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Kyle Larson
Kyle Larson is a well-known race car driver, especially on dirt and oval tracks. Here, the hosts are talking about a moment where his car slid sideways in the early part of the race, which is a big deal in racing.
Term
got sideways
“Got sideways” means the car started sliding instead of gripping the track. It usually happens when the tires lose traction in a turn, so the car points a different direction than it’s moving.
Place
Fremont
“Fremont” is a place where races happen. The hosts are saying Larson had a rough moment there the night before, and it may have affected how he looked in this race.
Term
dual
“Duals” here means the event had multiple qualifying races. Drivers run those heats to earn their spot in the main races.
Term
A main
An "A main" is the main race for the top drivers. If you make the A main, you’re competing in the highest-level final, not the smaller consolation race.
Term
B field
A "B field" is basically the second tier of racing. Drivers in the B group race for a lower final than the top "A main."
Term
engine issues
"Engine issues" is a broad motorsports term for mechanical problems that prevent a car from running reliably or at all. In racing results, it often shows up as a scratch (a driver being pulled from the event) or an early withdrawal.
Term
scratched
To be "scratched" means the driver can’t start the race. Usually it’s because something went wrong—often with the car.
Term
wing
The “wing” is the rear spoiler on a race car. It helps keep the car planted on the ground, and if it gets damaged, it usually needs to be replaced.
Term
red flag
A “red flag” means the race is stopped right away because the track isn’t safe. Drivers must slow down and follow instructions until it’s cleared.
Term
sissy bar
A “Sissy Bar” is a strong safety bar near the driver’s seat inside the roll cage. It helps protect the driver if something hits the car from the side.
Concept
safety decision
This refers to race control/officials making a call based on safety rules after damage, even if the incident wasn’t the driver’s fault. In motorsports, certain structural or cockpit-related damage can trigger a “can’t continue” outcome until the car is deemed safe.
Term
sprint car
A sprint car is a small, purpose-built race car that runs on short tracks. It’s designed to be fast and handle well, but mud and track conditions can still make things slippery and unpredictable.
Term
rear bumper
The rear bumper is the part at the back of the car meant to protect it in impacts. In racing, it can also be used as a reference point for where you push or move the car.
Term
chassis
The chassis is the main frame of the vehicle—the part that holds the car together. If mud or slippery stuff gets on it, it can make the car harder to control.
Term
mud off
“Mud off” means getting mud cleaned off a car or parts. On race days, removing mud matters because mud can make surfaces slick and harder to control.
Term
push trucks
A push truck is a vehicle used to help move a race car when it can’t move on its own. On muddy tracks, it can be harder to control because the ground and tires are slippery.
Concept
science to it
The hosts are describing that pushing a race car isn’t just brute force—it involves technique and understanding how forces transfer through the car’s structure and tires. They frame it as having “a little bit of science,” meaning small changes in angle, contact point, and traction can change the outcome.
Term
turbo boost
A turbo boost is extra “push” from a turbocharger. It helps the engine make more power when you accelerate.
Term
grip
Grip is how well the tires can hold the track surface without slipping. In dirt racing, grip changes constantly with line choice, rutting, and moisture, so a “risk it for grip” move can either gain speed or unsettle the car.
Term
spun out
A spin-out is when the car starts sliding and turns around because the tires lose traction. It’s common when the surface grip changes or you accelerate too hard.
Term
flipped
Flipped means the car tipped over onto its side or roof. On dirt tracks, it can happen if the car loses traction or hits something that throws it off balance.
Term
Group B
Group B was a rally category known for very fast, very extreme race cars. It was famous for being exciting, but it also had big safety problems, so it didn’t last.
Term
heat races
Heat races are like mini-races before the main race. They help decide who advances, and they’re shorter so the event can run on schedule.
Term
beating and banging
That phrase means the racing gets really rough and close. Drivers are fighting hard for position, and cars may bump or rub each other.
Car
Dodge Charger
The Dodge Charger is a performance car made by Dodge, usually with a strong engine meant for quick acceleration. People talk about it a lot because it’s built to feel fast, especially in straight-line driving. That’s why it can show up in racing or performance discussions.
Term
yellow
“Yellow” means the race is under caution. Cars slow down and drivers have to be careful because something is happening on the track.
Term
fuel stop
A fuel stop is when a race car pulls in to add gas so it can finish the race. Teams time it so they don’t run out of fuel before the next restart.
Term
back stretch
The back stretch is one of the long straight parts of the track. If something happens there, it can slow the race down and bring out a caution.
Term
track work
Track work is what the track crew does to prepare the dirt surface. It’s meant to make the track safer and more consistent for racing.
Term
slime off
“Slime off” refers to removing the slick, oily, or rubbery buildup on a dirt track that can reduce traction. Drivers may run fast laps before the race to clean the surface so the racing line grips better.
Car
Jeep Renegade
The Jeep Renegade is a small SUV made by Jeep. It’s meant to be practical for daily driving, but it also has features that help it handle rougher roads. In the podcast, it’s probably mentioned because it’s the particular vehicle involved in what they’re talking about.
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Well, hello, everybody.
Hi.
That's the way he's here today.
Hey, wait, I'm not far away in a car.
I know.
Kind of far.
Kind of far.
Far from the mic, that's for sure.
Yeah, far from the mic.
Anyways, anyway, hope you're all doing well.
Had a heck of a week of racing here in Northwestern Ohio, not just Northwestern, but Northern
Ohio, Western Ohio.
Lots of sprint car racing going on.
In Ohio.
That happened.
Duane was on hand for all of it.
I was on hand for some of it, believe it or not.
More than one.
I'm impressed.
I know.
More than one.
You're well, it's because of the sprint cars.
You know sprint cars are awesome.
Yeah, well, I guess I haven't been to a Joker's jackpot yet.
I've been to a sprint car million, but I haven't been to a Joker's jackpot.
So I got to cross that off the bucket list this year.
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That's right, buddy Rick.
Yep.
Talk to Rick today.
Good.
Did he get my package?
He never told me if he got it or not.
I'm not sure.
He got mine.
That's why he messaged me.
He got mine.
I asked him how he's doing and he says, just sucks, not be able to walk or do anything.
He says just laying around mostly.
He says ribs are slowly healing.
So there's less pain, but he says lots of numbness and nerve damage.
So he still can't get up and walk and any of that yet.
So unfortunately it sounds like it's going to be quite a while yet till he's back in
action.
Yeah.
Which I can imagine.
You know, being single.
I mean, I was that way forever too and working and then going racing all the time and then
where you're just laying there.
I mean, I'd be driving me nuts too.
Oh yeah.
I bet we're thinking about your Rick.
Yes.
And I had a couple of people and if you want to PM me, private message me or the Dirtner's
page.
I had a couple of people in the last week asked me about private donations to him because
they wasn't into the go fund me stuff and didn't even know.
So I'm like, man, I don't even know how to do that.
Yeah.
Like, well, if you guys want anything, just PMS and we can get in contact or do whatever
or PM Rick.
Yep.
Or PM Rick or as well.
I'm healing answer you.
Yep.
I did the private donation as well.
So yeah, certainly understand.
I did it.
So yeah, if you don't want to PM Rick, PM one of us and we'll get hooked up.
Yeah.
Got his address.
So he's just sitting there watching TV, you know, watching racing on TV.
So I mean, you'd have to get down.
You know, I have to be so same little words and encouragement.
It's nothing else.
Just, you know, Rick rare is the SprintCard news.com.
If you haven't helped a lot of people.
And I know, I know a lot of people's contacting, but still just laying there for hours and
hours and hours for it.
And it's one of those things where you always get the encouragement right away.
Yeah.
Exactly.
And time down the road.
It's like, you know, that's why I waited a few weeks to send my stuff too.
Because that way it's spread out a little bit because you know, the initial.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Don't forget about him, people.
Yeah, for sure.
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Which means all you get, which me and Dwayne were to have sucked again.
We're fortunate enough to visit this weekend.
I had me a pizza for lunch one day and a breakfast pizza the other morning.
So Saturday morning.
So yeah, great food is always extra twice to I went there a third time.
I forgot after the Thursday night, me and dad stopped there on the way back to Greenville.
I had a burger.
So yeah, that's the night I was gonna stop in.
Yeah.
The other one night I got over a third of the day.
And I had the nutter butter peanut butter pie, which was awesome for dessert.
So I had the chicken.
I had a burger and cheese balls as well.
But I had the chicken monitoring or something.
I was smothered with mushrooms and cheese and I think bacon and all kind of shot.
I had that one day.
Yeah.
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Yeah.
Pizzas are great.
Burger was great.
Peanut butter pie was great.
Had some cold beers as well.
I had the, oh, I had pizza sub.
No, that's right.
I remember you said the one day you had that.
Yes, I had pizza sub and then I had the chicken.
I think it was chicken monitoring or some shit.
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There's pretty good stuff as always.
My wife actually had pizza when we got home from Eldora and said, man, this pizza is
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So definitely one of our favorites.
So check them out.
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If you're in the area, you head a little further south to downtown Greenville.
You can hit up the Sure Shot Taphouse.
They got 46 adult beverages on tap and actually four more available upstairs.
And they got the barrel done where there's some whiskeys and some wines available all
charged by the ounce.
It makes it real nice if you want to just try some stuff here and there.
You don't have to pay for the whole pour.
I've seen that's what your brother did while he was there.
Oh, is that what he was doing?
Yeah, your brother was there.
I know.
Did a video on it.
I did not see that.
Yep.
He's probably amazed.
Like, oh my God, they only charge by the ounce.
Well, he had to do a video.
It's kind of confused how I'll put the card in.
Yeah.
It's tough.
But also not at all.
Anyway, anything from your regular domestic beers that you all know and love to some local
stuff, seasonal stuff, IPA, Stout's Porters, some ciders, usually a Seltzer on hand, all
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Lounge upstairs where there's 24 arcade games.
All self-serve kiosk upstairs.
You load a card and swipe away to have some fun.
There's the bunker now in the basement, which has got some pool table, some ping pong, beer
pong, cornhole, all kinds of fun to be had.
I didn't make it there.
We stayed in Greenville.
Yeah.
I didn't.
Well, I made it to Sure Shot, but I wasn't there during open hours ever.
So I didn't even check out the bunker.
I haven't been there yet.
What the heck?
But yeah, check them out.
SureShotTapHouse.com is the website.
Great place to enjoy some fun.
Yes.
Alrighty.
So, yeah, Kings Royal weekend.
It was a big one.
Yeah.
I mean, close back to last Monday when I even tell you how long ago it seems like it was
like a month ago that I talked to you in the parking lot.
