you have to make money on every single show and I just pretty much all the crowd money
all the all the gate money you get is going to the drivers now because you can't pay it
person otherwise right so that that scares me because it's like okay if that don't happen
you know is there backup money somewhere and maybe there is and the loan's just hanging I don't know
but it's it's not a good situation and um who knows I mean yeah I just have a feeling that's a
snowball effect that yeah you're not gonna have some guys show up to shows because they're like
all this is going on if there's not enough people in stands what happens do we waste
you know yeah a team from up here ask go basically three hours each way back and
forcing them burn up 700 dollars in fuel what happens it's like sorry
there's only 500 people in the stands tonight yeah what happened yeah it's a tough one
well and even if even if that's not the scenario that's the scenario in everybody's head exactly
you know and that's that's that's a problem because now everybody has seen that and they're
like well we ain't going there because we ain't gonna get paid yeah and that might not be the
issue he might have X amount you know there might be hey I'm not making a loan payments but I have
you know yeah cash in hand 100000 dollars for purses yet this year you know and
which we don't know that yeah and so everybody's gonna have the concept of man I want to go down
there yeah well I go and not get paid risk not getting paid right yeah I ain't saying that's
gonna be the case but that's the mindset now of most like like you said that's the snowball effect
of yes right yeah so what sucks because it is a nice track yeah I like going on man dude growing
up that the stars came to town they were always there Wayne County I went there a couple times
last year I went to Lucas oil race I went to all star race and I mean excellent racing yeah I grew
concessions I grew up going there for the stars races every you know a couple times a year we'd go
down there I went to the dirt track in like 08 um you know so when Burke offer one um yeah it's
always been a staple for Ohio racing for sure yeah so hopefully something happens but yeah I would
think a million dollars is a big deal but maybe not maybe yeah I mean you can sell the track for
a few hundred grand maybe but it's still not you know the new people can take it and run with it
but then obviously you're hung up to dry on the balance unless you negotiate them down which that
can happen too so I don't know just depends but there's yeah still in the works still new I think so
we'll keep an eye on it but hey maybe that's pocket change and you just can walk in there right
check I don't know yeah I never know no no dudes financial deals but yeah um another track in
southern Ohio that had some news it's not official but it looks to be Portsmouth yes reopening looks
that way well it's funny because some people announced it then Portsmouth's like oh we didn't
realize the announcement was coming out we was waiting for it to get a little farther along
in the process a little more official yeah so everything looks good but we're still not going
to say it's a done deal right so mudlick valley folks um have are the ones in the agreement that
are planning to open it so um we'll see I guess where it goes but what they were closed last year
I believe too right well yeah they've been closed for I want to say three years has it been that long
I can't remember two or three years I mean so the dirt tracks have been at oh door for what was it
two or three I think 31 I can't remember there's two at least two yes then
changing up to West Virginia so it's been closed at least three years yeah um but yeah kind of uh
maybe four has been three years it's been interesting uh development there glad to see a
track coming back obviously I know towards the end there they were kind of hurting for car count
I've been there a handful of times they're all boss races no take it back I've been they've had
Ohio Speed Week show there a couple times I've been a couple of those they did the Niddle Memorial
there for the sprint cars yeah with high limits yeah that's right that was there too yeah and I
so I've been there for Speed Week shows and uh boss yeah so yeah I mean it's a you know it used
to be a pretty strong yeah those were Jackie Boggs and the Cattonies raced and used to be a pretty
strong place and Ackens Ben Ackens raced there's dad Doug so one see that's why I think what Muskegum
did that's why I like like said showcasing that track and having an event like they did the other
day and that you know it's thinking outside the box and maybe Portsmouth I'm gonna say do the same
thing but come up with some ideas like that where you're you know it's kind of a no brain home run
and uh yeah and we know Portsmouth help keeps tracks open I mean if you're not doing weekly stuff
which is harder and harder to do and where Portsmouth sits it's usually underwater until April yes