Yeah.
On the phone doing a project.
I forgot about that.
Yeah.
I was like, oh shit.
Yeah.
Same here.
It's like Kings Royal came in white and you forgot about early in the week.
But yeah, it all kicked off Monday at Fremont Speedway.
It did for the high limit return, which show at second time.
Yeah.
Second year in a row.
Fremont.
Yeah.
On the Monday.
Yes.
And DeSiccarCout, mid 40s or low 40.
I think it's mid 40s, if I remember right.
Hot day.
Yeah.
I was like he has a whole week, I think.
Yes.
Hot.
It was just one of the shows that was, I don't know, kind of besides, you know, Tanner
Thorsen, Tanner's getting into, you know, Mintz and Thomas.
I mean, that was unfortunately the talk of the deal because the racing was just kind
of like, I mean, just what I hate to say it, but it just kind of was.
I mean, it's all nice.
It was just kind of, I mean, front marks start on the front row, let every lap and it was
cool to see Brent getting the victory lane, but it just wasn't a lot of, you know, sometimes
yeah, sometimes, I mean, obviously you have races like that.
I don't care what track it is or what series or what that's with nothing like that, but
sometimes you have shows like that and usually you might get, you know, somebody, oh man,
they charge from last, you know, whatever.
And I just, just wanted a lot of that that night for some reason as like a Fremont style
track and not, you know, you know, before it's been pretty juiced up kind of like what
Attica did on Tuesday.
But yeah, so I thought the locals would do a little better.
They didn't local struggled like they usually do and the big shots come to town and which
I thought they'd really have the van is just Fremont.
I mean, it was like a regular Saturday night Fremont track and
slick up to a cushion.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, so, I mean, some of the heat races wasn't too bad, but it was just one of those,
you know, a quick program kudos them for running the quick program.
But Mark's got his first win.
And if you hadn't seen, you know, the big, big stories was Tanner Holmes and Craig
Mence's contact and Tanner Thorson.
Or I mean, Tanner Thorson and Tanner Holmes's was Kale Thomas's.
Oh, gotcha.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Tanner's and hides left and right.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
And I'm not a big Thorsten fan, but I mean, he, he did move up.
I mean, they was trying to go three wide and he kind of got pinched up a little bit
too.
So, I mean, it wasn't as video, it wasn't as, as blatant as I thought it was the first.
Mence was pretty pissed at first.
And then after he saw the video, he goes, you know, all right, I kind of see it and
it was a little better.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was when, you know, where I said, and it looked like Thorsten Dump thing, like he's
dumped people before.
Yeah.
You know, that's the problem.
I've, that's been controversial before.
Let's try to clean up exact for the most part.
You don't get the benefit of the doubt.
No.
At that point.
No.
And so, you know, it's, it's easy to jump on there.
But yeah, but once you've seen it, it was kind of, you know, not as blatant or not as
one of a race and deal than a, than a shit move.
The Holmes one, I don't know.
People's like, oh, well, Thomas ran over his right rear.
It did, but I mean, I don't know.
Yeah.
I thought, I thought the mince one looked more intentional than the kill Thomas one.
But yeah, close quarters racing at Fremont.
Yeah.
This is how it is sometimes.
Yep.
Yep.
It is.
And especially when you got big money on the line.
Yes.
You know, I mean, how was the crowd?
So.
Excellent.
Say it looked pretty busy.
It was packed.
Good.
It was, it was now.
So way down in turn one, how they have like a bigger stand than the real little stand.
Yep.
That real little stand only had maybe two rows of people, but all the other, I mean, it was
packed pretty much top to bottom everywhere else.
Yeah.
Yep.
I mean, I don't know.
And there's tons of people.
If you see the video, I'll convince us crashing that tons of people standing around the fence
too, because people are scattered in big time.
Yeah.
It was up against the fence.
Yeah.
But yeah, there's a ton of people standing around.
So I'm, I don't know if it was a record crowd for Fremont, but I'll bet you it's pretty
damn close if it wasn't.
Yeah.
Because it was, it was packed.
It was really, really packed.
Good.
So, I mean, Monday night, Kings Royale week, you know, day for the Dodie.
There's kind of a little bit of, you know, scuttle butt there of, uh, you know, is it
a good time to have it?
You know, because last year's rain out.
So, but I don't know.
Seemed to work out pretty good.
Yeah.
Then, you know, the deal was, people not going to go to the Dodie, but they all showed up
or more friends, apparently.
That Dodie Tuesday, another hot day, another great car count, 50, what was it, 50 something,
I believe, for the Dodie and I think 52 maybe.
I'd say 52 sounds right.
I think 52, but a hot day and yeah.
It said stack field of 49 actually.
Oh, maybe 49.
Yeah.
So just below 50.
So, yeah, packed house again.
Yeah, really packed house.
It was good.
So.
Yeah.
I had it because not been able to get a lot of races in there.
Yeah.
So that's what they said.
And I think everybody's like, you know, track hasn't, and they needed a night like that,
you know, because they haven't been able to get a lot of shows in and, you know, there's
kind of like, man, is people only going to pick one of the two?
And if they did, you want to know it, but I've seen a lot of new people and I, you heard
a lot of new people walk around.
Hey, this is my first time here.
You know, and you even had a couple people asking, well, hey, do you know where this is?
Because we've never been here and that.
So, you know, so did having free my help bring new people in.
So they can go the whole week or just traveling, you know, hitting it.
Who knows, but packed house and what a spectacular race.
Yeah.
And I guess starting off in the feature, we'll say the name, the name of, you know, it stuck
out amongst all others was Kyle Larson.
Yes.
For good and for bad at two points, we'll say.
Yes.
So, uh, was it on the first, was it the first corner he got sideways or?
It was, no, it was.
Or was it a few laps in?
Oh, it was quite a few laps in.
Yeah.
So Larson goes into turn one and two and get sideways.
Yeah.
Comes down the track enough.
After he spun out on his own at Fremont the night before.
Yes.
He, he seriously kind of looked out of control at Fremont.
Yeah.
He looked like he was very rusty.
Let's just say that.
So get sideways on the, on the coming out of turn two pretty much.
Yeah.
Pork Carson, Misedo.
Yeah.
Coming through.
So I think it was Larson because it was pretty, it was, uh, quite a bit through the race because
Larson got his spot back, which made everybody because he, it was Larson, uh, Lucius and
Misedo, all kind of bad one right there.
Yeah.
So Larson spins, I say spins, get sideways.
Yeah.
All but spins.
All but spins.
Carson Misedo comes through, just clips his left front and goes straight.
Larson's up back out.
So he don't spin.
Yeah.
So Larson, Larson didn't technically fully spin and didn't stop on the track.
No.
Uh, so Misedo goes flipping.
His night's done.
Or no, he ended up getting the shit back together.
He came back out, ended up in the lap traffic or whatever.
Uh, but Larson gets a spot back.
So again, like Dwayne said, lots of contentious thoughts on that one.
Oh yeah.
A lot of people are like, Oh, well, oh, he was targeting an outlaw guy.
No.
I mean, I'll care who is going by there as well as the O's and two.
Everybody's like, Oh, it's rigged.
It's rigged.
Well, why would the outlaws rig the one of the owners of their competition?
Yeah.
To get you spot on.
If anything, they would put him to the tail if they had the opportunity.
Well, yeah, that's, that would be my theory.
Yeah.
But if you go by the rule book, he didn't spin.
He didn't stop.
I mean, he was about 180 or.
He was one degree from kind of spinning, but he straightened out.
If he wanted to get hit, he would have because he was, you know, um, getting close, then he
got hit and got straightened out.
And I, I ain't too sure when Macedo hit him, it didn't helping as I wanted to sure that
he didn't stall the car on the brakes from spinning.
I'm not sure, but I hit him around enough that he kept rolling and is what it is.
He, he, uh, so he gets the spot back.
Yes.
The picture continues.
Yeah.
Larson sounds like you got pretty good size lead at one point.
Um, yeah, I mean.
The point of where he ends up flipping on his own.
Yeah, he did.
But him and Bryce Lucius, I mean, and Macedo only is up there.
I mean, it was battling.
It was a spectacular race and, uh, and Bryce battled him hard.
I mean, Larson passing, Bryce passing back, Larson passing, Bryce passing back.
I mean, that went on for like 23 laps and then Bryce was right on his tail tank
for maybe another four laps.
Then Larson, yeah, I mean, it was like eight laps ago and Larson ended up Philippine, but
he never, I mean, he maybe had a five car length lead.
I mean, but he was driving.
So and he even said after he flipped pretty much Bryce pressure name made him do a different
line because every time he ran the cushion, you know, where it was, well, he is running
above the cushion and the rough stuff.
And but he said, he goes, he goes, every time I ran that line, Bryce was, he goes, his pressure,
you know, he got me 23 times.
He is, he is pressuring me hard.
And he goes, I had to switch something up because I couldn't run there.
Tried running low.
He says, that didn't seem to work.
So he goes, I just put her up there.
And he says, you know, basically I had to try something different because when I was
running that deal, I wasn't fast enough stay at a Bryce and it's a basically Bryce pressure
name.
Yeah, I got him.
He went in turn three a little high and I got bouncing in the fluff and there's some
ruts and some fluff it looked like.
And there's good fluff all on his own and up and over he went.
And it's, I mean, they had to rebuild a whole car Wednesday morning.
Yeah.
I saw a video of a silver was pretty posted and like they literally, it was pretty hard
tumble carried a bear chassis out into a parking lot of a hotel to start building Wednesday
morning.
Well, yeah.
And Kudos Attica, they had a pretty heavy.
I mean, it wasn't a typical Attica.
It was heavy.
I mean, so much that even when they worked it during the night, one class of cars worked
it during the night.
It was still pretty moist.
And yeah, there's a, there's a lot of fluff and, but I love it.
If you don't not cushion down at Attica, you have fluff, you know, a little bit of fluff
those guys.
We've seen that a couple of times now at Attica this year and both have been spectacular.
I mean, that race was spectacular.
And yeah, even, and even Bryce, he's like, I'm not sure what I got back around Larson
because you know, there's just getting in traffic again and Bryce, Bryce was good enough,
I think to get back around him.
Um, you know, Larson got in the fluff and got faster, but it was so upset in the car
that you kind of could see the handwriting on the wall.
Yeah, a little hard to control.
Cause a couple, a couple laps before that, he all but flipped.
He got to hopping up there.
And like he said, he goes, if I went back down on the smooth part, not in the fluff, he goes,
Bryce was right there on my tail tank and passed me a couple of times.
So it's like, I either got, I got to try something.
Yeah.
So Bryce Lucius, a driver, Duane talks about quite a bit.
Yes.
His head's an interesting year so far.
Yes.
His first ever award of outlaw winning.
Bentley, Ohio, a local boy, and he's own car, his own family team, which has only been
out three races.
Yeah.
As I say, they just came back from their split with the STP ride and making a go of it.
Yeah.
Landon LaLanne, one of the former racers as a crew on it and, um, uh, Bryce's dad.
And, um, yeah, yeah, good win for them.
Very popular, 20,000.
And yeah, Bryce, Bryce is, I, and I've been saying it.
I try not to beat the dead horse, but I mean, I've, I've set it for 34 years that
this kid's the real deal, I think.
And, uh, you know, beat the outlaws in his own car, you know, national 410 rookie of the
year a few years ago.
I just run in with us.
And what I, what I love about it is Bryce is very cool.
We talked quite a bit.
Actually he was messaging me on Wednesday and like, man, I still can't believe I won this
thing.
Yeah.
You know, and, uh, very, very level headed kid.
And, um, um, it's always been very respectful since I've known, you started racing with
us in 305s with AFCS at 14 years old.
So it's cool.
I got to see the progression from all that.
Then got to see his first major win.
I was glad I was around and see that.
And it happened where I could witness it because, you know, he bought one at Talladega earlier
this year.
You know, he has pressure in the outlaws.
So sending a fluke deal.
I mean, he about did in Talladega.
And, uh, like I said, there's just their family on team.
He runs the Hefner 27H, um, which they're just not clicking 100% in that deal.
Some reason there's just, I mean, they've had some decent runs, but they're not consistent
at all.
Yeah.
And that thing.
So hopefully I can get that worked out.
I think they're going to run a little bit in Pennsylvania, I think this week, I believe.
But, uh, yeah, kudos.
And what's cool is, uh, a lot of people didn't know who Bryce Lucius was, uh, when they walked
into Attica, but they did after because everybody was cheering, you know, you could hear the
crowd over the engine when he, um, took the lead.
And it was, I thought it was cool.
The, um, our buddy Dirk Kork Jester's, uh, had a video of the ballroom in Eldor and
that place erupted too, you know, a bunch of people.
So, uh, I know a lot of people, we went down to the hauler, um, to congratulate him afterwards
and, uh, there was a ton of people stopped by.
Hey, you got t-shirts?
You got t-shirts?
I mean, if you went out and had some t-shirts, he was sold a shit ton of them on.
Yeah.
I realize you can see the crowd at Attica standing up and crossing the checkered.
Yeah.
I mean, that was one of the biggest outlaw upsets I'm going to say in a long time.
Oh yeah.
You know, family, no sponsors on the car.
You know, just a family team that, uh, and I'm telling you, I mean, they, they don't
have a super, super big budget.
They're not one of these mega, mega budget families like, uh, you know, like, uh, Brendan
Crouch's dad or somebody like that.
You know, I mean, it's not, uh, uh, Tucker Klossmeyer and you know, those guys, you know,
I mean, it's just, uh, they work hard and, uh, spend a lot of money on it.
And, uh, it's cool, cool to see Bryce get a win.
Yeah.
He's very cool.
Especially, I mean, and you know, then of course you got all Larsonite.
So, oh, Larson didn't crash.
He went to one.
But he did crash.
Yeah.
But he did crash and it was from Bryce Pressuring.
Yeah.
And I don't know if they got in traffic.
I think Larson was going to have to move around and I don't, I think he was going to have
to probably move out of the fluff because I don't know how many cars he was going to
be able to pass in the fluff to be honest, because especially in three or four, because
he just, he'd always hop through it.
That's fast for a while, but obviously when you're hopping, you need to hop upside down
or it's hard to, you know, so, uh, yeah.
And the result is you finish first.
You first got to finish.
So.
Yeah.
And we had, you know, locals made the show.
They didn't necessarily go crazy.
Attica was good on that.
Locals and locals.
But, you know, we'll say Caleb Henry's kind of a local, but he gained 13 spots in 22nd
to 9th.
Cap Henry gained seven spots.
You know, we had Chris Andrews in the field, Zasabo Darren Knight at Trade
Jacobs all making the show.
So, you know, again, not top 10, not up there.
But you know, Buddy Kofoid finished third, which obviously he's an outlaw, but a lot
of time track time at Attica over the years.
Bill Balog having a good run.
So always close to that.
Um, you know, Brady Bacon up there in the top 10 and, you know, McFadden having a good
run.
So some non outlaw highlander guys still making it happen.
Well, that was, that was a great show.
I mean, uh, heat race was good and that they mean, I mean, there's about one time there's
three cars bowing for the lead.
Um, you know, and that's why Mascito ended up how he did.
Cause I was just bowing that tight.
Larsen just got a little loose and Mascito had nowhere to go.
Yeah.
So, uh, and luckily Bryce missed it.
Yeah.
Huge win.
One for the locals, one for, uh, you know, of the family teams, which was very, very
cool.
Yes.
Very cool.
Um, Wednesday.
Yeah.
Wednesday.
We go down to El Dor to start a four day for the week, whatever, doubler, double down
duals, double down duals.
Yeah.
Two A main split fields, A and B field, which so like about it was 1000 start day main and
they had two a main.
So it was 48 cars, only 59 entered and 48 of the 59 was in a main.
And unfortunately Bill Bailock scratched a couple of guys had some engine issues.
So I think, uh, three cars scratch right away.
So you know, he was down to 56 cars and 48 of them making the name A main.
Yeah.
And I, I was hoping a few more locals would go on Wednesday cause when you got a chance
to win an eight or, you know, $1000.
I mean, uh, there's a few locals down there, but not a lot.
Yeah.
I was surprised we didn't see a cold Duncan signing down.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're right.
Um, yeah.
It was a night.
I was there.
And then the guys from work who had never been there, uh, showed up and, um, couple
of them talking about when they're going to come back.
So it was good race.
And I thought Wednesday night was good.
Both.
Yeah.
I'm glad we came.
They came that night cause I forgot and didn't realize Thursday was for TV.
So it was a kind of just five main or is a compressed show.
So Wednesday was cool because they got to see double the features and heat races, double
the heat races, everything and, uh, and cool inverts.
Yeah.
I love that.
Yeah.
And then Wednesday night, seven was spun for an invert.
And what happened Elliot?
Well, the eight heat races was crying.
Yeah.
On the eight heat races.
I don't know if he was probably was he scratched for the weekend.
Yeah.
I like Brad sweet, but you know, sometimes he needs a whamble.
It's former guest of the dirt nerds.
We'll put that out there.
Yeah.
But you know, um, part time racing at El Doras just hard.
Yeah.
And he's the only one that was the only fast car that started seventh that did not make
the aiming.
Yeah.
So as I've said, and plenty of times in the track was in good condition for it.
They kind of made it a little drier.
So you could pass.
Um, but if you make them, them pass, they'll pass.
I liked it because like, I think Brady Bacon in the first heat was one that just barely
transferred in.
But it still rewarded him because he has fast qualifier.
He had all the points.
He got some points for transferring.
Um, and then they inverted 10 for the features, but at least like just because you didn't fit,
you finished fifth instead of second, right?
You weren't penalized for it.
You still had a pretty good foot.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Like shoe heart was what, I don't know, six, seventh quick and he went, uh, maybe it's
fourth.
I don't know, but he is one of them.
And the invert got up to second.
You know, I mean, so you get seen a lot of different things.
Different, uh, moves.
And yeah, some of the quick guys only got up to fifth, the final transfer spot.
Some of them got up to third, second, fourth.
I mean, you know, so I think it made it great racing for the heats.
There's plenty of passing.
I say the one, uh, the one heat was a three, they're going three wide down the back stretch
and everyone, you know, like, and the guys I'm with never really seen this.
And we're like, Oh, wow.
Uh, yeah, it was funny because I was telling them, I go, just imagine guys Saturday, I said,
every seat you see every inch of grass will be covered.
Right.
And they're like, my one buddy who helps a pavement team, sprint car team.
So he's around racing, but he goes, I thought he goes, yeah, that's what, you know, my,
so the, my boss said to him and he goes, and I thought you guys said this wasn't a busy
night.
And I go, it's not.
Trust me.
But it was a hell of a crowd on Wednesday.
I mean, good crowds.
I think probably the biggest Wednesday night crowds there's been.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was good.
Yeah.
I mean, both were pretty good features.
Hard racing too.
Oh my gosh.
Hard racing.
That's a one get my one buddy asked me when Larson and Sheldon went going at it.
He goes, I see Larson's move there.
What was he, you know, when they both kind of went down to the bottom, I go, Oh, that
was just a dick move.
Yeah.
It was just hard racing.
I go, yeah.
I told him, I go, when Larson gets behind, he races like an ass.
You got to watch him when he's behind.
Well, there's a lot of full, full course blocking on Wednesday night by a lot of people.
Yeah.
I mean, I forget who it was.
I see him drive the other guy basically to the inside wall.
It's like, no, you ain't getting here.
If you think of shoe heart, that could have been one of the guys is a day and geo cells.
He had a little bit of a disagreement that you only could tell by on track when Corey
did flipped in the bird when he passed him.
Yeah.
But yeah, it was pretty wild.
I mean, again, it's, I mean, I'll just say it now, if you're going to go one night, Wednesday
night is great because you get double the race in action and yeah, with the heat, it's
hard racing.
In the sun, I was like, is this track going to just dry out?
But as soon as the sun went down, it just kept good and all the drivers loved it.
They said this is like the old, old door.
Yeah, because it was, you could pass.
Yes.
It wasn't a hammer down a fast, you know, you could pass.
Yeah.
So, but Brent Marks won the first one.
Yeah.
Almost went green checker.
Yep.
Really, really close.
But Chase Randall ended up having an issue on the last lap.
But he ended up went Brent Marks and went in without issue.
I think Corey Day took feature number two, which again, had a couple challenges, couple
of these starts that got interesting, but ended up taking the win.
So, yeah, I thought it was both good races.
Then you went to Thursday, which I didn't realize either that I thought they had some
qualifiers besides this, but no, I just took the points from.
I thought they were doing heat races again.
I did too.
And then I was like, oh, I forgot the FS1 thing.
Oh, they're trying to be done by nine.
Yeah.
So, all they had, which I heard, I heard some mixed emotions on that.
I heard some people was like, dude, it's 50 bucks or 45 bucks.
45 bucks.
Yeah.