so at least they have to start a little later than most but I know the dirt track the biggest
complaint I always heard with the dirt track being there was the surface for the feature
like you see campers the camping areas and all that looked like you know well attended good crowds
they just couldn't provide a racing surface for 100 laps so we'll see where it goes but it's always
good news to uh yeah to see one coming back so we'll see where it goes hopefully we'll get some shows
back and yeah uh Tri-City right or is it Tri-State I can never remember it uh and uh technically
no Missouri St. Charles Missouri right um or is it Illinois Petun Beach Illinois pontoon
pontoon gotcha um but uh I can never remember what the hell it's called Tri-City Tri-State there's too
many over in Illinois the Gundekker's track we'll say yeah thanks Tri-State um Tri-City Speedway for
sale Tri-City as a tune beach yes um suburb of St. Louis but on the Illinois side um the Gundekkers
are from Missouri but the track is in Illinois long time staple for a lot of series but uh
Granite City Illinois duh that's where it's at yeah always known as Granite City but is for sale
um 20-something years yeah Kevin and Tammy Gundekker and we knew uh a couple years ago they announced
like hey it's for sale we're still gonna run it but it's for sale uh but this year they decided
enough's enough we're just gonna call her good and put her up for sale and you know not kill
themselves over any markets yeah it was not better reason they've had hell tour there they've had oh
yeah Lucas oil yeah you sack midget deal there they teamed up was a word of outlaws when they
raced at uh NASCAR was racing at St. Louis you know oval or whatever so um they've done a lot of
good there it's a bummer to see uh see one kind of sit hopefully gets purchased and and runs well
afterwards but um Gundekkers did a good job they're from the racing you know world so obviously they
knew knew their stuff but unfortunately it's like a lot of the racing world some of these
mainstay people are just getting older and wore out I mean yeah you know yeah um well he bought it
in 2005 obviously raced there for many years um you know Gundekker 11 was obviously a popular
popular ride everyone knew about so bummer to see it closed but hopefully uh it's only temporarily
we'll see hopefully that is it what other one is it humboldt or one of them that's for sale
Kansas yeah I saw that 765 grand I think I saw that's another fairly popular one that one looked
like a good it's like damn it sounds closer that'd be a good yeah the price tag's a little high for
me but not for packaging not for Dwayne you you just went to Mexico um yeah but you own late
model yeah did you see the hauler your late model team has yeah I mean I could buy the race track
yeah I could buy so much money I mean I just seen it on Facebook the other day somebody is telling
what 1.4 million or something yeah I seen it as on Facebook and a fan said it so it has to be true
yeah it's not a 2007 trailer or anything like that it's new man it's fancy I seen it on Facebook
from a fan and I know they know yeah everything they know exactly my fan used to race I think too
no his dad did yeah never had a hauler like that I can promise you I never had a cargo that fast
I'll say it I'm not afraid anyway that's all I got on my notes is there anything I'm missing
yeah I don't think so it's on the track for sale thing it's not an oval but uh in our area
Muncie drag strips for sale too mm one up this week too yeah straight line fans you got a
EFCS this weekend nope not till June 26 because speed week yeah that's right you got a friday
it's all the race we have in June yeah let's say I remember your June schedule our July is packed
obviously outside of the Doty and Kings Royale right yeah all besides we're racing every weekend
besides the Kings Royale week gotcha yeah July is packed July is when our championship will be
won or lost basically because we only have two shows in August and then championship week I don't
know it's close right now it is super super close so it could uh it could come down to uh
maybe one of the last weekends again that'd be awesome yeah so we got El Dorado tomorrow though
for speed week we're going down right yes jack Hewitt classic yeah non-wing and wing spring cars
yes uh open uh non-wing show paying 3 000 to win uh I know Chad's gonna be racing down there
I don't I think like last year you had Jack Hawyer and Zach Petores and some of those guys
Ricky Lewis probably yeah I'm sure he'll probably be there I don't think he'll go to the out
to the because Eastern Storm starts on Wednesday but guys like that won't go yeah Trey Osborne
you know was doing the whole you sack thing but he's kind of had engine issues and fell so
could have him you won the boss show yeah at a time that's right right um so yeah I think it'll
be decent and so far that haven't been under 40 cars for speed week and the all stars El Dorado
are always great yes it's always been so uh yep I'll be down there on Tuesday Wednesday speed