My dad had the buy ticket for it.
Come in for only see five races because you had the two C's, two B's and an A.
And some of the C's was not, I think the first one was supposed to have about 19 cars.
I think they got eight.
I was saying a lot of scratches.
Yeah.
I don't blame them.
Yeah.
You're starting 10th and you're taking, they take four.
I think that was four.
The B's were six.
Yes.
I think there was four.
But still, if you're starting 10th and those stacked fields, you know, and especially knowing
the King's Royals coming up, I mean, there's some people that scratched.
Yeah.
And kind of the story of the night, unfortunately, it was our buddy Cole Macedo.
Yeah.
He's slated to start eighth, which is in arms reach of transferring.
Oh, yeah.
To no fault of his own, push truck goes to push him out.
Cole goes straight.
Push truck must think he's turning left.
Push truck turns left.
The drive's over his left rear.
Hits the wing.
You think, okay, just the left rear and the wing need to replace.
No problem.
They get to work.
They say, well, red flag the field.
No fault of your own.
We get it.
They get all the changes made.
The next thing you know, Cole's unstrapping.
You go, what the hell?
What they call the Sissy Bar, what they call the Sissy Bar, which is the bar on the left
side of the cockpit got hit by the truck and broke clean in half.
Yeah.
Which clear, clean break and said, sorry, we can't let you go because of safety and understandably
so.
Yeah, understandably so.
And it scares me that the push truck did that no faster than it was going.
Now I know it's, you know, a probably three-quarter ton truck or something.
For a 6,000-pound vehicle, probably.
Yeah.
So I get it, but I mean, it wasn't going that fast.
Yeah.
So, I mean, kind of scary, but high, high limits posted it.
So I don't know if high limits made the decision or El Dora or who, but, you know, they caught
a lot of crap.
Everybody did.
Yeah.
I mean, everyone that's never driven a push truck had an opinion.
Well, and everybody that's never promoted race or never done anything racetrack all
while they should give him this or they should buy him this or they should do this or they
do that or whatever.
They should have done this.
They should have let him rebuild a car.
They should have let him have another car.
So whatever.
But they ended up giving him $4,000, which was a start money.
They gave him, well, what they did was they gave him a provisional.
Yes.
To start the feature, but they couldn't get the second car down and ready in time.
Yeah.
So it paid him $4,000.
Yeah.
So they still gave him the start money.
Yes.
So if you're going to buy as good of a compromise as you can do on the spot, I mean, never
seen that before of you.
No.
I mean, we've seen push trucks drive over left rear.
Yeah.
I've never seen a break a chassis.
No, but and I've seen them, you know, where they've had the change, you know, that's always
been the deal who, who pays for it and nobody's ever paid for it.
So he's been the team like, sorry, it sucks.
Yeah.
Part of the deal.
You know, it's part of the deal.
We know what happens.
And this first time I've ever seen anybody, unless some things got done behind closed
doors, which may have before in the past.
But yeah.
So Kudos them for giving a cold provisional.
Yeah.
And at least I'm getting $4,000.
I mean, Bieber can probably fix it.
I mean, the chassis can probably be fixed.
Yeah.
So, you know, then you're out the other, but at least it helped.
And I mean, cold cover that Spence is.
I was a classy guy and I saw an interview after the race with some media person and
he said, you know, pretty sure I didn't mean to do it.
It's just unfortunate.
You know, yes, my guys are going to have 56 hours of work tomorrow because they had
to get the backup down and swap parts out and do all that fun stuff.
Not ideal, not great for, you know, everybody by any means, but it's, it is what it is.
Right.
It's kind of the risk you take.
You don't think much of it.
You know, all my, honestly, I've never seen a push truck drive over a left rear.
And I've been to a lot of sprint car races, not as many as you, but I know what happens
from time to time.
Everyone's over great while.
It's just unfortunate.
And outdoor push truck drivers are some of the best in the world, if not the best in
the world.
Yeah.
And it's not like it's.
And unfortunately, yes, it's on FS1.
We're trying to get TV time and all that bullshit.
Everybody on Facebook was an expert on it.
Yep.
Fire him immediately.
Yeah.
I mean, it's unfortunate, but yeah, you don't realize it, but that is a risk every driver,
every team takes, you know, you don't control who's pushing your car into the track.
The whole sports dangerous.
And there's a part of it that you'll see.
I mean, that parts, you know, cause push or drive push or could have flipped over.
Yeah.
You know, yeah.
I mean, in all seriousness, there's they're at risk to not only tearing up their equipment
because it could have screwed the truck up, you know, so it's not like he's like, well,
I'm just going, I hate Koma Cedo.
I'm on a monster truck to some of the bitch for they made and take him out.
You know, that was not what it was.
I mean, it's just sometimes stuff happens.
I mean, and the point you're pushing on a sprint car is the little rod on the beer on
the rear bumper.
It's not much.
It's easy to pivot around.
Exactly.
It's just an unfortunate.
No, no,
no,
I mean, and I'm not saying it was, but sometimes they get mud on there.
Sometimes you spray the chassis down and there's some, you know, slippery shit on there.
Yes, for the mud off stuff and stuff like that.
I mean, not all, there might have been some mud or something that kicked up on the push
trucks, push bumper, well, even if the sprint car is driving over mud, yeah, and your front
tires, the push trucker on mud, everything's slippery and everything moves.
So I mean, there's, it's just, uh, just unfortunate.
I've been in a push truck and then and everybody thinks, oh, you just, you know, go there.
There's a little bit of science to it.
Yeah.
There's a little bit of finagling.
You know, I mean, yeah, I mean, you can pretty much do it with no experience, but you obviously
you want to learn how to do it.
And like I said, El Dora, they don't, I mean, you there's usually no rookies there.
And these guys are great.
And so it's just all things shit happens.
Yeah.
I mean, I've been going to El Dora how many years?
I've never seen that happen.
No, you know, you see it every once in a while.
I think I seen it Knoxville one time or somebody good got taken out by the push truck and
then I'm changing wing and stuff.
And, you know, so it happens.
It happens every once in a while.
Just one of those deals.
But I thought it was pretty cool.
They gave him provisional.
I mean, yeah, they did the best they could.
But the scenario, I mean, it's not something you're playing for, right?
Yeah.
Like it's hard to, yeah, hard to just know that's going to happen.
So, but anyway, that that was the B main that happened.
And anyway, onto the A main, which again, we only had four races prior to the A main
track was in pretty good shape.
Yeah.
Did a flyover for the, you know, national and you was there on Thursday too.
I was.
I was there once a day.
Thursday.
I wasn't going to go Thursday because I can't believe yours.
I was sweating my ass off Thursday, getting the trailer set up down at the whistle stop
because I had to park it Wednesday night and then pull it into place Wednesday night
after the races.
So I had a long night Wednesday and a long morning.
Yeah, you put it in the wrong place.
And you told me, yeah, he can kiss my ass.
But yeah, had a nice pretty bacon sprint card in front of it.
So that was kind of cool.
A lot of people loving that, by the way.
Yeah, good deal.
But feature time came and this is odd to me, but not because we're on TV.
FS one, not a lot of fanfare, not a lot of no driver introduction.
No fans, just for $100,000.
We're just pushing them on the track and going, which I don't hate because driving
reductions kind of drive me nuts.
But yeah, went on FS one.
The goal was to be done by nine.
But Kyle Arson took a second one in a row.
Yeah, some good charges by Rico and yeah, there's I mean, they had a pretty good battle.
Yeah.
For a few laps there, trading sliders.
And then the cool thing was that that rut and turn two on the high side.
Oh, yeah.
It was like right where guys want to go to get that turbo boost off of two was kind
of a treacherous play.
There's one time I don't know how Wright's will didn't buy the wall.
I guarantee he he had a big pucker moment.
He hit that thing in a bounce and you see it like, whoa.
Yeah.
So right where those guys want to race off of two as a mess.
So it's like you can risk it, which equals grip, but unsettles the car or you
could go below it and be a little slower off.
So that was an interesting dynamic for sure.
But I thought it was a good race.
I mean, there's that it wasn't no give me the large somebody means he was
challenged, you know, and they changed the lead a handful of times and yeah.
Yeah.
And coming out that on top was Larson, which he hasn't done.
And if you would have seen the way he was raced on Monday and Tuesday, you
wouldn't have thought, I mean, he just he's been a little off lately in the
Sprint car and he is doing things.
Uncrit, characteristic of him.
You know, usually he's pretty spot on and for your money spun out by
myself, uh, I think all but spun out by yourself and then flipped.
Yeah.
Then flipped all by self and the feature Wednesday night.
I mean, he was racing hard with Sheldon and Rico.
Oh yeah.
They were all pissed at each other.
Oh yeah.
They was that was a big time.
Rico and Larson were not friends after Wednesday.
No, that was a big time dirty.
Let's Larson or Slider fest.
Yeah.
So it was again, it's great racing though.
Yeah.
So it was.
It was.
And yeah, Thursday was a good show and done quick.
I think got over about three after 95 after nine.
Yeah.
Cause we were head down south and like I said, hip, the whistle stopped for
a late dinner back to Greenville.
So yeah, another, uh, another good one.
Then Friday, Mother Nature showed up a little bit.
Yeah.
Change some things around.
Friday shows you why you won the track slicker on Wednesday and Thursday.
So there's passing because every, you know, and he heard all time.
You've seen it or all the tracks too dusty.
It needs to be watered.
So there's no, well, we've seen what happens and when it gets watered a lot.
Uh, Friday was a snooze fest because it was just so fast the whole night long.
It was just follow leader.
Yep.
Levi Jones came on the video on, on social media and said, we're going to try and get it in.
Yep.
Just, well, yeah.
And I, I, I kudos to them because, uh, that big ring storm and they're like, Hey,
we're going to get it in.
We're going to wait it out, which I mean, I thought was the right call.
I mean, y'all down there for a race.
Yep.
And there's lots of people there.
Yeah.
And it's hoping to dry out a little bit or get a little wider, but everybody that's
ever been to a race more than once and actually paid attention knows that it's
going to be fast and heavy and probably not a lot of passing.
Yeah.
And a guy like Danny Dietrich even said earlier in the day, like, Hey, we see the
weather, we're just going to try to get ready for Saturday.
Yeah.
So.
Which, uh, didn't help them.
Didn't seem to do a lot, but, but, um, yeah.
And, um, you know, it was, uh, just one of those fast races in, uh, Corey day,
yeah, which hit the wall, by the way, on Thursday night or probably he might have
won because he's, he was right there.
That's right.
He was up there and he was the one of the only caught.
Was he the only caution for Thursday night?
But anyway, one of the few, there wasn't many Thursday.
Yeah.
He was, he was up there battling and stuffed it in the fence.
Yes, for sure.
Um, but, uh, yeah, Corey day, um, fast all weekend down there and, uh,
took a second wind of the weekend on 25,000 wind.
And, and I ain't saying it was terrible race because I mean, it was, you know,
traffic was interesting, but is this one of those there was just, which you knew
there wasn't going to be a ton of passing.
Cause it was just hammer down because of mother nature, but it was a good, to me,
it was a good, uh, reminder to people or should have been a good reminder of,
okay, this is why we don't drown the door.
Yes.
Yes.
That's why we don't drown.
That's why we needed a little slicker on Wednesday because you've seen a ton
of passing Wednesday and Thursday.
Yes.
So, and I give the outdoor track staff, uh, kudos cause they had track
great for Wednesday and Thursday for passing and Friday they did the best they
could.
Yeah.
There's nothing you can do.
Yeah.
And talked about moving the program quick.
The first heat was on the track at, uh, 1039 and the, the main was over with, uh,
right before one o'clock.
Yes.
You know, they ran at Bamban and you had 50 some cars.
So you had two non-qualifier races.
Well, they got group, uh, they did hot laps, but they got group A's all
done at least for a day.
Yeah.
So that re qualified group B they did a non-qualifiers race.
They did our two non-qualifiers races.
Well, the C mains or non-qualifier, non-qualifier cause the outlaws, which I
hate the role you sec used to do this years ago.
Um, then they got smart and did way with it, did five heats or something.
The laws won't do five heats.
So the top 40 in qualifying when you have like 57 or nine cars or whatever they
had on Friday, top 40 in qualifying, make heats, the rest go to non-qualifiers
race, top two in each non-qualifiers race, tagged the tail.
So four more cars tagged the tail.
So you got 11 car heats.
The rest go to the C main.
Gotcha.
Okay.
Which have a fifth heat.
Yeah.
Who gives a shit?
Race fans like heat races.
Yeah.
Why not?
I mean, have a fifth heat.
I know then they don't have a formula for it.
Like make one.
It's not that hard.
Yeah.
Take four cars instead of five.
Yeah.
That's a hard.
Really not that hard.
Yeah.
And you can't have group A and group B because they got five heats and you
can't.
Yeah.
So you have to go to six.
That's why you see like the all stars, they go to six seats.
They don't do five heats.
You either got four or six because it's group A and group B stuff.
Yeah.
So that's why you can't have five heats.
You got to have six, which okay, then have six.
Yeah.
You know, race fans love it.
Yeah.
Like models do it.
Yeah.
We love having group B stuff.
I mean, heat races.
Great.
I mean, short, they're short races.
And that's where you get a lot of beating and banging and racing for position.
But, uh, anyways, um, they did a great job getting the show in once they got,
they said, you know, once we hit the track, we're going to try to get this thing.
It's still done in reasonable time.
And I thought, I thought that was fair.
I mean, got for, you know, started at like 1039 and was done just a few minutes
for one.
I thought that was very respectful.
It's all Dora.
They're going to get it in no matter what.
So, I mean, that's, that's why you take
the risk of going down there.
Yeah.
If there's, that's why you always watch, um, social media too, which we'll talk
about for Saturday.
Yeah.
You know, heavy storms forecasted for later in the day.
So, Al Dora in, I thought was an awesome move of which Al Dora has been doing.
How long have they been doing this now?
875 years, four years.
They, they move shit around now.
They never used to.
Yes.
All the time.
Yeah.
They move it around to try to get it in and they put a thing out.
Hey, 430.
We're starting hot laps because the storm's supposed to come in like eight
39 o'clock and I don't care.
I looked at all the weather apps.
Well, no matter what a weather app you looked at 839 o'clock
storms coming in.
So we're going to beat it.
Well, mother nature's like, hold your beers down there boys and girls.
Watch this.
She made a couple of pop ups show up about about 22 30 and, uh, change
that then another pop up, uh, well, they started it.
Like, did they start at four 30?
They did start at four 30.
They got hot laps.
So they got hot laps in and, um, all of qualifying.
I was going to say, then the next one was coming.
They got all qualifying in.
Well, then there's going to start heat races and they're like, uh, cause
they got whatever, I forget what the one they use.
Yeah.
Some, some professional deal that does like airports and stuff too.
They're always in contact with them and they're like, Hey, there's a storm cell.
It's going to hit you in 15 minutes.
It's got 60 mile per hour winds and could have heavy rains and all that.
So they announced like, Hey, we'd really like everybody to leave, go to your
campers and see shelter.
Yeah.
Seek shelter, um, you know, button your things down so don't blow away the camper.
And, uh, we're going to, going to put this on hold for a little bit and that's
supposed to be done by six 30.
We'll be fine.
Then we'll stick it out like last night.
Well, I forgot about the outdoor magic.
You know, it didn't, didn't hit on Friday, but.
And I was, I sat there watching it and I told Melissa right away.
I said, boy, that's tracking.
That's going to split the track.
I mean, there's something magical at times down there at El Dorah, especially
in big races and, and she's like, nah, I don't think it is.
And all the weather things are shown.
Then all of a sudden the closer got to El Dorah, it started, uh, dissipating and
then splitting the track in it.
Never, I mean, it sprinkled maybe 20.
I mean, it just didn't even, I mean, just a few, look like a bird
pissed on your windshield sprinkles.
And, um, and so then I get six, oh three, they put out, Hey, uh, we, we don't
believe this, but the storm disappeared and split the track.
So six 30 or a roll.
Yep.
So they did in, uh, another pushed it really quick.
I think all the heat races, B mains, everything, C main was done.
Um, hell.
It was still eight something when they was done and track was kind of, they
left their drive cause they knew it was going to rain.
So it was kind of, you know, getting more, it was probably going to take
a rubber for the main.
So like, Hey, we're going to do about half hour track work, which ended up
being about 45 minutes and they did the drone show, the driver introductions,
that so it was about an hour, um, about an hour delay, um, there, which track
needed it for one to everybody loved the drone show and three Kings raw.
And you always do driver introductions, which is cool.
Yeah.
I like drivers and introductions, even though you don't, I like them on big shows.
Well, that makes sense.
I mean, I'm the grumpy old guy.
I get it.
If you haven't been there before, yeah, it makes sense.
Well, and even it, it just relates some people to the drivers.
Yes, for sure.
Um, Hey, but there's nothing like the days I was doing photos.
And Donny shots was in his dominant era and tell you what, when you're
standing on that front stretch doing photos and Donny comes on that stage,
those booze feel like the right.
Well, grab will got that this year.
Yes.
Grab all that this year.
Larson had some comments about gravel Thursday night and sound like.
Yeah.
Then gravel had some back to him too.
Yeah.
Says, Oh, he's always thinking about me.
Yeah.
Do you see a, it's speaking of Donny.
I don't know if you've seen it.
Did you see all these deal people has been doing these little skits with the drivers?
You know, well, they had to pull the tape measure for their number.
Donny's was Donny's was priceless.
I didn't, I saw some of them, but I didn't watch the whole thing.
Oh, yeah.
Watch Donny's.
I have to.
He's, you know, he's close it out and he's like, yeah, that's about the right
size.
That's about 15 inches.
It's like, Oh, that's only an inch off.
He goes, well, I've been an inch short my whole life.
Classic.
I like that Donny.
That's the, that's the fun Donny that we used to.
Yeah.
A long time ago.
I'm glad he's back.
Yes.
But yeah.
Kings Royal feature, man.
Yeah.
When we go to the A main and he got Garrett Williamson on the front row.
Yep.
And it's like an Anthony MacKerry.
Anthony MacKerry is actually on the pole and Garrett Williamson.
And you're like, okay, you know, yes, MacKerry's got, you know, they got some
there, but still fame, the own team, not the highest budget in the country, but,
you know, decent PA car.
Um, and then you got Williamson, which is one of the smaller budget world out
all teams and a good battle.
I thought it was a great battle.
Williamson led for a long time.
25 laps.
Yeah.
Then, uh, you know, Rico was coming through the field.
Uh, buddy was coming through the field.
I think buddy ended up being hard charger.
Yeah.
11 spots, finished sixth.
Yeah.
Rico second, Gio third.
Yep.
Gio was up there.
Um, you know, you had a lot of things and Garrett Williamson, man, just look as
like, you know, MacKerry started coming up there and there's in traffic.
And you kind of tell that Williamson's, I think tires were starting to get a little
hot and, uh, MacKerry, but then it's like, okay, there was a yellow, I think with
eight or nine to go.
It's like, okay, this is what he needs.
And then they got ready traffic the last few laps of the MacKerry past team and
MacKerry's coming around, turning three and four with the checkered flag in hand.
Get ready to throw.
Then the yellow comes out.
Got a fuel stop.
Yes.
Well, y'all come out because, uh, Spencer Baseman stopped them in the back stretch.
That's why the yellow came out first.
Then under the yellow, uh, Carson Macedo ran out of fuel, which they took
into the tail, which made no sense to me because they stopped it literally 30
seconds later for a fuel stop.
Um, cause they said, you know, and I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I
think Tanner Holmes, you know, Tanner Holmes does a good job of explaining the
sport in his videos.
If you're watching, I mean, he had a Facebook video of every race, not just
Kings Royale.
He goes, it's every high limit, every outlaw race, which I've seen it, uh, every
all star race I've seen, they give you a lap and it depends on track size and the
air.
Well, there's usually a little more fuel at El Dorre this weekend.
Um, so that's 55 laps.
It's four lap main, 55 laps green and check or green and yellow.
And they did some track work.
So they did about five laps before the race even started spinning, you know,
fast laps, getting the slime off.
Yes.
So we knew if there's going to be a couple of cautions that it was going to be.
Cause literally, I think when they took the green, I think, uh, the 55, I think
they only had like three or four.
Cause by the time they buzzed the track for, I think they buzzed at five or six
laps and we do the four wide, then we did two laps.
That then we got, so they did like eight laps already.
So that guy, I mean, so there's down maybe 45 to 48, whatever.
Um, as a small as deals, I mean, and I get it.
I, I'd like to see a bigger fuel cell, but that's just not where it's at.
I see, uh, Michael Ribsky was throwing a fit.
Well, he just said, I mean, I, I agree though.
And I agree with Fleerudzik who says just make it so it's not an option.
Right.
You got to last the whole race.
Yeah.
Don't give a shit.
Put a 33 gallon tank back on.
Or Casey Schumann agreed with him.