weeks off supposed to be a rain date but uh fun interesting Milstrom did not elect to use the
rain date which weather for Wednesday is not looking great so no and they said something
about the help a lot of their help you know works full time which I do know that like Greg Smith
you know helps they all work so it's kind of hard to be like okay we just cancel now we can't
be to work on Wednesday uh then Thursday is Wainsfield one of their only two races of the season
both all star races plan on going to that then Friday it switches goes to Fremont yes the now wing
county uh Friday I'm going to Lima oh okay non-wing sprints gotcha GLTS then Friday or Saturday I don't
know we have oak shade as a iron man american lint model series for 5k to win and crystal
speedway has uh Suley Memorial which is 11,000 the way right they have the non-winners race on
Thursday night uh then uh Friday night's like a prelim night or whatever then 11,000 win on
Saturday so a lot of lint models would be up there yeah I know there's some probably uh not
going to be at oak shade that would normally be to go up there so we'll see how it goes yeah
be interesting again uh 5,000 win at oak shade 11,000 crystal so some guys are gonna get paid
because some places they're gonna split yeah some of the guys are so uh and we've got speedway going
on but the IRA comes to Michigan this weekend oh is that the Butler date uh Hartford on Friday
Butler on Saturday and Power Eyes in Indiana uh at Lincoln Park and Spoon River
uh I believe they're at Spoon River on they're at power at Lincoln Park on Friday and Spoon
River on Saturday wow so a lot of sprint cars in the area too yeah another big weekend getting
it's hard to believe we're almost to the end of June already I know it every year we say this
kind of stuff right like for this year started off slow because of all the rainouts and now
you'd go about every night yeah I won't be anywhere Saturday I got an event with the trailer
Saturday night really yeah over in Wasiano all time so uh yeah I don't know for sure Saturday
what we're gonna do I mean I'm actually kind of interested in counting out to be honest
yeah yeah 10,000 to win too yeah I was kind of thinking I was gonna kick myself right punch
myself right nuts and go to oak shade and go why in the hell did I come over here yeah
hey you can see a couple cars through the dust usually at least they're on the bottom
so you know where to look for them right so I don't know we'll see we'll get a couple uh
there's a huge pavement race in our area too this weekend up Daniela the Dave Nestor been a pavement
racer the Nestor family for years there's Morio race uh passed away and they got
ton of like for pavement modifications like 3,012 to win 2,012 for second 1,012 for third I mean
huge money so that'd be kind of cool too I haven't been up there for a while but yeah we'll see
cool see see what happens on Tuesday and Thursday yeah and Friday and
it's at least three races we know it's Dwayne's schedule so you never know where Dwayne's gonna
right it's right it's like where's Waldo right if we happen to get one of these storms
you know and lima decides not to race on Friday maybe farmer city I don't know yeah I'd like to
go to farmer city yeah plenty of backup options oh yeah needless to say yeah well I guess that'll
do it for us then Dwayne I believe so all right I don't even know what time it is time for you to
get bad time for you to get the hell out it's right because you didn't give me a steak did
you get some horsepower hydration that's right I'm all revved up now they're ready to go
well thanks everyone for listening thank you for tuning in as always yes appreciate it sorry
you people had to listen to LA at least braden was there to carry we had we had an interview so
I can't get shit for having not having interviews right all time so but thanks for listening thanks
for tuning in maybe we'll get some more interviews I'd be all right I said that before but maybe I'm
serious this time you never know I got some people that would come on that's what I like to hear
so I'm sure anyway thanks for listening hope you all have a great week get out see you race this
weekend and I guess until next time as always stay dirty bye bye
About this episode
Horsepower Hydration gets a taste-test and a quick health caveat, then the hosts tie the product to Sprint Speedweek’s brutal heat. They recap Ohio All Star Sprint Speedweek at Attica and Sharon, note the All Star 10,000 finale moving to Wayne County, and run through Indiana Midget Week highlights. The conversation pivots to the inaugural Dirt Cup at Muskingum County Speedway—Ryder Cup-style matchups, guaranteed payouts, and Bobby Pierce’s $20,000 win—before shifting to track business news and upcoming high-payout events.
This week Duane returns and tells us about his trip to Mexico and some races he hit up when he returned. We also talk about the first Dirt Cup held at Muskingum which created a new concept for dirt racing. We also talk about Ohio Sprint Speedweek and Indiana Midget Week.