Yeah.
You know, I think they should too.
Cause it's like, would have, uh, Macri still would have won.
How much fuel did he have?
You know, I mean, would have helped Williamson.
Yeah.
So it's set up a green, white checker needless to say.
Well, yeah.
And see the outlaws, it's got to be green, white check.
So it actually was 41 laps, which, uh, in a Macri held on.
And it's funny cause they, uh, interviewed me while I was sitting there.
I didn't like, dude, what do you think?
He's like, man, he goes, I'm losing my losing my marbles.
And he says, I'm just going to have to drive the shit off it.
It goes, I seen Ben Spencer basin sitting there and he goes, I knew
they'd throw the damn yellow.
And then after he won, he gets up there like, so what was you thinking that last
lap?
He goes, I was shitting my pants.
He goes, that's what I was doing.
He goes, I think guys, you can't believe 12 in a row and here, and, you
know, I, I'll say it.
I still think so.
I think he's, you know, some people may argue right in Tim's is, but I still
think Macri is the best non-series drivers there is.
I really do.
I mean, Tim's, Tim's is good, but Tim's into shit at all door.
Yeah.
What about, would you say Corey days in that boat too, though?
Um, cause he's kind of not a regular traveling.
He was fast this weekend, but he, he has moments.
He's not as consistent as Macri.
I don't think he crashes a ton.
Not the Mac.
I mean crash.
Obviously Macri broke his back twice in the year.
So, you know, he crashes some too, but I think, I think Mac or days
gotta be a little more consistent to me in that.
I mean, Macri is always consistent in the big Tim's is probably the same.
Yes.
Like you said, he came to outdoor Wednesday, Thursday, and didn't have much
show for it.
I went home, guys, well, I'm not so had a big $20,000 in race, but you know,
I think it was going to depend on how well he was doing for the weekend.
If you had a chance for 200,000, but, uh, yeah, I mean Tim's, I like Tim's.
I mean, liked him in midgets and I like him in sprints, but I just, I think
Anthony's just a little bit better.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So Macri getting going back to back 2002 years in a row.
I think it's the only time, I think that's the only second time's happened in
43 years.
I think shots did it one year on back to backs.
Yeah.
But yeah, broke his back was out for what, three months.
Yeah.
In case of King got a win in the car.
Mm hmm.
Uh, one time, but yeah, and it's, I mean, yeah, they spend money, but they're
still not the highest budget team by any means.
Yep.
So, uh, cool to see and all I love seeing Garrett Williamson win.
And you know, he took the lead, you know, there for a while.
And, uh, um, but yeah, I think Garrett Williamson is going to get a win soon.
And he's been very, very quick.
Yes.
And day, day was quick, you know, again on Saturday night, but there, there was
definitely some people charging through the field.
As you said, buddy was plus 11.
I think he was hard charger.
Maybe he wasn't, maybe somebody was more about it.
Nope.
It was him.
Yeah.
I thought he was, but yeah, yeah, there's all, he was 11 behind a shoe heart and
Sheldon were each eight.
Yeah.
David gravel was from 20th to ninth cause he had a fast qualifier provisional.
Yeah.
Um, so they had some guys, Rico moved up eight finished second.
Well, what about that?
Who would have thought that buddy and gravel who was very good at
Aldora at the less race two and Wednesday was struggle every night to make
day main, I mean, buddy and gravel was off all weekend.
Gravel was off, uh, even at Attica.
Yeah.
I mean, Wednesday gravel was high point man, but he spun that 10 and then you
just never heard of him again.
Yeah.
You know, and then yeah, it was just quiet, kind of quiet the rest of the week.
And yeah, yeah, pretty wild.
And then who was, uh, the other was it Deets was the other, uh, first
qualifier.
Yep.
Chase Deets, which, uh, he didn't have a great week.
And then, you know, that kind of turned around made the main, uh, finished last.
He pulled off early.
But, uh, yeah, but still six grand to start.
So good money there.
Yep.
Well, she's the one is driver in the country.
Yes.
So, but then, you know, Macri, who was hurt, like you said, he's got what eight
wins and like 20 starts or 24 starts now or something.
So, um, yeah, pretty crazy.
And then like we said, Tim's left went back to Knoxville, 20 grand one for
three sixties, I believe.
Yes.
One, they had a rain delay.
So he won the 360 feature there.
He won the four 10 feature there all after midnight.
Then Sunday went to Houston one.
So he won three features in one day.
Yeah.
Cause I said it was like the look like one something when the first one got over
with and like 45 minutes later and second one got over with.
So then yeah, 10 o'clock.
So yeah, he won three features in one day.
Yeah.
Pretty crazy.
So, but yeah, I mean, he's, he's good too.
But I think Macri, they're, uh, Macri could race on the tour and be good.
Yes.
On the tour with the right backing.
Sure.
And one's Bryce Lucius is going to get to her.
I mean, I know he's in the 27 H, which, uh, Hefner's, uh, you know, run PA, but, uh,
Bryce Lucius has to be on some people's list for, I mean, he ran, you know, at the
STP car, which is still not the biggest funded team and almost want to tell
Dega this year, one out all race now.
I mean, um, he's got to be one of them.
Somebody's looking at the develop, you know, I mean, he does need a little more
develop for sure.
But, um, I think he could, uh, be one of these young ones.
He jumped like Casey.
I mean, I think Casey Jeterdeck surprised a lot of people this year.
Yes.
And, uh, I think, uh, Bryce can do the same if he gets in the right situation.
Yeah.
So another Kings Royal in the books.
The Wayne's Bend to everyone.
Yes.
What'd you think?
This one was hot.
Yes.
So one of the hottest ones.
Jesus, crime.
And he, yeah, I was testing me.
I had my cigar trailer and it was, you know, struggle to keep it cool during
the day.
We got AC.
Yeah, I know I was hung out in it two days.
Yeah.
This is a pretty wild time.
I was sweating.
It was not nice, but it did have some cool people stopped by in the trailer.
We had EJ from dirt court gestures stopped in, said hello, got some decals.
Yeah, which, uh, I've been on, uh, on that with Josh, you know, Josh is a good
guy and yeah, J helps him out.
Then had Australian fellow Pino Priolo from Australia, uh, from Perth,
former sprint car driver himself, his boys, uh, David and Andrew are still racing
in Australia.
So it's cool talking to them.
They're Australian folks and pretty much got a whole month planned.
They landed Sunday.
Couldn't make it to Fremont in time, but they got to Attica, Kings Royal, and
they're doing New York and then going out to LA for a cruise and having a,
having a good old time.
So it's cool talking to him.
And then, uh, one that I thought was really cool.
Um, you were in there at lunch, junior stopped in and bought a couple of
sick ones.
I knew that when he walked in, I was like, I wonder if I'll eat no
since I was looking, I saw the shirt and I was like, that's it.
He looked familiar.
I'm like, I look at the way in the mouth to him.
Like that is when you're in here.
He's like, yes, I got up and Paul Rockett said a few things to him.
One of those guys I always liked watching a Western PA guy should have asked
him if he still has the four wheeler.
He won first qualifier at the Kings Royal one year when Arctic camp.
I say he was always, he was always fast.
It was all Dora.
Yeah.
He always didn't have the best results, but it was always fast.
So it was cool.
Yeah.
He stopped in and had some cigars.
So cool there.
And, uh, chocolate Chad Wilson with you and his buddy Craig from my town here.
I know really well.
So yeah.
Um, yeah.
Had a few people stop in as well as the local fire departments and stuff.
They have a lot of fire departments this year.
Yeah.
They weren't in mud.
It was just the insonia guys this year.
Usually the Rossport guys show up too.
So you brought a pistol and then, uh, yeah, one gal works at the
whistle stop, her husband came in and they have dogs.
So we said, where's your, I remember Michael, where's your dog at?
He goes, well, I got two now.
I'll go get them there in the car.
So he brought him in.
So that's a hang out with avalanche and Luna, uh, in the trailer too.
So the Andrew come out and buy anything.
Now he's a tight ass.
Now he, he will say, oh, we were too busy and whatever.
He won not busy enough to flip me off when I was in there.
Oh, you get what you deserve.
And then he come over.
Yeah.
He's like, where's your pole tabs?
Like I already lost Craig one.
Yeah.
So Craig one Craig one.
It's his first visit.
Yeah.
He gave it a rave review.
We had the whistler on Thursday for our Friday for lunch.
Yeah.
He's like, do you get it?
I said, yeah, they got some signature drinks.
I said, I like the whistler.
So I had some of those and cool as to the bartender because, uh, they
was made very nicely.
Yeah.
They was made heavy with a cushion.
You're already warm.
Didn't need to be any warmer.
Yeah.
There's, there's made with a heavy cushion.
But it was poured deep.
They're on the chip, huh?
Yeah.
So that's what he was like, man, they poured these well.
Yeah.
So, uh, yeah.
Good time.
He gave it a good review of a food and drink.
So yes.
Very cool.
So yeah.
We was back there Saturday, as you know, because we hung out with you
during the rain.
Yes.
Yes.
It's a dry place to be for the rainstorm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That, uh, the schedule kind of thing through Andrew's business off.
Yeah.
So stop business, you know, because they went late Friday, then they bumped
up to time Saturday.
So it really changed the window of commerce, we'll say, but I know.
I talked to him Saturday.
He was down for Saturday quite a bit, but he was up, uh, Friday.
Friday.
Yeah.
And I think he was up Thursday too.
So Friday was busy.
I mean, there's people sitting out under that tent all day long.
Well, and his people bust their ass.
Yes, they do.
And, and even Melissa, when we was in there Saturday, she was like, I like how
you do it because at one time you just used to have one waitress for your table
and they come.
Yeah.
Now anyone stops by if you need a drink.
Well, yeah, they kind of do it in shit or they kind of, you know, one will take
your order, one will give you your drinks, one and they all work.
So anybody is walking by.
Yeah.
And I mean, at one, it turns people.
Yeah.
You know, because now you're not waiting for your waitress to come back and all
that.
So, uh, I'm guessing they split the tips and everything with me.
I guess.
And yeah, because we want a way to do it because then you're pushing people
because nobody's waiting.
I mean, yeah, we went in Saturday morning for breakfast, bread, breakfast pizza.
And yeah, it was like anytime my coffee was low or my water was low, someone
didn't matter who it was, stopped and asked, you know, so it worked out real well.
Yep.
I think I love how they did it.
And I think, uh, one that probably got him more tips because, you know, when you
get great service, you have more time.
And I didn't hear it.
And, and Andrew, they've had a few hiccups over years where they get behind.
People are waiting 45 minutes to an hour.
Yeah.
He doesn't like that either.
So.
And they're, well, and you can't turn tables.
Yeah.
You know, and I don't think there's any, I mean, our food was bam, bam.
I mean, both times.
Yeah.
I told Craig, I said, man, because when we got there, we had to wait on table
and it was slammed.
I mean, yeah.
There was an outside, there was three quarters.
Those tables was full.
We got there.
So I was like, give me my, shit, we got our food 20 minutes.
Maybe.
Yeah.
And every time you go there, you seem to get those longer times.
I do.
But I've never had a problem.
But when you go, it's like, shit, man, we waited 45 minutes.
But no, we got our food.
I mean, like, he's like, well, hell, this wasn't, I said, yeah, now what the hell
we're going to do?
The kill part of the day.
I figure we'd kill two hours.
Yeah.
Well, and I know we had to go out and see you.
Tell them I want to.
We spoke of it last week.
Our buddy Andrew posted how much food they were ordering and all that.
And that's the most food they've ever ordered.
And they still asked where the hell did it all go by the end of the weekend?
So they love race fans.
So be sure to stop by and check them out.
Did you have a little sightment in there too?
No.
Oh, yeah.
What'd you do?
No, one me.
Take your clothes off.
Well, somebody did or tried to.
There is a.
Oh, I got the video.
Female visitor.
To get some sweet tickets.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I showed that to Nicole too.
It wasn't wasn't a wasn't a great view.
No, it sounds like it could have swept the floor.
Did you see the video?
No.
Oh, I'll show it to you.
No.
Yeah, he's fine.
We got Otis barging in, but he's cool.
He likes to wane.
So yeah, he's like my buddy.
My buddy.
Yeah.
I got hell for not sending him a picture.
Oh, yeah.
You got to get the snap of old Otis hanging out.
I'm a pitcher of Otis.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Another good Kings Royal weekend and hot, but they got it in,
which seemed like a little stretch to start the week.
I think did great.
I mean, they had everything thrown at him.
Heat, weather, you know, and yeah, I thought track was very
racy.
I mean, obviously, as racy as it could be for Friday.
Yeah.
I mean, I mean, you're, you're dealt.
Yes, that's the deal with it.
Yeah.
Same or not.
I mean, it rained a lot.
I mean, luckily points Friday.
You know, it's not like you have points Friday that dictates
Saturday.
It's just an individual show.
You know, the mother nature even dicked with them on Saturday.
And yeah, still pretty racy or was racing even Wednesday and
Thursday with as high as it was.
They had it where it wasn't too dry and take a rubber.
Yeah.
But it was just right or it was very racy with passing.
So yeah, I mean, to start Wednesday, I was worried about taking
rubber and drying out, but once the sun went down, it stayed.
That's what I mean.
They perfect.
So they did excellent all weekend, not with just that, but the
timeliness of the programs.
Yeah.
You know, I mean, they was, they was given a gamut of things.
Well, that was fun.
So I had a friend that was his kid plays football here in Archibald.
Mm hmm.
Uh, just became a Sprint car fan.
So it was his first race on Friday and took him down in the pits and did
the whole standing against the wall for hot laughs.
And he's a big buddy fan by watching on YouTube and TV.
So he got to meet buddy, get his picture taken with buddy and all that.
And, uh, you know, had the rain delay and all that.
He's like, man, I, he first signed kids book, man, he was, uh, Chad was
texting me on the way home.
He's like, dude, Remy's like, uh, when we coming back,
when we coming back.
So I said, I said, dude, you, it was walking up his, you're getting the
whole gamut of things too.
You're getting, uh, you raise your, you're getting vapor trails.
Oh yeah.
So the weather, you know, was so, uh, heavy, the air was so heavy.
He had vapor trails.
I said, dude, I might, I think, I don't think I've seen vapor trails in five years.
Yeah.
I said, you don't see vapor trails a whole lot.
So you're getting it all in your first race.
Yeah.
Took him up against the fence and you could see, you know, cause he's smart kid.
He's always asking, you know, about the wing and what I said, well, slams the car
down on the, and you could, we was right in the corner.
We could see it planting stuff.
And it's like, like you, you're getting the whole education in one day of every
whole deal.
Yeah.
And it's hard to tell people not every race is like this.
The crowd's not always at this big like it.
This is a big one.
So yeah, like I said, my work guys, uh, a couple of them were trying to play in
trips on coming back, you know, one, my one buddy and his wife have a couple
of young kids.
So they were, I said, Hey, August, they do a family fun night.
I go, dude, Debbie perfect to bring young ones to you.
You get to bounce houses and the fireworks and meet the drivers.
Yeah.
And that's what he's, he's on the fire department, uh, in a local town.
And he goes, you guys really like to blow shit up here, don't you?
Oh yeah.
That's that's old aura.
I said, never used to be like that, but it is now.
So yeah.
Uh, other racing going on, the big ones, Silver Dollar Nationals out in Iowa.
Um, Shelby County having the 52,000 to win, but 53,000 for second place.
Did you see that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So Jonathan Davenport ended up taking home 53,000 because he finished second
while Ricky Thornton Jr.
won the race.
Got 52, 52.
So yeah, kind of a, you know, a note to go along with the weekend, unfortunately,
but Bobby Pierce, the third place finisher, his dad actually suffered a stroke
on, was it Friday or Thursday?
I think Thursday.
And, uh, yeah, through Wednesday, because Wednesday they raced at Adams County.
Yeah.
So I had to be where he won Thursday and Thursday they ended up, uh, yeah,
Bob had some health issues, didn't know what was going on.
Sounds like his wife, Angie, you know, got Carson Ferguson, who was camping next
to him, come over, um, just by happenstance, they're Eastern or Western Iowa.
And, uh, you know, the hospital nearest, uh, with the specialty is in Nebraska,
uh, which is actually one of the top kind of stroke centers in the world.
It's not, or in the country.
Um, so they need to say squad showed up, took them to an airport locally so life
flight could show up and take them to Nebraska.
Did surgery, did emergency surgery and it went as well.
I mean, even the doctor said like, this is the best you could have hoped for.
Luckily, it was this good.
Yeah.
Had a speech back, feeling back and all that.
He's lost feeling left side, couldn't speak and all that.
So it was, it was right on the borderline of being a massive stroke.
So I had another surgery today.
I haven't seen any, you know, putting the stint in today.
Increase some blood flow, things like that.
But, uh, yeah, Bob here, I think he's like 74, 74.
So, uh, all cool.
Good, uh, good to hear positive updates from that scenario for sure.
Still pretty tough Fso be man.
Yes.
Go through all that.
And he's, they said, uh, I like, cause Abby missed, uh, the one day of the
old door, uh, cause you know, and they're like, Hey, well, let's get through this.
Thanks to everybody.
But we, we released and they, wasn't sure what was going to happen.
That's why there wasn't releasing any information yet.
Let's, let's just get through this.
Let's get through this.
And then we'll, Bobby's going to make a public statement here.
Yeah.
And the track actually, like I said, it's Western Iowa.
So it really wasn't far from Omaha.
So they could still be there and go back and forth to see Bob in the
hospital.
So yeah.
So, uh, um, it seems like it worked out as good as it possibly could.
Sounds like it was very lucky to be where they sat in the country.
Yeah.
At the time, somebody is definitely looking out for it.
Yeah.
So speedy recovery to Bob Pierce.
Yes, for sure.
Um, but yeah, RTJ back in Victor Lane, waiting all 80 laps from the poll.
Yeah.
So Victor Lane for show.
Yes, you know, hasn't been in Victor Lane.
Yeah.
Jeff and Davenport started ninth finished second, took home the bigger purse of
all things.
So yeah, that'd be interesting.
You ever seen a driver hit the brakes?
Coming to the checker.
Yeah, I know, right?
The hundred different $100,000.
Yeah, that's what they should have done.
The trophy is worth a thousand, right?
Yeah.
So we'll take it.
Make it 52,000 to win and 152 per second.
See what I'm saying.
A little pile.
And, uh, Bobby or, sorry, uh, B ship, didn't he win the night before?
I believe so.
Oh, they had two nights before, right?
I had the Thursday.
Oh no, Thursday was somewhere else.
You said, well, Wednesday was Adams County where Bobby Pierce won and think
Thursday was off.
That could have been.
Yeah.
Cause I was looking, I don't see any Thursday night results and I could have
been, I was in King's Royal mindset all weekend.
So I did not pay that much attention.
Um, yeah, some other news happening.
We talked about Kale Thomas and, uh, in the early races of the week and, uh,
yeah, apparently while midweek, walked away from the, apparently why he's tumbling
through the air.
He said, screw this, I'm out.
So he left the Rudzik 49 car.
Uh, and since, uh, then it was named Zeth Sabo will be taking over the
Marines to finish out the all star tour, uh, in that ride.
So kind of a stuff.
So it's third in our points right now for AFCS.
So, uh, it's going to happen there.
Yeah.
I had some interesting turn of events.
We'll say, I don't know what happened with Kale and that team.
They've been together.
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
I mean, I don't know if there's some disagreements after the crash.
I'm not sure.
I talked to him on Monday.
I talked to him quite a bit.
I haven't reached out to him because I said I was busy at El Doron.
Talked to Zeth though.
So it stays, it's 24th birthday.
Yeah.
See him.
And I'll actually talk to his dad on maybe Friday night, I think, and then
talked to Zeth for just a few seconds and passing on Saturday.
Congratulations.
He's, you know, he's been right up there in our top three of AFCS last couple of years.
And, uh, I think they're racing learner bill tomorrow.
I believe high limit.
Yeah.
Yep.
But, uh, he, he may be in the 29 a few more times.
Yeah.
We could see that possibly.
Oh, the other one, which is kind of out of our wheelhouse, but the TKS motor sports
number two KS, uh, punted their driver, Jack Anderson out of the ride.
I think he just got done with an injury too.
Yeah.
And he was, he was only in it maybe a month.
But we know that ride has switched hands a few times lately, especially so.
Yeah.
Um, that was kind of Davis in it now.
Ah, yes.
I think Davis is the driver for right now.
Gotcha.
I don't know if it's through the nationals or through next week or not sure, but I
think Davis is driving it.
Well, that's good.
He deserves a good ride.
So hopefully all works out well.
Uh, any other news Dwayne?
Um,
Logan Julian, Wisconsin won $5,000 of Butler.
I saw that they had, they announced it late.
They announced the beginning of the week that, Hey, we're going to pay 5,000.
And, and, you know, we usually see somebody do that on Kings Royale night to try to
get because there's a lot of locals not racing and try, you know, which, you know,
we've seen Mansfield do it and get 60 cars.
Of course they paid 20,000, but still we've seen some of the first time they
paid a hundred.
Yeah.
While Mercer was good at for a few years, paying 5,000, they get 48, 50 cars.
Well, they only got 23, but they, Tim Schaefer is there.
Logan Julian, which won.
Um, Tyler Gunn was there.
Greg Wilson was there.
I should say Mansfield did it for Knoxville.
Yes.
That's right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, so they had, you know, I mean some got, got a few, uh, outsiders up there.
But, um, yeah, Logan Julian from, uh, Oh, Tra, Trevor, or Travis.
Aren't so from Wisconsin was the other one.
Gotcha.
Um, that won the high limit show there if you earn Wisconsin last year.
So I guess Logan Julian took the news, which isn't really dirt track really.
Jesus Christ.
Oh, it is.
He's fluffing the carpet to lay down.
What a dumb ass.
Um, Mansfield, we mentioned, uh, not really dirt track racing, but interesting
development there kind of sorta.
Motor cross.
Motor cross, a little bit of a dispute.
It sounds like.
Talking about while we're down at the King's Royal.
Yeah.
Lost.
They're supposed to have some big show.
Central Ohio motocross or some organization and they're like, well, you
haven't paid your sanction fee.
You haven't told us.
And then the sanctioned group put, Hey, we sent you a thing.
Yeah.
So Mansfield sent back in June and email saying pretty much you owe us $5,000
because you pulled your race and without giving us proper notice.
Well, Mansfield pulled the race.
I'm sorry, Mansfield changed the schedule on them because incarceration, the
big concert was going on at their formatory.
They wanted to have camping for that.
So they canceled practice on them and something else in the motocross
organization.
Screw you.
We're going to go somewhere else.
Yeah.
More than 30 days ahead of time as it shows.
Uh, but Matt Tiff sent an email saying, we're going to sue you.
You owe us money, blah, blah, blah.
And the motocross place said, Hey, we gave you the 30 day notice and you
canceled.
You broke the contract.
Yeah.
You kind of broke the contract first and anyway, anything Southern, you know,
we have the whole Southern Ohio thing, that whole atomic speedway.
Dude, they could write their own soap opera.
Yeah.
And, you know, it's never Charlie Vestas fault.
If you've noticed that, nothing ever is down there.
Yeah.
That, and Jeff Nittle posted some things about the atomic situation.
Yeah.
Cause well, cause they saying, you know, Dave Andrews, which I know he listens
to the show, I'm not digging, dogging on Dave, but put a thing out says, well,
this is how a track loses a 100000 dollars.
You know, that they tried to say they lost 30 on the middle, but
middle brings 60,000 and then, you know, supposedly since it was an all star race,
uh, atomic was going to do 30, but then Tom says, no, we're only during 13, but
I got sponsored for 17 and we came and then all the other people started back
and Nittle's like, every time he did our race, you know, but, but, and he's had
the middle atomic before.
So it's not like, uh, so he decided to short him this one.
Yeah.
And it's always a problem.
And if you've noticed this, always somebody else's fault, but it ties the
Tomics, it was, you know, Robbie, the announcer's fault that, you know, the,
the steel block deal that's at Mansfield now.
And it was this guy's fault and that guy's fault.
And so he's, and okay.
So if you lost a 100000 between that and that one other race that the
promoter didn't have that renegade deal or whatever, then supposedly Charlie
paid that obvious own pocket.
Well, one, you elected to do that.
If you don't have the money, don't do that.
Yeah.
You know, and two, that's only a 100000
I think that bank thing was for over a million.
Yeah.
So where's the 900,000?
Mm hmm.
That's my first question.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, you know, Niddle's deal was, Hey, I brought all this money and that kind of
said, well, he gave away all these free passes and it was like, well, I mean,
well, and see, they're counting that as them losing money.
Yeah.
Like, well, we lost 30,000 because he gave away 400 passes.
Well, he brought you $60,000.
Yeah.
And you had a grandstand pack, which made a lot or much.
So he didn't get any of the grandstand money.
So it's 30 bucks a ticket and some people estimate is 4,000 or 4,000 people.
So where'd that 120,000 go?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's lost in a thing.
It's like, oh, well, we lost 30 and they're looking at, oh, well, he gave away
tickets and they ate our food and all that.
So we lost money.
Well, where'd the hundred?
Where's all the money from the concessions?
Mm hmm.
If you had 4,000 people there that a lot of people estimated, even as 3,000, still
90,000, you should have probably made another 10 or more.
So that's 90,000 and it'll give you 60 on top of it.
So there you go.
There's 120,000.
Plus your pit pass sales.
Plus your pit pass sales.
Like, yeah, math ain't mathin.
That's all we're saying.
It is not.
It is not.
And it's not anybody's fault besides everybody's, besides the speedways.
Yes.
Yeah.
And that thing is just so, and it sucks because I like atomic.
I mean, I've seen great races there.
And it's just, I don't know if there's, that's on a hollowed Indian reservation
ground or something because that, I mean, there's just a black cloud that hangs over
that damn place.
It's always drama.
Yeah.
It always seems like it's could be as the big, right rear turns.
Yeah.
Let's just say going up there, I mean, Starz series coming through, that was always a
great place to watch the stars, which was Chubb Frank and Rick Eckert, Steve Francis
back in the day.
And, you know, it's like, yeah, it's just lots changed over the years.
That's when it was Casey raceway though.
Lots of drama.
So.
Well, and I think, I even think, and I'm, could be wrong, could be speaking, but I
think they charge for camping now too.
Cause then they put in some camping deal.
I know they put in a campground.
So it's like, where'd that money go?
If you're charging, I think they charge for camping.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Where'd that money go?
Yeah.
It's like you said, is the right rear turns, right?
That's always drama.
Yeah.
So Mansfield's got some, Atomics got some.
Yeah.
Luckily, none of our local tracks have any right now.
So there may be some eventually.
Who knows?
Yes.
You never know.
You never know when someone might cost a driver or something.
Right.
Sometimes, you know, right?
So yeah.
Oh, other than that, no, I don't think so.
See Cody Overton and Will Harrington's finished.
Yeah.
And well, and yeah, Will Harrington and who else?
Oh, uh, Zach Mitchell, right?
Yes, I think so.
So it was Cody Overton on the bottom.
He tried to slide both of them.
And, uh, because there's, there's Overton inside Mitchell in the middle
than Harrington and, you know, Cody's like, well, I think I had, I thought
I had him cleared.
Well, like he had Mitchell cleared and I don't think he thought Harrison was
getting that big of a run.
I don't think it was, I don't think it was as malicious as I think.
Literally, I think Harrington caused more of the wreck than Mitchell.
Cause if you look, Will turned left right into his right rear and tried
spinning him out.
Well, then he ended up crashing him and Mitchell.
I mean, yes, it wasn't the best slider in the world.
It was an aggressive move, but that slider did not cause that cause that wreck.
Yeah.
Will turning left into his right rear and keeping on it.
Yeah.
To me, it was just cause of hard racing at the end of a race.
Like it didn't seem like it was malicious one way or the other.
It was just guys going for it.
Well, we were trying to do two for, you know, two for one deal.
I mean, he had the inside guy.
Could you even see the guy on the outside?
Cause when he started that slider, Will was probably dead even with Mitchell.
It looked like.
Yeah.
And he got a good run on the outside and he was right there when, but he didn't
push him into on.
That's why I'm saying if Overton slider is that dirty, he would have hit Mitchell.
Mitchell would hit the wall.
No, instead Mitchell had enough control.
He turned left, tried driving under, uh, you know, trying to drive, uh, Overton
in the right rear to, to spin him or what and ended up taking them both out.
Are you taking.
So I.
Yeah.
I saw it and I didn't think it looked like a, a hard race.
Yeah.
It's the end of a race.
So.
Yeah.
I didn't.
Think it was.
Yeah.
I mean, it was, I think, uh, there was like 11 laps to go at that point.
Yeah.
But, uh, yeah, I mean, I've seen worse.
Yeah.
Same.
But yeah, that was the one that was kind of going around a little bit.
So.
And Overton's one, what four or five in a row of the Southern.
Yeah.
He won a modem.
He won a modem auction.
Yeah.
He's been, uh, it's been coming back around.
I know he was kind of down there for a while.
But yeah.
Yeah.
I'll try and think of anything else.
I think that's about it.
Yeah.
I believe so.
Yeah.
Obviously a lot of Kings Royale talk this episode.
Yeah.
It's the highlight of our area.
So for sure.
Anyway, I guess that'll do it for us then.
How's that sound?
Sounds good.
We've got a piss like a racehorse.
So let's wrap this bad boy up.
Okay.
Here's Cup.
I know Jenna's brother wanted to ponderosa.
Yeah, I saw that.
Got a steak too.
Nice.
Right.
I don't know.
I saw his names up here as a winning $4,000.
So yeah, ponderosa.
Well, you know, last time I went to ponderosa, I got steak.
Drove by what used to be ponderosa in Greenville.
It's not a Mexican restaurant.
So anyway.
That'll do it for us.
Thank you all for listening.
Thank you for tuning in.
Thank you to everyone.
I stopped by the trailer and got some decals.
Appreciate it.
Again, shout out to EJ at the Dirt Court Jester's podcast.
Be sure to give them a listen.
If you get a chance.
Yeah.
They do some good interviews.
Yeah.
They do interviews all the time.
Elliot.
Hey, I tried to last week and just I never heard back.
We'll have to get one for next week.
Maybe I got an idea.
I'll give you a task.
I say I got an idea too.
Okay.
Good.
Anyway, that'll do it for us.
Thank you all for listening.
Thank you for tuning in.
Appreciate each and every week.
As always, stay dirty and we'll see you next time.
Bye bye.
About this episode
A Kings Royal wrap-up that starts with a week of sprint car racing around Ohio and quickly turns into the on-track story: Fremont Speedway’s Monday kickoff, packed crowds, slick-to-cushion conditions, and the kind of close-quarters racing where incidents get debated frame-by-frame. The hosts also cover weather and track prep, including “fluff” and moisture effects, plus a push-truck safety moment involving the cockpit “Sissy Bar.” Between race talk, there’s propane.com sponsor copy and Greenville food stops.
Original notes
This week we recap the week of sprint car racing in Ohio that began at Fremont on Monday, Attica on Tuesday and finished with four days at Eldora Speedway. We also talk about the Silver Dollar Nationals and some other news from dirt racing.
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